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"It turned out to be Standard Liege!"

In Yang Yang's office, everyone was surprised when they learned about the result.

This opponent is not weak at all.

In the eyes of fans all over the world, the real strong teams in Europe should at least be the four major leagues, but in fact, the four major leagues are already the top of the pyramid. Many teams like Ajax, Nice, Bruges and Standard Liege are really trampled under their feet. They may not be famous, but their strength must not be underestimated.

Ajax is a traditional giant, and fans generally know it, but if you mention Belgium, many people may think of Anderlecht, Genk and other teams. However, in recent years, Belgium's strongest team is Bruges.

In the past four seasons, this team has won three League One Championships and one League runner-up, with a brilliant record.

What made Bruges' brilliant record in recent years was precisely the poaching of the La Liga team Real Betis in September 2013. At that time, Spanish head coach Garydo was poached by Real Betis, so Bruges poached Michel Prudeholm, who was coaching at the Al Sabab Club in Saudi Arabia.

The schedule of the League One is very special, with only sixteen teams. The entire season is divided into two stages, one is the regular round-robin and the other is the play-off. After all the teams complete the regular round-robin of thirty rounds first, the top six enter the championship play-offs, the seventh to fifteenth enter the Europa League play-offs, and the last team at the bottom is relegated.

Finally, the playoff points were cut in half, and after adding the regular training match points, the last league standings were ranked.

Standard Liege is a traditional Belgian strong team, but the last time he won the league championship was five years ago, the season when Prudeholm just took over Bruges, when Bruges won the third place in the league.

The following three seasons were ranked in the middle and seemed to be mediocre. Until last season, under the coaching of Portuguese Ricardo Pinto, the team finally won the third place in the league and qualified to participate in the Champions League perimeter qualifiers.

Due to the poor performance of Standard Liege in the regular league training matches and only won the sixth place, although Pinto finally qualified for the Champions League with the playoff points, he was eventually fired.

Instead, Prudholm, who led Bruges to win the championship, is the direct youth training leader and legendary celebrity of Standard Liege.

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"In the past few years, Prudeholm has had a lot of experience in European competitions. His team has always participated in the Champions League, so he is very familiar with the Champions League. More importantly, the team of Standard Liege has always been very stable."

Harvey Alonso was analyzing the information about the opponent he had at hand to everyone.

"In last season's round-robin match, the biggest problem with Standard Liege was their defense. They lost 41 goals in thirty rounds, and their offense was not outstanding, and they only scored forty-three goals. But one thing we must pay attention to is that Standard Liege often reversed, and the last two rounds of last season were all reversals, and finally qualified for the Champions League playoffs in Major League."

"In the subsequent playoffs of Bijia, they won six wins, three draws and one loss in ten games, scored twenty goals, and their offensive ability was even better than Bruges. They only conceded nine goals in defense, which was very, very outstanding."

"It's obvious that this is a very powerful team. Prudholm is another veteran coach with rich experience and a very stable style of playing. Facing such an opponent, we must not be careless. If we are not careful, we may be eaten by our opponents in one bite."

Yang Yang swept around everyone and found that everyone was gaze on him.

Winston Bogard is only responsible for injury prevention and rehabilitation physical therapy, as well as players' physical strength training, Antonio Pintus is only responsible for physical training, and Frans Hawke is focusing on goalkeeper training, so in the entire coaching team, the only one who can really communicate with Yang Yang is actually Harvey Alonso.

Of course, that's enough.

Soldiers are more expensive than elites. Sometimes too many people negotiate together may not be a good thing.

"This is a very important game." Yang Yang first gave the next to the tone of the upcoming game.

This is not only the debut of Ajax's new season, but also the debut of Yang Yang, which is crucial.

How to take this first step well is related to the development of Ajax in the future.

More importantly, Ajax's first leg was still away, and the schedule was relatively favorable.

"The more important the game is, the more we have to lift the weight and keep calm, so we train and arrange everything as usual. Next, we will only add some targeted arrangements and drills to tactical training classes."

"Our principle is that no matter who the opponent is, we only stick to our tactics. How others play is their business, and we should focus on ourselves and respond to changes in the same way."

Ajax is a team composed of young people and it is impossible to play complex and changeable tactics like Real Madrid.

Real Madrid are all experienced European top stars. They are top notch in terms of experience, tactical wisdom and their own strength, which allows them not only to suppress their opponents in terms of strength, but also to adapt to different tactical styles.

