Volume 1 Chapter 173 Two-goal lead
"Damn the Dutch, you're going to die!!"
"Little ghost, are you weaned?"
"Go back to your Amsterdam, your mom is calling you home for dinner!"
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Before the game even started, the stands at the San Siro Stadium were already very lively.
AC Milan fans, like all home fans, are using all sorts of methods to motivate the visiting players, and in their words, the most important contribution of the fans to the best 12 is to be able to do whatever it takes to make the opponent feel uncomfortable and even emotionally uncontrollable in the stands.
Twenty-two players from both teams were scattered across the pitch as they waited for the referee's whistle.
The boos and curses that poured out from the stands at the San Siro were clearly directed at the Ajax players on the pitch, so the AC Milan players looked more relaxed, while the Ajax players were a bit of a big enemy.
"These bastards, I really want to shave their ears!" Ibrahimovic swept to the stands indignantly, his impression of this group of fans was obviously very bad, and it could even be said that he hated it, because they had been scolding and booing over there since the Ajax players came out, and everyone who heard it had a fire in their hearts.
"Isn't that easy?" Robben grinned at Ibrahimovic.
"I just said the head, try the left side first!" Snead walked over slowly and said.
Van der Vaart nodded and said he heard it, staying in the centre circle and ready to kick off with Ibrahimovic, while Arjen Robben went to the left, because AC Milan didn't have a right winger, so he was like standing in Croatian defender Dario? Opposite Simic.
Dario? Simic, in the Ajax scouting system and Ye Qiu's comments, this player is relatively underrated, his frontal defensive ability is actually very strong, and Simic's famous position is in the central defender, but Ancelotti wants to transform him into a right-back.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with making such a choice, because AC Milan are indeed short on the right side, but the problem is that Simic's position at full-back can easily expose his shortcomings in speed and attack.
The middle is different from the wing, playing a defender in the middle, because there is the protection of the midfield defender in front, and generally will not encounter the opponent with a strong burst with speed, because as long as the defensive depth is kept tight enough, the opponent's speed cannot be played, but it is different on the side, and the side can create one-on-one anytime and anywhere.
Simic has a return and a turn, but his speed is relatively average, and his support for the attack is also very small, and it is difficult to play on the wing, but in the middle, he performs very well.
Robben walked to the left and looked at the Croatian wearing the number 14 jersey not far away, with a headband on his head and long hair, grinning and bowing slightly to him, and the Croatian nodded politely in return, but his attention never left Luo himself.
In Simic's mind, Robben is definitely a dangerous element, and Ajax's strongest attack is the attack on the two wings, so before this game, Ancelotti focused on arranging targeted defense on the wings.
In Carlo Ancelotti's words, as long as Ajax can't play down the wing, the attacking threat is cut in half.
Watching Robben jump gently in front of his halfline, constantly shaking his hands, looking like he was warming up, Simic couldn't help but sweep to the center circle, saw that the referee's whistle was already in his mouth, and soon let out a crisp whistle at the beginning of the game.
As soon as the whistle blew, Simic immediately shifted his attention to the left, but his first reaction was surprise, because almost at the moment of the whistle, Robben rushed to the AC Milan defense zone quickly from the middle line, and approached at a very fast speed.
Simic was slightly stunned and immediately re-locked the target, but this time Robben had already rushed in front of him.
Turning around and chasing Robben to the bottom line, this was Simic's first reaction, because he didn't know what the other party's plans were, and he didn't know whether Ajax's midfielders could really pass the ball to Robben's feet.
But experience told him that he had to do it, otherwise, once the ball did get there, it would be a deadly threat.
At this time, Robben's speed had already rushed up, Simic himself was not as fast as Robben, plus he turned around, and was quickly thrown out of a position by Robben, but he was always chasing by his side.
Sometimes, it's easy for fans to create a false impression.
On the football field, speed is actually a very empty definition, if it is simply calculated in seconds, the speed difference of 1 second is already very amazing, but it can be reflected on the football field, 1 second is just a matter of moments.
If you look at the data of the FM football manager, Robben's speed and explosiveness are at least 18, or even 19, and Simic's speed should be around 12, but in fact, when the two of them rush to the bottom line at the same time, although one is in front and one is behind, but only one position is missing, as long as Robben's speed is slightly slower at this time, Simic will immediately catch up.
So, to some extent, speed doesn't help players beat opponents on the football field, it's all about how you use the little bit of time that speed buys you, even if it's just a few tenths of a second.
Robben rushed forward quickly, and after Arteta behind him got the ball, he directly made a long pass and hoisted the ball behind the AC Milan defense, while the Dutch Flyer looked up at the coming of the ball when the ball came, predicted the landing point, and used his advantage in front to stand on the landing point in advance and pick it out.
