Ajax are in the final sprint for the season.

Thanks to the huge lead in the league, they can concentrate on preparing for the Champions League, which is also the battlefield that most affects the hearts of the Ajax players.

With the praise of the outside world, more attention from the mainstream media in Europe, just like Qin Xiong, many players have privately gotten the news, olive branches thrown by other clubs.

They don't want to be bothered just now and want to climb to new heights in the end-of-season sprint.

In mid-March, Ajax headed for the Dutch Cup.

Coman has no plans to train this time.

Ajax reached the semi-finals, and before the semi-finals, they lost and won, as long as they didn't play PSV PSV Eindhoven or Feyenoord, they could train however they wanted.

Entering the semi-finals means that there are only three games left to win a championship, and this real honor is attractive enough, of course, it will exceed the temptation of training value.

In particular, Ajax can even sacrifice the league to concede for the Dutch Cup, which makes Koeman even more ambitious to win the Dutch Cup.

Ajax played in the semi-finals of the Dutch Cup.

The opponent is Twente.

In the semi-finals, the winner was decided, and the whole Twente army retreated to defend and counterattack, but it was really impossible to drag it out until overtime, and then play a penalty shootout.

Ajax failed to make their wishful thinking a reality.

The whole game was patiently fought until the 68th minute of the game, when Qin Xiong received Van der Vaart's wonderful pass and scored a low shot from a small angle after entering the penalty area, helping the team open the scoring.

"Qin Xiong inserted into the penalty area at the right time, Van der Vaart slashed, Qin Xiong smashed the goal with a small angle, and Ajax led Twente 1:0."

In front of the cheers of the home team's fans. Qin Xiong didn't celebrate, just gave his teammates a low-five, and he needed time to digest the sadness of Van Gaal's departure.

Twente came back from behind to give Ajax the chance to extend their lead.

In the last 15 minutes, Qin Xiong sent a wonderful pass twice. Ajax avenged their youth team with a 3-0 win at home to FC Twente and a ticket to this season's Dutch Cup final.

After the game, his teammates said that they wanted to celebrate and get close to the Dutch Cup final, but Qin Xiong did not participate. He took a shower, changed his clothes, and went home.

The next day, "International Football" published a battle report: Ajax is aiming for a double!

The advantages of the home league need not be repeated, as there are two matches in the Dutch Cup final, and the current system is that the final is played over two legs, home and away.

Ajax's opponent is also out, it is Utrecht, who is not particularly strong.

Coupled with the two-legged home and away matches, the margin for error increases. The stronger the side, the higher the probability of winning the cup.

Ajax are believed to have secured the Dutch Cup, and with the league title, the lowest achievement of the season, or at the very least, a double.

Of course, this is what the media boasts about, and in theory, Ajax is neither the league champions. Nor is it the Dutch Cup winner.

The first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals is coming next week, and this weekend, Koeman has a full squad in his squad. But it's just for the players to continue their form on the pitch and warm up for the Champions League.

The Ajax players, who have been very serious about training and games in recent days, easily defeated Vidis 4-0 at home, even if they did not play a high-speed momentum in the game.

It is clear that they work together more tacitly, and after Koeman's final step to reinvent the team, the team is free at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, although the attack is not as much blossoming as before. However, in terms of efficiency, it is not much different from before, and more importantly, it has strengthened its defense. This is a very important foundation to move forward in the Champions League.

In the same round, PSV Eindhoven, which is already numbing, has not yet come out of the shadow of invincibility. But the good thing is that at least the losing streak ended, they were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Breda, and with eight league games remaining in the Eredivisie, Ajax's gap over second-place PSV PSV Eindhoven has widened to a staggering 17 points!

Three days later, upstart Chelsea arrived in Amsterdam under the leadership of manager Claudio Ranieri!

Qin Xiong learned the news while watching TV with his teammates at the gym.

It seems that as long as a team arrives in a major European league, it will attract the attention of the Dutch sports media.

