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Afterwards, when they recalled Qin Xiong's performance in the past two months, Ajax's First Team teammates, especially the main players with a stable position, were very happy.
That meant that the overall strength of their team had improved. Modern football required more and more team strength. Whether it was a star player or a superstar, if they were ambitious for the glory of the championship, they would naturally put the team strength first.
Ajax's improvement after Comain's tactical reform was obvious to all, which made the atmosphere in the team better day by day. There was healthy competition and a positive mentality.
On the weekend, Feyenoord was a guest at the Amsterdam Sports Arena.
Because of the European game, although Comain attached great importance to the game, he urged the players to use a "smart" way to defeat the opponent.
Whenever Comain said a "smart" way to play in the locker room or in the pre-game preparation meeting, the players understood tacitly.
To put it bluntly, Comain just used a euphemistic way to prevent the team from injury and physical exhaustion.
The so-called smart was to reduce the enthusiasm of the attack, focus more on control, patiently look for opportunities, and reduce the number of risks.
On the last day of November, the cold wind was bleak.
Van Marwijk led Feyenoord to Amsterdam and walked into Ajax's home ground to welcome a difficult game.
Feyenoord Club was now in a dark period under the control of chairman Henrik!
The chairman wanted to take care of everything, no matter how big or small. As a result, the club's middle management became a toothless tiger, and the tyrant chairman did not seem to be very insightful, causing many of the team's decisions to be wrong from top to bottom, and the club was in chaos.
Feyenoord was the third biggest club in the Netherlands, but in recent years, it had not been valued by PSV Eindhoven and Ajax because the other side always dropped the ball, either because of the competition or because of the management. A club with disorderly management was not to be feared.
Although Feyenoord also had some good players, Dutch rookies, they were certainly inferior to the star-studded Ajax.
When he lined up with his teammates to enter the stadium, Qin Xiong was surprised to notice a small group of Asian fans in the stands. They pulled up the banner and showed it to the stadium. They were all wearing Ajax jerseys, No. 28 jerseys, which represented Qin Xiong's number.
On the banner, three Chinese characters were written in flamboyant calligraphy.
China Hero!
They were obviously from China, not Chinese living in the Netherlands. This was what Qin Xiong's intuition was certain the moment he saw them.
Half a month ago, many Chinese fans would cheer for Qin Xiong in the stands.... Now, there were fans who traveled thousands of miles from their motherland to the Netherlands to cheer for him live. Although the number was not many, it looked like a group of people, it made Qin Xiong feel warm and touched after he had gotten used to seeing Europeans in the past three months.
After being touched, he was excited excited excited!
An invisible encouragement rose from the bottom of his heart.
It made him full of energy and his will more firm.
"The thirteenth round of the Dutch Eerste Divisie is about to begin. The league leader, Ajax, will be at home to face Feyenoord. Ajax, who staged a thrilling comeback in the Champions League in the middle of the week, did not make any changes to the starting lineup. They will continue to compete in the league with the Champions League lineup.
Ajax will start 4-4-3.
Goalkeeper: Lobonte.
Defenders: Grygera, Heitinga, Eskuder, Maxwell.
Midfielders: De Jong, Qin Xiong, Pienaar.
Forwards: Van Der Vaart, Ibrahimovic, Snede.
Although Feyenoord has maintained a threat to the league title all year round, they always give people the impression that they are slowly withdrawing from the war for the championship. 7 wins, 3 draws, and 2 losses. In the first 12 rounds, Feyenoord got 24 points. However, compared with Ajax's 11 wins and 1 loss, there is a huge gap of 9 points between them and the leader! If Feyenoord wants to maintain the state of competing for the championship, then winning this game is the best to shorten the gap, but not losing the game may be a more realistic result. After all, this is Amsterdam, Ajax's territory.
Let's see what kind of formation Van Marwijk has put on. It seems that he is still full of ambition for the game.
Feyenoord will start 4-4-3.
