As the team's performance improved, the atmosphere in Detok Mostri gradually became more relaxed.

The most obvious thing is that on the training ground, the atmosphere has obviously become much more lively, and many players will even do some tricks in the training ground and locker room, Ye Qiu did not stop this, he regarded this as a gift for the players' outstanding performance.

After finishing the morning training session, the players walked directly to the locker room, and Ye Qiu walked to the coaching room.

The sports channel of Dutch national television was broadcasting sports news, and it was the draw ceremony for the League Cup at half past 12 noon in Geneva, so Ye Qiu found a seat and sat down.

There has been a lot of news in the recent period, but as always, there is very little news related to the Netherlands, basically the news of the four major leagues, especially Serie A, and now Serie A is worthy of the name of the first league in the world, and fans in the whole world are staring at it.

And the most eye-catching news in Serie A in recent weeks has undoubtedly been the Juventus goalkeeper.

Carlo Ancelotti was very unhappy with the performance of Dutch goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, and Juventus fans didn't like the tall but slow-looking goalkeeper, and they even held up signs at home and shouted about their former angels, but after switching to Inter Milan, the former goalkeeper who joined Lazio this season, Angelo? Peruzi.

Angelo, which means angel in Italian, and Bianconeri fans see Peruzzi as their guardian angel, especially when Dutch goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar is in poor form.

"Poor Van der Sar, he definitely has the quality, why is he so bad in Serie A?" Bobby? Harms felt a little sorry and sorry for the former student.

Van der Sar's performance in Serie A has been good and bad, but unfortunately, his performance in recent weeks has been very bad, especially in the recent game, the Champions League away to Panathinaix, Van der Sar was scored 3 goals by the opponent, which directly led to Juventus being eliminated from the Champions Cup, even the third place in the group, did not qualify for the League Cup, and went straight to the bottom.

In Serie A, Van der Sar conceded 6 goals in 6 rounds, and even the team's veteran Ferrara said that he had never been so bad at Juventus, and almost every game was spent in fear and insecurity.

Although, neither Ancelotti nor Ferrara said it directly, but everyone knew that they were talking about Van der Sar.

Ye Qiu's feeling at this moment is absurd, because at this time, Juventus regarded Van der Sar as a sinner in history, and the Dutch goalkeeper was completely listed as a parallel import, but who would have thought that a few years later, Lao Fan would be able to shine in the spring of Manchester United's old trees?

"Our problems are a bit like Juventus'!" Ye Qiu smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Goalkeeper Fred? Grim is not young and has experience, but the problem is that his strength has declined very much, and he is a little incompatible with Ajax's set of tactics, especially in terms of communication and exchange with the backline, which has led to Ajax's problems in this regard.

The biggest hidden danger in the midfield this season is Lucio, who likes to cut forward, and Grim, who lacks consistency.

Ye Qiu is not looking for responsibility, but these two players have at least cost Ajax a lot of points, the difference is that Lucio is Ye Qiu's favorite, and he is young and has potential, and there is enough future worthy of Ye Qiu to cultivate him, but Grim is already so old, he is obviously a little unable to keep up with Ye Qiu's pace.

"We really should consider bringing in a quality goalkeeper!" Bobby? Harms also agrees with Ye Qiu's opinion.

Ye Qiu has a lot of players to consider in terms of goalkeepers, including Peter? Petr Cech, who is still in Barcelona and so on, has also sent out scouts to find and scout these players, and he wants to know if these players have what it takes to play at Ajax.

Among them, like Reina, who is young, has already played for Barcelona this season, and has also been promoted to the main team by Ferrer, and is pinned on by countless Barcelona fans to become Barcelona's own Casillas, but his performance is also mixed, and his performance is not stable enough.

If that's the case, then why did Ye Qiu give up Grim?

In Ye Qiu and Bobby? While Harms was exchanging views, the draw for the League Cup began.

This season's UEFA Cup can be described as the world of Bundesliga teams, with a total of 7 Bundesliga teams reaching the round of 32 of the UEFA Cup, 5 teams in La Liga, 3 teams in Serie A, plus teams from Ligue 1, the Premier League and the Eredivisie.

For Ajax, no matter who the opponent is, they should not be taken lightly, because they have no capital at all.

But in the end, Ajax's opponent was Roma from Serie A!

Feyenoord were drawn against Stuttgart in the Bundesliga, while PSV Eindhoven had the best luck and met Greece's Thessaloniki.

Ajax is now long gone Van Gaal's glory when he won the Champions League, and his strength has declined sharply in recent years, resulting in the outside world's evaluation of Ajax is not high.

The real powerhouse dialogue should be the kind of Inter Milan and Hertha Berlin, the four major league teams against each other, and even more so Feyenoord and Stuttgart.

On the other hand, Ajax and Roma have too big a gap in strength, after all, Capello's star-studded lineup, compared with Ajax's cold list of players, is worth the entire Ajax team if you pick a few.

