From 9 points behind to 1 point over: Eindhoven counterattacked, can the desperate situation of football rewritten your destiny?

The evening breeze in Rotterdam was wrapped in the salty sea salt, blowing through the boiling stands of the Spartan Stadium. When Tilman scored the third goal to secure the victory in stoppage time, the mineral water bottle on the visiting team's bench was thrown into the sky like champagne - on this night on May 25, 2025, Eindhoven used a 3-1 reversal to grab the Eredivisie championship trophy from Ajax. This victory not only refreshed their league championships to 26, but also created the craziest counterattack script in Dutch football history: from 9 points behind to 1 point in the end, the Great Movement in the universe staged in just five rounds is even more magical than the tulips from sowing to blooming.

time is turned back three months ago. At the end of the 29th round, Ajax fans had already hung a banner of "Champion Return" by the canal. They held a 9-point advantage, as if they had touched the edges of the trophy. At that time, the Eindhoven locker room was filled with depression. The coach Boss' hand holding the tactical board burst out, and the screen was repeatedly played with clips of losing 0-2 to Feyenoord - the loss made the media assert that "the defending champion is exhausted." To make matters worse, the top scorer Luke De Jong fell into a five-game drought, and the physical fitness of 34-year-old veteran Perisic was on the red light, and even the tulips off the court were more vital than this team. The turnaround begins with the 30th round of rain battle. Facing the relegation team Vorendan, Eindhoven was in a desperate situation of 0-1 behind, with youth training young player Tilman equalizing the score with a knock on the ground. This goal, called "igniting the lead" by the commentator, completely activated the fighting spirit of the whole team. In the following four rounds, they were like lions injected with hyperplasia: 4-0 tore Alkmaar to pieces, Perisic scored a hat-trick to assist; narrowly defeated Twente 3-2, and Luke Dejong headed the finale; until the end of the night of Rotterdam, the three heroes jointly directed the drama. Data shows that Eindhoven scored 15 goals in the last five rounds, with an average running distance of 2.3 kilometers more than the first half of the season. This desperate struggle has made the opponent's defense line a paper lantern.

Ajax's collapse is the same drama. They were originally sitting firmly on Diaoyutai, but suddenly they were hit by a curse: they were tied with two goals in the lead against Utrecht, and they actually made the relegation team score three goals in the face of The Hague. There was news that the coach was undermined in the locker room, and the core players liked the rumors of leaving the team on social media, and even the most loyal fans began to turn against each other. This cliff-like landslide reminds people of the old Chinese saying "Those who travel a hundred miles apart" - a trophy that is clearly within reach, but it just takes a short walk on the last step.

Perisic's Nirvana Rebirth is a soul footnote to this counterattack. The 35-year-old Croatian veteran was ridiculed as a "retirement home recruit" at the beginning of the season, but contributed 5 goals and 7 assists in the sprint stage. The first record against Rotterdam Sparta was when he scored with his iconic outside instep. After scoring the goal, he tore open the jersey and exposed the "Never Retired" tattoo. The son in the stands held the slogan "Dad is My Superman" and cried and laughed. This veteran's immortal passion is a microcosm of Eindhoven's spirit - just like the "Sunflower" by the Dutch painter Van Gogh, even if the stems and leaves are withered, they will bloom the last golden yellow.

When the final whistle sounded, five thousand fans who were expeditioning with the team rushed into the stadium and tore the turf into souvenir fragments. Captain Van Jinkel was stripped of only underwear, but held the trophy tightly; Luke Dejong's jersey was about to leave by the young fans, so he simply ran around the field with bare shirtless. This crazy celebration is not only for the champion, but also for the belief that never gives up. As the title of the Eindhoven Daily: "We did not win the game, we won our destiny."

This counterattack gave the football world a vivid lesson: in the era of electronic scoreboards, no advantage is the jewelry in the safe. Eindhoven used his five-round chasing 10 points to prove that the timer on the football field is never a countdown, but a never-ending charge. So the question is: When we encounter a seemingly insurmountable 9-point gap in life, should we also learn from these tulip warriors and regard desperate situations as the clarion call for counterattack? After all, the most fascinating drama of fate is always written in the stoppage time before the final whistle~