Holland's specialties, besides windmills, tulips, wooden shoes, and dikes, also include dairy products, which are not widely known. Dairy products hold an important place in Westerners' lives, and Heerenveen in the Netherlands is famous for them.

However, the Heerenveen team doesn't have a trace of milkiness. The entire team is composed of Nordic national players, with a tough style of play. Even the top three Dutch teams like Ajax find them troublesome.

Volendam is not a team that relies on a power-based style. Several players have good footwork. Although the Netherlands is close to Denmark and Germany, their football hasn't adopted the neighbors' tenacious style or hard-hitting approach. Instead, they adhere to the Total Football and technical football inherited from the Cruyff era.

Whether it's the national teams at all levels or the clubs, they all insist on Total Football and technical play as their main tactics. This is why Dutch football has been able to maintain Total Football as its calling card for decades, making technique and passion the main colors of Dutch football.

In contrast, China is vast and diverse, with vastly different customs and cultures. Therefore, football characteristics vary greatly from south to north, from east to west. Some clubs insist on a high-ball, long-pass tactic; others insist on ground penetration and technique above all else; still others are half strength and half technique; and some even insist on technique one season and strength the next... As a result, the situation becomes very embarrassing for the national team. For quite some time, many people couldn't say what kind of technical and tactical style their national team had. A header team? That's only in relation to the "short" Southeast Asian countries. Technically refined? Don't be ridiculous, that term has been divorced from Chinese players since Peng Weiguo. Tall and strong, with a tough style? Thinking of the Korea phobia of the past twenty years, how can we have the face to say that?

Although teams like Thailand are weak, they have always insisted on footwork; the Koreans always have the word "struggle" on their lips; Japan and Saudi Arabia have introduced a large number of Brazilian football ideas and Brazilian players, and the technical style of play is becoming increasingly mature; many Iranian national players play in Germany, bringing the toughness of German football to the team...

These neighboring countries have distinct football characteristics that have become their football calling cards. Looking at China again, when it comes to Chinese football, apart from those bitter memories of failure, the image always seems to be blurred, just like the nondescript jerseys that drift with the tide—a real failure!

Getting off track, now back to Dutch football. In the technically oriented Dutch league, Heerenveen's tough style seems a bit of an outlier, but this outlier has also been effective, as evidenced by their fifth-place finish last season.

Considering Heerenveen's style, Adriane thought that when technique meets strength, technique is mostly uncomfortable, but it's impossible to ask his team to run around the field like their opponents, kicking long balls and using force to control force. Looking at the frontcourt players, only Yang Pan is slightly stronger. Strength is not his forte, and it's foolish to expose weaknesses and avoid strengths. Therefore, before the game, he repeatedly asked the team to stick to their own characteristics no matter what the situation, which is technique. Use individual dribbling, passing and cutting, cross-switching, and late runs to create trouble for the opponent, and use ball control to keep the situation in their own hands. Then, later on, it won't be them who are uncomfortable, but the opposing Heerenveen.

Since switching to right midfielder, Yang Pan's assists have skyrocketed and he has become very active, vaguely threatening to become the number one right midfielder in the Eredivisie, Ajax's star player, Van der Meyde.

His fiery wing breakthroughs and powerful long shots have not only impressed the audience, but also earned him praise from many experts. In the last round against Doetinchem, he had two assists and one goal, making him the best player of the game for the second time. The last time was against Utrecht, when he made his debut as a right midfielder in the Eredivisie and staged an assist hat-trick.

Yang Pan rushed forward, rolled on the ground, and then stood up. He had just been tackled from the side by the opponent's defender, Edman, and the football rolled out of bounds. The referee signaled a throw-in for the home team.

The fans applauded Yang Pan because he immediately stood up and joined the game after being tackled, which was commendable.

The throw-in was given to Yang Pan, but he couldn't turn around because Edman was sticking to him tightly. He passed the ball back to the captain, الهولويغن, and turned to move forward, but Edman still followed him closely.

الهولويغن switched the ball to the left with a long pass, and Heerweijer headed the ball to Kozer, who came up to meet him. Kozer steadied the ball and looked up to find someone, but found that the opponent had tightly marked Zhang Jun and Yang Pan. Yang Pan was the right midfielder, and when he retreated, Edman stepped forward, always keeping the distance between the two within a reasonable range.

He remembered the coach's introduction to Edman: "A twenty-three-year-old Swedish international, very active on the left as a left back, with inexhaustible stamina..." From the very beginning, he had been closely guarding Yang Pan. Looking at Zhang Jun's side, he was being man-marked by the team's captain, the center back Klopp, number 5, who was only 26 years old, but was a very good center back, playing without showing off, but with considerable strength.

Judging from this situation, Heerenveen wanted to completely freeze Volendam's two best-performing players. Helplessly, Kozer had to pass the ball to Baas, letting the attacking midfielder handle it.