It is no wonder that when it comes to the top 8 of the Champions League, it has attracted a lot of attention, and secondly, although Chelsea is not at the same level as Ajax in terms of honor, but people have money, and they are rich in the European football circle!

It's not about the owner's financial resources, after all, some club owners are quite rich, but they are misers.

Chelsea's money is reflected in the fact that it is a lot of money!

It's the boss's willingness to spend a lot of money that shocks.

Although the dream squad in the heart of Chelsea owner Abou is still far away, and he has not bought any of the world superstars such as Nesta, Ronaldo, and Raul, but at least, he has also bought a lot of powerful players who have become famous in Europe, plus Chelsea, which was poor a year ago, still has a little bit of player background, like Lampard, Terry, Glen Charles and other players who can get their hands on it, and the combination of old and new Chelsea's strength on paper has enough shock.

The Dutch media doesn't like Chelsea, on the one hand, Chelsea is rich and like a local tycoon, which is not available to Dutch clubs, even if PSV Eindhoven, which has the support of a consortium, is still a world of difference compared with Chelsea's ability to spend money like water, especially to spend a lot of money without blinking.

On the other hand, Chelsea coach Ranieri does not speak English, so it is very troublesome to interview, and he has to be equipped with an interpreter to paraphrase, which makes reporters very impatient.

Ranieri made a diplomatic statement at the pre-match press conference, complimenting Ajax's strength and expressing respect, and then made the Dutch media very disgusted to boast about the changes in Chelsea, and also openly slapped the boss on the back, it was Abramovic who brought about the qualitative change in Chelsea, and they will realize their football dreams together.

In fact, it is true, without Abu, how could the debt-ridden Chelsea have the scenery of food and clothing today?

But this cruel reality of using money to solve a problem and realize a dream is still unacceptable to the public.

Koeman, on the other hand, was confronted by Fleet Street at his pre-match press conference.

British journalists are always asking off-topic questions, such as Chelsea taking a fancy to Ibrahimovic, Van der Vaart, Qin Xiong, Maxwell and so on.

What do you think as Ajax manager?

Coman didn't want to get into trouble, but he was still annoyed.

Attacking realism with idealism.

He claimed that Chelsea could not buy the championship with money, and that if he wanted to be recognized and achieved, he had to be down-to-earth, and he had to follow the laws of football development, and he also used Ajax as an example to show off Ajax's excellent youth training, which has maintained considerable fighting power all year round, and has won countless honors and achievements.

Chelsea are like the radicals of today's football, and wherever they go, they set off a big debate between money and ideals, reality and tradition.

Ajax certainly belong to the group of people who have no money and ideals, and of course they have to look down on and firmly oppose Chelsea's set.

Or else?

The stars you have worked so hard to cultivate have been seduced away by your money, how can you live this life?

The night before the game, Qin Xiong saw the news on Dutch Sports TV, and he thought it was strange.

The quarter-finals of the Champions League between Ajax and Chelsea seem to have changed the focus of attention.

Detached from the competition itself

North Sea, night.

A luxury cruise ship is quietly parked on the surface of the North Sea, and on the bow deck, a middle-aged man in a shirt and trousers is standing there, holding a wine glass in one hand and high-end red wine in the other, he pours himself half a glass of wine from time to time, tasting the wine while looking south.

In the distance, the outline of the continent is faintly visible, and the enchanting colors of the city at night can be seen.

There is the Netherlands, Amsterdam.

The man standing on the bow of the ship blowing the sea breeze smiled slightly, raised his wine glass in front of his eyes, and squinted his eyes to look at the far south, the city of freedom.

He is Abou, the owner of Chelsea.

He arrived at Stamford Bridge last summer with ambitions to disrupt the traditional landscape of European football.

His money has reshaped Chelsea's body, a strong and powerful new body, and the team has reached the last eight of the Champions League immediately, which is not too far away from his dream Champions League title, the pinnacle of European football.

But perhaps he underestimated football.

He did give Chelsea a strong new body, but he couldn't inject a new soul into Chelsea! (To be continued) R580