But Ajax is not good. The team is too young and has not yet figured out a set of tactics. If you blindly seek change, the players will be at a loss, so you must stick to stability.

After getting Yang Yang's arrangement, everyone understood and went to make preparations, only Harvey Alonso stayed.

He and Yang Yang still have very important things to negotiate.

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"There are two goals for the away game this time, one is to score away goals and as many away goals as possible."

There is a very interesting rule in the Champions League knockout stage, that is, away goals.

With the same total score, teams with more away goals will advance.

But don't underestimate this rule, because it has brought earth-shaking changes to the Champions League knockout stage and even has a huge impact. It also makes the Champions League knockout stage more interesting and suspenseful.

Many teams like to score away goals. Some even say that there is only one purpose in the away game in the Champions League knockout stage, that is, to score away goals, whoever grabs more will have the lead.

"While we are trying to get away, we must try our best to get out of here, that is, we will get a draw."

Yang Yang's idea is very pragmatic. Facing an opponent like Standard Liege and an old fry like Prudeholm, it is difficult for him to gain advantage from his opponent in his debut, so his goal is to seek a draw away.

With Ajax's offensive football, it is not impossible to achieve both away goals and draws in the away game.

"I took a look at it roughly. The high center of Liege is Portuguese Orlando Sa. He still has some fate with you because he transferred to the Henan team of the Chinese Super League for 4.3 million euros at the beginning of the year and is back this summer."

"Both central defenders do not have the experience of the four major leagues, but they have been in the Champions League level for a long time, and their overall strength is still good. The two wingers are Ma Boku on the left, who is the captain of the team. He has previously been to the Premier League Tottenham Hotspur, Leiden Oriental, Serie A Cagliari and Verona, and his strength is also good."

"The other is Mehdi Karse, who just transferred from Granada this summer, and both of them have one common feature, that is, the speed is very fast, you know, this fast winger is very popular with a high center, whether in the AFC, in the Dutch Eredivisie, or in some other leagues."

Of course, Yang Yang knew that even in the middle and lower-level teams in the four major leagues, many of them used this configuration.

Simple, direct, rough, but very practical, and does not require high personal abilities of players, as long as they are worthy of their characteristics.

So sometimes, small teams can often create a main lineup, and even perform very well and shine. However, once there is an injury or a player transfer, the overall strength will be greatly reduced.

But it is not possible for giant teams, because they need to fight on multiple fronts and also require some fault-tolerant preparations.

"This team is not easy to play." Harvey Alonso said with some worries.

Yang Yang rubbed his hands and smiled, "Actually, it's not that difficult."

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On the evening of August 7, Duflasen Stadium, Liege, Belgium.

In the 2018-2019 season, in the third round of the Champions League qualifiers, Ajax challenged Standard Liege away.

The Duflasen Stadium, which can accommodate 30,000 fans, was packed with people in the stands, and many Belgian fans came to hear the news, just wanting to see the style of Yang Yang, the world's number one football player.

As soon as Yang Yang appeared, he directly transformed the fans of the home team into his own fans.

Countless people shouted his name in the stands, and the atmosphere in the venue was extremely warm.

But when it comes to the competition, I believe they will no longer give Yang Yang such courtesy again.

When the Ajax players returned to the locker room, assistant coach Xavi Alonso began to announce the team's roster tonight.

Goalkeeper Onana, from left to right, is Taliafico, Militon, Dricht and Ashraf, the three midfielders are Frankie De Jong and Ndongbele dragged behind, Van der Beck breaks forward, and the tridents in the frontcourt are Neres, Jovic and Sancho.

This morning, Yang Yang communicated with first-team players one by one. He would tell the players whether he could, why, and why he chose him as a substitute. Yang Yang would give his own explanation and answer their questions.

Everyone knew that they would be with the substitute, but they didn't know that Yang Yang was not in the lineup.

What a luxury decision he actually put himself in the bench.

After Xavi Alonso announced the roster, Yang Yang gently rubbed his hands and walked to the player with a smile.

“As I said at the pre-match preparation meeting, there is only one purpose for away games, that is, to score goals.”

"We are a team that is determined to enter the Champions League knockout stage. Opponents like Standard Liege must pay attention to it, but there is no need to be afraid. I believe that you can handle it yourself, because you are better than your opponents!"

Everyone nodded uncontrollably.
Chapter completed!