Capello is not satisfied with Roma's lineup. He does not hide this in the coaching staff and in front of club chairman Sensi.

Midfielder Toti was alone and finally introduced Emerson, but he was seriously injured when he came. On the front line, although there were two different styles of forwards, Batistuta and Montera, the strong one spirit, the problem is that the means of advancement depend too much on Toti and Kafu, who are wing players, so once the battle is in a tough situation, Toti is easily strangled to death.

In this case, if there is a player with excellent personal abilities on the front line, you can share the pressure Batistuta faces, and in the future, you can also provide support when Toti is in trouble. Add to Emerson, Rome was truly powerful at that time.

The league is different from the cup. There are 38 games in the league. If you lose one or two games, or even seven or eight games, it is not a big problem. The key is whether you can get more league points than your opponent in the end. Therefore, when playing in the league, the strong team and the weak team often rely on the strength gap to affect the ranking.

But in different cup games, the most important thing about the head coach's tactical ability and coordination ability, as well as the team's adjustment before the game, because the key to winning the cup game is still dependent on strength, but this strength is restricted by multiple factors such as luck, on-the-spot performance, and head coach's tactical targeting.

Just like in this game, Roma's strength must be ahead of Ajax, but the problem is that Ajax's tactics restrict Roma and prevent Roma from taking the way he is best at attacking and playing. How much power can Roma exert?

This is why a large proportion of the cup champions often do not belong to popular teams.

For example, Real Madrid, the 2000 Champions League champion, had a bad performance in the league, and even let Boske serve as the firefighting coach in the middle of the day. However, as soon as Boske came up, he adjusted the team's tactics. Although his performance in the league improved, it was also very average. Instead, he made great progress in the cup and eliminated many strong teams, including Manchester United, along the way.

"Fabio!" Assistant coach Itaro Gabiarti looked at Capello, who was frowning like a mountain beside him, and reminded: "Be careful of the other party's two sides!"

Capello did not look back at the most capable assistant, but just nodded, walked to the sidelines, gestured and shouted at the players, so that they could pay more attention to Ajax's two sides. After all, Robben and Van der Mede on both sides are both players with excellent assault and counterattack ability, and they are very fast.

Turning around was a major weakness of Rome's defense line. For this reason, Capello specially tailored the defensive position where Samuel dragged back, Zago and Zebina form a horn. This is to avoid Rome's defense line being broken through by the opponent at once.

But in this way, the weakness of the three defenders who have insufficient defensive power on the wing road becomes even bigger.

So Capello has always been a right-hand attack suppression, while Candela and Delvicio pay attention to the defensive balance strategy, but now Ajax obviously does not play according to the card path. They pressed the defense line very high, and often even approached the middle circle.

Perhaps from the scene, there are many gaps behind Ajax, but the problem is that Rome cannot use it.

First of all, Roma lacks players with excellent speed and personal abilities. Whether it is Batistuta or Montera, they are centers. The most threatening part is in the penalty area. Once they are far away from the penalty area, their role will be very embarrassing. This is also the reason why Roma's positional battle and offense are always very tragic.

For players who lack this type of game, Ajax is taking a high-level defense, and Batistuta now has to stay away from the goal, and the offensive threat can be imagined.

Another big problem is that the interception strength of Ajax midfielder, especially after fully compressing the distance between the three lines, each line is kept very close to each other. Once the distance is slightly wider, Ye Qiu immediately gave a reminder on the sidelines, requiring the players to remain compact.

As the distance got closer, Roma's players were obviously not used to this style of play, especially when they were suppressed by Ajax, they made many passes and receiving mistakes, and such mistakes all happened in the half of the team, which was too dangerous.

Capello's ultimate strategy was to make a long pass from the middle and backcourt.

There is no way to do this, because after many ball captains passed, they basically fell into Ajax's hands.

However, it is Capello and Roma. When they want to defend, Roma's top defense line with the second highest defense ability in Serie A is not something that Ajax, a young player, can easily break.

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"When you truly see the defense of the top Serie A team, you will find that your movements are so redundant, and the skills you are most proud of are useless!"

Ibrahimovic remembered that this was a sentence Van Basten said to him, and he didn't believe it.

But he believed in this game.

Due to position, Ibrahimovic encountered more in this game, Samuel and Zago. The former is not tall and has weak air defense, but his sense of position and stealing ability are excellent. As long as you face him, even if there is a slight extra and delay in your technical movements, he will intercept the ball without hesitation.

When Ibrahimovic faced Samuel, he had given the ball directly to his opponent several times. He felt that the short central defender he was facing was far more difficult than all the tall central defenders he had encountered in the past. Eindhoven's two central defenders were incomparable to Samuel!

