Capello was not happy with Roma's squad and he made no secret of it in front of the coaching staff and in front of the club's president, Sensi.

Midfielder Totti was lonely, and finally brought in Emerson, but he was seriously injured as soon as he came, and on the front line, although there are two different styles of strikers such as Batistuta and Montella, the problem is that the means of advancement are too dependent on Totti and Cafu, and the latter is a wide player, so once it comes to the battle, Totti is easily strangled to death.

In this case, if there is a player with excellent individual quality in the front line, going forward, he can share the pressure on Batistuta, and in the future, he can also give advice when Totti is in trouble, plus an Emerson, then Roma will be really strong.

The league is different from the cup, the league has a total of 38 games, you lose one or two games, or even lose seven or eight games, the problem is not big, the key is whether you can get more league points than your opponent after you reach the top, so playing the league, the difference between the strong team and the weak team often relies on the difference in strength to affect the ranking.

But the cup is different, the most important thing in the cup is the manager's tactical ability and coordination, as well as the team's adjustment before the game, because the key to winning the cup is still strength, but this strength is restricted by multiple factors such as luck, on-the-spot performance, and the manager's tactical pertinence.

Just like in this game, Roma's strength must be ahead of Ajax, but the problem is that Ajax's tactics limit Roma and prevent Roma from taking the way they are best at attacking and playing, so how much power can Roma play?

That's why a large part of the cup winners are often not favourites.

It's like the 2000 Champions League champion Real Madrid, the league results were so bad that Bosco even let Bosque serve as a firefighting coach again halfway through, but Bosque came up and adjusted the team's tactics, and then although the performance in the league improved, it was also very average, but it was a triumphant in the cup, eliminating many strong teams including Manchester United along the way.

"Fabio!" Assistant coach Itaro on the side? Gabbiati looked at Capello, who was frowning like a mountain beside him, and reminded: "Be careful of the other party's two wings!" ”

Capello didn't look back at his right-hand man, just nodded, walked to the sidelines, gestured and shouted to the players, asking them to pay more attention to Ajax's two wings, after all, Robben and Van der Meyde on the left and right are both very good players with very good attacking and counter-attacking ability, and they are very fast.

Turning around is a major weakness of the Roma defense, and for this reason, Capello specially tailored the defensive position of Samuel dragging behind, Zago and Zebina into horns, in order to avoid the Roma defense being broken by the opponent at once to the greatest extent.

But in this way, the weakness of the lack of defensive strength on the wing that exists in the back three itself has become even greater.

So all along, Capello has pursued a balanced strategy of attacking and suppressing on the right, and Candela and Delvicio on the left focus on defense, but now Ajax obviously does not play according to the cards, they press the defense very high, and even close to the center circle many times.

Perhaps judging from the scene, there are a lot of gaps behind Ajax, but the problem is that Roma can't take advantage of it.

First of all, Roma lack players with speed and individual ability, whether it is Batistuta or Montella, they are both central strikers, their most dangerous place is in the penalty area, once away from the penalty area, their role is very awkward, which is why Roma's positional attack is always sad.

In the absence of this type of player, Ajax is defending high, and Batistuta is now forced to stay away from the goal, and the attacking threat can be imagined.

Another big problem is the interception strength of the Ajax midfield, especially after fully compressing the distance of the three lines, each line is kept very close to each other, once the distance is slightly wider, Ye Qiu immediately gave a reminder on the sidelines, asking the players to stay compact.

The distance is closer, and it is obvious that the Roma players are not used to this style of play, especially when they are suppressed by Ajax, there are a lot of passing and receiving errors, and this kind of mistake also happens in their own half, which is too dangerous.

Capello's strategy was to let the midfielder make more long passes.

There is no way around it, because many of the balls are passed out and basically fall into the hands of Ajax.

However, in the end, it is Capello, it is Roma, when they want to defend, Roma, the top defensive line in Serie A, which ranks second in defensive ability, is not something that Ajax, a young player, can break casually.

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"When you really get a taste of the defense of the top teams in Serie A, you will find that your moves are so redundant, and the skills that you are most proud of are useless!"

Ibrahimovic remembers that this was a phrase that Van Basten had said to him, which he did not believe.

But in this game, he believed.

Because of the position, Ibrahimovic encountered more Samuel and Zago in this game, the former is not tall, air defense is a weakness, but the sense of position and tackling ability is very good, as long as you face him, there is even a little redundancy and delay in your technical movements, he will not hesitate to break the ball.

Ibrahimovic had already given the ball directly to his opponent on several occasions against Samuel, and he felt that the short centre-back he was up against was far more difficult than all the tall centre-backs he had faced in the past, and the two centre-backs in PSV Eindhoven were no match for Samuel!

