Volume I, Chapter 143 Invitations
After playing PSV Eindhoven, Ajax welcomed Ronald? Twente in Koeman.
In the first half, Koeman's team was clearly better, and once broke through the Ajax goal to take the lead, but in the second half, Ye Qiu adjusted the team's tactics, and finally relied on Van der Meyde, Huntelaar and Yaya? Toure's three goals overturned FC Twente 3-1.
At the weekend, Ajax took on Den Bosch away, although Den Bosch has been sluggish this season and is currently mired in relegation, but the team still caused huge problems for Ajax, who are not in good fitness and form at their home stadium, and it was Huntelaar's goal that helped Ajax beat this team 1-0.
Three days later, Ajax welcomed Bayern Munich.
After more than three months, they met again, and Bayern Munich was no longer the Bayern that was in a state of adjustment at the beginning of the season.
Although Ye Qiu's team has been rotated, Bayern are clearly more experienced, and Heathfield has adjusted the form of their players better, which has led to them controlling the game advantage for most of the time at the Arena.
But the final score was 1:1, Bayern Munich drew away to Ajax with Elber's second-half goal.
The home team's goal came in the seventh minute of the first half, when Belarusian teenager Hleb cut straight into the box after a skilful dribble down the left, and Ibrahimovic took the ball with his back to Van der Vaart, who curled the ball with his left foot.
As a result, after two rounds of Group A, Manchester United defeated Boavista 3:0 in the second leg at Old Trafford, and finally won 1 and drew 1, scored 4 goals and conceded 1 goal, ranking first in the group, while Ajax also won and drew 1, ranking second in the group, Bayern Munich ranked third in the group with two games and two draws, and Boavista did not get the bottom of the points.
By the way, after playing this game with Bayern Munich, Hleb took the initiative to find Ye Qiu, and the two sides had an in-depth conversation, Ye Qiu was very satisfied with Hleb's attitude, and was also pleased with his recent form, and encouraged the Belarusians to make persistent efforts and strive for better performances.
After playing Bayern Munich, the team welcomed Vitesse at the Arena Stadium.
The biggest contributor to the win in this game was Van der Vaart.
The Dutch talent, who had just saved the team with a goal at the Arena, has been showing his outstanding form of late.
He was very active on the right flank from the start of the game, and Sneijder, who had returned from injury, had a constant flow of cannonballs behind him to open the scoring for Ajax just 12 minutes into the game.
But less than five minutes after Van der Vaart's goal, Vitesse took advantage of the Ajax backline to play Colo? A partnership mistake from Toure and Heitinga equalised.
But soon, Van der Vaart once again used the right side to cut inside and hit the goal again, penetrating Vitesse's goal again, and in the 29th minute, he broke through on the right side and passed to Keita, who went straight behind him, Hleb dribbled the ball on the left side and crossed, Huntelaar grabbed the point in front of the goal, 3:1.
In the 47th minute, Gilberto? Silva took advantage of a set-piece in front of him to deflect Sneijder's quick free-kick into the back of the net to make it 4-1.
After scoring consecutive goals, Ajax looked like a rainbow of morale, especially Van der Vaart, after the young player scored twice, the state was still not satisfied, the goal ** is still very strong, and he even took the initiative to ask Ye Qiu to play the whole game in the second half at halftime.
In the end, in the 72nd minute, Van der Vaart forced a push from the right side of McCone and knocked back, probed into the penalty area and shook off the Vitesse central defender, and scored a hat-trick with a low left-footed shot, which was also the first hat-trick of Van der Vaart's life.
5:1 victory over Vitesse, Ajax showed an overwhelming strength advantage in this game, although everyone can see that Ajax is not in the best condition, but still with the overall strength, pressed the opponent, and achieved a big victory, which also made everyone have a deeper understanding of Ajax.
Vitesse is not a weak team, this team is currently ranked 4th in the Eredivisie, behind Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven, and has the same points as Heerenveen, but a team that is not in good form Ajax can beat their opponents 5:1, which shows that the overall strength of Ajax has steadily surpassed their opponents.
But when Ye Qiu was interviewed by the media after the game, he repeatedly said that Ajax's big victory was somewhat lucky.
Because Eindhoven and Feyenoord also won a big victory in this round, many professionals believe that the strength of this season's Eredivisie is very different, and the traditional top three led by Ajax, Feyenoord and Eindhoven have obvious advantages in overall strength, although the difference in points is not large, but it is more due to the multi-front battle of the giants.
"If nothing happens, this season's Eredivisie title will be born among these three teams, and Ajax are undoubtedly the favourites!"
On December 12, Ajax hosted Roosendaal in the Eredivisie.
Ye Qiu originally wanted to use this game to adjust the state of the players, but he didn't expect that Rosendaal was mainly an opponent, and Ajax, who was tired at the beginning of the game, was a little caught off guard.
The crockpot is difficult to break from the well, and the general will inevitably die in battle.