The ball was picked up by Robben's left foot and bounced up again, but this time not to the baseline, but in the opposite direction.
Simic was startled by Robben's sudden stop pick-up, and forced the brakes to stabilize his body, desperately trying to follow Robben, but after he stopped this sudden brake and finally stabilized his pace, Robben kicked the ball to the bottom line, and then quickly caught up with him.
At this moment, Simic could only watch in despair, despair, as the Dutchman passed by him.
Stopping and accelerating, a seemingly simple action, a skill that anyone can use, but under Robben's feet, it is used perfectly.
After Robben re-caught up with the ball, he made a direct cross, and Ibrahimovic in the middle quickly followed, and in the direct battle with Nesta, he grabbed the point, but under the interference of Nesta, he failed to hit the ball in the right part and was crooked.
The entire AC Milan fans at the San Siro stadium were taken aback by Ajax's threatening attack less than 30 seconds after the start of the game, and even the players on the pitch were afraid because the speed was so fast!
"Ajax gave AC Milan a dismount directly after the opening, and in less than 30 seconds, he got a very threatening shot in front of the goal, but Nesta chased back very well this time, forcing Ibrahimovic to barely get up, the ball was slightly off the line, but this shot was enough to wake AC Milan up!"
Seeing that an attack did not work, the Ajax players walked back and waited for Dida to take the goal, but they focused on the center circle and clearly wanted to continue their high defensive strategy.
Seeing Robben again, Simic was really a little shocked, he had thought that Robben's speed would be fast, but he never imagined that it would be so fast, especially at such a fast speed, his ability to control the ball and his own rhythm, he was almost shaken down by the Dutchman just now.
Thinking of this, Simic looked at Robben with a little fear in his eyes, but more cautiously.
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Each team has its own unique style, and each style has its own habitual rhythm of play.
Some like to be fast, because the advantage of being fast is that it is impactful, but the disadvantage is that it is not easy to control, because everything is the same, and the control is weak when it is fast, just like Ajax last season, the attack is fast enough to have impact, but there is no control, it is easy to lose control, and the physical consumption is too fast.
AC Milan has four No.10s in the team, Pirlo, Rui? Costa, Seedorf and Rivaldo are described by many fans and professionals as the most creative midfielders in Europe, as well as the most luxurious artistic midfielders, but to make this set of midfielders work better, it needs to be kept to a relatively slow pace.
This AC Milan team is actually not strong, because it is too slow, and Ancelotti himself understands this, so he later won Rivaldo and Rui? Costa, opted for Kaka, which is, in a way, a kind of compromise on the pace of Ancelotti, because any team is the same, it needs a combination of fast and slow.
When controlling the ball, he played the advantages of Pirlo and Seedorf and others, the rhythm was relatively slow, and he found a loophole and handed it directly to Kaka, who gave full play to his speed advantage, and suddenly completed the transformation from slow to fast in the rhythm of the entire midfield, and caught the opponent off guard.
The more he understood and studied football tactics, the more Ye Qiu admired the knowledge of his ancestors, because he really found that everything in the original world world, if you want to develop and progress, you can't do without the golden mean.
Football tactics are like walking alone, attacking with the left body, defending with the right body, controlling the ball with the left body, controlling the space with the right body, fast-paced with the left body, and slow-paced with the right body......
If a person is walking too much to the left or too much to the right, they are prone to falling.
So, how do you go about it?
One step left foot, one step right foot, one left hand, one right hand, so that the whole person always maintains a centered posture.
This is the golden mean!
It's also a balancing act of football tactics!
With the addition of Arteta this season, as the Spaniard and Sneijder have become more and more skillful in their coordination, Ye Qiu's tactical thinking has also been brought into full play, especially in rhythm control and sudden changes in rhythm and direction of attack.
When Ajax continued to attack the left side after the opening, and Ronaldo kept wreaking havoc in Simic's defensive area, pulling the entire defensive center of gravity of AC Milan to the left, Arteta knocked cross, Sneijder grabbed the ball before Pirlo, crossed diagonally to the right, Van der Vaart got the ball and shook off Kaladze.
Maldini pounced for the first time, blocked Van der Vaart, and forced the Dutchman closely, but Van der Vaart was faster, more flexible, skillfully controlled the ball at his feet, and forced half of his body to protrude and pick up the back point.
This time, Ibrahimovic didn't waste another pass from his team-mate, stabbing the ball into the arriving net before Nesta opened the scoring for Ajax.
“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!”
The on-site commentators cheered in surprise as Ibrahimovic burst out of the AC Milan penalty area, unbridled with open arms, and celebrated his first Champions League goal of the season in front of tens of thousands of Rossoneri fans at the San Siro Stadium.
"When AC Milan were a little embarrassed to defend Ajax's attack on the left, Ajax suddenly launched an attack on the right, and after Van der Vaart dribbled the ball down the right flank, he broke through Maldini and assisted Ibrahimovic to score the opening goal!"
