"I really didn't expect it to be Ajax Team 2!"

In the head coach's office at the Feyenoord training base in Rotterdam, Belt Van Marvik was smiling helplessly.

This season's Eredivisie is the only one in Eindhoven. Although Feyenoord's performance is good, he can never shake Eindhoven's leading position. Even in the league runner-up with Helenfen, Feyenoord is also at a disadvantage, which has something to do with their performance in the ups and downs.

With the expansion of the UEFA Champions League this season, the Dutch Eredivisie has currently obtained three places to participate in the Champions League. Both the first and second in the league can directly participate in the group stage, while the third in the league is to participate in the third round of the qualifying round.

Feyenoord currently ranks third in the league, but the points from Helenfin, second in the league are 2 points, and the gap between him and Waites, fourth in the league and fifth in Twente, is 1 point. If you are not careful, you may be kicked out of the Champions League qualification zone anytime and anywhere.

The inability to participate in the Champions League is a huge loss for any club.

Without winning the Eredivisie, Feyenoord tried his best to compete for the Champions League while devoted almost all his energy to the Dutch Cup. After all, if he could win the cup championship, it would be a comfort to the fans.

"Who wants it?" Assistant coach Mario Bien shook his head and sighed. "When killing Eindhoven, everyone thought it was an accident, but who could have thought that Udrecht, Helenfen, and the Eredivisie teams fell on this unknown second team. How ironic it would be?"

In Mario Bien's view, a Dutch Eredivisie team was eliminated by the second team, which can definitely be said to be a big upset, but if such unpopularity appears again and again, it is not an upset, but a shame, a shame of the Dutch Eredivisie.

"Ye Qiu..." The name that the head coach of Ajax II team appeared in Van Marvik's mind was a difficult name, which was from China, a weak country in football. This can be said to be a person he was completely unfamiliar with and very strange.

"According to the information sent by the scouts, this season was his first season in coaching, but he was constantly promoted by Ajax. From the U10 at the beginning of the season to the U15 later, to the Ajax team II, his improvement was very fast, even surpassing Louis Van Gaal in that year!" Mario Bean said.

"You mean, he is Van Gaal II?" Van Marvik asked with a smile.

Bean curled his lips, "At least many Ajax fans think so, and some people say he is Michels II."

"Ignorance!" Van Marvik sighed helplessly, "But this person should be very skilled. At least he can bring the second team to the Dutch Cup final. This ability must not be underestimated."

"I know!" Mario Bean nodded, "I have arranged for club scouts to follow the game of Ajax II. According to the information received by the scouts, they have basically won the championship in the second team's league. At that time, they will take advantage of this spirit to strive for the Dutch Cup championship in one go."

Once a weak team performs well, its aura is often more powerful and more ostentatious than a powerful team.

"I heard that after Ye Qiu defeated Helenfen, he shouted on the field to win the championship, right?" Van Marvik asked.

"Yes, all the Ajax fans in the audience cheered for them at that time!"

Van Marvik laughed when he heard this.

"What?" Mario Bean was strange. Is Van Marvik not afraid?

"Remember last year's Dutch Cup final?"

Mario Bien nodded. At that time, he and Van Marvik were still in Fortuna Sitade. They led this team with poor strength in the Eredivisie team. They eliminated many strong opponents along the way and reached the final, but lost 0:2 to Ajax led by Olsen in the final, which also made Van Marvik miss the first championship trophy in his career.

"A year has passed, and it is the Dutch Cup final again. It is still us and Ajax, but the situation seems to have changed now!" Van Marvik smiled coldly. He could not forget the defeat a year ago.

At that time, he led a professional team for the first time. He reached the final with a breath from his chest and met Ajax, who was better than him. They were not afraid, but just when they were planning to kill their opponents in one go, the experienced Ajax in turn completely defeated them.

Van Marvik still cannot forget the scene of defeat, even now.

From Fortunasitad to Feyenoord, Van Marvik is no longer the naughty one year ago. He is not leading the weak team with the aura of nouveau riche, but Feyenoord, one of the traditional three top players in the Eredivisie arena.

"A year ago, we lost because we were too strong and we were too sharp, so that in the finals, we could never get rid of the bottlenecks of all the dark horses. It was a bit like a sports car, starting to rush too fast, wanting to brake, but we couldn't stop it!"

