When the game reached the 18th minute, Van der Fat got Sneider's pass from the right and suddenly dribbled the ball from the right. When Pavin made a rash robbery, he passed directly behind him. Ibrahimovic quickly inserted into the penalty area from behind. After getting the ball, he shot hard, but he shot the close-kick high.

When the Swedes finished the shot, his body was knocked down by Jero in Real Madrid's penalty area because of losing balance.

He could know that the ball was gone without standing up!

Because he didn't hear deafening cheers from the tens of thousands of Ajax fans at the scene, he sighed instead, which made him feel extremely frustrated and very annoyed.

Just now, he should have chosen a more confident push shot instead of blindly pursuing a vigorous and vigorous volley.

By now, he had at least two excellent opportunities, but both times were wasted, which made the Swedish center feel extremely annoyed and guilty. He lay on the grass, screaming loudly, clenched his fists and kept pounding the grass of Arena Stadium, in order to vent his depression of missing a good opportunity to score goals many times.

Ye Qiu, who was standing on the sidelines, saw it clearly, and he knew the reason, because they were facing Real Madrid in this game.

They were under great pressure to play Bayern and Manchester United, but at that time it was the group stage. Ajax's group stage looked very good from the schedule. At least they didn't encounter strong teams at the beginning, but they first played Boa Vista and started from the Portuguese team, and then they also played for two consecutive home games.

But now it is the knockout round, and Ajax is the first to join the home and then away, which is a typical unfavorable schedule.

In addition, the reputation that Real Madrid has accumulated in the Champions League over the past year has put Ajax under tremendous pressure, so the players have performed very hard on the court, but once they miss out on the opportunity repeatedly, the pressure will flock.

Van der Fate saw Ye Qiu's eyes, and before he could kick off, he walked into Real Madrid's penalty area and came to Ibrahimovic. To be honest, he was very dissatisfied with the Swedes' performance in this game because he did not achieve the minimum efficiency that a scorer should have.

I missed both scoring opportunities, especially this time just now. The ball could enter with just one right foot push, but he used strong volleys, but he couldn't hold back the spinning ball and turned into an anti-aircraft gun. Isn't this the blame for whom he wants to blame?

But Van der Fate also understands that nothing matters now, the competition is the most important!

"Don't take it seriously, we will definitely have a chance!" Van der Fate reached out.

Ibrahimovic swept over Van der Fate with a slightly guilty look, stretched out his hand, and grabbed him. As soon as Van der Fate tried, Ibrahimovic stood up from the ground.

"Give me another chance, I will definitely score a goal!" The Swedes don't like the favors they owe.

When he first came to Amsterdam, he had already owed Ye Qiu a great favor. Even now, he was still grateful, but he just didn't say it. But this does not mean that he liked to owe others favors, especially Van der Fate.

Many people say that the most talented person in Ajax is the new Cruyff, but many people also like to use Van der Fate, Robben, and Ibrahimovic and Van Basten to form an iron triangle and even compare each other.

Within Ajax, the three players were very harmonious on the surface, but in fact, they were inevitably competing with each other in secret.

Ye Qiu seemed to be arranging such a competition intentionally or unintentionally, but he always controlled the competition as benign, that is, each of them worked hard to perform on the court, but the interests of the team must always be the first.

"Then you wait in front!" Van der Fate said confidently after hearing Ibrahimovic's words.

Soon, Real Madrid took the goal. Cesar's ball failed to fall at the feet of Raul or other Real Madrid offensive players, but was pushed to Sneijder by Lucio, who knocked back to Givot, and Givot shot the ball to Gilberto Silva with one kick.

Real Madrid has a typical deformed balance of offense and defense splits. At the frontcourt offensive and defense almost never participates in pressing and defense. Except for one Raul, the defense depends more on two midfielders, Marklele and Elgra, who are both good defensive players.

Ye Qiu kept signaling the players to try their best to grasp the rhythm and not to rush forward and pass forward. But it has to be said that as Ajax's strength improves, the opponents he faces become stronger and stronger. In terms of grasping the rhythm, the problems exposed by Ajax are becoming more and more serious.

Why do you always have a bad start? Because you are too strong in front and have no strength behind, you will naturally perform poorly.

Originally, Ye Qiu thought Sneider could do it, but with repeated tests, it was proved that Sneider was not good either. What he was best at was to quickly move forward at the moment of offense and defense conversion, but it was too difficult to ask him to control the rhythm.

Gilberto Silva can pass the ball left and right, but it can't control the rhythm. As for Keita, a typical penalty area to the penalty area, it doesn't look like a player who can control the rhythm of the team no matter how hard he looks.

