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After winning the league title, Ajax's first-team training team has declined.

Koeman is well aware that the team has reached this stage, and it is unlikely that the team will improve through training and games, and the progress of the first team has been obvious to all after most of the season, and after more than half a season, the accumulation of fatigue makes the players may have subconscious resistance to training, that is, the more intense, the lower the effect may be.

The good news is that Ajax doesn't need to be distracted by the league and can focus on the Champions League, and the semi-finals of the Champions League, the most critical decisive point is not in the strength, but in the mentality!

So he took the initiative to reduce the intensity of the first team's training to ensure that the players maintained their condition.

This gave the first-team players more time to rest.

Qin Xiong, Ibrahimovic, Sneijder, and Van der Vaart can often be seen sitting next to the training ground of the reserve team or youth team, and the four of them wear jerseys to watch the training of the reserve team and the youth team.

In it, after Qin Xiong sat side by side and was called, the four of them turned their heads in unison to look back at the staff and smiled, and directly included this clip in the highlight video of this season's Ajax season review.

Qin Xiong will not only rest, but also discuss Monaco, the opponent of the Champions League semi-finals.

Qin Xiong and Ibu discussed the small cooperation of combining the front line.

He told Sù Ibrahimovic that when he was studying Monaco's defence, he noticed that the opponent's centre-backs were less flexible and quick, and that the centre-backs were not very old and were likely to suffer from experience.

He used gestures to outline a trajectory with examples, and Ibrahimovic understood it and tried to work with his teammates as much as possible in training to practice such small combinations.

Qin Xiong also communicated with Van der Faatsneid, who believes that in addition to delivering shells to Ibrahimovic, the existing offensive system to ensure defense also needs to explode more creative forces between them.

If the win over Chelsea was a tactical victory, then there was an element of luck in beating Arsenal.

The goal that turned the tide was a free-kick from Qin Xiong.

But that doesn't mean you can break the deadlock every time you take a free kick.

If you once again face the situation that the frontcourt attack can't open the situation, always play more with less, the small cooperation between them needs to be more unexpected!

Ajax's talents have been training less than they have been in the last few months, they are like academics, they prefer to delve into the variation of their attacking routine, they have their own ideas and they are ready to practice on the pitch as soon as a brilliant idea comes up.

Koeman is like a quiet and kind elder, always pacing on the side of the training ground with his hands behind his back, he pays attention to the discussions of the players, and enthusiastically rehearses the attacking routines.

Coman was relieved, but he couldn't help but be worried.

He knows that this summer, there will be talented people leaving the team, and he is not sure who it is, but according to the usual practice of the Ajax board, especially after learning from the continuous departure of talented people in the late nineties, they cannot afford the financial loss of players leaving the team on a free basis, and when there are signs of danger, the board will decisively sell the players for cash.

That's exactly what worries Koeman: this could be his strongest and most talented group of players at the helm of Ajax.

Even the players in the reserve team, such as Deridel and Lindgren, are talented and have considerable growth, but compared with the first team, there is obviously a gap in rank.

The weekend was a warm-up to the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals, with Coman starting the game and attacking mainstays in the second half.

After Ajax won the league ahead of schedule, the Eredivisie defeated Rocinda 2:1 at home in the 30th round, although it was not as "brutal" as before, but it also continued its good momentum.

After the league game, the Ajax first team was ready to fly to Monaco two days early.

April 21.

During the day, in addition to recuperating with the team in the hotel and waiting for the evening game, Qin Xiong also watched the friendly match in Barcelona on Guò TV.

The Chinese team suffered a 0:4 defeat at the feet of FC Barcelona.

This game touched Qin Xiong deeply.

In fact, Barcelona certainly didn't give their best, which is a bit like a commercial game, and you take it when you see it.

After all, the season is not over yet, what is the puzzle of a friendly match to the death?

Qin Xiong remembered the construction of the national team in the chat with Alihan, including what kind of style Alihan hopes the national team will play in the Chinese national team by using his personal football philosophy.

Qin Xiong had doubts in his heart.

With the strength of the Chinese team in world football, do you have the confidence to pursue the concept and style of advanced football?

Even if a state-of-the-art football concept is a sign of success, it is the players, at least 11 players on the pitch, who make the style of football possible!

In other words, all coaches know that there is one football philosophy that is the craziest in today's football world, and if it can be realized, it will be unbeatably powerful.

That is the all-attacking and all-defensive tactics that Dutch football once triggered in the world of football!

As Michels said when he explained his football philosophy: I have 1 goalkeeper, 10 defenders, 10 midfielders, 10 strikers! How can we not be strong?

But the core of the question is, how many players in the world can switch between the three roles of defender, midfielder and striker, and all have world-class ability? And you have to have at least 10 players who can work together tacitly.

In theory, once such players are put together to form a team, they are undoubtedly the best in the world!

But the reality is impossible!

Therefore, the Dutch themselves do not pursue the ultimate all-out attack and defense, and the unbridgeable gap between reality and ideals is not changed by human will.

Is it appropriate to transplant a formation, technical and tactical system that is most common in European football and even taken for granted by fans to the Chinese national team?

To put it more broadly, football is nothing more than defense and offense.

With the strength of the Chinese national team in the world rankings, can it put on the same technical and tactical system as the top 50 teams in the world? Although football is not logical reasoning, it also has the most basic strength of the strength of the contrast, the strong is not necessarily the winner, but the greater chance of winning is an unshakable truth.

Qin Xiong figured out at least one thing.

In his club career, he can pursue his ideals, play in the style of football he aspires to, and choose clubs, but under the double pressure of the national team, honor and responsibility, personal pursuits must be left behind, and the rise to the whole team, which seems to be the most advanced, popular in the world, may not be what the national team needs

The national team just lost a warm-up game, and the loss without suspense would not bring too much psychological impact to Qin Xiong, and when he took the bus to the Louis II Stadium with his teammates, he no longer thought about the national team.

The Louis II Stadium is a tall stadium, but it has a small capacity, which can only accommodate nearly 20,000 fans.

After Ajax arrived at the stadium, the players calmly changed their clothes in the dressing room and entered the stadium to warm up in order, and the Ajax fans were almost invisible in the stadium stands.

After the warm-up, the players returned to the dressing room, the first time this season that Ajax have played away and then home in the knockout rounds, and the strategy will be different.

Koeman highlighted two things in his pre-match speech.

The first is mentality, even if you concede a goal away from home, it doesn't matter, you must not panic.

The second is the goal of the game, Ajax will try to win on the road! Even if you can't win, you have to get a draw with a score.

This will give them an even bigger advantage when they return to their home stadium.

The first-team starters nodded calmly, cheered each other on before leaving the dressing room, then opened the dressing room door with conviction and strode into the tunnel with their heads held high, waiting for the Champions League semi-finals to begin! R1152