"Haven't you been complaining all the time that you don't have a chance?"

"Today, this game is the opportunity you are waiting for!"

One of the most watched matches in the Champions League group stage, the focus of the event that countless TV organizations and media in the world have paid attention to and broadcast live, and the opportunity that countless people dream of, appeared in front of Mascherano.

"You have to prove in the game, to me, to your team-mates, to the fans, that you are the guy the team needs!"

Standing at the San Siro Stadium, Mascherano was rattling and panting, sweating profusely, and he was walking back incessantly. Costa fell to the ground and the ball landed not far from him, with the referee nearby, and had just completed a penalty from a free kick from AC Milan.

Although Mascherano put in a very clean defence, he did move a little bit louder and looked a little ferocious, which led to Rui, who was very good on the ball. Costa fell to the ground, which booed him from the San Siro fans, who could have been an assist if it hadn't been fouled.

The Argentine ignored the fans' boos and walked back as soon as the referee blew the whistle to give the penalty.

Almost as long as there is a gap, the Argentine defender's mind will keep reminding him of what Ye Qiu said to him before the game and at halftime, and every time he thinks about it, his eyes will always become more resolute.

Back in front of the line, both Lucio and Kivo nodded at him, and Mascherano turned around, like a wolf, staring ahead, waiting for the prey to appear in his zone, and his expression, his eyes, were full of murderous aura.

Anyone who enters the defense zone will be killed!

In Ajax's tactical system, the midfielder plays an important role, but it always seems insignificant.

It's no wonder that Ibrahimovic, Arjen Robben, Van der Vaart, Sneijder and Arteta in front are too eye-catching, especially the attacking trident, known as the new generation of talented stars in Europe, who have been well-known throughout Europe and are highly regarded.

Unlike the trident, which is concerned about every move, the back is always the most difficult position to shine.

But as Ye Qiu said, without the strong support of the midfield and backfield, the offensive players in the frontcourt, that is, the so-called geniuses, would not be able to unscrupulously exert their offensive power and show their creativity.

This made Mascherano feel comfortable, because he felt that the manager could see the contribution that both himself and De Jong had made to the team, so they were all grateful.

Sweat slid down his forehead, passed through the corners of his eyes, was a little astringent, reached out to wipe it, and turned his head sideways to look at the scoreboard.

73 minutes, 2:1!

AC Milan pulled a goal back in the second half, and the team's attacking ability is still very good. Costa's delicate ball with an almost scalpel-like through ball went straight behind the defence, and Inzaghi cut in to counter offside and scored a solo goal to pull a point back for AC Milan.

It was a goal that gave AC Milan hope, so they started attacking fiercely and wanted to equalise in one go.

It was also Mascherano's only big mistake in the game, and he kept telling himself that this was the only time!

Ball soon from Rui? Costa's feet sent it to Rivaldo on the left.

After the Brazilian superstar got the ball and cut to the middle, Mascherano saw an opportunity, got close to Rivaldo, cut into Rivaldo's movement path with his body, and directly blocked the Brazilian superstar, and the two came to a solid physical confrontation.

To say that among Brazilians, Rivaldo's physical fitness is also quite good, very close to European players, but after a contact with Mascherano, Mascherano was fine, and his foot movements were very skillful to kick Rivaldo's ball to nearby McConn, and Rivaldo took a step back.

"Wow, this Argentine teenager has a very good physical fitness!" The on-site commentator exclaimed, "It reminds me of Redondo, who is also very physical and confrontational." ”

Sometimes, it's easy for fans to label a player because it's so easy to understand.

For example, when it comes to Redondo, most fans have the impression of an elegant, calm, and calm organizational style, and many of the so-called Redondo II are also Daiyu-type backs with excellent organizational skills such as Cambiaso, Gago, and Banega in the early stage, but their bodies are a little weak.

But in reality, Redondo's ability to establish himself in La Liga, to gain a foothold in European football, and to lead that Real Madrid side to victory in the Champions League in 2000 is only part of the equation, and his defensive ability is also very crucial.

Redondo's elegance, calmness, and calmness are actually the result of his excellent physical fitness, otherwise, how could the so-called elegant and calm factions of Cambiaso, Gago and Banega not become Redondo?

Because there is no strong physical fitness to support, no matter how elegant and calm your skills are, you will be touched and hit by the opponent's body, sorry, you may fall on the court in embarrassment at any time.

But when you are physically stronger than your opponent and can firmly suppress your opponent, you can also become very elegant and calm.

It's like an adult facing a small child, and the physical fitness completely overwhelms the opponent, will you still be in a hurry?

So in Ye Qiu's opinion, Cambiasso, Gago, Banega and others are not like Redondo at all, or only partially, if you really want to look at it from the perspective of a single back, Mascherano is more like Redondo, although Mascherano's organization and offensive ability are weaker, but at least he is closer to Redondo than Gago and others in the position of the back midfield.

