1569 Meeting on a narrow road
Ajax defeated Helenfin by 6-0, once again detonating Dutch football.
In the same round of the league, Eindhoven drew Emon 2-2 away, which led to the widening of the gap between Van Bomel's team and Ajax to eight points.
The battle has just been ignited in the second half of the Eredivisie, and the eight-point gap is not unrecoverable, but the problem is that Ajax has shown super stability throughout the season and has won 18 consecutive victories. What a terrible performance?
The Dutch Joint Daily wrote an article saying that Yang Yang's team is breaking all historical records in the Eredivisie League, and this team is completely defeating all opponents in front of them with its strong and arrogant strength.
"Standing after the 18th round of home win over Helenfin by 6-0 at home, looking back at the first round of the Eredivisie half a year ago, it is not difficult to see how great Ajax's progress is. Yang Yang is leading Ajax to complete his transformation and inject strong vitality into this team again."
The Dutch Telegraph also believes that Yang Yang is becoming a historic legend of Ajax. "He is leading Ajax in a season that may be recorded in history, and other Eredivisie teams may find it difficult to stop Ajax's winning streak."
The Dutch People's Daily analyzed the reasons for Ajax's 18-game winning streak, believing that Yang Yang's coaching is a key factor, because the team's lineup is basically not much different from last season, but Yang Yang's arrival has brought about a leaps and bounds to the team's performance and performance.
"Looking at this season, we can see that the progress of young Ajax players is very obvious. De Rigt and Militon are already the strongest central defender combination in the Eredivisie, and they are very young. Taliafiko and Ashraf have also become important links in Ajax's wing offense."
"Although the double midfielder Frankie De Jong and Ndongbele were criticized, they also showed quite good midfield control, not to mention the frontcourt, Yang Yang completely activated the combination of Neres, Jovic, Sancho and Van der Beck."
The People's Daily believes that in addition to the main lineup, Ajax's substitute lineup is an indispensable part of the team's insistence on multi-line combat, which is exactly the same as Yang Yang's big rotation strategy when he assisted Zidane to coach Real Madrid.
"Maren, Stens, Boadu, Odgao, Schener, Rosario... These young Ajax players performed extremely well in the Dutch Cup and the Eredivisie League, which made Ajax beat the entire Eredivisie League in terms of bench thickness and the main lineup of the first team."
People's Daily analyzed that Yang Yang's strategy is very clear, that is, to take advantage of the period of the Champions League suspension, do your best to open the gap in the league, expand your lead, and prepare for the next Champions League knockout stage.
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Michel Vanderzma, a famous Dutch football reporter, is Yang Yang's friend. He was the first media reporter to go to interview Yang Yang and his family. The two became friends because of this. With the help of Yang Yang's series of news reports, Vanderzma became a popular gold medalist in the Netherlands.
When the whole world praised Yang Yang and his Ajax, Vanderzma analyzed Ajax's next situation in the column, believing that Yang Yang was working hard to establish Ajax's style of playing in the Champions League knockout match.
"This season, Ajax has few injuries, thanks to Pintus' training and Winston Bogard's control. Yang Yang hopes that this situation can continue until the end of this season and minimize the number of players' absences."
"Not only that, as the most successful player in the history of the Champions League, Yang Yang knows better than anyone else the difference between the Champions League knockout stage and the Champions League group stage. He always believes that if you want to perform in the Champions League knockout stage, the most important thing is to have your own explosive points."
"The stable performance makes it difficult for the opponent to defend, and this is the decisive way to win the Champions League knockout stage."
"But at both points, Ajax is not good enough, because the youngest team in the Champions League knockout stage is not stable, and the explosive points are also not sharp enough."
"Yang Yang is working hard to solve this problem almost throughout the winter break training camp. As for the specific results, it depends on Ajax's performance in the Champions League knockout stage, especially facing his old enemy Manchester United two years ago."
"Two years ago, in the Europa League final, he lost to Manchester United, causing the collapse of Ajax trained by Peter Boss, which in turn put Ajax in decline. Fortunately, Yang Yang took action at the critical moment."
"Two years later, the former enemies and teams meet in a narrow road. Who can laugh to the end?"
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Three days after playing the 18th round of the Eredivisie, Ajax ushered in the quarterfinals of the Netherlands Cup.
The opponent is still Helenfin.
The two teams had just fought hard at Cruyff Stadium, and after three days, they fought another game at the same location.
Yang Yang rotated the team very vigorously, but his overall performance did not diminish at all.
Just three minutes into the game, Mazravi's quick back inserted and received a wonderful pass from Odgao, scoring in the penalty area, opening the first record for Ajax.
