As Yang Yang said before, confidence is achieved through games after games.

After defeating Arsenal 2-1 at home, Ajax obviously became more confident and more fighting spirit.

At least, everyone has seen hope that the team will qualify from the Champions League group stage and even go further.

The strongest opponent in the group is Arsenal, but the second game between Ajax and the Gunners is arranged in the last round. Before that, the situation in the group may have stabilized.

Therefore, as long as Ajax continues to maintain its current momentum and no more mistakes, in the last round of away game against Arsenal, Ajax will be able to qualify as the first in the group as long as he defends the draw.

According to the Champions League match system, the first group and the second group are completely different treatments.

Therefore, after defeating Arsenal, all Ajax players changed their fighting spirit.

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In the first six rounds of the league, Ajax scored 16 points with a record of five wins and one draw, ranking first in the Eredivisie standings.

Then there were Feyenoord and Valvik who won five wins and one loss, and then Alkmar and Eindhoven who scored thirteen points, among which Eindhoven's situation this season is the most unfavorable.

After Hiddink's team let go of Van Bomel, at the end of August, before the transfer market closed, they sold two South Korean main players Park Ji-sung and Lee Rong-pyo. The former went to Manchester United for 4 million pounds, and the latter transferred to Tottenham Hotspur.

Three tiger players were lost in one summer, and Eindhoven's competitiveness was greatly affected. In addition, the team did not introduce strong players in time, Eindhoven started this season and his condition was relatively sluggish. If it did not improve, it would be difficult to shake Ajax's rule.

After playing in the mid-week Champions League and in the seventh round of the Eredivisie on the weekend, Eindhoven challenged Helenfen away, but conceded the ball in the first 16 minutes, but then adjusted and scored three goals in a row.

But in the last stage of the second half, after Helenfin scored a goal, he once pressed Eindhoven to play, forcing the Eredivisie team to a very embarrassing situation. If Helenfin hadn't been absent due to injury, Eindhoven would have lost a crushing defeat.

After the game, Hiddink himself confessed that the team was indeed in crisis.

Van Gaal's Alkmaar was also not in a good condition. He faced Nijmegen at home, led twice, and was equalized by his opponent twice. Finally, Aviladze scored the final goal and defeated his opponent 3-2 at home.

Feyenoord's situation was even worse.

Erwin Koeman's team was in a good momentum, but in this round, he lost to Utrecht 1-3 away. Center Nilis, who had just transferred from Alkmaar to Utrecht, scored a hat-trick, and Kuyt performed poorly.

Ajax's situation is not easy either.

One of the important reasons why several strong teams performed poorly is that they all played in the Champions League in the middle of the week.

Double matches a week, hard-working games are also a big challenge for athletes due to the consumption of professional football games.

After experiencing consecutive goals, Yang Yang finally had a goal drought.

Ajax's frontcourt offense collectively silenced, but unexpectedly, De Jong stood up.

This guy has always been a full-time defensive player and is a tough guy, but he used a brawl to prove his tactical value in this game. Sneider and Yang Yang each contributed an assist.

Ajax's victory also gave high recognition to the domestic media in the Netherlands.

All fans know that no player, or a team, can maintain excellent form for a long time, will always have ups and downs, such as players, and so will the team.

But when evaluating a team's core competitiveness, a very important point is that when the team's core players' condition fluctuates, is there any other person in the team able to stand up?

Feyenoord obviously did not, so he lost the game. Alkmar and Eindhoven were not in bad shape, only Ajax, all the offensive players in the frontcourt were obviously in a lack of form, and even Yang Yang was not excited enough.

Everyone understood this.

Playing against Arsenal on Wednesday and Sparta Rotterdam on Saturday. There is too little time left for Ajax players to rest. Yang Yang is quite excited about the game against Arsenal. It is natural that some form declines occurred when playing in the league.

But just as the frontcourt attack combination was silent, De Jong's scored twice to save the team.

After the game, all domestic media reporters in the Netherlands believed that Ajax was the most champion team this season.

After playing in the seventh round of Eredivisie, Ajax continued to lead the standings.

Yang Yang was one goal behind Aviladze of Alkmaar.

But the season is still so long, and the battle for the shooter king has just begun.

What's more, Yang Yang has always been good at making efforts in the future.

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Entering October, a two-week national team match day has begun.

The Chinese team came to Europe for training, and all international players studying abroad were recruited to prepare for next summer's World Cup.