"Ajax, who was playing steadily at that time, took advantage of our shortcomings and weaknesses to slowly wear off our sharpness. At the same time, they used this to accumulate enough physical strength. In the second half, they counterattacked with two goals in a row, completely defeating us!" When they said this, Van Marvik looked at his assistant and smiled.

"Don't you think that the Ajax II team is more sharp and younger than last year's Fortuna Sitade?"

After he said this, Mario Bean felt that it was indeed the case.

Everyone was unwilling to be defeated in that battle last year, but later analysis also felt that the defeat was too radical by Fortuna Sitade, which is also the disadvantage of all dark horse teams.

Today's Ajax second team is more radical than Fortuna Sitade because their players are too young, basically around 16 years old, and head coach Ye Qiu is a person who has never coached or had a career. At least Van Marvik has had a career for many years, so the current Ajax second team is more like a dark horse among the dark horses.

"We will deal with them as they deal with us, it's fair!" Van Marvik narrowed his eyes and became very cold.

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After reaching the final of the Dutch Cup, Ajax II immediately became the darling of the entire Amsterdam.

Almost every day, fans come to DeTok Moste's training ground to cheer for the team. Almost every day, some reporters come here for interviews. Almost every day, a group of fans are waiting outside the training ground, waiting for the players to sign and take photos.

Such treatment has probably never been seen in the history of DeTok Most, which immediately made everyone in the entire training base feel flattered.

Especially after the team defeated several opponents in the league and won the Youth League One championship, everyone was full of expectations for the upcoming Dutch Cup final, and the training ground was full of enthusiasm, and each one wanted to use 200% of their energy and strength.

But in Bobby Hams's opinion, this is not a good thing.

As night fell, all the players had left DeTok Most, and only a few office lights were still on.

Bobby Hams walked into the medical department. As expected, he saw Van Dude and Huang Chu who were busy with work, and also saw Ye Qiu who was waiting for Huang Chu to get off work and was sitting in the reception room reading a scout report carefully.

"Ha, Bobby!" As soon as he saw Bobby Hams, Ye Qiu immediately closed the report.

"How is it? How do you feel about the first team scout report?" Bobby Hams pointed at the report in Ye Qiu's hand.

This is a report specially formulated by the scouting department according to the standards of the first team, and even added several Ye Qiu's own requests. This is a Feyenoord report tailored for Ye Qiu, as well as some game videos.

"I'm a little flattered!" Ye Qiu smiled while patting his chest.

Bobby Hams laughed and sat down opposite Ye Qiu, "How is it? I heard you have been studying it every day recently. Do you have any experience or experience?"

Ye Qiu smiled, "What do you think of Belt? Van Marvik?"

He has read many works by football masters, and many people mentioned one thing, that is, the personality of the head coach often represents the character and style of a team, and the arrangement of troops in a game is largely a competition between two head coaches.

The closer the strength is, the greater the winning relationship between the head coaches will play a role in the game's decision.

"How do you say it?" Bobby Hams neighed, as if he was thinking hard. "Van Marvik has not received much attention from the media, and I have not had much contact with him, but what impressed me very much was last year's Dutch Cup final."

"Yes, he led Fortuna Sitade at that time and met us Ajax in the final!" Ye Qiu also noticed this.

With experience in last year's finals, Van Marvik will definitely have some advantages.

"He is a relatively low-key and pragmatic person. The team he coaches is like his personality, with a relatively balanced character, and both offense and defense are good. Feyenoord's defense has indeed had some problems this season, especially in the choice of central defender Van Wengdelen's partner, which exposed many problems, which led to them losing several games."

"But no matter what, his first season in coaching Feyenoord was quite successful, and there is a lot of hope of staying there!"

Ye Qiu's evaluation of Van Marvik is similar to that of Bobby Hams, but not as in-depth as the latter.

"Actually, your current situation is a bit similar to that of him last year!"

When Ye Qiu heard this, he looked at Bobby Hams in confusion. He felt that the Dutch old man's eyes were full of wisdom.

