In the summer of 2000, two transfers caught the attention of fans across Sweden.

One is the main striker of the Swiss Super League Olgrutte, only 19-year-old John? Elmand, who moved to Eredivisie giants Feyenoord for 2.9 million euros, intends to use the Swedish striker to fill the gap in Argentine center Crew's move to Bologna and restructure the trident.

Almost all of Sweden is on John? Expectations for Elmand's move were high, and they were sure long before the move took place that the player would be Sweden's leading striker for the next decade or so, as he not only stands at 1.88m, but also has a dizzying skill set at his feet.

It can be said that Elmande is more famous in Sweden, and even in Europe, than Ibrahimovic.

This is not difficult to explain, because he has been playing in the professional league in Sweden since the age of 16 and has performed very well, winning the recognition and recognition of everyone in the country, and after Ibrahimovic's appearance for Malmovic, Malmo was quickly relegated to the Swiss league with limited influence.

Therefore, fans in Sweden are more skeptical of Ibrahimovic's switch to Ajax with $3 million to break Elmand's transfer fee, because in their opinion, the most promising Elmand in Sweden is worth 2.9 million, why is Ibrahimovic worth $3 million?

"This must be an irrational transfer by Ajax in order to compete with Feyenoord, because they spent $3 million to bring in a dispensable bench player in order to breathe a sigh!"

This is the summer transfer time, and a leading newspaper in Sweden has given comments, they are optimistic about Elmand's future at Feyenoord, because there is a place for the Swedish striker after the departure of Kruse, as for Ibrahimovic, it remains to be seen.

But nearly halfway through the season, everyone found out differently, Ibrahimovic has gained a firm foothold in Ajax and scored 6 league goals, but Elmander has been substituted again and again in Feyenoord, and has not yet been able to open, and Ibrahimovic has already performed very well in the League Cup, and the situation of the two has completely changed.

In the 16th round of the Eredivisie, Ajax challenged Feyenoord away.

Because of Kalou's injury, Elmand qualified for a start, and the Swedish media and fans also paid a lot of attention to this match, which they called the Swedish derby in the Netherlands, believing that it would be a battle between Swedish players.

At the same time, there are many Swedish Ermand fans who are hoping that the Feyenoord striker can use this game to regain his form, stand firm and suppress the rising Ibrahimovic.

What I didn't expect was that at the beginning of the game, Ajax played offensive football based on the hosts.

With last season's Dutch Cup final, the strength of the Ajax second team is not good, not enough to compete with Feyenoord, and now Ye Qiu has enough confidence and chips, because his team strength is better than last season's Ajax second team, and there are very significant improvements on all three lines, which gives him more confidence.

So after the opening, Ye Qiu boldly let the players press up, taking advantage of Feyenoord's slow ball advancement, taking the initiative to take a high defense, strengthening the pressure of the midfield, and firmly suppressing Feyenoord in the half.

After last season's Dutch Cup, after this season's League Cup, Ajax's strength is now much better than at the beginning of the season, and every player has made very obvious progress, and when these improvements come together, it is a leap in the strength of the whole team.

Feyenoord wanted to break free from Ajax's suppression, but Ajax won the game with Keita, Yaya? Toure and Gilberto? Silva's midfield firmly suppressed Feyenoord's midfield, and the excellent coverage of three players made Ajax's midfield almost ubiquitous.

In the 25th minute, Gilberto? Silva broke the ball and passed it to Keita, who played a short ball to Robben's feet.

The Dutch left winger won the ball and quickly turned, suddenly picked up speed and used his speed to get past Feyenoord's right-back Van Goebbels and cross low to the left side of the goal.

Ibrahimovic pressed De Haan with his body, on the one hand, he endured the opponent's physical confrontation, and on the other hand, he rushed into Feyenoord's penalty area.

De Haan didn't have time to reince his momentum and was deceived into losing his position.

If it were a normal time, Ibrahimovic would have played the ball with his left and right feet after a stoppage, or shook off Van Ondelen who was chasing back, but this time Ibrahimovic didn't do that, but poked the ball with his left foot after De Haan lost his position.

The ball went past De Haan and into the goal of Dudek from the bottom left corner, 1:0!

"Wow! Wow! The ball went in!! ”

'In the 25th minute, Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic broke the deadlock for Ajax, which was also his seventh league goal of the season, a very wonderful goal, Dudek couldn't make an effective save at all, his vision was completely blocked by De Haan.

After the goal, Ibrahimovic rushed to the sidelines, kept waving his arms, rushed to the front of the live TV camera on the sidelines, and kept pointing at his face with both hands, as if to let the live camera give him a big close-up, so that all the fans know him, Zlatan? Ibrahimovic!

