The great Ajax is back!

On the next day, the Dutch Amsterdam Evening Post titled on its front page headline cover with such a conspicuous red and white arrow shirt font as the title to show the newspaper's tribute to Ajax.

"Before the comments, please allow me to call on all Ajax fans. Please remember this number, 2002.11.13, because on this day, we saw a powerful Ajax team at Arena Stadium, a group of heroic Ajax players, which made me involuntarily remember the Champions League final at the Ernst Hapel Stadium in Vienna in 1995!"

"After twenty years away, the Ajax from Van Gaal won a St. Boled Cup for Ajax again!"

"And just last night, at Arena Stadium, the opponent was still star-studded AC Milan. Our head coach was replaced by a young coach from China, Ye Qiu, and we were still gathering a group of talented geniuses. We were still showing a traditional football style that belongs to our Ajax."

"3:0, we can almost say that we are massacring the top giants from Italy. In this game, we used bloody victory and our outstanding and perfect performance to send our shouts to fans all over the world. We can proudly tell them that the great Ajax is back again!"

"We can no longer ask for more from Ye Qiu and his team. Today's European football is no longer the European football in the 1970s or 1995. The environment in Ajax is now worse and dangerous than ever before."

"The impact of the Boseman Act has caused us to lose countless outstanding talents. The giant teams in the four major European leagues have sucked blood from us at extremely low prices, strengthened themselves, but made us very vulnerable. This can be seen from the fact that the Champions League has completely become a giant game after the Boseman Act."

"But Ajax has never lacked rebels. From Michels, to Cruyff, to Van Gaal, and now to Ye Qiu, they never believe that the environment can defeat a person and a team. They always believe only themselves, and believe that as long as they are strong enough, they can defeat any opponent!"

"Ye Qiu is right. No one is born to be a wealthy family. No one is born to stand on the heads of others and point fingers and stools, and this world is about strength, relying on fists."

"I believe that after this game, the whole Europe will re-recognize Ajax and Ye Qiu."

Compared with the direct and high-profile praise from the Amsterdam Evening Post, Schulder Mosso of the Joint Daily mentioned something in his column, and his column title also looked a little fresh, "Let's start to believe..."

“At the moment the whistle sounded, I sat on the rostrum at Arena Stadium, I noticed that there were many Ajax fans around me who were excited and crazy, holding each other and even standing directly in their seats, holding their arms high and shouting there.

"I heard the shouting of an elderly fan who was about sixty years old closest to me. He shouted like those young guys. A good Ajax, who is going to kill those bastards and wealthy families, telling the whole world that we are not afraid of them at all!!!"

"As I shouted, the fan fell into two lines of tears. I was very curious and asked him why he was so excited?"

"He told me that in the past few years, Ajax has lost too many things, lost the stars he has worked hard to cultivate, lost the status of European giants that his predecessors have worked hard to create over the past few years, and lost a lot of traditional spirit that fans rely on to be proud and proud."

"For many fans who have experienced the era of Michels and Van Gaal, Ye Qiu's team strictly does not make them feel close to each other, because there are not many players in this team that really D Tok Most have come out. Van der Sar, Van der Fate and Sneider have played the main players, and De Jong, Heatinga and other players can't play the main players."

"But he also said that we can all understand the decisions of the club and the head coach, and the football club should also follow the trend and become more and more international. So although in terms of emotions, we feel that this Ajax has no local flavor from the past, and even the head coach comes from the strange East, the fighting spirit of this team has moved them and made them feel that the traditional spirit of Ajax has returned again."

"He told me, you know, young men, many young people don't understand. They will tell you that football has become professional and industrialized, and no one cares about empty spirits or bullshit traditions. They will tell you that players play football for life, and life is for money. This is an era of money talk about."

"But, do you know, boy, I have experienced much more things than you, and I know better than you that in every person's life, there will be many precious things that money cannot buy, and often when you give up these things for money today, you will regret it tomorrow."

"Money cannot support a person to live in this world. You see many people working hard, working hard, and fighting for power and profit in a very snobbish way. Do you think he is for money? For status? Wrong, he is not for money or status. He is for making money and gaining status. Some things he can do after gaining status, such as making oneself more eye-catching, or changing one's family, many."

"Money is the least valuable thing in the world, because you don't know when it will depreciate. Even when the financial crisis comes, it can become worthless anytime and anywhere. It's just a piece of numbers. Only emotions are the foundation for maintaining a person's survival and make a person live a valuable and meaningful life."

