Chapter 63 A Mess

There is a kind of person who always behaves proudly in front of others because of their low self-esteem.

This is a disguise under the consciousness of self-protection, because they don’t want others to see their inferiority side, so even if such people are injured, they will choose to lick their wounds secretly in a place where no one is around, But in front of others, he still showed aloof and arrogant.

Ye Qiu is a head coach. He has to come into contact with all kinds of people. It is impossible for all players to get along well with each other, and it is impossible for all players to be obedient and obedient. Therefore, Bobby Harms is right. To control a team and manage players well, you must learn how to understand them and understand what they want.

Regarding what happened to Ibrahimovic this time, Ye Qiu could definitely use the authority of a head coach to directly punish and suppress him, but what about after that? Ibrahimovic will only become more rebellious, and Ye Qiu may even lose a promising player and future star because of this.

Therefore, Ye Qiu helped, but not without restraint.

He will not encourage Ibrahimovic's bad temper, nor will he give Ibrahimovic the feeling of being weak and bullyable. Add carrot and stick. Ye Qiu has the confidence to train this Swedish wild horse, but he has never I hope Ibrahimovic will become a good boy. If that happens, Ibrahimovic will no longer be Ibrahimovic.

After dinner, Ye Qiu said he wanted to take a walk and sent Ibrahimovic to the car.

The two of them were walking on the tree-shaded road in the community. They didn't speak at first, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward.

Ye Qiu noticed that Ibrahimovic glanced at him secretly from time to time, obviously not knowing how to speak, and he suddenly smiled in his heart. At least this proved that this kid regretted the thing that contradicted him in the afternoon, and he still had some conscience.

Looking at Ibrahimovic's trust in Haas Borg, it is not difficult to guess that this kid also has a straightforward personality and a clear distinction between love and hate, but he is a bit extreme. This is probably related to his childhood experience.

"Are you still used to living in Oudekerk?" Ye Qiu took the initiative to break the silence.

"Well, not bad!" Ibrahimovic replied.

Ye Qiu smiled faintly, "The house I rented has a spare room downstairs. We also plan to rent it out. You can return it and move here to live with me for a few months. Food and rent are included. Well, I will deduct it from your salary!"

Ibrahimovic was stunned. He was not stupid. He immediately thought that Ye Qiu was helping him to tide over the difficulties. Otherwise, he would be empty-handed now and not even have any money. After tonight's meal, what would he do tomorrow? What to do the day after tomorrow? What about the next two months?

After understanding this, Ibrahimovic remained silent because he knew that he had no other way to go.

"You signed your contract yourself. If you really want to blame me, I can only blame you for trusting the wrong person. You put all your transfer rights in the hands of Haas Borg. In order to increase the transfer fee, he lowered it. This is a common practice in the European transfer market. You can’t blame anyone, but I can promise that if you perform well, I will consider giving you a new contract next season!”

Ibrahimovic was stunned for a moment and looked at Ye Qiu, but the latter looked ahead and kept walking, as if he had never said these words at all. This made Ibrahimovic not very sure, and Ye Qiu was worried What exactly is the idea?

However, I guess it shouldn’t be a bad thing!

"Go to Detok Most early tomorrow. In the locker room, in front of your teammates, apologize to them and write a review. What happened in the afternoon has been seen by reporters and some fans. I don't want to cause trouble. Yes, just do as I say!”

This means that Ye Qiu wants to help him suppress this matter. Otherwise, with Ajax's strictness, Ibrahimovic will not be able to eat good fruits, and he will have to shed his skin even if he does not die.

"Don't think I'm easy to talk to. If it happens again, just pack up and leave!"

After saying that, the two of them happened to reach the intersection. Ye Qiu looked at Ibrahimovic, turned around and walked back.

Ibrahimovic turned around and looked at Ye Qiu. He knew in his heart that Ye Qiu was helping him, but he didn't say it. But relatively speaking, apologizing and writing self-criticisms were also a good way for him to save face. It's a very serious punishment, it can be regarded as a combination of kindness and power.

