Volume 1 Chapter 47 Winning the Championship
"They're no longer good!"
Rick Link didn't know when he stood next to Ye Qiu, he also watched the game intently, and it was obvious that the Feyenoord players' physical fitness was declining rapidly, which made them reorganize the offensive more and more often, which proved that they needed to rest.
"I know the way!" Ye Qiu nodded, looked up at the electronic scoreboard at Philips Stadium, the time shown on it was 77 minutes and 32 seconds, he shook his head, "Wait a little longer!" ”
But he soon made the latest changes to his team, with everyone but Van der Vaart stepping up their pressing.
Feyenoord slowed down the attack, making it clear that they wanted to rest, and the defense of the Ajax second team finally wore out the opponent's physical strength, where can they make up for it so easily?
From Huntelaar to Sneijder to De Jong, Maduro, and the back five, all began to press aggressively, forcing Feyenoord, who wanted to slow down the tempo, to keep the ball moving at a fast rate all the time.
De Vischer replaced Bosvelt and Van Goebbels replaced Gjan, and Feyenoord remained relentless in their search for attacking opportunities, most notably to further exploit the right flank.
The cooperation between Abidal and Kifu is becoming more and more tacit, their thinking is more mature, and their strength has been fixed, before Abidal's tactical literacy was not high, and he often made mistakes, but with Kifu on the side to supervise and command, Abidal is much more stable, coupled with De Jong's help in front, the left side of the Ajax second team is not leaky.
Feyenoord tried to make a way out of the left side of Ajax II on several occasions, but to no avail.
Time passed minute by minute, but Ye Qiu never made any more substitutions, because he knew very well in his heart that this was already the strongest lineup he could handle, and if even this group of players could not withstand the pressure of Feyenoord in the game, then the others would not have to be counted on.
He had even made a mental decision that if Feyenoord could not win 90 minutes, he would not hesitate to continue in stoppage time and drag the draw into a penalty shoot-out.
But even if he has already decided in his heart, he still keeps cheering for the team on the sidelines, and keeps telling his players that there must still be a chance and must not give up.
Perhaps because Feyenoord attacked too fiercely before, many players in the team began to have problems with their physical fitness, and the rhythm could not slow down, and several players in the team were affected by this.
Maduro stuck behind Tomasson in advance, the midfielder has been very cautious since he came on the field, for fear that he would make a mistake accidentally, so he has never dared to defend Tomasson too actively, but this time, he saw that Tomasson stopped the ball and stopped wide, and the ball ran not far in front of him, where would he be polite at this time?
Maduro stabbed the ball straight in front, and Sneijder, as soon as he realized that the break was successful, ran forward quickly, grabbed the chasing Tomasson, and kicked the ball to the right again.
Van der Vaart rushed forward quickly, his speed was fast, and after winning the ball, he quickly advanced along the right side, and soon crossed the halfway line and approached Dzongza directly, while at the same time, Van der Vaart left the right and cut quickly into the middle.
Everyone thought that the Ajax second team was ready to give up the right side to Van der Ruw, so Dzongsa did not go to guard against De Vaart, but looked at Van der Ruw, but just when Van der Ru seemed to be about to force the speed to break through to the bottom line on the right side, he suddenly stopped, dunked, changed direction, and brought the ball to the middle.
Everyone in Feyenoord was on the defensive, and Van Gastere was the first to chase back into place, seeing that he and Zonsa were about to pinch Van der Ruw, only to see Van der Rouk knock across and pass the ball to the middle.
Sneijder also rushed forward quickly almost at this time, facing Van Drew's cross, and then passed directly without stopping.
Van der Vaart had already moved to the middle by this time, while Feyenoord's two centre-backs were in pursuit, De Haan went to watch Huntelaar running to the left, and Van Ondelen was the first to stick to Van der Vaart.
Van Ondelen's right foot was facing Van der Vaart's left foot, and he was in a very disadvantageous position defensively, because Van der Vaart was facing the left side and side facing the goal, so he used his left foot to stop Sneijder's through ball, but Van Ondelen was difficult to destroy him with his usual right foot.
It's on the edge of the box now, and if you foul it, it's a dangerous direct free-kick, so Van Ondelen's experience has taught him that it's best to block his starting angle, between Van der Vaart and the goal.
In fact, he did.
But as soon as Van der Vaart stopped the ball, he immediately made a gesture to bring it back, allowing Van Ondelen to shift his center of gravity, but he quickly kicked the ball to the left, and he also increased his speed in an instant.