Cup competitions have always been a hotbed of underdogs, Ye Qiu led the Ajax II team to create a miracle before, which also made many Dutch coaches pay attention to the Dutch Cup, hoping to rely on the cup to make themselves famous and become Ye Qiu II.
It should be said that Roosendaal almost succeeded, they took a 2:1 lead in the first half, but in the second half they could not distinguish the situation, blindly continued to adhere to the tactical play of the first half, instead of following the situation and adopting a more conservative tactic, otherwise, the fatigued Ajax will definitely be dragged to death.
But in the end, Ajax relied on the goals of substitutes Robben and Van der Meyde, reversed Roosendal 3:2, and successfully advanced to the last 8 from the round of 16 of the Dutch Cup.
Three days later, Ajax travelled to Kerkrade in the south of the Netherlands to challenge Roda JC at Limburg Park, and although Ajax scored first, Roda JC was more fit and used a counter-attack in the second half to equalize and eventually draw 1-1.
In the other highlight of this round, Feyenoord drew 0-0 at home to PSV Eindhoven.
With Ajax in the lead, Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven didn't want to lose points in such a strong conversation, so both Van Marwijk and Goretz carefully laid out their tactics, not seeking to score, but not conceding, so the two sides played a dull bad game at the De Kuip Stadium.
But no one expected that a week later, PSV Eindhoven would beat Groningen 8-0 on their home turf.
Although Gretz's twin tower combination did not play a powerful role in this game, Swedish midfielder Voger scored a hat trick, and Oye, Bouma, Romerdal, Van Bommel and other players who usually score fewer goals, or even no goals, all started this game.
Feyenoord, who are second in the league, also won 5-0.
Ye Qiu's team has avoided two crises, and after a week's rest, everyone originally thought that Ajax would have a better performance in the last game before the winter break, after all, the most difficult schedule has been over, and Ajax has also performed very well in the dense schedule.
But no one expected that in the last game against Utrecht, Ajax's overall state was sluggish, and he was beaten 2:1 by Utrecht, and Ye Qiu's team finally ended all the matches in the first half of the season with a loss.
As a result, Feyenoord managed to chase Ajax's lead to three points this time, while PSV Eindhoven are four points behind Ajax, and the battle for the league title still looks very suspenseful.
According to the Eredivisie schedule, the 20th round will start on January 27, so the Ajax training camp will also start in mid-January, and the two-week winter break will be scheduled on the Spanish island of Mallorca.
After finishing this intensive schedule, Ye Qiu can finally take a breath, no matter whether he wins or loses the game, he can only relax a little until now, at least from now on, for three weeks, he doesn't need to worry about the next day's training and competition, he can really relax.
What's even more rare is that Huang Chu can finally take a vacation and return to his home in Amsterdam, and he and Eliza, the two big foodies, can finally taste Huang Chu's craftsmanship again.
But at this time, an invitation letter was sent from Zurich to Ye Qiu in Amsterdam.
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The invitation itself is nothing special, but on the coat, it is engraved with an obvious FIFA logo, and when you put it in your hand, the weight is not light, it seems that it was specially created by UEFA, and it must be for special guests.
"I've heard that all the shortlisted candidates will receive invitations like this, and the other guests will be different." Eliza is well-informed, and even Ye Qiu doesn't know about the Dao, but she is very right.
"Finalist? Coaching? Huang Chu sat beside Ye Qiu, holding his hand, and his love was as thick as honey.
"It should be!" Eliza replied.
Ye Qiu was not very surprised by this, as early as the beginning of the season, he had been shortlisted for the UEFA Coach of the Season shortlist, but finally lost to Heathfield, and European football has always been the center of world football, so it is not surprising that he was once again shortlisted for the Coach of the Year.
"Can I win a prize?" Huang Chu looked at Ye Qiu with a concerned face, if she was asked to choose, she would definitely choose Ye Qiu.
"I guess it's enough!" Ye Qiu is already mentally prepared, the only thing he can get is the League Cup championship, but Heathfield has the European Champions Cup in hand, and then won the Toyota Cup, although Ye Qiu gathered the Eredivisie champion, the League Cup champion, the Dutch Cup champion, the Dutch Cruyff Cup champion and the European Super Cup champion, and was jokingly called the five champions by many people, but in fact, Ye Qiu himself knows how much weight these five championships have.
The Eredivisie championship itself has no weight at all for FIFA, because the Eredivisie is only a second-rate league in Europe, as for the Dutch Cup and the Cruyff Cup, not to mention, the Dutch own home games can still be tossed to European and world football?
The only ones that are more successful are the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Super Cup, but the competition is equally fierce, not to mention Heathfield, Capello's Roma won the championship last season and is now very popular, Bianchi's Boca Juniors won the Copa Libertadores, Houllier won the FA Cup, League Cup and Charity Shield, and the likes of Alex Ferguson, as well as Serie A's dark horse Chievo's manager Del Neri, are all strong contenders.
