Ajax's warm-up match was arranged very targeted.

We must not only polish the team's tactics, cultivate the players' tactic understanding, and help players understand and implement Yang Yang's tactical ideas, but also avoid undermining the players' confidence and morale of the team.

This is also determined by the schedule of the new season.

That is the Champions League qualifiers and play-offs that will be a life-and-death battle as soon as the battle begins.

If Ajax blindly wants to work together the team, try to train the team through strong teams, and tap into the team's shortcomings, the final result is that Ajax loses and loses his crotch, the players' morale is low, and the team has no fighting spirit.

Young players should still focus on encouragement.

Yang Yang always believed in this, but realized the need to challenge a strong team. Therefore, in the warm-up match arrangement, the team arranged a total of five games. The first two games were roughly at the upper level of the Eredivisie, and roughly at the Champions League perimeter qualifiers. The next two games were mid- and upper-level teams in the Premier League and Serie A, and the last game was Belgium's bottom team.

The result was not beyond Yang Yang's expectations. The first two games were lost due to the team's pre-season physical fitness reserve training and the reason for the running-in, and the next two matches also lost, one of which was a zero-to-three loss to Naples, which was a complete defeat.

Fortunately, in the last warm-up match, Ajax defeated his opponent 2-0.

In contrast, the two games against the strong teams in the middle are the most training value and also exposed the most problems.

There is a particularly interesting phenomenon that Yang Yang has not played for even a minute, which has puzzled all media and fans, and even the interior of the Ajax locker room is a little surprised.

Many people even speculate whether Yang Yang is determined to transform and become a head coach?

In fact, this is not the case. The reason why Yang Yang did not appear is because he insisted on the special training plan for the past two or three years. At the same time, he also wanted to make it easier to observe the team and discover the problems exposed by the team.

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After each warm-up match, Yang Yang will hold two tactical analysis meetings to study and analyze the various problems exposed in the game with the players, and give his own ideas and ideas.

The ninety-minute game changes rapidly, and no head coach can accurately control every minute, so players need to adapt to the situation and face emergencies on the court independently. This requires them to know what the head coach is thinking and what he wants to do.

Only when you understand this will the player know what they are going to do on the court.

Yang Yang's challenge is that he needs to crush all his ideas and ideas, turn them into small pieces, and slowly take them out, so that the players can accept and absorb them, and finally transform them into their own things.

Indoctrination is a very difficult process and is also the place where the head coach's skills are the most tested.

Even though they had experienced four warm-up matches and had half a month of running-in day and night, Ajax's players still seemed very unfamiliar. They still had a slight understanding of Yang Yang's tactical ideas and ideas, but they didn't understand it.

This takes time and patience.

This is how young players are. They are like a piece of white paper. They will absorb whatever Yang Yang writes and draws on it, but because they are young and lack experience, they will absorb it slowly.

Soccer tactics is useless to memorize rote things. The key is to understand them and use them like an arm and finger.

If you are experienced veterans, many things are just a little bit because they have experienced more.

But the disadvantage of veterans is that many of their own ideas and habits have been formed and it is difficult to make changes, but young players are different.

The process of shaping is slow and hard, but once it is successfully shaping, it will benefit a lot.

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Harvey Alonso is a very good midfield organizer, and he is very, very smart.

How smart are you?

He has served as the center of the midfield under the command of the master of tactics Benitez and played the role of the head coach on the field. After coming to Real Madrid, he also served as the core of the midfield under the command of the Italian tactical master Ancelotti, controlling the ball rights and rhythm on the field. Even when he got old, he was digging Bayern Munich by Spanish tactics master Guardiola to act as the core of tactics. He has achieved great success in these three teams.

This is definitely not accidental.

This not only reflects the outstanding football wisdom of Xavi Alonso, but also his understanding of football, which makes him able to generate huge value no matter which head coach he is under.

Yang Yang also entrusted the important task to Xavi Alonso. Not only did he hand over the two midfielders, Frankie Dejong and Ndongbele, to him, and asked Xavi Alonso to give them some fun, but he also handed Dricht and Militon to his subordinates.

In Yang Yang's tactics, or in Ajax's traditional tactics, central defenders have always been highly valued for playing balls.

The current football trend, central defender's pass, control of the game rhythm, etc. are all crucial.

Yang Yang himself was not idle either.

He is also giving small training to the players. Jovic, Nerez, Sancho, Mullen, Odgao, Stens, Boadu and other young first-team players are following Yang Yang to train. They are either learning how to become a winger who meets Yang Yang's requirements, or trying to become a more competent and comprehensive attacker.

