I don't know when the Dao began, Ye Qiu became a thorn in Gretz's heart.

And not only him, but Eindhoven general manager Frank? Arneson also sees Ye Qiu as Eindhoven's strongest rival, as his Ajax side have made surprising progress over the past year.

Personal feuds aside, Gretz believes Ye Qiu was the most surprising opponent in the Eredivisie last season.

With the lowest average age in the Eredivisie, it has firmly occupied the second place in the league now, reached the semi-finals of the Dutch Cup, and reached the semi-finals of the League Cup.

Is this Ye Qiu's fault?

Even Gretz, who is a competitor, can't help but want to defend him!

He was able to win the league title in his first season at the helm of PSV Eindhoven, but that was based on the accumulation of PSV Eindhoven over the past few years.

If PSV Eindhoven had been a similar Ajax team this season, having just completed a regroup, and had been in turmoil for many years, who would have dared to say that they could win the title in their first season? Who dares to guarantee that he will be able to do better than Ye Qiu?

Of course, these words were rotten in Gretz's heart, because he didn't like Ye Qiu, on the contrary, he hated this person very much!

From the knockout round of the Dutch Cup last season, when he met Ye Qiu and his second team for the first time, to this season's Super Cup, and the league game at Philips Stadium, he has hardly ever bargained for even the slightest bargain from Ye Qiu.

In the past two years, Gretz and his PSV Eindhoven have been invincible in the entire Eredivisie, but they have lost to Ye Qiu again and again, which makes Gretz attach great importance to these two games at the Arenal Stadium, especially the first league game, he is even more ambitious.

The first league game was about three points, and a loss for PSV Eindhoven would certainly give Ajax hope of a comeback, a situation that Gretz and all PSV Eindhoven don't want to see, so this game must be won.

At the same time, the first match will also have a profound impact on the Dutch Cup semi-finals in three days' time, which is a single-knockout system, and whoever loses will be eliminated from the Dutch Cup, so Gretz must also win to reach the Dutch Cup final.

Thankfully, things have been terrible for Ajax lately.

There was a disagreement in the board of directors, and the faction led by Kearner announced with great fanfare that Ye Qiu would leave the Arena Stadium if he could not win the league championship, but the group led by Chairman Van Praag fought hard and promised that even if Ye Qiu could not win the championship, he would definitely stay at Ajax.

The disagreement in the board of directors has been stirred up in the media, resulting in Ajax fans also divided into two factions, and the media is also divided into two factions to discuss and quarrel over there, which is bound to have a huge impact on Ajax.

The game against PSV Eindhoven is so important that it can almost be said to be Ye Qiu's life-and-death battle at Ajax!

How will he fight?

Gretz and his coaching staff had been guessing for a long time, but it was clear that they still didn't know Ye Qiu well enough.

Because, when they thought that Ye Qiu would take a more steady and steady approach, Ye Qiu surprised them all, and from the first minute of the game, he pressed on it and took an almost crazy attack to comprehensively suppress Eindhoven.

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“…… Gilberto? Silva split the ball to the left and gave Abidal ......"

“…… Abidal passed the ball to Robben, who faced Oye alone in front, one-on-one, good chance! ”

"It's over, Robben deceived Oye with a realistic feint, passed Eindhoven's right wing-back, a beautiful individual breakthrough, and Ajax once again scuttled through Eindhoven's defence!"

"Robben dribbled to the left side of the penalty area, Nikiforov came to block, but Robben crossed early, low ball!"

'Ibrahimovic was coming in from just outside the box, he was playing against Hovland, he got the spot, he headed it in!'

"Oops...... The Swedish centre-forward's header should indeed be practiced again, and if the ball goes a little further down, Ajax will break the deadlock, which is a pity! ”

Not only the on-site commentators are lamenting, but the Ajax fans in the stadium are also lamenting.

Ajax played very actively from the two wings after the start of the game, especially Robben on the left, and against Oye, he was repeatedly given one-on-one opportunities, which can maximize Robben's individual ability.

"Ajax's tactics in this game are indeed quite bold, Ye Qiu's 433 pushed the defense line very high from the beginning, which is the high defensive strategy he is good at, using this high defense, to ensure that the midfield and backfield provide an endless stream of offensive support to the frontcourt attacking players to the greatest extent."

"But Eindhoven's strongest defense in the Eredivisie is not broken, although Ajax's attack is very good, but Eindhoven's defense is also in place, but it is a little embarrassed."

This is why the Ajax fans in the stands will keep shouting humiliatingly, asking PSV Eindhoven's players, "Do you dare to leave your penalty area like a man?" ”

But it is clear that Eindhoven does not want to, but that he cannot do it.

After a season of running-in and adjustment, although Ajax's midfield seems to have only three players, the control is very good, because Ajax no longer has a clear boundary between the front, center and back three lines.

The two full-backs, Abidal and McCann, can press forward when the team is attacking, and at this point Ajax's midfield looks like there are five players, and even if necessary, Lucio's forward step forward will pile the number of Ajax midfielders to six at a given time.

