Alkmaar training base, head coach's office.

Van Gaal and three coaching staff members were sitting on the sofa, watching the TV on the opposite wall intently.

The 23rd round of the Eredivisie that ended last night was playing on the TV, with Ajax away challenging Roda JC.

This weekend, Van Gaal will take his Alkmaar to the Amsterdam Athletic Stadium to challenge Ajax away, which will also be the first time he has led the team back to Amsterdam after resigning as Ajax technical director.

Van Gaal attached great importance to this game.

Roda JC is not very strong, and he can barely defend the first thirty minutes, but in the thirty-third minute, Yang Yang created a murderous intent on the right, assisting Charles Tyaz with a cross to score a header.

Just eight minutes later, Sneider passed directly behind him, and Yang Yang easily reversed offside and scored a single goal, 2-0.

It was not until the 84th minute that Roda JC relied on Cristiano to score a goal that regained his face.

In the end, Ajax defeated Roda JC 2-1 away.

Yang Yang pushed his goals this season to 18 goals with one pass and one shot.

Since Eindhoven, Alkmar and Feyenoord both won, the top four rankings of the league remain unchanged.

Kuyt scored another goal in this round, successfully pushing his total goal to twenty-two goals.

But now, the video studied by the Alkmaar coaching staff is different from the regular game video. This game video carefully edited by club video analyst Max Rex is more conducive to analyzing Ajax's technical and tactical characteristics.

Among them, Van Gaal attaches the most importance to Ajax's right winger Yang Yang.

"The winter break this season should be a watershed. Before, Ronald Koeman mainly used Sneijder and Pinal to build the midfield. The frontcourt was Wesley Songk, Charles Tias and Yang Yang."

"But after the winter break, Ronald Koeman changed his tactical style. Pinal was pushed to the left winger, and Galassick and De Jong formed a double midfielder. This is also the most commonly used midfield formation for Ajax. After the formation was changed, Yang Yang became Ajax's most threatening attack point."

Twenty-three rounds, eighteen goals, twelve assists, and director thirty goals. Yang Yang's performance this season can be described as explosive growth. Not to mention the outside media and fans, even Van Gaal himself finds it unbelievable.

Van Gaal still clearly remembers that when he left Ajax, Yang Yang was a serious student with a sharp breakthrough and crossing, but he was weak in other aspects, but in just over half a year, he made rapid progress, especially in stopping the ball.

Now he is no longer the same as he was half a year ago.

In addition to stopping the ball, Yang Yang's physical confrontation has also made obvious progress. This can be seen from his originally thin body shape, which is definitely the result of long-term persistence in strength training.

In recent times, Yang Yang's shot has also become more threatening. According to the news received by Van Gaal, he has been practicing shooting for three months.

The rapid progress of these three major events has made Yang Yang's performance this season improve by leaps and bounds.

At the beginning of the season, many people still look forward to Yang Yang's growth this season as the most threatening winger in the Eredivisie after Robben, but now, no one will compare Yang Yang with Robben.

The reason is very simple. Yang Yang's scoring ability has long surpassed Robben, and he is more comprehensive than Robben.

How to limit Yang Yang has become a problem that all teams must face when facing Ajax.

The same goes for Van Gaal.

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The more people analyzed the analysis in the coaching room, the more surprised they became.

Yang Yang is only eighteen years old, but the strength he showed on the court has made everyone grow up and even famous stars out of reach. Especially in recent years, it seems that he suddenly burst out with amazing energy.

"This is not a sudden outbreak." Van Gaal shook his head and denied the assistants' judgment, "This is accumulating strength."

"Accumulate and make a lot of effort?"

Van Gaal nodded, "You will think he was suddenly erupting, because you don't know him at all. If you have personally learned about his high demands on himself in recent years and the intensity of his training, you will not be surprised by the progress he has made now."

The coaching staff looked at each other with all their eyes.

They are indeed not familiar with Yang Yang, but they are very familiar with Van Gaal.

The famous Dutch coaches have always been arrogant. Even when facing Rivaldo in Barcelona, ​​he did not give the other party a good look. Many people even said that he was above the top, so there were very few players who could be favored by him.

And it is rare to be so respected by him like Yang Yang.

"I know this kid very well. He has strong running ability and excellent physical fitness. Now that the physical strength is coming, one-on-one defense is useless to him, and it will affect our defensive formation."

Van Gaal rejected a choice from many teams, which was to arrange a special person to defend Yang Yang.

But facts have proved that one-on-one, no one can defend Yang Yang.

"Our passing and ball control ability is definitely not as good as Ajax, and our overall strength is not as good as Ajax, so we can only defend and counterattack." Game analyst Marcel Bowt analyzed.