Only Ye Qiu understood in his heart that Ibrahimovic was provoking the fans in Sweden, telling them that in this Swedish center derby in the Netherlands, there can only be one winner, and that is him, Ibrahim!

Although he scored a goal, Ibrahimovic's form and fighting spirit were not affected at all, but Elmand, perhaps due to his long-term lack of games, looked rusty on the field, his movements were not smooth and natural, and he made the same mistake as Ibrahimovic at the beginning of the season, which was too sticky to the ball.

Ibu still has this problem now, but it has improved a lot, and he was forced by Ye Qiu, and he was hard to pick out the details and pick out the skills, and Ibu's progress is still obvious, but Elmande obviously doesn't have this kind of treatment, the skills are good, and the ball sense is good, it's sticky ball.

On several occasions, Feyenoord's ball path advanced to him, and it was noticeably slowed down, and his habit of sticking the ball too much gave Lucio a chance to play.

That is, in the 52nd minute of the second half, when Elmand wanted to dribble past him, the Brazilian used his perverted body to squeeze Elmand on the one hand, and when he had a loophole in the dribble, he decisively kicked down, broke the ball, took two steps forward, and quickly launched a long pass.

The ball passed from Lucio's feet, crossed most of the pitch and fell to Ibrahimovic on the edge of the box.

Ibrahimovic leaned against Van Ondelen with his body, and in this physical confrontation, the Dutch centre-back had no way to take him, and after stopping the ball on his chest, he saw Keita on the back and immediately knocked the ball back.

After Keita stepped in, he got this kick back from Ibrahimovic, did not stop the ball, and directly met the incoming ball is a heavy shot.

“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL！！！！！！”

"From Seydoux? Keita's long-range shot from the edge of the box once again penetrated Feyenoord's goal, 2-0!! ”

"My God, Ajax's tactics in this game were very ruthless, and very bold, not only pressing the defense forward through the half, but even playing offensive football, Feyenoord's defense simply could not prevent the fierce impact of Ajax's players, falling again and again!"

You must know that today's Ajax is not the second team of last season, let alone the team that has just been reorganized at the beginning of the season, let alone slaughter and mermaid, that is not Ye Qiu's character, he likes to take the initiative, likes to be aggressive, and likes to completely destroy the opponent, so he likes to attack!

In this game, Ajax's strategy is actually very simple, I don't care what you do if you don't advance fast enough, in short, I just press you to play, if you don't make a mistake, I will fight until you make a mistake!

Less than 10 minutes after the last goal, Van der Meyde cooperated with McCone on the right side, crossed 45 degrees from the right, Ibrahimovic pressed Van Onderen again, shook his head and broke Feyenoord's goal, 3:0!

Every player in Ajax looks extremely excited, because they all represent Ajax, and they all inherit the shame that Ajax suffered last season, and now, they are going to return the shame that Feyenoord inflicted on Ajax's head at the Arenal stadium last season at De Kuyp Stadium!

"In this game, we have to completely wash away the shame on the team, and we have to complete a revenge battle!"

This is the tone given by head coach Ye Qiu to this game when facing reporters at the pre-game press conference, and the performance of him and his team did not insult the name of Ajax at all, and fully fulfilled this promise before the game.

Feyenoord's performance in the Eredivisie this season is very good, but that is based on the premise that they did not encounter the traditional giants, they lost 0:1 to PSV Eindhoven, which was a complete defeat, which also completely made Ye Qiu see clearly, Feyenoord is bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, such a team can not become a climate!

The only regret is that the player's physical fitness is a little unable to keep up because the attack was too fierce in the first hour, and in the 76th minute, Ajax was attacked by Feyenoord and scored a goal.

At 3:1, Ajax took away a victory from Feyenoord's De Kuyp Stadium that was not perfect, but it was enough to satisfy all the Ajax fans and delight them.

After this game, Ajax President Van Praag was interviewed by the media, speaking highly of Ye Qiu's coaching and team performance this season, and believed that it was a very wise decision to choose Ye Qiu at the beginning of the season.

'We are a young team, we have the youngest squad in the Eredivisie, we need to grow, we need to improve, so no one should expect Ye Qiu and his team to achieve something in the first season, we should all see how strong PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord are, but in one-on-one games we don't lose at all.

"The fact that we were able to beat a team as strong as Roma, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord is a testament to the quality and potential of this team, and I think Ye Qiu needs more time and trust to complete his transformation and dream of Ajax!"

Van Praag's evaluation of Ye Qiu has also been recognized by Ajax fans, after all, the team's performance is steadily improving, and the fans' trust in the team and the affirmation of the head coach are gradually strengthening.

also because of the team's satisfactory results, some directors who opposed Ye Qiu, including Kearner, also chose to silence, but the military order made by Ye Qiu was conveyed through the media.

