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The Ajax coaching staff and the players watched and analyzed all the videos of Porto's Champions League games in detail.

It took two days.

In the group stage, Porto's style of play was not particularly outstanding, and there was also a painful experience of being directly crushed by Real Madrid.

But after the knockout round, Porto's style became very obvious.

Powerful defensive counterattack!

Qin Xiong and his teammates frowned after watching the Porto game video.

If Porto is only fighting against counterattacks tactically, that's all.

This is commonplace.

But Porto is still using the rules or playing around the edge of the rules.

They have a lot of small moves in defense, which will cause a lot of controversy and penalties.

Manchester United coach Ferguson, Lyon coach Legon, and Deportivo coach Irueta all criticized Porto's players for "cheating" on the court after the game against Porto, either cheating with fouls or pretending to be fouled and cheating.

These criticisms did not all come from the loss after the game, but also after two rounds of the game.

Porto in the knockout round disrupted their opponents in this small war of partial confrontation to gain an advantage in the game, created scoring opportunities in an unusual way, and restricted opponents from scoring goals.

Obviously Ajax and Porto are two very different teams.

One is an offensive representative team, and the other is a defensive representative team.

This kind of style shock will naturally cause the players' psychological fluctuations.

That is, there will be disdain and resentment in the hearts of players.

Especially seeing that Porto players will deliberately create conflicts on the court, cause controversy, and make the game as chaotic as possible, but they premeditatedly use the chaos to create a situation that is beneficial to them.

This is smart. It can only be said that the players and teams have different pursuits and different ideas. It is not difficult to understand why the Ajax players frown when they rise to the level of party thinking.

It seems that the Porto team is not playing bright enough on the field, it is as simple as that.

We don't all play the same kind of football.

Coman emphasized two points in terms of technical summary.

The first is the mentality!

But it’s not only about your own mentality when facing the game, but you also need to be vaccinated in your mind. Don’t fall into Porto’s tricks, be irritated by them, and distract your attention from the game. Restrain your emotions!

The second is the restriction on Porto's counterattack.

This requires the team's defensive players to cheer up.

How exquisite Porto's skills and tactics are, I really can't tell!

Compared with the means, they don't even have the richer routines of Arsenal's golden left.

Compared with the momentum, there is no wild passion of Monaco.

But Porto's counterattack tactics are based on the premise of space, which will put Ajax in an inherently passive state.

no way.

It is impossible for Ajax to abandon and deny the self-adhere to a season, two seasons, or even 5 years, 10 years, 30 years of offensive style.

If everyone played the ultimate defense, Ajax might really not be able to fight.

In the UEFA Champions League, the result of actively shrinking the defense line many times but losing the ball is vivid. Ajax's defense is achieved by active offense, rather than simply defending to limit opponents.

Therefore, Porto will inevitably have room for defensive counterattacks, so even if the techniques and tactics are not rich in routines, they can also play a very threatening effect. This is what the Ajax coaching staff will focus on reminding defensive players.

On the morning of May 5, Qin Xiong packed his luggage in the apartment.

After packing his travel bag, he went to Sylvia's house and sent tickets to the Champions League final to the two siblings. The club only gave 3 tickets, and he spent money to buy the others.

He felt he was about to bid farewell to the Netherlands, and regardless of the success or failure of the Champions League final, there was a high probability that he would not play for Ajax next season.

So he hopes that if it is convenient for his friends, he can go to Germany to watch this game, and the Netherlands is adjacent to Germany, the distance is not far, and the transportation is convenient.

Sylvia and Georgia have come out of the grief of their father's death, and their life is step by step. Georgia seems to have grown up overnight. He no longer keeps saying that he wants to become a big star, but studies hard to be a hardworking sister like his sister. good student.

And he also began to secretly help the convenience store in the community like his sister used to do, hoping to get some rewards to relieve the pressure on his sister's shoulders.

When Qin Xiong put the ball ticket in front of Sylvia again, this time, she did not refuse, took it with a smile and told Qin Xiong loudly: We will cheer for you in the stands!

After delivering the tickets, Qin Xiong returned to the apartment and headed to the club with his travel bag on his back.

All Ajax first-team players, even those who were not included in the match squad, boarded the club bus and left Amsterdam together.

They are going to Utrecht first.

But their minds are fully on the Champions League final.

Arriving in Utrecht in the evening, Ajax first entered the scheduled hotel and stayed. After putting away their luggage, the whole team went to the home court of Utrecht.

The scale of this trip is relatively large. In addition to all the coaches and players of the first team, there are also club executives. Of course, they will participate in the second round of the Dutch Cup final and the Champions League final.

Utrecht played at home with mourners, and Ajax sent a full substitute lineup.

To be on the safe side, Koeman hid Pinar, who will be on the bench in the Champions League final.

It was difficult to tell how many Ajax fans there were in the stands.

In the second round of the Dutch Cup final, Ajax came with a huge advantage of 5:0. Many Utrecht fans acted as scalpers and sold the tickets to Ajax at high prices. The fans, it can be said that they slaughtered the Ajax fans outside the field to talk about consolation.

Nieuw-Gargenwald Stadium.

Qin Xiong and his teammates were sitting on the bench wearing clean and crisp jerseys. He and van der Vaart and other main players did not sweat because they just walked into the stadium and sat here without even warming up.

They watched the game in silence, applauding the team's performance.

The Ajax substitute lineup led by Songke played relatively easily against Utrecht, who gave up defensive counterattacks.

90分钟内毫无压力，最终以3:2击败了乌德勒支，总比分8:2夺取了本赛季荷兰杯的冠军！

The awards ceremony was relatively simple, and the Ajax players were not overly excited, but they seemed wild at the moment of holding the trophy, and then the enthusiasm quickly cooled down. Everyone took a group photo in the stadium and locker room with the trophy, and then left the stadium together , Returned to the hotel to rest before 12 o'clock in the evening.

When I woke up, the Dutch media sang praises for Ajax's double crown!

But at this time, the Ajax team has embarked on a journey to Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

They are going to the last stop of the season, the venue of the Champions League final.

Porto arrived in Gelsenkirchen a day earlier than them.

October 5 at 24:1 pm.

The Ajax bus stopped in front of their hotel in Gelsenkirchen.

The Ajax players were taken aback when they got out of the car.

Reporters surrounded the hotel on all sides, and they quickly picked up their cameras to capture the arrival of the Ajax team.

This was more spectacular than the group of journalists they had encountered before, 30 or 50, or more?

I don't know, maybe there are many media reporters from all over Europe, including outside Europe. The annual Champions League final attracts everyone's attention, and its influence is naturally not the same as that of usual games.

After getting off the car, Qin Xiong's eyes were flashed by the flashlight, feeling a little uncomfortable, so he raised his hands to block his vision. It was also the first time he had experienced such a large-scale reporter shooting scene, and he walked into the hotel quickly, looking a little embarrassed middle.

As for the questions that the reporters were talking about, he couldn't hear clearly at all. He seemed to hear voices in Chinese, but he didn't have time to turn around.

Porto and Ajax are finally in the city that will host the final.

Among the two dark horses who have broken through the tyrannical hegemony, who can win the crown in the end?

There are still 2003 hours before the 2004-56 UEFA Champions League final...

The countdown bell has sounded.