The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 9 The Opportunity Comes
In 2013, when many fans mentioned Barcelona, ​​they would think of the Dream Team and Cruyff.

History, sometimes really extreme.

Fans in 2013 would worship Dream Team [-] as a matter of course because of Dream Team [-] and Dream Team [-], and even many people looked at Cruyff’s Barcelona Dream Team in an almost deified way. Is it really?
In the early 90s, the status of La Liga was inferior to Serie A, and it was evenly matched with the Bundesliga. At that time, Real Madrid and Barcelona were the two teams that dominated the country. Consecutive championships, the two teams completely dominated La Liga.

It is undeniable that Barcelona during the Cruyff period was indeed very effective in La Liga, but in Europe, apart from winning the championship in the 91/92 season, in the next three years, in the 92/93 season, Barcelona lost to Russia in the first qualifying round. In the 93/94 season, CSKA Moscow stepped on the corpses of Galatasaray, Porto and other teams to reach the final, but was slaughtered by Capello's AC Milan 4:0.

The situation in the 94/95 season was slightly better, but they also lost to Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 8 in the top [-] knockout rounds.

If the European record is used, Dream Team [-] is far inferior to Guardiola's Dream Team [-], and even Rijkaard's Dream Team [-] may not be able to win.

Speaking of the league, in addition to the first year, in the second and third years, a very important reason why Barcelona can win the championship is to thank Tenerife coached by Valdano, thanks to the latter for two consecutive seasons. In the last round, they defeated Real Madrid in an upset, which finally led to Barcelona's reversal to win the championship.

In the fourth year, Real Madrid performed poorly and was slaughtered 5-0 by Barcelona at the Nou Camp. However, in the league championship, Barcelona also narrowly defeated Deportivo in the last round to win the championship.

In other words, the so-called dream team of Barcelona, ​​the real peak period is only the 90/91 season, at best, the Champions League won in the second season can barely be counted, but before and after that, Barcelona, ​​no matter in terms of performance or style of play, None are too convincing.

Of course, Cruyff's excellence is worthy of recognition, but it must not be his coaching and tactics, but his understanding of football and his insight into tactics. The root cause of the ups and downs led by Barcelona.

Barcelona in Cruyff’s time did not adopt the style of ball possession in Guardiola’s time in terms of tactics. In fact, Barcelona at that time played a complex style that was very similar to the combination of England’s traditional long pass and Spain’s short pass penetration. .

European football in the 90s was dominated by number 10, and those who won the midfield won the world. This was deeply confirmed at the time. The midfielder received great attention at that time, but the front line and defense line were far less important. Not enough, this can be seen from the popular three-back configuration at the time.

In this situation, Cruyff clearly recognized the drawbacks of the three-back, and also realized that the midfield was overcrowded, and he had to find a way to withdraw from the quagmire of the midfield, so he adopted a winger strategy. Arrange two wingers with outstanding assault and personal abilities on the field to tear open the side channel in the front field.

The midfielder is more of a traditional Dutch midfielder, because their midfielder is not responsible for organization. Cruyff's team withdraws the organization to the midfielder, or even the position of the central defender, so in Cruyff In Ive's team, the central defender Koeman took on a very large task of organization and passing.

At that time, the routine that Barcelona often saw was to find Koeman after stealing the ball in the midfield. Koeman directly made a long pass over the top, directly found the winger, and then tore apart the defense through the wing to create a murderous intention in the middle.

Following Cruyff's set of ideas, but after Louis van Gaal in Ajax basically inherited this set of ideas, he continued to make adjustments and added more of his own understanding of football. But to a certain extent, Van Gaal still adopted winger breakthrough tactics, so Ajax's wingers had very good personal abilities at that time.

However, there is a fatal flaw in the 433 winger tactics. Even in Barcelona's heyday, Cruyff could not change the problem, that is, the offensive end. In order to ensure that the winger can exert the greatest threat, it must be close to the The full-backs of the defensive line move, which creates a longer distance between the winger and the full-back.

Fans often talk about loopholes, what is a loophole?
Areas that players cannot cover are holes!
In other words, if the distance between the two players is too long, resulting in an opponent player taking the ball in this area, neither player can give the first time to press, then this means that there is a loophole between them.

And the loophole caused by the long distance between the winger and the fullback is the fatal flaw in Ajax's 433 tactics!

Ye Qiu read Cruyff's views on the 433 formation, and also read Beckenbauer's understanding of the formation, attack and defense on the football field. He admired the understanding and insight of these two seniors on football, and he I also understand that the 433 tactic that Cruyff is famous for is the strongest winger, but the biggest weakness is precisely the winger.

The decline of Ajax in the past two or three years actually started with the departure of a group of outstanding wide players such as Davis, Overmars, and Litmanen, because you do not have a strong side with outstanding personal ability. Continuing to use 433 will only make the loopholes infinitely magnified in the end.

Just like the current B1 team of Westerhof, the speed of the two wide players is not fast, and the speed of the full back is also very average, which makes the original coverage area between them small and more dependent on the center The connection between the players on the field, but even so, the winger and the full-back are still frequently disconnected.

