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In the stands, Qin Xiong's friends stared worriedly at him on the sidelines.

Georgia's voice is already hoarse, and he has been cheering for Qin Xiong.

This was the first time for him to watch Qin Xiong's game up close from the stands of the stadium. He did not feel any disappointment and was still proud of Qin Xiong.

That's right, Qin Xiong didn't perform well, but every time he fell down, he got up quickly without the slightest sign of discouragement. Isn't it a shocking manifestation of willpower?

On the court, behind the skills, players need the spirit of never giving up and never admitting defeat!

It's hard to say that De Coize and Rutmansen came to see Qin Xiong specially because they are die-hard Ajax fans.

Freddy, on the other hand, was completely heartbroken, guilty and guilty.

He knows Qin Xiong very well. Qin Xiong has three pairs of sneakers.

Broken nails, plastic nails, steel nails.

In the past many years of Qin Xiong's training, these three kinds of stud sneakers are what Qin Xiong switched to in response to different training venues.

Many years ago, Freddie knew that he should prepare a pair of spiked sneakers for Qin Xiong to deal with the rainy battle, but perhaps he felt that the early preparations could only be left idle, so he kept procrastinating. After all, Qin Xiong's feet were still growing , Buy shoes early, you may not be able to wear them after a while!

Many years have passed, and Qin Xiong has never had a demand for spiked sneakers, and Freddie has gradually ignored this matter.

Until, today, this moment!

Freddy witnessed Qin Xiong's repeated falls, and then Coman had an insight into the problem of the sneakers. Freddy fell into a huge self-blame instantly.

How important are sneakers?

In Freddy's mind, the famous Bern miracle immediately came to mind.

In the pouring rain, the players of the all-time golden team Hungary kept slipping, falling and stumbling on the pitch, but what about West Germany?They put on the "magic sneakers" prepared for them by Adidas, the spiked sneakers suitable for rain battles, and they were able to close part of the gap with Hungary, which is one of the important factors that cannot be ignored in creating the miracle of Berne!

Hungary, the golden team in history, also failed to enter the myth in the end and lost the World Cup!

Today is not the World Cup, but, in Freddy's eyes, today's match is no less important to Qin Xiong than the World Cup!

Young players need to be promoted, and a good performance in one game is not enough, absolutely not enough!

It will take three games, five games, more games, and continuous good performance can completely take the top position!

However, young players are likely to be abandoned for a long time because of a poor performance in one game!

Professional football is too cruel. The richer and more competitive the team, the less opportunity and patience it will give young players!

Freddy couldn't imagine that if Qin Xiong was sidelined by Koeman because of his poor performance in this game, he might never be able to forgive himself for this simple mistake in his life.

He is Qin Xiong's manager, and he is also an elder who regards Qin Xiong as his own child. He is helping Qin Xiong without hesitation. He does not understand this as dedication, but his own duty, and he can't do it well. , that is dereliction of duty!

The match in the stadium was still going on, Ajax played one less player because Qin Xiong took the initiative to walk out of the stadium, and the first half of the game also came to an end. Start to attack the opponent. In this kind of rainy battle, Groningen's "muscle strength" advantage in the frontcourt will help them suppress Ajax's soft midfielder. At least Van der Vaart and Pienaar can't take advantage of the confrontation to cheap.

Koeman was not annoyed that Qin Xiong didn't prepare the spiked sneakers for the rain fight. He walked to the bench and asked the substitute players. Qin Xiong's teammates basically prepared such sneakers.

The team leader, the staff who manage trivial matters, usually manages at least three pairs of sneakers for a player, or even two pairs of the same type of sneakers, or even more.

The bigger the player, the more sneakers they have. To cope with different game environments, they can change them at any time. Maybe even one pair of shoes is not suitable for them on a certain day.

Most of Ajax are technical players, and they are not tall. Like Sneijder, van der Vaart, Sotars, Sikora, they are all in the early 1.7 meters, such as Qin Xiong who is close to 1.9 meters Tall, relatively rare.

