"Still too young, Michael!"

On the rostrum of the Arena Stadium, Barcelona's president Gaspart and Ajax president Van Praag, who was sitting next to him, said with a smile with a little bit of arrogance unique to giants.

What he refers to has a double meaning, on the one hand, Ajax coach Ye Qiu, and on the other hand, the average age and squad of Ajax, both of which can be said to be very young and inexperienced.

Over the years, Barcelona has always looked at Ajax with a look of arrogance that cannot be hidden.

Not to mention, even if Ajax is one of the initiators of G14, even if Van Praag has a pivotal influence in European football, the Eredivisie is always just the Eredivisie, and Ajax is only Ajax.

Walking out of Ajax and into Camp Nou, this seems to have become the same trajectory of many players who have come out of Ajax, which seems to give people the impression that Ajax is Barcelona's star-making factory and has become a youth team that helps Barcelona develop players.

This situation more or less made Barcelona look at Ajax with a bit of a leading big brother posture.

After more than 20 years as the vice-president of Barcelona, once he was successful, he became the president, if Gaspat had some ambitions when he was just elected a year ago, then a year later, this ambition has been smoothed out and replaced by a sense of frustration.

He was elected because he had a campaign team of more than 80 people, each of whom was either responsible for raising money for him or preparing for his campaign, and when he was elected, all of them went into the management of Barcelona.

With such a large presidium in check, is Gaspat capable? Can Barcelona not mess up?

Some people choose to be discouraged in the face of frustration, but some people are not, and they will do everything possible to find their only remaining pride, even if it is a pitiful sense of pride, from others.

Gaspat belongs to the latter group, but that doesn't mean there's anything about Ajax that makes him proud.

"It's a little younger, but you have to be careful, because this young Ajax team is fearless!" Van Praag smiled back with a smile that he was now the host and had to retain some hospitality etiquette.

"Fearless?" Gasparter laughed when he heard this, "In the face of absolute superiority, any resistance is powerless!" ”

Van Praag can't refute it, because from the very beginning of the game, Barcelona quickly took the advantage and the initiative, and it seems that Ajax is in a comprehensive passive and inferior position both in terms of strength and situation.

"Times have changed, Michael!" Gaspart, seeing that Van Praag didn't speak, said with a smile.

If you give him a thick cigar at this time, I believe he will be more like a big brother in the underworld.

But just before his laughter fell, he saw that Ajax, who was originally suppressed under the pitch and was wearing a red and white jersey, suddenly rushed towards Barcelona's position, and from the back of Ajax, a long diagonal pass accurately sent the ball along a beautiful parabola to the left side of Barcelona's position.

In Barcelona's red and blue jersey, Ajax's red and white jersey looks very eye-catching, so when Robben passed the ball in Kiv, at lightning speed, from Frank? De Boer swept past him, and when an anti-offside position was formed in an instant, everyone in the entire Arena couldn't help but rush up from their seats.

It's lightning fast!!

I believe this is the shock in the hearts of all those who saw Robben sprint, because the Dutch winger was already ready to go, and when Kifu got the ball, he sprinted at the fastest speed, which made many fans whose eyes followed the ball, when they saw Robben, the Dutchman had reached their fastest speed, and the shock was absolutely amazing.

Rushing forward quickly along the left flank, stopping the ball did not slow down Robben's advance in the slightest, he advanced to the left side of the Barcelona penalty area almost instantaneously, stopped, adjusted, did not wait for Frank? De Boer got closer, suddenly accelerated to the baseline, and crossed.

Ibrahimovic and Van der Vaart were both pressing forward quickly as Robben pushed forward, both of them waiting for their chance, and the Swede was up against Cristanval, a centre-back who had just moved to Barcelona from Monaco this season and clearly didn't know Ibrahimovic very well.

Robben's cross was clearly directed towards Ibrahimovic, but the Swede, when he was desperately pressing Cristanwal with his body, chose to stop the ball with his chest, and without waiting for the ball to land, he volleyed with his left foot, which made Christianvaal, who had been watching for Ibrahimovic's header, feel devastated.

Isn't this deliberately playing tricks? You can just head the ball, why stop the ball again? Show off your skills?

But before Cristanwal could react, Ibrahimovic, who scored the goal, had already raised his arms high, excitedly rushed out of the Barcelona penalty area, kept celebrating with his teammates at Ajax along the way, rushed to the corner flagpole of the Arena Stadium, fell to the ground, and let his teammates press on him.