"I think we should still stick to the original defensive system, shrink appropriately, and strengthen the defense of the middle lane, especially the front of the penalty area and the ribs. This is the most threatening area in Yang Yang."

Van Gaal's tactical system is very rigorous and meticulous.

Alkmaar players are not strong and their ball control ability does not meet Van Gaal's requirements. They cannot play the dominant football that Van Gaal wants, so they can only eliminate ball control and add more unball runs.

This is also very consistent with Alkmaar's usual characteristics. The style of this team has always been known for its diligence and overall strength.

If his ex-Adriance was too radical, then Van Gaal's arrival injected sanity into the team.

This is also the reason why Alkmaer's performance soared this season.

But in the strong dialogue, this team is still a problem, for example, he lost 1-5 away to Eindhoven.

However, that was already the second round of the early season. After more than half of the season's running-in, Van Gaal believes that the team will still have the strength to fight Ajax away.

However, we must first solve Yang Yang's major concern.

"Yang Yang is a very smart, very good at thinking, and very good at adapting players. We must pay more attention to him. While maintaining the overall defensive formation, we must pay as much attention to his defense as possible. In the next week, we will arrange a targeted training specifically, and we will completely freeze him at the Amsterdam Athletic Stadium!"

Van Gaal spoke loudly, his tone and expression were not like he was joking. Then he even restricted Yang Yang and arranged tight defenses, explaining clearly and in detail, which made the assistants around him a little strange.

Isn’t this Yang Yang aged friend of Van Gaal?

Why do you feel that when you touch Ajax and Yang Yang, Van Gaal are more ruthless than anyone else?

"What? Is there a problem?" Van Gaal noticed the expressions of his assistants and asked with a frown.

"Louis, you and Yang Yang..." Marcel Baut asked tentatively.

How smart Van Gaal is, he immediately understands what his assistants mean.

"Yes, I do have a relationship with Yang Yang, but I have to put some pressure on him both public and private."

Seeing everyone's puzzled expressions, Van Gaal smiled.

"He has been going well this season. I should give him a blow and let him feel the pressure. People grow up the fastest under pressure."

The assistants looked at each other helplessly again, but they felt that this should be more like Van Gaal's quirk.

After sending the assistant away, Van Gaal smiled and took out his cell phone, found Yang Yang's phone number, and called.

He guessed that Yang Yang should have finished practicing more at this time and was going home.

This kid's daily routine is almost monotonous and boring.

Sure enough, as soon as the phone was called, it was immediately connected.

"Boy, you've scored eighteen goals, congratulations."

"Ha, Louis, you are starting to become hypocritical and polite, this is not like you." Yang Yang directly exposed Van Gaal's "mask".

Van Gaal also laughed. He would only laugh out loud in front of a very small number of friends. Yang Yang counted as one.

"I want to tell you that I just prepared a gift for you to give to you at the Athletic Stadium in Amsterdam on the weekend."

"Is that true?" Yang Yang also smiled, "You are so kind? You are not going to give me a few goals and let me catch up with Kuyt as soon as possible?"

"Yes, can you take it?" Van Gaal asked provocatively.

Yang Yang smiled again, "Do you know? I have asked Raiola to prepare the gift for me."

"Give me a gift?"

"You're so beautiful!" Yang Yang cursed, "I said before that if there are more than twenty goals, I will give each of the coaches, staff and all the first team players."

Van Gaal was stunned, he made a big move, "Are you so willing to bear it?"

"There is nothing to be reluctant to let go. Although I scored the ball, it was also the credit of everyone in the team. I won the best player in the Toyota Cup before, didn't I get a car? I discounted it, plus the goal bonus in the contract, which is enough to prepare a gift that I can get, and I plan to give it to it on the weekend."

Van Gaal understood this when he heard this. This kid was fighting back.

He scored 18 goals now, and it was said that he would give a gift only twenty goals, and it would give it to the weekend. That is to say, Yang Yang plans to score twice in this game on the weekend?

"Okay, okay, okay, ambitious, I'll wait, I hope you don't let me down."

"Don't worry, Louis, didn't you say it? I've never let you down."

Van Gaal was speechless.

This was what he said when he was Ajax's technical director. Is it completely different from his current status?

But why does it sound like you are putting yourself in a trap?

"Okay, then we'll see you on the weekend!"

"Okay, see you on the weekend!"

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In the mid-week, the Dutch Cup quarterfinals knockout round.

Ajax played with a half-main and half-substitute lineup, defeating Theatre 2-0 away.
Chapter completed!