Even if it is a home game, the whole Ajax team still has to check in to the club's designated hotel the night before the game.

When Yang Yang walked out of assistant coach Luther Carroll's room with a stack of materials and a USB drive, he couldn't help but laugh in his heart when he saw Maxwell hiding in front of the corridor window and secretly making phone calls from a distance.

Brazil is a super family lover, calling home almost every night, especially lately, and more diligently.

Recently, there have been rumours that teams from Europe's four major leagues are interested in him, and the club is ready to renew his contract, which means that he is one step closer to bringing his family to Europe regardless of whether he leaves or stays.

Every time he sees him calling his family in South America and looking at the heartfelt happiness on his face, Yang Yang can't help but think of his parents, who haven't been home for almost two years.

When Maxwell saw Yang Yang, he waved his hand a little embarrassedly, signaling him not to eavesdrop on his phone.

Yang Yang laughed silently and hurriedly walked back to his room.

I don't know if the club is a little superstitious, anyway, since Yang Yang was in the same room with Sneijder on the night in Bruges, Belgium, the two of them have been regular partners, so that Yang Yang's old partner Vermaelen had to be arranged to pair with the fierce De Jong, which made the Belgian central defender almost cry to death.

In Ibrahimovic's joking parlance, in case the guy was violent in the middle of the night, it would not even be too late to shout for help.

But it is precisely because of this that Fermaelen prefers to stay in Yang Yang's room.

There was nothing to do the night before the game, three or four people got together to play cards, and the hotel couldn't get out anyway.

When Yang Yang entered, he happened to see Fermalen, Sneijder and Ibrahimovic sitting on the edge of the bed fighting the landlord, De Jong should be on the right side of the bed, and he was very dissatisfied with Fermalen's style of play just now, and complained, and the Belgian said you can do it, so De Jong was silent.

He can beat people, but playing cards is really embarrassing for him.

Seeing this scene after entering the door, Yang Yang also smiled dumbly.

"You're going to get the information again." Taking advantage of the shuffle, everyone saw Yang Yang come in.

"Well, it's okay, you fight, I'll take a look for myself." Yang Yang said with a smile.

Although the room is not big, there is a small balcony, and Yang Yang can go there to see it.

"Remember to help me analyze it and think of a way to score goals." Ibrahimovic said he had even figured out how to celebrate, and he was just one goal away.

"Okay, I'll try." Yang Yang smiled, but he could feel the pressure on the Swedish center.

In the past, he has faced Dutch defenders, but this time he faced one of the Premier League's top centre-backs, Saul Campbell.

Arsenal's centre-backs are among the best in the world, tall and strong, with outstanding frontal defensive ability, which is also a big challenge for Ibrahimovic, who has always dominated physically.

Yang Yang carefully looked through the situation of the Arsenal players and found that in addition to Saul Campbell, Kolo Toure is also a central defender who has to be paid attention to in the backline, he is not tall, but he is fast, and Campbell's style is very complementary, but he is a little frizzy, I heard that he has not played in the professional league for a long time.

In midfield, the duo of Gilberto Silva and Patrick Vieira is one of the best in the world, and there is no need to say much about the strength of both men, of which Gilberto Silva is more of a laggard, and the tall Brazilian midfielder will be an insurmountable barrier in front of Arsenal's defence.

In addition to the middle, although Klich on the left side is only eighteen years old, but judging from his game against Chelsea, his physical strength is very good and his speed is very fast, these two advantages can basically ensure his level, but the offensive side is not visible for the time being, and the defensive skills are also slightly frizzy, but at the age of eighteen, he was selected into the best team of the Premier League in the round, and his strength and potential can be seen.

Ajax's technical department also has a high evaluation of Klich, believing that the French left wing-back's sense of position is slightly worse, mainly reflected in the selection of positions when defending, as well as the distance between teammates, as well as the help to make up for the position, and his defense is more reckless, like to fall to the ground and put the tackle, which is related to his defensive selection.

Shoveling is a hammer deal, success of course does not matter, but failure means that the opponent has been directly given, and it is too late to even chase back, and the defenders at the mature point will not tackle the ball easily at all, and will only make such a choice when they are forced to do so, such as having lost their defensive position.

This is something that Yang Yang can study and make use of.

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On the morning of the match, as it was a home game, Ajax had a simple, low-intensity technical and tactical training at De Tokmost, more about keeping the players in physical condition.

At noon, everyone ate in the players' dining room on time, and then entered the lunch break.

The war was imminent, and many people couldn't sleep at all, only Yang Yang covered his head and slept without any worries.

