In the stands, Qin Xiong's friends stared at him on the sidelines with worriedness.

Georgia's voice was already hoarse, and he had been cheering for Qin Xiong.

This was the first time he had watched Qin Xiong play from the stands of the stadium up close, and he didn't have any disappointment, and he was still proud of Qin Xiong.

That's right, Qin Xiong's appearance is not good, but every time he falls, he quickly gets up without the slightest sign of deflating, isn't it a shocking manifestation of willpower?

On the field, behind the ball skills, players need the spirit of never admitting defeat!

It's hard to say that De Coize, Rute Manson came to see Qin Xiong on purpose, because they are die-hard Ajax fans.

And Freddie was completely heartbroken, apologetic and blamed himself.

He knows Qin Xiong very well, and Qin Xiong has three pairs of sneakers.

Crushed nails, glue nails, steel nails.

In Qin Xiong's training for many years, these three kinds of spiked sneakers were worn by Qin Xiong in response to different training venues.

Many years ago, Freddie knew that he would prepare a pair of spike sneakers for Qin Xiong to cope with the rain battle, but perhaps he felt that he could only be idle if he prepared early, so he kept dragging it, after all, Qin Xiong's feet are still growing, and if he bought shoes early, he might not be able to wear them if he didn't wear them for a while!

Many years have passed, and Qin Xiong has not had a demand for spike sneakers, and Freddie has gradually ignored this matter.

Until, today, this moment!

Freddie witnessed Qin Xiong's repeated falls, and then Coman had insight into the problem with the sneakers, and Freddie instantly fell into a huge self-blame.

How important are sneakers?

The first thing that came to Freddy's mind was the famous miracle of Bern.

In the pouring rain, the players of Hungary, the all-time golden team, kept slipping, falling, and stumbling on the field, but what about the West German team? They wore the "magic sneakers" prepared for them by Adidas, the spiked sneakers suitable for rain battles, and they were able to close some of the gaps with Hungary, which was one of the important factors that could not be ignored in creating the miracle of Bern!

Hungary, the golden team in history, also failed to enter the myth in the end and lost the World Cup!

Today is not the World Cup, but today's game, in Freddy's eyes, is no less important to Qin Xiong than the World Cup!

Young players want to be on top, a good table for a game, not enough, definitely not enough!

It takes three, five, and more games to consistently perform well in order to be completely on top!

However, there is a good chance that young players will be abandoned for a long time because of a bad game!

Professional football is too cruel, the bigger the team, the more competitive the team, the less opportunities and patience are given to young players!

Freddie couldn't imagine that if Qin Xiong had been beaten by Coman because of his poor performance in this game, he might not be able to forgive himself for this simple mistake in his life.

He is Qin Xiong's agent, and he also regards Qin Xiong as the elder of his children, he is helping Qin Xiong, he has no hesitation, he does not understand this as dedication, but his own business, if he does not do it well, it is his own dereliction of duty!

The game in the stadium is still going on, Ajax's side because Qin Xiong took the initiative to walk out of the stadium and played one less, the first half of the game also came to an end, taking advantage of the lack of people on Ajax's side, Groningen suddenly exerted force and began to attack the opponent, in this kind of rain battle, the advantage of "muscle power" in the midfield of Groningen will help them suppress Ajax's soft midfield, at least Van der Vaart, Pienal, can not take advantage of the confrontation at all.

Koeman was not annoyed that Qin Xiong did not prepare rain battle spike shoes, he walked to the bench and asked the substitute players, Qin Xiong's teammates basically prepared such shoes.

Team leaders, staff members who manage chores, usually manage at least three pairs of shoes for a player, or even two pairs or more of the same type of sneaker.

The bigger the player, the more sneakers, to deal with different game environments, change at any time, and even one day a pair of shoes are not suitable, and change to the same type of sneakers but different styles on the spot.

Most of Ajax are technical players, not tall, like Sneijder, Van der Vaart, Scottard, Sikora, they are all in their early 1.7 meters tall, such as Qin Xiong, who is close to 1.9 meters tall, is relatively rare.

The substitute players were willing to lend their shoes to Qin Xiong, but most of their shoes Qin Xiong couldn't wear.