"I heard this old friend say a lot, and then he told me that in his opinion, Ye Qiu's transformation of Ajax was very successful. In many people's eyes, this kind of success is a competitive success, but in his eyes, it is not only a competitive success, but also a spiritual return."

"Ye Qiu has made a profound impression of Ye Qiu on Ajax, and has deeply engraved his values ​​and his rebellious spirit of not giving up. It is like what Michels and Van Gaal did to Ajax back then. He also believes that in the next ten years, no Ajax head coach can surpass Ye Qiu, even in terms of performance."

"Finally, this old fan told me that I began to believe that Ye Qiu could lead Ajax back to the top, not only in terms of performance, but also in terms of spiritual peak, so he would wait, no matter how long he would wait!"

"I thought about this question for a long time, and I began to understand some of the truths in this old friend's words. They are very ordinary and ordinary, but they are truths that many people will not understand in their lifetime. So, I also began to believe and wait."

This report by Schulder Moso has caused a great response on the Internet. Some Ajax fan websites have also reprinted it. Many fans said they were greatly touched after reading it. Many people even believe that if you want to evaluate Ye Qiu's contribution to Ajax in the past three years, you have to wait until you look back ten years later to appear fair.

After the first round of the Champions League group stage, the three teams participating in the Champions League, Eindhoven and Feyenoord, were eliminated from the Champions League with the last score in the group. Only Ajax stood out in the Super Death Group, which was regarded as a proud thing by the entire Dutch football community.

This time even Eindhoven Daily published a picture of Ajax celebration after the game ended on the cover, with the title, "Let's take off your hat and pay tribute to Ajax!"

Feyenoord Evening News regards Ajax's qualifying as the pride of Dutch football, believing that Ajax is worth learning from all Eredivisie teams, especially Ye Qiu has adjusted and innovated the team's tactical style every year in the past few years.

"Cruyff is right. No set of tactics can conquer the world. Tactics are developing and perfecting at all times. As users of tactics, coaches should also improve themselves anytime and anywhere, absorb other people's strengths, make up for their own shortcomings, keep pace with the times, and make up for their own weaknesses. Only by embracing the incompetent will they be eliminated!"

After playing all the first round of the Champions League group stage, the 16 teams that advanced to the second round of the group stage have also been released. According to UEFA's pre-season statement, this season will be the last time a group stage will be adopted in the quarterfinals. The next season they will respond to the requirements of G14, reform the group stage into a knockout stage, and reduce the schedule.

Ye Qiu was prepared for this, and Van Prager is also a member of G14, and Ajax had already received the news.

In Ye Qiu's opinion, the UEFA Champions League season was a bit turbulent. The reason why Mourinho's Porto and Deschamps' Monaco were able to get to the end was actually related to the schedule restructuring, because the giant teams were a little unacceptable to the new schedule, especially the knockout rounds of the top 16, and even UEFA itself was a little uncomfortable.

But don't underestimate that the group stage has become a knockout match. The game has changed from 6 games to 2 games. It doesn't seem to be much different. In fact, there is a big difference here, especially the group stage allows a greater chance of making mistakes. As long as you make a mistake in the knockout match, it will be over, especially after the winter break, the Champions League will directly enter the knockout match.

Relatively speaking, the group stage is more beneficial to teams with stronger strength, while the knockout stage is better for tactical teams. The latter is more exciting and risky than the former, which is certainly.

However, these have nothing to do with Ye Qiu for the time being. Instead, he is more concerned about the team's grouping.

With his performance in the European arena over the past three years and his performance this season, Ajax finally rose to another level and qualified for the second level. This is really something I should thank UEFA for saying that.

Real Madrid, Manchester United, Barcelona and Valencia were ranked first.

According to the rules, teams in the same group and the same country will no longer be divided into the same group in the first round of the group stage. Ajax finally drew Manchester United, Leverkusen and Moscow Locomotive. Strictly speaking, this draw was average, not good, but not too bad.

At the Geneva draw site, after the results were released, the head coaches, management and players of each team expressed their views on the draw results, which has become a routine matter of the Champions League draw.

Manchester United coach Ferguson said in an interview that he was satisfied with the draw results.

"I think Ajax and Leverkusen will be the biggest threat to our promotion from the group, but I'm not worried about the battle with these two teams, because we will definitely beat our opponents and qualify from the group."

