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1269 The Evolution of the Ball King!

After Real Madrid defeated Juventus three-to-one at home and advanced to the Champions League final with a total score of six-to-three, media around the world gave Yang Yang overwhelming praise. He scored five goals in two rounds of the Champions League semi-finals, and his scoring efficiency was amazing.

Many people even believe that when Real Madrid is not in their best condition, Yang Yang dragged this Real Madrid into the Champions League final alone and took a step further towards the dominance of defending the triple-champion title.

Even Real Madrid has grabbed the Big Ear Cup with one hand!

Amid a public opinion, a new journal released by French Football Magazine uses Yang Yang as the cover and the title is [The King of Football Evolution!], which uses a series of articles to comprehensively analyze Yang Yang's progress over the years.

French football has fully witnessed Yang Yang's growth process. The first article reviews Yang Yang's performance in Ajax, and believes that Yang Yang at that time was more like a traditional Dutch winger, with fast speed, strong explosive power, excellent dribbling and breakthrough ability.

"So far, countless fans are still missing Yang Yang's debut."

"On the evening of December 9, 2003, Ajax, Belgium, had to defeat Bruges to advance, but in this critical game, Ajax performed poorly away and failed to win the opponent."

"When the team was almost in despair, Yang Yang, who was only seventeen years old, made his first appearance for Ajax's first team."

"At that time, no one had any impression of this young player, and even the media had very little information. Everyone had only one reaction to this substitution, that is, Ajax had completely given up hope."

"Many years later, when the media interviewed the then Ajax head coach Ronald Koeman, the Ajax coach frankly said that he did not have hope at that time. Yang Yang was just trying to fulfill his promise and give Yang Yang a chance, but unexpectedly, the subsequent development of things was completely beyond everyone's expectations."

"It was in that game, in the last stage of the last round of the Champions League group stage, Yang Yang emerged from nowhere. With his dazzling light, he used his sharp breakthrough on the right side, and his iconic pendulum extraordinary, and led Ajax out of the predicament with a genius flash, and used his assists to help Ajax escape and advance smoothly."

"On the end of the day, Yang Yang became famous in the European football world and even attracted attention from the whole world. Everyone began to notice the young rookie in the Ajax youth training camp. Van Gaal, who was then technical director of Ajax, once said at the time that Yang Yang was not a genius in the strict sense, but he would surprise the whole world!"

"The sixth round of the Champions League group stage was just a first cry. Later, in the Champions League knockout round, although Yang Yang failed to grab the main position, Ronald Koeman arranged a substitute again and again. Every time, he was able to use his sharp breakthrough and precise assists to help Ajax break the deadlock."

"Finally, on May 26, 2004, Ajax, who was played for by Yang Yang, walked into the Schalke Stadium of Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The opponent was Porto, the Portuguese Super League giant led by Mourinho. Yang Yang and his teammates laughed to the end, and he once again became the key to the game!"

"After many years, when we look back on the Champions League season eleven years ago, when we think about Yang Yang's sudden appearance, we still feel excited, because we know that the young young man who was just starting out in the past will dominate the entire European football world for ten years in the future!"

"The media back then praised Yang Yang very much, but every year, many rookies like Yang Yang emerged in European football. Some of them may just be short-lived, and some may not develop to the outside world's expectations in the end. They can truly reach their due heights, and there are only a handful of them."

"But Yang Yang is definitely a role model that all young players should learn, because he not only did it, but also did it almost perfectly!"

French Football Magazine then began to analyze Yang Yang's years in Ajax, from his role in the game and team tactics, as well as his technical and tactical characteristics and style of playing, including Yang Yang's outstanding performance in the French Toulon Cup and the subsequent Asian Cup of the national team.

They finally came to a conclusion that during that period, Yang Yang's strength had improved by leaps and bounds and his progress was amazing. More importantly, he was very self-disciplined and very hardworking, insisted on basic training for a long time, and worked hard to make himself more comprehensive.

In all, this is a point that the French Football Magazine focuses on.

After a long period of tracking and analysis and having a lot of data to support them, they came to a conclusion that Yang Yang is difficult to defend because he is too comprehensive.

