Ajax's exit from the Champions League Group of Death has been touted and praised by media and fans across the Netherlands, leaving many Eredivisie teams such as PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord and even Nijmegen responsibly overdressed.

In the past three years, Neeskens has been living in the shadow of Ye Qiu, because in 2000, the first candidate for the head coach of Nijmegen was Ye Qiu, who had just led the Ajax second team to win the Dutch Cup, but then Ye Qiu stayed at Ajax, and Nijmegen chose Neeskens.

This made the former Dutch superstar unhappy, because in his career, he was always glorious, and even Cruyff couldn't suppress his style, when was he so overpowered?

In the previous two seasons, NEC Nijmegen performed mediocre, and the results have always hovered in the middle and lower reaches, but this season Nijmegen has performed well, and now it has even begun to covet the qualification of European competitions ambitiously, and even hope to rush to the Champions League qualification, which also makes Neeskens feel confident that he has the confidence to compete with his old club.

Regarding the words that doubted the strength of Ye Qiu and Ajax, Neeskens was more for the purpose of motivating his own players and demoralizing Ajax, which is very common in the professional league, so at the Arena Stadium, Nijmegen really put on a weak team posture to show weakness.

Counter-attacking is the reason Nijmegen's performance this season, and in the Eredivisie, where attacking football is heavy, counter-attacking counter-attacks are still very effective, and Neeskens's shift has naturally paid off, but there is a premise.

That is, your defense has to be able to withstand the opponent's attack, otherwise, how can you fight back?

But Neeskens' solid defense did not last 20 minutes at the Arena Stadium, strictly speaking, they only lasted 18 minutes and 23 seconds, and Huntelaar's goal completely shattered Neeskens's dream.

But there was hope for a 1-0 first-half scoreline, and Neskens was clearly not ready to give up at half-time.

But at the beginning of the second half, Ajax played their best attacking tactics, and Huntelaar scored another 2 minutes in the second half, 2:0, and the lightning offensive completely stunned Nijmegen.

Just five minutes later, Van der Meyde's goal further extended the score to 3-0!

Neeskens' adjustment and abandonment of the offensive strategy did not solidify his defense and restore the team's morale.

In the 72nd minute, Hleb's rare goal continued to expand the score, 4:0!

After 5 minutes, Yaya? Toure's goal rewrote the score to 5:0!

The entire Arena was transformed into a sea of celebration, with everyone amazed by Ajax's performance.

After that, Ye Qiu made some substitution adjustments, and Heitinga, who came on as a substitute, scored the last goal, 6:0!

Neskens, who was ambitious before the game and vowed to beat Ajax at the Arena Stadium, became a complete loser at the Arena Stadium after 90 minutes, he lowered his high head and had to congratulate Ye Qiu in a helpless, but convincing tone.

PSV Eindhoven, meanwhile, lost 2-1 at home to Feyenoord, with Van Marwijk's side scoring twice in the first half and Guus Hiddink's side pulling one back in the second half through Romedahl but unable to beat Feyenoord.

Because some time ago, Ajax paid more attention to the Champions League, and lost a few games in the Eredivisie, resulting in PSV Eindhoven's points level with Ajax, and after this game, Ajax surpassed Hiddink and got a three-point lead.

As many media close to Ajax said after the game, Hiddink's so-called world coach has now been torn off by Ye Qiu, perhaps he is very good at adjusting the defense, because PSV Eindhoven's defense this season is very good, and it is the best team in the Eredivisie defense, but Ye Qiu's team is obviously better at attacking and more aggressive.

Taking advantage of this rare week of rest, Ye Qiu made temporary adjustments to the team's previous exposed problems, especially the team's defense, focusing on the coordination between De Jong and Mascherano's back and the backline.

A week passed quickly, as Ajax challenged Heerenveen away and Van der Meyde knocked on Heerenveen in the sixth minute, before Arteta's goal gave Ajax a 2-0 lead before the break.

Mikel Arteta went off injured after the second-half restart, but Donny van der Meyde's 76th-minute strike sealed the win again as Ajax beat Heerenveen 3-0.

After this round of league games, Ajax went to Germany to challenge Bayer Leverkusen away.

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The Champions League commentator had an interesting question before the game, which was what happens when an unlucky player meets a team that is unlucky.

Commentator Effenberg smiled and said, whoever is a little more unlucky, who loses!

I really didn't expect that this was really said by Effenberg.

Ajax have had a seemingly smooth week recently, but they have actually been quite unlucky.

First of all, Van der Vaart was injured before the game with Nijmegen, Van der Vaart played two league games in one go, scored in both rounds, and performed very well, this game was still Van der Vaart started, Van der Vaart was pressed on the bench by Ye Qiu.

Then there is Arteta's injury, which is not serious, but also did not start, and is still a substitute.

Kifu was also injured and didn't even make the squad, Colo? Toure qualified as a starter.

There is a saying that people who are unlucky will choke their teeth when they drink water.

