"Hello viewers in front of the TV, and welcome to the Golf Schalke Stadium in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, where this season's Champions League final will be staged! I will make a live broadcast commentary on the game for everyone!

The two teams that reached the final this season are Ajax from the Netherlands and Porto from Portugal.

Ajax knocked out Premier League giants Arsenal and Chelsea on their way to the final, and Monaco were kept out of the final, while Porto also surprisingly knocked out Manchester United, Lyon and Deportivo La Coruna to reach the final.

I'm afraid this is a result that no one would have imagined half a year ago, and now, the two dark horses stand on the stage of the final, making a final effort to compete for the highest honor in European football!

As we all know, Ajax's influence and popularity among Chinese fans have been greatly improved, that is because there is a Chinese player in the Ajax team, he is Qin Xiong, as Ajax's main and midfielder brain role helped the team win the Eredivisie championship and the Dutch Cup this season, he contributed to the team's championship, it is unimaginable that in the first season of his debut in Europe, Qin Xiong showed his blockbuster strength, and he was widely praised by the European media. There are also rumours that a number of European clubs want to take him in.

In the east stand of the Schalke Stadium, there were about 2,000 Chinese fans who came to watch the game, they collectively wore Ajax jerseys, the number behind them was No. 28, $ that was Qin Xiong's jersey number, some of them held the Chinese flag, some pulled out banners, there were close-ups of Qin Xiong's heroic posture in the game, and there were also blessings to cheer for him. Now Chinese fans proudly call Qin Xiong: China Xiong!

Qin Xiong wrote a new history of Chinese players in European football. There are too many new records to count. Now he's on the stage of the Champions League final, and it's definitely a historic moment! I believe that there must be many supporters of Qin Xiong cheering for him in front of the TV! On this day, how many Chinese fans will unswervingly support Ajax?

In the pre-match report, it was found that in many cities in China where football culture is prevalent, fans shouted the slogan when they organized a group to watch the game: We are all Ajax fans tonight!

Okay, let's focus on the inside of the arena, huh?

The game was about to start, but Qin Xiong and Sneijder made puzzling moves. It looks like they are encouraging each other, hehe, according to the news that the media tracked and reported on Ajax, Qin Xiong's best friend in the Ajax club is Sneijder, it seems that the rumors are true, at this time, as the two youngest players on the field, they are cheering each other on.

Now let's introduce the starting lineups for the final between the two sides.

Ajax boss Ronald Koeman fielded a starting line-up of 433.

Goalkeeper: Lobonte.

Defenders: Grigera, Heitinga, Escud. Maxville.

Midfielders: De Jong, Galasek. Qin Xiong.

Forwards: Van der Vaart, Ibrahimovic, Sneijder.

Porto coach Jose Mourinho fielded a starting line-up of 442.

Goalkeeper: Baia.

Defenders: Ferreira, Costa, Carvalho, Valente.

Midfielders: Costigna, Mendes, Deco, Maniche.

Forwards: Delle, Alberto.

The players of both sides have already stood in formation, and Ajax will be the first to kick off! ”

With the referee's whistle, the battle for Europe's pinnacle at Schalke Stadium officially kicked off!

Ibrahimovic kicked the ball to Van der Vaart, who passed back, Qin Xiong stopped the ball in the back, and passed the ball back to Galasek without waiting for the opposing striker to come up and press, and the Czech veteran passed the ball to the side to compatriot Griguera, who then passed the ball to Qin Xiong, Qin Xiong kicked the ball to Sneijder, who passed back to Maxwell

Ajax didn't get caught up in Porto's frenzied pressing after the opening kick-off, but they took the initiative to get the ball moving fast.

The formation is not pressed forward, the trident moves in the midfield area of the half, and everyone consciously passes the ball more often, so that every teammate on the court is involved in the passing activity as much as possible.

Ajax's approach is to allow the team as a whole to get into the game quickly, so as to avoid players who are distracted or unable to keep up with the overall rhythm of the team without touching the ball for a long time.