"Fortuna Sitade's strength has never been strong, but last season, he eliminated many teams that were better than himself and reached the final. I remember that Olsen wanted to give up the initiative at that time. Many people in the coaching staff opposed it because we were stronger than the opponent, but I think Olsen's choice was correct."

After a pause, Bobby Hams smiled, "Many people like dark horses, but they rarely see any dark horse that can be blacked to the end. Do you know why?"

Ye Qiu was stunned for a moment and nodded, "Bottleneck!"

"Yes!" Bobby Hams praised. He felt that Ye Qiu was able to answer this question, which itself proved that his progress in strength had at least exceeded Bobby Hams' estimate of him.

Sometimes when I think about it, Bobby Hams has to admit that Ye Qiu is really talented in coaching. His progress in the past year can be described as the Rockets. It is incredible. Bobby Hams can say that he has never seen any head coach in his life who can make such rapid progress as Ye Qiu.

But this is because Bobby Hams didn't know that Ye Qiu reads all kinds of football books in the study room almost every night, and often studies the works and football experiences of some football masters, which made him very obvious progress.

"The reason why dark horses are dark horses is because they lack attention before. Everyone thinks that their strength is weak. This is not a disadvantage for them, but rather an advantage. Because the opponents do not understand them, they can win by surprise. But the problem is that one or two games are dark horses, defeating several powerful opponents in succession. When everyone starts to pay attention to you, are you still a dark horse? Can you still win by surprise?"

"The reason why many dark horse teams cannot be defeated to the end is that their own strength is part of it, but the more important reason is two points!"

Ye Qiu listened silently, but remembered it very carefully in his heart, almost remembering every word clearly.

"One is the bottleneck you mentioned. When they go from a dark horse that no one pays attention to, they can no longer win by surprise, what will they rely on to defeat their opponents? What will they rely on to win a game? That's one point!"

"The other thing is their psychology, because they have defeated many powerful opponents along the way, which makes the dark horse team full of confidence and even over-inflated confidence before every game. So once they get into the game, once they find that the game is not as good as they imagined, they will be completely panicked."

"So, look at all the dark horse teams, they basically deal with these two issues well, and in all the teams that compete with and win against dark horse teams, they almost all set up the battle around these two points."

Ye Qiu nodded heavily, "I understand, Bobby, the first team should have defeated Fortuna Sitade last year, right?"

Bobby Hams smiled and did not deny it, "I always thought that dismissing Olson was a very stupid decision. He did a good job here. His second season score plummeted and he couldn't put all the blame on the head coach."

"No matter what, thank you, Bobby!" Ye Qiu saw Huang Chu waving, and it was obvious that she was done.

Bobby Hams also turned around and saw Huang Chu who was smiling like a flower. He was also very sensible and tactful, "Good luck!"

Ye Qiu smiled and patted Bobby Hams' chubby shoulders, and walked out with Huang Chu.

As summer approaches, the temperature begins to warm up.

Ye Qiu accompanied Huang Chu to walk west quietly from Detok Most. Only when the vehicle passed by would the tranquility in their hearts be broken.

"Bobi is really an amazing person!" Ye Qiu walked and remembered the conversation with Bobby Hams just now, which really benefited him a lot, especially when he thought about how difficult the game against Helenfin was, he understood.

"So, everyone in Detok Mostri worships him like a treasure!" Huang Chu said with a smile.

"Is this called... Is there an old man in the family who has a treasure?" Ye Qiu laughed, "But, this treasure in our family is too fat!"

Huang Chu giggled constantly, "Be careful that Bobby heard it and tore your mouth."

"If you dare to go and report the news, I will block your mouth first!" Ye Qiu also intimidated.

These words left Huang Chu speechless, and his pink face was so hot that he must have thought wrongly.

However, the lights are dim and someone can't see them.

Feelings are a very strange thing.

Just like Ye Qiu and Huang Chu, perhaps, they all had some strange feelings for each other and were guessing each other's psychology, but they didn't dare to say it directly. They could only tease and stimulate each other by using some ambiguous ambiguity in their daily lives.

No one is willing to break this situation actively because no one is willing to bear the tragic consequences of guessing wrong, even friends may not be able to do it. So they can only continue to maintain the status quo and wait for something to change the situation on a day.

Perhaps, in the eyes of many people, this is cowardly, but is it really cowardly?
To be continued...