In this game, Ye Qiu adjusted the starting lineup, the goalkeeper is Van der Sar, and the backline is Abidal, Lucio, and Colo? Toure and Heitinga, De Jong, Mascherano and Sneijder in midfield, and Robben, Ibrahimovic and Donny van der Meyde up front.

To say that this lineup is indeed not bad, but sometimes it is unlucky.

Ajax played smoothly throughout the first half, because it was an away game, so Ye Qiu arranged a double back combination of De Jong and Mascherano to play more conservatively, but what he didn't expect was that in the 36th minute, Bayer Leverkusen's midfielder Babic took a corner kick, Ajax's penalty area actually leaked, and Berbatov scored with a header in front of the goal.

How could this make Ye Qiuqing, who was standing on the sidelines, embarrassed?

The dashing brother, who is known as having a broken head and an unruly hairstyle, actually scored his goal with a header, what can he say?

To know that this season's Berbatov is indeed unlucky enough, halfway through the league, he has no goals, no assists, if not for the head coach Topp? Muller supported him stubbornly, he had already been sprayed to death by the saliva of fans and teammates, where can he still stand on the field?

What do the fans of Leverkusen say?

"If that Bulgarian dares to score, I'll smash the ashtray on the TV screen!"

Ye Qiuzhen didn't know if those fans who said this really smashed the TV screen with an ashtray, but he knew very well that he really had the urge to smash the TV screen now, because he was too depressed, a corner kick, a confused leak, what could he say?

Watching Dimitar Berbatov run off the pitch in high spirits, with the head coach who has always supported him, Topp? As Muller hugged and celebrated his first goal of the season, Ye Qiu was eager to smash an ashtray on top of Berbatov's head.

"Unlucky!" Ye Qiu couldn't help but shake his head.

Bobby? Harms shook his head helplessly and smiled, "Sometimes that's the case, when luck is not in your favor, you can lose at any time, you can't find a reason, you can only say that at that time, our players suddenly short-circuited their brains." ”

Although Ye Qiu didn't think it was funny, he still burst out laughing, but sighed again and looked ahead.

"It's time for us to change our tactics, Bobby!"

According to Ye Qiu's plan before the game, it is always difficult for a team to play in the Bundesliga, and it is an away game, so he adopted a more prudent strategy in the first half, knowing that the German team is good at physical fitness and will, and his most important purpose in the first half is to frustrate Leverkusen's sharpness, observe their tactics, find loopholes, and then counterattack in the second half.

But now it seems that the plan has changed.

After Ballack moved to Bayern Munich, Top? Müller brought Hanno from Cologne? Balich, a German right-back, has a good ability to insert attack, and his defensive ability is not bad, and he has been transformed into a midfielder. Muller obviously still wants to use him to play Ballack's role, but sometimes football tactics are not as simple as one plus one, but more complex.

At least Hanno? Balic simply cannot replace Ballack's role, and the two players seem to have similar styles, but in fact they are very far apart, especially in terms of consciousness.

"Van der Meyde's form in this game is not good, Bayer Leverkusen's left side is very restrictive to him, Heitinga is also interfered with by Croatian full-back Babic, the whole right side can't be effective, and it needs to be changed!"

"Let Van der Vaart warm up, oh, and Arteta!"

When he said this, Ye Qiu grinned, "Let's give Leverkusen a surprise in the second half!" ”

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The surprise that Ye Qiu said was indeed to make Top? Mueller was taken aback.

At half-time, when he counted the players who walked out of the tunnel for Ajax, he was a little surprised to find that Van der Meyde and De Jong were gone, replaced by Arteta and Van der Vaart.

Changing two players in a row, and at half-time, was brave enough.

But the bigger surprise came after the opening, when he found that Ajax changed the steady tactics of the first half and played more risky, boldly pressing, adopting a high defense, and actively attacking from the start.

Faced with the sudden change, Bayer Leverkusen were also prepared to continue to use the strategy of the first half against Ajax, but Ajax quickly gave Leverkusen the fatal blow.

Basturk dribbled the ball and wanted to break through, but Arteta retreated to defend and successfully broke the ball from behind and poked the ball to Mascherano, the Argentine did not stop the ball and pushed forward, Arteta turned to catch up and quickly counterattacked.

As soon as Ajax's entire attacking line saw an opportunity to attack, they immediately rushed forward like a wolf.

In the face of the defense of the defender Balic, Arteta chose to distribute the ball to Sneijder, who ran over to receive it, and the Dutch midfielder caught a glimpse of the ball, and kept the ball straight forward, and the ball almost clinged to the ground and came to the feet of Ibrahimovic.

In a one-on-one battle with Lamelo, Ibrahimovic stopped the ball steadily and wanted to get rid of it, which immediately attracted the attention of the entire Leverkusen defense, after all, Ibrahimovic's skills as a ** center forward have spread all over Europe, and everyone knows that they should pay attention to Ajax, a difficult center forward.