For example, Neres, Sancho and Yang Yang asked them to practice against the edge, and at the same time, they should strengthen the training of defensive skills and the cultivation of defensive awareness.

There is one obvious point in it, they all like to stick to the ball.

The defensive intensity of the Eredivisie is very average and players can get a lot of room. So over the years, the consensus in European football is that the Netherlands' goals are really good, and almost all the scorers who have gone out of the Eredivisie have never succeeded.

What is the reason for this?

The Eredivisie team's defense is too poor.

If you go to the European arena according to the standards of defense against Eredivisie, you will definitely be seeking death.

The simplest point is that Yang Yang thought Neres and Sancho were too sticky.

In order to change this and to make them more refined and concise, Yang Yang simply let Taliafico, Dumfries and Feltman, even De Rigt and Militon play the role of defenders, allowing them to fight one-on-one.

Not only that, Yang Yang also specially formulated a series of rules to encourage defensive players and restrict offensive players.

This kind of unequal training makes the offensive players in the team miserable, but they have to be executed.

They dare not question because Yang Yang can do it.

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Once, Jovic couldn't understand Yang Yang's idea and did not do well in several consecutive warm-up matches, and always felt that it was impossible to do it.

As a result, during a group confrontation training, Yang Yang directly called for a stop to train, replaced Jovic, and asked him to stand on the sidelines on the high ground. At the same time, he asked the coaching staff to leave behind the training videos so that he could study it for Jovic next.

In fact, what Yang Yang asked was to add some changes based on the most basic retracement.

After getting on the court, Yang Yang explained a few words to Neres and Sancho, and then explained to Van der Beck and others.

Soon, when the training started again, Yang Yang quickly ran back from the front.

Van der Beck immediately passed the ball to Yang Yang's feet. After Yang Yang got the ball, he suddenly turned around and passed it behind his left foot. Sancho directly threw away the defensive player, inserted from the right rib into the space Yang Yang brought out after retreating, and took the opportunity to push and shoot.

Yang Yang pointed at Jovic from afar, and the Serbian center was impressed by his body.

There is no more intuitive instruction manual than this.

Afterwards, Yang Yang practiced several times repeatedly, and the defensive players adapted to the situation, and Yang Yang could always find a way.

Can't turn around?

Yang Yang passed the ball to Van der Beck or others around him, and they were responsible for passing the ball to the gap behind him.

His ribs were blocked, and Van der Beck directly inserted it and fucked it.

The defense line returned to defense in time. The ball was forced to pull the edge when it hit the ribs. After Yang Yang passed the ball, he quickly turned around and inserted it quickly, and responded to his teammate's cross from the side and shot directly.

If it really doesn't work, there are full-backs who come up to cross it.

All Ajax players, whether they were training on the court or watching on the sidelines, were stunned and their hearts were filled with huge waves.

There was only one person who changed from Jovic to Yang Yang. But for some reason, the team's frontcourt was actually revived.

Especially the players on the stadium, the feeling was even more profound.

Yang Yang seemed casual, but in fact, every time he ran and passed the ball was targeted, guiding his teammates to pass the ball and attack. Many things they could not understand before, after Yang Yang's connection, they immediately began to touch the path.

This is the number one person in the world!

Jovic, who was the first to bear the brunt, was stunned.

He also plays as a forward, and he played the role of a tandemist and a supporter in Ajax before, but compared with Yang Yang, he suddenly felt like a child who didn't know how to play football at all.

After the training, Yang Yang summoned everyone again.

"We must always remember that on the football field, every part of our physical strength is precious. Every step and every move we make must understand what is the purpose of?"

"Running on the football field seems difficult, but in fact there are only two purposes, one is to create space for oneself, and the other is to create space for teammates. As long as these two goals can be achieved, this time the run is valuable."

"And the success of valuable runs, the successful run of each player, finally form the success of the team."

Ajax's young players agreed with Yang Yang's words.

Ajax originally emphasized the cooperation between passing and cutting, which is very similar to Yang Yang's request, but Yang Yang will be more meticulous in details, which is related to his study under the famous Italian coach Ancelotti.

Everyone knows that Ancelotti's tactics are notoriously meticulous.

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When Yang Yang was busy coaching players, the second round of the Champions League outside qualifiers finally ended.

And Ajax's opponent in the third round of the qualifiers also came out.
Chapter completed!