Ridley Scott's Gladiator is a movie that Ye Qiu likes very much.

The scene where the protagonist Maxim rode a war horse and armour in the Colosseum, and received cheers from all the Roman subjects in the audience made Ye Qiu excited. He even had a desire to enjoy Maxim's treatment and make the entire Roman city cheer for him.

But what is interesting is that when he really arrived in Rome for the first time in his life, the people here gave him endless booing and waves of sarcasm, which left him without the pride of gladiators calling the wind and rain in the arena.

When I thought of this, Ye Qiu, who was sitting in the visiting team's coach's seat, shook his head helplessly.

"What's wrong?" Bobby Hams saw him giggling and shaking his head, a little strange.

Ye Qiu smiled, "It's nothing, I'm just thinking that it should be considered a kind of pride to make these fans hate them!"

Since this is somewhat unforgettable, I will be intoxicated for thousands of years.

Bobby Hams couldn't guess what Ye Qiu was thinking, but he couldn't help but smile because it was like this when it was away games.

Capello has ranked Roma's strongest lineup in this game, because they still have to fight for the championship in the Serie A, so they want to use their home games to directly solve the battle, so they did not stop at all.

The goalkeepers are Antonioli, the defenses are Zago, Samuel and Zebina, the midfield are Candela, Zanetti, Tomasi and Kafo, the front midfielders are Toti, the double strikers are Delvicio and Batistuta, and the formation and position are 3412.

Ye Qiu always believed that Capello truly established his position as a top coach in the world, and during this period in Rome, especially when he won the championship in 200/01, his use and grasp of the team's tactics completely sublimated his coaching strength. It's a pity that his Rome has never proved himself in the European arena.

Among the three defenders, Samuel dragged behind, Zago and Zebina on the left and right sides. When defending, Candela on the left can retreat, Zebina returns to the right back, while Delvicio on the front line will pull to the left side, and the tactical formation immediately becomes 442.

Delvicio's running ability is excellent, and he serves the team more quietly, but his tactical role is very great. Capello's use of the forward combination, whether it is Batistuta or Montera, is all rotational. The real core main force is Delvicio, because this is a player with a huge tactical role.

Ye Qiu still ranked Ajax's usual 433 lineup in this game. The goalkeeper was Grim, the defense was Abidal, Kivo, Lucio and Heatinga, the midfielders were Keita, Gilberto Silva and Sneider, and the Trident was Robben, Ibrahimovic and Van der Mede, which were also the best lineups in Ajax's recent performance.

Ye Qiu has a very high opinion of Capello's Rome. Capello's ability to train defense is the best in the world. Whether in Rome, Juventus, or Real Madrid, the defense line he has created can benefit his team for many years. The same is true for the structure of this Rome defensive system today.

But Roma's solid defense is based on the premise that their three defenders and one of the midfielders will basically not beat the midfielder. Before Emerson was injured, Thomassi stayed in the end, and after Emerson was injured, the central defender became Zanetti, while Thomassi did what Gatuso did in AC Milan and ran all over the field.

On the offensive end, Roma has a typical left-defense and right-defense strategy. Candela, on the left, partnered with Delvicio. Although the latter is a forward, he basically does all the capable work on the left, and even retreats to be a full-back, while on the right, Kafu is the only one who can conquers the world.

Ye Qiu made targeted arrangements in this game. Abidal moved forward, and was responsible for watching Kafu, Givot, Lucio and Heatinga as the defense line. Gilberto Silva's main responsibility is to limit Toti.

Keita and Sneider also have a very important responsibility, which is to ensure that there is a person who can cut off Toti's return pass anytime and anywhere, while the Roman prince's return pass is usually found to drag Zanetti or Candela, and then reorganize the ball.

Capello's training and defense are awesome. Although it is not bad in training and offense, it cannot be said that he is very outstanding.

His offensive transformation against Roma was more about adopting a strategy that relies on the personal performance of the stars. He basically relied on the free Toti to organize and launch the offensive, which made Roma's performance in the tough battle not ideal. Instead, he played well in the defensive counterattacks, because both Samuel, Zago or Zanetti had a good mid-length pass.

Therefore, another offensive point of Roma is to intercept the ball and counterattack directly to Batistuta.

Ye Qiu also made targeted arrangements, and he asked Lucio to take charge of watching Batistuta, Kivo and Heatinga assisted from the side.

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It has been almost half a year since joining Ajax, and Lucio has begun to get used to life in Amsterdam, the atmosphere of playing football in Ajax, and the almost harsh tactical requirements of Ye Qiu for him.

He was not a fool, he could see that Ye Qiu was harsh on him, and that was to help him improve.