This is the case in attack, but also in defence, with two full-backs dropping back, the backline in place, two wingers dropping back to help the midfield, and the centre-forwards interfering with the opposing centre-backs in front, and Ajax's midfield still has a numerical advantage.

The so-called high defense, the pressing and pressing of the midfield is very important, and without this, the high defense will no longer be the team's advantage, but will become the team's fatal disadvantage.

In the past season, Ye Qiu has kept adjusting and running-in, which is to ensure that the team can always maintain high-intensity pressing and pressing in the midfield in any game and under any circumstances, and ensure that the high-level defense puts pressure on the opponent.

Playing Roma, playing Liverpool, Ajax did well, and this game against PSV Eindhoven was also unambiguous.

Sitting in the coach's seat of the home team at the Arena Stadium, Ye Qiu flipped his wrist, glanced at Hamilton on his wrist, and immediately appeared in his mind the stunning shadow of Huang Chu, his heart warmed, and then looked at the time, 15 minutes had passed, and the score was still 0:0, which made him sigh for no reason.

PSV Eindhoven are really strong, both offensively and defensively.

With Ajax's current lineup, if all the stars are mature, killing PSV Eindhoven is like chopping vegetables, but the problem is that the current group of boys are still young and still need more training and growth.

Walking to the sidelines, Ye Qiu waved his hand at the players and made gestures, "Slow down first, retract appropriately!" ”

PSV Eindhoven have a Kezman in this game, and although the striker's performance this season is far inferior to that of Ruud van Nistelrooy, his strength is undoubted, but he needs to further integrate into PSV Eindhoven and adapt to the Eredivisie.

Ye Qiu knew very well that it was easy to be counterattacked if he couldn't attack for a long time, and Kezman's speed was the biggest threat.

But Ajax's retraction was not to retract back into their own penalty area, how could that be possible, but to start arranging interceptions in the center circle.

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As soon as Ajax retracted, the centre circle became the focus of the wrestling between the two sides.

Sneijder is positioned on the right so that he can play on Van der Meyde on the right at all times.

Van der Meyde plus McConn, Ajax's right side has shown a certain threat in the second half of the season, and in the case of the left side relying more on Robben's one-man combat, the right side is more threatening, especially Van der Meyde, whose performance this season has indeed surprised everyone, and his limelight has even overwhelmed Ajax's star Van der Vaart.

Because of this, PSV Eindhoven's left side is the focus of the defense.

Now, Ye Qiu said that he wanted to retreat, and Eindhoven's players immediately pressed out like wolves.

As soon as Van der Meyde got the ball, he immediately felt that two players were around him, with Ibrahimovic following Hovland at all times, and Nikiforov close to Hovland, ready to respond, and PSV Eindhoven's defence was heavily tilted towards this side.

It's no wonder that Van der Meyde and Ibrahimovic are the kind of players who are very troublesome one-on-one, the former is fast and has a strong ability to break through, and in one-on-one, Bouma is under a lot of pressure, plus a very high press McConn, and a Sneijder who can respond at any time, the pressure on the right side is too much.

Ibrahimovic, the Swede, is a **-type center forward, he has the body of a traditional high school striker, but he has a very delicate foot technique, the speed is not slow, and the body is also very flexible.

Van der Meyde was unable to get the ball out of the way and was cut off by PSV Eindhoven before a counter-attack, but in the end the Ajax defence intercepted PSV Eindhoven's counter-attack, and Lucio cut off the ball at Brookingk's feet in time to clear the ball.

Just as Ajax was back in action for PSV Eindhoven's throw-in, Keita was close to Sneijder.

"The boss said, find Robben!" Keita whispered something as he and Sneijder passed by.

It was a simple statement, but Snead listened to it, but he understood.

Then Ajax and PSV Eindhoven had a few back and forth attacks, but neither side was able to break the situation effectively, especially Ajax, after the first 15 minutes of active attack, began to consciously slow down the tempo, and the defense line was no longer pressed, more in the midfield to gather troops.

"It seems that Ajax doesn't dare to hold it up, a little afraid of PSV Eindhoven's counter-attacking ability!"

Van Bommel's passing, Kezman's speed, these are all very threatening means of attack, especially when defending in the high position, and Ye Qiu can't attack for a long time, so choosing to slow down first is also a rational choice.

If a strong and fast-paced attack is maintained consistently, it is estimated that in the second half, everyone at Ajax will have to rest.

Ajax's attacks started on the right flank, Gilberto? Silva and Lucio both split the ball on the right side, which was also a conscious move by Ajax to focus as much as possible on the right side of Eindhoven's defence.

Then, wait for your chance!

I waited for nearly ten minutes.

Kivu faced Van Bommel with a high ball passed to Kezman, steadily stuck in early position, and the header was ferried to Gilberto? Silva, the Brazilian midfielder kicked the ball back to the right as always, and McCone got the ball in the middle of the way and went forward.

Van der Meyde was always flanked by a bullshit plaster Bouma, so McCone didn't look for Van der Meyde this time, but instead passed the ball diagonally to the retreating Ibrahimovic.