This situation was not obvious when B1 team took the initiative to attack and suppressed B2 team at the beginning of the game, but as the game continued, especially in the 45 minutes of the first half, Westhof's ball In the case that the team was still unable to break through the goal of the B2 team, it became more obvious in the second half.

The winger wanted to continue to strengthen the offense, but the full-back ran back and forth throughout the first half, exhausting his energy, and couldn't keep up in the second half. The gap between the two is bound to be further enlarged.

Under such circumstances, the opportunity Ye Qiu had been waiting for finally came!

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Sneijder looked a little depressed, because from the beginning to the present, his B2 team has been suppressed by the opponent for a long time.

He was originally given more organizational and offensive tasks, but as the situation became passive, he had to retreat more to support the midfield and take on more defensive tasks.

However, in his heart, he still had a glimmer of hope left.

This glimmer of hope came from what the head coach Ye Qiu said during the intermission.

"They will definitely show their flaws, and there will be times when they will relax, and that is our chance!"

Ye Qiu gave them encouragement at halftime, not many words, just a few words, but this one sentence was the most important, because this sentence made all the players of the B2 team see hope.

No one wants to be born a loser, who doesn't want their team to win?Who doesn't take pride in defeating a strong enemy?
In this case, in fact too much incitement and encouragement are unnecessary, the key is to see hope!

Therefore, when Sneijder saw Ye Qiu coming out of his seat on the sidelines and waving at them, he was refreshed. Then he looked at De Jong, Maduro, Rui and others, and found that they all Everyone's face is full of excitement and hunger.

It was a kind of desire similar to that of a hungry person who had been starving for a long time to see the food revealed!
The B1 team also wanted to continue to put the ball at Van der Vaart's feet. Although the same thing had been missed countless times in this game, they still did it time and time again, because in addition to doing so, they There is no way.

However, De Jong succeeded in stealing the ball!
The ball passed to Van der Vaart again and again seems to be helping De Jong to collect the game statistics!
After stealing the ball, De Jong immediately kicked the ball to the wing.

I saw that the right back of the B2 team who had been retreating on the defensive line suddenly moved forward. After receiving a pass from De Jong, he took advantage of the situation and kicked forward. It's too far away to be able to press for the first time.

The right back of the B2 team quickly brought the ball into the half of the B1 team. The left back of the B1 team had to grab the ball at the first time, but the right back of the B2 team quickly handed over the ball to the forward Sne Germany.

Sneijder got the ball, quickly divided it to the right, and handed it to the right winger.

The right winger was lying in ambush behind the left back of the B1 team. As soon as he got the ball, he quickly made a breakthrough along the right. Before the opponent's central defender Heiting and the blocking block, he passed the ball with one kick. out of the restricted area.

Ruy is a typical Dutch center forward, tall and strong, not fast, but with good awareness and solid basic skills.

When he saw Sneijder pass the ball, he already knew what to do and went forward immediately.

When Rui reached the right post of the small penalty area, the cross from the wing had passed Heitinga's defense. The ball was low and fast, and it came directly to the front point, and Rui entered the attacking state just right. .

Almost at the same time, Westerhoff in the coach's seat had already seen that something was wrong, and rushed out of his seat, shouting loudly at the court, "Move forward, pay attention to the forward point!"

In the stands, Leo Benhak, who had previously thought that Ye Qiu's team would have little chance of turning the situation around, also stood up dumbfounded at this moment, looking at the tall forward wearing the B2 team jersey on the court, Swinging up his right foot, facing the low flat ball, he poked his foot.

This shot is not difficult. Although the speed of the ball is fast, the angle of attack is large and the distance from the goal is very close. As long as the basic skills are solid enough, it is really difficult to miss it. Rui's basic skills are absolutely solid.

The right foot touched Ruy's right foot, without making a noticeable sound, turned in one direction, and got into the B1 team's goal before Stekelenburg's best save came.

At this moment, everyone on the field of the second team was stunned. They looked at the ball in the goal of the B1 team that had no longer jumped on the field in disbelief. As a result, the body lost its balance, and the forward who fell on the ground jumped up, turned around and rushed out of the penalty area.

Beside him was a group of stunned B1 players. They looked at the group of B2 players celebrating their goal in disbelief. They found it hard to understand. Didn't they still have a huge advantage just now?How did the opponent score in the blink of an eye?
Perhaps it is difficult for them to understand, but Leo Benhak knows that this is a tactic!

Rui rushed to the sidelines, clenched his fists, and swung them vigorously. Behind him, Sneijder, De Jong, Maduro and others also jumped out one by one, rushing to Rui Beside him, he surrounded him in the middle, congratulating the team for scoring the first goal and taking the lead.

This goal came so suddenly that they were all caught off guard and full of surprises.

In the stands, although there were not many spectators, there were only a few hundred people, but there was a burst of applause sparsely. Obviously, they were all surprised by this goal and at the same time they affirmed it.

