Chapter 194 European Super Cup (7)
After seeing the score becoming 2-0, Van Gaal was no longer as anxious as before, and no longer shouted and made various gestures on the sidelines to direct the players on the field. Instead, he sat on the coach's seat, held his hands in his chest, and watched the game on the field with expressionless face. At the same time, he also called out several players from the bench and drove them out to warm up.
"Hey, van Gaal is planning to give up the game..." Zhuang Mingge, who noticed what happened on the sidelines, was speechless. Fiorentina had just scored the second goal and was about to make a move to score a few more, but Ajax over there raised the white flag at this time - we admit that we can't beat you, we won't play anymore!
Johnson, who was sitting in another private room, also saw the actions of coach Ajax. After so many years of football, he certainly knew what this meant. He was a little unhappy and calmed down. He refused to agree and finally passed it in the name of the chairman. As a result, there was a signal of negative matches in the first game after the reform. How could UEFA continue to promote this event to the majority of fans?
Although the situation on the court in the previous few dozen minutes was a one-sided situation, the two sides attacked and defended, and the scene was still very intense, which could attract the attention of many people. After all, the charm of a football game does not lie in how many goals you scored in a game. If you want to see the goals, it is better to watch the basketball game instead. In basketball, both sides may score more than 100 goals in a game. The charm of football lies in the process of the game. The fierce confrontation between the two teams and the bamboo-like cooperation between the plum blossoms, as well as wonderful extraordinary and defense, are the most attractive things about football.
As a result, Ajax has given up on the game and the intense scenes are not visible, so the attractiveness of this game to the audience will also decrease significantly. What's more, this is the first European Super Cup after the restructuring. If the name of "sacky" is nailed to this event, even if UEFA has the ability to dominate it, it will not be able to reverse the fans' impression of it.
This is like the later UEFA Cup and the so-called UEFA League after the reform. No matter how much UEFA promotes and promotes it vigorously, the attractiveness and attention of this event to fans will always be in a half-dead state. Take Zhuang Mingge before traveling for example. If he did not have a team he liked to participate in this game, he would only pay attention to which team won the championship in the end...
Damn Ajax, I had specially assigned you to a weaker group to take care of your emotions before. I didn't expect you to be so disrespectful to me. You have something to look good about this season! Johnson sat in the private room and thought hatefully.
But if you think about it carefully, if you only look at this action from a competitive perspective, there seems to be nothing wrong with Van Gaal's behavior.
First of all, as the winner of the European Champions League last season, Ajax was especially the team that overturned the Milan dynasty. Although many main players were divided up by a large group of giants this summer, Ajax's background and player training system are still there. As long as these two things are there, they can continue to produce high-quality stars.
So, it is certainly impossible to say that Van Gaal and his Ajax are not paid attention to at all, because no one knows whether Ajax will have another super newcomer like Cruivet this season.
Everyone knows that if you want to go further in this knockout cup, the less eye-catching the better, because the more popular the team, the more thorough the research of you, and some loopholes and weaknesses will be more likely to be discovered. The law of "a big hit will die" also appears based on this point.
So, Van Gaal doesn't want to win this European Super Cup, but he doesn't want to fight hard in this European Super Cup. Of course, trump cards have to be kept until the critical moment, so games like the European Super Cup that don't have much profit are obviously not listed.
Therefore, in order to go further in the European Champions League, which has more profitable interests this season, Van Gaal will not choose to use all the methods of Ajax in this game. A team whose trump card is seen through will definitely not go much further. In other words, if Ajax does not perform well in the European Super Cup or even loses miserably, those Champions League champion teams will inevitably ignore Ajax to some extent. This is the reason for the so-called low-key accumulation of character.
After the players on the sidelines completed the warm-up, Van Gaal immediately replaced the older Lauderup with several players. Ovemas, who had been sprinting repeatedly on the wing, and Finnish Litmanning, this move officially announced that Ajax had given up the competition for the European Super Cup championship.
After seeing Ajax's substitution, Ranieri also replaced Djokaf and Effenberg with Rui Costa and Tomasi, and then replaced Ronaldo with Davis with twice in this game, and used the move to remove a forward and replace a defensive midfielder with the move to show that he was the first to do so.
At the end of this game, there was no ripple. After the three main attackers ended, Ajax's weak attack could no longer shake Fiorentina's defense. Fiorentina seemed to be very satisfied with the score of 2-0, so after the game, many commentators believed that Ajax's premature admit defeat was the culprit for the boring game...
However, neither side of the game cares much. Fiorentina is very satisfied with winning the championship. Van Gaal also used a practical game to know what his team still has now. For the ambitious Van Gaal and Ajax, who is unwilling to be silent, it is a very cost-effective deal to find potential problems with a less important trophy as a price.
When Frisk blew the final whistle, the 5,000 Fiorentine fans who came to watch the game burst into great cheers! They were cheering for their favorite team to win another championship trophy!
Although he was dissatisfied with Ajax's passive game in the second half, Johnson, who is at the high position of UEFA president, will not reveal his dissatisfaction.
As the captain Batistuta took over the trophy of the European Super Cup from Johnson and held the trophy high amid the cheers of Fiorentine fans!
Chapter completed!