Goalkeeper: Zoetbier.
Defenders: Gyan, Werdern, Keren, Jean.
Midfielders: Bao Wei, Song Zhongguo, Shinji Ono.
Forwards: Lazovic, Kuyt, Van Persie.
The game is about to begin. It is worth mentioning that there are a total of three players from Asia in the starting lineup of both sides, so you will see many Asian fans in the stands watching the game in person. "
Perhaps the game will have high ratings in Asia.
Japan, South Korea, and China. On the battlefield of the orange land, players from these three countries gathered.
Qin Xiong's level may be much lower than the Asian players in the opponent's formation.
Song Zhongguo, the South Korean national footballer, and the successor appointed by Hong Mingpu, the spiritual leader of the previous generation of the South Korean national team.
Shinji Ono, the Japanese national footballer, an all-round midfielder, known as the Beckham of Japan in China.
Qin Xiong, uh … a China player, that's all.
Qin Xiong himself did not care much about whether he would meet opponents from the same continent on the field.
To be honest, he could not particularly care whether the opponent was from Asia, or China's neighbor, Japan, or South Korea.
What was the point?
To set a firm belief to defeat the South Korean or Japanese players?
That was too low of a goal!
Looking at the football world, defeating the Japanese and South Korean players did not prove anything!
In that case, why should he care?
It was Van Persie and Kuyt in the opponent's formation that Qin Xiong cared more about.
Van Persie appeared on the news page of the Dutch football media frequently because he was young and talented, and he was constantly in trouble. Especially now, he almost had a falling out with the manager, Van Marwijk. However, due to his strength and the importance of the game, Van Marwijk could not exclude Van Persie from the starting lineup no matter how much conflict he had with Van Persie.
But excluding these factors, the most dazzling player in Feyenoord's formation was actually the striker, Kuyt.
There was no other reason than that he scored a lot of goals.
After the game began, the player who made Qin Xiong look at him with new eyes was Kuyt.
Ajax would play in this game, with the three lines closely combined, and Qin Xiong would control the rhythm of the whole team's offense and defense. When he strolled in the midfield and coordinated with his teammates to tear apart the opponent's defensive line, Kuyt would pester Qin Xiong from the back!
Qin Xiong did not know how strong his offensive ability was.
But his enthusiasm in defending was really unexpected.
Because in the past few months of professional games, Qin Xiong had hardly seen any striker who could defend as sincerely as Kuyt.
Needless to say, Ibrahimovic was sometimes in the state of a master. Other powerhouses, such as Kežman of PSV Eindhoven, were also sometimes leisurely. Inzaghi of AC Milan lived on the offside line …
Qin Xiong was more vigilant than before about the defense from behind, but he was still calm because Kuyt was a striker after all. Hard work and defensive quality were two different concepts. Hard work did not mean effectiveness. A pure defensive player may only need to play 50% to be more efficient in defense than a striker because they knew better about position selection, defensive prediction, and the difference in defensive skills.
Qin Xiong did not confront Kuyt head-on. Kuyt used his body and speed to pester Qin Xiong, and Qin Xiong would frequently make feints in order to get rid of him, including faking to one side when in possession of the ball, and then dribbling to the other side to get rid of Kuyt for a short time.
And if he went forward and crossed the midfield line, Kuyt's defensive retreating range would decrease. After all, he was a striker. Although it looked hard to chase back to the half of the field, what the team needed the most was still offense. When switching between offense and defense, it was not impossible for him to stay in his own half of the field, but it was not conducive to fast attack tactics.
After half of the field, Qin Xiong's direct opponent became Shinji Ono.
He did not care who the opponent was. In his eyes, it was the same no matter who the opponent was.
Qin Xiong frequently passed the ball to his teammates, sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right. From the speed of his passes, it could be seen that Ajax's rhythm was not fast, and his teammates also cooperated to maintain this rhythm.
At the 13th minute of the game, Qin Xiong began to accelerate.
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