Changing formations on the spot has always been a taboo for soldiers.

From the ancient cold weapon war to the current football tactics, the on-the-spot change of formation is not accepted by the coaches, because it is full of all kinds of risks, and it is easy to cause the players to lose their combat effectiveness because of unfamiliarity and inadaptability to tactics.

But there has never been a shortage of bold and courageous coaches who changed formations on the spot, and successfully defeated their opponents, and finally became the sage cases of a generation of good stories, but those are more in the conversation, and in reality, no one is willing to take such a big risk, and no one is willing to bear the terrible consequences.

But sometimes, there will always be people who want to gamble and take the risk.

Ajax's chief centre-forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic is out injured, which has been rumored by the media, and without Ibrahimovic, Ajax can only choose Huntelaar.

Before the game, everyone estimated that in this game, Ajax only adjusted and changed some local positions on the basis of retaining the 433 tactics, and Ye Qiu would not have any big changes, but what he didn't expect was that Ajax's starting lineup surprised everyone.

"It was really surprising that Ajax suddenly changed their formation boldly before the key event, abandoning Ajax's traditional N9433 tactics and adopting 442 tactics."

Everyone was a little surprised to see Van der Vaart and Huntelaar standing on the tee, and the on-site commentators were also puzzled.

"Goalkeeper Van der Sar, Abidal, Kivo, Lucio and Mai L in the back, Robben, Yaya Toure, Mascherano and Sneijder in the midfield, Van der Vaart and Huntelaar in the midfield, Van der Vaart and Huntelaar in the front, is Ajax going to play 442 in this game?"

In fact, according to this tactical arrangement, it is still possible to play 433, but judging from the three lines of Ajax so neatly, it is more like 442, and Robben's position is relatively backward, but Van der Vaart was pushed to the front, which greatly surprised many people.

Juventus' formation for this game is still the 4312 they are good at, with Buffon in goal, Zambrotta, Montero, Ferrara and Thuram in the back, Tacinadi, Tudor and Camoranesi in midfield, Nedved in midfield, and Piero and Trezeguet in the forwards.

"We have to say that Lippi's line-up is not too surprising, steady and steady, on the other hand, Ajax, Ye Qiu's on-the-spot change of formation is unexpected, but it also brings a huge risk, once the team does not run well, it is likely to cause Ajax to fall into a disaster situation throughout the game."

The on-site commentator's statement did not ease Lippi's attention, as early as before the season, Lippi's Juventus played a game with Ye Qiu's Ajax in the Amsterdam Cup, and Juventus lost 1:2 that time, but at that time Lippi's team had not fully run in.

But now it's different, as Nedved integrates into Juventus' tactics, as the team's overall tactics get better and better, Lippi's team is becoming more and more combative, and the poor performance in the group stage cannot be the basis for the knockout round, because in the knockout round, targeted tactics are more important.

"What the hell does he want to do?" Silver Fox Lippi stood on the sidelines, gently holding the glasses on the bridge of his nose, guessing Ye Qiu's tactical arrangement.

The same set of lineups can play completely different tactical effects, so it is difficult for Lippi to distinguish whether Ye Qiu's lineup is really 442? Or is there another special tactical arrangement?

"Arteta is not injured or sick, and the Spanish youngster will be a vital part of Ajax's midfield this season, Ye Qiu put him on the bench in this game, and switched to Yaya Toure to start, I guess it is likely to be for Nedved."

Standing next to Lippi is his chief assistant coach, Nachiso Pezzotti, a loyal old partner.

"Oh?" Lippi is not surprised by this, Nedved's back insertion is definitely the most lethal link in Juventus' attack, if Ye Qiu does not know how to limit this, then he will be in vain.

"I remember that he once crucified Ballack at Bayer Leverkusen with Yaya Toure." Pezzotti said with a smile.

At times, even Lippi had to admire the memory of his best partner and his ability to analyze details, which, despite his sixties, was getting better and better.

You're against me, I'm against you, it's a tactical contest in the knockout round.

Lippi also carried out targeted defense against Ajax's tactics in this game, among them, for the left side where Robben is located, there are Camoranesi and Thuram in charge, Lippi specially told Camoranesi to protect Thuram on the right side no matter what, so as to avoid too many one-on-one on the side of Robben.

Huntelaar's ability to take chances in the box has been outstanding, the Dutchman has been a good substitute and has scored a lot of goals, and is already a well-known rookie striker in the Eredivisie and Europe, and with Ibrahimovic's injury, it is impossible for Lippi not to take the centre-forward seriously.

And if Robben is given too many one-on-one opportunities, no matter how good Thuram is and how strong he is, it will be difficult to organize the Dutch winger to pass the ball into the penalty area, and it may become a threat.

On the right, Zambrotta was tasked with watching Van der Vaart, while also telling Tacinadi to pay attention to the constraints on Van der Vaart's inside in order to prevent Ajax from getting the ball to Huntelaar's feet as much as possible.

