The nature of the Netherlands' Cruyff Cup is very similar to that of other countries' Super Cups. It is usually scheduled to start a week before the first round of the league, which can be regarded as a warm-up and preparation for the league.

When Ajax beat Eindhoven 4:0 at Arena Stadium, and when Gretz began to fall into a crisis of trust, the Netherlands began to hype that he would be fired by the club's management because of this crushing defeat, the Eredivisie ignited the war.

Unlike the previous life Asian football media are paying attention to this season's Eredivisie because Feyenoord introduced Japanese international Nobuji Ono. Now the Asian media is focusing on the young Chinese coach standing in front of the coach's seat of Arena Stadium.

As a result, the team performed very well in this round.

Ajax welcomed Roda JC at home, and Ye Qiu started preparing for this game after playing the Super Cup.

Goalkeeper Van der Sar, the defense lines are Abidal, Kivo, Lucio and Macon, the three midfielders are Keita, Gilberto Silva and Sneider, and the Tridents are Robben, Ibrahimovic and Van der Fate.

This is the main lineup that Ye Qiu has arranged in this game and is also the team's first league game in the new season.

Ajax's offense now gives people the feeling of rushing around. This team is very young, full of spirit and confident. In addition, the players are well equipped, which makes Ajax always likes to fight a devastating offensive in that fast-paced state.

It was like the first round of this league match against Rhoda JC. Ajax was like a tiger going down the mountain from the beginning, beating Rhoda JC who was not as strong as himself, taking the initiative to press forward, and firmly suppressing the away team in half.

After Roda JC kicked off, the ball never crossed the center line again because Ajax scored in just 51 seconds of the opening. This was an interception in the frontcourt. After Keita intercepted the ball, Ibrahimovic retreated and made the ball. Van der Fate inserted into the penalty area from the right to form a single score, 1:0.

Everyone was surprised by this start, but what surprised them even more was that it was just the beginning.

After Roda JC re-charged, Ajax did not relax at all. He still maintained strong suppression of this away team, always suppressing them firmly in the half and then looking for opportunities.

In the 4th minute, Roda JC was really overwhelmed. She passed the ball to the frontcourt with a long pass, Lucio headed the ball to Gilberto Silva, who was assigned to Abidal on the left, and the French left-back passed Robben.

One-on-one, Robben broke through the opponent's defense line in the way he was best at, rushed to the left side of the penalty area and cut inside, crossed the middle, Ibrahimovic followed up with a push shot, and pierced through Roda JC's goal again, 2:0!

A perfect start, a wonderful process!

Ajax's new season starts almost impeccable. Roda JC is limited by strength and can never pose any threat to Ajax, who is unstoppable. Especially after the opening, he was stunned by this sudden stick. He was not until he was scored two goals in a row that he thought of making adjustments.

As soon as the adjustment was made, Ajax also adjusted, slowing down the pace.

This slowdown directly kept 2:0 until the end of the first half.

But in the second half, Ajax took advantage of his kick-off and launched a fierce attack on Roda JC. and scored three goals in the 51st, 64th and 68th minutes respectively, and finally completed a 5-0 victory over Roda JC at Arena Stadium.

This goal feast made all the fans of Arena Stadium completely crazy, and also made Ajax jump to the throne of the leader of the Eredivisie after the first round of the league. This was the first time Ye Qiu had become the leader of the Eredivisie.

In the same round, Eindhoven drew Groningen 2:2 away, and Feyenoord drew 1:1 at home and drew with Rotterdam Sparta, which led to Ajax's 5:0 victory in the league.

Three days later, because Ajax is going to participate in the European Super Cup with Bayern Munich, the second round of the league is ahead of schedule.

In order to prepare for the match against Bayern Munich, and to finish the first round of the league three days ago, Ye Qiu made certain adjustments to the lineup in this game.

The goalkeeper is still Van der Sar, the defense is Abidal, Lucio, Kroo Toure and Hetinga, the three midfielders are Keita, Gilberto Silva and Yaya Toure, and the trident is Heleb, Hunteral and Van der Mede.

Ajax's large rotation affected the team's combat effectiveness to a certain extent. There was a problem in the away game against Helenfin. When the game reached the 13th minute, Helenfin took the lead in using Ajax's counterattack to make a mistake in cooperation and scored a goal lead.

But Ajax made adjustments, especially Ye Qiu's targeted arrangement during the game, which quickly stabilized the situation, and in the 35th minute of the first half, Heleb assisted Hunterlaer to equalize the score.

At the beginning of the second half, Ajax made another round of offensive. After receiving a pick-up pass from Hleb from the left, Van der Mede surpassed the score again and completed a reversal.