But just when Bayer Leverkusen was on guard against Ibrahimovic going it alone, the Swede chose to split the ball.

The ball was divided from the middle to the right side, and I saw that he had just returned from injury, and Van der Vaart, who came on as a substitute, was like a lightning, and the speed swept past the Argentine defender Prasente very quickly, and after getting the ball, he stepped into the penalty area, facing the attacking goalkeeper Bute, and fired a calm low shot, straight to the bottom of the net, 1:1!

This goal completely reflected the tacit understanding between Ibrahimovic and Van der Vaart, Ibrahimovic's split ball was just right, and the impartiality fell right on Van der Vaart's sprinting step, so that the Dutchman could get the ball into the box without any adjustments.

It was also because Ibrahimovic was comfortable with the goal that Van der Vaart was the first thing he thought of after scoring the goal to celebrate with the Swede.

"Leverkusen's goal is really not wronged, Rafael? Van der Vaart's pace and awareness were excellent, and the ball was very difficult to defend against after Ibrahimovic's transition to Van der Vaart's sprint. Effenberg was also frustrated by Bayer Leverkusen's goal.

Although he has not yet retired, he has already begun to use his spare time and a career as a commentator to find a way out for the future, and this time he is clearly on Leverkusen's side.

"Ajax's attack is still very impactful, we have played against this team before, so I also said before the game that the most important thing is to prevent Ajax from playing in attack, but it is clear that Ajax adopted a very different tactic in the second half than in the first half, which caught Leverkusen off guard."

"This should be a decision that Ye Qiu has prepared for a long time, it is very bold, but the effect is also ideal."

"Frankly speaking, Leverkusen's goal in the first half was a bit of luck and came very hard, but I didn't expect that at the beginning of the second half, it was equalized by Ajax, which was a big blow to Leverkusen's morale, and this is also a test for Top? When Muller and Bayer Leverkusen, after all, they were able to rely on Ballack at critical moments before, but now they can only rely on themselves! ”

Top? Muller did think of a solution, a counter-attack, so he replaced Boldarić with Neuville in the 55th minute, and the latter's performance this season has indeed been bad enough, if it wasn't for the fact that Neuville needed to rest in this game, he wouldn't have had a chance to play.

But obviously, Ajax is not afraid of counterattacking at all, Ye Qiu has already said in the midfield, let it go, no matter how the opponent wants to play, we have only one thought, press them to fight, and fight until they have no power to fight back!

In the 60th minute, Van der Vaart won the ball on the right and shook past Plasente, and the Argentine defender used an obvious pulling action, but it failed to prevent Van der Vaart from cutting inside with the ball, pulling Lamelo out of the central defender position and plugging it straight behind.

Ibrahimovic pressed the opponent, rushed up and fired a powerful volley, which penetrated the goal of Bayer Leverkusen again, 2:1!

Ajax reversed Bayer Leverkusen!!

This suddenly boosted the morale of Ajax, and the players were like chickens and blood, rushing at Leverkusen's defense was a round of indiscriminate bombardment, and Leverkusen, which was already obviously demoralized, was defeated one after another.

Seeing that the situation is precarious, Topp? Muller immediately made a series of substitutions, and even Berbatov was substituted to further strengthen the defense, but he was still embarrassed by Ajax.

Ye Qiu made his third substitution in the 76th minute, replacing Robben with Hleb.

As he expected, Robben's state in this game was not ideal, especially in the final stage of the game, his physical fitness was obviously lacking, and his advantage required sprinting, and after Leverkusen contracted the defense, Robben was not left enough space to sprint, and the role of Peter Pan was not obvious.

On the contrary, Hleb, who is more inclined to positional attack, has more physical energy and is more adapted to this positional defense, so after coming on the field, he quickly planned several threatening attacks.

Until the 88th minute, Hleb cut in from the left side with the ball, Ibrahimovic ran in front of the air, attracted the attention of Leverkusen's defenders, and created gaps and spaces for Van der Fatra, who was fed the ball by Hleb in the penalty area, and as soon as he stopped and pumped, the ball went straight to the bottom of the net from Bout's side, 3:1!

The goal also completely destroyed Leverkusen's will to resist.

After winning the Sanya King last season, Bayer Leverkusen left Ballack this season, which has a great impact on the team's midfield and offensive power.

But not only that, the serious injury of the main central defender Novotny last season, even until now, has not returned from injury, which makes Leverkusen's backline very fragile, and it is not felt when it is playing well, but once it encounters a headwind, when the opponent attacks aggressively, the holes in the defense will become obvious.

This is also the reason why Ye Qiu chose to be conservative in the first half, grinding away Leverkusen's sharpness, and then making a big effort in the second half, he dared to make such a decision only after seeing through Leverkusen's weakness.

In the end, the players did not live up to his high expectations, beating Bayer Leverkusen 3-1 away to get off to a flying start in the second round of the group stage.