Of course, at this time, grace is more important.

When he got to the car, Ibrahimovic was in a dilemma because his car had no gas at all.

Just when Ibrahimovic was wondering whether to go back to Ye Qiu to borrow some money, he saw a pickup truck approaching in the distance. A staff member from a gas station got out of the car and gave him a small bucket of the most expensive oil. Good gas.

"By the way, the man just asked me to tell you, don't drive a Mercedes-Benz in the future, run more!" The gas station clerk himself didn't understand what this meant, but only Ibrahimovic understood it. .

This is the oil that Ye Qiu sent him. What this means is that he should stop driving a Mercedes-Benz in the future. Running more means running to the training base and running more on the court. It can be said that he wants to run more. Double meaning.

After adding oil and starting the fire several times, it finally started. Ibrahimovic felt a sense of joy in his heart.

It was as if the haze that had been accumulating on his head for several days finally dissipated and he could see the sunshine again, which was indescribably comfortable.

He was originally a young man, and he was relatively positive and optimistic about many things. After Ye Qiu gave him a helping hand, he gradually forgot the unhappiness of the past few days, but in his heart he felt sorry for Haas Berg's actions. Indignant, I vowed to myself that sooner or later I would find an opportunity to teach him a lesson.

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Early the next morning, Eliza arrived at Ibrahimovic's house and supervised Ibrahimovic's move.

The room on the first floor was in a corner and was dark, but it was barely habitable, and it had air conditioning and heating, so what was there to be afraid of?

Ibrahimovic was very satisfied with the room, but he was even more satisfied with his roommate.

Huang Chu and Eliza were both rare beauties, and what was even more rare was that Huang Chu had excellent cooking skills. Ibrahimovic was completely fascinated by the Chinese food she made after eating it once, and Huang Chu and Eliza had a good impression of Ibrahimovic. With Ye Qiu helping to talk, they all agreed to let Ibrahimovic live here for the next three months.

After dinner, Ye Qiu, Huang Chu and Ibrahimovic all went to De Tokmost on time.

2000 was the centenary celebration of the establishment of the Ajax Club. Although the team lost to Twente on its 100th birthday and suffered a great humiliation, a series of celebrations still had to continue, one of which included the re-hosting of the Amsterdam Cup Invitational Tournament.

This event has been suspended for many years, but this time the club decided to re-organize it to celebrate the team's 100th birthday.

The three teams invited to the newly organized Amsterdam Cup are Lazio, the league champion of last season in Serie A, Arsenal, the runner-up of the Premier League, and Barcelona, ​​the runner-up of La Liga. Among them, the head coach of Barcelona last season was Louis van Gaal, but this season Van Gaal resigned and Ferrer took over Barcelona.

Ajax fans have mixed feelings about this team founded by Louis van Gaal. First of all, this is a team with a strong Ajax tradition. From Michels to Cruyff to Van Gaal, the head coaches or players from Ajax basically have a close relationship with Barcelona. There are also many former Ajax players in this team.

But Ajax fans resent this team because it was them who tempted the De Boer brothers and Litmanen with five times the salary, causing Ajax to completely fall apart and encounter a humiliating season. Van Gaal also broke his promise not to poach players from Ajax.

All three teams are well-known strong teams in Europe. Ajax has just been reorganized, and encountering such strong teams is also a good opportunity for training. Therefore, Ye Qiu attaches great importance to the Amsterdam Cup and specially arranged two related warm-up matches before the cup.

In order to encourage offense and goals, the re-run Amsterdam Cup, in addition to the rule of 3 points for victory and 1 point for draws, also added a rule that 1 goal will add 1 point, and finally the championship will be determined according to the ranking of the standings.

According to the schedule, Ajax played against Lazio and Arsenal respectively, but did not play against Barcelona. However, Ye Qiu decided to arrange a warm-up match with Barcelona after the cup match, because he always felt that competing with such a strong team would expose the team's problems.

