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Chapter 368 Champion Phase [Second update, please subscribe monthly pass]

As Yang Yang said before, confidence comes from one game after another.

After beating Arsenal [-]-[-] at home, Ajax has obviously become more confident and fighting spirit.

At the very least, everyone has seen the hope of the team qualifying from the Champions League group stage, and even going further.

The most powerful opponent in the group is Arsenal, but the second match between Ajax and the Gunners is scheduled for the last round. Before that, the situation in the group may have stabilized.

Therefore, as long as Ajax continues to maintain the current momentum, as long as there are no more mistakes, and the last round of the away game against Arsenal, Ajax will be able to qualify first in the group as long as they keep the tie.

According to the competition system of the Champions League, the first place in the group and the second place in the group are two completely different treatments.

Therefore, after defeating Arsenal, all Ajax players changed their fighting spirit.

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In the first six rounds of the league, Ajax scored [-] points with a record of five wins and one tie, ranking first in the Eredivisie standings.

Followed by Feyenoord and Wahlwijk with five wins and one loss, and then Alkmaar and Eindhoven who scored [-] points. Among them, Eindhoven is in the most unfavorable situation this season.

After Hiddink's team let go of Van Bommel, at the end of August, before the transfer market closed, they sold two South Korean main players, Park Ji-sung and Lee Young-pyo. The former went to Manchester United for 400 million pounds, and the latter moved to Tottenham Hotspur.

Losing three players in one summer, PSV's competitiveness was greatly affected. In addition, the team did not introduce strong reinforcements in time. PSV started this season very unfavorably, and the state is relatively sluggish. If there is no improvement, it may be difficult to shake Ajax's dominance.

After playing the UEFA Champions League in the middle of the week, in the seventh round of the Eredivisie on the weekend, PSV Eindhoven challenged Heerenveen away. As a result, they conceded a goal in the opening 6 minutes, but then adjusted and scored three goals in a row.

However, at the end of the second half, after Heerenveen pulled back a goal, he once overwhelmed PSV Eindhoven, forcing the Eredivisie team into a panic. If Heerenveen's main center Huntelaar hadn't been absent due to injury, PSV would have lost a disastrous defeat.

After the game, Hiddink himself admitted that the team did encounter a crisis.

The situation of Van Gaal's Alkmaar was also not easy. Against Nijmegen at home, they took the lead twice and were equalized by their opponents twice. In the end, Avilardze scored the lore goal and defeated the opponent [-]-[-] at home.

Feyenoord's situation was even worse.

Erwin Koeman's team had a good momentum, but in this round they lost [-]-[-] away to Utrecht. The center Nilis, who had just transferred from Alkmaar to Utrecht, scored a hat-trick.

Ajax's situation is also difficult.

One of the most important reasons why several strong teams performed sluggishly is that they played the Champions League in the middle of the week.

Double matches a week, continuous hard-fought games, and the consumption level of professional football games are also a big challenge for athletes.

After Yang Yang experienced consecutive goals, there was finally a scoring drought.

Ajax's frontcourt offense collectively misfired, but unexpectedly, De Jong stood up.

The late midfielder, who has always been a full-time defensive player and a hunk, proved his tactical value by scoring twice in this game. Sneijder and Yang Yang each contributed an assist.

And Ajax's victory also made the Dutch domestic media highly affirmed.

All football fans know that no player, or team, can be good for long, there are always ups and downs, the same goes for the player, and so does the team.

But when evaluating the core competitiveness of a team, the key point is, when the state of the team's core players fluctuates, is there anyone else on the team who can stand up.

Feyenoord obviously didn't have it, so they lost. Alkmaar and Eindhoven are not in too bad condition. Only Ajax, all offensive players in the frontcourt are obviously lacking in condition, even Yang Yang is not excited enough.

Everyone understands this point.

Playing against Arsenal on Wednesday and Sparta Rotterdam on Saturday, there is too little time for Ajax players to rest in the middle, and Yang Yang is more excited in the game against Arsenal. It is only natural that there will be some decline in the state when playing in the league.

But when the attacking combination in the frontcourt was misfired, De Jong scored twice to save the team.

After the game, all domestic media reporters in the Netherlands believed that Ajax was the most champion team in the Eredivisie this season.

After playing the seventh round of the Eredivisie, Ajax continued to lead the standings.

Yang Yang fell behind Avilardze of Alkmaar by one goal.

But the season is still so long, and the battle for the top scorer has just begun.

What's more, Yang Yang has always been good at making late-stage efforts.

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Entering October, ushered in a two-week national team match day.

The Chinese team specially came to Europe for training, and all international players who have studied abroad have been recruited into the team to prepare for the World Cup next summer.

