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Chapter 1520 Open a small stove
Ajax's warm-up match arrangements are very targeted.

It is necessary to polish the team's tactics, cultivate the tacit understanding of the players, help the players understand and implement Yang Yang's tactical thinking, and at the same time avoid hitting the players' confidence and the team's morale.

This is also determined by the schedule of the new season.

That is the UEFA Champions League qualifiers and play-offs where the battle is life and death.

If Ajax blindly wants to run the team, train the team through a strong team, and discover the shortcomings of the team, then the final result will be that Ajax loses their crotch, the morale of the players is low, and the team has no fighting spirit.

Young players still need to focus on encouragement.

Yang Yang always believed in this, but he also realized the necessity of challenging strong teams, so in the warm-up match arrangement, the team arranged a total of five games. The strength of the first two games was roughly at the upper level of the Eredivisie, and it would also be at the level of the UEFA Champions League qualifiers.

The result was not beyond Yang Yang's expectations. The first two games were lost due to the team's pre-season physical reserve training and just running in. The next two matches were also lost, and one of them was a [-]-[-] loss to Naples. This was a complete disastrous defeat.

Fortunately, in the last warm-up match, Ajax won [-]-[-].

In contrast, the middle two games against strong teams have the most training value and exposed the most problems.

And there is a particularly interesting phenomenon that Yang Yang has not played for even 1 minute, which also makes all the media and fans feel puzzled, and even the inside of the Ajax locker room is somewhat surprised.

Many people even speculate, does Yang Yang want to transform into a head coach?

In fact, this is not the case. The reason why Yang Yang did not play was because he was sticking to the special training plan for the past two or three years. At the same time, he also wanted to observe the team more conveniently and find out the problems exposed by the team.

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After each warm-up match, Yang Yang will hold two tactical analysis meetings to conduct research and analysis with the players on various problems exposed in the match, and give his own thoughts and ideas.

Nine to 10-minute games change rapidly, and no head coach can accurately control every minute. Therefore, players need to adapt to the situation and face emergencies on the court independently. This requires them to know what the head coach is thinking and what he wants to do.

Only by understanding these can players know what they are going to do on the court.

The challenge for Yang Yang is that he needs to crush all his thoughts and ideas into small pieces, slowly take them out, let the players accept and absorb them, and finally transform them into his own.

Indoctrination is a very difficult process, and it is also the place where the head coach's skills are most tested.

Even after four warm-up matches and half a month of running-in day and night, the Ajax players still seem very unfamiliar. They still have a half-knowledge of Yang Yang's tactical ideas and thinking, half-understanding.

It takes time, it takes patience.

Young players are like this, they are like a blank sheet of paper, whatever Yang Yang writes or draws on it, they will absorb it, but because they are young and inexperienced, they absorb it slowly.

It is useless to memorize things like football tactics by rote, the key is to understand and use them like a finger.

If it is those experienced veterans, a lot of things are obvious because they have experienced more.

But the disadvantage of veterans is that many of their own concepts and habits have already formed, and it is difficult to make changes, but young players are different.

The shaping process is slow and painstaking, but once shaped, it is rewarding.

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Xabi Alonso is a very good playmaker and he is very, very smart.

How smart are you?

He served as the core of the midfield under the command of the tactician Benitez and played the role of the head coach on the field; after coming to Real Madrid, he also served as the core of the midfield under the Italian tactician Ancelotti, controlling the ball and rhythm on the field;

This is definitely not accidental.

This not only reflects Xavi Alonso's outstanding football intelligence, but also his understanding of football, which makes him able to generate great value no matter which manager he is under.

Yang Yang also entrusted Harvey Alonso with important tasks. He not only handed over the two midfielders Frankie de Jong and Ndombele to him, and asked Harvey Alonso to give them a little trouble, but also handed over De Ligt and Militao to his subordinates.

In Yang Yang's tactics, or in other words, in Ajax's traditional tactics, the central defender's play has always been valued.

In the current football trend, the central defender's distribution of the ball and the control of the rhythm of the game are all crucial.

Yang Yang himself was not idle.

He is also giving some tips to the players. Jovic, Neres, Sancho, Marlen, Odegaard, Stens, Boadu and other young first-team players are training with Yang Yang. They are either learning how to become a winger that meets Yang Yang’s requirements, or trying to make themselves a more competent and comprehensive attacker.