Today's Serie A is the No. 1 league in the world, so Capello and Del Neri are very strong, as for Ye Qiu...... Do not say.
"Maybe there's a chance of an upset!" Eliza said jokingly.
Huang Chu smiled, and took Ye Qiu's hand even tighter, "Anyway, whether you take it or not, it's the best!" ”
Ye Qiu nodded, but sighed again, "If you can't win the award, you can't help but give them face, this feeling of watching others win the award is really not a taste!" ”
There will always be only one award, most of them can only regret losing, only the lucky one can laugh the most, for this kind of cruel competition, Ye Qiu has long been used to it, but he has always felt a little bad in his heart.
The so-called head coach of the year has set up a total of two awards, namely the best club head coach of the year and the best national team head coach of the year, as the name suggests, the former is for club events, the latter is for national team events, and Chinese national team head coach Milutinovic was also shortlisted for the national team head coach this time.
However, the chances of Milou winning the award are very low, because his rivals include Argentina coach Bielsa, England coach Eriksen and France coach Le Maire, all of whom have been outstanding in the World Cup qualifiers.
Relatively speaking, the probability of Milutinovic winning the best national team coach is far lower than Ye Qiu's chance of winning the best club manager of the year, at least Ye Qiu won a heavyweight championship trophy such as the League Cup.
"By the way, I've heard that such a ceremony requires a female companion!" Ye Qiu frowned, and looked at Huang Chu as he spoke.
The latter immediately shook his head vigorously, "Don't look for me, I won't go this time, I'd rather sleep at home and read." ”
Seeing Huang Chu's appearance, Eliza couldn't help but giggle, Huang Chu has never liked such occasions, if she really chooses, she must choose to read a book at home, or go to the movies or something.
still remembers that the only time she accompanied Ye Qiu to participate in such an occasion should be back when Ye Qiu led the second team to win the Dutch Cup, but that time was because of the previous agreement to encourage Ye Qiu, and then she couldn't rely on it, and was finally dragged by Elizala.
Nowadays, there are more and more such occasions, and there are more and more people who can go alone, Ye Qiu went by himself, but there are some occasions when he can't go alone, so Ye Qiu always pulls Eliza as a female companion, which is still proposed by Huang Chu.
The three of them live together, and they are not much different in age, they have a good relationship with each other, and they always get together, so they don't have any too complicated thoughts, and Huang Chu and Eliza are good sisters, so she is very relieved about Ye Qiu and Eliza.
"Let Eliza go with you!" Huang Chu really made such a proposal again.
Ye Qiu and Eliza glanced at each other, and they all saw the joke in each other's eyes, and they all laughed immediately, laughing so much that Huang Chu was a little embarrassed, and then viciously twisted him around Ye Qiu's waist, making him grin in pain.
"If you're going, you'll have to get your clothes ready." Huang Chu hurriedly changed the topic.
Eliza nodded, "I'll take care of that!" ”
Ye Qiu was still very relieved about Eliza, but he suddenly thought that around Christmas, weren't they worried that they had nowhere to go?
"Why don't we go skiing in Switzerland?"
"That's a good idea, go skiing!" Eliza was the most excited.
"Can you slip?" Huang Chu glanced at Ye Qiu.
Ye Qiu lowered his head, shook it from side to side, and said very depressedly: "No!" ”
"Then it's just me and Eliza, and you can just watch from the sidelines!" Huang Chu finally found Ye Qiu's weakness.
The two girlfriends were obviously very excited about Ye Qiu's proposal, as soon as they talked about going skiing, the stubble was like the river that opened the sluice, surging and gushing, from the tools of skiing, to the weather in Switzerland, and then to which ski resort to go to, and even thought about food and accommodation after the end.
Ye Qiu was left aside, and could only smile bitterly, because he had no skiing experience, but he felt that skiing should not be difficult, his own sports cells were quite developed, and he should learn it quickly, right?
However, if you decide to go skiing in Switzerland, you may not be able to return to China, after all, Ajax's winter break training this season is earlier than before, and Huang Chu is going to work again not long after Christmas, so they discussed it after a while, and finally decided not to go back.
Originally, Ye Qiu thought that Europeans attached great importance to the concept of family reunion at Christmas, but what she didn't expect was that Eliza didn't plan to go home, originally Ye Qiu and the others were going to wait for her to go home for Christmas before going to Switzerland, but she said that she didn't plan to go home for Christmas, which made Ye Qiu and Huang Chu a little surprised.
Because they have been together for two years, they have found that Eliza has never been home, she lives in Amsterdam, and there is no family to visit her, she has never heard her mention her family, and whenever she talks about home, she quickly changes the subject.
This made Ye Qiu and Huang Chu think that Eliza was likely to have no family, so they never talked about this topic.
The three young men did what they said, packed up the next day, and rushed directly to Switzerland.