The two-week national team competition has a great impact on Ajax, who has many international players.

When the internationals returned to the club after trekking a long distance to play the national team and they could not pass the physical examination at all, especially many internationals who participated in all two national team matches.

There is no way to do this, because the World Cup qualifiers on all continents are currently in full swing. In order to ensure the results, the national team is also very ruthless in employing people, and some players even played for two consecutive 90 minutes.

In the fourth round of the Eredivisie, Ronald Koeman had to rotate the team.

The goalkeeper is veteran Hans Fonk, Emmanuelson plays on the left in the back line, Vlaal and Maduro partner with the center back, Griguera plays on the right back, veteran Galasek drags behind in the midfield, Pinal and Sneider are in the center, and Ryan Babel, Nicklas Bentner and Yang Yang are on the front line.

The gap in strength between the substitute lineup and the main lineup is still quite obvious.

Although Ajax's lineup has half of the main players, he still plays poorly in the away game against William II. It is difficult for the team to be at the same rhythm, and the offense and defense organization is relatively chaotic.

Yang Yang was very active on the right, but Griguera did not provide enough offensive support to the frontcourt.

In the 35th minute of the first half, Yang Yang created an opportunity on the right and passed it to the penalty area. Nicklas Bentner got the ball back and made it back. Galassek followed up and shot directly, opening the first record for Ajax.

But in the 60th minute, Griguera made a foul that was not calm enough while defending the opponent's attacking players and was sent off by the referee directly with a red card, resulting in Ajax missing one person.

This made Ajax's field more passive.

But the advantage is that William II saw the hope of winning and finally came out.

In the 86th minute, Yang Yang dribbled the ball and rushed in, assisting Nicklas Bentner to score.

This is the first league goal of the Danish center this season.

In the end, Ajax defeated William II 2-0 away.

There is nothing to tell the score, but Yang Yang has experienced it personally that the team's condition is indeed quite average.

This was mainly affected by the national team competition.

After this round of the game, Ajax continued to lead the Eredivisie standings with four consecutive victories.

But in the scorer list, Aviladze, who played for Alkmaar, scored a hat-trick in this round and eventually reversed Yang Yang with seven goals and topped the scorer list.

Helenfin's Hunterrare ranked third with four goals.

Feyenoord's Kuyt seems to be subject to the team's tactics and has not performed well this season and has only scored three goals at present.

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Mid-week, Retska Stadium, Prague, Czech Republic.

In the first round of the Champions League group stage B, Sparta Prague faced Ajax at home.

When the game reached the 87th minute, Yang Yang quickly turned around and got rid of Sparta Prague's right back Martin Petras, dribbled the ball from the left to the front of the penalty area, and passed the ball to the right side of the arc top area first.

Sneider came in from the back row and scored in one go against the ball, equalizing the score for Ajax!

But at this time, the Ajax players on the court were not excited or excited at all.

Because before this goal, Ajax had already lost one goal.

Macon also performed very poorly in this game, and was not active on the right. He was punched through by a left-side player in Sparta Prague in the second half and conceded a goal.

But this really cannot be completely blamed by Macon, because he did travel a long distance back to the country to serve the king.

What's even more unlucky is that he can't play as the main player in the Brazilian national team.

This feels a bit unpleasant.

But what else can I do?

In fact, it's not just Ajax, but Arsenal's situation is not much better.

In the game against Switzerland's Thun at home, the Gunners were at home, but Thun was forced into a very embarrassing situation.

Gilberto Silva was injured before and did not participate in the Brazilian national team. She performed well in this game. She scored the first record for Arsenal in the 51st minute, but just two minutes later, Toon equalized the score.

After that, Arsenal failed to defeat Thun, and many players including Henry, Pire and Reyes performed very poorly. Finally, until the third minute of stoppage time, Borgkamp's final goal at the critical moment scored three-pointers for Arsenal.

Thun is known as the weakest team in Group B. Arsenal is playing at home again and it still plays so hard, which makes the British media very dissatisfied with the Gunners' performance.

Wenger believes that the team has been affected by the national team game, but no one will support this statement at all.

On the contrary, Ajax is a small team after all, and is a draw with Sparta Prague away, and domestic public opinion in the Netherlands is quite recognized.

Yang Yang became the most active player in the team. Everyone believed that he did not receive enough support from the team, but he still relied on his own ability to assist Sneider to equalize the score.

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September 18th at noon.