"If you don't win the championship, I'll go!"

This undoubtedly brings more suspense to the good momentum of Ajax, because Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven have performed very well in the Eredivisie this season, and it will be difficult for Ajax to catch up with them.

But whether it is Robben, Sneijder, Ibrahimovic, Heitinga, or Van der Vaart, who has been forced to be a substitute recently, in an interview with the media, they all kept saying that all Ajax players will fully support the manager.

"If someone thinks our boss needs a league title to qualify for Ajax, then we're willing to help him win a league title!"

The military order made by Ye Qiu and the board of directors was leaked, which did not affect the morale of Ajax, but only aroused the fighting spirit of the players and made them more engaged in training and games.

On December 11, in the round of 16 knockout round of the Dutch Cup, Ajax challenged Zwolle away.

Ye Qiu arranged Huntelaar, Van der Vaart, Hleb, Kolo? A group of bench and rotation players such as Toure, De Jong and Maduro started, and as a result, thanks to a brace from Van der Vaart, goals from Huntelaar and Hleb, Ajax beat Zwolle 4-0 away and successfully advanced to the last eight.

Ajax's opponent in the last eight of the Dutch Cup is Groningen from the Eredivisie on January 30, after the winter break, when the match will be played at the Arena.

On December 17, in the 18th round of the Eredivisie, Ajax hosted Twente.

Ajax, playing at home, took advantage of the home advantage and launched a fierce attack on Twente from the start.

First of all, in the 14th minute, Robben forced a breakthrough on the left side, and after passing two players in a row, he knocked back to the front of the big penalty area in the penalty area, and Sneijder inserted a hard shot that penetrated Twente's goal, 1:0.

Twente then launched a counter-attack, with Heselink getting a header that almost found the back of the net that Grim was guarding, but Ajax was quick to return the favor.

Van der Meyde suddenly entered the penalty area on the right side, Sneijder's pick pass came to him accurately, he didn't even need to stop the ball, he went directly to the pad, the ball changed the original falling momentum, and turned straight to the top right corner of the goal, 2:0!

But only 8 minutes later, Ibrahimovic won the ball at the edge of the penalty area and distributed it to Robben on the left side, who went down to the bottom, but suffered a foul, Ajax got a free kick opportunity, Sneijder took a free kick, Lucio's header was ferried, and Kivu easily pushed the goal in front of the goal, 3:0!

The first half ended with a score of 3:0, but the momentum of Ajax's attack did not diminish at all in the second half.

First, Keita took advantage of Ibrahimovic's knockback, volleyed vigorously from the edge of the penalty area, and then scored another goal for Ajax, and then McCone on the right side passed into the penalty area, and after Ibrahimovic stopped the ball on his chest, he turned and volleyed to expand the score to 5:0 for Ajax!

In the 81st minute, Hesselinck took advantage of a set-piece opportunity for Lucio to rise to the top, and the Dutch centre-forward scored a face-saving goal for FC Twente, and the score remained 5-1 until the end.

Although Ajax thrashed FC Twente 5-1 at home, PSV Eindhoven were not far behind, with Gretz's side picking up another precious three points with a 5-0 thrashing at AZ Alkmaar.

Feyenoord, who have been in poor form lately, first knocked out of the UEFA Cup and then beaten by PSV Eindhoven and Ajax in the Eredivisie, also picked up their third defeat of the season, which also surprised fans who were originally optimistic about Feyenoord, because the team gradually returned to a flat form after a crazy winning streak in the early part of the season.

PSV Eindhoven, on the other hand, have been on a solid run of points and are now level on points with Feyenoord and more importantly, they have lost just one game so far this season, in the first round of the league, and have since gone 17 games unbeaten.

Ajax's performance has been up and down, but Ye Qiu's team has always been firmly behind these two teams, and the current point gap between the two teams tied for the top spot remains around 8 points, which is still a bit big.

On the contrary, the teams such as Utrecht and Roda JC are currently about 3 points away from Ajax.

As the Amsterdam Evening Post summed up halfway, it is believed that Ajax has won the current third place in the league with the newly reorganized and youngest team in the Eredivisie, and as long as they continue to maintain their current form and momentum, it is not a big problem to enter the Champions League qualification zone.

"Although Ye Qiu made a military order and will be dismissed if he does not win the league championship, I believe that more and more fans of Ajax are changing their views on Ye Qiu and the team he leads, especially in the last few games, the team's offensive football is very pleasing to the eye, which also proves that Ye Qiu is not only excellent in tuning defense, but also very good at tuning offense!"

"And we also believe that the shutdown during the winter break will give Ye Qiu a chance to prepare again, and Ajax's sprint in the second half will satisfy more Ajax fans!"