rpbooks Chapter 281 Cruyff Turns Around
Chapter 281 Cruyff Turns Around
Chapter 281 Cruyff Turns Around
"These guys are really crazy!"
When walking towards the middle circle, Sneijder looked up at the yellow submarine fans in the stands and said.
Looking around, the whole stand was a piece of yellow. With the ups and downs of the fans, it looked like a yellow ocean.
"Riquelme is a genius!" Yang Yang praised.
Speaking of Riquelme, he has nothing to do with Van Gaal.
This South American genius came to Barcelona with everyone's expectations, but the result was not liked by Van Gaal, which made him unable to gain a foothold in Barcelona and was forced to go to Villarreal on loan, but he did not expect to be resurrected here with full blood.
As a midfielder this season, Riquelme has scored [-] goals in La Liga, which is also a career high. It can be seen that this Argentine magician is in the best state of his career.
In addition to Riquelme, Villarreal's striker is composed of former Atletico Madrid golden boy Jose Mari and Uruguayan star Diego Forlan.
Diego Forlan played for Manchester United before, but he never showed satisfactory strength at Old Trafford. After switching to Villarreal, the Uruguayan striker, who only spent 180 million euros, proved his worth with consecutive goals.
Moreover, these two strikers have been in good form recently. Jose Mari just scored twice against Athletic Bilbao, and Diego Forlán also scored a goal to help the Yellow Submarine beat the Basque Lions [-]-[-] at home.
Under Pellegrini's training, Villarreal adopted an irregular [-] formation.
On the front line are Jose Mari and Diego Forlan. The situation in the midfield is quite special. Riquelme's position belongs to the front midfielder, and Sorin is on the left. The Brazilian midfielder Marcos Senna and captain Josico form a double midfielder.
Among them, Marcos Senna looks ferocious, but from the opening point of view, he is more about taking and playing the ball, sorting out the transition, but Josico, on the contrary, has a very brave and aggressive style, which is a bit surprising.
Yellow Submarine is characterized by a large number of South American players, the style of play is not conservative, and the players are very capable. In addition, Pellegrini himself is a coach who has coached in South America for many years, so he can just give full play to their advantages.
Among them, the most important part of the yellow submarine is the connection between Riquelme and the two forwards in front.
This was repeatedly told by the head coach before the game, but just now Ajax's double midfielder did not do well, and Riquelme immediately seized the opportunity, and then inserted to form a goal.
This somewhat embarrassed Garasek as the captain, not knowing how to encourage his teammates.
Yang Yang also saw the clue. When walking back, he clapped vigorously and shouted loudly.
"It doesn't matter, it's only twelve minutes. Let's take our time, focus on defense first, and stabilize our position. There must be a chance."
Although Yang Yang is not the captain, his weight in the locker room is getting more and more important. Everyone can hear what he said.
Garasek nodded towards Yang Yang, expressing his gratitude.
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"He is becoming more and more general-like now." Luther Carroll said appreciatively.
Ronald Koeman nodded, obviously agreeing with the assistant's statement.
Yang Yang has indeed become a vital member of the Ajax locker room.
"Villarreal has been resolutely following the South American route for three years. Since Munoz coached until now, and since the transfer of Palermo, they have been vigorously introducing South American players. The arrival of Pellegrini has further improved the club's business philosophy."
Luther Carroll nodded again and again. No club's success will come suddenly. It is all built up bit by bit over time.
It's like Villarreal's performance has improved by leaps and bounds this season. Everyone only sees the role of coach Pellegrini, but they don't notice that behind Pellegrini, Villarreal has insisted on the South American route for many years.
In the past few years of economic crisis, the leagues of South American countries have been in a downturn. Players have transferred to European football at low prices. Villarreal is one of the biggest beneficiaries. Among them, South American players such as Sorin and Gonzalo Rodriguez are very powerful.
The reason why Diego Forlan couldn't play at Manchester United, but suddenly broke out in Villarreal is because there is a strong soil of South American football here, and he is very familiar with it.
The same is true for Riquelme.
The arrival of Manuel Pellegrini is just to further raise Villarreal's South American-style football to another level, so that everyone can see that the original clear, delicate and smooth South American-style football can also succeed in La Liga and European football.
"As long as this team is not in chaos, it will be stronger next season, and the Champions League will be even better then." Luther Carroll judged.
Ronald Koeman nodded, there are traces of this.
After seeing that the players had all returned to their positions, the Ajax coach immediately walked to the sidelines, called Galasek and De Jong, and signaled them to pay attention to restrict Riquelme, don't give him too many opportunities, and cut off the connection between him and the two frontcourt players.
This season, the connection between Riquelme and Diego Forlan is also a very important part of Villarreal's offense.
The Argentine magician is the soul of Villarreal to adjust the rhythm of the game and connect the offensive and defensive transitions. As long as Riquelme is pinched, Villarreal's offensive threat will be much smaller.
