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After the winter break, Ajax will need some time to re-settle as they embark on the second half of the season, with the players looking to regain their form.

The most important thing is that the weather changes.

At the coldest time, Ajax's players were on holiday.

When football returns to football at the end of January, players may not be comfortable with the cold temperatures.

In the 17th round of the Eredivisie, Ajax hosted Nijmegen.

Nijmegen is part of the relegation legion, and when they come to the Amsterdam Athletic Stadium, they naturally put up a fence.

Ajax played a mess throughout the first half.

The error rate is extremely high!

Qin Xiong, as the midfield commander, is to blame.

But no teammate or coach will blame him.

Because the root cause of the problem is not Qin Xiong.

It's the whole team, scattered and scattered.

Qin Xiong still treats his teammates with the standards and vision before the winter break.

At that time, they worked well together and the team ran smoothly.

However, after the winter break, it will take some time for the players to reactivate their cooled form and recover.

So when Qin Xiong made a more difficult pass a month ago, his teammates were able to receive it when they were in the best condition, and it turned into a threatening attack.

But now, they couldn't stop the ball well and couldn't run in place, which turned into Qin Xiong's passing mistakes.

Just like Sneijder is still "losing weight", the other players also have small problems of one kind or another, not very strict, but it will take time and games to overcome them.

Koeman patiently communicated with the players at half-time and told everyone to keep a calm mind and a steady mentality in order to have a better performance.

Qin Xiong was not discouraged.

It's nothing more than starting all over again.

So in the second half, he made the pace of the game very slow, making formulaic passes in midfield.

Unlike in the past, which was about exploration and creation, now they are just reactivating the team and blending the fragments into a whole, which they are familiar with and will be much faster than before.

Playing football is sometimes an instinctive feeling.

That feeling came, whether it was consciousness or technical play, it was smooth sailing.

The players themselves can feel it.

Now, Ajax is rediscovering the familiar feeling they once had.

Ajax, under the command of Qin Xiong in the midfield, played significantly better in the second half than in the first, but it looked like the tempo was slow, losing the impact of their siege before the winter break.

Fans probably didn't expect Ajax to play so hard in their first league game after the winter break.

Although the defense did not stand up to the test, the offense did not play well.

There are more mistakes in individual performance.

In fact, even Qin Xiong's personal performance is not as good as before the winter break.

Because of the cold weather, the winter competition, the physical state always feels a beat slower.

I don't know if it's a conditioned reflex for nerve self-protection, or if I'm a little uncomfortable after the rhythm slows down.

Until the 83rd minute of the game, Qin Xiong inserted from the midfield, and after Ibrahimovic and Pienal made an inverted triangle pass in the middle, Qin Xiong entered the penalty area and received Pinal's through ball, he wanted to shoot directly, but he couldn't dodge when he dodged the opponent's defender and intercepted it, the ball was over, but he was tripped and fell to the ground.

The referee blew the whistle for a foul on the Nijmegen defender and awarded Ajax a penalty.

Qin Xiong is not a player who falls down at the first touch, not to mention that even in the penalty area, he always believes that a penalty kick does not necessarily mean a goal, but if he can break through the opponent to form a single knife, then the probability of scoring should be higher, because in sports, there will be less time for the goalkeeper to react.

The protests of the whole team in Nijmegen did not change the reality.

Qin Xiong stood outside the box and watched Van der Vaart take the penalty.

The new European golden boy is not very good on his feet today.

This penalty actually hit the opponent's goalkeeper!

Fortunately, the opposing goalkeeper couldn't hold the ball and let it go!

Ajax burst into the box and followed up with De Jong, who sent the ball inside the net as if he were kicking it on the edge of the six-yard box.

Ajax eventually beat Nijmegen by a single goal thanks to De Jong's kung fu.

Although won the game.

However, when the Ajax team returned to the dressing room after the game, everyone's interest was not high, and they were even a little bored and anxious.