In the end, Qin Xiong put on the shoes of substitute goalkeeper Stekelenberg, a player who is ten centimeters taller than Qin Xiong, his shoes are slightly larger than Qin Xiong, but there is no way, so he can only make do.

After changing into sneakers, although Qin Xiong stood firm and felt that his body balance control was stronger, he still felt uncomfortable and was very uncomfortable running.

The first is the first time to wear spike sneakers, and secondly, the shoes are large.

When he got back on the pitch, Van der Vaart and Pienaar automatically relinquished their positions to him, and then they moved forward to get back to their roots.

But just when this adjusted rhythm change appeared, Groningen seized the opportunity and instigated a wave of offensive in the middle, Pienal and Van der Vaart were almost undefended, Qin Xiong did not notice the position of the two teammates, and he was still adapting to the "new" pair of shoes.

As a result, the midfielder was easily penetrated, the opponent's striker created chaos after shooting, and Smit, who was inserted in the back, made up for it, Qin Xiong just passively followed behind Smit, less than a meter away, but could not interfere with the opponent's shot.

Groningen fans erupted in earth-shattering cheers in the rain.

Entered!

Ahead!

Qin Xiong had nothing to say, he didn't blame his teammates for adjusting their positions as soon as he returned to the field, after all, in this game, his own performance dragged down the team.

Van der Vaart, Pinard, and even striker Ibrahimovic all looked at Qin Xiong with a rather indifferent look before restarting the game.

Perhaps, the previous sparkle was an illusion.

He just burst out and played extraordinarily.

Today, that's his true level.

Most of his teammates began to lose trust in Qin Xiong.

Groningen were the first to break the deadlock, taking it as soon as they saw it, and immediately put on a defensive stance to consume the final minutes of the first half.

"At the end of the first half, Groningen led Ajax 1:0 at home, Ajax's midfield was very chaotic in this game, the starting midfielder Qin Xiong was very bad, the pass success rate was not bad, but there was no successful threatening pass, he still had 5 turnovers, 3 fouls, he also carried a yellow card, and what is even more ridiculous is that he did not wear the right pair of shoes, which is simply an amateur table. However, he is still young, only 18 years old, and he should be given more tolerance. ”

Back in the locker room, Qin Xiong sat on a chair and silently cleaned up the dirty jersey, as well as the stagnant water in the sneakers, because the shoes were big, so he didn't run a few steps, and there was stagnant water in the shoes, even if this kind of sneakers have special ventilation holes, similar to the drainage function, to avoid water accumulation in the sneakers, but first, the sneakers must fit properly.

Galasek, Sneijder, and Heitinga patted him on the shoulder, as if silent encouragement.

The rest of his teammates chose to ignore him.

Probably, they are also used to such situations.

There are always youngsters who are drawn into the first team to be observed by the manager and see how the game feels, and then most of them go back to the development team or sit on the bench for long periods of time and become marginal.

Now Qin Xiong's situation is probably developing in that direction.

Koeman didn't want to put too much pressure on Qin Xiong, so the dressing room remarks at halftime were all addressed to the whole team, and the second half emphasized acceleration, explosion, and hard work.

In the first half, Ajax was restrained and played, and in the second half, it can be said that it was a plan set before the game, plus the previous Dutch Cup, league, Champions League, and three wins in the third line, the players did not have much psychological burden, like the situation when teammates complained about each other after the previous two consecutive defeats.

Before the start of the second half, Coman came to the side of the pitch, took a look at the field on the pitch, and immediately became furious and went to the stadium manager in Groningen to complain!

At halftime, they didn't take the initiative to clean up the water on the court!

This terrible site has almost turned into a potholed rotten vegetable patch!

There are large areas of stagnant water in some places, and they are not cleaned up, which is obviously intentional on the part of Groningen!

The worse the conditions, the better for Groningen!

Koeman's protests and complaints were not met with a positive response from Groningen.

Anyway, the game is about to start, so it's just a matter of listening to Koeman's complaints.

The whole team at Groningen wished that the geniuses of Ajax would have wrestled a few more times in this rotten vegetable field, and that they could simply take a shower in it.

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