soccer king

four shifts

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After the winter break, when Ajax starts the journey of the second half of the season, it will take some time to re-run, and the players must find their own state.

The most important thing is the weather changes.

At the coldest time, Ajax's players were on vacation.

Players may be a bit uncomfortable with the frigid temperatures when they return to football at the end of January.

In the 17th round of the Eredivisie, Ajax played against Nijmegen at home.

Nijmegen is a member of the relegation team. When he came to the Amsterdam Arena, he naturally set up the fence.

Ajax played in a mess throughout the first half.

The error rate is extremely high!

As the midfield commander, Qin Xiong cannot escape the blame.

But no teammates or coaches would blame him.

Because the root cause of the problem does not lie with Qin Xiong.

It's the whole team, here and there.

Qin Xiong still treats his teammates with the same standards and vision as before the winter break.

At that point, they worked well together and the team was running smoothly.

But after the winter break, the players need a period of time to reactivate and recover from the cooled state.

So when Qin Xiong sent a relatively difficult pass a month ago, his teammates were able to receive it when they were in the best state, and turned it into a threatening offensive.

But now, they couldn't stop the ball and run in place, and it became Qin Xiong's pass error.

Just like Sneijder is still "losing weight", other players have small problems of one kind or another, not very serious, but it takes time and games to overcome these problems.

Koeman patiently communicated with the players during the intermission, telling everyone to maintain a normal mind and a stable mentality in order to perform better.

Qin Xiong was not discouraged either.

It's nothing more than starting all over again.

So in the second half, he slowed down the pace of the game, making formulaic passes in midfield.

Different from the exploration and creation in the past, now it is just to reactivate the team and integrate the fragments into a whole. They are familiar with this method and will be much faster than before.

Playing football is sometimes an instinctive feeling.

That feeling has come, whether it is consciousness or technical performance, it is smooth sailing.

This feeling can be felt by the players themselves.

Now, Ajax is rediscovering the feeling they used to know.

Under the command and dispatch of Qin Xiong sitting in the midfield, Ajax played significantly better in the second half than in the first half. However, it seems that the rhythm is very slow, and they lost their attack before the winter break. A devastating impact.

The fans probably did not expect that Ajax played so hard in their first league game after the winter break.

Although the defense has not withstood much of a test, the offense is indeed not ideal.

Players make more mistakes in their individual performance.

In fact, even Qin Xiong's personal performance is not as good as before the winter break.

Because of the cold weather and winter competitions, my physical condition always feels a bit slow.

I don't know if it's a conditioned reflex of neurological self-protection, or I feel a little uncomfortable after the rhythm slows down.

Until the 83rd minute of the game, Qin Xiong stepped in from behind the midfield, and after cooperating with Ibrahimovic and Pinal in an inverted triangle pass in the middle, Qin Xiong entered the penalty area and responded to Pinal's through ball. He wanted to shoot directly, but he couldn't dodge when he dodged the opposing defender's interception. The ball passed, but he was tripped and fell to the ground.

The referee whistled for a foul by the Nijmegen defender and awarded Ajax a penalty.

Qin Xiong is not a player who can fall down at the first touch. What's more, even in the penalty area, he always believes that a penalty kick does not necessarily mean a goal, but if he can break through the opponent and form a single goal, then the probability of scoring should be higher, because in sports , leaving less time for the goalkeeper to react.

The protest of the Nijmegen team failed to change the reality.

Qin Xiong stood outside the penalty area and witnessed van der Vaart taking the penalty kick.

The new European golden boy's foot wind is not smooth today.

This penalty hit the opponent's goalkeeper!

Fortunately, the opponent's goalkeeper failed to hold the ball and let go!

It was De Jong who rushed into the penalty area and followed up with a supplementary shot by Ajax. He kicked the ball into the goal on the line of the small penalty area.

In the end, Ajax also relied on De Jong's kung fu to beat Nijmegen with one goal.

Won the game though.