Originally, he thought that the Brazilian central defender Zago should be easier to deal with, because he heard that the Brazilian defenders are more frizzy, the most typical is Lucio, who is frizzy to death, but when Ibrahimovic approached Zago and was close to the Brazilian central defender, he felt completely broken.

There are a lot of small movements, which is the typical style of a Brazilian player, but his defense is very solid and old-fashioned.

Could it be that Italy's defenders are so good?

Ibrahimovic doesn't have time to think about it because he has to think about how to break through one of Serie A's most famous defences and get the ball into the opposition's goal.

Just after Ibu tried several times and was frustrated, Ye Qiu made adjustments on the sidelines.

"You come to be the wall, attack the left side!" Ye Qiu gestured to his lips.

After hearing this, Ibu's first reaction was reluctance, because this kind of kick of making wedding dresses for others was not his habit, but when he saw Ye Qiu's serious expression on the sidelines, and then thought of the importance of this game, he nodded towards the head coach.

I don't know what Lu Dao is for, he is still a little afraid of Ye Qiu!

On the right side of Roma, Cafu is very high, he looks more like a winger, and his role is a bit similar to Alves on the right side of Barcelona around 2010, and even his position is higher than Alves, and there are many holes behind him.

Ye Qiu obviously wanted to take advantage of this to make a fuss.

The ball was at Sneijder's feet, and as soon as the latter stopped the ball, he saw Ibrahimovic retreat from front and raise his hand towards him.

Without much thought, Sneijder got the ball to the feet of Ibrahimovic.

The Swede turned his back to Roma's goal, stopped against the incoming ball, and at the same time leaned back with his body, leaning on Samuel who was sticking behind him to prevent him from turning, the Argentine central defender was short and was pressed behind by Ibrahimovic, even if his legs were longer than Ibrahimovic?

Ibrahimovic circled the ball, watched the situation and tried to turn around, but Samuel was well aware of Ibrahimovic's threat, the opponent was about 20 meters away from the goal, if he was allowed to turn around, how much of a threat?

Therefore, the Argentine central defender couldn't break the ball, but he leaned on Ibrahimovic with his body and didn't let him turn around.

Zanetti and Tomasi in the midfield are retreating, ready to help Samuel pack Ibrahimovic, no way, the Swede is tall and has long legs and a large control area, if he is allowed to lean on Samuel like this, it will be difficult for the Argentine central defender to break the ball for the rest of his life.

But just as they were approaching, Ibrahimovic gently sent the ball forward with his right foot.

The ball was passed back to the left, and Keita was suddenly inserted from behind, and at this time, Cafu's attention was on Luo himself, and Zebina was behind Samuel to help defend, which directly caused Keita to get the ball after cutting forward and advancing to the front of the penalty area, and there was no one around to defend him.

Keita, of course, would not be polite to the Roma, picking up his left foot and slotting a powerful volley from the edge of the box.

The ball arced like a cannonball and went straight to the goal.

Roma goalkeeper Antonioli made a flying save and saved the ball from the bottom line and took a corner.

But Keita's sudden long-range shot made the Romans break out in a cold sweat.

"It was supposed to be Ajax's most threatening shot of the first half after half an hour of play, coming from their Mali midfielder, Seydoux? Keita's long-range shot from the edge of the box was very threatening! The on-site narrator said loudly.

'The situation is now faintly tilting towards Ajax, and Capello's side must make adjustments as soon as possible, especially against Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, a tall centre-forward who has eaten Samuel through and does not choose to face head-on, but retreats to act as a tactical fulcrum for the team.

While the on-site commentator was analyzing, Sneijder slowly ran to the corner kick area, and after putting the ball away, the man retreated.

Looking at the crowds in the penalty area, he took a deep breath, even now, he still couldn't believe that he was facing Rome, but he quickly slapped his cheeks with his hands to sober himself up.

Sweeping towards the penalty area, he noticed some of the situation in the penalty area, and at the same time raised his right hand high, clenched his fist, and showed his index finger!

It's a code!

Everyone, including the Roma players, knows it, but the question is, what does this code represent?

"The ball is coming, everyone be careful!" Captain Totti shouted loudly.

Although in Capello's tactical arrangement, Totti and Batistuta do not need to retreat to participate in the defense, and even they do not have any defensive tasks, and exist to attack, but this time Totti still retreats to participate in the corner kick defense, because he can see that the current situation of the team is relatively passive.

Sneijder heard Totti's shout, but was unmoved, rushing forward briskly, pace, speed, power, touch, angle...... After repeated practice, he already had a feeling that when this corner kick was released, he knew if it was as he wished.

Everyone in the penalty area suddenly became a mess after the corner kick was issued, completely turned into a meat grinder, everyone rushed to run, press, squeeze, especially the Roma players in the front point, and desperately squeezed the Ajax players behind.

Curveball, fast!