This time, Alihan recruited all the players who performed outstandingly in the World Youth Championship, including domestic international players such as Cui Peng, Zhao Xuri and Lu Lin, as well as many players who performed well in the domestic league.

Yang Yang also had a rare opportunity to meet Gao Lin, Feng Xiaoting, Zheng Zhi and others, so he naturally had a hot chat.

He could clearly feel the new changes brought to the national team by studying abroad.

The first week was mainly technical and tactical drills and training camps, and the next was to play two warm-up matches in succession, with the opponents being Germany and Spain. They lost in both games, losing to Germany zero-to-one and losing to Spain one-to-three.

Among them, Yang Yang scored a goal in the warm-up match against Spain.

It should be said that the results of the warm-up match are not surprising, and the gap between the strength of the Chinese team and the strong team is still very obvious.

This also awakened many overly optimistic media and fans in China. The World Youth Championship is just a youth team event.

Yang Yang can carry the national youth team alone to play the World Youth Championship, but he cannot carry the national team alone to play the World Cup.

He is not a superman wearing underwear!

The national team gave high praise to both warm-up matches.

Losing is certain, but sometimes losing is also a reward.

When he was against Germany, he lost the game, but his defense was well organized. When he was playing Spain, although he was controlled by others in the whole game, he once made a vivid attack when he was one goal behind in the first half. Yang Yang also seized the opportunity to equalize the score, but he only lost two goals in the second half.

During internal communication, many international players studying abroad also deeply felt the huge gap.

The gap between the Chinese team and European teams is really too big in terms of players' strength, technical and tactical level, and even logistics. There are signs of growing bigger and bigger.

This does not mean that Chinese football is regressing. After all, the progress brought by so many international players in overseas can be seen.

More importantly, the technical and tactical concepts in European football have developed too fast.

Even Alihan himself sighed that in the past two years, the technical and tactical level of European football has really improved by leaps and bounds.

Yang Yang has a deep understanding of this.

Whether a player can play in the Champions League is two levels, and whether the head coach can lead the team to play in the Champions League is also two levels.

The fierce and almost cruel competition forces all teams to use their best to study and restrain their opponents, and their technical and tactical levels will naturally develop and improve rapidly.

More importantly, in recent years, fresh blood has emerged in European football, such as Mourinho, Benitez, Ronald Koeman and Pellegrini. Each of them has completely different technical and tactical styles. Through the Champions League platform, they blend, compete with each other, learn from each other and promote each other, and their levels are naturally changing with each other.

In fact, China's close neighbors Japan and South Korea are not unaware of this.

They are actively working with European professional league teams and sending some outstanding young players of 15 or 16 years old in China to the youth training camps of European clubs for training. The purpose is naturally to enable these excellent players to develop better.

If you don’t say anything else, just talk about Yang Yang himself.

With the current level of Asian football, Yang Yang doesn't need to do his best to be competent when he goes back to play football, and he can even perform very well. However, it only takes half a year. When he returns to the European League, he will find that he can no longer keep up.

To put it bluntly, football depends on training and competition.

Day after day, year after year training and competition.

Practice one day, practice one day, and not practice ten days of sky.

Therefore, Yang Yang always has only one opinion on the young teammates of the national team of the national youth team, that is, to seize all opportunities and go abroad if you have the opportunity.

It may not necessarily be the four most famous leagues, or it can be the Ligue 1, Portuguese Super League, Dutch Eredivisie, League One, or even the leagues of countries such as Ollity and Switzerland. As long as you can play in the game, you should come out bravely.

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Interestingly, Spain, which defeated the Chinese team three-to-one in the warm-up match, was in an embarrassing unfavorable situation in the European qualifiers.

Due to the unsatisfactory game before, Aragones' team failed to get the right to advance directly and was forced to play in the play-offs. This caused an uproar in Spain. Countless media and fans attacked, believing that Aragones should resign.

Captain Raul called for postponement of the league and to do his best to prepare for the life-and-death battle in the play-offs.

"Now, all Spain knows that the national team is the first priority. In the first round of the playoffs in November, we have no way out. In order to allow the national team to concentrate on preparing for the game, the Football Association and the Professional League should come up with strategies as soon as possible and postpone the league!"

Raul's appeal has also been unanimously recognized by many Spanish internationals, professionals and fans.

Even the Football Association and the Professional League have expressed that they will seriously consider Raul's proposal.

Absent from the World Cup is simply an unimaginable disaster for Spain.

Yang Yang sat at Odkerk's home in a gossip, watching the news in the newspaper, smiling happily.
Chapter completed!