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After three weeks of training in Amsterdam, Ajax finally ushered in the first warm-up match after the new season training.

Since the training camp was arranged in Amsterdam, Ajax's warm-up opponents also tried to choose surrounding teams, but Ye Qiu hoped that the team's warm-up opponents were all important, so he finally chose the Belgian League champion Anderlecht as Ajax's first warm-up opponent.

Going to challenge Anderlecht away, Ye Qiu also attached great importance to this game and arranged the strongest lineup.

The goalkeeper is Fred Grimm, the back line is Abidal, Kivu, Lucio and Heitinga, the three midfielders are De Jong, Sneijder and Keita, the front trident is Van der Meyde on the left, Huntelaar in the middle, and Van der Vaart on the right. After the latter performed well in the Dutch Cup final, Ye Qiu has basically determined that he will play on the right.

In the first game after the reorganization, Ajax players were also very careful.

After the opening, the players carefully implemented Ye Qiu's tactical arrangements. The back line actively pressed forward and adopted a high-position defense strategy. The midfield was formed by De Jong and Keita to form an interception zone to protect the defense line, and Sneijder was responsible for organization and passing.

Anderlecht's offensive tactics are mainly based on center forward Jan Koller. This tall Czech player who scored 20 goals in 33 games in the Belgian League last season is the offensive core of Anderlecht. In this game, Ye Qiu focused on Lucio to guard him.

At the beginning of the game, Ajax actively turned the tables, used high-position defense, strengthened the pressure in the middle and front court, and launched an active front-court press against Anderlecht. In addition, the defense line moved forward, causing Jan Koller to leave the most threatening penalty area, and Anderlecht's power was greatly reduced, and the situation was somewhat passive.

On the contrary, Ajax caused chaos in Anderlecht after the front-court press, and the left-wing Van der Meyde and the right-wing Van der Vaart were very active on both sides, which caused Anderlecht's defense on both sides.

At the beginning of the game, Van der Meyde took advantage of two opportunities to get the ball and decisively used speed and technology to attack Anderlecht's right side, but he did not do well in the last pass. He played more on the right side. After being arranged by Ye Qiu to the left side, he was still not very adaptable, and Ye Qiu asked him to cut inside more, but he was unable to display it.

On the contrary, it was Van der Vaart on the right who suddenly cut inside to the front of the penalty area after Van der Meyde attracted defensive pressure. In the 16th minute, he got the ball from the right and kicked a long shot from outside the penalty area, which made the Anderlecht players sweat. The ball just brushed the crossbar.

But just 3 minutes later, it was Van der Vaart who cut inside from the right and completed a two-pass cooperation with Sneijder who came in from behind. Sneijder passed the ball directly to the penalty area. Huntelaar hurriedly kicked the ball, but the angle was too straight and was saved by the goalkeeper.

Ye Qiu felt a little regretful for creating two consecutive scoring opportunities, but Ajax failed to seize them. At the same time, he also noticed that Huntelaar still lacked dominance in the penalty area.

It should be said that this is why Ye Qiu is more optimistic about Ibrahimovic than Huntelaar.

The latter's physique and skills enable him to play a greater role in the team's arrowhead, and he can be a fulcrum or a terminator, but Huntelaar's characteristics make him only a terminator, not a fulcrum.

If after the start, Ajax's forward line can have a player who can hold the ball, or suppress the opponent's central defender, the situation will be completely different, at least the offensive threat will be greater.

After a long time of attack, Ajax's defense line revealed a flaw.

In the 37th minute, Anderlecht made a quick counterattack from the wing and pushed the ball into Ajax's half. After holding the ball, after Jan Kohler entered the penalty area, he kicked the ball from the wing. Jan Kohler entered the penalty area and headed the ball into the goal guarded by Grimm before Lucio and Kivu, 1:0.

