Four Watches——

In the group stage of this season's Champions League plus the knockout round, Monaco, who scored 22 goals in 10 games, has no shortage of offensive firepower.

Repeatedly attacking the Ajax defence from the extreme pressing attack after the opening.

Morientes is a player that Ajax must focus on, but he is definitely not the only point of scoring for Monaco, 22 goals, Morientes covers 40%, and who is in charge of 60%?

More flowers!

And Morientes's role in covering the wingers on the front line is very obvious, not only restraining Ajax's double central defenders from acting rashly, but also playing threatening runs and possession from time to time.

The biggest headache for Ajax is that De Jong and Galasek must help defend the ribs of the penalty area to prevent Roten and Gyuli from cutting inside, and if they cut inside, it will be difficult for them to rely on the follow-up defense initiated by Grigra and Maxwell.

Even with the defense in the middle, there will be a big problem, and even Qin Xiong can't parry.

Monaco is too powerful!

The three midfielders don't look like there's a very clear division of labor.

Cisse, Bernaldi, Zix, the trio can attack and defend, and you can't guess who will suddenly step forward when attacking, and who will attack in tandem.

This is exactly the power that Monaco's aggressive and wild midfielder ▼ ♀ bursts out when he converts.

In a similar way to Ajax's attack, Ajax is a midfielder who switches roles and positions back and forth between the front and the trident except the center forward.

Monaco's forward line is basically the same, but the midfield has taken turns to move forward and the attacking and defensive roles have changed. It's a tingling on the scalp. Inability to follow the correct target firmly and accurately.

Qin Xiong knows it well. In order to limit Monaco's style of play, it is necessary to focus on prevention, as long as more troops are used to guard the danger zone, no matter how the opposing midfielder changes, when the danger zone is forward, Ajax can calmly deal with it.

But that's not what Koeman's tactical requirements are, he asks Ajax to play against the opposition!

If you want to beat your opponent away from home, you will be surprised.

In the 16th minute of the game, Zikes dribbled forward in the middle. Qin Xiong blocked in front of him, but Cisse and Bernardi had a forward movement on both sides, Qin Xiong didn't dare to make a prediction lightly, when Bernaldi took a step forward, making Qin Xiong think that it would be Bernardi who would finally step forward, but he didn't expect Cisse, who started in the next step, to quickly advance from the other side, Qin Xiong's judgment was wrong!

Cisse played the ball straight to the ribs of the box before Galasek defended, and the galloping Giuli received the ball around the outside line in front of the baseline.

Gyuli took a step towards the goal along the baseline and then passed the ball diagonally to Morientes, who was struggling forward in the box and then suddenly retreated.

The Spanish centre-forward's awareness in the box is so good that it's no exaggeration to say he's the worst box killer Ajax has ever faced. Of course, Henry is also bound to be world-class. But Thierry Henry has a lot of range and speed, and Morientes is the center forward who is the biggest threat in the pure sense of the word when he stands in the box!

His tendency to run forward made Escud have to follow closely, and his retreat made Escud also have to stop, and when Escud stepped up to grab it, Qin Xiong was less than 5 meters away from Morientes, and he had an ominous premonition in his heart.

The rhythm of Morientes is fantastic!

His rhythm was paused, and after receiving a pass from Gyuli, he faced Escude's up-and-forth, and in the start, Morientes had the upper hand.

Really!

Morientes went head-to-head with Escud and deliberately slid past Escud when he started from distance, and by the time Escud realized it was too late.

Morientes fired a shot into the bottom left corner of the net from the right side of the penalty spot, but Lobonte was helpless and the save was to no avail.

