When the game reached the 18th minute, Van der Vaart on the right side got Sneijder's pass, suddenly cut inside from the right side, and in the case of Pavon's reckless grab, straight behind him, Ibrahimovic quickly inserted into the penalty area from behind, and after winning the ball, he volleyed vigorously, but the close shot was high.

The Swede lost his balance when he lost his balance and fell into the Real Madrid penalty area.

He doesn't have to stand up to know that this kick is gone!

Because he didn't hear the deafening cheers from the mouths of the tens of thousands of Ajax fans in the stadium, all he heard was sighs, which made him extremely frustrated and very annoyed.

He should have chosen a more confident push just now, rather than blindly pursuing a hearty and powerful volley.

Since the opening, he has had at least two great chances, but both times have been wasted, which makes the Swedish center feel extremely annoyed and guilty, and he lies on the grass, screaming loudly, and pounding the turf of the Arenal Stadium with his hands clenched into fists, in order to vent his frustration of repeatedly missing good chances to score.

Ye Qiu, who was standing on the sidelines, saw it in his eyes, and he knew the reason very well, because in this game they were facing Real Madrid.

Playing Bayern and Manchester United, they were under a lot of pressure, but at that time it was the group stage, and Ajax's group stage was very good from the schedule, at least not against strong teams at the beginning, but first Boavista, from Portugal's team, and then two consecutive home games.

But now it's the knockout round, and Ajax is home and away, a typical unfavorable schedule.

This, combined with the prestige that Real Madrid have accumulated in the Champions League over the past year, has put Ajax under tremendous pressure, so the players have worked very the pitch, but if they miss opportunities like Ibrahimovic repeatedly, the pressure will come flooding in.

Van der Vaart saw Ye Qiu's eyes, and before he kicked off, he walked into the Real Madrid penalty area and came to Ibrahimovic's side, frankly speaking, he was dissatisfied with the Swede's performance in this game, because he did not achieve the efficiency that a scorer should have.

Two good scoring opportunities were missed, especially this time, obviously as long as the right foot pushed, the ball could be scored, but he took a strong volley, and as a result, he couldn't suppress the spinning ball and turned into an anti-aircraft gun, who is to blame for this?

But Van der Vaart also understands that nothing matters now, the game is the most important!

"Don't take it personally, we must still have a chance!" Van der Vaart held out his hand.

Ibrahimovic swept Van der Vaart with a slightly guilty look, reached out and grabbed him, and as soon as Van der Vaart forced, Ibrahimovic rose from the ground.

"Give me one more chance and I'll score!" Swedes don't like to owe favors.

When he first came to Amsterdam, he already owed Ye Qiu a lot of favors, and even now, he was still grateful, but he just didn't say it, but this didn't mean that he liked to owe favors to others, especially Van der Vaart.

Many people say that the most talented person in the Ajax team is the new Cruyff, but there are also many people who like to use Van der Vaart, the new Cruyff, Robben, the new Ovimas, and Ibrahimovic, the new Van Basten, to form an iron triangle and even compare with each other.

Within Ajax, the three players are on the surface on the surface, but in reality, secretly they are inevitably competing with each other.

Ye Qiu seems to be arranging such a competition intentionally or unintentionally, but he has always controlled the competition as benign, that is, they work hard to perform on the court, but the interests of the team must always come first.

"Then you'll be waiting in front!" Van der Vaart said confidently after listening to Ibrahimovic's words.

Soon, Real Madrid took a goal kick, and Cesar's ball did not fall to Raul or other Real Madrid attacking players, but was headed over by Lucio to Sneijder, who knocked it back to Kiv, who in turn gave the ball to Gilberto? Silva.

Real Madrid have a typical misaligned balance of attacking and defending, with almost no attacking players up front being involved in pressing and defending, except for one Raul, so the defense relies more on two midfielders, Claude Makelele and Elguera, both of whom are good defensively.

Ye Qiu kept signaling on the sidelines that the players should work hard to grasp the rhythm, don't blindly rush forward and pass forward, but I have to say that with the improvement of Ajax's strength, the opponents they face are getting stronger and stronger, and the problems exposed by Ajax are becoming more and more serious in grasping the rhythm.

It's always anticlimactic for nothing, just because the front is too strong, and the back has no strength, so naturally the performance is bad.

Originally, Ye Qiu thought that Sneijder could do it, but with the trial and test, it was proved that Sneijder was not good, what he was best at was to quickly move forward at the moment of the transition between offense and defense, but it was too difficult for him to control the rhythm.

Gilberto? Silva is okay to split the ball left and right, but he can't control the tempo, and as for Keita, the typical penalty area to the penalty area, he doesn't look like a player who can control the team's tempo.

