The nature of the Cruyff Cup in the Netherlands is very similar to the Super Cup in other countries, and it is usually scheduled to start a week before the first round of the league, which is also a warm-up and preparation for the league.

When Ajax thrashed PSV Eindhoven 4-0 at the Arena Stadium, when Gretz began to sink into a deep crisis of confidence and the whole of the Netherlands began to hype that he would be sacked by the club's management for this heavy defeat, the Eredivisie ignited the flames.

Unlike in the past, when the Asian football media focused on this season's Eredivisie because Feyenoord introduced Japanese international Shinji Ono, the Asian media now focuses on the young Chinese coach standing in front of the coach of the home team at the Arena.

As a result, the team performed very well in this round of matches.

Ajax welcomed Roda JC at home, and Ye Qiu began to prepare for this game after playing the Super Cup.

Goalkeeper Van der Sar, the backline is Abidal, Kivo, Lucio and McConn, and the three midfielders are Keita and Gilberto? Silva and Sneijder, the trident is Robben, Ibrahimovic and Van der Vaart.

This is Ye Qiu's main lineup in this game, and it is also the team's first league game of the new season.

Ajax's attack now feels like a rampage, the team is young, sharp and very confident at the same time, and the combination of the players is excellent, so Ajax always like to play a devastating attack in that fast-paced state.

It was like playing Roda JC in the first round of the league, Ajax was like a tiger descending from the mountain from the beginning, and beat up Roda JC, which was not as strong as itself, and took the initiative to press it up, firmly suppressing the away team in the half.

After Roda JC kicked off, the ball never crossed the center circle line, because Ajax scored in just 51 seconds of the opening game, this was a break in front, planned by Keita after the break, Ibrahimovic retreated to make the ball, Van der Vaart cut diagonally into the penalty area on the right to form a single knife and scored, 1:0.

Everyone was surprised by the start, but even more surprised that it was just the beginning.

Ajax did not let up in the slightest after the re-kick-off of Roda JC, still maintaining a strong pressure on the away team, always holding them firmly in the half and then looking for opportunities.

In the 4th minute, Roda JC was really pressed, and the big foot made a long pass to the front, and Lucio's header cleared Gilberto? Silva, who was assigned to Abidal on the left, and the French left-back passed Robben.

One-on-one, Robben broke through the opponent's defense in the way he is best at, ran all the way to the left side of the penalty area and cut inside, picked up a cross to the middle, Ibrahimovic followed up with a push shot, and once again penetrated the goal of Roda JC, 2:0!

Perfect start, great process!

Ajax's start to the new season was almost impeccable, Roda JC was limited by strength and was never able to pose the slightest threat to the overwhelming Ajax, especially after the opening, he was stunned by this sudden stick, and it was not until he was scored two goals in a row that he thought of making adjustments.

As soon as he adjusted, Ajax also adjusted, slowing down the pace.

This slowness directly kept 2:0 until the end of the first half.

But in the second half, Ajax took advantage of their own kick-off to launch a fierce attack on Roda JC, and scored three goals in the 51st, 64th, and 68th minutes respectively, and finally completed a 5:0 victory over Roda JC at Arena Stadium.

This goal feast made all the fans at the Arenal Stadium completely crazy, and at the same time, Ajax jumped to the top of the Eredivisie after the first round of the league, which was the first time Ye Qiu ascended to the position of the leader of the Eredivisie.

PSV Eindhoven drew 2-2 away at Groningen in the same round, while Feyenoord drew 1-1 at home to Sparta Rotterdam in the derby, which led to Ajax's 5-0 win at top of the league.

Three days later, the second round of the league was brought forward because Ajax were playing in the UEFA Super Cup against Bayern Munich.

In order to prepare for the match with Bayern Munich, and only played the first round of the league three days ago, Ye Qiu made certain adjustments to the lineup in this game.

The goalkeeper is still Van der Sar, and the backline is Abidal, Lucio, and Colo? Toure and Heitinga, the three midfielders are Keita, Gilberto? Silva and Yaya? Toure, the trident is Hleb, Huntelaar and Van der Meyde.

Ajax's heavy rotation has affected the team's fighting ability to a certain extent, and there was a problem in the away game against Heerenveen, and when the game went on in the 13th minute, Heerenveen took the lead by taking advantage of a mistake in Ajax's counter-attack and took the goal lead.

However, Ajax made adjustments, especially Ye Qiu's targeted arrangement during the game, and quickly stabilized the situation, and in the 35th minute of the first half, Hleb assisted Huntelaar to equalize.

At the start of the second half, Ajax played another round of attack, and Van der Meyde received a cross from Hleb on the left and once again exceeded the score to complete a comeback.

In the end, Ajax reversed Heerenveen 2-1 away from home to win two in a row.