After all, it's the final, and you have to be calm and conservative in the opening stages, especially for young teams.

Now under the midfield tandem organization with Qin Xiong as the core, Ajax is trying to activate the team's combat effectiveness.

At the same time, Qin Xiong also carefully observed the defensive strategies of the Porto players in the passing and running reception.

In fact, Porto's formation style of play does not represent the tactical advancement of European football, they are a bit like the traditional 442 in England.

But if you look closely, there is something different.

The opposing two strikers, Dellai and Alberto, never press Ajax's defenders in order to ensure a close connection between their area of activity and the midfield.

If they go to the front to press Ajax's defenders, it is clear that they will be out of touch with the Deco midfield line!

When attacking, the attacking formation will be cut by Ajax's two-back defensive system, and when defending, it will not be able to form a support for the midfield defense.

So these two physically fit strikers will only press Ajax's midfielders and defend aggressively in the midfield area.

That's Mourinho's ability to coach, he can make strikers obediently defend and do the dirty work that 99 per cent of strikers don't want to do.

If there is no pressure behind him, Qin Xiong will decisively try to challenge the middle defense line composed of Deco and Mendes, but compared to the past can break down the opponent's midfield midfield two-person defense, or difficult to face the combination of double back and front midfield, today he encountered the opponent's encirclement in the middle from all sides, which gave Deco and Mendes an innate advantage when defending.

If Alberto and Delle can interfere with Qin Xiong, then Deco and Mendes will see the opportunity to form a joint defense to contain Qin Xiong.

If the two strikers can't harass Qin Xiong, Deco and Mendes will retreat and keep a close distance from the back line, so that Qin Xiong can't have the space to break down one by one!

Tight defensive system, overall cooperative defensive tacit understanding.

Porto's rational defensive strategy is very similar to their young coach Mourinho standing on the sidelines, and the coldness of his face is declaring that Porto is as cold and unshakable as steel under his command.

However, this is a relatively independent defensive picture, the game is non-stop, and Porto can't defend every time and be in the defensive area where they should stand, after all, they also have to attack!

When the relatively calm 15 minutes in the early stages of the game passed, Qin Xiong felt that Ajax as a whole had fully mobilized the game.

They began to try to attack.

In the 17th minute of the game, after roughly figuring out the opponent's strategy to contain the midfield, Qin Xiong slowed down the pace of dribbling in the area just past the midfield, and he seemed to be brewing a breakthrough against Deco, and Deco also planned to have a defensive cooperation with the teenager Alberto.

He didn't expect that Qin Xiong was just trying to seduce Deco, and after attracting Deco's attention, Qin Xiong immediately passed the ball forward.

With the ball still 4 metres from the penalty area, Ibrahimovic won the ball and shook it off Mendes before he was ready to pull his shirt with his hands!

This shot had the effect of knocking on the mountain and shocking the tiger, which made goalkeeper Baia break out in a cold sweat.

He didn't move, he didn't make a save, Ibrahimovic shot too suddenly, and the guy's strength was amazing, the ball he shot traveled for 30 yards in the blink of an eye, but luckily, it flew off the bottom line by two meters off the goal.

"Ajax completed a goal, Swedish striker Ibrahimovic's long-range shot was amazingly fast, but unfortunately it was off target, and it seems that Ajax is starting to test the Porto defence with a long-range shot! There are many long-range shooters in the Ajax team, Sneijder, Van der Vaart, Ibrahimovic, including Qin Xiong, Ajax attacking players in the frontcourt, they are described by the Dutch media as: they can score anywhere in the frontcourt! ”

Mourinho remained calm throughout.

Even if Ajax started to attack, he also looked like Tarzan collapsed in front of him and his face did not change.

In fact, he was expecting Ajax to attack.

Porto mainly defends and counterattacks, defends first, and then counterattacks, and the premise of defense is, of course, the opponent's offense!

The more Ajax attacked, the more Mourinho looked forward to it! (To be continued......)