"Audience friends, audience friends, welcome to Old Trafford in Manchester, England."

"What we are currently broadcasting live for you is the final of the UEFA Champions League for the 3rd season, against Real Madrid, a giant from La Liga, and Ajax, a team from the Netherlands.

"Both teams have a glorious history and a long tradition, although in the past few years, Ajax has fallen for a while, but soon, under the leadership of young Chinese coach Ye Qiu, this Eredivisie powerhouse has come out of the quagmire and once again showed the strong fighting power of the traditional team."

"Last year, Ajax reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, and many people thought that this team was lucky, but this year, Ajax achieved better results than last year, reaching the Champions League final, and along the way, Ajax defeated top teams including Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Juventus, AC Milan, Bayer Leverkusen, Barcelona and other top teams, which can be said to be full of gold."

"Of course, as the strongest and most star-studded top club in European football today, Real Madrid's strength should not be underestimated, they are the most dominant team in the Champions League this season, and the team has brought together a group of outstanding superstars such as Zidane, Ronaldo, Raul, Figo, Robert Carlos, etc., and the fighting power of this team is not trivial."

"Because both teams have extraordinary strength, the Old Trafford stadium was full tonight, and I heard that it was already hard to find tickets outside, and the scalpers even raised the ticket price to more than 20 times the usual price, which shows the popularity of this game, and in the stands of this stadium, only 15 lucky fans were able to watch this game live."

As the on-site commentator spoke, the starting lineups for both sides were displayed on the screen.

"Real Madrid's starting line-up today has not changed much, with Casillas in goal, Robert Carlos, Elguera, Hierro and Salgado at the back, Guti and Makelele at the back, Zidane, Raul and Figo up front, with Ronaldo at the front."

"Ajax didn't change much either, with Edwin van der Sar in goal, Abidal, Kivo, Lucio and McCone at the back, Yaya Toure, Mascherano and Sneijder in midfield, Robben on the left of the front trident, Ibrahimovic in the middle and Van der Vaart on the right."

"Both teams have obviously adopted their strongest lineups, among which Ajax has changed, this season's main core player Arteta was put on the bench by Ye Qiu, and Yaya Toure was selected instead, this Ivorian player has both offense and defense, and his defensive ability is better than Arteta, so many people speculate that Ye Qiu may adopt defensive counterattack tactics in this game"

With a series of introductions by the on-site commentators, the players of the two teams slowly walked out of the players' tunnel under the leadership of the German referee Merck, and the scene suddenly resounded with overwhelming cheers, and the whole scene was very warm.

The players and the referee team walked to the court, lined up left and right, the ball boys stood neatly in front of them, the reporters and live broadcast agencies on the scene were quickly filming, and Ye Qiu and Bosque followed the team out of the players' tunnel successively, the two met in front of the channel, and after a polite handshake, they returned to their coaches' seats.

"Today Real Madrid wore their auspicious white jersey, Ajax wore the away black jersey, both teams have worn this shirt to win the Champions League, so many media have speculated before the game that this is a battle between Champions League champions, it will be very exciting."

"Merck, the German referee, has a lot of experience in law enforcement, and he is very strict and fair, and through many games, his fitness is very good, and he runs even more distance than the players, which allows him to reach every corner of the pitch very quickly and accurately, and because of this, UEFA will arrange for him to officiate such an important game."

I saw that Merck called the captains of both teams, Hierro and Van der Sar, to guess the edges, and finally Real Madrid got the right to kick off, which also made the fans who accumulated horses feel a burst of excitement and cheers on the spot.

It was in this warm and tense atmosphere that the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game at 19:45 on time, and everyone on the scene rang out with overwhelming cheers.

Born in Africa, Yaya Toure loves leopards, but not cheetahs, but African leopards.

In the eyes of Africans, cheetahs resemble dogs, and African leopards resemble cats.

The African leopard is not as fast as the cheetah, has a slender body, and looks a bit fragile, but his teeth are very powerful; Cheetahs are a bit of a bully and afraid of the hard, he dares to hunt some weak animals, but when he encounters stronger, such as bison, he does not dare, but the African leopard dares to use these as food.

Cheetah also has a dislike is that he is easily discouraged, after a failure to hunt, he always has to rest for a long time, but the African leopard does not need to rest, after a failure to hunt, it will continue to make persistent efforts and perseverance to continue to attack the prey.

But more importantly, cheetahs hunt their prey by savage pursuits, but the African leopard is more intelligent and relies on ambushes.

As soon as the whistle blew at the start of the game, Yaya Toure was like an African leopard, entering an ambush state, patiently sweeping the situation on the field, watching the Real Madrid players back and forth on their feet, watching the ball fall to the feet of Figo, while the Portuguese superstar walked along the right side, unsuspectingly into Yaya Toure's ambush circle.

