The Ajax coaching staff watched and analysed all the videos of Porto's Champions League matches with the players.

It took two days.

In the group stage, Porto's style of play was not particularly outstanding, and it also had the painful experience of being directly crushed by Real Madrid.

But once it came to the knockout rounds, Porto's style was very clear.

Powerful defensive counterattacks!

Qin Xiong and his teammates frowned after watching the video of the game in Porto.

If Porto were just tactically playing counter-attack, that would be fine.

This is commonplace.

But Porto are still using the rules or drifting around the edge of the rules to play side balls.

They have a lot of small actions in defense and can cause a lot of controversial decisions.

Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson, Lyon coach Le Gune, and Deportivo coach Irueta have criticized Porto's players for "cheating" on the pitch after the match against Porto, either cheating by fouls or pretending to be fouled.

The criticism didn't come entirely from post-match losses, but also after a two-legged match.

In the knockout round, Porto disrupted their opponents in this kind of local confrontation to gain an advantage in the game, creating scoring opportunities in an uncommon way and limiting the opponent's goals.

It is clear that Ajax and Porto are two teams with very different styles.

One is an offensive team and the other is a defensive team.

This style impact will naturally cause psychological fluctuations among the players.

That is, there will be disdain and disgust in the hearts of the players.

Especially when I saw that the Porto players would deliberately create conflicts in the stadium and cause controversy. Keep the game as chaotic as possible. But they premeditated the chaos to create a situation in their favor.

It's smart. It can only be said that the pursuit of the player team is different, the concept is different, and it has risen to the ideological height of the party's unity and difference, and it is not difficult to understand the frowning of the Ajax players.

It looks like Porto is not playing well enough on the pitch, it's as simple as that.

Everybody doesn't play the same kind of football.

Koeman emphasized two points in the technical summary.

The first is mentality!

But it's not just their own mentality to face the game, but also the mentality of vaccination, don't fall for Porto's tricks and be provoked by them. Distract from the game, even if it seems to be your own reason, you must refrain from the situation!

The second is the restriction on Porto's counter-attack.

This requires the team's defensive players to pick themselves up.

It's hard to see how subtle Porto's techniques and tactics are!

They don't even have Arsenal's golden left side of the equation more than the means.

than imposing, nor the wild passion of Monaco.

However, Porto's counter-attacking tactics are premised on space, which will put Ajax in a congenitally passive state.

No way.

Ajax can't abandon and deny themselves for a season, two seasons, even five years, 10 years. 30 years of offensive style.

If everyone plays the ultimate defense, Ajax may not really play.

In the Champions League. The result of conceding the goal of the defensive line many times is vivid, and Ajax's defense is won by taking the initiative to attack, rather than simply defending to limit the opponent.

Therefore, Porto will inevitably have space for defensive counterattacks, so even if the routines are not rich in skills and tactics, they can also play a great threat, which is what the Ajax coaching staff focuses on reminding the defensive players.

On the morning of May 23, Qin Xiong was packing his luggage in the apartment.

After packing his travel bag, he went to Sylvia's house and gave his two siblings tickets for the Champions League final, as well as tickets for De Cojze and his friends from Zeller, but the club only gave three and he spent money on the rest.

He feels he is about to say goodbye to the Netherlands, and regardless of the success or failure of the Champions League final, there is a good chance that he will not play for Ajax next season.

So he hopes that if it is convenient for his friends, they can go to Germany to watch this game, and the Netherlands is next to Germany, the distance is not far, and the transportation is convenient.

Sylvia and Georgia have come out of the grief of their father's death, life is going according to plan, Georgia seems to have grown up overnight, he no longer keeps saying that he wants to be a big star, but studies hard and becomes a good student who is as diligent and astitute as his sister.

And he began to secretly help out at the convenience store in the community like his sister used to, hoping to get some compensation to relieve the pressure on his sister's shoulders.

When Qin Xiong put the ticket in front of Sylvia again, this time, she didn't refuse, took it with a smile and said loudly to Qin Xiong: We will cheer for you in the stands!

After Qin Xiong delivered the tickets, he returned to the apartment and went to the club with his travel bag on his back.

All the Ajax first-team players, even those who were not in the squad for the match, boarded the club bus and left Amsterdam together.

They first went to Utrecht.

But their minds are all set on the Champions League final.

Arriving in Utrecht in the evening, Ajax first entered the hotel they had booked, put away their luggage, and then headed to the home stadium of Utrecht.

The trip was on a large scale, with the first team coaches and players, as well as the club's hierarchy, who of course had to participate in the second leg of the Dutch Cup final and the Champions League final.

Utrecht came into the game at home, while Ajax fielded a full bench line-up.

To be on the safe side, Koeman hid Pinard, who would be on the bench for the Champions League final.

It was hard to tell how many Ajax fans there were in the stands.

In the second leg of the Dutch Cup final, Ajax came with a huge advantage of 5:0, and many Utrecht fans became scalpers and resold tickets to Ajax fans at a high price, which was regarded as slaughtering Ajax fans on the sidelines to chat with comfort.

Neou-Gargenward Stadium.

Qin Xiong and his teammates sat on the bench in clean and crisp jerseys, and he and Van der Vaart and other main players did not sweat because they just walked into the court and sat here, not even warming up.

They watched the game in silence and applauded the team's watch.

The Ajax bench led by Sonk played with ease against Utrecht, who had given up defending and counter-attacking.

After 90 minutes without pressure, they defeated Utrecht 3-2 and won the Dutch Cup with an aggregate score of 8-2!

The award ceremony was relatively simple, and the Ajax players were not overly excited, but they looked wild at the moment of winning the cup, and then the passion quickly cooled, and everyone took a group photo in the stadium and dressing room with the trophy, and then left the stadium together and returned to the hotel before 12pm to rest.

When I woke up, the Dutch media sang the praises of Ajax's double!

However, by this time, the whole Ajax team had already embarked on the journey to Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

They are heading to the final stop of the season, the Champions League final.

Porto had already arrived in Gelsenkirchen a day earlier than them.

May 24 at 1:20 p.m.

The Ajax bus stopped in front of their hotel in Gelsenkirchen.

The Ajax players were shocked when they got out of the car.

Surrounded by reporters in front of the hotel, they quickly grabbed their cameras to capture the arrival of the Ajax team.

Is this more spectacular than the group of journalists they have encountered before, 30 or 50, or more?

I don't know, maybe there are a lot of multimedia reporters from all over Europe, including outside Europe, and the annual Champions League final is highly anticipated, and its influence is naturally not the same as that of the usual games.

Qin Xiong's eyes flashed by the flash after getting out of the car, and he felt a little uncomfortable, so he raised his hand to block both sides of his vision, and it was the first time he had experienced such a large-scale reporter shooting scene, and he looked a little wolf briskly walking into the hotel.

As for the reporters' gossip questions, he couldn't hear them clearly, and it seemed that he heard the sound of Chinese Chinese, but he didn't have time to turn back.

Porto and Ajax are finally in the city where the final will be held.

Two dark horses who have fought their way out of the encirclement, who can win the crown in the end?

There are 56 hours left until the 2003-2004 Champions League final

The clock of the countdown has struck. (To be continued......) R1292