The Champions League is a stage that European mainstream media will pay attention to.
When the results of the group draw for Group H of the Champions League group stage came out, everyone believed that AC Milan and Ajax would advance to the top 16 together.
AC Milan, defending champion.
Ajax, last season's quarterfinals.
What is Bruges?
What is Celta?
This is one of the groups considered to be the least suspenseless.
However, two rounds of the game were finished.
The outsiders were stunned.
Defending champion AC Milan only scored 1 point.
Ajax won 1 win and 1 loss, 3 points.
Bruges won all two games, 6 points!
Celta is the same as AC Milan, 1 point.
Ajax won Celta and scored 3 points.
However, the current situation and the initial expected situation have changed drastically!
The ideal situation expected is: before the third round starts, AC Milan and Ajax will score at least 4 points, or 6 points, in Bruges and Celta!
Then the two strong men met and competed for the first place in the group.
Celta and Bruges will fight each other in two matches, and they may consume each other. Then in the fifth and sixth rounds, AC Milan and Ajax will definitely have the initiative, and there will be no big accident in advancing to the knockout stage.
But now, the situation has completely changed!
AC Milan, which has only 1 point, will definitely do its best to meet Ajax in the third and fourth rounds in the match, revealing bloody minions, and crazily tearing Ajax apart to avoid the tragic fate of being eliminated in the group stage of the defending champion!
You should know that AC Milan is 5 points behind Bruges, and 2 points behind Ajax. Focusing on reality, at least it will defeat Ajax. If you look far, you will not only pursue advance to the knockout stage, but also prepare for the top 16 battles to avoid the first place in other groups. Then AC Milan will compete for the first place in the group with 5 points behind the top 10 and 5 games left!
Due to the influence of the general situation, Ajax's victory received very low attention.
The outside media focused on all the outlook for the third and fourth rounds of the game.
Ajax will face the defending champion AC Milan who will never be able to retain any reservations!
European media focused on the subversive process of the Champions League Group H, while Chinese media regretted that Qin Xiong sat on the bench for 90 minutes.
However, at least, Qin Xiong appeared in the live broadcast for a few seconds. Even if he was a substitute, even if he did not appear on the stage, it excited many fans, indicating that some Chinese players have arrived at the edge of the Champions League stage.
Qin Xiong's mentality was stable and he was not affected at all.
He is a substitute in the first team, and a substitute does not mean that he will appear in every game.
He also understands coach Koeman's approach. It is no exaggeration to say that playing Celta is a life-and-death battle in the Champions League. It is extremely risky to use him rashly. After all, this is not the Eredivisie. Even if the gambling fails, there is still a way out, which does not mean destruction.
Especially thinking about a month ago, when I was just in the youth team, Qin Xiong never thought that others had to give him anything, and everything had to be fought for by himself.
He still trained hard and moved forward with the most professional attitude.
Perhaps it was his calm performance that made coach Koeman's favorable impression of him rise sharply.
After experiencing the last round of the Eredivisie substitute, in the seventh round of the Eredivisie, Ajax was a visit to Groningen, and Qin Xiong was included in the starting lineup by Koeman!
On this day, the sky was gloomy, but Qin Xiong was in high spirits. He took the tickets given to him by Van Gaal and went back to Wardell Street at noon and gave the tickets to Freddy. Infreddy and Zeller's friends also met, so Qin Xiong asked Freddy to call and ask if those friends were interested in watching the game. If there were any, they could go together, and the tickets were definitely enough.
Probably, the Groningen Football Club's home occupancy rate is not high, and Ajax got very rich tickets. Van Gaal also told Qin Xiong that as long as he can start in the future, he can directly ask the team management and administrative staff for tickets, and be honest and do not be shy!
There are three guaranteed home games, and the away games depend on the situation, but there are definitely no tickets for European games.
The gloomy sky cannot reduce Qin Xiong's desire to fight in his heart by half.
He followed the team to the city of Groningen in the northeast and went to their home court for pre-match warm-up. The wind was a bit strong, but Qin Xiong ignored these things and continued to focus and be serious as usual.
Before the game, Koeman deliberately emphasized that during the game, he should pay attention to control and reasonable allocation of physical fitness.
This gave Qin Xiong higher requirements, he was the midfield organizer and the rhythm controller.
The coach's arrangement before the game ended, and Qin Xiong stood in the player channel with his teammates with his head held high and waited for the appearance.
Because after this league game, it will enter the FIFA match day in October, Koeman wants to win this league game so that most of the players who played the Champions League three days ago will continue to start!
Qin Xiong replaced the player Sikola, the winger who was fast and was shuttled up and down the wingers a few days ago, and his physical energy was extremely consuming.
Today, Koeman also wanted to see what effect it would be if he pushed Van der Fate back to the front line.
Qin Xiong's friends also came to Groningen to watch the game. In the afternoon, they sat in the stands with raincoats with them. Even Georgia came here together under the focus of De Geus and others.
They look forward to Qin Xiong appearing as the starter!
This means that he has taken another step forward in Ajax!
Qin Xiong himself also knows this. In today's game, he must play in the best condition and do his best to perform well. Maybe this will be his opportunity to "uspense the throne and ascend to heaven"!
With an extremely high fighting spirit, Qin Xiong stalked with his teammates and walked into the stadium in Groningen.
The cool wind blew, and Qin Xiong was full of energy.
However, when he stepped into the sideline of the field with one foot, he suddenly felt as if he had been cast in a fixed spell and was stiff.
Smack
The face was slapped by cold liquid, and the water dripping slid down my cheeks.
Pick, snap, snap...
Qin Xiong looked up at the sky in shock.
The dull and dark sky was covered with dark clouds. On this afternoon, it covered the sky and weakened the intensity of the sun. Under the stadium lights, fine raindrops fell from the sky and swayed with the wind.
Qin Xiong stretched out his hand, his palm facing upwards, lowered his head and stared at the palm, as if he was confirming what was falling in his palm!
He was like a person who had never seen it rain before, feeling strange, surprised and shocked by the raindrops!
Of course he has seen it rain.
But, in his memory.
He has never played in a rainy day!
On the road to growth, physical health is always the first priority.
For athletes, colds that ordinary people are commonplace are the most taboo disease for athletes!
The most vicious curse in football is to expect people you dislike to suffer from the flu!
Ordinary people may think this is too exaggerated, and they will also think that a player who emits a vicious curse is too naive and childish when they see such news.
Want your "enemy" to get the flu?
Please, are you a primary school student?
What's scary about having a cold or a fever?
At most, it’s just a few days off, and maybe it can be cured without medicine.
However, what football players fear the most is the flu.
Players who have a cold will first be isolated by the club to avoid infection.
Secondly, if a cold has an incubation period, you can do vigorous exercise when you are not aware of it, then a small cold may cause more serious injuries!
Because he knows how great the hidden dangers of a cold to athletes' health, Qin Xiong has never played football on a rainy day!
From the beginning, I listened to the doctor's advice, avoid colds and fevers, and put health first, so Qin Xiong felt that all this was correct. After that, he did not think about this issue more during his growth. Even if it rained and he didn't play football outdoors, he could do training indoors. He was not doing nothing, so he didn't care.
But today, at this moment, he realized that during his training and growth, he had lacked training in an important specific environment.
That's the Rain War!
Football matches, although rain battles are not common, they definitely exist!
The impact of the rain battle was something Qin Xiong had never experienced before.
Today, he is going to embark on a strange battlefield and compete in a competition environment without any preparation!
Both the coach and the teammates were confused by Qin Xiong's strange reaction, thinking that he was doing a strange oriental cultural ceremony.
Chapter completed!