"If he made his mark in Ajax and made rapid progress, then his maturity is inseparable from a team and a head coach, Liverpool and then Liverpool coach Benitez."

"During the Ajax period, Yang Yang played the right winger, but in fact he was as proficient in his left heel and right foot. After two or three summer transfer rumors, Yang Yang rejected many European giants including Real Madrid, Manchester United and Chelsea and chose Benitez's Liverpool. This was questioned at the time, but it was considered extremely wise afterwards."

"In Liverpool, Yang Yang did not appear on the right side, he was more active on the left side, he began to use his speed and breakthrough ability to insert or dribble the ball from the back of the left side, which made his offense more secret and more threatening."

"So far, many people are wondering whether Benitez really made Yang Yang?"

"But in fact, Yang Yang said more than once that Benitez has helped him a lot, and whether it is his technical and tactical literacy or his role on the court, it has had a profound impact on him."

"As early as when he played in the Eredivisie League, Yang Yang's goal efficiency was already very high, but in fact, we all know that the Eredivisie goals in those years were very heavy. After the Eredivisie scorers in the past few years, there were only two people who could still maintain stable performance, one was Yang Yang and the other was Suarez. The other players were not as good as before."

"In the Premier League, after Yang Yang became the left winger, he began to become more of a modern frontcourt attacker. Cutting in the left side began to become his symbol. Yang Yang's area was also recognized by the media and fans during that period. He began to perform on the stage of the top league and began to dominate European football!"

"At Liverpool, Yang Yang began to reduce his breakthroughs and dribbling, but this does not mean a deterioration in ability, but just makes his football style more secretive, threatening, and more concise and practical."

"Even though so many years have passed, we can still find that during Liverpool's playing time, Yang Yang's technical and tactical style has stabilized. Over the years, Yang Yang has become more and more comprehensive and outstanding. It is precisely because he laid a solid foundation during Liverpool and then continued to develop and improve comprehensively on this basis."

"According to Opta statistics, Messi completed a total of 258 successful passes in the 2013 to 2014 and 2015 seasons, making him the veritable first-class champion in European football. The second only to Messi is Hazard, who played for Real Madrid. He completed 254 times and ranked second."

"Real Madrid's other winger Di Maria is also ranked seventh. As for Yang Yang, his success is only more than half of Messi's, ranking 13th. The data seems to be terrible."

"But if we analyze it further, Yang Yang's attempts are the least among the top 30 players on the list, but the success rate of extraordinary people is the highest, and most of his extraordinary people are vertical breakthroughs. It is not difficult to find that Yang Yang does not try people often, but once he tries, he will basically succeed."

"More importantly, we must know that there are huge differences between horizontal and vertical people in tactical threats. The latter's threat is far greater than the former. Most of Yang Yang's extraordinary people are such vertical people, which is particularly rare."

"What's more interesting is that among the other Opta lists, Yang Yang did not have the most shots, which was much less than Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi, but his shot rate was the highest and his scoring efficiency was the highest. Both of these data were the best in European football."

"In addition, in other data, including assists, pass success rate, pass threatening ball and other offensive data, Yang Yang can be seen in the top ten, and even in terms of interception and steal, if you put aside the defender and defensive midfielder, Yang Yang actually ranked 14th in the list of offensive players in the midfield and frontcourt, which can be regarded as the data of a tactical center."

French Football Magazine later posted a hot map of Yang Yang's game, analyzing the differences between superstars such as Yang Yang, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. It is obvious that the Portuguese basically stops in the frontcourt, and he prefers to move on the left side of the frontcourt, while Messi is on the right side of the frontcourt, but he retreats more deeply and often takes in the midfield.

However, Yang Yang's hot map covers the largest area. He is almost everywhere in the midfield and frontcourt, and he often retreats to assist the midfield.

"In terms of running data, Yang Yang ranks first among forwards, and average running distance is also first. This is a very amazing number, because it means that Yang Yang is running and covering almost every game without hesitation, constantly looking for and creating opportunities."

"Van Basten said that a running player will not be restricted!"

"This explains why it is difficult for Yang Yang to be restricted by defense, because he is always running, because he is very comprehensive, so comprehensive that he can be competent for any position in the midfield and frontcourt."
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