In the end, Ajax reversed Helenfin 2-1 away and won two consecutive victories.

In the same round, Feyenoord won Roda JC 2:0 away, while Eindhoven was tied twice at his home court. Finally, with Hesselink's final decision at the critical moment, he narrowly defeated his opponent 3:2.

After playing this game, the entire Ajax team went to Monaco.

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Before 1998, the European Super Cup had always been a two-round match between home and away, but since 1998, it has been changed to a single-game final and was held in Monaco's Louis II Stadium. With the cancellation of the Cup of Winners, the participating teams have become the League Cup champion and the European Cup champion.

The teams participating in this year's European Super Cup are Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich and Eredivisie Ajax.

Around August 24, the whole of Europe and even the world focused their attention on Monaco, but many of them were not paying attention to the Super Cup, because the European Super Cup is just a warm-up champion for all teams. On the contrary, the European Champions League group draw ceremony is the real eye-catching thing.

Moreover, the annual group draw ceremony is accompanied by awards from various European competitions last season.

The draw and award ceremony were arranged at the Grimalti Convention Center in Monaco. In addition to Ajax and Bayern Munich, who were preparing to come to Monaco to participate in the UEFA Super Cup, the other 30 teams were either led by the head coach himself or the club management representatives were arranged to attend.

This is the first time Ye Qiu has attended such an annual event, but if he had a choice, he wouldn't be very willing to attend, because he has almost no acquaintance here.

There are big names everywhere, Real Madrid's delegation is huge, head coach Bosque, star players Raul, Figo, Zidane, Jero and other stars all attended the event, and Inter Milan's recent return from injury also appeared, including Liverpool's Irving, Arsenal's Henry, etc.

To be honest, in the entire venue, there were stars gathered and the stars were shining, but the problem was that no one took Ye Qiu seriously.

These days, the football circle is full of fame. Ye Qiu is just a little bit older. A League Cup championship is not a big deal for this group of European teams. They pay more attention to the European Champions League.

Therefore, the entire team of League Cup champion Ajax responded mediocrely when entering the court, but when Heathfield brought Effenberg, Sauer, Kahn and other Bayern players into the court, the whole game was in full swing and many people came forward, because Heathfield not only won his second Champions League, but also this group of Bayern stars performed very well, especially Effenberg.

"Boss, isn't this obvious bullying? Why are there so many people who praise them, and we can only be left aside?" Swedish Ibrahimovic looked at the passage in a angrily manner, and everyone was circling around Bayern, and his heart was seriously unbalanced because he had a self-centered ** since he was a child.

"Because they are wealthy families, and we are just a group of country boys who have just entered the city!" Ye Qiu was not very happy either.

It’s not that he is cynical. He knows in his heart that this is a very realistic world. Everyone recognizes Bayern Munich because they are a wealthy family and the largest in Europe. There are many stars in the team, but what about Ajax?

It has long since fallen to Mars!

These days, if you haven't participated in the Champions League for a year, your fame and influence will decline rapidly. If you haven't participated in it for two or three years, I'm sorry, you are embarrassed to tell others that you are a wealthy family.

It's like Barcelona, ​​they participated in the Champions League, but because of their performance not being ideal, they now feel that Barcelona has declined. They can only dig out Saviola and Riquelme, while their opponent Real Madrid is digging Figo, Zidane's level. You can imagine how big the gap is.

Barcelona is still in La Liga, but Ajax is in Eredivisie. People are like this. You can imagine how unbearable Ajax is.

Ye Qiu understood that this was a reality caused by the environment, and he did not hate anyone, but this did not mean that he would be willing to accept such treatment in his heart. He believed that anyone with a little backbone would not like such a gap.

But he would not want to leave because this was the voluntary choice of others, and it had nothing to do with anyone, and no one deliberately made things difficult for Ajax; he would not go up and take the initiative to find others to fault, because it would not only not help you enhance your influence, but also make others feel that you are losing your own value.

So he chose others to play other people's things, and I played my own.

"Fuck the country boy, have the ability to play on the court and fuck them to death!" Abidal was also very unhappy with this treatment. What he disliked the most was this snob who was tempted by the tendency to be inclined.

"Good words!" Ye Qiu patted Abidal's shoulder, "It doesn't matter if people look down on us. They play their games, we play our games. It's not easy to win the pursuit of those guys? When we can step on the whole of Europe under our feet, they will naturally welcome us like welcoming Bayern Munich!"

Ye Qiu said this very ignorantly. Ajax's players are all passionate and passionate men. They were a little excited when they heard it. They all wanted to start a movie with Bayern Munich now and kill them.

"If you have the ambition, remember today and remember this group of people. We will step on them all sooner or later!"