While everyone was reacting, Sneijder's corner landed in the back of the middle.

Standing in front of Gilberto? As soon as Silva's Zago saw the ball fly over his head, he immediately turned his head to look behind him, and then he saw something that made him shudder.

Lucio didn't know when he was ambushed in the big penalty area, and at this moment, like a heavy tank, he rushed into the small penalty area, grabbed before Samuel, jumped high, like pulling onions on dry land, and met Sneijder's cross, and the lion shook his head.

The ball hit his somewhat hideous forehead, turned in a direction, and burrowed into the top right corner of the goal that Antonioli was guarding, a near-dead corner.

“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL！！！！”

'It was Ajax who scored first!'

"From Sneijder's corner, Lucio's header goes past Roma's goal, 1:0!"

Scoring from set-pieces, which has always been one of Roma's scoring methods, but now, Samuel watched Lucio shake his head in front of him, and then thought of the powerlessness in the face of Ibrahimovic just now, which made the Argentine central defender almost ashamed.

Capello, who was standing on the sidelines, shook his right hand high at the moment he lost the goal, scolded indignantly, "fuck", and then walked back to the coach's seat with an indescribable look of disappointment and indignation.

On the other hand, Ye Qiu on the other side raised his hands high, and compared with Bobby around him? Harms, Rick Link and other assistants high-fived and celebrated, and the goal was also full of surprises for them, unexpected, but reasonable.

Except for the first 20 minutes, the rest of the time, Ajax almost always attacked Roma in a high defensive state, but never created an effective scoring opportunity, but what I didn't expect was that a corner kick allowed Ajax to score, is this a compensation?

The players celebrated near the corner flagpole of the stadium, and tens of thousands of Roma fans in the stadium booed in unison, but at this moment, this boo is very pleasant to the ears of the Ajax players, because they prefer to see it as an affirmation and reward for their performance in this game.

"Now it's a very disadvantageous situation for Roma, they haven't been able to attack for a long time, they don't have a very effective way to take Ajax's defense, and now they have scored a goal by Ajax, is there any way for Capello to turn this situation around?" The on-site narrator was also concerned about the situation in Rome.

"I believe that the vast majority of Roma fans will not predict this before the game, they all thought that the home game against Ajax would be an easy victory, but what they did not expect was that Ajax would boldly press out to attack Roma away, which will indeed surprise many people, but at the same time admire Ajax's courage!"

The live TV camera swept over Ye Qiu, he was shouting at the player at this moment, judging from his gestures, he should be letting the player continue to strengthen the attack, and he couldn't give Roma a chance to breathe and adjust, and kill the opponent in one go.

"It seems that Ajax's courage comes directly from their manager, the 26-year-old Chinese manager, who is only 26 years old, is in charge of a professional team for the first time this season, and he is also very high, Eredivisie giants Ajax, which is a position that countless professional coaches dream of."

"But Ye Qiu's ability to become the head coach of Ajax is due to a record he set in the Eredivisie last season, that is, the first manager in the history of Dutch football to lead a youth team to win the Dutch Cup, which has made him go down in the history of Dutch football, and his performance with the Ajax second team has also won the approval of Ajax chairman Van Praag, so he is not at the helm of the Ajax first team by luck and relationship."

The match between Ajax and Roma is one of the key live broadcasts arranged by UEFA, this game is the key game today, it is scheduled to kick off in prime time, and it will be broadcast live in front of the whole world, and to be able to be introduced by the on-site commentator in this kind of live broadcast of the event, and frequently appear in front of the camera, Ye Qiu's popularity will be greatly improved.

That's how attractive European competitions are to players, to managers.

Ye Qiu appeared for the first time in the live broadcast of the whole world, the previous two rounds of knockouts, basically the Netherlands, Greece and Russia domestic live broadcast, but this game against Rome is different, Serie A teams, global live broadcast is indispensable.

However, for Ye Qiu, appearing in the global live broadcast is far less interesting than defeating Capello.

So after taking a 1:0 lead, Ye Qiuzhi said that the tactical play he arranged worked, and Ibrahimovic acted as the fulcrum of the frontcourt, suppressing Samuel and disrupting the Roma defense, which can bring more space and opportunities for Ajax's attack.

Because he understood this, Ye Qiu asked the players not to relax in the slightest after taking the lead, continue to attack Roma and strike while the iron is hot, otherwise, with Capello's strength, he will soon make up for the problems caused by Ajax's attack, and at that time, it will not be easy to score again.

As soon as they heard the head coach say that they would continue to strengthen the attack, without saying a word, as soon as Rome kicked off, Ajax's group of players rushed to Rome's position like wolves, pressed it directly, continued to defend high, and continued to suppress Rome in their half.

Facing the strong pressure and pressing of the Ajax players who are like tigers going down the mountain, Roma once again showed their flaws.