This is a very obvious problem exposed by Ajax this season, and it is becoming more and more acute, and even many teams have seized on this problem of Ajax to arrange the team's tactics, but Ye Qiu has no choice, because he has not been able to pick out one person to control the rhythm when he looks at the entire Ajax.

Even the wise can make mistakes.

Although Ye Qiu thought of countless possibilities when forming a team, and the Ajax team he formed was indeed very impactful and aggressive, and the defense was quite good, it was precisely in the rhythm conversion that there was a big problem, which completely became the bottleneck of the team's further improvement.

Therefore, Ye Qiu stood on the sidelines, watching the team pass forward again and again, sprinting forward again and again, he could only shout again and again to remind the players to pay attention and slow down appropriately.

This time, Real Madrid, which has always given the impression of heavy attack and light defense, has been very solid at the Arena Stadium, the defense is very well organized and orderly, and the distance between the players is well maintained, especially the distance between the two backs and the defensive line, which is always very tight.

Ajax's passes into the 30-metre area again and again were to no avail, and they were only able to threaten with one long-range shot after another, but such rushed long-range shots were often ineffective.

But in the 27th minute, when Ajax, who had been unable to attack for a long time, began to be a little impetuous, Robben returned a pass from the left, Keita moved to the right and gave it to Sneijder, who directly kicked the ball to Van der Vaart's feet.

Van der Vaart on the right with Robert? Carlos was one-on-one, but this time he didn't choose to go down, but continued to choose to cut inside, because he had more options to make after cutting inside, and if he could continue to pull Pavon out, it would be able to pose a threat again, so Van der Vaart cut inside with the ball from the right.

But this time Pavon obviously didn't come out, Makelele quickly returned to the edge of the penalty area to protect, and when Van der Vaart saw that he had lost the opportunity, he hurriedly got up and shot from a distance, stretched out his right foot, blocked Van der Vaart's shot, and bounced to the middle.

Ibrahimovic, who pulled out of the penalty area, rushed forward, and as soon as he saw Van der Vaart's shot blocked, he immediately ran over and grabbed the ball before Elgra, a feint that pretended to get rid of it to the left, and after deceiving Elgra to lose his center of gravity, Ibrahimovic deftly used his long legs to buckle and successfully dunk Elgra.

The moment he deducted Elgra, Hierro realized that he was in trouble and immediately left his position to grab it, but the Swedish center forward was very skillful at his feet, and as soon as he saw Hierro rushing up, he took the ball to his right side when he dribbled the ball, turned sideways, leaned on Hierro with his body, and quickly slid the ball into the Real Madrid penalty area.

The vast majority of Ajax fans in the entire Arena stadium jumped out of their seats, and at that moment, it was as if they wanted to transform themselves into Ibrahimovic.

The Swede's first two chances were not ideal, but this time, he used one of his own obviously not chances, but he relied on his strong body and excellent foot skills to carve a real opportunity in Real Madrid's solid defence.

But he didn't think so much at this moment, he just stared at Cesar in front of him, and the left shoulder of his body kept sending the strength of Hierro's struggle and squeezing, but he couldn't shake his body, and then without the slightest fancy movement with his right foot, he shot into the lower right corner with the simplest and most simple push, and sent the ball into the goal guarded by Cesar.

The moment the ball rolled into the goal line and hit the side netting, there were huge cheers from the audience.

"Oh my God!!!!!!!"

"A very, very, very great goal!!!

"A strong centre-forward from Sweden, Zlatan? Ibrahimovic!! ”

The on-site commentators were extremely excited to introduce the Swedish striker, and the entire Arena was already filled with cheers and fans chanting Ibrahimovic's name.

The Swede froze in ecstasy after scoring the goal, and only after he was pounced by Van der Vaart from behind did he realize that he had scored, turned around, a little dazed, but opened his arms, clenched his fists, opened his mouth, and let out a roar, "Ahhh~~~~~~h

Ye Qiu on the sidelines was also very excited after seeing Ibrahimovic score, raising his arms and cheering on the sidelines, especially when he saw the players rushing to the sidelines to celebrate the goal, he rushed over directly and hugged this group of players tightly.

1：0！

They actually scored at the Arena to lead Real Madrid!

'A very, very surprising goal came in the 28th minute, when Van der Vaart's long-range shot from the edge of the box was blocked by Makelele, but it was followed by Ibrahimovic who got the ball past Elgra and then leaned on Hierro with his body and slid into the box to open the scoring for Ajax!

'This goal is set to break the deadlock on the pitch and we believe that Real Madrid will not be able to continue to calm down and continue with this tactical strategy that is almost defensive and counter-attacking, and they should become more proactive.'

Ye Qiu also realized this, so after a dizzy celebration, he hugged the players and formed a circle.

"It's very good, it's ahead, but remember, don't retreat, 1:0 is not safe, Real Madrid will definitely want to fight back, keep pressing me, keep pressing them!"

