"We will completely block Ajax's offense in this game!"

As this Dutch derby arrived, Eindhoven head coach Gretz from Amsterdam was brought to Amsterdam. In an interview with the media, he expressed his confidence in this game with confidence.

If it was a week ago, there would definitely be many people who thought he was deliberately exaggerating and boosting the morale of the team, but now no one thinks so, because Ajax lost his players in this game.

The two main players who ended up due to injury in the game against Boavesta, Sneider and Robben, have been confirmed by the club and will be on standby for at least two weeks. Sneider's injury is even more serious, and it is conservatively estimated that he may not be able to return in two weeks.

Ye Qiu can only entrust the important task against Yaya Toure in this game, but the performance of this Ivorian young player is not as stable as Sneider. It is a question for everyone to fill the gap left by Sneider, and Robben's position is borne by Hleb.

After Belarusian players joined Ajax, although they performed well from time to time, they were unable to compare with the brilliant genius winger Robben. During his many conversations with Ye Qiu and interviews with the media, he repeatedly stated that he could not adapt to Ajax's tactical system.

This undoubtedly made many people not very relieved about him. Once Ajax's trident misses the threat from the left and loses the shock from the middle, how much power can it be left? This is why Gretz is so confident.

Ye Qiu did not refute Gretz's remarks because he knew very well that it was not the time.

He is now sitting in the office and having an in-depth conversation with Yaya Toure. The most important thing is to talk about the upcoming game. Ye Qiu told him without any concealment that he will be qualified to start in this game and partner with Keita and Gilberto Silva in the midfield.

"I never doubt your potential and talent. This is the reason why I brought you to Amsterdam from Côte d'Ivoire. I believe you can become a top midfielder in Europe and even the world, but you must prove to me that at critical moments, I can absolutely trust you, and you have such strength!"

"Tell me, can I trust you?"

Faced with Ye Qiu's solemn inquiry, Yaya Toure nodded heavily, "Please believe me, I won't let you down!"

Ye Qiu nodded, "Remember what I said to you. A good player must always be calm, have a sense of the overall situation and strategic awareness, and at the same time trust your teammates. If you pass the ball well, you will be able to dominate a game!"

Yaya Toure knows what the head coach means. Ye Qiu and other coaches have told him many times. He himself has realized this problem and is working hard to improve. But sometimes, things in character and football habits cannot be changed by saying that they can be changed.

"I promise you, head, I will try harder to restrain myself in this game!"

Yaya Toure knows better than anyone else that the opponent in this game is Eindhoven. Now the gap between the two teams is 4 points. If you lose, although Ajax still has a 1-point lead, it has been greatly weakened by the opponent in terms of morale, which will inevitably cause Ajax's morale to be hit hard.

Ye Qiu trusts him in such a critical game, which is equivalent to placing all his hopes of winning the championship on him.

In such an important game, if Yaya and Toure cannot guarantee efforts to control himself, how can he be worthy of the starter?

"Go, don't put too much pressure on yourself, and don't pay attention to the suspicion of the outside world. Remember, you don't play football for them, you are only responsible for me, and only I can judge your performance, do you understand?"

Yaya Toure nodded and stood up, said goodbye to Ye Qiu politely, and left Ye Qiu's office.

After watching Yaya Toure leave, Ye Qiu breathed a deep breath. He was under great pressure now, but the trouble was quite large. Yaya Toure is just one of them, including Hleb, the shy and low-key Belarusian.

Since joining Ajax, although his performance is good and bad, he still seems to be unable to integrate into the team. Ye Qiu once communicated with him and asked him what the reasons and crux of the problem. Heleb did not hide it and told Ye Qiu about his own problems.

"Your tactics are too fast, and you keep asking me to run, which makes me not have enough time to think. Without thinking, it will be difficult for me to find a goal."

Heleb didn't say it, but Ye Qiu understood that without a goal, he would be blind, running blind, dribbling blindly, and once he was oppressed and pressed by his opponent, he would easily fall into a tough battle. Moreover, Heleb was a little melancholy, sometimes he was not decisive enough, and his shot was not strong enough. He would rather choose to pass the ball instead of hitting the ball by himself.

Ye Qiu gave up Hleb at all because of this. That was not his style, because he always believed that no player was flawless, and every player would have problems of one kind or another. If he encountered problems, he would not solve them but chose to give up. He was definitely not a qualified head coach.

So he gave Heleb a lot of time. In the past year and a half, Heleb has always been Robben's substitute, but once he performs well, assists or goals, Ye Qiu will give special rewards to encourage him to become more confident. Once he makes a mistake, Ye Qiu will take the initiative to take all the responsibilities and give him shelter.

"Do you know, head, when we were in Belarus, we all liked the snow."

Sitting in the office chair, turning his back to the desk, facing the stadium of the second team, Ye Qiu couldn't help but emerge in his mind last winter when it snowed in Amsterdam. Heleb was in a hot state. Ye Qiu asked him the reason, and he talked about his past with vicissitudes.

