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As the manager, Adrianse was assessing the situation on the sidelines. He had already roughly seen the situation on the field, but the AZ Alkmaar players who were in the game might not be able to see it clearly.
As always, they wanted to charge forward and fight fiercely. They wanted to overturn the local giant, Ajax!
Perhaps they naively thought that if they could equalize the score once, there would be a second time!
But Ajax should be better than them in terms of talent and mentality.
They were caught off guard in the first half and recovered after the break. In the second half, if AZ Alkmaar repeated the same trick and Ajax still panicked, then this team would not have been able to force AC Milan into a corner last season!
They still pressed forward aggressively and wanted to bombard Ajax. But Ajax was already mentally prepared. With Snede and Van Der Vaart retreating, they did not create a good chance for the opponent to shoot.
On the contrary, in the 57th minute, Ajax's counterattack was a fatal threat.
Eskuder intercepted the ball in the penalty area and passed it straight ahead. Snede directly passed the ball under the opponent's close pursuit. Van Der Vaart also fell into a tight encirclement and did not dare to control the ball. He also kicked the ball out.
But when Van Der Vaart kicked the ball out, the space in front of him was flat!
The target of Van Der Vaart's pass was Qin Xiong, who was running forward.
Qin Xiong, who crossed the field, had already left AZ Alkmaar's defensive circle behind him. In front of him was AZ Alkmaar's broken defensive line.
This time, he strode forward with the ball.
AZ Alkmaar only had one defensive midfielder and two center backs left.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic may have been ready to fight a match against AC Milan. His enthusiasm in the second half was obviously lower. At this moment, Qin Xiong's speed of passing the ball made Ibrahimovic and Qin Xiong not in the same rhythm.
Qin Xiong didn't see any openings for Ivan to run away, so he chose to do it himself.
The retreating Alkmaar defensive line finally had to snipe Qin Xiong in front of the penalty area. The defensive midfielder, Walters, faced Qin Xiong head-on.
Qin Xiong slowed down his dribbling speed and nimbly made a move in front of Walters to pull the ball to the right to break through. Walters lost his center of gravity and was directly broken through by Qin Xiong!
After the successful breakthrough, Qin Xiong already had an angle to shoot. He did not dawdle, nor did he charge into the penalty area. He directly raised his leg from the right side of the penalty area and shot a long shot!
He was very confident in this shot. Compared to his previous long shots, he would either shoot half a high ball or shoot a high ball into the top corner of the goal. This time, he chose to shoot low. The football flew less than half a meter off the ground towards the goal and bounced in the small penalty area. After bouncing, the football suddenly accelerated and went straight to the bottom right corner of the goal!
The bouncing ball itself was a great challenge for the goalkeeper to save and predict. Coupled with the wet and slippery field and the acceleration of the football bouncing on the ground, it was simply a goalkeeper's nightmare!
Timor, who was playing as a substitute for Edwin van der Sar in the Netherlands national team, pounced, but it was clear that before he could reach, the ball had already entered the net.
"3: 1, Qin Xiong performs a wonderful long shot to break through the goal! He crushed Alkmaar's hope and will also end Alkmaar's unbeaten record for more than a month! Ajax leads Alkmaar 3: 1 in the away game! "
After Qin Xiong scored, he deliberately ran to the away team's fans stand. Freddy was standing in the first row. He hugged Freddy, and Dekoiz pulled him over and kissed him on the forehead, laughing and praising his performance.
The last time he scored was also in an away game. However, at that time, Ajax was not in the lead. Today was different. Qin Xiong was in the mood to celebrate, and the first thing he thought of was to hug Freddy.
Alkmaar's fans and players seemed to have completely accepted reality.
Ajax would not repeat the same mistakes, and would not be stumped by the same tricks.
Ajax, on the other hand, was after all a gathering of geniuses, the talented Ajax. They found a way to restrain their opponents, and dominated the game!
Adrianse admitted defeat.
Under such circumstances, he had no choice but to admit defeat.
On the football field, sometimes hot-bloodedness could not defeat talent!
Otherwise, in the football world, there would be no absolute superstars, like the alien Ronaldo, like the artist Zidane, like the genius Rivaldo …
Even though one of the two teams was in the lead and the other was in second place, and there was only a difference of two points between them, the difference in strength in this battle for the top of the rankings was definitely much greater than the previous round of the Dutch National Derby!
