Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Although this game was only a warm-up match before the season, there were many fans who came to watch the game.

Ajax and Leeds United did not use Ajax's training ground for the pre-season warm-up match, but chose the Amsterdam Arena, the official venue, which shows how seriously Ajax attaches this warm-up game.

After all, the relationship between the two clubs is not generally good for some special reasons.

For example, Leeds United's squad of Van der Sar, Edgar Davies, and Glen Charles have all played for Ajax, and Leeds United directly bought the team's midfielder Nigel de Jong for 2 million pounds during last year's winter break.

Even Leeds United's manager Li Knocking has played for Ajax for two seasons, and he was married to the daughter of an Ajax board member, and their sons are still playing in the Ajax youth team, so Ajax fans still have a good impression of this foreign team.

In fact, according to Bill Ross and Lee Mack's idea, there was also a club cooperation agreement to use.

But George Lee rejected the proposal, after all, the development trend of Leeds United is so good now, and when the time comes, they will meet in the Champions League and Europa League, and no matter what the result of the two teams is, they will be gossiped about.

After signing with the Scottish Celtics before, George Lee regretted it a little, for fear of being made out of nothing.

The two managers chatted amicably on the pitchside.

"Danny, do you have the confidence to take out PSV Eindhoven this year?"

George Lee first shook hands with Ajax manager Danny Blind and then started chatting.

"It's hard, Van der Vaart is gone, and I'm missing a striker here."

Van der Vaart was appointed captain by then-manager Ronald Koeman at the start of last season, but after switching to striker, Van der Vaart did not perform well, scoring just seven goals and providing five assists in 32 appearances. At the end of the season, he signed a transfer agreement with the German team Hamburg and was bought by Hamburg for 4.6 million pounds.

"Buy one, I think Feyenoord's Kuyt is good, do you want to think about it?"

"Hehe, it's all so expensive from you, who can afford it."

"Then I'll see, Heerenveen has a striker who is pretty good, you can buy it."

"Huntelaar, we're investigating here, why do you Leeds United want to rob us of people?"

"Forget it, I won't rob you of it, I'll give it to you, it's for Daley's sake that Daley often takes care of Winter in the youth team."

George Lee is talking about Blind's son, who is just 15 years old this year and is also in the Ajax youth team. Because Danny Blind and George Lee had been teammates at Ajax before, George Lee asked Blind to let his son take care of him in the youth team.

"You also have the patience to keep Winter in the Netherlands."

"You have more eyes, please."

On the field, the warm-up players on both sides were also chatting around the warm-up.

Nigel de Jong even ran to the opposite side of Ajax and pressed his legs with Sneijder and Maduro.

"Raphael is gone?" De Jong asked Sneijder.

"You didn't go early." Sneijder scolds De Jong.

"Thinking about joining Leeds United, our boss seems to have a crush on you."

"Get out of here, go cool." Maduro saw De Jong digging into the wall and hurried to drive De Jong away.

"Hmph, I remember in '01 when our head was still at Ajax, when we came to the youth team to give us lessons, Wesley said that you wanted to play for Coach Lee when you went to the first team."

At that time, George Lee had just moved from player to coach and had been a youth team coach at Ajax for a while, so he knew a lot of the young players in this Ajax.

Sneijder didn't answer this time, but looked at George Lee, who was chatting with Blind on the sidelines.

At this time, the two coaches also had Van der Sar and Glenschal on the side.

George Lee spent two years at Ajax, and both men and Blind were team-mates at the time. At that time, he also played for Ajax, along with Mahras, Van Halst, Laudrup Jr., Litmanen and others.

^^^

The referee blew the whistle and blew the start of this friendly match.

Leeds United took this game very seriously today, and tried the 3241 formation mentioned by George Lee earlier in the game.

Goalkeeper Van der Sar, the three defenders are Mathieson, Albcesson and Mills.

The two midfielders were Scott Parker and Graveson who had just arrived, and the two central midfielders Edgar Davies and Smith were partnered, with Frenkie de Jong not starting.

On the left is Glen Schal, and on the right is Van Persie. Romedal is not used today.

The single forward is Kevin Davis, who just joined this summer.

And Ajax here is a regular 451.

After the start of the game, Leeds United was very active in the front court, this set of things has been used to in the Premier League, but Ajax has obviously not seen it in the Eredivisie.

Although Ajax also played intercontinental games, it was the first time that they had seen such ferocious pressing and pressing in the front court.

Ajax's central defender Johnny Heitinga just received a return pass from midfielder Maduro, and saw Leeds United's two people pressing up, Kevin Davies ran towards Heitinga, and Davies, as "the most defensive striker in England", was very clever in pressing, first ran to Heitinga's path to left wing-back Emmanulsen, and then approached Heitinga.

Leeds United's Smith on the other side first blocked Heitinga's pass to Vermaelen, and then slowly approached Heitinga.

Heitinga saw that there was no chance on either side, and looked forward, and there was a black man in sunglasses standing next to his teammate Maduro, who he knew to be his team's old-timer "Boar" Davis.

Seeing that the striker on the opposite side of him was approaching, he had no choice but to pass the ball to the goalkeeper.

As soon as the ball was out of his feet, he saw that Leeds United's No.14 accelerated towards his team's goalkeeper.

The Heitinga people are stupid!

Do you Premier League teams play like this, our Netherlands is the birthplace of all-attack and all-defense, how can you learn it all, it gives people the feeling that I have one person on my side to get the ball, and all ten people opposite you rush over to grab the ball, and then attack directly.

Ajax coach Blind on the sidelines saw it more seriously, Leeds United here completely blocked the short passing routes in the Ajax backfield, and could only pass back or open a big foot.

Ajax goalkeeper Stekelenboch faced Davies's pressing, and could only drive to the front with one big foot, because the pressure was too tight, the quality of this long pass was extremely poor, and it drove directly to the sidelines near the Leeds United coach's box.

George Lee, who was standing, unloaded the ball directly with the instep of his foot.

The fans in the stadium applauded when they saw the stoppage.

George Lee waved at the fans and returned to his seat.

"Can't you see that you're quite popular here." Casper said to him.

George Lee pointed to a fan wearing his Ajax shirt in the first row behind the dugout and asked Kaspa to take a look.

It was a middle-aged fan, wearing an Ajax home shirt from previous years.

The number is 25 and the name printed on it is "Lee".

George Lee puffed up his chest proudly and said to the coaches and substitutes on his bench.

"I think I started in this stadium as well. I'm partnered with Ari Litmanen and Brian Laudrup, and if I hadn't been injured, there would have been nothing wrong with Glen Charles and Babangida. ”