"My friends and I are both poor children. My father is a tanker driver and my mother is a construction site worker. My football career started on cement floors. It started with skin and even injured my feet, and sometimes it was bloody."

"I didn't get a pair of sneakers until I was 12 years old, and it was very cheap. I just treated it as a baby, so I like snow because it makes the ground soft. Although it will be slippery and easily injured, sneakers are not easy to break. In summer, our sneakers always break very quickly."

Ye Qiu could imagine how hard his life was from Heleb's words, and he could also imagine that an Eastern European who had lived in a slum area since childhood suddenly came to the blooming Western Europe. Facing such a world of flowers, with Heleb's sentimental character, inferiority complex is inevitable.

Often, inferiority complex can easily lead to lack of self-confidence.

In the past year or so, Ye Qiu has always been protecting him with temptation, but Heleb seems to have not made much progress, which undoubtedly disappointed Ye Qiu and had to re-reflect on whether his way of treating Heleb was correct.

But I have to admit that Ye Qiu is really not a person who can be honest, especially when facing his own players.

When he saw Hleb walking into his office with a little timidity, sitting in front of him, lowering his face full of vicissitudes, he couldn't say many tough words.

"You will start in this game." Ye Qiu announced.

Hleb nodded and said no, he was not surprised by this. Robben's absence usually starts the games.

"In this game, our offense will focus on building two wing roads. We must start the game as usual and attack. I will use the midfield to firmly suppress Eindhoven's midfield and completely incorporate the game into the rhythm we are best at."

Hleb nodded, but this time he didn't respond, but raised his head, looked at Ye Qiu seriously, and listened to him.

Seeing Hleb like this, Ye Qiu sighed in his heart, "Alexander, you have been in Amsterdam for more than a year and have experienced a lot of Eredivisie. I believe you are very clear about the importance of this game to the team!"

"I understand, head!" Heleb finally spoke.

"That's good!" Ye Qiu was quite satisfied. "Just just came to a team, it is inevitable that some transition and adaptation periods will always be needed. Zidane went to Real Madrid and Pire went to Arsenal. They all performed very poorly at the beginning, but the key is to let go of their mentality, adapt, integrate and trust their teammates around them."

"I believe you can do it, and you will definitely do it well. Never doubt yourself, do you understand?"

Ye Qiu's encouragement touched Heleb. I don't know how many times it was, but every time, Ye Qiu still encouraged him and even protected him. This made Heleb nod and reminded himself in his heart that he must not let his head down again.

After seeing off Hlaib, Ye Qiu fell into deep thought again. He had no doubt that the biggest weakness in the Ajax lineup was Helaib and Yaya Toure. If these two players did not perform well, Ajax would be in danger in this game, because he could feel that Gretz was prepared this time and came in full force.

The importance of this game can be seen from the fact that Ye Qiu sent all the main players to play. Even if this affects Ajax's mid-week match with Bayern Munich, he doesn't care at all.

The league has always been the battlefield that Ye Qiu attaches most importance to.

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When the roar of Ferrari sounded outside the gate, Eliza had just hung up the phone with Huang Chu.

This silly girl learned about Ajax's recent situation from the newspaper and guessed that Ye Qiu must be under great pressure now, so she called from England to ask about Eliza Ye Qiu's situation and asked Eliza to help Ye Qiu more.

There is a saying that is true. Smart people just use their brains. Eliza's agency company is getting bigger and bigger, but she hasn't seen how busy she is. Moreover, her catchphrase is that she cannot affect her rest because of work, because the most important thing for a woman is to take care of her body through sleep and rest.

But Ye Qiu, the head coach of Ajax, seems to have endless work every day.

"Here you back!" Eliza saw Ye Qiu open the door and come in, but just turned her head and continued to watch her TV.

God knows why a very smart and silly girl likes to watch those vulgar sitcoms, and she also enjoys the vulgar scenes and disgusting emotional scenes.

"Please, it's this drama again, Mai Gao!" Ye Qiu kept shaking his head.

This magical drama is called [Good Times, Bad Times]. It is the most popular magical drama in the Netherlands now. From 1990 to now, I don’t know that thousands of episodes have been aired. It seems that there is no sign of ending at all. God knows how they wrote it?

But I have to say that I heard that there are almost everything in this drama, love, conspiracy... the most important thing is the high ratings.

Eliza was holding a box of potato chips in her hand, and she ate it with a sneer. She didn't turn her head and stared at the TV. "You don't know how to watch it yourself, so don't always affect me watching TV. I packed up my supper and put it on the restaurant table and went to eat it myself."

Since Huang Chu left, Ye Qiu and Eliza have basically packed three meals a day, or directly in the club restaurant.

He was eating these foods that were obviously incomparable to Huang Chu's skills. Ye Qiu was surprised when he listened to the bombardment of soap operas in his ears. With Eliza's IQ, why did he like to watch such TV series?

"Eliza, don't watch such TV series that reduce IQ, go out for a walk!"

