0067 Substitutions and new tactics

Robin van Persie's second goal came on 36 minutes.

The initiator was still Kevin Davies, who retreated, and it was the same as the first goal, it was still Davies's diagonal plug to the right wing, but this time Emmanuelsen did not lose his position, but kept sticking to Van Persie.

Van Persie took all the way to the corner of the penalty area on the right, but still didn't get rid of Emmanuelsen, opting for a return pass.

Smith's forward cut in to take Maduro and take him inside the box.

Van Persie passed the ball to Graveson, who filled in for Smith.

Now Leeds United is a double midfielder, because of the presence of Parker, and now Graveson is also frequently inserted.

Ajax midfielder Victor Lindgren dropped back to Gravesson.

Gravison played to Parker in the back, and Parker kept passing the ball to Edgar Davies on the left, who then moved to the left to Glen Shire.

When Glen Charles got the ball, Ajax's defense was not chaotic and still more organized, because the defensive pressure was relatively high, the defender Maduro withdrew to the penalty area, and Sneijder and Lindgren defended in front of the penalty area.

But Glen Char's next move tore apart Ajax's defence all at once.

Glen Schal made two feints on the spot to see that Ajax right-back Grigla was unmoved, and passed the ball back to "Boar" Davies.

But Glenschal was clever enough to take a step back before passing the ball, which allowed him to take Grigla a step forward, and immediately after Glenschal's pass, he started to run back.

Edgar Davis immediately understood, stepped forward and tucked a straight plug behind Grigra.

By the time Grigla reacted and turned, Glenshire had already headed into the box.

Heitinga rushed to make up for it, and then the entire Ajax defence began to move to the right, Vermaelen went to the right to fill Heitinga's position, and Emmanuelsen went to fill Heitinga's position.

On Leeds' side, Kevin Davies is in the middle, Smith is forward, Graveson is standing near the penalty spot, and Edgar Davies is not far behind Glen Shire.

Just when everyone thought that Glenschal would pass an inverted triangle, Glenschal chose to cross, and this cross was more left-footed than the cross, and the arc was higher.

Smith and Vermaelen at the front point did not touch, Kevin Davies and Emmanuelson in front of the goal did not touch, and goalkeeper Stekelenboch did not dare to come out because there were too many people in the penalty area, God knows where the ball went, or it was best near the goal line.

And suffered a loss, this time Stekelenboch sealed the near corner to death.

As a result, who knew that the ball went to the back point, and Stekelenboch quickly moved laterally to block the back point.

When Van Persie came to the back post, he was basically unguarded, and he hit the ball sideways with his left foot.

As a result, Van Persie's non-stop direct shot this time was a bit out of order, because he ran a little too far when he just came to the back point, so he could only choose to hit the goal sideways, and did not play the position too well, the ball was a rebound ball, and went to the far post.

It was too difficult for Grimmboch to move desperately from the right hand to the left, and then Van Persie hit a far post and hit the ball.

And then Stekelenbergh is very funny, he can't reach his feet, he can't reach them. I tried to reach the ball with my hands and feet, but I couldn't reach the ball.

2 to 0.

Robin van Persie scored the second goal of the game.

β€œNICE!” George Lee on the sidelines threw two punches similar to Klopp's "farmer's three punches", and he wanted to save the third swing after the match.

And Danny Blind here at Ajax is unhappy, his former little brother on the opposite side is too fierce, not only pressing his own team out of breath, but also attacking fiercely, not only counterattacking, but also position, and the players under his hands are also very fierce. I didn't have any other shots on goal except for Sneijder's long-range shot earlier.

On the other hand, Leeds United, although there are not many shots, they have been controlling the rhythm of the game, especially in the opposite midfield, not counting the 4 players on the side, and the strikers often retreat, I saw that the 5 players in the opposing midfielder kept besieging their 3 midfielders, and there was no way at all.

I can only think about whether I can hold on to the midfield and go back and think of a way.

In fact, there is no other way, you can't go down to the next striker, change to a midfielder, it's already behind, and you can go down the striker, how to mix it up when you go out in the future.

With Smith's long-range shot over the crossbar in the final stages of the first half, the warm-up match between Ajax and Leeds United went into half-time.

In fact, Van Persie had a chance to hit the goal by himself just now, but Ajax's attention was on him here, and Van Persie was not impulsive because he scored two, so he passed the ball to Smith, who was unguarded near the penalty spot, and Smith wasted this opportunity.

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'In the second half, we changed the formation.

These were George Lee's first words after returning to the locker room.

Then I saw him take all the magnets off the tactical board.

Ultimately, Danny Blind saw Leeds United's lineup for the second half as Carson, Hart, Kevin Dawson, Anton Ferdinand, Kelly, De Jong, Pederson, Milner, Baines, Romerdal and Andy Gray.

George Lee replaced all 11 men in the first half in one go, while Ajax did not change anyone, and Blind only laid out some tactics in midfield.

Then the second half played for almost 20 minutes, and Ajax, the main line-up, was the substitute for Leeds United.

Leeds were 433 when attacking, but this 433 formation was not the same as the 433 Lee used last season, and his two wingers barely cut inside and were always on the flanks.

They then left the usual inward cuts to the two full-backs, with the two Leeds full-backs appearing on a number of occasions to threaten on the outside of the Ajax penalty area.

It's a place where you can cross at 45 degrees, you can shoot from distance, you can play the ball into the box.

And Leeds United are even more shameless when defending.

Baines shrank back into the backline, combining Hart, Dawson, Rio Ferdinand and Kelly into a back five.

In this way, Leeds United's two central defenders on the wing are not high, but they are not slow, which makes Leeds United's defensive rotation fast, plus De Jong, a defender who is familiar to Ajax, Milner, who is sweeping all over the field, and Pedersen, who can always rely on long passes to counterattack.

Ajax are in pain, and today the Eredivisie powerhouse was taught a lesson by Leeds United, a Premier League newcomer, who have played in Europe during the Don Levy era, Howard Wilkinson and David O'Reilly, but now this team led by George Lee is clearly refreshing.

In the 71st minute, Leeds United defended Ajax's attack here, quickly handed the ball to Pederson's feet, Pederson's long pass directly to the back of the Ajax defense, and Romedahl rode directly to the single.

Just as he was about to shoot, the referee stopped the game, indicating that it was offside.

Blind on the sidelines was shocked into a cold sweat, if he was scored by Leeds United's substitute, he could really make a resignation report.

But Blind was also afraid that this situation would happen again, and he was going to replace the main team one after another, after all, it was a friendly match, and there was no need to let the main team play all the time.

A few minutes later, after seeing that Leeds United had no desire to attack here, they replaced the main players one after another.

In fact, in the final stage of the game, Leeds United didn't play much, because as soon as the ball stopped, Ajax replaced one or two people here, and Leeds United's captain Kelly told his teammates about the world, so he didn't play much.

In the end, the stoppage time was also symbolic for 2 minutes, and the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game just over 1 point.

2-0, Leeds United easily won this friendly against Ajax.

After the game, Leeds United boss George Lee wore a number 25 shirt from his time with Ajax to speak to the Dutch media after the game.

"I like Ajax very much, you know my relationship with Ajax."

'I also hope that Ajax can win this year's Eredivisie and play well in Europe.'

'Danny Blind is a very good coach, at least better than me, because he is in the Champions League and I am in the Europa League.

"We were just lucky to win today."

Sure enough, George Lee's post-game interview was still "watertight". Victory is not arrogant or defeated, and some only have endless yin and yang weirdness.