This goal also completely exposed many problems of Ajax.

First of all, in the midfield, Gilberto Silva had a minor injury in training, so Ye Qiu did not bring him to Belgium for this game. De Jong and Keita, who were entrusted with important tasks, had loopholes in the protection of the defense line, which directly exposed the defense line to the opponent's artillery fire.

Of course, Lucio and Kifu also need to be responsible for this goal. These two central defenders have big problems in tacit understanding and cooperation.

I remember Sacchi said that from a defensive perspective, all mobile goals occur when switching from regional defense to man-to-man defense. At this time, the defender's grasp and choice of timing and prediction of the situation play a key role.

Just like the goal just now, Jan Kohler entered the defensive intersection area of ​​the two central defenders of Ajax, and neither Lucio nor Kifu decisively changed from the original regional defense to man-to-man defense. They all made wrong judgments, which led to Jan Kohler's header goal when no one was guarding.

Ye Qiu had no way to deal with this.

In the past three weeks, Ye Qiu has made very clear arrangements for the division of labor and cooperation between the central defenders, as well as their respective responsibilities. He even arranged who does what and when to do it, but the players still made mistakes. This is not a problem at the head coach and tactical level, but a problem of cooperation and personal awareness between the players.

Lucio is very strong in one-on-one, his body is excellent, and he is fast, but his biggest problem is his impetuosity and the casualness unique to Brazilian players, which makes him often make some inexplicable mistakes in games and training.

When Ye Qiu was a fan, he would feel that a central defender who made mistakes was not a qualified central defender, but after becoming a head coach, he would find that there is no central defender in the world who does not make mistakes, and there is no truly stable central defender. Even the strong ones like Nesta and Cannavaro make a lot of mistakes, but some are serious, some are not serious, some are remembered by fans, and some are not remembered, that's all.

Therefore, Ye Qiu adopted the same attitude towards Lucio and Kivu, and even Kolo Toure and Heitinga, taking his time, slowly carving, and helping them to improve slowly.

Entering the halftime break with a score of 0:1, Ye Qiu made a large number of substitutions in the second half.

The goalkeeper was still Grimm, the back line was Abidal, Kivu, Lucio and Maicon, the midfield was Yaya Toure, Sneijder and Keita, and the trident was Robben, Huntelaar and Van der Vaart.

After the substitutions in the second half, Ajax's left side was more active. Robben continued to dribble and directly attack the opponent's defense line. Ye Qiu gave him more opportunities to break through and play on the wing, which made Ajax's offense seriously lean to the left. Robben had many opportunities to get the ball on the left and attacked Anderlecht's right again and again.

In the 61st minute, Robben used his speed to forcefully break through the left side, tearing open Anderlecht's defense, and passed the ball to the middle on the left side. Huntelaar followed in the penalty area and rushed to the goal, poking Robben's cross into Anderlecht's goal, changing the score to 1:1.

After that, Anderlecht strengthened the defense on the left side, and Robben also began to lose steam. Ye Qiu replaced Van der Vaart on the right side with Hleb, and let Maicon actively join the attack on the right side.

The two wing lanes were active, and Ajax's offense also began to create threats, forming a strong suppression on Anderlecht.

In the 76th minute, Robben suddenly passed the ball after getting the ball on the left side, Huntelaar in the penalty area knocked it back, and Sneijder, who came in from behind, shot a powerful shot from the front of the penalty area, once again penetrating Anderlecht's goal and overtaking the score.

2:1, Ajax overtook the score and reversed the opponent!

This score was finally maintained until the end of the game.

After winning the first warm-up match, everyone in Ajax was very happy, especially the opponent was Anderlecht, but Ye Qiu was not happy at all, because Anderlecht's performance in this game The performance was not good, it could even be said that the state was terrible.

Looking back at Ajax, both offense and defense were a mess.

"Take your time, how can you get it right in one step?" Of course Bobby Harms could see Ye Qiu's impatience and comforted him with a smile.