In Ye Qiu's opinion, what Mascherano is most like Redondo is that he seems to have been born with a sense of smell.

Just like the battle with Rivaldo just now, maybe the Brazilian's physical fitness may not be as good as Mascherano, but the Argentine midfielder cut into the point well, which just made Rivaldo unable to exert his whole body strength, and he himself was very comfortable.

When Rivaldo, who could only exert half of his confrontation power, encountered Mascherano who played at full strength, the result can be imagined.

It seems that this time, when Seedorf wanted to break through his defense zone with the ball, although Van der Vaart was close to the side to defend and interfere, Mascherano stabbed from the side, did not engage in savage battles with Seedorf, nor did he carry him hard, but just stabbed him quickly in the gap between his dribbling.

Seedorf continued to rush forward by inertia, but the ball was cut off by Mascherano.

In the words of Mascherano's father, this kid was born with a sense of smell that knew how to break the ball, but if you analyze it carefully, it is not difficult to find that this sense of smell is composed of many different abilities, and it is difficult to explain clearly.

Ye Qiu stood on the sidelines, watching Mascherano complete a beautiful defense again, and he was happier than anyone else.

"This kid is really desperate in this game!" Bobby? Harms said with a laugh on the side.

In the first half, Ajax seemed to have the advantage and took a two-goal lead, but in reality, the scene was not as good as the score showed, and AC Milan's defensive counterattack was also quite good, with Pirlo, Seedorf, Rui? With a player like Costa behind him, there was no shortage of counter-attacking opportunities for Rivaldo and Inzaghi.

Mascherano was in the back of the field, and he ruined at least two very good counter-attacking chances for AC Milan in the first half, but all of this was not very conspicuous in the eyes of the fans or the media, as they only focused on attacking players.

Even when Mascherano is competing with the opposing attacking players, their eyes are still more focused on the attacking players, which has to be said to be a very strange angle of viewing.

But Ye Qiu, as the head coach of the team, is very aware of Mascherano's performance in this game.

It's not obvious, but it's steady, and it's well played.

Of course, it's not that he played well in this game, in fact, Rui? A large part of the blame for Costa's success in setting up Inzaghi's goal lies with Mascherano, but it was precisely that mistake that caused him to work very hard to recover the damage caused by his mistake.

Ye Qiu is happy to see Mascherano's attitude, no player will not make mistakes, the key is attitude.

For those players who still feel indifferent and indifferent after making mistakes, Ye Qiu doesn't like it at all.

"Let John warm up!" Ye Qiu turned around and explained to Roland.

Soon, Ajax made a substitution, bringing on Heitinga for the mediocre McConn.

Ajax's right side came under a lot of pressure in this game, as Rivaldo, Seedorf and Rui? Costa was more likely to roam this flank, which put a lot of pressure on the right side of the defense, so McCone didn't play well throughout the game, but he was also decent defensively.

Prior to Ajax's substitution, Carlo Ancelotti had already made two substitutions, replacing left-back Kaladze with Costacuta, and was clearly very unhappy with the Georgian's performance, as the first goal was his mistake.

The second substitution was to replace Pirlo with Serginho, who was more miserable, as a midfielder, but Sneijder had no way to entangle, and he did a terrible job of defending Ajax in the midfield position, Arteta and Sneijder The close connection between Pirlo made Pirlo unable to defend at all, and Ancelotti's substitution had the intention of strengthening the attack.

It was after this substitution that Rui? Costa set up Inzaghi's goal.

Ancelotti saw Ye Qiu replace McCone with Heitinga on the sidelines, and after wanting to further strengthen the defense, he also made a substitution, replacing Rui with Shevchenko? Costa, playing a two-striker strategy, let Rivaldo roam behind the two.

Ye Qiu saw the move, and began to retract the team's three lines appropriately, further compressing the space of AC Milan's midfield, especially letting Mascherano sit in front of the defense line, protecting the defense line, and also putting pressure on AC Milan's midfield.

Soon, Ye Qiu completed the second substitution, Yaya? Toure replaces Arteta.

The substitution strengthened Ajax's midfield, with the Ivorians excellent in their movement, defence and coverage.

After two substitutions, Ajax's defence became solid, while AC Milan began to struggle with a two-striker duo between Shevchenko and Inzaghi.

It's strange to think about it, such two top shooters in the world, combined together, would have a positive and negative effect.

And even at the bottom of the game, Inzaghi and Shevchenko failed to score.

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When the referee blew the final whistle, the San Siro stadium was once again filled with deafening boos and curses, and it was clear that the Rossoneri fans did not like Ajax at all, and could even say that they hated it very much.

