At noon on March 10, in the 28th round of La Liga, Real Madrid challenged Eibar away.

Although the team was rotated, Yang Yang volunteered and scored twice in the game, helping the team defeat Eibar 2-1 away and scored another three-pointer.

After this game, Real Madrid finally had a good rest in the middle of the week and took a breath after nearly 80 days.

The morning of the next day of the game, after the restorative training, the team announced a day off.

This made Real Madrid very excited.

After the winter break, for more than three months, Real Madrid did not even have a day off. All the players were nervous and devoted themselves to preparing for the game and the game. Both mentally and physically, they were extremely tired.

It is rare to see Yang Yang and Zidane arranged two days of vacation in one game a week, but considering that the league is entering the final stage, the team must balance the players' state, so the two-day holidays must be staggered.

The players also understood this and were still very happy.

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Taking advantage of the holiday, Yang Yang flew to Amsterdam.

Yang Yang rarely took time, and Van Gaal, Van der Sar and others were happy about his arrival.

After changing coaches, Ajax's situation has not improved.

Rezig's coaching basically continues the previous ideas of Yang Yang and Kysel, insisting on attacking on the left, but this style of play is easily curbed by the opponent, especially when the opponent gradually understands your ideas.

This is the case in the professional league. One move cannot be done easily. Only with sufficiently abundant technical and tactical means can there be enough ways to defeat the opponent in the game.

Currently, the Dutch Eredivisie has played twenty-seven rounds, with Ajax ranked second with 61 points, seven points behind Eindhoven, who ranked first, and there is almost no possibility of catching up with his opponent, because there are only seven rounds left in the league.

With Eindhoven's current performance, it is really difficult for Ajax to reverse.

But the good news is that Ajax is currently leading Alkmaar in third place at the moment, and the possibility of his opponent's reversal of Ajax is very small. Therefore, as long as Ajax performs normally, it is very promising to win the second place in the league.

But this is not a good thing for Ajax.

The second in the league, which seemed to have become Ajax's curse and fate in the past few years.

Every year, it is the second in the league and participates in the third round of the Champions League perimeter qualifiers every year. Every season either stops in the third round or in the play-offs. It is often one step away from the Champions League group stage, but it is still unable to get through.

What's even more serious is that there is no good way to do this situation in the team, whether it is Van Gaal or Van der Sar.

"The number of goals reached 72, four more than Eindhoven. It is the team with the strongest offensive ability in the Eredivisie. It conceded only twenty-five goals, two fewer than Alkmaar, and six less than Eindhoven."

Van Gaal was so angry that he said, "We are the team with the strongest offensive ability and the strongest defense in Eredivisie, but we are about to fall behind Eindhoven by as many as seven points. How can people be willing to do so?"

Yang Yang heard the annoyance in Van Gaal's heart, and also felt the unwillingness of Van der Sar and others. This is normal.

Is this Ajax not strong?

No.

As Yang Yang said before, he is very confident in this Ajax team because the team is really good.

If everyone was still full of doubts about Ajax at the beginning of the season, believing that after selling many main players, especially after the entire central axis, Ajax's strength dropped sharply, then now, after most of the season, Ajax will definitely make everyone's eyes shine.

After leaving Dorber, the new player Jovic shones in the center position; after leaving Younis, Neres emerged; Ziyech also performed very well in the backward movement, and there was also a young player Sancho, the English young player, Ajax's biggest discovery this season.

The midfield core Klasson left the team, but Frankie DeJong and Van der Beck emerged. In addition, Ndongbele is becoming more and more mature. Now Ajax's midfield strength has not declined compared to before, but has a vague trend of going up to the next level, because this combination is too young.

Davidson Sanchez and Tate left the defense, but new players Dumfries and Wabel stood firm. After the young player Joe was injured, Taliafico replaced him and even directly seized the main position, causing the Brazilian left defender to sit on the bench after returning from injury.

On the bench, Cruivett Jr., Mullen, Stens, Shene, Rosario, Feltman...

Ajax's lineup is mature and young, and the internal competition is very fierce. Everyone has to put in full force and work hard to perform and improve themselves in order to gain a foothold in the main lineup.

It can be said that Ajax seems to be younger than last season and has weaker strength on paper, but both Yang Yang and Van Gaal are very clear that this Ajax team is really strong and has great potential.

This is why Yang Yang dares to say that he will bring this team to the quarterfinals of the Champions League within three years.

He never talks nonsense, and three years is his most conservative estimate. If the players make rapid progress, he is fully confident that he will lead Ajax into the Champions League knockout stage within two years.

