That was also Mascherano's only major mistake in this game. He kept reminding himself that this was only once!

The ball was quickly sent from Rui Costa's feet and was given to Rivaldo on the left.

The Brazilian superstar got the ball and cut in the middle. Mascherano glanced at the right time, approached Rivaldo, and cut into Rivaldo's movement route with his body, directly blocking the Brazilian superstar. The two of them had a solid physical confrontation.

In Brazilians, Rivaldo's physical fitness is quite excellent and is very close to European players. However, after having a contact with Mascherano, Mascherano had nothing to do. He skillfully kicked Rivaldo's ball to nearby Macon, and Rivaldo took a step back.

"Wow, this Argentine young player has good physical fitness!" The commentator exclaimed, "This reminds me of Redondo, who also has excellent physical fitness and confrontation skills."

Sometimes, fans can easily label a player because it is simple and easy to understand.

For example, when it comes to Redondo, most fans are impressed by elegant, calm and calm organizational style. Many so-called Redondo II also have excellent organizational capabilities like Cambiaso, Gago, and Banegas in the early stages, but their bodies are a bit weak.

But in fact, Redondo can gain a foothold in La Liga, gain a foothold in European football, and lead Real Madrid to the Champions League in 2000. His organizational ability is only part of his defense ability, and his defensive ability is also very important.

Redondo's elegance, calmness and calmness are actually the result of his excellent physical fitness. Otherwise, how could the so-called elegant and calm people such as Cambiaso, Gago and Banegas not become Redondo?

Because you do not have strong physical fitness to support, no matter how elegant and calm your skills are, when your opponent's body is touched or hit, you are embarrassed, you may fall on the court in a mess at any time.

But when your physical fitness is stronger than your opponent and can firmly suppress your opponent, you can also become very elegant and calm.

It’s like an adult facing a child, whose physical fitness is completely superior to his opponent, and you will be in a hurry?

So in Ye Qiu's view, Cambiaso, Gago, Banegas and others are not like Redondo at all, or there are only some of them. If we really look at it from the perspective of single midfielder, Mascherano is more like Redondo. Although Mascherano's organizational and offensive ability is weaker, at least he is closer to Redondo than Gago and others in the midfielder position.

In Ye Qiu's view, the thing that Mascherano looks most like Redondo is that he seems to have a sense of smell.

It was like the competition with Rivaldo that time just now. Perhaps the Brazilian's physical fitness may not be inferior to Mascherano, but the Argentine midfielder's cutting point was well grasped, which just made Rivaldo unable to exert his entire body's strength, and he himself was exerting his strength very comfortably.

When Rivaldo, who could only exert half of his confrontational power, encountered Mascherano who exerted his full strength, the result was imagined.

It seems like this time, when Seidorf dribbled the ball and wanted to break through his defense, although Van der Fate was defending and interfering with each other, Mascherano came out from the side and did not compete with Seidorf in a barbaric battle, nor did he hold him in a forceful way. He just quickly poked his feet in the gap where he dribbled the ball.

Seidorf continued to rush forward by inertia, but the ball was cut off by Mascherano.

In the words of Mascherano's father, this kid is born with a sense of smell that knows how to break the ball, but if you have to analyze it carefully, it is not difficult to find that this sense of smell is composed of many different abilities and is difficult to explain clearly.

Ye Qiu stood on the sidelines and watched Mascherano complete a beautiful defense again, he felt happier than anyone else.

"This kid is really trying his best in this game!" Bobby Hams said with a smile.

In the first half, Ajax seemed to have the advantage and scored 2 goals to lead, but in fact, the scene was not as good as the score showed. AC Milan's defensive counterattack was also very good, with players like Pirlo, Sidov, Rui Costa behind him, and Rivaldo and Inzaghi's counterattack opportunities were not lacking.

Mascherano was in the midfielder. He destroyed at least two very good counterattack opportunities in the first half, but all of this was not very conspicuous in the eyes of fans or the media, because they always only focus on offensive players.

Even when Mascherano competes with the opponent's offensive players, their attention is still focused on the offensive players. This has to be said to be a very strange perspective on the ball.

But as the team's head coach, Ye Qiu is very clear about Mascherano's performance in this game.

It is not visible or exposed, but it is very stable and performs well.

Of course, it is not to say how outstanding he performed in this game. In fact, Rui Costa was able to successfully assist Da Inzagi to score a goal, and a large part of the responsibility lies with Mascherano, but it was precisely because of that mistake that he later worked very hard to recover the losses caused by his mistake.