Zhang Jun turned to look at the tall center back beside him, and remembered what the coach had told him, "The opponent will definitely keep a close eye on you. If they adopt a man-marking tactic, you should run more horizontally and diagonally in front, disrupting the opponent's defense and creating opportunities for Yang Pan and Baas."

Zhang Jun saw Baas take the ball and knew that he should run. He began to move closer to Baas. Baas saw Zhang Jun running towards him and quickly passed the ball to him. But as soon as Zhang Jun received the ball, he felt the center back follow up, and had no choice but to pass it back to Baas again. He turned and ran forward again, but the opponent still followed him, and Baas couldn't pass the ball to him either.

"It seems that vertical running won't work, and the space created can't allow teammates to run and pass." Zhang Jun stopped.

Heerenveen's defensive midfielder, the midfield workhorse, the Pole Radomski, seeing that Baas was slow to release the ball, decided to press forward. Seeing him approaching aggressively, Baas couldn't take the risk and chose a safe action, passing the ball back to Kozer, who was in a safe position.

Kozer didn't have much of a solution and had to pass it back to the left back, Batrelle.

Faced with Heerenveen's man-marking tactics, Volendam seemed at a loss, and the game passed twenty minutes in a stalemate.

Qi Wei, panting, squeezed into the stands and found Li Yan. "Phew! There are so many people! Even the press box has so many people!" He wiped away his sweat.

Li Yan looked at Qi Wei and then turned his attention to the field.

"What's the score now?" Qi Wei asked.

"0:0."

"Oh, what's the situation on the field?"

"It's currently a stalemate, but..."

"But what?" Qi Wei was about to ask, but he heard a huge cheer from the away team's stand. He hurriedly looked towards the field.

In the face of Radomski's close defense, Baas still risked a straight pass to Zhang Jun in the middle, but it was intercepted by Klopp. Immediately, Heerenveen launched a counterattack. Klopp made a long pass, sending the ball to the midfield. The team's powerful center forward, Denneboom, headed the ball backwards, and his attacking partner, the young Danish player Jensen, understood and started to chase the ball.

Jensen is a 23-year-old young Danish international with good passing skills and outstanding scoring ability, and is known as the hope of Danish football. The Heerenveen fans saw Jensen get the ball, with only three defenders in front of him, and began to clamor loudly, putting pressure on the home team's defenders.

Luilink was the first to rush up, but was knocked down by Jensen, who was five years older than him.

Hofstede followed up, wanting to steal the ball while Jensen had just passed Luilink and hadn't yet gained a firm foothold, and his control of the ball wasn't tight. But unexpectedly, Jensen reacted faster. He twisted his body and lightly poked the ball with his toe, passing it to the left of Hofstede.

Only one center back, Lefrang, remained in front of Jensen! He was already approaching the penalty area!

Jensen's left shoulder sank, and Lefrang thought he was going to break through from the left, and quickly twisted his body to the left, but Jensen flicked the ball to the right with his right foot!

After deceiving Lefrang, he immediately shot!

Volendam's goalkeeper, van Westerlopen, came out to block the angle. Seeing Jensen shooting towards the far corner, he quickly lunged towards the far end. Jensen's shot was very precise in its angle. Westerlopen stretched his body to save the ball, only diverting the original flight path of the football. The football did not go out of bounds, but flew to the right side of the penalty area!

Westerlopen was shocked to see a blue figure. He quickly got up and pounced towards the figure with both hands and feet, but it was too late. The person stretched out his foot and poked the football into the empty goal. Neither the goalkeeper nor the captain, الهولويغن, who was chasing back, could stop him. The ball went in…

The ball went in!

The goalscorer, Denneboom, ran excitedly towards the corner flag, and put his right index finger to his lips, towards the home team's stand, "Shut up!"

The home fans were indeed silenced, but the away fans cheered wildly in the stands.

Jensen rushed up and hugged Denneboom, and they were soon surrounded by their teammates who swarmed in.

"Sure enough, they are all still very young..." Li Yan said to himself.

"Stop!" Qiu Suhui blew his whistle and suspended the training again. He pulled aside Liu Peng. "Why did you rush up to participate in the attack just now?"

Liu Peng honestly replied: "I saw my teammates getting the ball and needing to respond. Everyone in front was marked by the opponent, so I could only insert from the back."

"But why did your going up there cause the team to lose the ball?" Qiu Suhui asked.

"This..." Liu Peng couldn't answer.

"I'll tell you, everyone listen carefully!" Qiu Suhui raised his voice, "I've told you before that football is a game of intelligent analysis and decision-making. Players should learn to analyze the situation on the field at every moment and make decisions. This includes analyzing when to take safe actions and when to take risky actions. Do you understand?"

Liu Peng asked: "Coach, when you talk about safety and risk, does safety refer to a conservative and prudent way of playing, while risk refers to a more risky way of playing?"