By that time, Ajax will be able to exert their strength.
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Sometimes football is that simple.
As long as targeted tactics work, the situation will change.
After the game restarted, Villarreal's morale was still very strong, but it always slowed down its offensive.
On the one hand, Ajax's two defensive midfielders began to strengthen their defense against Riquelme.
On the other hand, they are very afraid of Ajax's counterattack.
Yang Yang's speed and personal ability have long been known in the UEFA Champions League last season. This season, he has provoked the backbone of Ajax and become the backbone of the team.
Pellegrini is obviously also very clear that if Mao rushes forward and leaves a gap behind him, giving Yang Yang too much room to counterattack, it will definitely be fatal.
Therefore, after grabbing a goal in the opening game, the Chilean engineer wisely arranged for the team to slow down the offensive and play steadily.
At the same time, Chilean engineers also made arrangements specifically for Yang Yang's defense.
It's as if Ajax will arrange for Riquelme, and Yang Yang is the soul core of Ajax.
Almost every time Yang Yang takes the ball, except for Riquelme, the nearest Villarreal players will go up to grab it immediately, more of them are Sorin or Marcos Senna, which affects Yang Yang's performance.
But Yang Yang also quickly expanded his running range, and actively used interspersed running to pull the opponent's defensive players and create opportunities for his teammates, but the effect was not very obvious.
After all, Yang Yang is the only one who really has the strength to dribble the ball and break through the opponent's defensive formation.
Yang Yang was not in a hurry either, he was still running patiently and actively, looking for opportunities.
Fortunately, after Ronald Koeman adjusted and Villarreal deliberately slowed down the offensive, in the next 10 minutes, neither side could create a good scoring opportunity, and Riquelme also temporarily misfired.
Ajax intercepted the ball from the backcourt and sent a long pass to the right side of the frontcourt.
Charisteas grabbed the first spot, but was pressed by Villarreal central defender Gonzalo Rodriguez from behind, so he had to take it back and pass it to Yang Yang who caught up behind him.
As soon as Yang Yang received the ball, Sorin and left back Allu Abarena immediately gave up Charisteas and rushed to Yang Yang.
The two Villarreal players stood in front of Yang Yang like a wall.
Yang Yang turned around at the first moment to protect the ball, but the two still stood in a fan shape behind them, pressing hard every step of the way.
Through God's vision, Yang Yang can see that Sneijder is in the middle, and Charisteas is behind him, but he can't pass the ball, so he can only bring it back.
This is a game strategy, and he expected that the two players would not be able to follow him back at the same time.
Riquelme basically does not participate in the defense, as long as both of them come out, then Sneijder will have a chance.
Sure enough, Sorin didn't come up, and Aruabarena followed Yang Yang tightly, not giving him a chance to turn around.
At the same time, Villarreal's striker Jose Mari followed Maicon, and they did not intend to give Yang Yang any direction to pass the ball.
The opponent is pressing every step of the way, getting closer and closer to the right line. Villarreal's defensive strategy is to force Yang Yang to take the ball out of bounds. This is also a very common, but at the same time very practical defensive strategy.
"The closer the defense is, the easier it is to take fake moves, as long as you move fast enough!"
This is what the legendary Ajax winger, John Van Schip, who once trained Yang Yang one-on-one, told him.
But at this moment, Yang Yang has no choice.
Due to the strength confrontation that lasted for half a year, Aruabarena's body running behind him did not make Yang Yang lose his balance, but his pace faltered a little, but he still carried the ball steadily.
He is watching the opponent, and the opponent is also watching him.
When Yang Yang suddenly accelerated forward, Aruabarena was taken aback, thinking that Yang Yang was using his speed to get rid of his defense, and immediately followed up from Yang Yang's right side.
The left side is the sideline, and his defensive intuition told him that as long as he gets stuck on the right side, Yang Yang will not be able to fly.
But Yang Yang was waiting for him.
As soon as Aruabarena moved, Yang Yang skillfully hooked the ball behind him with his left foot, and he himself suddenly stopped and turned from the left side.
Suddenly, the ball came in front of Yang Yang, and Yang Yang turned around smoothly.
"Cruyff turn around!!"
The whole Love Song Stadium burst into exclamation.
After Yang Yang turned around, he was facing the attacking direction, while Aruabarena was facing away from him, and the situation was completely reversed.
Yang Yang rushed forward with the ball quickly, and without waiting for Sorin to get close, he passed it across to Sneijder in the middle.
Sneijder understood, and headed diagonally to the middle lane.
Thorin was worried about the middle and quickly approached Marcos Senna.
But suddenly, Sneijder, who was originally facing the top of the restricted area, passed the ball behind Sorin.
Yang Yang slanted behind Sorin at the fastest speed, and after receiving the pass from Sneijder, he had already reached the front of the penalty area.
At this time, only the central defender Gonzalo Rodriguez was left in front of him.
(End of this chapter)