Lord of Greenery

Chapter 548 The Not Weak Ajax
Liverpool's current formation is quite mature. When facing unfamiliar opponents, they will send out the most competitive lineup.

The goalkeeper is Alisson, the back four is Robertson, Van Dijk, Matip and Alexander-Arnold, the double midfielder is Fabinho and Henderson, Li Ze is the single midfielder, and the front line is Salah and Phil. Mino and Mane.

"From the combination of players in the starting lineup, it can be seen that Liverpool is determined to win!"

When the Liverpool players entered the field, the Ajax players also kept booing more face-savingly.

When Li Ze played, their boos were the loudest.

As Li Ze expected, after he came to Liverpool, the overall appearance of the Red Army changed.

In the eyes of many, this is his credit.

The world's number one superstar in the past seems to have not burned out yet.

Even many teammates and even the head coach think that he has contributed a lot.

In fact, his contribution is indeed not small, but it is not so exaggerated.

In the past, he could indeed lead a group of weaker teammates to do whatever he wanted.

But now, his strength has declined a lot, and the physical decline caused by his legs and age has restricted his performance.

He is still a top superstar, but he is no longer invincible.

Li Ze knew this well, but it was impossible for him to explain it to the outside world.

As a superstar who wants to compete for the number one in the world, what he has to do is to take all the credit for himself.

Not to mention Ronaldo, even Messi will not easily sit back and watch Neymar surpass himself.

According to the conspiracy theory, when Barcelona came back to Paris, Messi ran to the players' stands and raised his arms. Didn't he mean to claim credit?

Of course, this is just a conspiracy theory.

Unless Messi doesn't celebrate for an entire game, journalists will always prefer to cover his news rather than Neymar's.

Barcelona fans are also more willing to go crazy for Messi than for Neymar.

That was in exchange for Messi playing for Barcelona for so many years. It is not so easy for Neymar to seize power.

Hearing the boos of the opponent fans, Li Ze was like Messi who was "raised high" by the Barcelona fans at that time, only enjoying the feeling.

When Inter Milan has been blamed for such a long time, and even a small number of former die-hard fans began to question him, Li Ze thought that he would never be able to enjoy this kind of enjoyment again.

Now, that feeling is back, it's all back!
On the other hand, Ajax players are much less famous.

Although Ajax fans crazily shouted for each of their players, when the commentators mentioned their names, they were still relatively weak.

They are not like real professional clubs, they don't need to focus on talented young players so much.

Except for the players who are really up-and-coming players, other players don't need to care so much.

Therefore, Ajax and this group of young players are not very familiar with them.

Li Ze naturally knows that after this season, this group of young people from Ajax will shake up the entire European football world, but others don't know.

When the game started, Liverpool launched a rush attack.

As we all know, the pace of the Premier League is very fast. In less than 2 minutes, Liverpool organized three attacks!
Among them, Li Ze's long shot and Firmino's header almost broke through Ajax's gate!

The fans on and off the field were also aroused by Liverpool's attack and entered the state from the beginning.

Also entering the state are Ajax's young players.

In the brief panic, these young players quickly adjusted their mood and state, and successfully blocked Liverpool's next attack.

The attack didn't work, and the Liverpool players were a little disappointed, and quickly shrunk their formation.

It was just this short time of fighting, and the Red Army realized that the opponent was not easy to deal with.

The standard of the opponent can be judged roughly by watching his movement in ten seconds.

This 2-minute attack time has made Liverpool realize that their opponents are a team of the same level as them.

In this game, the possibility of Liverpool losing is not small!
To deal with such an opponent, one cannot act too hastily.

If the rhythm of the attack failed, Liverpool changed the rhythm.

As a strong team, regardless of offense and defense, they should control the rhythm at their own feet.

Ajax's reaction was also very quick. Seeing that Liverpool wanted to stabilize the rhythm, they immediately started charging.

These young players were like a group of strong calves, they ran back and forth, and they didn't see them getting tired.

At first, the fans looked and felt that Ajax's formation was a bit disorganized.

But looking at it, I found that Ajax was clearly chaotic and orderly, constantly threatening Liverpool's gate in the attack.

Among the starting players, only Southampton's former winger Tadic and Manchester United's former full-back Blind are familiar to Premier League fans.

It's just that in this Ajax team, Blind played as a central defender and Tadic played as a center forward.

However, both of them played very well in unfamiliar positions.

As a central defender, Blind's height is a flaw, but as a full-back, he can make up for Dericht's weakness in turning slowly, and has rich experience, helping Ajax stabilize the most critical defense.

As a center forward, Tadic plays an even more prominent role. As a winger, he has excellent dribbling ability, and he is strong enough to play in the Premier League.

Let him act as a center forward, he will not lose easily, which gives Ajax's frontcourt at least a fulcrum for the ball.

For this Ajax team, Tadic's role is very obvious, even indispensable.

As two players who were almost eliminated by the Premier League, to be able to perform like this, it must be said that the head coach of Ajax has two brushes.

After watching it for a while, Zhang Lu also had her own opinion:

"Ajax's offensive style is a bit similar to Barcelona, ​​but it pays more attention to the balance of offense and defense."

"But at the same time, they probably have the same weakness as Liverpool once did, not being able to slow down."

"Their formation seems to be chaotic, but the frequent changes in the frontcourt are very thoughtful, especially De Jong, this young player is a bit like Harvey and Pirlo."

"Their weakness lies in the back line. The frontcourt seems to be chaotic, but the backcourt is really chaotic."

"Blind wasn't a particularly good full-back at Manchester United and I don't think he'd be great at centre-back either."

"Ajax's defense really relies on De Ligt, a young player."

"He is very good, his performance on the field is not even worse than Van Dijk, but he is a young player after all, I worry about his mentality."

"If Ajax can't disrupt Liverpool's rhythm, sooner or later their defense will have problems."

"However, this is a decisive game. Whether Liverpool can disrupt the rhythm of Ajax is still unknown."

(End of this chapter)