Both sides are going back and forth for targeted arrangement, and everyone is guessing the other's tactics, but the game has not started, and no one knows whether their tactics can work.

Because of this, Lippi was not frightened by Ajax's start and change of formation, but patiently waited for the referee to blow the whistle for the start of the game, and then observed Ajax's tactics through the game

Because of the light rain before, the field was a little slippery, and Van der Vaart almost lost his center of gravity and slipped during a catch when he was training just now, which made him complain about the turf and think it was too slippery

Standing opposite Huntelaar, Van der Vaart knew exactly what he was going to do in this game.

Although Ye Qiu's tactical arrangement was a bit unexpected, it was actually not so difficult to understand.

Huntelaar is a typical goalscorer, he needs someone around him and behind him to feed him cannonballs, he's not the kind of player who can cut through the opposition defence, he's not the kind of tactical center who can drop back and get the ball, he's just a goalscorer.

Ibrahimovic's injury made Ajax's attack only rely on Huntelaar, so Ye Qiu needed to form a set of ball attacks that delivered cannonballs for Huntelaar, so there was a shift from Van der Vaart to play forward.

When the team is attacking, Huntelaar is like a nail, firmly nailed in the opponent's penalty area, attracting the attention of the defence, while Van der Vaart is behind him, moving on both sides of the penalty area, both receiving passes from behind him and on the left and right wings, playing the ball for Huntelaar, or inserting the attack himself.

This is an important routine of Ajax's attack in the middle of this game.

But at any time and in any situation, Ajax's attack is not limited to the middle.

With a whistle from the referee, Ajax kicked off first.

After Van der Vaart drove the ball to Huntelaar, the Dutch centre-forward knocked it back and Mascherano passed it to Lucio.

Juventus' entire defensive formation quickly retracted, while Ajax pushed forward steadily

At this moment, everyone can clearly see the overall position of Ajax when attacking.

Huntelaar was at the front, Van der Vaart was a little behind him, roaming around to his left and right, Robben was still playing on the left, but not so high, but in the middle of Camoranesi and Thuram, Sneijder was almost equal to Robben, and Yaya Toure and Mascherano were behind the most.

The whole midfield looks like a saucer-shaped position, if you have to say it in terms of position, it is 4222.

But it was clearly more than that, when Lucio got the ball and passed it to Yaya Toure, who took a few steps forward after winning the ball, was rushed up by Camoranesi, and quickly passed to Robben on the left

The Dutchman was behind Camoranesi, as soon as he saw Camoranesi go up, he immediately ran to the open to receive the ball, and rushed forward quickly after getting the ball, wanting to face Thuram one-on-one, and unlike Robben who was always active on the wing in the past, this time his dribbling was a little biased, obviously to find Van der Vaart, who was active in both ribs.

Tudor is a central defender with a good sense of position, while Thuram can also play at central defender, and when they saw Robben's activities, both of them invariably chose to protect the central defender, Tudor was in charge of scrambling, and Thuram was responsible for watching Van der Vaart.

Robben saw that there was no chance, and with a cross, the ball quickly crossed the middle and came to the right, but at this moment, Sneijder attracted Zambrotta near the touchline, who will receive the ball?

It's a long process, but because the players are all moving at the same time, it all happened in less than 40 seconds for Ajax to push the ball into the 30-metre area of Juventus.

And at the moment when Robben's cross was made, Ajax's right wing-back Mai Xiao L was seen sprinting forward at a very fast speed.

Before the ball was transferred in the front court, everyone's attention was also focused on Van der Vaart, Robben and Huntelaar, or Sneijder, so Mai Yu L's quick insertion, only Nedved noticed, but the Czech's speed could not keep up with Mai Yu L, who was sprinting with all his strength, and saw that the Brazilian was in the middle on the right side, about 25 meters away from the goal to receive a pass.

There was a hole in the entire defensive system, and Juventus' defensive players immediately reacted and wanted to fill the hole as soon as possible.

But what people didn't expect was that after the Brazilian stopped the ball, he didn't think twice and pulled his foot directly into a furious shot.

The ball was like a cannonball, passing through the crowd at lightning speed, and no one had time to stop it.

Buffon stood in front of the goal, also a little surprised by Mai Yul's sudden long-range shot, but reacted immediately and made a flying save, but the ball was slightly off the left post, and the goal kick.

Although the ball did not score, Ye Qiu applauded the players on the sidelines, obviously satisfied with the opening start.

This is also what he specially arranged before the game, from the beginning to suppress the momentum of Juventus, frustrate the sharp spirit of the Bianconeri, and control the overall situation and rhythm of the game by the way, and launch an attack.

Playing a slow pace with a counter-attacking team like Juventus is pure death.

If you grind slowly with them, you will almost impossible to break down their defence, even if Juventus' defensive players are not small but they are experienced, and they have the essence of the Italian reinforced concrete defence, and it is almost impossible for anyone to break through when the defensive line is shrunk and calmly arranged.

