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217. Preparing for the Champions League Final

May 25.

There are four days left before the final battle, but the entire Ajax team has arrived in London.

Arsenal legend Borgkamp and Wenger were intimate relationship. They loaned Arsenal's training base as a preparation venue, but the Arsenal players had left the club and started their respective vacations, so Ajax failed to have a warm-up practice game with the Gunners.

Although Van Basten has been instilling confidence in the players and Long Shute has also expressed his opinion on behalf of the team on many occasions that he must be a champion, when the final battle is imminent, everyone chooses to be cautious and low-key.

Except for a small number of Dutch media who can get the right to enter the venue for 20 minutes every day, Ajax staff rejected all British journalists who knew nothing except gossip and tracked players to prevent the leak of their own intelligence. However, despite this, many reports with the title of "insider" have been published in various media.

If it was the Chinese team, it would definitely be closed training at this time, and then after a week of lockdown, there would be no change from before...

Although Van Basten's coaching experience is not as rich as Ferguson, he has experienced many storms as a player. He knows what environment the players need at this time.

"This afternoon is video analysis. After that, you can have free activities, go to movies and concerts, go shopping and travel, or even have a drink in a bar, but I hope everyone remembers that we are not here in London for travel. I don't want a reporter to call me early tomorrow morning to ask me why my players are photographed by paparazzi in some undescribable places."

Van Basten set rules for his disciples first, and then he signaled Witzger to start playing the video.

This is a highlight of Manchester United's recent games, including leagues with Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Champions League games with Real Madrid and Chelsea. Without exception, they are all strong dialogues and experts gather.

The coaches' editing is very targeted, reflecting Manchester United's attacking routines, and vividly allowing people to see how their defensive players divide the work and cooperate.

"Manchester United's style of play was like this a long time ago. They paid great attention to two wing lanes. Their wing lanes are often the most powerful people in the team."

Borgkamp, ​​who has been in the Premier League for many years, has served as a commentator. He pointed to the predicted lineup arranged on the tactical board:

"Their goalkeeper is 100% Van der Sar, which is our legend of Dutch football and Ajax. Although he has announced his retirement in the summer, everyone should be aware that he is not a good guy to deal with.

The candidates for the back line are quite clear. As long as Evra, Ferdinand and Vidic are definitely the main starting players as long as they are healthy, the only change is the right back. Their captain Neville has been in a very strong state and it is difficult to start in such a game. The rest are Fabio, Raphael, and Brown, and they are not particularly reliable choices.

There may be more changes in the midfield. The left forward is Giggs or Nani, while the right forward should be Valencia. The midfielder is Carrick, Scholes, Park Ji-sung, Anderson, Fletcher and others can be switched. No one is the absolute main force, and no one can be easily ignored. Beware of it.

On the striker, Rooney and Berbatov's partner should not have any problems..."

After Borgkamp introduced Manchester United's lineup, Van Basten instilled in faith:

"In fact, our opponent is not very strong. Van der Sar is already forty years old. His reaction ability is obviously not comparable to when he was young. Otherwise, Steglenberg would not have become the first goalkeeper of the Dutch national team today.

Their defense line seems to be a solid piece, but its characteristics are too single and its overall age is slightly aging. I believe that Louis can easily find a gap among them.

In midfield, Valencia and Nani are both fast wingers, but I don't think they are faster than our vice captain. The more important thing is that neither of them has the ability to score Ronaldo's shooting and the threat on the wing is not huge.

As for the striker, Berbatov has always been a lazy person. I remember that in many games, his running was even worse than goalkeepers. Rooney may be the only player we need to pay special attention to. But there is no need to be nervous. Among these main players, there is no real superstar. Think about it, we have defeated Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Messi and other emperor superstars this season, while the only Golden Ball (Irving) in Manchester United may not even be able to enter the bench..."

Some of his analysis is certainly not objective, but perhaps the players need such psychological hints:

Yes, we can even defeat super giants like the Universe and the Galaxy Battleships. What's so great about a declining Manchester United?

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Since he had just taken the plane, Ajax did not conduct outdoor training anymore. After watching Manchester United's video and analyzing the relevant tactics, Van Basten announced that today's work was officially over.

The players left the training base in groups of three or three, and Long Shute also sneaked onto the streets with Suarez, Blind, Erikson and others.

Although Amsterdam is also an international metropolis, it is still slightly inferior to the capital of the Sun-Dang Empire, which has dominated the world for hundreds of years. At least for Long Shute and others, this city is a real super city.

The former Ajax players, now Tottenham main players Van der Fate and Pinal, received them as hosts. A group of people sat in a well-known bar in London, drinking light wine while talking about football and life.

"Don't underestimate Manchester United. Maybe they are not all top players in every position, but they can often play beyond their ordinary strength in the game," the two seniors kindly reminded the young people, "Their head coach is the most terrifying thing about this team!"

Even someone like Suarez who usually cares about him nodded slightly.

Although he has never played against Manchester United, anyone who plays in European football should have heard of the Red Devils Manchester United and their head coach, Sir Alex Ferguson, the king of the Red Dynasty.

He changed his career as an unknown Scottish player and then coached the declining Manchester United. He then spent all his efforts in the rest of his life and spent more than 20 years to build Manchester United into the current super giant.

He has so many stories with Manchester United that fans can relish:

At the beginning of coaching, he dared to make an arrogant vow to "kick Liverpool off the throne". The first Champions League champion and triple crown created by the magical kill, King Cantona, Ferguson, who was criticized for covering the sky on the British Isles, confronting Wenger's older generation, confronting Mourinho with his new and old, conquering the referee headed by Howard Weber, banned England's most famous media BBC for seven years, and his sharp words to the outside world made the reporter helpless. He was an iron fist to the army and expelled the meritorious captain Keane, known as the hair dryer in the locker room. Facing Beckham's furious flying boot door, he wanted to kill Wenger and Victoria with a pistol, and train Rooney, and Dong Fangzhuo...
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