Chapter 70
After the international match day, Sun Yu and his Ajax teammates took a flight back to Amsterdam that night. It was midnight when they got home.
After returning home, he endured the fatigue and muscle soreness and took a shower, and slept until noon the next day.
After waking up, Sun Yu felt pain from his head to the soles of his feet, and felt like his foundation was broken.
The international match day was really painful, with a tight schedule and a particularly high intensity of competition.
In the second half of yesterday's game, Sun Yu encountered high-intensity physical collisions every time he received the ball.
Especially after the Italian players identified Sun Yu as the spearhead of the Dutch youth team, the intensity of the confrontation was not ordinary.
Now Sun Yu finally deeply understood the joke that "playing a game and lying down for three days" circulated among Premier League players.
At least one day after the game, Sun Yu did not recover from the muscle soreness and discomfort from the inside to the outside of his body.
On the day when Sun Yu lay at home sleeping and watching TV, the Dutch media enthusiastically discussed what happened in the past ten days.
The biggest news is that the Netherlands is likely to miss the tournament again after twelve years.
In the 2002 World Cup qualifiers, the Orange Army, which had advanced to the semi-finals in the last two major tournaments, lost in the qualifiers and missed a chance to be plotted against by the Koreans.
After the Netherlands lost to Iceland away, the situation could not be more obvious.
After a strong dialogue, the Czech and Icelandic teams won three consecutive victories in the history of the team's qualifiers, which were rare, and both teams defeated the Netherlands and Turkey. The three consecutive victories are of great value.
The six-point gap means that the Netherlands' initiative to directly advance to the European Cup is no longer completely in their own hands.
If the Netherlands wants to overtake one of the two teams in the next game, it must defeat the Czech and Icelandic teams in the next direct dialogue, and also hope that the lagging side will get as few points as possible in the game between the Czech and Icelandic teams.
They also have to hope that other teams, led by Turkey, will create enough trouble for the two teams.
Almost all Dutch media are lamenting that the team that just won the third place in the Brazil World Cup, how come the fighting power suddenly collapsed after just one offseason?
How come the old players are no longer able to play after just two months?
Many media attributed the first responsibility to the head coach Siddink.
After leading the team to the third place in the 2014 World Cup, Van Gaal has started a new challenge at Manchester United.
After taking over the Dutch team, the successor Siddink did not follow the tactics of his predecessor to give up control and quickly counterattack. He wanted to reshape the team into the Dutch team that fought the Brazilian team for 300 rounds in the semi-finals of the 1998 World Cup and was evenly matched.
But time was not on his side. The Dutch team met the Czech team and the Icelandic team before they had completed the running-in, and suffered a disastrous start.
Compared with the strict Van Gaal, Siddink gave the players a more relaxed environment and did not use discipline to block the players.
But what he did not expect was that before he successfully put the team together, a big mistake occurred in the locker room.
Sun Yu also learned from the media reports that Depay and Van Persie had a big fight on the training ground after losing to the Italian team in the friendly match.
In order to ensure the team's combat effectiveness, Siddink chose to support Van Persie and took Depay out of the Dutch team's starting lineup.
Siddink's support for Van Persie actually means supporting the old players behind Van Persie.
Although Van Persie, Sneijder, Robben, and Huntelaar were not harmonious when they were young, time has made them a common interest group of the Dutch team.
This sounds a bit like black humor, and the "Dutch Three Stickers" actually hugged each other.
The Telegraph believes that the terrifying age gap is the main reason for the collapse of this Dutch team in the qualifiers.
In this Dutch team, the core players are still the group of players born before 1985, followed by the post-90s generation represented by Depay and Wijnaldum.
It can be said that the old are old and the young are young, and the struggle between Van Persie and Depay is also considered to be a gap between two generations.
A team with a reasonable age structure should be led by players born between 1985 and 1990.
However, the Dutch team only has central defender Vlaar and goalkeeper Krul. The Dutch youth team that won the European Youth Championship in 2007 seemed to have disappeared from this world.
In the evening program, Sun Yu also saw an interview with Cruyff on TV.
During the interview, Cruyff smoked and criticized the team led by Guus Gudink: "These players are not good at basic running and position exchange.In the interview, the Dutch legend also accused Van Gaal of giving up middle-aged players for the sake of results during his two years as the Dutch coach, and not fulfilling the responsibilities of a head coach. On the second day, Van Gaal specifically responded to Cruyff's criticism in an interview. It was more of a counterattack than a response. Van Gaal hit back at Cruyff, saying that he was "a wise man after the event and a pig before the event", and used the results to deduce the process. He said that as a head coach, the first goal is to be responsible for the results, and then he can take care of training players. He believes that the reason why this group of players could not be selected for the Dutch team is not because they did not get the opportunity, but because they were not strong enough. The original sin is the vegetable. Van Gaal also said that he They have done enough. Depay and Wijnaldum have experienced a complete world championship, and Blind has become the backbone of the team.
The Dutch coach said fiercely that everyone can talk nonsense, so if you have the ability, go ahead!
If you don't go, don't talk nonsense.
In the past two days, the Dutch media has been full of smoke and smoke, and all the celebrities are talking, and their opinions are even more varied.
Under such circumstances, the victory of the Dutch youth team in the play-offs did not cause much waves.
However, under the argument that there is no successor to Dutch football, Sun Yu has had many opportunities to appear in the media.
After scoring 2 goals and 1 assist in the play-offs and participating in all the goals of the Dutch U21, Sun Yu has been regarded as the leader of this Dutch youth team.
After becoming the youngest player in the 2014 Golden Boy Award, Sun Yu was seen as the future hope of Dutch football.
There is no way, there is too little hope for the future of Dutch football.
October 18.
Ajax Youth Team played away against Helmond, which ranked 18th in the Dutch Eredivisie.
During the game, Sun Yu felt like his legs were filled with lead and he couldn't run at all.
During the international match day, most of the Dutch U21 players were called up to various countries. In the youth teams at all levels, everyone's physical fitness was generally not very good.
Ajax Youth Team finally tied with the opponent 2-2. Whenever Sun Yu got the ball in the game, two defensive players would immediately appear beside him. .
He tried a lot in the game, but his physical condition was too bad, so he could only play a distraction role.
After the tenth round of the Dutch Eredivisie, Nijmegen returned to the top of the standings with the victory of this game.
The day after the Ajax youth team game, the Ajax first team made great efforts and tied Twente 1-1 away.
After the nine rounds of the league, Ajax ranked second in the standings with 5 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses, but the gap has been widened to four points by PSV Eindhoven.
After this round of games, Sun Yu was notified that he would get a chance to play in the third round of the Dutch Cup.
That's OK.
Although the competition standards are not very good, the opportunity to brush points is here again.