But that didn't stop the Ajax players from celebrating.

Is there anything more gratifying to beat AC Milan away from home and to beat them in the opening game of the Champions League group stage? Is there anything more heart-wrenching than slapping these fans on the spot?

Ye Qiu breathed a sigh of relief, he felt that it was a bit risky to be able to win this game.

He was originally betting, betting on Mascherano's performance.

This is a choice without a choice, although Maduro is good, there is still a big gap with De Jong and Mascherano, especially in defense, so he can only choose Mascherano.

Judging from the whole game, Mascherano is not very good, and his debut is not as eye-catching as Ye Qiu expected, so showy, at least Rui? Costa's assists are a stain that is hard to hide, but overall, he's done well, well-on-the-spot and flawed.

Because Mascherano played well, Ajax finally managed to defend the result after the opening attack and successfully defeated AC Milan 2:1, which was not easy for Ajax.

"Congratulations!" Ancelotti, as the host, hesitated after the whistle blew, and finally walked to the front of the away team's coach's seat and stretched out his hand towards Ye Qiu.

This is a bit sour to say, after all, no one wants to lose this game.

"Thank you!" Ye Qiu smiled and shook hands with him.

When Ancelotti saw Ye Qiu's smile, he felt that it was not a taste, this Chinese who was obviously much younger than himself, but with a team much younger than his own team, defeated himself at his own doorstep, this kind of nest feeling no one would feel good.

"We must have a chance to get revenge!" After a moment of silent confrontation, Ancelotti finally put down a cruel sentence.

Ye Qiu smiled and didn't answer, because in his opinion, it was more of a helpless counterattack after losing.

It's like two children fighting, and the losing one cries and shouts to the one who wins, don't go, I'll go back and call my dad to beat you, this kind of talk itself is not very lethal and intimidating.

However, it must be said that Carlo Ancelotti is indeed good, at least he gave a positive assessment of Ajax's performance in his post-match press conference, but he still attributed the responsibility for the defeat to the team's poor form.

'We had just gone through two weeks of international football and came back to play another Serie A game and the players were physically tired, especially a couple of key players, which made us look passive in the game and we lost the game in a very sad way.

But immediately a reporter counterattacked Ancelotti on the spot, asking him, since he knows that the players are tired, why don't they rotate for Lu? Why don't you put so many stars on the bench, but you insist on choosing players such as Gattuso, Pirlo, and Seedorf every game?

"In terms of strength, we have players such as Tomasson, Borriello, Ambrosini, Serginho and Redondo on the bench, even if they are on the bench, they have to surpass Ajax in terms of strength, and you used to advocate rotation, but now you ......"

Before the reporter could finish speaking, Ye Qiu coughed heavily a few times, interrupting the Italian reporter's words.

"I wonder why do you think AC Milan have a better bench than us?" Ye Qiu asked the reporter without showing weakness, but without waiting for him to answer, he said again, "When we just defeated the main force of your strongest team in the world that feels good about themselves at the San Siro Stadium with a 2:1 victory, why do you think that the substitute lineup is better than us?" ”

The reporter didn't expect that the language disease revealed by his hurried sentence provoked Ye Qiu.

But it's no wonder that Ajax was cultivated by Ye Qiuxin for three or four years, just like his children, and this group of players was brought out by him, you suspect in the newspaper, yes, because of freedom of speech, I was farting when you were there, but you said in front of me, I'm sorry, I can't bear this breath.

"Put away your so-called wealthy pride, in my eyes, it's not a fart!"

Ye Qiu stood up and unceremoniously swept over the group of reporters below, even Ancelotti, who was embarrassed beside him, and was not looked at by him.

"In my opinion, there is only one circumstance that can prove that you are stronger than us!" Ye Qiu pointed at the reporter and then at himself, "That's when you beat us on the court, but I have to remind you that the situation is the opposite now, we beat you!" ”

"In my eyes, you are a group of defeated soldiers, and you have no qualifications to say that your strength is superior to us, which will only make me feel that I have heard the funniest joke in the whole world!"

Ye Qiu's words made all the reporters present feel in an uproar, a large part of them were Italian reporters, and they even accused Ye Qiu of this remark, thinking that it was an insult to them.

But there are also some neutral reporters and media who remain silent, because in their opinion, this is purely because some people are too arrogant, overly despise the disputes caused by Ajax, and were finally slapped in the face by Ye Qiu on the spot, what is there to be dissatisfied with?

When Ye Qiu left the press conference early, many reporters and media close to AC Milan were angrily bombarding this young Ajax coach who was arrogant and arrogant in their eyes.

As you can imagine, the next day the front page headlines in most of the newspapers throughout Italy will only be a single subject.

Bombardment Ye Qiu!