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Chapter 272 Battle at the top of the list

On March [-], the Mauroy Stadium in Lille, France.

UEFA Cup round of sixteen knockout first leg.

Ajax away to Ligue [-] Lille.

This Ligue [-] powerhouse is currently ranked third in Ligue [-], second only to Lyon and Marseille, and higher than Monaco and Auxerre.

Defense is the capital of Lille's outstanding performance in Ligue 28, but its offensive ability is weak. As a result, Lille only won [-] games in the [-] rounds of Ligue [-], even less than Auxerre, which is ranked fifth.

Weak defense and strong offense are also Lille's biggest problem this season.

The result of this is that Lille's home results are not ideal. After all, the home games are often faced with more cautious or even conservative visiting teams. It is difficult to score three points without excellent offensive power.

It's like the Ajax that Lille faced tonight.

Ronald Koeman still has a double midfielder combination of Garasek and De Jong in the case of superior overall strength, the purpose is to consolidate the defense of the midfield.

Lille also maintained a high degree of vigilance against Yang Yang, a new player in the Eredivisie this season, and deployed heavy troops to restrain him, which made it difficult for Yang Yang to get a chance throughout the first half.

But in stoppage time in the first half, when everyone thought the game would end [-]-[-], Yang Yang suddenly exerted his strength.

Sneijder made a straight pass over the top and delivered the ball accurately into the penalty area.

Yang Yang shook off the defender, crossed into the penalty area diagonally from the right rib at the fastest speed, grabbed ahead of the attacking Lille goalkeeper, and shot directly with one foot, the ball passed the goalkeeper's side and hit the goal behind him.

Yang Yang was thrown to the ground by the attacking goalkeeper. After rolling around, when he knelt up, he happened to see the jumping football in the goal line, and raised his hands high, celebrating another goal of his own.

In the end, relying on Yang Yang's goal in No. 405 minutes, Ajax beat Lille [-]-[-] away.

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On the weekend, back to the Eredivisie League, ushered in No.20 five rounds.

Ajax away to Nijmegen.

Starting from February, the continuous multi-line battle finally had problems at this time, especially in the recent consecutive away games, the players were very tired, and Nijmegen's strict defense made Ajax's performance in the game very sluggish.

Yang Yang is in good condition and is still working very hard. Although his teammates are not in ideal condition, Yang Yang still relies on his personal ability to create several good scoring opportunities in the game.

Especially in 1 minute, after Yang Yang continuously dribbled the ball from the right to break through the inside cut, he crossed to the front of the penalty area.

In this game, Maduro, who replaced Garasek in the starting lineup, stepped in and shot directly, scoring the winning goal for Ajax.

In the end, with Yang Yang assisting Maduro's goal, Ajax narrowly beat Nijmegen [-]-[-] away.

After the game, Yang Yang became the only player who was not blamed among Ajax's offensive players. Not only that, the media and fans still gave a high evaluation of Yang Yang's performance, thinking that he is the only bright spot of Ajax.

Yang Yang is not without regrets for not being able to score a goal, but that's how football games are.

Fortunately, in this round, Feyenoord beat Roda JC [-]-[-] at home, but Didier Dirk also failed to score.

The number of goals scored by both sides is still 22 to [-], and Yang Yang continues to fall behind by two goals.

Eindhoven beat The Hague [-]-[-] at home this round, Alkmaar [-]-[-] at home Mr. Graf Sharp, the top four rankings in the league still have not changed at all.

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Three days later, the second round of the UEFA Cup round of [-] knockout matches.

Ajax hosts Lille.

Feeling the ups and downs of the team's recent state, especially among the several offensive players in the team, except for Yang Yang, the other players are in relatively average state. Ronald Koeman made a large rotation, and even intentionally gave up this game to focus on playing in the league.

There is really no way around this. Ajax's personnel reserves are simply not enough to support the team's continuous multi-line operations. Young players such as Babel and Maduro are not yet capable of being independent, so the coaching staff can only make choices.

Although the UEFA Cup is a European competition, the income is very low, and the input is not directly proportional to the output.

In contrast, doing everything possible to keep the league and qualify for the UEFA Champions League next season can bring huge profits to Ajax, at least over ten million euros, which is impossible even if they win the UEFA Cup.

This is why all strong teams are basically unwilling to make great efforts to play in the UEFA Cup.

Moreover, in the No.20 sixth round of the Eredivisie, Ajax will usher in Eindhoven at home. This is another focus game that determines the ownership of the league championship, and Ronald Koeman cannot but pay attention to it.

After a large rotation, Ajax's performance was affected, but Lille has never been able to break through Ajax's defense.

In the end, the two sides played [-]-[-] at the Amsterdam Arena, a draw.

With a [-]-[-] away game, Ajax narrowly beat Lille [-]-[-] on aggregate and entered the UEFA Cup quarter-finals.

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March [-], Amsterdam Arena.

Eredivisie No.20 six rounds, Ajax vs. Eindhoven at home.

When the game went on to 7 minutes, the two sides were still zero to zero.

But at this time, Eindhoven suddenly made a surprising substitution.