"Haha, I just said, I just said that Ye Qiu must have another trick, this kid doesn't look like he is asking for peace!" Van Prager laughed, very proud of his previous wisdom.

The chairman's expression was naturally seen by Waters, which made his eyes even more gloomy.

Ye Qiu waited for the goal. He waited for nearly an hour.

In the past hour, he has been frightened, his heart has suffered more shocks than he has endured in his life, which not only makes him feel a sense of collapse all over him, but also brings him There came a kind of excitement from the bottom of my heart, the excitement that was like burning all over my body.

He suddenly felt that this kind of adventure to the unknown really brought him a kind of thrilling stimulation, so exciting!
Looking at Westerhoff again, the latter's face was as if he had eaten yellow lotus. He was not as energetic as before the game. Now he has walked back to the coach's bench and sat down, which is hard to see. Clear his face, but it must be interesting.

"Goal! We really scored! We really scored!"

Beside Ye Qiu, Roland Shepas was already dancing with excitement, hugging Ye Qiu excitedly, obviously still immersed in the surprise brought by the goal, unable to pull away.

He is the person who knows Ye Qiu's arrangements best, but he is also the most worried, because he is very worried about whether Ye Qiu's wishful thinking will work in front of the veteran Westerhof, and he is also very worried. If Ye Qiu loses, will he also be expelled from De Tokmost with Ye Qiu?

However, all these worries disappeared with this goal.

Yes, it was just one goal, but according to Ye Qiu's arrangement and plan, this goal was enough to kill Westhof's team.

"Don't get too excited, Roland, it's just a goal!" Ye Qiu shouted with a smile that seemed dissatisfied.

Roland grabbed his shoulder and shouted vigorously: "Yes, don't get too excited, it's just a goal!" However, his action of pulling Ye Qiu's shoulder forcefully made it hard to doubt that he could calm down.

Westerhoff is indeed well-known in the Netherlands, but that is only in the Netherlands, but Ye Qiu saw some tactical analysis in the godfather system, and the tactical explanations he came into contact with were all from Michele Ernes, Cruyff and Beckenbauer, a group of famous talents in football history.

In the eyes of this group of historical heroes, let alone Westhoff, Leo Benhak would be ashamed!
However, although he took the lead, Ye Qiu was not proud of it at all. He was not Waters. He clearly remembered a saying in his previous life that 1:0 was the most unsafe score in the world. So not only is he not reconciled to a draw, he is also not reconciled to a 1:0, he wants to win more.

Didn't Westerhoff boast that a match will be used to resolve the battle and completely destroy Can Yeqiu's fighting spirit and morale?

To repay him with the same way, Ye Qiu wants to do the same now!

So, I saw Ye Qiu walk out of the coaching area, walked to the sidelines, and raised his right hand high. This was the first time he walked to the sidelines and shouted in this game.

"Boys, they are obviously not good enough, don't be polite to them, kill them, fuck me!!"

All the people who heard Ye Qiu's words suddenly collapsed. Isn't this too disrespectful to the opponent?

Westerhof was already a little bit dispirited, but when he heard Ye Qiu's words, he immediately rushed out of his seat and yelled at the B1 team players on the court, "You bloody bastards, Is this how the ball is played? What do I usually tell you? Don’t mess around, what’s wrong with it? If they dare to attack, I will suppress them and completely push them back!”

"Rafael, you have to hold the ball more, don't pass the ball at every turn, you are the core, the core is to hold the ball more, pass the ball more, create more threats, understand? If you don't do that, what kind of shit core are you?"

"And you, John, you have to know how to come back after taking the ball up, don't be so rash, do you really think you are Koman?"

Westerhoff also seemed very angry. He couldn't imagine that he had boasted so much before the game. If he was not careful and lost to Ye Qiu in the game, what would happen to him?
Needless to say, it is certain that he will become the laughing stock of everyone in Ajax, and it is certain that he will leave Ajax in a disheartened manner. What is more serious is that he will definitely become a big joke in the Dutch coaching circle. so.

"That damned Chinese..." Turning his head to the side, Westerhoff glanced at Ye Qiu, and the more he looked at it, the more glaring he felt.

But that damned guy seemed to have sensed his gaze, and looked over. He even showed his white teeth and grinned, driving Westhof mad with anger.

But just when Westerhof was about to go berserk, the situation on the court changed suddenly. Team B2 once again used team B1 to pass the ball to Van der Vaart, and when the latter was sticking to the ball, De Jong and Maduro jointly intercepted the ball. It was handed over to the full-back to advance with the ball again, and after reaching the frontcourt, it was passed to Rui, who knocked back.

Sneijder was at the front of the penalty area, got Rui's back-knock ball, without the slightest hesitation, opened his posture, kicked and shot!
This kick was full of strength, and Sneijder seemed to want to vent all the depression and depression he had suffered an hour before the game into this kick.

And the speed of the ball was also very fast, it passed Stekelenburg's hand and went straight to the dead corner of the goal, 2:0!

Immediately, the audience boiled again, and even Van Prager couldn't help cheering for Ye Qiu's B2 team!
(End of this chapter)