It was so big that as long as Ajax did not continuously make mistakes, even if Alkmaar fought with the mentality of mutual destruction, they would not be able to make a comeback!
Comain applauded Qin Xiong's goal from the sidelines, and then began to deploy his troops.
There was still half an hour left in the game, but Comain felt that the situation was completely under Ajax's control.
From now on, they could prepare for the life and death battle against AC Milan in four days.
He had used up two of his substitutions.
Sikora and Ibrahimovic were substituted off the field.
The substitutions were Sonke and O 'Brien.
O 'Brien and De Jong played as the two defensive midfielders, and Sonke replaced Ibrahimovic.
O 'Brien brought the tactical instructions from the manager, and told Qin Xiong: Control the game, reduce the consumption!
Snede, Van Der Vaart, and Qin Xiong, the three of them would work together to stabilize the game. Sonke would be in the front to suppress the defense line, so that the opponent would not dare to press forward recklessly. In terms of tactics, it could be said that they controlled the opponent perfectly.
This kind of job of controlling the situation was very easy for Qin Xiong.
It was not to control the ball for a long time without shooting, but to shape the game situation.
The focus of his observation was on the opponent's formation.
AZ Alkmaar had two forwards and two midfielders. If they did not retreat to defend, Qin Xiong would lead the midfield line and slowly press forward, and he would be able to unravel the cocoon and launch a threatening offensive.
This was, of course, what AZ Alkmaar feared. Therefore, Qin Xiong had to ensure that every time he launched a threatening offensive, all of AZ Alkmaar's players would retreat to the half of the field!
Even if Ajax's offensive failed, it did not matter. AZ Alkmaar would not have a good opportunity to counterattack. On one hand, Ajax's defensive system was tight and there were no openings. On the other hand, AZ Alkmaar wanted to counterattack. Their starting position was in the back half of the field, and they could not organize a quick attack.
Under such circumstances, AZ Alkmaar was even more uncomfortable. On the other hand, they were suppressed by Ajax to the point that they did not dare to move!
After Sonke came on, he received a wonderful pass from Van Der Vaart and Snede. Unfortunately, perhaps because of the rainy day, Sonke's shooting was not up to par. However, the tactical objective was achieved, which was to intimidate AZ Alkmaar and make them not dare to act rashly.
AZ Alkmaar was sullenly on their home ground. Even though they were down 1: 3, they could not rush out recklessly.
Comain observed the situation on the field seriously from the sidelines. He already had a general understanding of Qin Xiong's position. The problem he was thinking about now was: Pinar was about to return to the team!
Between Qin Xiong and Pinar, there was no difficult choice. Clearly, Comain trusted Qin Xiong more.
However, if he wanted to integrate Pinar into the team, then, where should he start from in terms of technical and tactical changes?
Following the referee's whistle, the curtains fell on the first match of the tenth round of the Eredivisie.
Ajax defeated AZ Alkmaar 3: 1 in the away game.
After the match, Qin Xiong and his teammates high-fived one another. In truth, during the last twenty minutes of the match, they moved at a steady pace on the field and did not expend any energy at all.
On the way back to the locker room, captain Van Der Vaart, who had left first, was stopped by the reporters for an interview. The Dutch golden boy was in high spirits. When the reporters asked about the key to Ajax's victory, Van Der Vaart first praised the performance of the entire team. Then, when he saw Qin Xiong passing by, he pulled him over and smiled. "And him. His performance was amazing. Qin Xiong has made us stronger. We will definitely win the league this year!"
Qin Xiong was not used to being interviewed. It was a foreign experience and he did not want to waste his energy on it. He laughed as he shook off Van Der Vaart's hand and quickly walked away.
Comain did not praise the team after the match. What he said to the media was almost exactly the same as what he said in the locker room.
"Ajax does not have time to enjoy the victory now. Although the taste of victory is wonderful, we have a more serious test ahead of us. In less than three days, the defending champions of the Champions League, AC Milan, will arrive in Amsterdam. Our situation in the Champions League is not good. Now, we have to forget about the league and focus all our attention on the Champions League. We cannot afford to lose in the upcoming Champions League matches!"
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