Batistuta, Totti, Emerson, Cafu, Candela, Samuel, Montella......

This season, Roma has a proud record of 5 wins and 1 loss in the first 6 rounds of Serie A in the world's first league, which shows how strong it is.

"What a bad luck to meet Rome!" Roland shook his head and sighed.

This kind of draw is pure bad luck, because Roma's strength is not comparable to Ajax, even Eindhoven, so there is no suspense to deliberately create a strong dialogue.

When it came to Rome, many people in the coaching room were silent, because no one wanted to accept the fate of death in the future.

On the contrary, it was Ye Qiu, seeing that no one was talking, he stood up with a smile.

"I think it's fun to smoke Rome!"

Ye Qiu gave people the feeling of eagerness, "I am now starting to find a little bit of the passion and excitement I had when I played the Dutch Cup last year, when we led the second team, wasn't the gap bigger than the gap with Roma now?" But the result? ”

His words made both Rick Link and Roland raise some spirits.

Yes, when I led the second team last year, the gap was even bigger, but Ajax still had the last laugh.

"The fun of life is to keep challenging the strong, even if it's Rome, even if it's Capello, I'm not afraid of him!"

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The UEFA Cup knockout draw for Roma affected some of the atmosphere in the squad, with everyone in awe of Roma and Capello, as the former is a squad of some of the world's best stars, while the latter is one of the best managers on the planet.

But the game still has to go on.

In the 12th round of the league, Ajax hosted Graafschap.

As Ye Qiu adjusted, the players gradually adapted to his tactics, whether it was offensive or defensive, the power gradually appeared, just like this game against Graafschap, Ajax played a round of offensive feast at the Arena Stadium.

Donny van der Meyde's brace gave Ibrahimovic the opener, while Van der Vaart, who came off the bench in the second half, also set up Arjen Robben to add another goal to Ajax's 4-1 win at the Arena Stadium.

The only regret is that after reuniting with his old club Huntelaar came off the bench, he couldn't score a goal.

A week later, Ajax travelled to promoted Mabreda.

If Rosendaal is a typical example of the kind of poor mix in promoted Mali, then Breda is a good case of mixing.

Breda has an obvious feature is the home dragons, this team has lost one at home this season, or the first game of the new season against Waalwijk, only 6 home games have a proud record of 5 wins and 1 draw, but the away is average, including a 0:4 defeat to Twente in the last round.

Defensive counter-attacks are what Breda is best at, and at the same time Ajax's weakness.

But in this game, Ye Qiu still chose to press up, adopted a high-level defensive strategy, and attacked Breda.

In Ye Qiu's opinion, Ajax is a strong team, and it will often encounter teams that defend and counterattack, so sooner or later they have to find an offensive strategy for attacking tough battles, and Breda is inferior to Ajax in terms of strength, so Ye Qiu decided to continue to adopt a high-position defensive strategy and take a look at the situation first.

Donny van der Meyde has been in excellent form of late, especially after Van der Vaart's injury, and his performances on the right flank have been eye-catching.

Excellent speed, good crossing, and good individual ability, which makes him appear on the pitch and play a good role in attacking on the right, plus Robben on the left, Ajax's wings are very active.

Because of this, even if Van der Vaart returned from injury, Ye Qiu still used the combination of Robben and Van der Meyde in this game, and let Van der Vaart sit on the bench, after all, no manager is willing to break the team's good game momentum.

Van der Meyde also did not live up to Ye Qiu's trust in him, after the game started, he was very active on the right side, and he created a threat with the ball several times, especially in the 16th minute, he broke through the opponent's defense after taking the ball on the right side, and made a low pass to the penalty area, Ibrahimovic stopped the ball and used his body to suppress the opponent's central defender, turned and volleyed, penetrating Breda's goal, 1:0!

After the goal, Ajax began to consciously slow down their attack and tempo, hoping to lure Breda out to play.

The first half was 1-0, but at the beginning of the second half, Ajax suddenly stepped up again and launched a fierce attack on Breda, especially Van der Meyde on the right, who was more active, making Breda's defense heavily tilted towards his side.

In the 63rd minute, McCone shifted on the right side, and Abidal on the left side quickly inserted the ball and passed low to Robben in front, who entered the penalty area and was tripped by the opponent's central defender in the penalty area, and the referee clearly awarded a penalty, Robben made it overnight, expanding the score for Ajax, 2:0!

scored two goals in a row, leaving Breda without any choice but to press out and play.

But Ajax did not give him such a chance, in the 87th minute, Ajax, who played 20 minutes with Breda, received Yaya from Huntelaar, who came on as a substitute. Toure's pass, stabbed from a tight angle in the penalty area, broke through Bredda's goal again, and rewrote the score to 3:0.

