Football: The immortal legend on the green field

Neeskens watched the remaining ten minutes of the game in the locker room. When the final whistle sounded, he breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, SBV Elite tied the game and the score did not widen again. When he walked out of the locker room, he was surrounded by reporters. They were not interested in the result of the game. How could the game be more exciting than Neeskens being sent off the field with a red card for the second time this season!

"I don't want to say much about that conflict. He (PSV coach) just used an unconventional tactic when the situation was disadvantageous. Everyone can see that we have turned from defense to offense after we replaced Junior."

"Suppression of Shen Bin? No. If you watch our games regularly, you will know that we have arranged various starting lineups this season. Everyone can start and everyone can be a substitute. I am not worried about this. Even so, he only missed one-third of the games. No one thinks that a player who starts every game as long as his physical condition allows is considered to be suppressed! This is a stupid question."

Neeskens was very happy. Although he lost the game, Shen Bin did not win either, and neither did SBV Elite.

As long as the team is still in the competition and has not fallen behind, there will naturally be experts speaking for it.

Moreover, he believed that his personnel adjustments were crucial, and it was his substitutions that equalized the score.

"I don't have an advantage in coaching experience," Neeskens said, appearing modest but actually conceited. "The only thing I have is experience. I accumulated a lot of experience when I was a player. I know which players are good players and which players are not worth training."

"Shen Bin is like this, Gular is like this, and Junior is like this. He just lacks game experience and has not found the right way to play. I will give such promising players a chance."

"Just because he's not doing well now doesn't mean he will never do well in the future. He's still very young and has a long way to go. We can't kill the dream of a genius."

Neeskens was inevitably asked about Shen Bin's super long shot.

"He did a great job," Neeskens said succinctly. "It was within his capabilities and I'm happy for him to show his stuff to the fans."

In comparison, Martins, who attended the post-match press conference instead of Neeskens, was more direct and realistic.

When the reporter asked him about Shen Bin's performance in this game, Martins replied: "His performance was beyond imagination."

"The FA Cup semi-final against Ajax is in two days. Will you use the same lineup as this game?"

Martins said self-deprecatingly: "How is that possible! Unless we don't want to win anymore."

"Where's Junior?"

"We don't expect to get anything from him right away," he said rationally and calmly, "What does he need to learn from Shen Bin? For example, a positive attitude towards the game and resonating with teammates."

"Based on their performance today, how would you rate Shen Bin and Junior?"

"You know, I don't like to grade players, that's a matter for the fans and the media."

This pleasant evening passed quickly.

The next day, Haarlem announced that in the absence of Neeskens, Martins would serve as interim head coach.

Anyway, all the troubles are over and Haarlem needs to immediately prepare for the FA Cup semi-final away against Ajax. Fortunately, the two teams are in the same city and there is no need to travel.

This is also the first game of Haarlem Athletics in May.

The two teams that have reached the FA Cup semi-finals are eager to defeat their opponents and get a good start to the intensive schedule in May.

Due to the departure of two absolute core players, Van Persie and Van der Vaart, Ajax, which was the league champion last season, has now fallen to sixth place in the league this season.

This undoubtedly proves the value of Van der Vaart and Van Persie. Although Van Persie is not an efficient killer among forwards, his active running can still create space for his teammates.

Not long ago, Van Persie signed a lifetime contract with Puma. As a member of Puma, Shen Bin was arranged by the company to attend events with Van Persie.

Van Persie is very much a "big brother" person. No matter where he goes, he always looks like a boss. Van Persie invited Shen Bin to go to England to join Arsenal, but Shen Bin did not give a clear answer and did not want to have any idea of ​​getting closer to him.

After the event, Shen Bin returned to the "nursery" to rest for a while, and then took a bus with his teammates through the city to the Johan Cruyff Arena.

Shen Bin suspected that Neeskens did it on purpose. From what he knew, Neeskens didn't want to touch anything related to Cruyff.