But why did such a team play like this in the Dutch Eredivisie?

If both the Champions League and the Europa League failed at the beginning of the season and the Dutch Cup was a problem of former coach Kyser's arrangement of troops, what about the Dutch Ligue 1?

Why do you show such ups and downs?

"The right back is still a problem. When our left side is frozen by the opponent, we do not have very effective ways or tricks to break through the opponent's defense. This is a big problem. In addition, the team is relatively young, so in many games, we clearly have the advantage, but we are still unable to win or get a draw."

Yang Yang carefully considered this matter. Ajax scored the most goals and conceded the least goals, but why did there be so many draws and losses?

There is only one answer, that is, the team's performance is very unstable.

Young teams will always perform unstable, while Ajax is more serious because they are too focused on the left.

If it is a team that is unable to resist Ajax's left offense, it is often a devastating battle and winning one victory after another. But if it can be blocked by an opponent, then Ajax will not have a good idea.

"This is a very serious problem." Yang Yang hopes to attract the attention of Van Gaal and Van der Sar. "If we want to make a breakthrough in the Champions League next season, we must solve this problem, because the overall strength of the Champions League opponents is very good, even if it is just an outside game."

Today, Ajax does not have any bargaining chips to underestimate any team participating in the Champions League, even in the perimeter qualifiers, because Ajax has failed in the perimeter for many years.

One year or two years can be said to be accidental, but for several consecutive years, this is absolutely unusual.

More importantly, this will bring huge psychological burden to the team, just like Real Madrid's Champions League Sixteen Ron back then. The more he is struggling with this, the more difficult it is to make a breakthrough.

"How are the signings between the right back and the central defender going?" Yang Yang asked with concern.

Although central defender Wabel performed well, Yang Yang still felt that he was not very satisfied. His combination with De Ligt was not complementary.

Such a central defender partner is OK to deal with the Eredivisie, but it is not OK to go to the Champions League.

Yang Yang has been fighting in the Champions League for many years and has experienced too many defenses, so he knows very well that once a high school defender combination like De Ligt and Warbel meets a fast speed and a flexible forward with good skills under his feet, he will have to kneel down.

The key to preparing for the battle is to prepare all potential hidden dangers. Otherwise, it will be too late to meet a small forward in the Champions League outside next season.

Losing a game is often a loss of a season.

"After you said it, we searched for players who meet our requirements everywhere. The most rewarding one is the central defender. There are three or four people on the inspection list. I have arranged for the scouts to follow up one-on-one and be sure to understand everything about the opponent."

After hearing Van Gaal's words, Yang Yang kept nodding. He was still very confident about Van Gaal's ability and Ajax's scouting level, but Ajax's material selection is destined to be not wide now, because not only can you fight, but you also have to be cheap.

How can such a good thing be in this world?

Especially now that the central defender is so scarce, good and capable, and at the same time, he also needs to be cheap, and he takes advantage of all benefits.

But it seems that Van Gaal is very sure to solve the hidden dangers of the central defender.

"The trickiest thing now is the right back." Van Gaal looked helpless, "If you want to have excellent defensive skills, we will have it in our team, and Dumfries and others will be competent. However, if you want to have a right back with strong offensive skills, it is really hard to find. Each one is the treasure of each team."

Tate was originally good, but unfortunately, he was poached by Lyon.

If the problem on the right side cannot be solved, Ajax's chronic disease will still not be solved.

Of course, Yang Yang is not unable to do anything. He can coordinate through overall tactics, but it is also a big loss in the end.

The two wings flew together, which was the tactic Yang Yang wanted to play in Ajax.

"It's okay, there is still time. If you look for it patiently, you will always meet the right candidate." Yang Yang could only give encouragement.

He will definitely have no time next, because the Champions League will soon be the quarterfinals knockout round, and Yang Yang's game task at Real Madrid is also very heavy, so he will definitely have no time to take care of Ajax.

He promised Florentino that he hoped to help Real Madrid win another Champions League and become the triple-champion again. Only then did he retire and leave Real Madrid. This was also an explanation for the chairman of Real Madrid and the fans of Real Madrid.

If the Champions League is really capable of winning five consecutive championships, in this case, let alone Yang Yang, even Zidane would have a desire to retreat.

After all, if they stay, what can they bring to the team?

Instead of doing this, it is better to retreat bravely and protect yourself.

Of course, Yang Yang came directly from Real Madrid to Ajax, which really surprised many people.
Chapter completed!