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After winning the league championship, Ajax's first-team training strong team has declined.

Koeman knows that the team has reached this stage, and it is impossible to improve through training and competition. Since most of the season, the progress of the first team is obvious to all. There may be subconscious resistance in training, that is, the more intense the training, the less effective it may be.

The good news is that Ajax no longer needs to be distracted by the league, and can focus on the Champions League. In the semi-finals of the Champions League, the most critical decisive point is not strength, but mentality!

So he took the initiative to reduce the training intensity of the first team to ensure that the players can maintain their condition.

This allows the first-team players to have more rest time.

It is often seen that Qin Xiong, Ibrahimovic, Sneijder and van der Vaart are sitting next to the training ground of the reserve team or the youth team, wearing jerseys to watch the training of the reserve team and the youth team.

The club occasionally records the training images through videos to analyze the training quality of the players through scientific technology. In it, after Qin Xiong sat side by side and was called out, the four of them turned their heads and looked back in unison, which made the staff feel confused. With a smile in my heart, I directly included this clip in the highlights video of this season's Ajax season review.

Qin Xiong and the others not only rested, but also discussed the Champions League semi-final opponent Monaco.

Qin Xiong and Ibrahimovic discussed the small cooperation between the upper and lower fronts.

He told Ibrahimovic that when he was studying Monaco's defense, he noticed that the opponent's central defender was not flexible and fast, and that the central defender was young, so he might suffer from experience, and he needed to be more flexible when playing in the penalty area. , confuse the opponent as much as possible in the running position.

He used gestures as an example to outline a trajectory. After listening to it, Ibrahimovic understood it, and cooperated with his teammates as much as possible to practice such a small cooperation during training.

Qin Xiong also communicated with Van der Vaartsneider. He believed that in the existing offensive system to ensure defense, in addition to delivering shells for Ibrahimovic, their cooperation also required more creativity.

If the victory over Chelsea is a victory of technical and tactical style, then the victory over Arsenal actually has a certain element of luck.

The goal that turned the situation around was a free kick from Qin Xiong.

But it doesn't mean that the deadlock can be broken every time with a free kick.

If they are faced with the situation that the frontcourt offense cannot open up the situation again, if they always play more with less, the small cooperation between them needs to be more unexpected!

Compared with the past few months, the geniuses of Ajax sweat less in training. They seem to have transformed into scholars and prefer to study the changes in offensive routines. Everyone expresses their opinions and brainstorms, but when a brilliant idea emerges , They will immediately practice on the court.

Koeman is like a quiet and kind elder, always pacing on the sidelines of the training ground with his hands behind his back. He pays attention to the discussions of the players and rehearses his offensive routines with great interest. It has to be said that Ajax's training system is There are specific plans, but when geniuses gather together, they must be given more free space to let them play freely.

Coman was relieved, but he couldn't help feeling worried.

He knows that this summer, the team will definitely have a talent leaving the team. He is not sure who it is. To bear the economic loss caused by players leaving the team freely, when there is a sign of danger, the board of directors will decisively sell the players for cash.

This is exactly where Koeman is worried: this may be the strongest and most talented group of players he has in charge of Ajax.

Even Dreedle, Lindgren and other players in the reserve team are talented and have considerable growth potential, but compared with the players in the first team, there is obviously a gap in level.

The weekend league became a warm-up for the first round of the Champions League semi-finals. Koeman let the defensive players start to maintain their state, and the main offensive players did not come off the bench until the second half, which is considered a warm-up.

After Ajax won the league championship ahead of schedule, they defeated Rosinda 30:2 at home in the 1th round of the Eredivisie. Although they were not as brutal as before, they continued their good momentum.

After the league, Ajax's first team was ready to fly to Monaco two days in advance.

4 month 21 day.

During the day, besides recharging his batteries in the hotel with the team and waiting for the game in the evening, Qin Xiong also watched the friendly match in Barcelona on TV.

The Chinese team lost 0:4 at the feet of the Barcelona club.

Qin Xiong was deeply touched by this match.

In fact, Barcelona definitely didn't do their best. This is a bit like a commercial game, and it's okay to accept it.

After all, the season isn't over yet, what's the point of a friendly match?

Qin Xiong remembered the national team building in the chat with Alihan, which included Alihan's personal football philosophy in the Chinese national team, and what kind of style he hoped the national team would play.

Qin Xiong had doubts in his heart.

With the strength of the Chinese team in the world football, do you have the confidence to pursue the concept and style of advanced football?

Even if one of the most advanced football concepts represents its success, the realization of football style depends on the players, at least 11 players on the field!

In other words, all coaches know that in today's football, there is a football idea that is the craziest, and if it can be realized, it will be unrivaled and powerful.

That is the Total Attack and Total Defense that once triggered a tactical revolution in the football world in Dutch football!

As Michels said when explaining his football philosophy: I have 1 goalkeeper, 10 defenders, 10 midfielders, and 10 forwards!How can we not be strong?

But the core of the problem is, how many players in the world can switch between the three roles of defender, midfielder and forward, and their abilities have reached world-class levels?And at least 10 players must do it, and they can cooperate with each other tacitly.

In theory, once such players are assembled to form a team, they will undoubtedly be the strongest in the world!

But reality is impossible!

Therefore, the Dutch themselves will not pursue the most extreme total defense. The insurmountable gap between reality and ideals cannot be changed by human will.

Is it appropriate to transplant a formation, technical and tactical system that is the most common in European football and even fans take it for granted to the Chinese national team?

On a big scale, football is nothing more than defense and offense.

With the strength and status of the Chinese national team in the world rankings, can they put on the same technical and tactical system as the top 50 teams in the world?Although football is not a logical reasoning, there is also a comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of the most basic strengths. The strong must win, but it is an unshakable truth that the chance of winning is greater.

Qin Xiong at least figured out one thing.

He can pursue ideals in his club career, play games with the football style he yearns for, and choose clubs, but under the double pressure of the national team, honor and responsibility, personal pursuits must be left behind and promoted to the whole team. The most advanced and popular in the world may not necessarily be what the national team needs.

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The national team just lost a warm-up match. The loss without any suspense will not bring too much psychological impact to Qin Xiong. When he took the bus to the Louis II Stadium with his teammates, he no longer thought about the national team. matter.

The Louis II stadium has a high specification but a small capacity, and can only accommodate nearly [-] fans.

After Ajax arrived at the stadium, the players calmly changed their clothes in the locker room and entered the stadium to warm up step by step. There were hardly any Ajax fans in the stadium stands. The small stadium has few tickets for the visiting team. pitiful.

After the warm-up was over, the players returned to the locker room. This was the first time that Ajax played away in the knockout round this season, and the strategy would be different from before.

Koeman emphasized two things in his pre-match speech.

The first is mentality. It doesn’t matter even if you lose the ball in the away game, you must not panic.

The second is the goal of the game, Ajax will go all out to win the away game!Even if you can't win, you have to get a tie with a score.

This will bring greater advantages for them to return to home games.

The starters of the first team nodded calmly. Before leaving the locker room, they encouraged each other, then opened the door of the locker room with firm belief, walked into the player tunnel with their heads held high, and waited for the start of the Champions League semi-final!