"Morientes opens the scoring for Monaco! Why? Why would Real Madrid give up such a world-class centre-forward? Perhaps as many Real Madrid fans accuse the club's top management of making bad decisions: retribution! A qiē is retribution! They shouldn't have given up on Morientes and built flashy galactic battleships! Monaco are so lucky that their most successful transfer operation of the season has been a loan in exchange for a goalscorer at the lowest possible price! Morientes is now number one on the Champions League scorer list! Didier Deschamps' side burst into a state of passion at home! They kept attacking the Ajax defence, causing the defenders to panic and making mistakes when they kept running back and forth to make up for the holes in the defence! Now is the time to test Ajax, how can they turn things around? So far, we have not seen an effective and sharp attack from Ajax, Qin Xiong's offensive organization in the middle is not ideal, he is blocked by too many people, entangled, the passing line in front of him is not open enough, Evra and Ibarra will have hand-to-hand combat with Sneijder and Van der Vaart, Qin Xiong seems to be isolated, Deschamps's midfield restriction tactics are successful, three offensive and defensive midfielders take turns bombing, they are like all-round warriors, joining forces to freeze the source of Ajax's attack! ”

While Morientes and his teammates celebrated wildly in the stadium, Qin Xiong stood in place.

The situation after the opening was something he didn't expect.

And the complexity of the game is that offense and defense are always linked.

When Ajax's attack is unable to threaten, it is also unable to suppress Monaco's attack in disguise, forcing the opponent to increase their commitment to defence, which will make their own defense more challenging.

The attack in the middle is not ideal, even if he breaks through in the middle, it is of little significance, and the cooperation of the opponent's three midfielders cannot be said to be seamless, but the minimum joint defense cooperation is in place.

They will not rush up one by one to be broken by Qin Xiong, they will keep a good distance, entangle Qin Xiong, if they can't break the ball at his feet, then it will become countless repetitions to surround and intercept him.

Qin Xiong couldn't change the tactics formulated by Koeman, and the team still had to attack.

Then, the middle attack couldn't open the situation, Qin Xiong gritted his teeth.

Don't attack in the middle!

After the restart, Monaco's morale is high, a goal lead is nothing, their passionate team, may not know what it means to take it when it is good, nor do they know how to switch from attacking to controlling when leading, they believe in the complete and complete destruction of the opponent!

Didier Deschamps was smiling on the sidelines, convinced that his team would crush the young Ajax, crushing their confidence and tearing their dreams to pieces in one onslaught after another!

Qin Xiong is still very far behind, and he must assist in defending to contain Monaco's passionate offensive as much as possible.

In the 21st minute of the game, Maxwell struggled to entangle Jiuli, and after Galasek assisted in the defense, he cut off Jiuli's football, and Qin Xiong immediately began to run, to the side!

His movement stunned the three Monaco midfielders, who were taken by surprise.

They had intended to set up a tight defensive line directly in the middle of the front to stifle Ajax's fast attack.

But after Qin Xiong pulled to the wing, even though the wing itself was a defensive line, he suddenly accelerated forward after receiving a pass from Galasek, and he was able to get rid of the possibility of harassment by a defender in the first place.

Zix!

Zix's speed is not fast!

If he was in the middle lane, Qin Xiong wouldn't be able to get around him, but Qin Xiong went to the side and dribbled forward with speed, Zixi couldn't run to the side, if he ran, he would only be thrown farther and farther away by Qin Xiong.

Cisse and Bernardi were quicker, but neither could rush to the flanks at the same time, and Galasek, although a midfielder, would also provide support across the half-court when attacking forward.

So at least one fast player in the middle should be able to retreat!

Cisse defended the flanks, with Bernardi and Zixes retreating along the middle.

When Cisse came to the side to defend Qin Xiong, Qin Xiong had already passed the midfield on the side.

The front court shape shì is clear.

Qin Xiong was closer to Sneijder.

Two Ajax players faced the defence of two Monaco players.

Cisse and Ibarra teamed up to blockade Qin Xiong and Sneijder.

On the flank of the front, Qin Xiong passed the ball straight to Sneijder, Cisse and Ibarra immediately rushed to Sneijder, who passed the ball back to Qin Xiong, and after the pass, Sneijder immediately moved forward along the wing.

His running position made both Ibarra and Cisse subconsciously follow him, worried that Qin Xiong would pass a ball behind him.

But Qin Xiong controlled the ball on the spot and didn't get out of the ball at all.

He flicked the ball horizontally, and then sent a diagonal pass to the ground bowl!

The ball was played to the right in front of the penalty area and did not penetrate the Monaco back line.

Van der Vaart, who cut through the middle from the other side, received Qin Xiong's pass in front of the penalty area, and the Dutch golden boy suddenly made Ajax's attack full of threats! (To be continued......)