Huntelaar's shot made Ye Qiu on the sidelines amazed, this kid has improved a lot in shooting skills under the tutelage of Van Basten, especially the confidence in front of the goal, but unfortunately, his body is always a weakness, and his skills are not as good as Ibrahimovic.

The Swede's progress is also evident, after all, he has been practicing for half an hour every day for the past four months, which has made him improve a lot, but it will undoubtedly take a longer time to change his playing habits, so he has to take his time.

"If you transfer Klaas's shooting skills to Zlatan, then this striker is perfect!" After Ye Qiu saw Huntelaar score, he said with embarrassment.

Bobby on the side? Harms was also amused when he heard it, how could there be such a good thing in this world?

With a 3-0 win at Breda, Ajax finally regained third place in the league position, just behind PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord, but only two points behind PSV Eindhoven and seven points behind Feyenoord.

Because Feyenoord lost 0-1 away to PSV Eindhoven in the previous round.

After playing Breda, Ajax rested at Detokmoste and began to prepare to travel to Rome to take on the team of gold medal coach Fabio Capello.

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Arriving in Rome, Ajax did not attract the slightest attention.

Ajax was greeted by only three or four Italian and Dutch journalists.

There is no newspaper often reported in the previous life, and fans gather in the waiting hall just to see the style of their idols; Or hostile fans besieging the bus, just to interfere with the opponent's things, because they are just Ajax, just Ye Qiu.

In the whole of Europe, I am afraid that the vast majority of fans will not know Ye Qiu, because the head coach is not famous in this year, and in Europe, almost no one will be optimistic that Ajax will be able to retreat from Rome City, because their opponent is Rome, Capello.

William Hill's odds for this game are Roma to concede a goal, and several other bookmakers give similar odds, and given that Roma fans have always had the habit and tradition of attacking away fans, Ajax did not arrange and organize fans to watch the game away this time.

Therefore, when the time comes, except for some Ajax fans who come to Rome on their own, the scene will completely become the world of the Romans.

Ye Qiu was also mentally prepared for this, but he still made himself look relaxed and confident in front of everyone, because this was the only thing he could do, could it be that before the game was played, he was going to put on a dead fish face that I had already lost?

That was definitely not Ye Qiu's style, nor was it a wise approach.

"I came to Rome with one purpose, and that was to get an away win!"

This is the expectation that Ye Qiu said when he walked out of the gate and was interviewed by a reporter from the Amsterdam Evening Post.

'Fabio Capello is a very respectable senior, I've watched him a lot of games and I know he's a very good, very experienced manager, but I don't think that should be a reason for him to beat Ajax, on the contrary, I and my team have always had the tradition and resilience to beat the strong!'

Ye Qiu's words are undoubtedly cheering for tomorrow's game.

"Yes, I don't deny that we are inferior to our opponents in terms of strength, but we are not a weak team, on the contrary, we are strong, we have a group of brave and strong fighters who are not afraid of sacrifice, we will explain our Ajax style of football to everyone at the Olympic Stadium, and we will make everyone who underestimates us pay the most painful price!"

Ye Qiu only accepted an interview with the Amsterdam Evening Post, and he refused to be interviewed by some newspaper reporters from Italy, because he did not like the Italian media very much, and what they were best at was to deceive, for example, the Roma Sports newspaper published a news item today, thinking that Van der Vaart was dissatisfied with Ye Qiu's arrangement for him to play as a substitute.

But in fact, when Van der Vaart was interviewed by Roma Sport, he only expressed his desire to play the main team, and before he made this remark, he also said that Van der Vayde's recent performance is indeed very good, worthy of the main position, what he wants is to adjust the state after returning from injury and snatch the main position back.

This remark, which was supposed to represent healthy competition, turned into Van der Vaart's complaint in the newspapers.

Ye Qiu's rejection of Italian newspapers made these newspapers a little angry, and they published some pessimistic remarks about Ajax, but it was Rome coach Capello who said in an interview with the Italian Corriere della Sera that Ajax is not as weak as the outside world imagined.

'They're certainly a young team, but it's definitely not a team that lacks fighting power, they have an extraordinary level of competitiveness and we have to take it seriously, so I told my players to be careful in this game at the Stadio Olimpico because we are playing against a very difficult team and at the same time very resilient.

Capello also mentioned Ye Qiu in the interview, but he gave more polite comments about the 26-year-old Chinese, because he himself admitted that he had not watched the Eredivisie games, but only paid attention to the videos of Ajax's recent games, and he felt that Ye Qiu had a lot of ideas and ideas.

'To be able to lead Ajax at the age of 26 and win another Dutch Cup, he is undoubtedly a super rookie in the managerial field and I am looking forward to meeting him!'

Regarding the kindness given by Capello, Ye Qiu also said, "In this game, my team and I came to Rome City with a learning mentality, but we hope to go all out and understand the difference in strength between ourselves and the best teams in Serie A!" ”