"A very, very sudden goal, the process is very simple, without the slightest cumbersome and complicated cooperation, but it was unexpected, played AC Milan by surprise, 1:0, Ajax took the lead away!"
Ibrahimovic rushed out of the penalty area and after rushing off the pitch, he rushed straight to the sidelines, raised his index finger at the fans in the stands at the San Siro stadium and brought it to his mouth, a gesture that silenced them all, full of provocation.
Not surprisingly, the Swede's move was met with immediate retaliation from tens of thousands of AC Milan fans at the San Siro, who all shouted at Ibrahimovic and Ajax's players, and the staggering looked as if they wanted to drown the lads at Ajax.
Ye Qiu looked at him from the sidelines and shook his head, "When does this kid learn to be less flamboyant, he will be truly mature!" ”
"The unassuming Ibrahimovich, is it still Ibrahimovic?" Bobby? Harms laughed and asked rhetorically.
Ye Qiu was stunned for a moment, and then Ha Lu laughed, Ibrahimovich, who has no personality, is indeed no longer Ibrahimovic.
Sometimes, Ye Qiu also felt that his arrival had changed Ibrahimovic a lot.
In the previous life of the Swedish centre-forward, he had just joined Ajax when he was betrayed by his trusted agent. Borg, the elder he once regarded as his father, turns out to be using and betraying him all along.
Understanding a person should not only be based on his behavior and mannerisms, but should really understand his heart and understand his past, after all, different growth experiences will shape different personalities, and it is impossible for everyone to be the same.
Ibrahimovic grew up with his parents divorced and finally met Haas? Borg, this person who was very good to him, and at the same time was pinned on him by a lot of his father's shadow, but he didn't expect the most embarrassing ending to be like this, which hit him very hard, and I believe that it was because of this incident that his subsequent career became completely extreme.
Perhaps, from that time on, football for him was only money and benefits, and whoever invested in his feelings lost.
But Ibrahimovic in this life is clearly different, he met Ye Qiu.
Although it is rare to hear good and obedient words about Ye Qiu from his mouth, everyone can see that this arrogant and proud Swede is not convinced by anyone, only one Ye Qiu, so whatever Ye Qiu asks him to do, he will do it, without a single complaint.
Of course, this is also thanks to the way Ye Qiu treats him, soft when he should be soft, hard when he should be hard, so that this Swedish kid is obedient, otherwise, who can let him practice his shooting skills in more than two years?
Being able to take the lead in scoring AC Milan's goal away from home, Ye Qiu was very satisfied with this, but he was not surprised at all, because this itself was in his tactical arrangement, and the first goal was the goal he had set before the game, so after scoring the goal, the team still followed the tactics formulated before the game.
Ajax did not retreat after taking the lead, on the contrary, they still adopted a high defensive strategy, pressing and pressing AC Milan's midfield fiercely, while AC Milan could only use more counter-attacking tactics when they were stable in defense.
In the 23rd minute, Pirlo launched a long pass in the backfield and accurately found the big Inzaghi who pulled to the right side to get the ball, but after the big Inzaghi just stopped the ball, he saw the Brazilian central defender Lucio quickly rushed out of the penalty area, a sliding tackle on the ground, and destroyed the ball out of the bottom line.
There was a chorus of boos, apparently unhappy with Lucio's ferocious tackle, but the referee decided it was a reasonable defence and awarded AC Milan a corner without a foul.
Rivaldo whipped in a corner, Kifu nodded it away from close range, and Sneijder got the ball and kicked it straight away.
The ball quickly fell along an arc to the left, and Robben was already ready to go this time, rushing forward like a bolt of lightning, stopping the ball steadily, and continuing along the left side.
AC Milan's defense is constantly retreating, Ibrahimovic, Van der Vaart, Arteta and other Ajax players are also rushing forward quickly, ready to receive Robben anytime and anywhere, especially Ibrahimovic, as soon as he rushed into the penalty area, immediately attracted the attention of Nesta and Maldini.
The tall Swede was so intimidating in the box that even experienced stars like Nesta and Maldini couldn't think more about it in such a moment of quick counter-attack, so much so that they were shocked to see that Robben didn't choose to cross for Ibrahimovic, but instead rubbed a high ball to the back post.
But just when they were stunned and wanted to save the situation, Lucio, who had been running from the back to the front all the way, jumped high, met the ball rubbed up by Robben, smashed the ball down, rebounded after falling to the ground, and crashed into Dida's goal, 2:0!
At this moment, the entire San Siro stadium was completely silent, and all the AC Milan fans forgot about the boos and curses, and just watched in disbelief.
In only 23 minutes, Ajax led by 2 goals, how can such a game be played?