Leverkusen's chairman Karmond said, "This is a very difficult group. Manchester United is one of the strongest teams in Europe. Ajax is able to stand out from the death group, which shows the strength of this team. As for the Locomotive of Moscow, everyone knows how difficult Moscow's away game is."

But Kalmond obviously didn't plan to say something discouraged, so at the end, he couldn't help but say, "But we won't be afraid of any opponents, we have the confidence to stand out from the group."

This time, Ye Qiu also went to Geneva to attend the UEFA lottery ceremony. After getting the results, he faced the reporter's inquiry and smiled and said that he had nothing to say about the lottery results.

"We were assigned to a very competitive group, which was very exciting. I believe that every game will be difficult, but there is nothing to say, because overall, every group in the second round of the Champions League group stage is very strong and the game will be difficult, but I have the confidence to lead the team to stand out from the group."

"Manchester United is a very outstanding team. They have a group of outstanding stars. I think the result of playing against such a team is often secondary. It is the most important thing to improve their strength through the stimulation of the game. Leverkusen is a very terrible opponent. They were the runner-up last season, and it is difficult to defeat them."

"And with the Locomotive of Moscow, I don't know much about this team, but I know that it's not easy to play in Moscow."

"Anyway, we meet a group of difficult opponents, which will stimulate us to work harder to prove our strength. We will not underestimate ourselves and strive to play our football style, because we were the Champions League semi-finals last season."

Ye Qiu's words were neither humble nor arrogant, but experts were not optimistic about Ajax. Even if this team stood out from the death group, there was a flaw that everyone criticized, that is, defense.

As Beckenbauer said in his column, "The Champions League is very important for any team. This kind of competition with strong players can often stimulate the team to perform at its best, but not all teams can laugh to the end."

"Real Madrid is very outstanding, with a star-studded star. They have a group of world-class attackers, but they cannot hide the problems on the team's defense line. In the Champions League, defense is often very important. Teams that can win the championship are often the best defense, which is a fatal injury for Real Madrid."

"On the contrary, Juventus and Valencia are undoubtedly the most favored teams. Lippi's team only lost 3 goals in the group stage, which is very rare. Benitez's team also lost 4 goals, and their defense is excellent. I think they are the two teams with the most hope to reach the end."

"Oh, maybe some people will say that Capello's Roma also lost 4 goals, but don't forget that they only scored 3 goals in the group stage, and I think it will be difficult for this team to make a difference in the European arena."

Valencia is indeed the most eye-catching team in the first round of the Champions League group stage this season. He scored 17 goals and conceded only 4 goals. Such an amazing record really made Benitez amazing in a game. Although Juventus' offense is not as good as Valencia, he also scored 12 goals and conceded 3 goals, and his performance is very stable.

There is also another team that must be mentioned, that is Barcelona.

Van Gaal's team won six consecutive games in the group stage this season, becoming the best team in the group stage. They also scored 13 goals and conceded 4 goals, but not everyone is optimistic about this team. As Beckenbauer said, watching Barcelona's game always gives people a feeling of terror.

As for Ajax, Beckenbauer believes that it is likely to stop in the second round of group stage, because Manchester United and Leverkusen in the same group are both very strong and balanced teams. Ajax's biggest problem is defense.

"I have a deep impression of this team. They played 3:3 with us at the Olympic Stadium. It was also that game that made me remember this team and let us leave the Champions League. But I think this team is too young, with an average age of early 20s and is far from mature, especially on defense."

"Looking at Gilberto Silva and Sedo Keita's outstanding performances at Arsenal and Barcelona, ​​it is not difficult to understand that Ajax's defensive problems will be exposed so clearly this season."

Ye Qiu still admires Beckenbauer very much. At least the words of the football emperor are very meaningful. He also knows that there are indeed some problems with the team's defense. Although Mascherano gradually gained a foothold, he still needs exercise and time.

However, Ye Qiu did not lose confidence at all because of this. On the contrary, he was still full of confidence because who had no problem?

Is there no problem with Juventus? Is there no problem with Valencia?

Every team has various problems. The key is how a head coach can better adjust the team, arrange targeted tactics, avoid team loopholes, and play to the team's strengths in the league and cup games. This is the most important thing.

Moreover, the schedule is very dense now, and there is no extra time for Ye Qiu to adjust and polish the team's defensive system. After all, Mascherano lost his position due to injury at the beginning of the season and missed the critical running-in period. Then there were games one after another, and Ye Qiu had no time to prepare.
Chapter completed!