In the 36th minute, Ajax broke through Barcelona's goal through a quick counter-attack, from Swedish center Zlatan? Ibrahimovic's shot, but Arjen Robben on the left was equally impressive, and the pair contributed to this wonderful goal together! ”

When everyone at Ajax was celebrating, Ye Qiu kept shaking his head on the sidelines, and sometimes he couldn't understand what Ibrahimovic was thinking in his head.

If it was a year ago, he would definitely reprimand this Swede harshly, but in the past year, Ibrahimovic has improved very significantly, especially in his style of play, which has obviously changed a lot compared to a year ago, Ye Qiu feels that he should occasionally let it go, turn a blind eye, as long as he doesn't delay the fighter.

If you take a player like Ibrahimovic too seriously, the effect is likely to backfire, and you need to change him slowly and slowly, rather than letting him change for you in a short period of time.

"Wow woo woo !!!"

Seeing Ibrahimovic score, Van Praag in the stands excitedly raised his arms and celebrated in front of Gaspart, even rushing out of his seat to celebrate the late goal with all the Ajax fans in the stands.

Gaspart, who had just put on a picture of victory, thinking that Barcelona could steadily crush Ajax, was not at all able from the smile just now, nor could he see the slightest smugness, replaced by embarrassment and disappointment, and even a little annoyance.

"As I said, we have nothing to fear!" When Van Praag walked back to his seat, he straightened his suit and said with a smile.

At this moment, he felt that Ye Qiu and his team were really powerful, and they would never let him down.

Gaspat barely managed to squeeze out a smile that was more ugly than crying, and nodded, unable to speak.

After all, it's too much of a slap in the face!

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After scoring the first goal, the rhythm and coordination of the whole Ajax team followed.

A very important reason why Ye Qiu sought stability at the beginning of the game was the team's lack of experience, and there would inevitably be some pressure in the first Champions League, so he was worried that he would be caught off guard by Barcelona if he was unstable.

But now things are different, after half an hour of play, the Ajax players have clearly found the rhythm of the game, obviously stabilized their minds, and with the lead through Ibrahimovic's goal, Ajax have enough chips to start the game and rhythm with Barcelona again.

After conceding the goal, Barcelona was a little flustered, but they were more experienced, the two teams competed very fiercely, and finally the first half remained 1:0 to the end, but at the beginning of the second half, Ye Qiu boldly used the opening to attack and launched a strong impact on Barcelona.

After the first half and the goal lead, Ajax's players were significantly more morale and more confident, so they were more active in their combinations, especially the goal-scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

In the 61st minute of the second half, it was the Swedes who withdrew from Barcelona's goal, knocked back Sneijder after winning the ball in the front, the latter took advantage of the situation and kicked the ball straight away, accurately tearing apart Barcelona's defense, Van der Vaart was from the gap between Koko and Cristanwal, quickly diagonally into the penalty area, after winning the ball, he shook the goalkeeper Bonano, and pushed the empty goal, 2:0!

“2：0！ Van der Vaart's goal condemned Barcelona's death! The on-site commentator said excitedly.

"If Ajax was still passive most of the time in the first half, then in the second half, the situation turned around, Ajax began to be more active in pressing out to find fighters, while Barcelona was a little passive, especially in the midfield, the midfield composed of Gabri, Xavi and Cocu was obviously suppressed by Ajax."

"Overmars had a terrible performance against his old club in this game, he almost didn't show anything on the left side, and even lost a trace a little, although Ajax right-back McCone was more defensive and didn't perform well, but if you compare, Overmars's poor performance made Barcelona more passive!"

"Perhaps, exchanging McConn for Overmars, this is simply Ye Qiu's tactical plan!"

Relatively speaking, Barcelona has an obvious shortcoming, that is, the most difficult pass at the front of the penalty area, which has long existed, whether it is the former Guardiola or the current Xavi, they are not the type of the most difficult last pass, at least Xavi is now more of a midfield playmaker, and the position is more backward.

Rivaldo has never been a passer, so after coming out of Rexach's lineup, Ye Qiu realized that Barcelona has not changed the problems of the team last season, but has intensified, because once they suppress Barcelona's midfield, then their ball advancement has to rely entirely on Ovimas on the left.

It was in this situation that Ye Qiu chose to let McConn target Ovemas and suppress Barcelona in the midfield.

Although the Ajax players had problems in the execution of tactics at the beginning and were almost scored by Barcelona at one point, they quickly stabilized the situation and froze Barcelona's attack, and Ajax themselves became more and more confident.

In the second half, it became more and more evident that Kluivert was brilliant and Rivaldo was very good, but behind the two great scorers there was no one to give them a steady stream of scoring opportunities, what could they do?