Before each game, like other teammates, he would get a document from Ye Qiu about his opponent in the next game. When Lucio found out that he was facing the world's top center Batistuta this time, he was not panicked at all, but felt that his whole body was burning, as if he was even boiling in his blood.

He is a Brazilian and is born to dislike Argentinians, but he knows Batistuta's strength, but he is not afraid.

"You only have one mission in this game, block Batistuta, and you don't have to worry about the others!"

This is what Ye Qiu said when he arranged a task for him.

When he used to watch TV and newspapers, he had a feeling that Batistuta was very tall, but when he stood in the stadium and looked at Batistuta in front of him wearing the Red Wolf Rome jersey, he felt that the Argentine center was not as tall as he imagined.

It seems...small shorter than me!

But with the referee's whistle, Lucio quickly calmed down and stared at Batistuta with all his attention.

Ye Qiu repeatedly emphasized in the locker room that two opponents, one was Batistuta and the other was Toti. He believed that as long as these two players were strangled to death, Roma could weaken at least two-thirds of the offensive threat.

But unlike the cooperation and cooperation of Toti's three midfielders, Batistuta gave it to Lucio.

This is a heavy trust, and Ye Qiu puts the hope of everyone in Ajax on him.

Roma's first offense was launched by the right side of the Brazilian national team captain Kafulai. He dribbled the ball from the right side, and with his own experience, he tricked Abidal and passed the ball to the middle.

Lucio blocked Batistuta with his body, and he could feel the pressure from behind. The Argentine center was fighting against him, while the Roman fans in the stands were shouting Batistuta's name.

The ball was not fast, after all, this was Kafu's first cross in this game, and he had no feeling more or less.

Lucio's hands spread slightly and blocked Batistuta behind him. He judged the ball's fall, suddenly rushed forward, jumped high, and shook his head to clear the ball in advance.

Shh~~

"That damn Brazilian!"

The Roman fans in the stands immediately booed a loud boo because they would rather see Bati GOAL!

Lucio smiled slightly, and didn't take it seriously. He turned around and continued to look at Bati. The Argentine center forward also noticed this strong Brazilian central defender. In his impression, Brazil had never heard of such a beastly central defender before.

Lucio?

Batistuta remembered this Brazilian in his heart, but he didn't think the other party was so powerful, but was sighing at his age. If he was a few years younger, he could knock this damn Brazilian away, but now...

With his home advantage, Roma launched a round of attacks against Ajax from the beginning, so he soon reorganized another offensive.

The cooperation between Totti and Tomasi made Sneijder playful. The Dutch midfielder was young and inexperienced and easily lost his position. Hetinga had to go forward, but Totti passed the ball to the left and handed it to the French left-back Candela who was inserted behind.

Candela is very strong and is very good at Lizarazu. Unfortunately, the latter is the French pick, but Candela can shine as long as he has a chance, so when Toti's ball is passed in front of him, the Frenchman directly passed the penalty area with a 45-degree angle.

This is Candela's feature. Because he is not good at dribbling and speed, he does not fight alone on the wing like Kafu. He relies more on cooperation and sudden cuts in. He is a right-footed player, but he hits the left side.

Candela's diagonal pass was very sudden, which scared everyone on the Ajax defense line.

Batistuta also rushed in quickly from outside the penalty area, facing the goal 45 degrees diagonally on the left side of the goal, getting the ball!

Everyone's hearts jumped at this moment, because Batistuta was very lethal in such a 45-degree area.

"Roma once again broke into the Ajax penalty area, Batista got the ball, Bati..." When the commentator saw Batista swing his left foot, he had already shouted out the call when Batista scored in advance, deliberately splitting BATIGOAL in half, pulling a very long sound.

Many Rome fans even left their seats excitedly, because in their opinion, as long as Batistuta makes a move, the ball will basically be available.

But just when all the Romans were ready to celebrate, they saw Lucio suddenly like a heavy armored vehicle, killing out of the diagonal. Facing Bati who had already kicked up, he had no other choice, without any hesitation, and fell to the ground to block the block.

Batistuta shot hard, and everyone at the scene could hear the muffled sound of the foot and the ball touching, but immediately afterwards, another muffled sound that was very close, but the ball hit Lucio's stretched out leg and bounced out.

Wow!!

The Romans were shocked, but soon booed Lucio again.

Ye Qiu was applauding Lucio's performance on the sidelines. Many people said that Lucio was rash and frivolous. Ye Qiu did not deny that there were many problems with the Brazilian central defender, but he had one very outstanding advantage, that is, one-on-one battle.

