Green Dragon

Chapter 73 Seeing Anfield Again
"Who is the hottest player so far this season?"

"Ajax captain, Luis Suarez!"

"Scored 14 goals in 23 games, and created 6 assist opportunities for teammates at the same time!"

"Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​AC Milan, Inter Milan, Juventus, and even Bayern Munich, which has always only stared at their own back garden, are all paying attention to this crazy Uruguayan striker!"

"After the season is over, Ajax may not be able to keep this captain!"

"It has become a practice for the Eredivisie giants to rely on the sale of the captain to obtain funds every year!"

In European football, although the Dutch media is not a small player that no one cares about, there is absolutely no way to compare with the four giants of England, Germany, Italy, and Spain.

But in September 2009, they really showed their faces in front of their counterparts all over Europe.

Suarez has also become a player in the limelight during this period, even overshadowing the Barcelona king who just won the UEFA Best Player Award-the new generation of Maradona and Leo Messi.

在9-0血洗芬洛之后，他又率领球队在荷兰杯中7-0横扫荷乙球队阿帕多恩，在联赛第九轮4-0轻取海牙，而且在这两场比赛中他连场上演帽子戏法的好戏！
Almost everyone who pays attention to football games knows that in Ajax, the Netherlands, there is a player who is frantically swiping his scoring statistics. He has scored more goals in these two months than most forwards in two seasons. Enter more!
Under such a shining brilliance, the figures of other Ajax players will of course be much bleak, and Long Shute, who turned the tide in the Champions League qualifiers before, can hardly be seen.

Who made him just a defensive midfielder now!

If it was in Italy, maybe someone would pay a little attention to his existence, but this is the Netherlands!
Players who can score goals attract attention.

As long as you can keep scoring goals, you are the focus of attention!

As for a defensive midfielder...

No one blames him for killing offensive football, beautiful football, artistic football... He should be content!
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Since entering the national team match day in September, Long Shute has played 9 consecutive games in 16 days. Whether it is the Champions League group stage, the Eredivisie League, or the Dutch Cup, he has not missed a game, and he has played every game. It's the full 5 minutes.

A total of one goal and one assist was scored in five games. Of course, such data cannot be compared with Suarez, a lunatic, but he already feels that his technical and tactical level is slowly improving bit by bit.

Hard training is of course the foundation, but a stable chance to play in the first team, especially in the Champions League, is more important to promote the progress of a young player.

The only thing that was a little bit problematic was... his physical fitness finally showed a little bit of a problem after a week of double matches in a row.

Originally, the double match a week had no effect on him at all, but during this period of time, he had just started the master-apprentice learning function, and his physical fitness was already doubled. With the extra training, after a long time, even an iron man would inevitably be unable to bear it.

After all, he is still a man of flesh and blood, not an omnipotent steel warrior who does not eat or drink. Faced with such an intensive schedule of 16 games in 5 days, Long Shute can only temporarily cancel the extra training every day. First of all, ensure daily training To achieve the effect, he only conducts a small amount of extra training on ball control and dribbling when his body does have enough strength.

His "sensible" performance made the coaching staff collectively relieved. If he continues to practice like that, and his body has no symptoms of fatigue, they are very worried whether the major medical research institutes in Amsterdam will pull him into the experiment. The scientific dissection was carried out in the room...
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Competition, rest, training, rematch...

This is the truest portrayal of Long Shute's daily life.

Time came to September 9 in a blink of an eye. According to the schedule, he followed the team and flew to the northeast of England.

There, they will challenge the second opponent in the Champions League group stage-the Red Army Liverpool.

In the afternoon of the same day, the whole Ajax team arrived at the venue for pre-match adaptation activities.

Long Special is no stranger to Anfield Stadium. Four years ago, as a youth trainee at Everton, he visited this stadium twice with the first team and the youth team. Impress him.

This stadium is not too big, it looks a bit dilapidated, and the facilities are not advanced. There are only [-] fan seats, which is similar to Ajax's Amsterdam Stadium. Compared with Old Trafford, Camp Nou, Bernabeu, and Allianz can only be regarded as second-rate stadiums.

But whenever Liverpool hosts a home game, [-] fans sing the world-famous team anthem "You'll Never Walk Alone" in the stands, and the red crowd rolls crazy waves at Anfield, it's definitely here. It is the most frenetic stadium in Europe!

Longshut still clearly remembers the first time he watched the Merseyside derby between Everton and Liverpool here, the noise was so loud that he could barely hear it for two hours. The voices of his teammates around him, and the ferocious expression of those fanatical Liverpool fans ecstatically pointing the middle finger at the Everton fans kept him awake all night.

This stadium made him truly feel the shock brought by football for the first time, and it undoubtedly has unusual and special significance for his football career.

Now...tomorrow...

He is about to challenge the supremacy of English football on this stadium.

There are also those football superstars who shocked themselves four years ago.

And who will his opponent be?
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"Liverpool is a great team. As the club with the most championship trophies in England, their glorious historical achievements deserve everyone's respect. Benitez is also an excellent coach. That famous night in Istanbul is the most It is a good proof that although it was a pity that he failed to win the league title last season, his transformation of Liverpool is obvious to all, and they have also achieved the best results of the team since the establishment of the Premier League."

After adapting to the venue, Van Basten soon appeared in the press conference hall of Anfield Stadium. Facing the English media, he lowered his posture and praised his opponent for his winning streak.

Sure enough, when he heard about Istanbul, Liverpool coach Rafael Benitez immediately showed a reserved smile, which was the greatest classic of his coaching career!
Benitez, whose forehead is almost bald, said modestly: "Ajax is also a giant team with a long history and glorious record, especially in the aspect of cultivating young players. Many great stars come from Ajax's youth training camp, Mr. Van Basten is an outstanding representative, hahaha," he laughed humorously, "this season, their captain Suarez has attracted the attention of the whole of Europe. I have no doubt they've produced yet another player with superstar potential who could be as big as he gets on a bigger stage."

Van Basten couldn't help but stare:

Benitez is clearly hinting to everyone: Suarez is leaving Ajax soon!
This is a blatant attempt to shake the morale of our army!

You damn Spanish bald!
(End of this chapter)