Ye Qiu is very happy to see Mascherano's attitude. No player will not make any mistakes. The key is his attitude.

Ye Qiu doesn't like those players who still feel indifferent and don't care after making mistakes.

"Let John warm up!" Ye Qiu turned around and explained to Roland.

Soon, Ajax completed a substitution and replaced Macon, who was average in performance with Hetinga.

Ajax's right side was under a lot of pressure in this game, because Rivaldo, Sidorf and Rui Costa were more cruising on this side, which made the right side's defensive pressure very much. Therefore, Macon did not perform well in the whole game, but he was also well-behaved in defense.

Before Ajax substitution, Ancelotti had made two substitutions, using Costakuta to replace left-back Karaze, which was obviously very dissatisfied with the Georgian's performance, because the first goal was his turnover.

The second substitution was to replace Pirlo with Serginho. The latter was rather miserable. As a midfielder, Sneider was so helpless that he did a bad defense against Ajax in the midfielder position. The close connection between Arteta and Sneider made Pirlo unable to defend at all. Moreover, Ancelotti's substitution was intended to strengthen the offense.

It was after this substitution that Rui Costa assisted Da Inzagi to score.

Ancelotti saw Ye Qiu replace Macon with Hetinga and want to further strengthen his defense, he also made a substitution, replaced Rui Costa with Shevchenko, and played a double striker tactic, allowing Rivaldo to cruise behind the two.

Ye Qiu took action when he saw the move and began to appropriately retract the team's three lines, further compressing the activity space of AC Milan's midfield, especially allowing Mascherano to sit in front of the defense line. While protecting the defense line, he also put pressure on AC Milan's midfield.

Soon, Ye Qiu completed the second substitution, and Yaya Toure replaced Arteta.

This substitution strengthened Ajax's midfield, with the Ivorians' running, defense and coverage excellent.

After completing two substitutions, Ajax's defense became firm, while AC Milan began to get into the entanglement of double strikers, which was the partner between Shevchenko and Dainzagi.

It’s strange to think about it. Such two world-leading shooters, combined together, will have a positive and negative effect.

Even in the end, neither Dainzaji nor Shevchenko scored a goal.

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When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, deafening boo and curse sounded again at the entire San Siro Stadium. It was obvious that the fans of the Ross and Blacks did not like Ajax at all, and they could even be said to be very annoying.

But this can't stop the celebration of Ajax players.

Is there anything more happy than being able to beat AC Milan away and defeat his opponent in the first match of the Champions League group stage? Is there anything more happy than slapping these fans on the face?

Ye Qiu breathed a sigh of relief. He felt that it was a bit risky to win this game.

He was originally gambled, betting on Mascherano's performance.

This is a choice without choice. Although Maduro is good, there is still a big gap with De Jong and Mascherano, especially in defense, so he can only choose Mascherano.

Judging from the whole game, Mascherano was not very outstanding, and his debut was not as eye-catching as Ye Qiu expected. At least Rui Costa’s assist was a stain that he could not hide, but in general, he completed well, and did not hide his merits.

Because Mascherano performed well, Ajax finally successfully defended the results of the opening attack in this game and successfully defeated AC Milan 2:1. This was not easy for Ajax.

"Congratulations!" As the host, Ancelotti hesitated for a moment after the game whistle rang, and finally walked to the front of the visiting team coach's seat and reached out to Ye Qiu.

This is a bit sour, after all, no one wants to lose in this game.

"Thank you!" Ye Qiu shook hands with him with a smile.

When Ancelotti saw Ye Qiu's smile, she felt uncomfortable. This Chinese, who was obviously much younger than himself, defeated himself at his doorstep with a team that was much younger than his team. No one would feel good about this cowardly feeling.

"We must have a chance to take revenge!" After a silent confrontation, Ancelotti finally said something harsh.

But some neutral journalists and media remained silent because in their opinion, this was purely because some people were too arrogant and looked down on the dispute caused by Ajax, and were eventually slapped in the face by Ye Qiu on the spot. What's so dissatisfaction with this?

When Ye Qiu left the press conference early, many reporters and media close to AC Milan on the scene were furiously bombarded the person behind him. In their eyes, they were the arrogant and arrogant young coach of Ajax.

As you can imagine, the next day, the front page headlines of most newspapers in Italy would only be one topic.
Chapter completed!