In the same round, Feyenoord won Roda JC 2:0 away, while PSV Eindhoven was at their home stadium, twice forced to draw by Den Bosch, and finally defeated the opponent 3:2 with Heselink's decisive moment at a critical moment.

After playing this game, the whole Ajax team went to Monaco.

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Prior to 1998, the UEFA Super Cup was played over two legs, home and away, but since 1998, it has been played in a single final and is played at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco, and with the cancellation of the Cup Winners' Cup, the teams have become winners of the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Champions Cup.

This year's UEFA Super Cup will be played by Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich and Eredivisie giants Ajax.

Around August 24, the whole of Europe, and even the whole world, all eyes were on Monaco, but many of them were not focusing on the Super Cup, because the European Super Cup is just a warm-up championship for all teams, but the group draw ceremony of the European Champions Cup, which is what really attracts attention.

Moreover, each year's group draw ceremony is accompanied by the awards of the previous season's European competitions.

The draw and award ceremony were held at the Grimalti Convention Centre in Monaco, with the exception of Ajax and Bayern Munich, who were due to travel to Monaco for the UEFA Super Cup, with the other 30 teams either led by the manager himself or arranged for the club's management to be in attendance.

It was the first time for Ye Qiu to attend such an annual event, but if he had to choose, he was not very willing to participate, because he had almost no acquaintances here.

There are big names everywhere, Real Madrid's delegation is huge, coach Bosque, leading stars Raul, Figo, Zidane, Hierro and other stars are all present at this event, as well as Inter Milan's Ronaldo, who has recently returned from injury, and others like Liverpool's Owen, Arsenal's Henry and so on.

Frankly speaking, in the entire venue, the stars were gathered and the stars were shining, but the problem was that no one took Ye Qiu seriously.

In recent years, there is a fame in the football circle, Ye Qiu has just arrived, and a League Cup championship is not a big deal for this group of teams in Europe, and they attach more importance to the European Champions Cup.

Therefore, when the whole team of Ajax, the champion of the League Cup, entered the stadium, the reaction was mediocre, but when Heathfield brought Evfenberg, Sauer, Kahn and other Bayern stars into the stadium, the audience was boiling, and many people greeted him, because Heathfield not only won his second Champions League, but Bayern's stars also performed very well, especially Effenberg.

"Head, doesn't that make it clear that you're bullying? Why are so many of them being praised and we can only be left to dry? Swede Ibrahimovic looked indignantly at the passage in the distance, everyone was circling up and down Bayern, and his heart was seriously unbalanced, because he had a kind of self-centered ** since he was a child.

"Because they are wealthy families, and we are a group of country boys who have just entered the city!" Ye Qiu is not very cool either.

It's not that he's cynical, he knows in his heart that this is a very real world, and everyone recognizes Bayern Munich because they are giants, the biggest giants in Europe, and the team is star-studded, but what about Ajax?

It's long gone to Mars!

You haven't participated in the Champions League for a year, your fame and influence have declined rapidly, you haven't participated in two or three years, I'm sorry, you're embarrassed to tell people that you are a giant.

It's like Barcelona, they participated in the Champions League, but because of their unsatisfactory performance, people now feel that Barcelona is in decline, and they can only dig Saviola and Riquelme, while the opponent Real Madrid is digging Figo, which is at the level of Zidane, so you can imagine how big the gap is.

Barcelona is still in La Liga, but Ajax is in the Eredivisie, everyone is like this, you can imagine how unbearable Ajax is.

Ye Qiu understands that this is a reality caused by the environment, and he doesn't hate anyone, but this doesn't mean that he will be willing to accept such treatment in his heart, he believes that anyone who has a little backbone in his heart will not like such a gap.

But he didn't want to leave, because it was someone else's voluntary choice, and it had nothing to do with anyone, and no one deliberately embarrassed Ajax; He will not go up and take the initiative to find other people's ballast, because not only will it not help you increase your influence, but it will also make others think that you are losing your value.

So he chooses others to play someone else's, and I play my own.

"Fuck the country boys, have what it takes to fight on the pitch and kill them!" Abidal is also very unhappy with this kind of treatment, and what he is most unaccustomed to is this snob.

"Well said!" Ye Qiu patted Abidal on the shoulder, "People look down on us, it doesn't matter, they play theirs, we play ours, if you want to win the favor of the guys, it's not easy?" When we can trample the whole of Europe under our feet, they will naturally welcome us like Bayern Munich! ”

Ye Qiu's words are burning enough, the players of Ajax are all hot-blooded men, and they are a little energetic after listening to it, and they all want to open a film with Bayern Munich now and kill them directly.

"If you are ambitious, remember today, remember this group of people, we will trample them all under our feet sooner or later!"

He didn't like this differential treatment very much, it made him feel as if he had just crossed over, and didn't the people of Ajax look down on him like this at that time? Or even ostracize him?