"Yes!" Qiu Suhui nodded. "For example, when a midfielder gets the ball, a safer and more secure approach is to pass it back to the defender; while a risky approach is to pass it directly behind the defense. Such a pass may fail eight times out of ten, but the two successful times are likely to bring huge benefits to the team – that is, a goal. Of course, the example I just gave is relative, and it's not absolutely safe or risky. Players must analyze which approach is safe and which approach is risky in the current situation when playing on the field. Generally speaking, I will encourage you to take more risky approaches, because this may bring huge benefits to the team. But you must also learn to judge for yourselves, and take risky approaches only when safety is ensured. Liu Peng…"

Qiu Suhui quickly drew the on-field situation just now in his notebook: A red team member, protected by a teammate behind him, was marking a yellow team player in possession of the ball. Liu Peng was about 15 degrees to the right rear of the teammate in possession, and not far from his side was another red team member. "Was that how it was just now?"

Liu Peng nodded.

"How did you run to support the teammate in possession just now?"

Liu Peng drew a line forward on the notebook with his hand: "I ran forward to let Huang Song pass to me."

"Okay." Qiu Suhui continued to draw, with a solid line extending forward from the hollow circle representing Liu Peng to indicate his running route. And a dashed line extending diagonally from the hollow circle representing the passer, Huang Song, to indicate the passing route. "Why did you choose this running route?"

"I wanted to attack, so I naturally had to move forward, so that I could put pressure on the opponent..."

"Okay, very good..." Qiu Suhui muttered to himself, and drew a very short solid line on the solid circle representing the red team member who was marking Huang Song, pointing to Huang Song. And the other red team member not far from Liu Peng turned to move back, and the solid line extending from him intersected Huang Song's passing route at a point. Qiu Suhui drew a dashed line at this point, extending to the red team member behind the member who was marking Huang Song.

"How is it?" Qiu Suhui held up the notebook so that everyone could see it. "Liu Peng, you chose to run like this because you were thinking about attacking, but what actually happened? It caused our team to become passive. You ran forward, but with two opposing players protecting, the passing space for Huang Song became quite narrow. Just now, the two of them worked together to destroy this pass. This is what I mean by judging risk and safety. At this time, you should understand that there are only two defenders behind you, and it is a risky move for you to rush up. And according to the situation at the time, even if you received the ball, the player behind and the other player who was tracking back would form a pincer attack on you. Are you confident that your footwork can handle it?"

Liu Peng shook his head.

"So, in this situation, what should you have done?" Qiu Suhui asked everyone loudly.

"Take a safe approach!" Everyone answered in unison.

"Yes!" Qiu Suhui erased the running route he had drawn and redrew a set of routes. The circle representing Liu Peng ran back to a position about 70 degrees behind Huang Song, and Huang Song then passed the ball back to him. "How about that? You run back, creating depth. The opponent marking you would not dare to follow because he would be worried about Huang Song's cross pass. In fact, in the game, as long as the opponent doesn't adopt a full-court marking tactic, they won't pay attention to the retreat of the defenders. In this way, you will be in an unmarked state. Huang Song then passes the ball back to you, and you can calmly receive the ball, observe, and then decide what to do next. The situation opens up, doesn't it?"

Liu Peng stared at the notebook in Qiu Suhui's hand without saying a word.

"Okay!" Qiu Suhui blew the whistle, "Continue training!"

Adriane was a little angry. He had emphasized the importance of judging the timing of safety and risk more than once in training, but Baas was eager to achieve success and rashly passed the ball straight ahead when he was not in stable control and Zhang Jun was not in a good position, leading to this loss of possession. But he couldn't show this emotion. The players were mostly young people, and they were particularly susceptible to the influence of the coach's emotions on the field. He just turned his head and whispered to Strell: "It seems that when we go back, we have to increase the training on judging safety and risk."

Twenty-three minutes into the game, Volendam, who was playing at home, conceded a goal first.

"Heerenveen is worthy of being a traditional team. They only took twenty-three minutes to reduce Volendam back to its original form."

Wang Hua glanced at the Dutch reporter next to him, thinking that he must be a Heerenveen reporter. But it's no wonder he would say such a thing. People who haven't really come into contact with Zhang Jun and Yang Pan won't understand how good they are.

Li Yan joked to Qi Wei next to him: "If Volendam loses this game and Zhang Jun and Yang Pan don't play well, how will you do this program?"

Qi Wei thought for a while: "Impossible, how can we encounter so many unlucky things!"

"Hehe, it's better to be safe than sorry!" Li Yan wanted to tease this CCTV reporter who was about the same age as him.

Qi Wei remembered what Yang Pan had said last night: "Tomorrow we will let him know who is wrong." He answered decisively.

He shook his head: "Definitely not! There's not even a chance that it will happen!"