This is a very obvious problem that Ajax has exposed this season, and it is getting more and more sharp. Many teams have even grasped Ajax's problem to arrange the team's tactics, but Ye Qiu has no choice because he looked at the entire Ajax interior and could not pick out one person to control the rhythm.

A wise man will make a mistake if he has a thousand thoughts.

Although Ye Qiu thought of countless possibilities when forming a team, the Ajax team he formed was indeed very impactful and aggressive, and had a very good defense, it was precisely because of the rhythm change that a big problem occurred, which completely became the bottleneck for the team's further improvement.

So, Ye Qiu stood on the sidelines and watched the team pass the ball forward again and again and sprint forward again and again. He could only shout and remind the players to pay attention and slow down appropriately.

This time, Real Madrid, which has always given people the impression of being heavy on offense and defensive, performed very steadily at Arena Stadium, with tightly organized defenses and orderly arrangements. The distance between players and players is well maintained, especially the distance between the double midfielders and the defense line, which is always very tight.

Ajax's passes were passed into the 30-meter area again and again, but they all returned in vain and could only use long shots again and again to create a threat, but such long shots in a hurry are often difficult to produce results.

But in the 27th minute, when Ajax, who had been unable to catch up for a long time, began to feel a little restless, Robben made a pass from the left, Keita moved to the right, and gave Sneider, who directly shot the ball to Van der Fate's feet.

Van der Fate was one-on-one with Robert Carlos on the right, but this time he did not choose to go down the bottom, but continued to cut in, because he could make more choices after cutting in. If he could continue to pull out Pavin, he could create another threat, so Van der Fate dribbled the ball from the right.

But this time Parvin obviously didn't come out. Marklele quickly returned to the front of the penalty area to protect him. When Van der Fat saw that he had lost the opportunity and rushed to shoot from a long time, he stretched out his right foot and blocked Van der Fat's shot and bounced into the middle.

Ibrahimovic, who pulled out of the penalty area, rushed forward. As soon as he saw Van der Fate's shot blocked, he immediately ran over and caught the ball before Elgra. A fake move that pretended to get rid of the left side made Elgra lose the center of gravity. Ibrahimovic skillfully used his long legs to hit Elgra successfully.

The moment he dunked Elgra, Yero realized the trouble and immediately left his position to grab it. However, the Swedish center was very skillful at his feet. When he saw Yero rushing up, he drove the ball to his right side, turned sideways, leaned against Yero with his body, and quickly dribbled into Real Madrid's penalty area.

Most of the Ajax fans in the Arena Stadium jumped out of their seats. At this moment, they seemed to want to turn themselves into Ibrahimovic.

The Swedes' first two chances were not ideal, but this time, he used it himself and was obviously not an opportunity, but he relied on his strong body and excellent footwork skills to create a real opportunity on Real Madrid's solid defense line.

But he didn't think so much at this moment. He stared at Cesar in front of him with all his heart. The force of Jero's struggle and squeezing came from his left shoulder, but he could not shake his body. Then he did not move his right foot at all, and used the simplest and most simple push shot in the lower right corner, sending the ball into the goal guarded by Cesar.

The moment the ball rolled into the goal line and hit the side net, there were loud cheers.

"OMG!!!!!!!!"

"A very, very, very great goal!!!"

"The powerful center from Sweden, Zlatan Ibrahimovic!!"

The commentator on the scene was extremely excited and grandly introduced the Swedish high center forward, and the entire Arena Stadium had already heard overwhelming cheers, and fans shouted Ibrahimovic's name loudly.

After scoring the goal, the Swedes stood there in ecstasy and waited until he was saved by Van der Fate from behind, and he realized that he had scored the goal. He turned around and was a little confused and at a loss, but he opened his arms, clenched his fists, opened his mouth wide, and let out a roar, "Ah~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ye Qiu on the sidelines was also very excited after seeing Ibrahimovic score a goal. He raised his arms high and kept cheering on the sidelines. Especially when he saw the players rushing to the sidelines to celebrate the goal, he rushed over and hugged the group of players tightly.

1:0!

They actually scored a goal at Arena Stadium and led Real Madrid!

"A very, very surprising goal happened in the 28th minute. Van der Fate's long shot at the front of the penalty area was blocked by Maklele, but followed closely behind, Ibrahimovic dunked Elgra after getting the ball, and then leaned against Yero, and then entered the penalty area and made a low shot, opening the first record for Ajax!"

"This goal will definitely break the current deadlock on the court. We believe that Real Madrid will not be able to continue to calm down and continue to adopt this tactical strategy that is almost a defensive counterattack. They should become more proactive."

Ye Qiu also realized this, so after celebrating dizzyly, he hugged the players and formed a circle.