The Swede retreated to take the ball, stopped the ball firmly at his feet, and leaned on Hovland with his body, who couldn't reach the ball at all, so he could only choose to carry Ibrahimovic with his body, not letting him turn easily, and then waiting for the support of his teammates.

Ibrahimovic was of course aware of Hovland's choice, and after straining him from his shoulder, he retreated diagonally to the center circle to dribble the ball, which immediately freed him from the encirclement formed by Hovland, Van Bommel and Nikiforov.

Van Bommel had no choice and immediately moved forward, plugged the loophole, and wanted to restrain Ibrahimovic.

The Swede knocked the ball back early and passed it to the unmarked Sneijder behind Van Bommel.

Sneijder faced Ibrahimovic, he clearly saw that at the moment of Ibrahimovic's pass, Van Bommel realized the problem and immediately turned back to chase back, and he must not be stuck by this difficult opponent, Van Bommel will eat himself!

So after Sneijder stopped the ball, he immediately turned sideways, controlled the ball with his left foot, and used his shoulder and body to block the ball and Van Bommel, who immediately made a sharp stop and stood in a position, because he knew that he had lost the opportunity to break the ball in the first place.

But at this moment, Sneijder made a fast and sharp curling ball with his left foot against the ball.

The ball went past everyone and into the middle of the PSV Eindhoven defence.

At this moment, the experienced Nikiforov was the first to react and was taken aback, and Van Bommel was stunned, because he finally realized that he and his teammates had made a fatal mistake.

On the left, Arjen Robben was out of the attack, and he has barely been involved in the attack for the past ten minutes, which gave PSV Eindhoven some misconceptions, as if the player's fitness had dropped so much after a good start to the game, and Oye's solid defence and restrictions had left him a little out of the fire.

But is that really the case?

Ajax's attack was heavily right-leaning, which was actually a paralyzing move, making PSV Eindhoven habitually think again and again that Ajax would continue to play on the right side, because Robben on the left did not look in good shape.

In such a situation, PSV Eindhoven's defence will naturally focus on the right side of Ajax and ignore the left.

At the moment when Sneijder passed the ball, there were only Robben and Oye in the entire left half of the Eindhoven half, and Oye was still a little far away from Robben in order to keep a certain distance from Nikiforov.

Of course, in turn, Robben also took care to put his position behind PSV Eindhoven's defence in order to avoid offside.

But for Robben, his pace was steady for Oye.

At this moment, everyone, including the Ajax fans in the stands, was taken aback and there was an indescribable thrill.

Because Ajax, who was slow just now, suddenly accelerated his offensive, especially the speed at which Robben broke through Oye, which brought an indescribable pleasure to everyone!

And the rhythm of the game was completely broken at the moment when Sneijder passed the ball, at the moment when Robben sprinted forward!

In those books that Ye Qiu had read, there were a few sentences to describe the rhythm of the game.

"If the offensive method is likened to a fist that swings out, then the retracted fist is more powerful when it hits again."

"The fist is retracted, it is slow, slow is to adjust your arms and fists to the most comfortable angle and posture, this is to allow yourself to play faster and more powerful punches anytime and anywhere, and at the same time of retracting the fist, you can also better observe the opponent's loopholes and disadvantages, once you find the loophole, the fist will not hesitate to swing out, at this time you must be fast, you must be fast, you must be fast without hesitation, you must be fast without hesitation, and you must inflict the most fatal blow on the opponent!"

"Slow is a kind of adjustment, a kind of brewing, and it is to serve the next fast, and fast is the explosion after the slow accumulation to a certain extent."

Ye Qiu admires this fist theory of controlling the rhythm very much, and he also knows very well that the so-called control of the rhythm often does not depend on a certain person, but requires the unified pace of the whole team to be able to do it.

It's like the Barcelona team in Ye Qiu's previous life, many people say that Xavi and Busquets control the rhythm of Barcelona, is this really the case? If they were really in control, then once the ball was out of them and at the feet of the other players, the other players picked up the tempo, then would their previous control still be useful?

Controlling the tempo is a matter for the 11 players on the team, collectively, not individually!

So, if control is not controlled by them, what role do they play at the level of pacing?

Busquets' role is to comb the midfield and distribute the ball, while Xavi's role is to find holes and take on the transition from slow to fast, which is his deadliest pass.

Harvey? Alonso and Andrea Pirlo wear dual hats, assigning players and passing the ball.

In Ajax's team, the distribution of the ball is carried out by Gilberto? Silva will be in charge, while the combing of the midfield and the transition will be handed over to Sneijder, who can also help Sneijder complete the transition by cutting inside to the middle if Van der Vaart is there.

Controlling the pace is the same as controlling the game!

Ajax's attack, Robben shook off Oyer, formed a single knife after entering the penalty area, and shook the opponent's goalkeeper Watrus after the most sloppy and pushed the empty goal, which undoubtedly confirmed the correctness of Ye Qiu's fist theory!