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Chapter 362 Old question

The two-week national team game has a great impact on Ajax, which has many international players.

When the international players returned to the club after traveling long distances to play the national team, they could not pass the medical examination at Kluytenberg's side, especially many international players who participated in both national team games.

There is no way around this, because the World Cup qualifiers on all continents are currently in full swing. In order to ensure the results, the national team is also very ruthless in employing personnel. Some players even played two consecutive nines and 10 minutes.

In the fourth round of the Eredivisie, Ronald Koeman had to rotate the team lineup.

The goalkeeper is the veteran Hans Funk, the defense is Emmanuel Sen on the left, Vlaar and Maduro partner at the center, Grigera plays at the right back, the midfielder is the veteran Galasek, Pienaar and Sneijder are in the center, and the striker is a combination of Ryan Babel, Niklas Bendtner and Yang Yang.

The strength gap between the substitute lineup and the main lineup is quite obvious.

Although Ajax's lineup has dispatched half of the main players, the away game against Willem II still played relatively poorly.

Yang Yang was very active on the right, but Grigera's offensive support to the frontcourt was not strong enough.

In the 305th minute of the first half, Yang Yang created a chance on the right and passed it to the penalty area. Niklas Bendtner took the ball back and did it. Garasek followed up and volleyed directly, opening the scoring for Ajax.

But in No. 60 minutes, when Grigera was defending the opponent's offensive player, there was a foul that was not calm enough, and was sent off by the referee directly, resulting in one less player in Ajax.

This made Ajax more passive on the field.

But the good thing is that William II saw the hope of winning and finally pressed it out.

In the 806th minute, Yang Yang dribbled the ball and drove straight in, assisting Niklas Bendtner to score.

It was the Danish center's first league goal of the season.

In the end, Ajax defeated Willem II [-]-[-] away.

You can't see anything from the score, but Yang Yang has personally experienced that the team's state is indeed quite average.

This is mainly affected by the national team competition.

After this round of games, Ajax continues to lead the Eredivisie standings with four consecutive victories.

But in the scorer list, Aviladze, who played for Alkmaar, performed a hat-trick in this round, and finally reversed Yang Yang with seven goals and reached the top scorer list.

Heerenveen's Huntelaar are third with four goals.

Feyenoord's Kevin Dirk seems to be subject to the team's tactics, and his performance this season has not been ideal, and he has only scored three goals so far.

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Midweek, Prague, Czech Republic, Leitesga Stadium.

Sparta Prague host Ajax in the first round of Group B of the UEFA Champions League.

When the game progressed to No. 807 minutes, after receiving a pass from Maxwell on the left, Yang Yang quickly turned around and got rid of Sparta Prague's right back Martin Petras.

Sneijder came up from the back row, faced the incoming ball and made it overnight, equalizing the score for Ajax!

But at this time, the Ajax players on the court were not at all excited and excited.

Because before this goal, Ajax had already conceded a goal.

Maicon also performed very unsatisfactorily in this game. The right side was not active. In the second half, he was penetrated by Sparta Prague's left side player and lost a goal.

But it is true that Maicon cannot be completely blamed, because he did travel a long way back to King Guoqin.

What's more unfortunate is that he still can't play the main force in the Brazilian national team.

This is a bit of a frowned upon feeling.

But what can be done?

In fact, not only Ajax, Arsenal's situation is not much better.

In the home game against Thun, Switzerland, the Gunners sat at their home court, but they were forced into a very embarrassing situation by Thun.

Gilberto Silva was injured before and did not participate in the Brazil national team game. He performed well in this game. He opened the scoring for Arsenal in 1 minute, but after only 2 minutes, Thun equalized the score.

After that, Arsenal failed to capture Thun. Many players including Henry, Pires, and Reyes performed very sluggishly. Finally, in the 3rd minute of stoppage time, Bergkamp's critical moment lore goal scored three points for Arsenal.

Thun is known as the weakest team in Group B. Arsenal are playing at home, and they are still playing so hard. This makes the British media very dissatisfied with the performance of the Gunners.

Wenger believes that the team has been affected by the national team competition, but no one will support this claim at all.

On the contrary, Ajax, after all, is a small team, and the away draw with Sparta Prague is quite recognized by the public opinion in the Netherlands.

Yang Yang became the most active player in the team. Everyone believed that he did not get enough support from the team, but he still relied on his own ability to assist Sneijder to equalize the score.

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At noon on September [-]th.

In the fifth round of the Eredivisie, Ajax challenged Alkmaar away.