In the Eredivisie, Lucio averaged 13 fights per game, with a success rate of 77.2%, which is a very outstanding result, especially as he gradually integrates into Ajax's overall defensive system, which will allow him to play an increasingly critical role in this system in the future.

Ye Qiu knows Lucio very well. If he is allowed to stay in the position and watch Batistuta, with his current strength, he may suffer a loss. It is better to give him freedom and let him look at Batistuta and use his one-on-one ability.

Lucio's performance did not disappoint Ye Qiu!

"This kid is Optimus Prime on the back line. If he can improve his tactics and defense, he will be the top central defender!" Bobby Hams's vision of Ye Qiu is really impressed by it now.

Before Ye Qiu introduced Hunterlaal and Abidal, everyone was surprised, but later the performance of the two players was convincing and recognized by everyone. But who would have thought that as soon as Ye Qiu joined the first team, he immediately made drastic reforms on the team and introduced a group of inexperienced newcomers.

This group of new players does not have the experience of the European League, but the problem is that each of these players has excellent personal abilities, and in the past few months of Ajax, their progress has been very obvious after the competition was tempered and accumulated.

It seems that Robben on the left doesn't need to adapt to Ajax, and he has shown amazing strength at the moment. Whether it is speed or skill, it reminds people of Ovemas, Keita, Gilberto Silva, and these players have all shown gratifying strength and signs of progress.

After several months of the league, many fans have gradually accepted Ajax's strength improvement after the reorganization from previous suspicions. At least Ajax is now ranked third in the Dutch Eredivisie, and the strength shown is also recognized. These all satisfy the fans. And more importantly, Ajax is the youngest team with the average age of the Dutch Eredivisie.

In other words, Ye Qiu's team is a team full of hope!

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Some people may say that Lucio's performance in this game was amazing.

But only professionals know it, because he has the opportunity to do his best, that is freedom!

Ye Qiu even let him rush out of the penalty area and grab Toti's ball at about 30 meters away from the goal.

Of course, Lucio performed well, but there were also great hidden dangers. Ye Qiu arranged for Hetinga and Kifu to get in the back of him anytime and anywhere, and coupled with a Gilberto Silva who could retreat to support the defense line at any time, this would ensure the stability of the defense line to the greatest extent.

Facing an aggressive Lucio, Batistuta had no choice but to compete with Lucio one-on-one, Lucio took the lead and headed to clear the ball. However, after landing, he found that the clearance ball was not passed far. Delvicio, not far away, rushed over again to grab the ball. He rushed over immediately, raised his right foot with a fierce foot, and cleared the ball out with a big foot.

Delvicio was stunned, while Batistuta smiled bitterly. This Brazilian was very mad dog spirit.

But the referee pulled the Brazilian, who was in a hot mind, and warned him loudly because his actions just now were very dangerous. If Delvicio had not stopped his body in time, even the Roma striker would have been kicked out of the Olympic Stadium by Lucio. Although this guy was running for the ball, the dangerous actions should be warned.

Lucio's outstanding performance disrupted Rome's offense.

The ball cannot be passed to Batistuta's feet. No matter how active Kafu on the right is, he cannot create a threat. He can only let the ball run more in the midfield, especially at Toti's feet.

But Toti's performance in this game was not so sluggish, but rather was completely suppressed by Ajax's midfielder.

Emerson is the midfielder Capello has high hopes for. He hopes Emerson can form a midfield double core with Totti. The two of them will work together to build Roma's midfield organizational line, but no one expected that Emerson was seriously injured after coming to Roma.

Now Toti can only face engineers like Tomasi and Zanetti. In addition, he encountered high-level defense and was good at suppressing the traditional No. 10 organizer Ajax's defensive system, which made Toti hit walls everywhere and frequently fall into the encirclement, with regrets that he could not sing alone.

Once Toti and Batistuta were locked, Delvicio and Kafu were no longer active on both sides, because once they broke into the 30-meter area of ​​Ajax from the wing, Heatinga and Abidal both prioritized recycling, blocking their route into the penalty area, forcing them to fail to complete the transition from the wing to the middle.

Once the ball cannot reach the middle, how can it create a threat?

Time passed by minute by minute. Roma, who launched the attack after the opening game, quickly hit a wall everywhere and the offensive gradually stopped. However, after Ajax, who played away, after the defensive stage of the opening stage, when Roma began to relax consciously, Ye Qiu waved his hand on the sidelines, all the Ajax players knew that it was his turn to appear on stage.

Starting to strengthen the offense, Ajax gradually showed a strategy of approaching step by step, using Lucio's upswing and active pressure and pressing from midfield players to push Roma's defense forward step by step, forcing the Serie A powerhouse to start retracting the three lines.
Chapter completed!