0066 Counterattack
The players on the bench looked at George Lee with adoring eyes.
But Kelly, the team's captain, took the opportunity to say something else.
"I said this when I was a player at Leeds United, saying that if it wasn't for injuries, there would be no David Hopkin, no Harry Colwill." Kelly thought for a moment, then went on to add, "Oh, yes, and Coach Haaland, who was our starter, right, Coach Haaland?" ”
"I don't dare to speak, after all, now in the dugout, he's the main force."
The crowd on the bench burst out laughing.
"Tell us more about your time at Ajax, we want to hear the story of your fist Babangida and your kick Glen Shire." It was Bynes who said that, and he was on the bench again with a back three today.
"I don't have to direct the game, give me a look, in the second half we will play 433, you all have to go up, and I will watch the situation of Ajax for a while, and give you some tactics and tasks." George Li said angrily.
On the pitch, Ajax struggled to find an opportunity in the face of pressure from Leeds United.
Sneijder, who retreated, received a pass from Madurod and a drop back to catch the ball. A shake after receiving the ball, followed by a reverse half-turn, asked for Graveson's defense.
Then Sneijder didn't stick to the ball, a big foot passed to the right side of his team, Leeds United here because of the front court pressure just now, and today there is only Glen Charles on the left side, just now did not return in time, so the left side is relatively empty.
Ajax's right winger, Tom De Moore, cut in just in time to catch Sneijder's long ball.
That's when Leeds United's left centre-back Mattheison followed up to defend Demur. Leeds United's midfielder Scott Parker immediately filled in Mathieson's position, and Leeds United instantly returned to the back four position.
De Mur was relatively young, and when he saw Mathieson coming out, he didn't dare to dribble the ball anymore, but chose to cross.
Ajax's lone striker here is Mauro Rosales, the Argentine striker is not very tall, grabbing points is not his forte, and the quality of this cross is not very high.
So he was taken away by Albucheson after he took his position.
But the ball was not lifted far and was picked up by Sneijder, who followed up.
Sneijder unloaded the ball and pushed it with the outside of his foot to deliver a long-range shot from outside the box.
Leeds United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar is very experienced, and after seeing the ball being pushed to Sneijder's feet, he kept moving to avoid the sight of his own defenders and opposing forwards, and kept staring at Sneijder.
Sneijder's long-range shot, despite the perfect angle and power, was saved by Van der Sar.
"Huh~" After the Ajax fans at the scene exclaimed, they began to applaud, which was one of the few decent attacks by Ajax in the past 10 minutes, and also completed the first shot of the game.
George Lee also applauded after the shot, I don't know if it was for Sneijder who shot or Van der Sar who made the save.
"How's that, this 18 on the other side." George Lee asked about Brian Kidd beside him.
"If you talk about this shot, you can't see anything, although it was a good shot, but I don't know that none of his shots on goal are so good."
"What about the others?"
"What I admire more is his long pass just now." Kidd said.
"What's the difference?" George Lee still appreciates Sneijder's shot, he knows Sneijder's long-range shooting ability, not just the shot just now, but really has long-range shooting skills.
"I know you don't like the midfielder position because the old classical midfielder was too sticky and too tempo. But the number 18 is called Sneijder, I don't think he's the kind of midfielder, he's very quick on the ball and he's very good at long passing, which is something we don't have here at Alan Smith. ”
"Do you want to buy it?"
"If you can, just take it."
"Brian, do you know what is wrong with good things?"
"Breakable?"
"No, that's expensive. I won't trade tens of millions until we get a certain result, and this 18th may not be 10 million to do. ”
While George Lee was talking to Kidd, Leeds scored on their side.
After Van der Sar took the ball, he threw it directly to Mills with a quick hand.
Mills had just been in the team's right-back position because of Parker's retreat, and after seeing Van der Sar save the ball, he began to cut forward.
Van der Sar, an old Jianghu, began to look for opportunities after he pounced on the ball, and his eyes saw Mills who was inserted forward and threw it directly to him.
Mills chested the ball off and saw that Ajax's left-back Emmanuelsen was right near him, so he didn't dribble the ball and stepped back to the ball.
Just as Leeds were about to stop on the counter-attack, Mills made a pass to Kevin Davies, who had retreated to a position parallel to him.
Davies dropped back very far, which resulted in an Ajax centre-back following Leeds United's half.
After Davies got the ball, it seemed that Ajax was almost watching everyone in the front court of Leeds United, with Vermaelen staring at him, Heitinga watching Smith in front, and Grigla near Glenschal in the distance.
But Leeds have one here who is completely empty.
Robin van Persie.
Previously, Van Persie was roaming around the middle, so Emmanuelsson dared to release Mills, but just as Emmanuelsen left his position, Van Persie began to cut diagonally to the right.
Kevin Davies made a diagonal through ball to Van Persie.
The Dutchman strode a long way out, but it didn't matter at all because Van Persie didn't have any Ajax defenders in front of him.
Van Persie went straight to the Ajax penalty area and went all the way to the front of the Ajax penalty area.
Stekelenburgh was ready to attack, but seeing his own Heitinga constantly chasing back, he didn't go too far from the goal, for fear of being shot by Van Persie.
Because Van Persie is attacking diagonally, while Heitinga is chasing back in a straight line, closer than Van Persie, the two are about to meet on the penalty line.
But Van Persie braked hard in front of Heitinga, slammed the ball with his right foot, flicked it with his left foot, and Heitinga ran over the head.
Just when everyone thought Van Persie was going to shoot into the far corner, Van Persie chose to shoot into the near corner.
Stekelenboch didn't completely seal the angle of the near corner, and Heitinga flew to the far corner.
The ball flies into the top right corner of the goal.
1 to 0.
Stekelenburgh fished the ball out of the goal, but the whole person was confused.
The No. 9 TMD on the opposite side is completely out of common sense, this kind of shooting in the far corner you play in the near corner, this kind of push shot you shoot directly, are you not afraid of kicking the crossbar or kicking away?
Van Persie found Kevin Davies, who had passed the ball to him, and the two men hugged each other in a friendly way, with the rest of Leeds players coming over as well.
After the celebration, Van Persie gave George Lee a thumbs up in the dugout.
And George Lee also gave Van Persie a thumbs up on the sidelines.