But this time, Alihan recruited all the outstanding players in the World Youth Championship into the team, including domestic players such as Cui Peng, Zhao Xuri and Lu Lin, as well as many players who performed well in the domestic league.

It was also a rare opportunity for Yang Yang to meet Gao Lin, Feng Xiaoting, Zheng Zhi and others, and naturally it was a hot chat.

He can clearly feel the new changes that studying abroad has brought to the national team.

The first week was mainly technical and tactical drills and training camps, followed by two consecutive warm-up matches against Germany and Spain. They lost both games, losing [-]-[-] to Germany and [-]-[-] to Spain.

Among them, Yang Yang scored a goal in the warm-up match against Spain.

It should be said that the results of the warm-up match are not surprising. The gap between the strength of the Chinese team and the strong teams is still very obvious.

This has also awakened many overly optimistic media and fans in the country. The World Youth Championship is only a youth team event after all.

Yang Yang can carry the National Youth Team to the World Youth Championship alone, but he cannot carry the national team to the World Cup alone.

He's not a Superman in underwear!
The national team gave high praise to these two warm-up matches.

Losing is certain, but sometimes losing is also a kind of gain.

When playing against Germany, they lost the game, but the defense was well organized. When playing against Spain, although they were under the control of others throughout the game, when they fell behind by one goal in the first half, they once played a wave of impressive attacks. Yang Yang also seized the opportunity to equalize the score, but conceded two goals in a row in the second half.

When communicating internally, many international players studying abroad also deeply felt the disparity.

In terms of player strength, technical and tactical level, and even logistics, the gap between the Chinese team and European teams is really too big, and there are signs of it getting bigger and bigger.

This is not to say that Chinese football is regressing. After all, the progress brought about by so many international players studying abroad can be seen.

It is more that the technical and tactical concepts of European football have developed too fast.

Even Alihan himself felt that in the past two years, the technical and tactical level of European football has really improved by leaps and bounds.

Yang Yang has a deep understanding of this.

Whether a player can play in the Champions League is at two levels, and whether the head coach can lead the team to play in the Champions League is also at two levels.

The fierce competition, which is almost cruel, forces all teams to do everything possible to study and restrain their opponents, and the technical and tactical level naturally develops and improves rapidly.

More importantly, in recent years, European football has also seen fresh blood such as Mourinho, Benitez, Ronald Koeman and Pellegrini, each of whom has a completely different technical and tactical style.

In fact, China's close neighbors Japan and South Korea are not unaware of this.

They are actively cooperating with European professional league teams and sending some outstanding domestic young players aged [-] or [-] to the youth training camps of European clubs for training. The purpose is naturally to enable these outstanding players to develop better.

If nothing else, just talk about Yang Yang himself.

With the current level of Asian football, Yang Yang does not need to try his best to be competent when he goes back to play, and he can even perform very well, but it only takes half a year. When he returns to the European League, he will find that he can no longer keep up.

To put it bluntly, football depends on training and competition.

Day after day, year after year of training and competition.

One day of practice, one day of work, one day of no practice, ten days of empty space.

Therefore, for the young teammates of the National Youth Team, Yang Yang always has only one opinion, that is, seize every opportunity and go abroad to study abroad.

It does not necessarily have to be the four most famous leagues, but it can also be Ligue [-], Portuguese Super League, Eredivisie, Ligue [-], or even the leagues of Austria, Switzerland and other countries. As long as they can play games, they should come out bravely.

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Interestingly, Spain, which defeated the Chinese team [-]-[-] in the warm-up match, was in an embarrassing disadvantage in the European qualifiers.

Due to the unsatisfactory performance of the previous game, Aragones' team finally failed to get the right to directly advance and was forced to play in the play-offs. This caused an uproar in Spain, and countless media and fans attacked them, thinking that Aragones should take the blame and resign.

Captain Raul appealed to postpone the league and do his best to prepare for the life-and-death battle of the play-offs.

"Now, the whole of Spain is very clear that the national team is the first. We have no way out for the first round of the play-offs in November. In order for the national team to concentrate on preparing for the game, the Football Association and the professional league should come up with a strategy as soon as possible and postpone the league!"

Raul's appeal has also been unanimously approved by many Spanish internationals, professionals and fans.

Even the Football Association and professional leagues have expressed that they will seriously consider Raul's proposal.

The absence of the World Cup is simply an unimaginable disaster for Spain.

Yang Yang, on the other hand, was in the mood of watching gossip, sitting at Odkerke's home, watching the news in the newspaper, smiling quite happily.

Who made the Chinese team advance ahead of schedule?
(End of this chapter)