Ajax's technical team once analysed Barcelona's attack, with Kluivert receiving just one of every 10 passes on the edge of the box. Three times were good shots, but as you can imagine, Barcelona's real problem is in the advancement of the ball.

Lexage was clearly aware of the problem and quickly made adjustments, replacing Overmars with Saviola.

The substitution was a bit of a slap in the face, as Saviola should have started earlier.

Ye Qiu also made a substitution, Yaya? Toure replaced Van der Vaart and moved Keita to the left and Sneijder to the right, with Ajax's substitution still aimed at suppressing Barcelona's midfield and securing a 2-0 lead.

Perhaps seeing that the substitutions did not work well, Rexage replaced Cristanwal with Roshenbach again, wanting to further strengthen the depth and resistance of the midfield, but soon replaced Cocu with Gerrard, and used up three substitutions early.

Ye Qiu's second substitution was to replace Robben with Van der Meyde, so that Van der Meyde and Ibrahimovic formed a double striker, and the team changed to 442, adopting a more solid overall defensive position, freezing and limiting Barcelona's attack.

The last substitution was with Huntelaar for Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and the Dutch centre-forward was given a chance on the pitch, but was a little slow to flank Donny van der Meyde's cross in front of goal, resulting in a match for his first Champions League goal.

In the end, the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, and Ajax defeated the visiting Barcelona 2-0 at the Arenal Stadium to win the first game of the Champions League, which was also the first Champions League victory in Ye Qiu's career!

When the whistle sounded at the end of the game, Ye Qiu breathed a sigh of relief, excitedly high-fived and celebrated with the assistants around him, and walked into the stadium to hug and celebrate with the players, because winning this game will undoubtedly give Ajax a good start to the Champions League group stage.

Although the process of the game seems a little conservative, it is good to be able to win, isn't it?

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'We tried very hard to play real football, but unfortunately luck was on our side, and in the end the better side lost the game, which I regret, but that's football!'

In the post-match press conference, Lexage was clearly resentful of the loss.

From the point of view of data, situation and other aspects, Barcelona does have an advantage, Ajax except for the opening stage of the second half, most of the time in a passive defensive counterattack, according to the standards of La Liga fans, Barcelona is indeed playing more beautifully, but also more active.

But for Lexage's statement, Ye Qiu didn't dare to agree.

"I don't think it's a matter of luck to win, our players played better, so we won the game, it's as simple as that!"

'I think Barcelona's biggest problem is their squad, they lack depth and don't have the means to turn things around when the game is unfavourable, so how much threat did they actually create, even though they seemed to be in control for most of the game?

None of the reporters present could refute Ye Qiu's words, even if it was the media close to Barcelona, on the contrary, many people felt that Ye Qiu's analysis was more to the point than Lexach.

But this is an objective problem, the transfer period is over, and Barcelona is destined to play according to this set of lineups.

'The 2-0 score may seem a bit brutal, but I want to remind the guy who thinks we are lucky that he should take another look at the game, we missed at least two very, very dangerous chances to score, and if we take those two chances, it's not 2-0, it's 4-0!'

Ye Qiu's words were obviously a counterattack against Lexage, and the latter's expression was ashamed and annoyed, but he was helpless, because what Ye Qiu said was the truth, and Barcelona seemed to be active, but in fact it was very passive.

Soon, the reporters no longer dwelled on this game, and turned to Ye Qiu.

The young manager won the UEFA Cup for the first time, becoming the youngest ever winner of the UEFA Cup, and now he is leading the team to the UEFA Champions League, which, combined with UEFA's key care, has naturally attracted media attention.

"Mr. Ye Qiu, many Ajax fans hope that the team can return to the glory peak of the mid-90s, Van Gaal, in your hands, what do you personally think about this?"

This is a problem that can't be bypassed when coaching Ajax, and Ye Qiu has long been mentally prepared.

'Of course I want the team to get back to the top but it's unrealistic to think about it right now, our goal this season is to get out of the group stage and as we all know, the Eredivisie team hasn't been able to get out of the group stage for many years and we want to make a breakthrough and that's what we should be thinking about now!'

Whether it is PSV Eindhoven or Feyenoord, the results of the Champions League are not very ideal, and the competition in the Champions League is very fierce now, and it is very difficult to qualify from the first round of the group stage.

Even if he won Barcelona in the first game, Ye Qiu was not sure enough, because the three opponents in this group were very strong, and no matter who Ajax encountered, he was not sure enough.

The Ajax management is also aware of the current situation of the team, so this season's Champions League results are only striving to qualify from the group, and will not bring the slightest pressure to Ye Qiu, and the real highlight is still in the Eredivisie title battle.

That is Ye Qiu's main battlefield!