Perhaps, in the eyes of the Portuguese superstar, he has outstanding individual skills and is not afraid of being entangled by opponents, on the contrary, he likes to have people close to him, so that he can directly use his speed to get past opponents and form a threat.

But it was clear that he had not touched an African leopard like Yaya Toure.

When Yaya Toure quickly withdrew from the ambush and pounced on his prey, he approached Figo's side in the shortest possible time, as if he were a sturdy fighter, with the physique of a professional boxer, well-developed muscles, thick and powerful legs, firmly carrying Figo with his body, forcing the Portuguese to lose his balance.

At the moment when the loophole appeared, Yaya Toure did not hesitate to step out and put a shovel.

The man fell to the ground, the ball flew off the touchline, Real Madrid's throw-in

Figo's whole person was hooked to the ground by Yaya Toure's thick legs, and when he stood up, he waited viciously for the Ivorians, but Yaya Toure seemed unmoved, looking at Figo, slowly retreating, as if he was about to enter an ambush again.

Salgado ran over, Real Madrid's players quickly stepped forward, ready to take advantage of the Ajax half-time throw-in opportunity to launch an attack, and Salgado threw the ball directly to Figo, but this time Abidal firmly defended Figo, who quickly knocked back Salgado.

Just as Salgado was about to pass the ball to Raul, Yaya Toure who was ambushed quickly forward, and after a successful interception in the middle, he quickly advanced with the ball, and Ajax took advantage of the situation to play a counterattack.

I saw Yaya Toure dribbling the ball quickly, spotted an opportunity, and passed the ball to the left with a big foot.

Salgado just stepped in to attack, at this moment Robben was rushing forward quickly along the left side, looked back at the direction of the ball, and judged the landing point, but the ball was not passed very well, and Robben stopped the ball a beat slowly.

This slow, Real Madrid's return defense was quickly in place.

Arjen Robben was on the left side of the box and Hierro was inside the box, and the two were one-on-one.

There was no suspense in the result, Robben broke through Hierro quickly, pulled out a position and then crossed with his left foot, which was a low flat ball.

Ibrahimovic used his body to keep Elgra behind him when he stepped forward quickly, but the latter fought Ibrahimovic to the death, and when the Swedish center received this cross, he was interfered with from behind, and finally missed the penalty when he grabbed the spot, and the shot near the penalty spot did not have much strength, and was held in the arms of Casillas.

'The first shot of the game, from Ajax's Ibrahimovic, was a cross from Arjen Robben on the left.

"We can see that Ajax didn't seem to adopt conservative tactics at the beginning, the counterattack was very bold, and there was a lot of investment in troops, and after stepping forward, they didn't seem to be in a hurry to retreat, but actively launched their own frontcourt pressing, and their good high defensive pressing tactics."

The ball was at the feet of Casillas, but Ajax showed no signs of retreating, and the defence advanced to the halfway line and opened up close marking for Real Madrid, leaving Casillas at a loss of how to pass the ball.

Long passing? There is no high ground in front of you, and a long pass is to give the ball to Ajax.

But short passes can't work, Ajax is very close to Real Madrid's defenders, after all, they have three people in front, three interfere with four, it can be done very easily, Casillas didn't dare to take this risk, so in the end he chose to pass long.

Lucio stepped forward quickly and headed away Casillas' long ball to Mascherano, who quickly flicked it back to McCone on the right, and the Brazilian right-back got the ball and took control.

Although Zidane is not far in front of McConn, the French superstar obviously has no desire to press, just symbolically stands in the position, looking at McConn, as if to say, as long as you don't step forward, I won't go up.

But McCone obviously didn't have such a tacit understanding with him, and after taking a few steps forward with the ball, he quickly plugged straight behind him.

Van der Vaart retreated down the right flank, quickly turned and cut inside after winning the ball, and quickly went to the middle to play a one-two with Ibrahimovic, who pulled out central defender Elguera and Hierro, and then Van der Vaart passed diagonally with his right foot.

Robben sprinted past Salgado and was about to take the ball to form a one-on-one knife, when the linesman raised the flag and signaled that Robben was offside.

The Dutch Peter Pan originally thought that he was going to go single, and he was so happy that he couldn't do it, but when he heard the whistle, he immediately shook his head helplessly, but he didn't forget to give a thumbs up to Van der Vaart, this pass is really beautiful, Van der Vaart's right foot is now very skilled, so he is getting better and better in the right winger position.

The continuous attack made the Ajax fans in the stands shout very energetically, and they didn't expect that the team's start would be so unrestrained, not considering the group of superstars in the front of Real Madrid, and using the opening to launch a round of attack on Real Madrid in one go, Ye Qiu's courage really surprised everyone and praised them.

To be honest, Zidane, Raul, Ronaldo and Figo, plus a Guti behind him, Real Madrid's offensive combination, no one can ignore it, put it in front of the opponent's defense, who dares to say that they will be able to defend?

