The players on the bench looked at George Lee with admiration.
But the team's captain Kelly took the opportunity to say something else.
"The boss also said this when he was a player at Leeds United, saying that if it weren't for injuries, there wouldn't be anything like David Hopkin and Harry Kewell." Kelly thought for a moment and then continued to add. , "Oh, by the way, there's Coach Harland, he was our starter at the time, right, Coach Harland?"
"I don't dare to say anything. After all, he is the main player in the coaching bench now."
Everyone on the bench laughed.
"Boss, tell us your story at Ajax again. We want to hear your story about fisting Babangida and kicking Grenjaer." It was Baines who said this. Today's football The team played three defenders, and he was on the bench again.
"Don't I need to direct the game? Just keep an eye on me. In the second half, we will play 433. You all have to go up. I will look at the situation of Ajax in a while and assign some tactics and tasks to you." Li George did not Said angrily.
On the pitch, Ajax faced Leeds United's pressure and finally found an opportunity.
The retreating Sneijder received a pass from Maduro and made a retreat to catch the ball. After receiving the ball, he swayed and then made a reverse half-turn to help Graveson's defense.
Then Sneijder did not stick to the ball and passed a big foot to the right wing of his team. Leeds United did not return in time because of the frontcourt pressure just now, and there was only Grenchar on the left wing today. So the left wing is relatively empty.
Ajax right winger Tom Demoor stepped in in time to catch Sneijder's long pass.
At this time, Leeds United's left center back Mathisen came out to defend Demuel. Leeds United's midfielder Scott Parker immediately took up Matthiessen's position, and Leeds United instantly returned to the 4-back position.
Demuel was relatively young. After seeing Matteisen coming out, he did not dare to dribble the ball anymore and chose to pass the ball.
Ajax's lone forward is Mauro Rosales. The Argentine forward is not very tall, grabbing points is not his strong point, and the quality of this cross is not very high.
So Albucheson took his position and pushed him away.
But the ball was not pushed far and was caught by Sneijder who followed up.
Sneijder unloaded the football, pushed with the instep of his outside foot, and shot a long shot from outside the penalty area.
Leeds United's goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar is very experienced. After seeing the ball being pushed to Sneijder's feet, he kept moving to avoid the sight of his own defender and the opponent's forward, and kept staring at Sneijder. Ned.
Although the angle and power of Sneijder's long shot were perfect, it was still blocked by Van der Sar.
"Hoo~" the Ajax fans at the scene exclaimed and began to applaud. This was one of the few decent attacks by Ajax in the past 10 minutes, and they also completed the first shot of the game.
Lee George off the court also applauded after the shot. I don’t know if it was for Sneijder who shot the shot or for Van der Sar who made the save.
"How about this No. 18 on the opposite side?" George Lee asked Brian Kidd next to him.
"If you talk about this shot, you can't tell anything. Although it was good, I don't know that all of his shots are so good."
"what about others?"
"What I admire more is his long pass just now." Kidd said.
"What's the difference?" Li George still admires Sneijder's shot. He knows Sneijder's long-range shooting ability. It's not just the powerful shot just now, but it's really good. Able to shoot from a distance.
"I know you don't like the position of the attacking midfielder, because the previous classical attacking midfielders were too sticky to the ball and slowed down the rhythm. But this No. 18 is Sneijder. I feel that he is not that kind of attacking midfielder. His delivery He is very quick and has good long-distance passing ability, which is something our Alan Smith does not possess."
"are you buying?"
"If you can, just take it."
"Brian, do you know that every good thing has a drawback?"
"Easy to break?"
"Wrong, it's expensive. Before we achieve certain results, I won't conduct tens of millions of transactions, and this No. 18 may not be able to be done for 10 million."
While George Lee and Kidd were talking, Leeds United scored.
After taking the ball, Van der Sar quickly threw the ball to Mills.
Mills had just appeared at the team's right back position because of Parker's retreat. After seeing Van der Sar save the ball, he started to move forward.
Van der Sar, a seasoned player, pounced on the ball and started looking for an opportunity. He saw Mills advancing and threw it directly to him.
Mills stopped the ball with his chest. Seeing that Ajax left back Emmanuelson was right near him, he did not dribble the ball. Instead, he turned back and stepped on the ball.
Just when Leeds United's counterattack was about to stop, Mills passed a pass to Kevin Davis, who retreated to a position parallel to him.
Davis retreated very deep, which caused an Ajax center back to follow Leeds United's half.
After Davis got the ball, at a glance, Ajax had almost everyone in the frontcourt of Leeds United watching. Vermaelen was staring at him, and Heitinga was watching Smith coming forward. Grigla is near Glenchard.
But Leeds have one guy completely empty here.
Robin van Persie.
Previously, Van Persie pulled him to the center, so Emmanuelson dared to release Mills, but when Emmanuelson left his position, Van Persie began to make diagonal cuts to the right.
Kevin Davis made a diagonal through ball and passed it accurately to Van Persie.
The Dutchman strode out very far, but it didn't matter at all, because there was no Ajax defender in front of Van Persie.
Van Persie went directly to Ajax's penalty area and fought all the way to the front of Ajax's penalty area.
Stekelenboch was ready to attack, but saw that Heitinga on his own side was constantly chasing back, so he did not leave the goal too far for fear of being lobbed by Van Persie.
Because Van Persie attacks diagonally, and Heitinga pursues in a straight line, the distance is closer than Van Persie, so the two are about to meet on the penalty area line.
But Van Persie braked suddenly in front of Heitinga, dunked the ball with his right foot, and flicked the ball with his left foot. Heitinga overran.
Just when everyone thought Van Persie was going to shoot into the far corner, Van Persie chose to shoot into the near corner.
Stekelenboch did not completely block the near corner, but Heitinga flew to block the far corner.
The ball flew into the top right corner of the goal.
1 to 0.
Stekelenboch fished the ball out of the goal, but was stunned.
The No. 9 TMD on the opposite side doesn't play according to common sense at all. This kind of shot that usually hits the far corner, you hit the near corner, this kind of push shot, you shoot directly, are you not afraid of kicking the crossbar or kicking it away?
After Van Persie scored, he directly found Kevin Davis who passed the ball to him. The two hugged each other in a friendly way, and other Leeds United players also came over.
After celebrating, Van Persie gave a thumbs up to George Lee in the coaching bench.
And George Lee also gave a thumbs up to Van Persie on the sidelines.