Having just brought back a tie in the away game of the Champions League, Ajax challenged Van Gaal's team in an away game non-stop.

Like Ajax's long journey to Prague, Czech Republic, Alkmaar's opponent in the UEFA Cup is Samara from the Russian Super League, but in order to prepare for the league, Van Gaal arranged rotations away.

As a result, Alkmaar lost [-]-[-] in the away game.

Obviously, Van Gaal is full of confidence in winning his opponent at home.

He concentrated all the main force against Ajax, striving to win the opponent at his home court.

The first 10 minutes of the game were completely dominated by Ajax.

Yang Yang scored in the opening 3 minutes, and the assist from Sneijder allowed him to score smoothly.

In the 6th minute, Yang Yang assisted Charisteas to score and expand the score.

Leading by two goals, everyone felt that Ajax had already secured the victory.

But Yang Yang still didn't dare to be careless, and kept calling on his teammates to be more vigilant.

After half an hour of stalemate, in the No.30 and No.307 minutes of the first half, Alkmaar attacked twice in a row. Avilardze scored goals successively, scored twice, and successfully equalized the score.

Fortunately, in the stoppage time of the first half, Yang Yang stopped the ball in the penalty area with a long pass from Vermaelen, turned around and volleyed, and Ajax once again overtook the score.

After changing sides and fighting again in the second half, Ajax took advantage of the victory to pursue again. In just one minute of the game, Yang Yang planned, Pienaer assisted, and Sneijder scored again from the front of the penalty area, further expanding the score to 1-[-].

But in 4 minutes and 6 minutes, Perez's two goals once again equalized the score.

In the end, Ajax drew [-]-[-] away with Alkmaar.

Yang Yang made two shots and one pass, raising his personal league goals to eight and contributing four assists. His performance was not bad, but Aviladeze raised his personal goals to nine with his brace in this field.

After this round of Ajax's draw with Alkmaar, they gave up their top position in the league.

The funny thing is that the top spot in the standings is neither Feyenoord nor PSV, but Wahlwijk.

The team leads the standings with five straight wins this season.

However, everyone knows that this has something to do with Wahlwijk's failure to meet a strong team so far.

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Ajax and Alkmaar scored eight goals in this top battle, which is really exciting.

The two sides did not play conservatively at all, and the game was very intense and exciting.

But judging from the final results, Ajax's problems are undoubtedly exposed very clearly.

That's defense.

This is also an old question.

Ajax's ability to win the Eredivisie and the UEFA Cup last season has something to do with Ronald Koeman's evolution.

He used Garasek and De Jong's double midfielder to ensure the team's solid defense, which allowed Ajax to repeatedly defeat strong enemies in both the domestic and European arenas.

Since the beginning of this season, Yaya Toure has been liberated, and the team's offensive firepower has been released. It is currently the team with the strongest scoring ability in the Eredivisie, but the problem of defense has been exposed again.

Whether it was Heitinga in the early stage or other players in the subsequent defense, they were obviously not stable enough.

Ronald Koeman's justification for this is a matter of the schedule.

The two-week national team match day has a great impact on the strong teams. The schedule of the Eredivisie is different from other leagues. Although the home and away games are staggered as much as possible, there will often be two consecutive home games and two consecutive away games.

Last season, Feyenoord played away games in the last two rounds. Gullit used this to defend Dirk, thinking that he lost the top scorer because of the schedule.

After the national team game, Ajax first played an away game against Willem II, then an away game against Sparta Prague, Czech Republic, and then an away game against Alkmaar. Three consecutive away games were indeed quite difficult.

In particular, the impact of national team competitions must also be considered.

It is indeed a considerable challenge to play three consecutive away games when the players are affected by the national team's competition and their physical fitness itself has problems. However, the lack of physical fitness leads to the team's inability to press in the midfield and the frontcourt. Players are easily distracted and many other problems.

On the morning of the second day after the Alkmaar game, the coaching staff called Yang Yang, Galasek and Sneijder to a meeting again. The focus was to analyze the current situation of the team and worry about problems with the atmosphere in the locker room. They hoped that Yang Yang and the three could try to appease the players.

"We will have a week of rest and everything will get better soon." Ronald Koeman is full of confidence.

Kluitenberg also said that the next week is very precious, and he is confident that the players' physical fitness and state will be adjusted, but only if the locker room must cooperate and not be chaotic.

When winning, everything goes smoothly, and there seems to be no contradiction, but once the team is in a disadvantageous position, all problems will surface, which is quite dangerous.

And Yang Yang is now the captain of the team, and he also realizes that he should do something.

(End of this chapter)