But Ye Qiu's opening didn't seem to care about these superstars at all, but still picked up Ajax's best and most powerful weapon in the past, directly attacking, using the rush to suppress Real Madrid's morale and guide the rhythm of the game.

From the very beginning, the tempo was increased by Ajax, especially the pressing and pressing of Ajax's midfield, which made the group of stars who had accumulated horses feel very uncomfortable, and they were used to possession of the ball.

According to the data obtained by Ajax from the authoritative OpT, Real Madrid's possession rate is the highest among all teams in the Champions League, and their possession time is long, so Ronaldo, Zidane, Figo and others have enough time to display their chic and elegant ball control skills, and only then do they have time to slowly look for loopholes and launch a penetrating attack with mercury.

But there is one thing that many people have not thought of, and that is that Real Madrid has an average of fewer fouls per game, yes, you read that right, only once, that is, on average, not as a substitute, but once per person.

Ajax had 18 times, half as much as Real Madrid.

Some people may be surprised, what can be seen from fouls? Real Madrid's skills are good and they don't foul, can you manage it?

The rules of football have been precipitated and tempered for a hundred years, and each one is an iron law that has been tempered thousands of times, such as offside, which is definitely a great initiative to make football the number one sport in the world, as well as fouls, which are also worth studying.

There are many types of fouls, and malicious fouls are of course to be contained, but on a tactical level, some tactical fouls are essential for any team and part of any manager's defense.

Just imagine, when a team has just breathed a sigh of relief and just controlled the rhythm, the defender suddenly has a foul, it does not need to be very serious, only needs to stop the game, such a small foul referee will not give cards, and may not even warn, but it can directly interrupt the opponent's rhythm and force the opponent to reorganize.

It's all about getting the most out of the least cost

A very important concept in the defense of football tactics is delay.

At the moment when the attack and defense are switched, the most important task of the defender is not to grab the ball, but to delay the opponent's attack, while the attacker, on the contrary, they have to do everything possible to avoid the opponent's delay tactics.

Tactical fouls are undoubtedly one of the most important means of delay.

One of the main reasons for Real Madrid's lack of fouls is that they almost never stalk and rarely press and defend.

And within Real Madrid, almost the vast majority of fouls were concentrated on two people, Salgado and Elgra.

Someone might say again, what about Makelele?

Ye Qiu feels that many fans like to elevate a person or step on a person down, and they like to follow the media and label a player with a simple and easy-to-understand label, such as Makelele.

There is no doubt that Makelele is a very, very good midfielder, but he is also only a central midfielder, his strengths are positional sense and anticipation, which makes him not able to cover large areas like other players, he used to be Celta's playmaker, so he has a solid foundation on the ball and on the ball.

But don't think that Makelele is really like what the media say, he is a person who holds up the entire Real Madrid defence, that's a stealing concept, he is indeed a very important member, but he is only a member.

It is precisely because of the pressing of Salgado, Elgra, and even Raul, Guti and others in front of him that Makelle can play a role in his area and position steadily, without the pressing and running of these people, Makelele's shortcomings will be completely magnified to the extreme, and in the end he will still be sprayed to death by fans

It's a very simple truth, football is a team sport, and Makelele is part of the team, and he needs his teammates to cooperate with him and help him in order to be able to play to his strengths.

He is indeed a very good midfielder, but he also has his own strengths and weaknesses, for example, as a midfielder, he has very few fouls, even less than right-back Salgado and central defender Elgra, which in itself speaks to his characteristics.

And Ye Qiu's strategy in this game is also obvious, that is, to bypass Makelele and take the side road specifically.

It is not difficult to see from the foul situation of Real Madrid that the team's defense is actually very weak, especially the group of superstars in the midfield, almost none of them are actively involved in the defense, if they play in the game and rhythm that they control, they can destroy any enemy with their own attack.

But once they can't keep the ball as they want, once they can't play in the rhythm they are familiar with and play to their attacking advantages, then everyone will find that Real Madrid's midfield is almost undefended.

Ronaldo, Zidane, Figo, they are only symbolically in their own positions, doing symbolic defense, which allows Ajax to always pass through Real Madrid's midfield smoothly every time he launches an attack, and when he arrives in the middle, Ajax is immediately assigned to the wing, and the side will attack.

No matter how good Makelele is, he can't cover the entire defense, and Ajax is using it from two wings, Makelele can't take care of it, and it is also the weakest link in Real Madrid's defense, especially the left side where Carlos is located, directly launched a powerful impact, and used the start to completely suppress Real Madrid.

Ye Qiu's strategy is very risky, but it is also very simple, I don't focus on defending you after the opening, I will attack first, use the attack to fight for the first goal, as long as I can score first, I have chips to play with you.

As for the risk, it is also very large, if there is a counterattack against Real Madrid, or the individual ability of the star, then Ajax will become more passive and in a more dangerous situation.

But Ajax also has its own advantages, that is, the whole.

Relying on the whole is always more secure than relying on the individual