However, when the Ajax players returned to the locker room after the game, everyone was not very excited, and even a little bored and anxious.

"What's the kick?"

Ibrahimovic muttered in the corner while dropping his sneakers on the ground.

Van der Vaart, Sneijder, let out a muffled breath from the nasal cavity tacitly.

Veteran Garasek encouraged everyone to listen to Koeman's advice: calm down.

Is winning enough?

not enough!

What is Nijmegen?

So hard to win the game!

The proud Ajax will not be complacent about defeating Nijmegen.

Right now, their major concern is not in the Netherlands, but on the other side of the sea, Great Britain, England, and North London!

Arsenal Arsenal!

In a month, Arsenal will parachute to Amsterdam!

If they face Arsenal in the state of Ajax today, there is no doubt that they will be sieved by Arsenal!

There is no comparison between Nijmegen and Arsenal at all.

A killer Henry who frightens all defenders in the world is enough to threaten Ajax's death!

What's more, there are Bergkamp who came out of Ajax, world-class midfielder Vieira, Pires, Ljungberg and other famous players.

What will happen to Arsenal?

they do not know.

They only know that there is no winter break in the Premier League, and there may be fatigue accumulation, but at least, Arsenal's team status has continued.

The strength on paper itself is not as good as Arsenal. If the state is no longer comparable to the opponent, then the probability of Ajax being blocked from the quarter-finals of the Champions League is very, very high!

It is precisely because of this sense of crisis that Ajax players are not satisfied with their performance in this game!

The next day, "International Football" also wrote an article mocking the Ajax players who spent the winter break as if they were "refrigerated".

Qin Xiong didn't get the harsh comments he received for Van der Vaart.

After all, van der Vaart has the aura of being the first European Golden Boy, and because his girlfriend is a celebrity in the entertainment industry, the Golden Boy and Jade Girl group has attracted a lot of attention. When he does not perform well, he will naturally be under great pressure from public opinion.

For Qin Xiong, the outside world's evaluation is quite fair.

Qin Xiong's performance was quite satisfactory, although he was not as hot as before the winter break, but he did not plummet. The contrast was huge.

Qin Xiong mistakenly believed that he could maintain a stable state by exercising during the winter break travel period, which must not be enough.

Especially training is training, and games are games. If there is no game for a month, the state will naturally drop.

From the second day of training, the Ajax players were desperate.

Extra training is commonplace.

To improve the state of the team, the first is the individual, and the most basic of the individual is the physical state.

Healthy, strong and energized!

After training that day, Qin Xiong was called away by Ibrahimovic.

Ibrahimovic asked Qin Xiong to accompany him to practice more, but left the club.

He drove Qin Xiong to a boxing gym near the center of Amsterdam.

After putting on their armor, the two stepped onto the ring.

Qin Xiong didn't ask any more questions. In fact, he understood that what Ibrahimovic said was extra training, it was indeed extra training.

Instead of "practicing" yourself.

Players, players, football players.

Athletes first, footballers second.

In Ajax's youth training system, the proportion of football training may only be 60%, and even the lower the age group, the lower the proportion.

Other sports will be used to exercise the player's body flexibility, balance, flexibility and so on.

Ibrahimovic is not a player who has received formal football training since he was a child. He can have flexibility and flexibility that is different from his height and weight, and his karate practice is indispensable.

When Qin Xiong was young, he also received various sports training, such as track and field, swimming, and various ball games. He even practiced gymnastics for a while.

Standing on the ring, Ibrahimovic asked, "Are you sure you're okay? Did you punch me?"

Qin Xiong thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "I haven't fought before, but it should be no problem to practice with you, and I've heard you say it many times, come on, we can try."

Qin Xiong also specifically pointed to the boxer and coach who were in contact with each other in the ring next door. The coach is a sandbag, which only resists the boxer's attack.

Of course, Qin Xiong will definitely fight back.

He believes that the core of this thing is to dodge and seize the timing of the attack.

As for strength, we are all teammates and should be merciful.