In this kind of ultra-short distance sprint, what is more tested is the explosive power of the players when they start instantaneously, at this point, the tall Van Ondelen is not able to catch up with Van der Vaart, who is known for his speed, and is easily thrown out of a position.
Because it was the opponent's counter-attack, because there were no attacking and defensive players in the big penalty area, Dudek was a bit out of position.
Van der Vaart had noticed this before he shook off Van Ondelen, so as soon as he pulled out the space, he picked up the ball with his left foot and fired a quick volley.
The ball flew high above Dudek's head and fell quickly, almost against the crossbar, into the goal behind Dudek, who was chasing after him, but in the end he could only watch helplessly as the ball hit the net.
The referee's effective whistle sounded in an instant, unusually crisp, unusually pleasant!
The fans on both sides of the stadium were a little unable to accept this sudden change, especially the Feyenoord fans, because they had completely controlled the situation for such a long time in the past, but suddenly, the opponent counterattacked, and once again penetrated Feyenoord's goal, what was going on?
But soon, the Ajax fans cheered and shouted wildly, one by one even more excited than picking up gold, and they watched the goal-scorer Van der Fatra raise his shirt and wave his arms excitedly, rushing out of the pitch as fast as possible, and suddenly involuntarily shouted his name.
Van der Vaart !!
No one can understand how much Ajax fans expect from him, and no one can understand how much surprise and excitement Ajax fans are in their hearts at this moment, because they have never experienced despair!
Cruyff, Rijkaard, Van Basten, Seedorf, Kluivert, Overmars...... One by one, the players trained by Ajax have chosen to leave Ajax, which makes all Ajax fans feel very uncomfortable, and they can only hope for a little bit of hope in the newcomers.
But this season, Glen Schal is leaving, Hershey is leaving, and Brian? Laudrup is leaving, and the players who have had high hopes from the fans want to leave and escape from Amsterdam, which makes them all sad but helpless.
Therefore, they always hope in their hearts that if someone can stand up and give them hope again, then they can proudly and bravely say to those who want to leave, "You can go, we don't need you, because we are Ajax!" ”
Now, Van der Vaart is that man!
The goal madness soon swept the game, not only with the Ajax players celebrating frantically on the pitch, but also with the Ajax fans celebrating in the stands, and the Ajax bench and coaching staff also congratulating on the sidelines.
Finally scored again, finally exceeded the score again!
"Very, very, very difficult goal!"
"I dare say Van der Vaart is definitely the most talented young talent from Dutch football that I have seen in all these years, and this game is almost determined by his individual ability!"
"Of course, the most important thing is that we have to admire the courage of Ye Qiu, the head coach of the second team of Ajax, without his trust, without him arranging counterattacks around Van der Vaart, then Van der Vaart's performance would not be so good, especially the very interesting arrangement of Van der Vaart on the right side, let him cut from the right side to the middle, and give full play to his left-footed general's backfoot advantage, Ye Qiu's arrangement is really admirable!"
Cruyff also looked very excited, at least he felt that the two factors that really determined the trend of this game were Ye Qiu's use of Van der Vaart, and the other was the defense of Ajax's second team.
In the second half, the team defended with great care, not giving Feyenoord any favorable chances, and they did not even make a single big mistake, which led to Feyenoord's attack looking ferocious and dangerous, but it was never able to break through the Ajax II team.
"It's almost over!" Cruyff shook his head.
Ajax II exceeded the score again, which was a very big blow to Feyenoord's morale, and more importantly, there are only 4 minutes left in the time, even if stoppage time is added, it will be 7 minutes at most, what can Feyenoord do?
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After the game restarted, Feyenoord launched a crazy counterattack, and even they pressed directly on the defenders.
But such an offensive is not necessarily effective for the Ajax II team, but in the 88th minute, Kifu made a long pass from the backfield, directly past Feyenoord's defense, fell to the right, and found Van der Vaart, who successfully countered offside, cut inside on the right side and crossed to the front of the penalty area, and Sneijder, who was inserted behind, volleyed a powerful and slightly missed.
If this counterattack succeeds again, Feyenoord will be completely finished.
In the 89th minute, the referee gave two minutes of stoppage time.
As soon as the stoppage time came out, Ye Qiu immediately arranged for substitutions, and he replaced two places in a row in one go.
"He's a bit of a substitution right now to delay the game!" Cruyff said with a smile.
This is also a common tactic used by a manager, two substitutions are made separately, and then a little more delay during the substitution, and the rules are used reasonably, which is not illegal.