Originally, he thought that Brazilian central defender Zago should be easier to deal with, because he heard that Brazilian defensive players are frizzy, and the most typical one is Lucio, who is frizzy, but when Ibrahimovic approached Zago and was close to the Brazilian central defender, he felt completely collapsed.

There are many small moves, which is the style of a typical Brazilian player, but his defense is very steady and sophisticated.

Could it be that Italian defensive players are so powerful?

Ibrahimovic has no extra time to think about this issue, because he must consider how to break through this famous Serie A defense line and attack the ball into the opponent's goal.

Just as Ibrahimovic tried several times and was frustrated, Ye Qiu made adjustments on the sidelines.

"You come and act as a wall and attack the left side!" Ye Qiu gestured and pointed at his mouth.

After hearing this, Ibrahimovic's first reaction was that he was unwilling to do it, because this way of playing for others was not his habit, but when he saw Ye Qiu's serious expression on the sidelines and thought of the importance of this game, he nodded to the head coach.

For some reason, he was still a little afraid of Ye Qiu!

On Rome's right, Cafo's position is very high. He looks more like a winger, and his role is a bit similar to Alves on the right side of Barcelona around 2010. His position is even higher than Alves, and there are quite a loopholes behind him.

Ye Qiu obviously wanted to use this to make a fuss.

The ball was at Sneijder's feet. As soon as the latter stopped the ball, he saw Ibrahimovic retreating from the front and raise his hand toward him.

Almost without thinking too much, Sneijder passed the ball to Ibrahimovic's feet.

The Swedes turned his back to Roma's goal and stopped the ball towards the ball. At the same time, he leaned back and leaned back to stop Samuel, who was pressing behind him to stop him from turning. The Argentine central defender was short and suppressed by Ibrahimovic. Even if his legs were longer, could he grow better than Ibrahimovic?

After Ibrahimovic stopped the ball, he observed the situation and tried to turn around at the same time, but Samuel knew Ibrahimovic's threat well. The opponent was about 20 meters away from the goal. If he turned around, how big the threat would be?

Therefore, the Argentine central defender could not break the ball, but he leaned against Ibrahimovic tightly and prevented him from turning around.

Zanetti and Tomasi in the midfield are both retreating and are preparing to help Samuel double-team Ibrahimovic. There is no way. The Swedes are tall and long and have a large control area. If he is allowed to lean on Samuel like this, it will be difficult for the Argentine central defender to cut the ball in his entire life.

But just as they approached, Ibrahimovic gently sent the ball forward with his right foot.

The ball was passed back to the left and saw Keita suddenly inserted from the back. At this time, Kafu's attention was on Ronaldo himself, while Zebina assisted in defense behind Samuel, which directly caused Keita to get the ball from the front of the penalty area, and there was no one defending around.

Keita naturally would not be polite to the Romans. She swung her left foot and made a powerful shot at the front of the penalty area.

The ball drew an arc like a shell and headed straight to the goal.

Roma goalkeeper Antonioli flew to make a save, saving the ball steadily from the baseline and corner kick.

But Keita's sudden long shot made the Romans sweat.

"This should be the most threatening shot in the first half of Ajax after half an hour of the game, from their Mali midfielder, Sedo Keita's long shot from the front of the penalty area was very threatening!" The commentator on the scene said loudly.

"The situation in the game is now faintly tilting towards Ajax. Capello's team must make adjustments as soon as possible, especially against Swedish high center Ibrahimovic. The tall center has fully grasped Samuel and did not choose to confront him head-on, but retreated to serve as the team's front-court tactical fulcrum."

While the on-site commentator was analyzing, Sneider slowly ran to the corner kick area, put the ball down, and then retreated.

Seeing the crowds in the penalty area, he was breathing deeply. Even now, he still couldn't believe that he was facing Rome, but he quickly slapped his cheeks with both hands to wake him up.

Sweeping towards the penalty area, he noticed some situations in the penalty area, and at the same time raised his right hand high, clenched his fist, and exposed his index finger!

This is a code!

Everyone, including Roman players, knows, but the question is, what does this code mean?

"The ball is coming, everyone be careful!" Captain Totti shouted loudly.

Although Toti and Batistuta do not need to retreat to participate in defense in Capello's tactical arrangement, and they do not even have any defensive tasks, and they exist for offense, this time Toti still retreats to participate in corner kick defense, because he can see that the current situation of the team is relatively passive.

Sneider heard Totty's shouting, but was unmoved. He rushed forward quickly, pace, speed, force, touching the ball, angle... After repeated practice, he already had a feeling that when the corner kick was sent out, he knew whether it was as he wished.

Everyone in the penalty area suddenly became a mess after the corner kick was fired and turned into a meat grinder. Everyone rushed to run, pressed and squeezed, especially the Roman players at the front point, who were desperately trying to squeeze Ajax's players behind.