"I looked pretty good!" Eliza immediately refused, but soon she thought of something. Huang Chu asked her to help look at Ye Qiu, and turned around, "Where are you going?"

"Go for a ride!"

It's really a driving, and it's a very fast driving!

When there was no one in the middle of the night, a Ferrari quickly rushed on the A1 expressway at a speed of more than 200 hours, almost lightning-like, and quickly went south along the way, passed Narden, came to Shiffsam, then turned from A1 to A27, bypassed Lake Hoy, came to Almere, went to A6 to Lelystad, then entered the lake road, and came to the shore of Lake Essel.

From Lelystad there is a road across Lake Ethel. This embankment, like the famous Afrudek embankment, cuts Lake Ethel with a road built on it. In the middle of the embankment, an area similar to a mooring pier was opened. This is both a monitoring station for the embankment and the lake gate, and a cafe called Charlie.

Ye Qiu drove very fast along the way. Eliza grabbed the handle above the car door hard along the way, for fear that if she was not careful, she would be thrown out of the car door. Whenever the car was intersecting, she would scream.

So, when Ye Qiu turned into Charlie's Cafe and parked in the parking lot outside, her towering chest was rising and falling rapidly, as if it had a certain moving rhythm, but her face was very bad.

"I swear, Ye Qiu, I will never dare to take your car again!" Eliza opened the door and found that she was a little weak in her legs. She immediately looked at Ye Qiu angrily, "You crazy man!"

Feeling the cold wind blowing on Lake Essel in winter, Ye Qiu felt refreshed.

The lake waves under my feet are not big, but they are slapped at the pebbles on the embankment one after another. The entire embankment separates Lake Essel. The lake water naturally wants to erode this narrow embankment, but decades have passed, and it is as stable as Mount Tai.

Ye Qiu stretched out his arms with all his strength, twisted his slightly sore neck constantly, and slowly walked to the end of the embankment, spread his arms and let the wind blowing from the lake slap him. It felt great.

"Madman!" Eliza knew he was under great pressure and was venting, "Come back a little, it's too dangerous to stand there. If it falls, I won't be able to water and drown you!"

Ye Qiu laughed, "I don't know how to water, and I'm planning to learn, but you can also come over and try it. Standing here and watching Lake Essel is completely different from standing inside!"

It was pitch black around, and only the lighthouses in the distance were still flashing frequently, guiding the direction for the ships on the lake. Looking around, you can't see the opposite shore of Lake Essel. This lake is too big, too big!

With just one step forward, he could step into Lake Ethel, but Ye Qiu stood at the end of the embankment and made a meal at the lake without any light. In Eliza's ears, she was venting her roar and screaming.

"You can try it too, it's very satisfying!" Ye Qiu suggested with a smile.

Eliza shook her head hard, "I'm not crazy!"

"What are you afraid of?" Ye Qiu laughed, "Remember James Cameron's [Titanic]? Just learn from Ruth, imagine yourself standing on the bow of the Titanic, and I am the handsome Jack. I will hold you back then!"

"Vomit!" Eliza made a playful vomiting action, "No matter how I look at you, you don't look like Jack, you are handsome. Are you as handsome as Leonardo?"

Ye Qiu shook his head, "You can't have some imagination?"

Eliza shook her head like a rattle, "What an amazing imagination does it take to imagine you as Leonardo?" After saying that, she couldn't help laughing, obviously feeling happy that she could hit Ye Qiu.

But while talking, she slowly approached Ye Qiu. For some reason, she felt that Ye Qiu seemed to be happy to stand like this, but as soon as she approached Ye Qiu, the latter pulled hard, which scared her to scream, but Ye Qiu pulled her to the end of the embankment.

"Step here, yes, step on it steadily, don't move, otherwise it's not Ruth, but a drowning ghost." Ye Qiu shouted with a smile.

Eliza was so scared that she grabbed Ye Qiu's hand with both hands, her eyes closed so much that she didn't dare to open it, but when Ye Qiu shouted, she didn't dare to move, and could only let Ye Qiu hold her boneless waist.

At this moment, she felt that her whole person, her whole heart, and her whole life were handed to Ye Qiu's hands. As long as he let go, she would be dead. However, Ye Qiu's hands holding her waist were indescribable, and Kong Wu was powerful, as if he could not even let him go with a knife.

"Open your eyes!" Ye Qiu said with a laugh beside her ear, "Come on, don't be afraid, open your eyes and look at Lake Ethel, and you will find that it is completely different from Lake Ethel you have seen before!"

I don’t know if I’m very relieved about Ye Qiu, but Eliza slowly opened her eyes, she was really shocked.

At this moment, she felt that the entire Ethel Lake seemed to be trampled under her feet, and the lake waves seemed to be coming towards her.

As long as she goes a little further, or she goes a little further, she will be swallowed by the lake waves, but Ye Qiu's hands, which were holding her waist, pulled her so strongly that she was not afraid at all.

"Wow!" Eliza opened her arms excitedly, looking like Ruth in the Titanic.
Chapter completed!