Therefore, to play such a team, you can only choose to be fast, give up possession, and play fast!

Therefore, Ye Qiu did not choose Arteta, but Yaya Toure, which is also to allow the Ivorians to follow Nedved and liberate Mascherano, so that the latter can better protect the defensive line.

Relatively speaking, Juventus's wing lacks speed, and the left side is Zambrotta, but he plays left-back, and there is a Sneijder there to contain, so Ye Qiu boldly let McCone plug in this game.

No, he got a long-range shot in less than a minute, but McCone didn't seem satisfied, and two minutes later, he got a diagonal pass from Sneijder who was pulled to the middle at the edge of the box, but this time he was blocked by Zambrotta's shot angle, and was forced to cross from the bottom, Huntelaar grabbed the point in front of the goal, but in the end he couldn't win Ferrara.

Without the effect of Ibrahimovic as a fulcrum in front, Ajax's ball advancement can no longer go past the routine of looking for Ibrahimovic, holding the ball and then inserting it to attack, and can only insist on the ground penetration and promotion routine of advancing from back to front, but this is not ideal in the face of Juventus's three-line contraction defense.

Lippi's line-up is also very cautious, in the three midfielders, Tudor and Tacinadi are defensive players, and Camoranesi is also both offensive and defensive, which makes them very good at protecting the defensive line, Ajax's attack can not effectively advance to the Juventus penalty area, and can only frequently threaten Buffon through long-range shots.

In the first 10 minutes, Ajax fired a total of three long-range shots, but none of them were effective

"In the end, Juventus, the defense is like an iron wall, not leaky." Bobby Harms sat in the coach's box, raised his head, looked at the players on both sides in the field, and said helplessly.

Although Ajax quickly used the opening attack to play a momentum after the opening and successfully took the initiative, the attack has always been difficult to effectively advance to the Juventus penalty area, which has a lot to do with the tight protection of Juventus' midfield.

Ye Qiu also agrees with the view that Juventus' defense is very solid, but he does not think it is unbreakable.

No matter how solid the defense is, there will be a moment of vulnerability, because as long as you are a person, you will definitely make mistakes, the key is that you have to put enough pressure on him, from the first l0 minutes, Ajax has achieved a certain effect, but the threat on the wing is not enough, whether it is Robben on the left, or Sneijder and Mai Lu on the right, they have not shown enough threat.

"Roland, let's make the two wings more active, let Van der Vaart pull out, retreat appropriately, pull out space, and then find opportunities to cut in from both ribs." Ye Qiu commanded towards Roland.

The latter quickly conveyed Ye Qiu's latest instructions, but the scene still did not change.

Sometimes the manager's tactics may not be implemented and executed by all the players, as if now, Ajax seems to have the initiative, but in fact Juventus' defense of their own half seems to be monolithic, and as soon as the ball enters the area, it is immediately under great pressure.

This kind of pressure will cause the Ajax players to implement the manager's tactics to be greatly reduced, unable to play the effect that Ye Qiu wants, and Juventus's foul tactics in this game are indeed a headache.

In the 21st minute, for example, Montero took advantage of a close-quarters chance to kick Van der Vaart's calf with a black kick from behind, who fell to the ground and was treated by Ajax's team doctor for a few minutes before returning.

Montero, the small Uruguayan defender, has the title of striker killer, fierce defense, very hurtful action, although this black foot made Montero get a yellow card, but also successfully deterred Van der Vaart, especially every time he saw the Uruguayan central defender's fierce approach, Van der Vaart felt a chill in his heart.

With this fear, the performance is naturally greatly reduced, and it is far less active than at the beginning.

When Ajax walked out of the opening and gradually fell flat, Juventus had already planned and began to organize an effective counterattack against Ajax, first using Thuram's long pass from the back, Trezeguet used his body to suppress Kivon and then stopped the ball and passed to Nedved, who got the ball and shot directly and hit Juventus' first shot of the game.

This shot also sounded the clarion call for Juventus to fight back.

In just 5 minutes, Juventus counter-attacked again, Huntelaar wanted to get his feet up after getting the pass, but Ferrara stabbed Buffon in advance, and the Italian goalkeeper directly kicked it.

The ball flew quickly in front of the Ajax defence, and Lucio and Trezeguet battled it out for a header, but the ball was met by Tudor and the Croatian headed back to Nedved.

Yaya Toure was tasked with nailing Nedved in the game, and the two battled for the head, with the Ivorian winning, but the ball fell to Camoranesi, who deflected a diagonal cross to Piero on the left.

Piero faced the middle on the left side, watched Camoranesi's pass, stopped with his chest, and when McCone was close behind him, he didn't choose to hit hard, but took the ball directly to the middle, just close to the top of the penalty area, and directly rubbed a curling ball, past the Ajax defence, and landed behind Kifu.