"It's very, very good to lead, but remember, don't retreat, 1:0 is not safe. Real Madrid will definitely want to counterattack, continue to suppress me, and continue to suppress them!"

"The offense should be more active, don't shoot blindly long distances, and the midfielder, pay attention to controlling the rhythm, don't be so fast, pay attention to slow down when it should be slow, pass the ball more frequently, and ensure our ball control time!"

Ye Qiu explained a series of tasks. After hearing this, the players immediately dispersed and returned to the stadium.

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One goal completely changed the situation of the entire game.

When Real Madrid realized that they had made a mistake and were scored by Ajax, they began to want to save and play. Boske wanted to change this calm defense and wipe out Ajax's sharpness.

After all, he still underestimated Ajax's offensive ability.

But it is obvious that Ajax will not make his opponent feel comfortable, especially Ye Qiu kept reminding and adjusting on the sidelines. In addition, after scoring the goal, Ajax players were very motivated and performed very vigorously on the court. Every player worked very hard to suppress his opponent on the court and counterattack on the spot.

This made it difficult for Real Madrid to launch a threatening attack, and the smell of gunpowder on the court gradually became stronger.

In a direct conversation, Robert Carlos competed with Keita for the ball. The Brazilian left-back complained to the referee, believing that Keita had signs of handball, but the referee believed that the ball touched Keita's shoulder, not his arm, and Keita's arm was close to the body rather than spread, so it was not considered a handball.

This made Real Madrid players very dissatisfied. Salgado is a famous tough guy, and he is even more in line with Keita on the left. When the two were competing for a header, Salgado saw that Keita had already judged the landing point in advance, but still rushed forward fiercely. As a result, two players with the same style and brave style directly hit their heads together, and both fell to the ground and bleed.

Both players were taken out of the court by their respective team doctors. After stopping the bleeding, they continued to play and returned to the court.

But everyone can experience the intensity of the game from the back and forth fighting spirit of both players on the court.

The referee did not want the game to get out of control, so he directly took out the cards when he saw some bigger moves. For this reason, Real Madrid won two yellow cards in a row, while Ajax won another one. The two teams each won two yellow cards in the first half.

But in the end, Real Madrid couldn't equalize the score in the first half.

Back in the locker room with a 1:0 score, Ajax's players seemed very excited, they were very satisfied with the trend of the game. If they could save this score, their away game at the Bernabeu would undoubtedly become more advantageous.

Ye Qiu didn't dare to be careless at all, because the second half was always Ajax's weakness, especially in the last half of the hour when the physical fitness was almost exhausted. Ajax had suffered a lot of losses during this period, so he knew very clearly that the real decision of the winner in this game will be in the second half.

To put it bluntly, Ajax only leads by one goal. Real Madrid can equalize the score as long as any star appears. By then, Real Madrid, with a away goal, will become more advantageous.

The head coach's analysis of the game situation made the originally excited Ajax players calm down and think about it carefully. As Ye Qiu was worried, there was nothing worthy of happiness for Ajax.

"We can't have the idea of ​​being satisfied with the status quo in the second half. Believe me, as long as we relax our vigilance against Real Madrid, they may kill us anytime and anywhere, so we must maintain absolute calmness and concentration, and no one can relax, especially against Zidane's defense!"

After the sluggish performance in the first half of the season, the Frenchman's condition was getting better and better in the second half of the season. He has now become the absolute core of Real Madrid's offense. Once Zidane finds a chance, Ajax will definitely die ugly.

Nowadays, Ajax is like a wild horse that has been broken. No one can pull it to stop unless it wants to stop. As the head coach, Ye Qiu has to remind his players again that they must pay attention to slowing down the pace appropriately during the game and retain their physical strength.

Sometimes, the players don’t understand. After all, after playing for a season, the team’s problems have been told countless times. How can they not know?

But the problem is that the court is changing rapidly, and they can only play football based on instinct. Now they are calm now, but when they are hot, they forget everything. Who can remember it?

This is the importance of metronomes, because this type of player can always remain calm on the court, and with their high analysis and high reading game overall view, they can adjust the team's rhythm well at any time, fast when it should be fast, and slow when it should be slow.

The players in Ajax team know how to pass the ball when they are fast and how to pass the ball when they are slow, but the key is that once they get on the court, it is difficult to maintain this calmness and it is difficult to grasp the scale between fast and slow.

The higher the competition, the higher the requirements for this ability to grasp.

Ye Qiu knew very well that the midfield composed of Gilberto Silva, Sneid, Keita, Yaya Toure, De Jong and others was enough, but there was still a big lack, and the most important one was a metronome.

This is Ajax's biggest weakness!
Chapter completed!