The arc ball is very fast!

When everyone realized it, Sneider's corner kick landed in the back of the middle.

Zago, who was standing at the front to defend Gilberto Silva, immediately turned his head and looked behind him, and then he saw a scene that scared him.

Lucio was ambushed in the penalty area. At this moment, he was like a heavy tank, rushing into the small penalty area. He jumped high before Samuel, like a dry land drawing on the green onion. He faced Sneid's cross and the lion shook his head.

The ball hit his slightly hideous forehead, turned a direction, and entered the upper right corner of the goal guarded by Antonioli, in a place that was almost dead corner.

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!"

"It was Ajax who took the lead in scoring!"

"From Sneider's corner kick, Lucio headed the ball to Roma, 1:0!"

Scoring a set piece is one of Roma's scoring methods, but now, Samuel watches Lucio heading in front of him, and thinks of his powerlessness facing Ibrahimovic just now, which makes the Argentine central defender almost ashamed of shame.

The moment Capello, who was standing on the sidelines, held his right hand high, cursed indignantly, "Fuck it," and then walked back to the coach's seat, looking indescribable disappointment and indignation.

On the other side, Ye Qiu raised his hands high and slapped his assistants around him to celebrate with Bobby Hams, Ricklink and other assistants. This goal was also full of surprises for them, which was unexpected, but reasonable.

Except for the first 20 minutes, Ajax almost attacked Roma in the high-level defense, but never created an effective scoring opportunity. But what he didn't expect was that a corner kick allowed Ajax to score a goal. Is this a kind of compensation?

The players celebrated near the corner flagpole of the stadium, and tens of thousands of Roman fans booed the whole field, but at this moment, this booed sound was very pleasant to the Ajax players because they would rather regard it as a recognition and reward for their performance in this game by Roman fans.

"Roma is in a very unfavorable situation now. They couldn't defeat it for a long time, and there was no effective way to defend Ajax, but now Ajax scored a goal. Does Capello have any other way to reverse this situation?" The commentator on the scene was also worried about Roma's situation.

"I believe that most of the fans of Roma will not predict this before the game. They all thought that the home game against Ajax would be an easy victory, but what they didn't expect was that Ajax actually boldly pushed out and attacked Roma away. This would indeed surprise many people, but at the same time, they also admire Ajax's courage!"

The live TV camera swept over Ye Qiu. He was shouting at the players at this moment. Judging from his gestures, he should be asking the players to continue to strengthen their attacks and not giving Roma a chance to breathe and adjust, and killing his opponent in one breath.

"It seems that Ajax's courage comes directly from their head coach, the 26-year-old Chinese coach, who is coaching a professional team for the first time this season, and his starting point is also very high. Ajax, the Eredivisie giants, is the dream position that countless professional coaches have."

"But Ye Qiu was able to become Ajax's head coach, which relies on a record he set in the Eredivisie last season, that is, the first head coach in Dutch football history to lead a youth team to the Dutch Cup. This has already made him into the history of Dutch football, and his performance with the second team of Ajax has also won the recognition of Ajax president Van Pragg, so he did not take charge of Ajax first team by luck and relationships."

The match between Ajax and Roma is one of the live broadcasts arranged by UEFA. This game is the key game today. It is arranged to kick off in prime time and will be broadcast live to the world. In such live broadcast events, it can be introduced by the live commentator and frequently appear in front of the camera. Ye Qiu's popularity will be greatly improved.

This is how European competitions attract players and head coaches.

Ye Qiu appeared in a live game around the world for the first time. In the previous two rounds of knockout rounds, they were basically live broadcasts in the Netherlands, Greece and Russia, but this game was different from Rome. Serie A teams are indispensable for global live broadcasts.

However, for Ye Qiu, it is far less interesting to be defeated by Capello in a global live broadcast.

So after taking a 1:0 lead, Ye Qiu knew that the tactical style he arranged had worked. Ibrahimovic served as the fulcrum of the current field, suppressed Samuel, and disrupted Roma's defense line, which could bring more space and opportunities to Ajax's offense.

Because he understood this, Ye Qiu asked the players not to relax at all after taking the lead, and continue to attack Roma and strike while the iron is hot. Otherwise, with Capello's strength, the problems brought about by Ajax's offense will be filled soon. By then, it will not be easy to get another chance to score.

Ajax's players were convinced by Ye Qiu's on-site command. When they heard the head coach say they wanted to continue to strengthen the offense, without saying a word, when Roma kicked off, Ajax's players rushed to Roma's position like wolves and tigers, pressed directly, continued to use high-level defense, and continued to suppress Roma within their half.
Chapter completed!