In the sixteenth minute, Van der Beck won another game, establishing an advantage for Ajax.
In the 38th minute, an assist from Mullen allowed Van der Beck to score twice, helping Ajax secure the victory.
Helenfinns did not until the 84th minute that Van Amosford scored a goal and saved his face.
It is worth mentioning that the high center forward, who is only 22 years old, also comes from Almere.
The emergence of superstars like Yang Yang in that year has a great impact on Almele's subsequent succession. This Ajax satellite team has adjusted its own business direction just right and made efforts in the youth training end. In recent years, many young rookies have indeed emerged. Van Amosford is one, and Rosario in Ajax's team is also one.
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In addition to Ajax defeating Helenfin, Feyenoord defeated Fortunastad four-one.
Alkmaar defeated Witters 2-0, and William II defeated Twente 3-2.
After the draw, Ajax's opponent in the Dutch Cup semi-finals was Feyenoord.
This also made the entire Netherlands unanimously believe that the Dutch Cup final will be staged in advance, and whoever can advance to the final will be the number one favorite to win the championship.
Ajax is undoubtedly a real hot spot, but it is not without hidden dangers, because the week before the match against Feyenoord, Ajax had to fight Manchester United in the Champions League, but Feyenoord was going to challenge Eindhoven away in the league on the weekend.
Therefore, both sides have their own difficulties, and the key is who resolves it better.
What's interesting is that the Dutch Cup semi-finals will take another month, but the showdown between Ajax and Feyenoord has quietly begun.
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On the afternoon of January 27, in the 19th round of the Eredivisie, Ajax challenged Feyenoord away.
Just eight minutes into the opening game, Ndongbele scored the first record for Ajax.
As always, the sharp offensive as ever, the high-level pressing and oppression in the first half...
All of this made Feyenoord completely stunned by Ajax from the beginning.
The game then completely entered the rhythm range of Ajax.
In the 16th minute, Van der Beck scored a goal for Ajax, further expanding his lead, 2-0.
In the 31st minute, after receiving the pass from Van der Beck, Jovic turned around and shot, making a three-to-zero shot.
Just two minutes later, Sancho shot with a wonderful arc shot to further expand the score for Ajax, four to zero.
After the second half of the game, Feyenoord finally couldn't help but make substitutions in the midfield.
Veteran Van Persie replaced Jorgensen, obviously trying to strengthen the team's frontcourt offense.
Van Persie's performance was not bad after transferring from Fenerbahce to Feyenoord in January 18, but his appearance was not stable enough. In the first leg against Ajax, he was absent due to injury and failed to play.
Tonight, he was placed on high hopes and arranged to appear as a substitute in the second half.
But not long after the opening, Jovic scored a wonderful shot and broke Feyenoord's goal again, and the assist was still Van der Beck.
In the 56th minute, it was still an assist from Van der Beck, and Jovic scored a hat trick.
Ajax midfielder also scored another assist hat trick with this assist.
Six to zero, Ajax seemed to see another big victory.
But in the final stage of the game, in the 75th and 84th minutes, Van Persie scored twice and scored two goals to regain Feyenoord's face.
Even though he is already a thirty-five-year-old veteran, Van Persie is still as elegant as he was back then. He is still calm in getting the ball and stopping the ball. In addition, his rich game experience makes him seem at ease to deal with the two central defenders of Ajax.
The game ended with a six-to-two score, with Ajax scoring a valuable three-pointer away.
But as soon as the game ended, Yang Yang took the initiative toward Van Persie.
He has a good relationship with the Dutch veteran. He played in the Premier League together. Now that he meets him, Yang Yang's first words are thanks, "Thank you very much for helping me train two central defenders!"
Van Persie was a little depressed. When he first came on the court, he was really confused by two Ajax's central defenders. Fortunately, he was experienced and quickly understood their path and quickly adjusted his playing style, which led to a double score in the final stage.
Of course, the passes and support from teammates are inseparable.
More importantly, by the end of the game, Ajax's pressing and oppression was obviously a bit powerless.
"In the last fifteen minutes, you still have problems with your physical fitness." Van Persie said incisively.
Yang Yang nodded, why didn’t he know?
The players are living, flesh-and-blooded people, not robots, how can they play a full ninety-minute game with full power?
What's more, it's a six-to-zero lead.
Laxity and carelessness are a taboo for professional players.
The reason why Yang Yang thanked Van Persie was not a polite word, but he really felt that Van Persie's two goals deserved attention from Ajax. After he went back, he would use these two goals to hit his players well.
If you cannot maintain your focus for 90 minutes, it will be difficult to move forward in the Champions League knockout stage.
Chapter completed!