Ye Qiu is not a newcomer, he will not mess around, but it does not mean that he will be content with the status quo.

His character, under the influence of his ears and eyes every day, has more or less infected Ajax's vote of players, and they are all a bit similar to Ye Qiu's rebellious and reasonable rebellious spirit, from the second team to the first team, to the first team, to the first team, to the first team, to make Roma, Barcelona and other giants.

Now, they are already the champions of the League Cup, which is getting bigger and bigger, more and more energetic, and the ambition is getting bigger and bigger.

So when they heard Ye Qiu's words one by one, they all agreed very much in their hearts, and they all secretly thought that when they met this group of wealthy families, they must all be beaten down to see what kind of expressions they would have at that time.

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The drawing of lots and the awarding of prizes were carried out on a first-to-one basis.

Ajax did not need to participate in the Champions League qualifiers because they finished second in the Eredivisie and went directly to the group stage.

However, because of Ajax's poor European results in the past few years, and even missed the Champions League for two years, this has led to Ajax's points and rankings are very low, and even teams like PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord, who participate in the Champions League every year, have been placed in Pot 3, and Ajax can only fall into Pot 4 in the end.

What kind of teams are they in Pot 4?

Anderlecht, Sparta Prague, Panathinaikos, Celtic, Lille, Nantes......

It should be said that the gold content of the Champions League in this year is still very sufficient, and each of these teams is famous in Europe, but the problem is that the fourth gear is always the fourth gear, which sounds a little unpopular, which makes the angry young people of Ajax feel very unhappy, and they always feel as if they have been slapped in the face.

Can Ye Qiu do it at this time?

can only suppress the fire in his heart and set a goal for his players.

"Look at those giants in first gear? We're just going to step on them all, turn their corpses into our stepping stones, and climb up, that feeling must be very enjoyable! ”

In the end, Ajax were drawn in Group F, where they were met by Barcelona, Lyon and Bayer Leverkusen.

Among them, Barcelona is Ajax's opponent in the League Cup final last season, but you must know that this season's Barcelona is very different from last season, they spent a lot of money on reinforcements, and the strength of Rexach's team is also very large, and as for Lyon, this team is already a French team leader, and the strength is self-explanatory.

Although Bayer Leverkusen is in the third pot, if Ye Qiu remembers correctly, they are the kings of Sanya this season, and the Bundesliga, Champions League and German Cup are all runners-up, although it is tragic, it also reflects the strong combat effectiveness of this team.

"I'll it, so I don't want to die, I actually drew these three teams!" Ye Qiu took a breath of cold air.

But looking around the other groups, they are basically the best matchups, such as Bayern Munich meets Spartak Moscow, Feyenoord and Sparta Prague, Juventus meets Porto, Rosenborg and Celtic, and Liverpool meets Borussia Dortmund, Dynamo Kyiv and Boavista.

Now in this year, teams like Dynamo Kyiv, Boavista, and Fenerbahce are also very good, and the game is also very difficult to play, so the gold content of the Champions League will be so high, not at all like after the successive restructurings, the army was greatly expanded, and some small teams were specially arranged to come in to fill the number, and the gold content declined rapidly.

In other words, this draw of Ajax is not wronged, who made them the fourth gear?

After the draw ceremony, the award ceremony officially began.

Sometimes, Ye Qiu feels that winning the Champions League actually requires a lot of luck.

Just like Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich in 1999 was stronger than now, but Bayern was reversed by Manchester United in the final that year, and then suffered Real Madrid, which was in a state of strength after the change of coach, which led to the 2000 Champions League aside, and it was not until this year that the Champions League was won.

But this year's Bayern's performance is actually not very good, compared to 1999, their overall decline this year, especially several main players in the team, except for Effenberg's excellent performance, the others are basically average, but last season was also the afterglow of Effenberg's worst.

But sometimes, that's the fate of a team.

For Bayern Munich, Ye Qiu personally appreciates it, because this team has a typical German character, that is, comprehensive and steady, they have a stable direction almost every time they form a team, and there is a very interesting place that other giant teams will leave more or less flaws when forming a team.

If you want to arrange top stars in a certain position, you must arrange green leaves in other positions, which is inevitable to form a team, so Real Madrid has a strong attack group in the front, and there is a weak defense line in the backfield, and other teams are more or less the same.

But only Bayern, or these teams in the Bundesliga, have always maintained a pragmatic team strategy, that is, comprehensive.

does not blindly chase stars, and more pragmatically pursues the strength of each position, which has caused Bayern Munich's strength in recent years, but also caused Bayern to be unpopular in some awards.

So even if they won the 2001 European Champions Cup, Bayern was defeated by all the teams in La Liga in the best selection of all positions, and no one qualified, which is the tragedy of football as a whole.