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Chapter 246 The Golden Boy of Europe

Ajax beat Rosendahl [-]-[-] at home.

Feyenoord drew [-]-[-] away at Heerenveen.

Eindhoven defeated Twente [-]-[-] at home.

Alkmaar beat Groningen [-]-[-] away.

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After the No.14 round of the Eredivisie, the rankings of the top four teams in the league standings have not changed.

Eindhoven leads the standings with 35 points, followed by Alkmaar with 33 points, Feyenoord and Ajax both have [-] points, but due to Feyenoord's goal difference advantage, they are temporarily ranked third.

The entire Dutch football world has been shocked by Ajax's performance for more than a month.

From No. 12 in the original ranking, all the way to the fourth place in the current ranking, Ajax has shown excellent competitiveness.

Especially after Yang Yang's return, the team's offensive power has been greatly improved.

The only regret is that the team was eliminated from the Champions League and forced to play in the UEFA Cup.

But both the media and the fans understand Ajax's situation. After all, the draws to giants like Juventus and Bayern Munich, not to mention Ajax, even other European powerhouses may not be sure to stand out.

It can only be said that Ajax's luck is really bad.

While the rising momentum in the standings is obvious, Ajax has finally killed a player in the scorer list.

That is Yang Yang who has just completed.

With eight goals, Yang Yang went one step further in the scorer list and tied for fourth place.

The top three players are Feyenoord's center Dirk, who scored [-] goals, Heerenveen center Huntelaar, who scored nine goals, and Feyenoord's striker Kalou.

But unlike these pure shooters, Yang Yang had six assists in addition to eight goals.

In terms of goals and assists, Yang Yang's lethality is comparable to that of players such as Dirk, not inferior at all.

Many Dutch media and fans agree that after Zlatan Ibrahimovic and van der Vaart left the team, Yang Yang has become more mature and performed better this season, faintly becoming the core player of Ajax.

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The time has entered December.

In the No.15 round of the Eredivisie, Ajax challenged Wahlwijk away.

After a week of rest and an away game, Wahlwijk launched a wave of offensive first.

Midfielder Robert Fuchs headed into the box to score for Wahlwijk in the seventh minute.

But it was precisely this goal that woke up the Ajax players.

Only 4 minutes later, Yang Yang made an inverted triangle pass back to the front of the penalty area after making continuous breakthroughs on the right.

In the 306th minute of the first half, Pienaer made another victory and overtook the score to [-]-[-].

After that, the two sides failed to score again.

Ajax narrowly beat Wahlwik [-]-[-].

That night, Eindhoven defeated Graf Sharp [-]-[-] away with goals from Alex and Van Bommel and a brace from Farfan.

Feyenoord also defeated Nijmegen [-]-[-] thanks to goals from Dirk Dirk and Kalou.

Alkmaar beat Den Haag [-]-[-].

The Eredivisie standings remain unchanged.

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In the middle of the week, the final round of the Champions League group stage.

Ajax ushered in Bayern Munich at home.

Before this game, Juventus had won the first promotion in the group ahead of time, and Maccabi Tel Aviv came to the bottom with a poor record of five games and was destined to be eliminated.

Bayern Munich basically won the second place in the group, unless Ajax wins the opponent [-]-[-] at home.

Although everyone knew before the game that there were not many possibilities, Ajax still played very actively during the game.

Just like what the head coach Ronald Koeman said before the game, for nothing else, just aiming at a zero to four away game, the team must strive to win a victory and keep the face of the defending champion.

At the beginning of the game, Magath's team put on an aggressive posture, Hargreaves dragged back, Frings and Deisler separated the two wings, Ballack came forward, and the small diamond in the midfield created a lot of trouble for Ajax.

Just 9 minutes into the game, Bayern Munich took advantage of a counterattack opportunity. Deisler and Kufuor cooperated on the right and passed the ball into the penalty area.

This goal aroused the anger of Ajax.

Subsequently, the Eredivisie team launched a crazy counterattack, and Yang Yang frequently created murderous intentions on the right.

Finally, in the 308th minute, Yang Yang made a precise pass from the right, Charisteas' header in the penalty area was ferried, Pinar knocked back, and Garasek's long shot from the front of the penalty area inserted in the back row pierced Kahn's goal and equalized the score for Ajax.

After changing sides to fight again in the second half, Ajax continued to launch continuous offensives.

In the 604th minute, Sneijder sent a wonderful through pass. After Yang Yang quickly slanted behind Bayern defender Kovac and got the ball, he single-handedly scored and rewritten the score to [-]-[-].

But just when Ajax felt that the team was capable of securing a victory, Bayern Munich substitute Ze Roberto made a cross from the left. Ballack inserted in the back row and scored with a header to equalize the score again.

In the end, the two sides played two to two to a draw.