For example, Neres and Sancho, Yang Yang asked them to practice inverted feet, and at the same time strengthen the training of defensive skills and the cultivation of defensive awareness.

One of the obvious places, they all like sticky balls.

The defensive strength of the Eredivisie league is very average, and players can get a lot of space. Therefore, over the years, the consensus in European football is that the goals of the Netherlands are really watery.

What is the reason?
The Eredivisie team's defense is terrible.

If you go to the European arena according to the standard of dealing with the defensive strength of the Eredivisie, you are definitely looking for death.

The simplest point is that Yang Yang thinks that Neres and Sancho are too sticky.

In order to change this and make them more concise, Yang Yang simply let Tagliafico, Dumfries, Feltman, and even De Ligt and Militao play the role of defenders, and let them play one-on-one.

Not only that, Yang Yang also formulated a series of rules to encourage defensive players and restrict offensive players.

This kind of unequal training makes the offensive players in the team miserable, but they have to implement it.

They dare not question it, because Yang Yang can do it.

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Once, Jovic couldn't understand Yang Yang's thoughts, and he couldn't do well in several consecutive warm-up matches, and he always felt that it was impossible to do it.

As a result, during a group confrontation training, Yang Yang directly stopped the training, replaced Jovic, and asked him to stand on the sidelines at a high place. At the same time, he asked the coaching staff to pay attention to leave the training video for Jovic to study next.

In fact, what Yang Yang asked for was to add some changes on the basis of the most basic switchback run.

On the field, Yang Yang explained a few words to Neres and Sancho, and then explained to Van der Beek and others.

Soon, when the training resumed, Yang Yang quickly ran back from the front.

Van der Beek immediately passed the ball to Yang Yang's feet, and after Yang Yang got the ball, he suddenly turned around and passed behind with his left foot. Sancho directly threw off the defender, inserted into the space brought by Yang Yang's retreat from his right rib, and took advantage of the opportunity to push and shoot.

Yang Yang pointed at Jovic from a distance, and the Serbian center admired him deeply.

There is no instruction manual more intuitive than this.

Afterwards, Yang Yang rehearsed several times. The defensive players adapt to the situation, and Yang Yang can always find a way.

Can't turn around?

Yang Yang will pass the ball to Van der Beek or other people around, and they will be responsible for passing the ball to hit the space behind him.

The two ribs were blocked, so Van der Beek went straight behind him and did it.

The back line returned to the defense in time, and the ball reached the ribs and was forced to pull to the side. After Yang Yang passed the ball, he quickly turned around and jumped in quickly, responding to his teammate's cross from the side, and directly hitting the goal.

If it really doesn't work, there are still full-backs who come up to pass.

All the Ajax players, whether they were training on the field or watching from the sidelines, were dumbfounded, and their hearts were even more agitated.

Only one person was changed, from Jovic to Yang Yang, but for some reason, the team's frontcourt was revitalized.

Especially the players on the court, the feeling is even more profound.

Yang Yang seems to be casual, but in fact, every time he runs, every pass is targeted, and he is guiding his teammates to pass and attack. Many things they couldn't understand before, after Yang Yang's series connection, they immediately began to feel the way.

This is No.1 in world football!
Jovic, who was the first to bear the brunt, was stunned when he saw it.

He is also a striker, and he played the role of serializer and supporter in Ajax before, but compared with Yang Yang, he suddenly felt like a kid who didn't know how to play football at all.

After the training was over, Yang Yang called everyone over again.

"We must always keep in mind that on the football field, every ounce of our physical strength is precious. We must understand every step and every movement, what is it for?"

"Running on the football field seems difficult, but in fact there are only two purposes, one is to create space for oneself, and the other is to create space for teammates. As long as these two purposes can be achieved, then this run is valuable."

"And every worthwhile run, the successful run of each player, ultimately constitutes the success of the team."

The group of young Ajax players took Yang Yang's words seriously.

Ajax has always emphasized the cooperation of passing and cutting, which is very close to Yang Yang's requirements, but Yang Yang will be more meticulous in details, which has something to do with his apprenticeship with the famous Italian coach Ancelotti.

Everyone knows that Ancelotti's tactics are notoriously meticulous.

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When Yang Yang was intensively training the players, the second qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League finally came to an end.

And Ajax's opponents in the third qualifying round also came out.

Belgium's standard Liege!

(End of this chapter)