He didn't like this different treatment very much, which made him feel as if he had just traveled through time. Didn't the people of Ajax look down on him like this? Or even reject him?

Ye Qiu is not a newcomer. He won’t do anything randomly, but it doesn’t mean he will be content with the status quo.

His personality, under the influence of every day, has more or less infected this player of Ajax. They are all a bit similar to Ye Qiu's rebellious spirit of reasonably rebellious, from the second team to the first team to the first team, to the first team, and to the back of the giant teams such as Barcelona.

Now, they are already the League Cup champions, and this is the bigger they make, the more they make, the more motivated they make, and the more ambitions they make.

So when they heard Ye Qiu's words one by one, they all agreed very much and thought secretly that when they met this group of wealthy families, they must beat them all down to see what their expressions would be like.

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Lottery draws and awards are conducted one after another.

Because Ajax won the second place in the Eredivisie, he did not need to participate in the Champions League qualifiers and directly entered the group stage.

However, because Ajax's European performance in the past few years and even missed the Champions League for two years, this led to Ajax's points and rankings being very low. Even teams like Eindhoven and Feyenoord who participate in the Champions League every year have been ranked third, and Ajax can only fall to the fourth level in the end.

What kind of team is the fourth level?

Anderlecht, Sparta Prague, Panasinacos, Celtics, Lille, Nantes...

It should be said that the Champions League is still very valuable these days. Each of these teams is famous in Europe. But the problem is that the fourth gear is always the fourth gear, which sounds a bit inconsistent, which makes Ajax's angered young people feel very unhappy, and they always feel like they have been slapped in the face.

Can Ye Qiu do this at this time?

I can only suppress the fire in my heart and set a goal for my players.

"Watching those first-tier giant teams? We just want to step down them all, turn their bodies into our stepping stones, and climb upwards. That feeling must be very satisfying!"

In the end, Ajax was drawn to Group F by lottery, and it turned out to be Barcelona, ​​Lyon and Leverkusen.

Among them, Barcelona was Ajax's opponent in the League Cup final last season. But you should know that Barcelona this season is very different from last season. They spent a lot of money to sign, and Lexac's team's strength has also improved greatly. As for Lyon, this team is already a Ligue 1 class bully, and its strength is self-evident.

Although Leverkusen is in the third place, if Ye Qiu remembers correctly, they are the Sanya kings this season, the Bundesliga, the Champions League and the German Cup are all runner-ups. Although it is tragic, it also reflects the team's strong combat effectiveness.

"I'll just get the slap, I'm so desperate that I actually drew these three teams!" Ye Qiu took a breath of air conditioning.

But looking around the other groups, they are basically matchups of powerful parties. For example, Bayern Munich meets Spartacus Moscow, Feyenoord and Spartacus Prague, Juventus is Porto, Rosenberg and Celtics, Liverpool is Dortmund, Dynamo Kiev and Boavista.

Nowadays, teams like Dynamo Kiev, Boavesta, and Fenerbahce are also very strong and difficult to play in the game. Therefore, the value of the Champions League is so high, not like the subsequent restructuring, which has expanded its troops greatly. Some small teams were specially arranged to come in to make up for the numbers, and the value of the goods dropped rapidly.

In other words, Ajax's draw is not unfair, who made them the fourth level?

After the lottery ceremony, the award ceremony was officially entered.

Sometimes, Ye Qiu feels that winning the Champions League actually requires a lot of luck.

It's like Bayern Munich. Bayern Munich in 1999 was stronger than it is now, but that year Bayern was reversed by Manchester United in the final, and then encountered Real Madrid, which was unstoppable after changing coaches, resulting in the 2000 Champions League defeat, and it was not until this year that it won the Champions League.

But Bayern's performance this year is actually not very good. Compared with 1999, their overall decline this year, especially the team's main players. Except for Effenberg's outstanding performance, the others are basically average, but last season was also Effenberg's last afterglow.

But sometimes, this is the fate of a team.

Ye Qiu personally admires Bayern Munich, because this team has a typical German personality, that is, they are comprehensive and steady. Almost every time they form a team, there is a very interesting thing, that other giant teams will leave more or less defects when forming teams.

The moon has its phases and waxing. If you want to arrange top stars in a certain position, you must arrange green leaves in other positions. This is inevitable to form a team. Therefore, Real Madrid has a strong attack group in the frontcourt and a weak defense line in the backcourt, and the same is true for other teams.

But only Bayern or these teams in the Bundesliga have always maintained a pragmatic team-building strategy, that is, comprehensiveness.

Do not blindly chase stars, and pursue the powerful players in every position more pragmatically, which has led to the strength of Bayern Munich in recent years, but it has also caused Bayern to be unpopular in some awards.
Chapter completed!