Good sleep, this has always been what Yang Yang admires most in the whole team, almost no matter when and where, no matter how noisy the surroundings are, he doesn't even need to give him a bed, give him a cup and a pillow, he can fall asleep in any position.

There was hardly a single person on the team who didn't admire his skill, especially his roommate Sneijder.

But no one knew that Yang Yang actually entered the super training ground and fought hard with the simulated Chrissy again for two or three hours, until the team's pre-match preparation meeting, Sneijder called him to wake up.

"Sometimes I really think that the University of Amsterdam should consider tying you back to slicing and studying, to see what kind of structure you have, and it's infuriating that you can sleep so well." Sneijder grumbled sourly.

Yang Yang smiled, "This is our family heirloom, you can't envy it." ”

The pre-match preparations were held in De Tokmost's conference room, including technical director Louis van Gaal, including the entire coaching staff of the first team, and all the players of the first team were present, even those who were not in the squad.

Head coach Ronald Koeman presided over the meeting, mainly to introduce the opponents of this match, Arsenal.

Most of the meeting was spent studying Arsenal, and through PPT and video recordings, the coaching staff hoped that the players could be as familiar and understand the opponent as possible in this game, and these were basically watched by Yang Yang last night.

The rest of the time is mainly about announcing starting tactics and starting lineups.

'Everyone knows that our opponents Arsenal are one of the strongest teams in Europe at the moment, we don't have the slightest advantage compared to such opponents, but tonight is our home stadium and our only chance.

Ronald Coman looked at all the players with a serious face, and he wanted everyone to feel his thoughts and his desire to win.

'I can say that if we don't win Arsenal at home and we don't have any chances at Highbury, then Ashley Cole will come back and Gilberto Silva will come back and we'll be away again and we won't get any chances.

"So, in the two-legged knockout round, if we still want to win and fight for it, then the home team has to play our best and use our best performance to get a win."

Ronald Koeman's remarks are basically agreed by everyone, this is the consensus.

The Premier League away from home is notoriously difficult to play, especially against a strong team like Arsenal, they are too balanced, both offensive and defensive, if you can't win at home, you are basically on the road.

On the contrary, if the home team can win the opponent, there is still a chance to survive the away game.

Van Gaal, the technical director on the side, remained silent and waited until Ronald Koeman finished speaking, and then he stepped forward.

Everyone knew that he had something to say, and they all looked at him silently.

"I've been doing professional football for decades, starting as a player, and then I led the team, no matter how young my team is, no matter what the strength of my team is, I've always told my players that it's never impossible on the football field, as long as you want to, as long as you are willing to do it, then you will have the opportunity to do it."

Many people nodded in unison, even Ibrahimovic, who was the most unpleasant to Van Gaal.

At this time, what Ajax needs most is unity, not infighting.

'You're a talented group of players, you got to the quarter-finals of the Champions League last season, I think that's the best thing about your quality, you're the best team at Ajax in the last few years, I think you can win more, the most important thing is whether you want to do it or not.

As soon as Van Gaal stopped, there was a dead silence in the conference room.

"A lot of people say that the team I led was the last glory of Ajax, but I think this sentence is, because when I led the team, many people said that the last glory of Ajax was during the Van Basten period, but now it has changed, why?"

Van Gaal raised his right index finger, "Everyone who wears this shirt is making history, you have been in the quarter-finals, I believe that you definitely have a chance to make your history, so that everyone will talk about it in the future, you are the peak of Ajax's glory." ”

As soon as Van Gaal's words fell, there was a burst of warm applause at the scene, and Yang Yang was also deeply encouraged and applauded vigorously.

Heroes and times are always indistinguishable from each other.

Ronald Koeman didn't have a good relationship with Louis van Gaal, but he shook hands with the technical director and thanked him for his encouragement.

Subsequently, the head coach of Ajax announced the team's starting tactics for this game, which surprised everyone in the stadium and was also very excited, because the coaching staff decided to attack this game.

"I ask you to press Arsenal from the first second of the game and press them until we score!" Ronald Coman shouted.

Against a powerful Arsenal side, this decision was full of courage and boldness, and it also made the young players enthusiastic.

When Luther Carroll announced the team's starting line-up, pushing forward from the goalkeeper was basically Ajax's strongest fighting force, especially after right wing-back Trabelsi returned with the Africa Cup of Nations title, which made Ajax even more powerful.

The front trident is Wesley Sonk, Ibrahimovic, and ......

“…… Yang Yang! ”