Hiddink replaced captain Marc van Bommel with Vogel.

Yang Yang was also surprised when he saw the substitution this time, because Van Bommel is one of the most dominant players on the pitch in PSV. Hiddink replaced him with Vogel at this time. Is this to strengthen the offense?

This was not surprising, as PSV had already made a substitution before Van Bommel, replacing Farfan with Gerard Sibang, a 1.9m[-] high center forward.

After Sibang came on the field, he and Hesselink formed the two giant towers of Eindhoven's frontcourt. At this time, it seems a bit wasteful to continue to pile up two players, Cocu and Van Bommel, in the midfield.

Moreover, there were rumors before the game that Van Bommel was injured, and it is also possible that Hiddink was trying to protect him.

But no matter what, Van Bommel is off and Vogel is on. Eindhoven has already brought a very obvious offensive signal.

In the case of zero to zero in the first half, Hiddink wanted to end the battle in the second half, and wanted to use this game to completely lose suspense about the title of the Eredivisie this season.

After the substitution, Eindhoven began to aggressively press up, giving full play to the threat of the two towering centers in the frontcourt, and actively playing on the two sides.

Ajax's overall strength is inferior to that of Eindhoven, and they will continue to play steadily and adopt defensive counterattack tactics.

Without Van Bommel, PSV began to attack again, and Yang Yang gained more freedom in the frontcourt.

Just 5 minutes after Van Bommel came off the field, Ajax seized a chance to counterattack.

Center Charisteas pulled out of the penalty area, retreated to meet the pass from the midfielder, and passed the ball to the right rib after receiving the ball.

Yang Yang took the ball and faced Li Rongpyo one-on-one.

Although the South Korean left back was mentally prepared, he was extremely cautious when facing Yang Yang, not daring to be careless.

But before Yang Yang started it, there was a very secret trick that caught Li Rongpyo's attention, and then he started it suddenly, the speed was very fast, and Li Rongpyo felt like a shadow in front of his eyes, and Yang Yang had already dribbled the ball past him.

When he turned around and chased back, Yang Yang had already rushed into the penalty area and hit the goal with his right foot.

The ball is in! ! ! !

The whole Amsterdam Arena is cheering, shouting Yang Yang!

Li Rongpyo shook his head helplessly. In the past two seasons, almost every time he faced Yang Yang gave him nightmares.

The speed of this Chinese is really too fast!The body is too flexible!

And he has a lot of fake moves, as long as he is a little careless and distracted a little bit, he may seize the opportunity to form a breakthrough.

One to zero, Ajax took the lead temporarily with Yang Yang's goal.

This is also Yang Yang's No.20 goal this season!
After conceding the goal, Eindhoven did not back down, but pressed forward more resolutely.

In fact, everyone in the Eredivisie League knows that Ajax's biggest defensive weakness is the high ball.

This is determined by Ajax's tactics. It is almost impossible to find two central defenders with excellent defense against high balls and strong ability to play the ball at the same time.

Ronald Koeman arranged for Vlaar to start this game, and he played well, freezing Hesselink in the first half, but as a result, Hiddink replaced him in the second half with a more terrifying, nearly two-meter Sibang.

Just 5 minutes after Ajax scored, Eindhoven finally seized the opportunity.

Lee Young-pyo made up for it when he made an attack from the left, and made a pass from the left into the penalty area. Sibang overpowered Heitinga and scored with a header, equalizing the score for PSV.

The South Korean players also showed full resilience, and their emotions and performance were not affected by Yang Yang's forced breakthrough just now, which Yang Yang appreciated quite a bit.

In terms of player strength, Park Ji-sung, Lee Young-pyo, and even Feyenoord's Shinji Ono are indeed slightly better than Chinese players. Yang Yang has to admit the gap.

Only 2 minutes later, Ajax hit a counterattack again.

After Maikong made a long pass from the right, Yang Yang threw away Li Rongpyo at the fastest speed, and when he got behind Eindhoven to catch the ball, he was already on the right side of the penalty area.

Ryan Babel, who had just started as a substitute for Pienaar, quickly followed up, and easily pushed and scored the goal from the back point, surpassing the score again.

Two to one!

The Ajax fans at the Amsterdam Arena are just like riding a roller coaster, and the mood is also ups and downs.

Eindhoven's overall strength this season is indeed too strong, and it is indeed difficult for Ajax to deal with it.

Especially the defense, whether it is Vermaelen or Vlaar, although they have performed very well, but they need to work harder to replace Chivu and Escuder.

Wesley Songk, who was expected by everyone before the season, has now been sidelined by Ronald Koeman. He would rather use Ryan Babel than let him come off the bench. After the season, he is basically determined to leave the team.

Yang Yang also felt very embarrassed about this, after all, he and Wesley Songk once won the Champions League side by side.

In the No.806 minute of the second half, Eindhoven got a corner kick, Sibang flew the header, and Hesselink scored from the back to equalize the score for Eindhoven.

In the end, the Eredivisie top game ended in a two-to-two draw.

The championship suspense continues.

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