"The offense should be more lively, don't shoot blindly from a distance, and the midfielder, pay attention to control the rhythm, don't be so fast, pay attention to slow down when it should be slow, pass the ball more often, and ensure our possession time!"

Ye Qiu crackled and explained a series of tasks, and after the players listened, they immediately dispersed and returned to the court.

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One goal that completely changed the situation of the whole game.

When Real Madrid realised they had made a mistake and were scored by Ajax, they began to want to save, and Bosque had to change this calm defence and polish Ajax's sharp strategy.

At the end of the day, he still underestimated Ajax's attacking prowess a bit.

But it is obvious that Ajax will not make their opponents feel comfortable, especially Ye Qiu's constant reminders and adjustments on the sidelines, coupled with the fact that after the goal, the morale of the Ajax players is like a rainbow, and they are full of energy on the field, and every player works very hard to suppress the opponent on the field and counter-rob on the spot.

This made it difficult for the horses to play a threatening attack, and the smell of gunpowder on the court gradually became stronger.

In a direct conversation, Robert? Carlos and Keita competed for the ball, and the Brazilian left-back complained to the referee that Keita showed signs of handball, but the referee believed that the ball touched Keita's shoulder, not his arm, and Keita's arm was close to his body rather than open, so it was not considered handball.

This made Real Madrid's players feel very dissatisfied, Salgado is a notoriously tough guy, and he is even more opposite to Keita on the left, when the two were competing for a header, Salgado saw that Keita had judged the landing point in advance, but still rushed up fiercely, and as a result, two players with the same brave style directly hit their heads together, and both fell to the ground and bled out.

Both players were taken off the pitch by their respective team doctors, bandaged to stop the bleeding, and continued to play and return to the pitch.

But everyone can feel the intensity of the game from the back-and-forth of the players on the court.

The referee also didn't want the game to get out of control, so he took out the cards directly when he saw some big moves, for which Real Madrid received two yellow cards in a row, while Ajax received another one, and both teams received two yellow cards in the entire first half.

But in the end, Real Madrid couldn't equalize in the first half.

Returning to the dressing room with a 1-0 scoreline, the Ajax players looked excited and very happy with the way the game went, and if they can keep that scoreline, they will undoubtedly have an advantage on the road at the Bernabeu.

Ye Qiu didn't dare to be careless at all, because the second half has always been Ajax's weakness, especially in the last half hour of the most physical exertion, Ajax has suffered a lot of losses in this time period many times, so he knows very well that the real decision of this game will be in the second half.

To put it bluntly, Ajax is only one goal ahead, and Real Madrid can equalize with just a flash of inspiration, and at that point, Real Madrid, who have an away goal in hand, will have an advantage.

The head coach's analysis of the game situation made the originally excited Ajax players calm down and think about it seriously, and it is true that as Ye Qiu worried, Ajax has nothing to be happy about.

"We can't afford to settle for the status quo in the second half, believe me, as long as we let our guard down on Real Madrid, they could have put us to death at any time, so we have to be absolutely calm and focused, no one can let up, especially against Zidane's defense!"

After a sluggish performance in the first half of the season, the Frenchman is getting better and hotter in the second half of the season, and he has now become the absolute core of Real Madrid's attack, and once Zidane finds his chance, Ajax will definitely die an ugly death.

Today's Ajax is like a wild horse that has escaped, no one can pull it to stop, unless it wants to stop, and as the head coach, Ye Qiu has to remind his players once again that they must pay attention to slowing down the pace appropriately during the game, so as to retain their physical strength.

Sometimes, the players don't understand, after all, after playing a season, the team's problems have been said countless times, can they not know the truth?

But the problem is that the field is changing rapidly, they can only rely on instinct to play, and now when they are calm, they understand, but when their heads are hot, they forget everything, who can remember?

That's why metronomes are so important, because this type of player is always able to stay calm on the pitch, and with their high analysis and high reading of the big picture of the game, they are able to adjust the team's tempo at all times, fast when they should be fast, slow when they should be slow.

The players in the Ajax team know how to pass the ball when they are fast and how to pass the ball when they are slow, but the key is that once they are on the field, it is difficult to maintain this calm, and it is difficult to grasp the scale between fast and slow.

The higher the level of competition, the higher the requirements for this grasp ability.

Ye Qiu knew very well in his heart, with Gilberto? Silva, Sneijder, Keita, Yaya? The midfield composed of Toure, De Jong and others is enough in strength and thickness, but it is still very lacking, and the most important of them is a metronome.

This is already Ajax's biggest weakness!

And Ye Qiu's greatest hope is that this hidden danger will not explode at the last moment of the season, otherwise, Leverkusen's Sanya King is likely to be a lesson for Ajax!