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Although he was very dissatisfied with Ajax's behavior of relaxing security requirements in order to increase the income of the game, Zhuang Mingge also knew that for these clubs with low profitability and no super-rich owner as a backstage, the ticket revenue is of course the better.

Zhuang Mingge and Karin have discussed what Ajax FC has done for the time being, and here is a look at the starting line-ups of both teams for this game.

For the home team Ajax, Ronald Koeman confidently sent his strongest lineup: the goalkeeper is Romanian international Lobonte, the four defenders from left to right are Maxwell, John O'Brien, Diego Lugano and Trabelsi, Czech iron Garasek and South Africa international Pienaar form a double midfield, Van der Meyde and Petri Pasanen are separated on the wings, and the talented midfielder Van der Vaart, who has become famous in European football in the past two years, sits in the front midfield. Together with Ibrahimovic up front, he is responsible for the team's running in attack.

Koeman is still very satisfied with this starting lineup. Although in the past few years, the main players of the team such as Srna, Collini, Heycelinck have transferred and left the team under the temptation of the outside world, which has greatly damaged Ajax's strength, and Van Praag has also interrupted the exchange of players with the purple lilies because he does not want the team to become the opponent's pawn under the favor of Fiorentina, but the painstakingly built scouting system all over the world and the key construction of satellite clubs still provide Ajax with a lot of good seedlings. Pinar, who represented Ajax in the midfield position in this game, was one of them.

Looking at the Fiorentina side again, out of his usual cautious attitude, Heynckes naturally did not dare to be negligent in this game. After all, there is no one to play against in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and the same is true for Ajax, who are predominantly young. So, if Heynckes and Fiorentina don't take a little care, the defeat to Roma, the Red Wolves at the hands of the Young Guard, in the quarter-finals, will be a lesson for them.

Goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, left wing-back Robert Carlos, right wing-back Zambrotta, Nesta and Stam in central defence, Claude Makelele as a lone midfielder to protect the defence, Andrea Pirlo and Ballack in the middle to control the tempo of the game, Vincent and Giuli were responsible for attacking on the flanks and pulling space for their team-mates in the middle, and Vieri at the front was tasked with breaking down the Ajax defence and converting the passes sent by his team-mates behind him into goals.

Judging from the starting line-ups of both teams alone, Fiorentina undoubtedly have an absolute advantage in terms of book strength, with the likes of Vieri and Nesta at the peak of their careers. Of course, Ajax, who are predominantly young, are not without a chance to win, and these players in the midfield are not as famous as the 95 generation, but they are also very practical, and Ibrahimovic and Van der Vaart, who have top football talent, are enough to cause huge problems for Fiorentina's backline.

Once the game began, Ajax, who were the first to kick off, took advantage of the home advantage to launch a fierce attack on Fiorentina's goal. Under the command of Van der Vaart and Ibrahimovic, Maxwell and Van der Meyde frequently attacked from the wings, trying to open a breakthrough in Zambrotta and Carlos, distracting Fiorentina's defensive strength in the middle, so as to create more space for Ibrahimovic and Van der Vaart's attacking combination.

Incidentally, the main reason why Ajax's attack is done by Ibrahimovic and Van der Vaart is that Van der Vaart has not yet transformed into a playmaker at this time, and he has a very strong desire to attack after playing every position in midfield under the guidance of Koeman, which can be seen from his 18 league goals last season. Therefore, in the case that Van der Vaart is not fully mature, Ibrahimovic, who has excellent footwork and a sense of playing, naturally has to take on more organising work.

Of course, although Koeman's arrangement created a good attacking system for Ajax, as Van der Vaart and Ibrahimovic grew up, there began to be a fierce battle between the two for the ball and the status of the team, and Ajax also lost hope of revival because of the battle between the two, and finally had to send the two away one after another under various pressures in exchange for the stability of the dressing room and the necessary operating funds. This is a later story, so I won't mention it here.

Although they will turn against each other in the future because of the status and ball problems, Ibrahimovic and Van der Vaart are still in the honeymoon period at this time, and the two who share the core position are very complementary in terms of technical style, can score on their own and assist their teammates, causing huge defensive pressure on the long-established Nesta and Stam.

"me, how can this Swede have such delicate footwork?" Although Heynckes had stressed in the pre-match meeting that the Swedish striker, known as Ibrahimovic, had a strong frame and footwork that was not inferior to that of a top technical midfielder, Stam did not take the manager's words very seriously. In the eyes of the Dutch, a striker who is 1.95m tall and weighs 95kg is absolutely impossible to match the dribbling skills of Rui Costa and Figo.

The best example is Vieri, who plays in the same team as Stam, although the number one center forward in international football has improved a lot compared with his previous life under the special training of Mulensten and Moniz, but it is obviously not on the same level as Redondo and Pirlo. So, naturally, Stam didn't think that Ibrahimovic was anything remarkable.

So, with this mentality, Stam fell into bad luck after the game started. Some of the underdog Dutch defenders were shaken off by Ibrahimovic with skillful dribbling skills in the first few encounters, and even almost fouled Ajax in the penalty area to give Ajax a penalty, which can be said to be out of the way.

Although Stam was full of holes under Ibrahimovic's attack, Nesta didn't stop him from helping the defense. After all, Van der Vaart, who is in charge of defense, is not an easy master to deal with, and a negligence is likely to give the opponent a chance to score a single goal, and Stam was almost blown up by Ibrahimovic mainly because of the underestimation of the enemy and the lack of adaptation to the opponent's style of play, and it is only a matter of time before he finds a way to deal with it.

Nesta is still confident in his partner's ability to adjust himself. If this setback had been a slump in the game, it would have been impossible for Stam to wear the Fiorentina shirt and hold Ferrara and them to the bench.

Sure enough, as time went on, the relieved Stam began to target Ibrahimovic, and the likes of Ballack and Makelele began to consciously cut off Ibrahimovic and Van der Vaart from their teammates behind them, in this way to limit the power of the attacking pairing.

In this way, relying on a tight defensive system and strong midfield interception, the Fiorentina defense led by Stam and Nesta managed to withstand the home team's attacks in turn and ended the first half with a score of 0-0.