Since Ajax's absolute core players Van Persie and Van der Vaart transferred to Arsenal and Hamburg respectively, the starting striker once again used veteran Litmanen to partner with young and fast Huntelaar. Although Van der Vaart left the midfield, the team still fielded a midfield with national players.

Sneijder, Heitinga, De Jong and Maxwell are all well-known figures in Europe, but because Litmanen is old, the Finnish ice skates are not as unpredictable as they were five years ago.

On the Haarlem Athletic side, Martins fielded the ideal lineup that Shen Bin wanted.

The defensive line still uses the Italian pair of Aleister and Bosnia, the left and right wingers use Antonin Porter and Wes Rafael, the defensive midfielder Tiote partners with Bruno, Shen Bin is arranged to the left forward, the middle is Shinji Kagawa, the right is Gural, and the single striker is Howard.

In Shen Bin's opinion, with Deng Zhuoxiang coming on in the second half, this lineup can be said to be the strongest lineup currently facing Haarlem Athletic.

Martins' change of formation made Ajax very restrained.

At the beginning of the game, Shen Bin made two consecutive steals on the left before Huntelaar received the ball, both times allowing Haarlem Athletic to launch a counterattack.

Then Shen Bin gained absolute advantage in the matchup with Huntelaar, and then he entered the sky-high mode.

On the offensive end, they devoured Ajax's entire right side, and on the defensive end, they made Huntelaar completely helpless, making the Dutch's proud superstar lose face in front of more than 5 fans.

The national team coach Van Basten in the stands only watched for half an hour before crossing Huntelaar out of the national team list. He planned to re-activate Gural, who would no longer be on the 40-man list but would directly be included in the 22-man starting list.

Throughout the first half, Shen Bin used his personal organizational skills to constantly create chaos in front of the Ajax penalty area, either by taking long shots himself or sending threatening balls.

The audience shook their heads when watching such a scene. If Haarlem Athletic was wearing white jerseys, they would have thought that their home team's opponent was Real Madrid.

Shinji Kagawa is the beneficiary of Shen Bin's dominance.

In the 41st minute of the first half, Shen Bin dribbled the ball along the wing, attracting two Ajax players to block him. Seeing that the defensive player in front of Shinji Kagawa was attracted by him, he didn't think twice and poked the ball forward with his toes, passing the ball directly to Shinji Kagawa's feet.

Shinji Kagawa received the ball without any interference. While dribbling sideways he was also observing the positions of his teammates.

Gular has already retracted from the other side.

At this time, Howard pointed forward. The next second, Shinji Kagawa passed the ball to the front of Howard before Sneijder approached, and then Shinji Kagawa moved to the middle.

Heitinga originally wanted to move closer to Shen Bin on the right to assist in defense, but when he saw Shinji Kagawa's running position, he had to turn around and mark Shinji Kagawa.

Howard tried to break through De Jong several times, but De Jong predicted the direction each time. When he was wondering what to do with the ball, he heard Shen Bin shouting from behind.

He immediately passed the ball back with his back foot.

Shen Bin first made a fake move forward, deceiving Maxwell, who was defending him, to shift his body weight inwards, then he pulled the ball to the outside and calmly stepped into the penalty area.

A defender alone could not stop Shen Bin, so Heitinga had to abandon Shinji Kagawa and double-team Shen Bin.

Shen Bin drew his bow and was about to shoot from a distance, but Heitinga and the central defender raised their legs at the same time to block, but Shen Bin's shot was just a realistic feint.

With a lob pass, the ball passed over Ajax's entire defense line and flew into the empty space on the right.

At this time, Ajax's defense was focusing on the left side, and this sudden pass completely disrupted their defense.

Gular quickly moved forward and the goalkeeper was ready to block. Gular knocked the ball to Shinji Kagawa in the middle. Shinji Kagawa gently pushed the ball with the arch of his foot and the ball flew into the Ajax goal.