"What the hell is the kick."

Ibu muttered in the corner as he dropped his sneakers on the floor.

Van der Vaart, Sneijder, tacitly let out a dull exhalation from his nose.

The veteran Galasek encouraged everyone to listen to Koeman's advice: Be calm.

Is winning enough?

Inadequate!

What is Nijmegen?

It's so hard to win the game!

The arrogant Ajax will not be complacent about beating Nijmegen.

Right now, their hearts are not on the Netherlands, but on the other side of the sea, Great Britain, England, North London!

Arsenal Arsenal!

In a month, Arsenal will be airborne in Amsterdam!

If they face Arsenal in the form of Ajax today, there is no doubt that they will be beaten into a sieve by Arsenal!

Nijmegen is not at all comparable to Arsenal.

A killer named Henry who terrifies all defenders around the world is enough to threaten Ajax's death!

What's more, there are also Bergkamp who came out of Ajax, world-class defenders Vieira, Pire, Ljungberg and other famous players.

What will be Arsenal's form?

They don't know.

They only know that there is no winter break in the Premier League, and there may be fatigue accumulation, but at the very least, Arsenal's team form has continued.

Its strength on paper is not as good as Arsenal, if the state is not as good as the other party, then the probability of Ajax being blocked out of the Champions League quarterfinals is very, very high!

It is from this sense of crisis that the players of Ajax are not satisfied with the self-expression of this game!

The next day, Football International also wrote an article mocking the Ajax players as if they had been "refrigerated" during the winter break.

Qin Xiong did not get the same caustic evaluation as he did for Van der Vaart.

After all, Van der Vaart has the halo of the first European Golden Boy on his head, and because his girlfriend is a celebrity in the entertainment industry, the Golden Boy and the girl group are in the limelight, and when he is not good, he is naturally under great pressure from public opinion.

For Qin Xiong, the outside world's evaluation is still quite pertinent.

Qin Xiong's appearance is decent, he is not as hot as before the winter break, but he has not plummeted, and the contrast is great.

Qin Xiong mistakenly thought that he would be able to stabilize himself by exercising during his winter break travel, and that would definitely not be enough.

Especially training is training, competition is competition, and if you don't play for a month, your state will naturally fall.

From the second day of training, the Ajax players were desperate.

Plus training is commonplace.

To improve the state of the team, the first thing is the individual, and the individual, the most basic is the physical state.

Healthy, strong and energetic!

After the training on this day, Qin Xiong was called away by Yibu.

Ibu said to let Qin Xiong accompany him to practice, but left the club.

He drove Qin Xiong to a fight gym near the center of Amsterdam.

After changing into armor, the two stepped into the ring.

Qin Xiong didn't ask much, in fact, he understood that Yibu said that it was an additional training, and it was indeed an additional training.

And not to "train" yourself.

Players, players, football players.

First the athletes, then the footballers.

In Ajax's youth system, the proportion of football training may only be 60, and even the lower the age group, the lower the proportion.

Guò other sports are used to improve the flexibility, balance, flexibility and so on.

Ibrahimovic is not a player who has received formal soccer training since childhood, and his flexibility is not the same as his height and weight, thanks to his karate practice.

When Qin Xiong was young, he also received a variety of sports training, track and field, swimming, various ball sports, and even practiced gymnastics for a period of time.

Standing in the ring, Eevee asked, "Are you sure you're okay?" Did you punch the past? ”

Qin Xiong thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I haven't fought, but I should be fine with you to practice, and I've heard you say it many times, come on, we can try." ”

Qin Xiong also specifically pointed to the boxer and coach who were being contacted in the ring next door, and the coach was a sandbag, only resisting the boxer's attack.

Of course, Qin Xiong will definitely fight back.

He believes that the core of this thing is dodging and seizing the opportunity to attack.

As for strength, everyone is a teammate, so they should be merciful. R1152