In another game of the group, Juventus, who had no desires, drew Maccabi Tel Aviv [-]-[-] away.

As a result, Juventus and Bayern Munich both qualified, and Ajax was forced to play in the UEFA Cup.

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Eredivisie No.16 round.

Ajax ushered in Vitesse at home.

The double match for a week made Yang Yang very tired physically. He failed the pre-match physical examination by Jan Kluitenberg and was forced to serve as a substitute in the game.

But the team never found a way to break Waiters' goal in the game. The young player Ryan Babel who replaced him played as a left winger, and Wesley Songk returned to the right, but both players played very unsatisfactory results.

Ronald Koeman finally couldn't bear it and replaced Yang Yang in the No.70 minute.

Then he replaced Wesley Sonk with Pienaar, forming a trident combination of Pienaar, Charisteas and Yang Yang in the frontcourt. As a result, in the last 15 minutes, Ajax played a wave of offensive.

Especially in the No.808 minute, Pienaar broke into the penalty area with the ball from the left and passed it back to Maxwell.

Yang Yang quickly slanted into the penalty area from the right rib, and after stopping the ball, he volleyed and sent the ball accurately into Waiters' goal.

One to zero!

Relying on Yang Yang's last-minute lore, Ajax defeated Waiters [-]-[-].

Another focus of this round of the Eredivisie League, Feyenoord conceded two goals in a row, and evened the score in a row, and finally drew with Eindhoven [-]-[-] at home.

Alkmaar beat Twente [-]-[-] at home.

After this round of competition, the points of the Eredivisie League finally changed.

Eindhoven and Alkmaar both scored 39 points, but Eindhoven topped the list with a goal difference advantage. Feyenoord only scored 34 points after the draw this round, and Ajax overtook Feyenoord with 36 points, ranking third in the standings.

With one goal in this round, Yang Yang scored nine goals in the Eredivisie, but his ranking in the scorer list was overtaken by Alkmaar's forwards Perez and Huntelaar, and finally only ranked fifth.

Huntelaar scored two goals in the last round, while Perez scored twice in the [-]-[-] victory in this round.

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The morning after the No.16 round of the Eredivisie, the latest news from the Italian newspaper Turin Sports.

After Van der Vaart, the core player of Ajax, won the European Golden Boy Award in [-], in [-], Yang Yang successfully defeated Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo of Manchester United, Torres of Atletico Madrid, Martins of Inter Milan, Kompany of Anderlecht and other players, and successfully won the title of European Golden Boy Award.

Like last season, the Torino Sport sent the Golden Boy trophy directly to Ajax.

Yang Yang said in an interview with Turin Sports News, "I am very honored to receive this honor. This is a great honor and represents everyone's affirmation and encouragement to me."

Regarding his performance in the past year, Yang Yang expressed his basic satisfaction, "I think I can do better."

The European Golden Boy Award is jointly selected by [-] well-known European media. Each player can get up to [-] points. Yang Yang has successfully won the favor of the European media by virtue of his outstanding performance in the Champions League last season, especially the lore goal in the final, and his outstanding performance this season.

Five well-known media including Gazzetta dello Sport and Corriere dello Sport in Italy, Marca and AS in Spain, and Telegraph in the Netherlands all gave amazing results of [-] out of [-].

L'Equipe, Bild and many other media have also given a high score of nine points, which is enough to prove that Yang Yang's performance in the past season has been recognized and affirmed by mainstream European media.

In the end, Yang Yang surpassed van der Vaart last season with an impressive record of 270 three-pointers, and was ahead of No.2 Rooney by as much as 3 points and No.[-] Cristiano Ronaldo by nearly [-] points. He was elected as the winner of the European Golden Boy Award in [-] without any suspense.

With this European Golden Boy Award, Yang Yang let the whole of Europe know him for the first time.

Multi-national media, including Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, have paid attention, believing that Yang Yang will become the new standard-bearer of Ajax, and will also switch to European giants this summer.

Just three days after receiving the European Golden Boy Award, due to participation in the Toyota Cup held in Yokohama, Japan, Ajax's Eredivisie No.17 round was held ahead of schedule, and Ajax went north to challenge Groningen.

In the first half, the two sides played zero to zero, but in the second half, Yang Yang assisted Sneijder to score a goal, and then Pinar scored a goal. He also scored two goals in No. 70 and No. 708 minutes, and staged a brace.

With two shots and one pass, Yang Yang was once again elected as the best player in the game. At the same time, he also raised his goal count to eleven goals, ranking second in the scorer list, and also had eight assists.

On the weekend, Eindhoven lost [-]-[-] at home to Roda JC, and suffered an upset. Feyenoord also lost [-]-[-] away to The Hague, and Alkmaar defeated Rosendal [-]-[-] in the away game.

After this round, Ajax finally caught up with Eindhoven.

(End of this chapter)