In the fifth round of the Eredivisie, Ajax challenged Alkmaar away.

Just brought back a draw in the Champions League away, Ajax challenged Van Gaal's team away.

Like Ajax's long journey to Prague, Czech Republic, Alkmaar's opponent in the League Cup was Samara from the Russian Premier League, but in order to prepare for the league, Van Gaal arranged a rotation away.

As a result, Alkmaar lost 3-5 away.

Obviously, Van Gaal is full of confidence in his home victory.

He concentrated all his main players against Ajax and strived to defeat his opponent at his home court.

The first ten minutes of the game were completely controlled by Ajax.

Yang Yang scored a goal in the first three minutes, and the assist from Sneijder allowed him to score smoothly.

In the sixth minute, Yang Yang assisted Charlesteyas to score and widen the score.

With two goals leading, everyone felt that Ajax was sure to win.

But Yang Yang still did not dare to be careless and kept calling on his teammates to be vigilant.

After half an hour of stalemate, Alkmaar attacked twice in the 35th and 37th minutes of the first half, Aviladze scored goals one after another, scoring twice, successfully tied the score.

Fortunately, in the first half stoppage time, Fermuren's long pass, Yang Yang turned around and shot after stopping the ball in the penalty area, and once again surpassed the score for Ajax.

After the second half of the game, Ajax took advantage of the victory and pursued it again. Just one minute of the game, Yang Yang planned and Pinal assisted, and Sneider scored again at the front of the penalty area, further expanding the score, four to two.

But in the 54th and 56th minutes, Perez's two goals tied the score again.

In the end, Ajax drew 4-4 away with Alkmaar.

Yang Yang scored two shots and one pass, increasing his personal league goals to eight and contributed four assists, and his performance was outstanding, but Aviladze raised his personal goals to nine with his double score in this game.

After Ajax drew with Alkmaer in this round, he gave up the top spot in the league.

What's funny is that the top spot in the standings is neither Feyenoord nor Eindhoven, but Valvik.

The team led the standings with five consecutive victories this season.

However, everyone knows that this is related to Valvik's unmatched team so far.

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Ajax and Alkmaar scored eight goals in this top-ranking battle, which was indeed exciting.

Both sides played without any conservatively, and the game was very intense and exciting.

But judging from the final result, Ajax's problem was undoubtedly exposed very clearly.

That's defense.

This is also an old problem.

Last season, Ajax's ability to win two consecutive Eredivisie championships was related to Ronald Koeman's change of formation.

He used the double midfielder formed by Garasek and De Jong to ensure the team's defense was stable, which allowed Ajax to defeat strong opponents in both domestic and European arenas.

Since the beginning of this season, Yaya Toure has been liberated, and the team's offensive firepower has been released. It is currently the team with the strongest goal-scoring ability in the Eredivisie, but the defensive problems have been exposed again.

Whether it was Heatinga in the early stage or other players in the subsequent defense, they were obviously not stable enough.

Ronald Koeman's defense of this is a matter of the schedule.

The two-week national team match day has a great impact on strong teams, and the schedule of the Eredivisie is different from other leagues. Although it is also necessary to stagger home and away games as much as possible, there are often two consecutive home games and two consecutive away games.

Feyenoord played away in the last two rounds last season, and Gulit once used this to defend Kuyt, believing that he lost the shooter king because of the schedule.

After the national team game, Ajax first played William II away, then played Sparta Prague away, and then played Alkmaar away, which was indeed quite difficult.

In particular, the impact of national team competitions must be considered.

When players are affected by national team competitions and have problems with physical fitness, playing three away games in a row is indeed a great challenge. Inadequate physical fitness has led to the team's midfield and frontcourt pressing and pressure, and the players' attention is easily distracted.

On the morning of the second day after playing Alkmaar, the coaching staff called Yang Yang, Garasek and Sneider for a meeting again. The focus was on analyzing the current situation of the team and worrying about problems in the locker room atmosphere. I hope Yang Yang and the other two can try their best to appease the players.

"We will have a week off next, and everything will get better soon." Ronald Koeman was full of confidence.

Kruittenberg also said that the next week is very precious and he is confident that he can adjust the players' physical fitness and condition, but the premise is that the locker room must cooperate and not be messed up.

It’s smooth to win, everything is good, and there seems to be no contradiction, but once the team is in a bad situation, all problems will surface, which is quite dangerous.
Chapter completed!