Feyenoord was so angry that he almost blew up his lungs, and Van Marwijk saw Rui, who came on as a substitute for Ajax's second team, slowly preparing to play, but when he deliberately delayed time, he was so angry that he kept scolding on the sidelines, complaining that the referee did not urge.
But immediately, Ye Qiu made another substitution, directly replacing the exhausted Van der Vaart and replacing it with a defender, still slowly consuming, that look as if he was laughing at Van Marwijk, I was ahead, I did it on purpose, you bite me?
Finally, the two substitutions were over, and there was only one minute left.
Feyenoord almost all rushed forward, and Dudek even rushed directly through the half, constantly waving his arms to make his teammates press up, preferably into the Ajax II penalty area, because everyone knew that this was already the last attack.
Because he was in too much of a hurry, when a long pass into the penalty area, Cruise made a foul during the battle for the top, and he pressed his arm on Van Duyne's shoulder, which was ruled a foul by the referee.
The Ajax II team quickly kicked the goal kick and prepared to counterattack directly, which scared the players of Dudek and Feyenoord to quickly return to the defense, but when Feyenoord returned to their positions, they found that the Ajax II team did not come up at all.
Just as they were about to go up and finish off the opponent, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.
"It's over!! game"
"Very, very surprising, Ajax II beat Feyenoord with an incredible score of 2:1!"
"It's a dark horse, a dark horse that couldn't be darker, and they also made Dutch football history, they became the first youth team in history to win the Dutch Cup, which has never been done before in the history of Dutch football, and even in the history of football in the whole world is very, very rare!"
"Let's congratulate the young players of the Ajax II team, who beat Feyenoord with their tenacity, their fighting spirit, and their fighting spirit!"
'We believe that there will be a lot of people who regret Feyenoord's defeat because they have an absolute advantage in terms of quality, but we should know that football can never win a game just by its strength, and the charm of football is more about its uncertainty.
"Yes, that's right!" Cruyff also took the opportunity to join the conversation of the post-match wrap-up.
"It's an impressive team, to reach the Dutch Cup as a youth team and then knock out the likes of PSV Eindhoven, Utrecht, Heerenveen and Feyenoord along the way, which is an incredible miracle in itself, but more importantly, the fighting spirit of this team makes all of us who love Ajax feel confident enough to say that our proud and brave Ajax team is finally back!"
"Here, as a fan who loves Ajax and Dutch football, I would like to thank Ye Qiu for leading this Ajax second team, he has given us hope for the revival of Ajax and the hope of Dutch football!"
"Let's all remember their names seriously, Raphael? Van der Vaart, Wesley? Sneijder, Klaas? Yang? Huntelaar, Nigel? De Jong, Hedwiggs? Maduro, John? Heitinga, Eric? Abidal, Christian? Kiv, and our goalkeeper, Marten? Stekelenberg. ”
"When we see them, we see Ajax, we see the hope of Dutch football, and we have every reason to believe that this team, in time, will be able to bring us hope for revival in Dutch football, in European football and even on the stage of world football."
"Thank you Ye Qiu, thank you Ajax!"
By the time Cruyff shouted these words, all the Ajax II players in the stadium were already in a mess, and they all rushed onto the pitch one by one to celebrate.
This group of young lads never thought that they could have today, when they came to today, looking back, they all found that it was their head coach Ye Qiu who had been constantly instilling confidence and belief in them, leading them step by step to today, defeating one powerful enemy after another.
After celebrating, they all ran in front of Ye Qiu one by one and surrounded the head coach in the middle.
The Ajax first team has experienced a painful upheaval this season, from Waters to Westerhoff, they have never been able to bring about a change in the team, but in the second team, under the leadership of Ye Qiu, this Ajax second team has shown an amazing fighting ability.
While the Ajax II team was celebrating, Feyenoord's group of stars walked into the tunnel with their heads bowed down one by one, because they lost to this group of people they had always looked down on, which made them feel ashamed and ashamed.
In particular, Van Ondelen, who lost to Ajax again, especially to Ajax II, and was teased by Van der Vaart, made him extremely angry, but he was helpless because they lost.
All the Ajax fans in the stadium were shouting Ye Qiu and shouting the names of the players.
They are the heroes of the team and the hope of Ajax's revival!
Now, all Ajax fans can bravely stand up straight and proudly say to PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord, and all the teams that look down on Ajax: you wait, sooner or later we will pull you all off the league standings one by one, because we have a group of proud second-team players, and you are all their defeats!
It's just that when everyone is excited and excited, the president of Ajax, Van Praag, is not only excited and excited, but also has more apprehension and worry in his heart.
Because there are some things that only he knows!