The substitute players are willing to lend their sneakers to Qin Xiong, but Qin Xiong can't wear most of their sneakers.

In the end, Qin Xiong put on the sneakers of substitute goalkeeper Stekelenburg. This player is ten centimeters taller than Qin Xiong. Qin Xiong wore his shoes, which were slightly bigger, but he had no choice but to make do with it.

After changing his sneakers and entering the arena, although Qin Xiong stood firm and felt that his body balance was more controlled, he still felt uncomfortable and felt very uncomfortable while running.

First of all, it is the first time to wear spike sneakers, and secondly, the shoes are big.

When he returned to the field, Van der Vaart and Pienaar automatically gave up their positions to him, and they moved forward to return to their original position.

But just when this adjusted rhythm change appeared, Groningen seized the opportunity and launched a wave of offensives in the middle. Pienaar and Van der Vaart hardly defended. Adapting myself to this pair of "new" sneakers.

As a result, the midfielder was easily penetrated, and the opponent's striker created chaos after shooting, and Smit made a supplementary shot. Qin Xiong just followed Smit passively. The distance was less than one meter, but he could not interfere. The opponent shoots.

Groningen fans burst into cheers in the rain.

in!

Get ahead!

Qin Xiong had nothing to say. He didn't blame his teammates for adjusting his position as soon as he returned to the court. After all, in this game, his own performance dragged down the team.

Van der Vaart, Pinal, and even striker Ibrahimovic all looked at Qin Xiong with rather indifferent eyes before kicking off again.

Perhaps, the previous brilliance was an illusion.

He just broke out and played beyond normal.

Today is his true level.

Most of the teammates began to lose trust in Qin Xiong.

Groningen took the lead in breaking the deadlock, and immediately put up a defensive posture to consume the last time of the first half.

"At the end of the first half, Groningen led Ajax 1-0 at home. Ajax's midfield was very chaotic in this game. The starting midfielder Qin Xiong performed poorly, and the pass success rate was not bad. , but he didn't make a successful threatening pass, he still had 5 turnovers, 3 fouls, and he also received a yellow card. What's even more ridiculous is that he didn't wear the right sneakers. This is simply an amateur performance. However, he is still young, only 18 years old, and he should be given more tolerance."

Back in the locker room, Qin Xiong sat on a chair and silently cleaned up the dirty jersey and the water in the sneakers. Because the shoes were big, water accumulated in the shoes after a few steps, even if the sneakers were There are special air holes, similar to the drainage function, to avoid water accumulation in the sneakers, but first of all, the sneakers must fit well.

Garasek, Sneijder and Heitinga patted him on the shoulder, as if silently encouraging.

Other teammates chose to ignore him.

Probably, they are also used to this situation.

There are always some young people who are transferred into the first team to be observed by the head coach to see how the game feels, and then most of them go back to the reserve team, or sit on the bench for a long time and become marginal figures.

Now Qin Xiong's situation is probably developing in that direction.

Koeman didn't want to put too much pressure on Qin Xiong, so the locker room lectures during the intermission were all for the entire team. In the second half, he emphasized acceleration, explosion, and hard work.

In the first half, Ajax played with restraint, and in the second half, they played hard. It can be said that it was a plan made before the game. In addition, the Dutch Cup, the League, the Champions League, and the three-tier three-match victory, the players did not have much psychological burden. The situation where teammates complained to each other when they couldn't start the game after two consecutive losses did not happen.

Before the start of the second half of the game, Koeman came to the side of the court and looked at the situation on the court. He immediately flew into a rage and went to complain to the ground administrator in Groningen!

During the intermission, they didn't take the initiative to clean up the water on the field!

This terrible site has almost turned into a pitted and rotten vegetable field!

There are large areas of stagnant water in some places, and they are not cleaned up. This is obviously intentional by Groningen!

The worse the field conditions, the better for Groningen!

Koeman's protests and complaints did not receive a positive response from Groningen.

Anyway, the game is about to start, just listen to Koeman complaining.

The entire Groningen team wished that the geniuses of Ajax would fall a few more times in this rotten vegetable field, or just take a bath in it.