God of Green

Amid the helpless sighs of the home fans, the referee blew the whistle to end the first half, and the two sides entered the halftime break with a score of 0-1.

The team behind was Alkmaar, who played at home.

The players of Alkmaar all lowered their heads when they left the field, feeling ashamed to face people.

Although the fans did not boo them, everyone still felt very embarrassed.

Especially Jiang Xiaolin, he thought before the game that Feyenoord was stronger than the opponents he had met before, but he did not expect that it was so strong that he did not even have a threatening shot in the first half.

It was incredible.

Of course, after 45 minutes of adaptation, Jiang Xiaolin had realized that it was not that he was weak, but that he did not have enough experience.

Whether it was running without the ball, shooting, heading, jumping, balance, flexibility, speed, etc., he was better than Feyenoord's defenders in many aspects.

The only thing he could not compare with was experience.

Many times, before Jiang Xiaolin made any move, the opponent knew where he was going to run and what he was going to do.

No matter how strong Jiang Xiaolin was, he was only so strong.

If Jiang Xiaolin's comprehensive offensive ability could reach 18, the comprehensive strength of his defenders was also 16 or 17.

Even if they were a little worse than Jiang Xiaolin, the difference was not so obvious.

Then, with rich game experience, numerical advantage, and overall discipline, they naturally defended Jiang Xiaolin without any temper.

Jiang Xiaolin's hat trick in the last game was actually because the opponent had not taken Jiang Xiaolin seriously.

After all, he was a 16-year-old pure rookie, and it was difficult to get attention for the first time.

But Feyenoord obviously would not underestimate Jiang Xiaolin in this game, after all, Jiang Xiaolin had just performed a hat trick.

Feyenoord itself was much stronger than Roda JC, and with the psychological emphasis, it was no wonder that the inexperienced Jiang Xiaolin was not getting any good results.

Head coach Van Gaal naturally saw all of this.

During the halftime break, Van Gaal adjusted the tactics.

Jiang Xiaolin still had to use his excellent physical fitness and off-ball running ability to disrupt the game on the field, giving the opponent the illusion that Alkmaar was still dominated by Jiang Xiaolin.

But in fact, Alkmaar had to focus its attack on Hamdaoyi and Maarten Martens.

Hamdaoyi is a striker and Martens is a front midfielder, which can form a sense of offensive hierarchy of the front and back duet.

Jiang Xiaolin's main role is actually to transform into a center forward who helps his teammates pass the ball.

It just so happened that Jiang Xiaolin's ball-stopping skills, dribbling, short passes, etc. have made great progress, and he is already competent for such a tactical center forward role.

After the tactical adjustment and the second half of the game restarted, Alkmaar's offense improved a little in the second half.

In the 53rd minute, Alkmaar attacked the front court and the ball was at the feet of forward Schals.

Schars was ready to cross the ball, but he was tightly guarded by Feyenoord's full-back and could not go to the bottom. In the end, he could only pass the ball to Maarten Martens in the middle.

As soon as the ball fell to Martens' feet, Feyenoord's defense became nervous.

Because everyone knows that Martens is the core of Alkmaar's frontcourt organization and has a strong ability to organize assists.

Sure enough, as soon as the ball reached Martens' feet, Jiang Xiaolin quickly changed direction and ran, shaking off a defender who was defending him closely, and rushed to the gap on the left side of the penalty area, as if he wanted to receive Martens' ball there to shoot.

Of course, Jiang Xiaolin has always been the target of Feyenoord's strict defense in this game.

At the moment Jiang Xiaolin ran, Feyenoord's full-back saw the gap there and rushed over at the same time.

It is estimated that when Jiang Xiaolin runs to the right position, even if he receives Martens' pass, it will be difficult to form a chance to shoot directly without stopping the ball.

However, while Martens continued to make the illusion of passing the ball to Jiang Xiaolin, causing Feyenoord's defense line to lean further to the left and guard Jiang Xiaolin tightly, Martens dribbled the ball and then passed it to the right.

Hamdaoyi cut in from the right, shook off the defender and rushed into the penalty area, and kicked the ball towards the goal with a non-stop volley.

Hamdaoyi completed this shot almost without any interference, and the quality was quite high.

However, this time Feyenoord's goalkeeper E. Meda played at a very high level, with a standard side dive and pushed the ball out of the bottom line, causing Alkmaar to miss the opportunity to equalize the score.

Although Hamdaoyi was a little annoyed, Martens stepped forward to comfort him: "Don't be discouraged, the coach's tactics are fine, and we will definitely score a few more times."

The game started again.

Jiang Xiaolin didn't head the corner kick this time, and MartensThe ball was kicked too high and fell to the back point, where it was headed out of the penalty area by a Feyenoord player.

Jiang Xiaolin made full use of his physical strength, speed, and off-ball running advantages to create considerable psychological pressure on Feyenoord's defense.

But in fact, the focus of Alkmaar's attack was not on Jiang Xiaolin, but Feyenoord had not noticed it.

In the 66th minute, Jiang Xiaolin received a pass from Martens in the penalty area with his back to the goal, and made a move to turn and shoot, causing a panic among the Feyenoord players in the penalty area. The goalkeeper stared at Jiang Xiaolin, fearing that he would suddenly turn and shoot.

However, Jiang Xiaolin attracted three Feyenoord defenders to surround him, and kicked the ball accurately to the position outside the right penalty area.

The right forward Stein Schalls, who inserted from the back row, kicked the ball into the penalty area before the opponent's player cleared the ball, and then rushed into the penalty area.

Then, Schals volleyed the ball from the side of the penalty area and kicked the ball towards the goal.

Unfortunately, the shot was a little off and hit the outside of the goal post and bounced out of the bottom line.

Although the ball didn't go in, it was indeed a rare scene of Jiang Xiaolin assisting his teammates.

In this attack, Van Gaal saw that Jiang Xiaolin's ball control and short pass abilities were very good, and he was already two completely different people from the initial trial training.

It is also completely feasible to let Jiang Xiaolin be a tactical center forward.

Of course, if he didn't score to equalize the score, everything would be useless.

Fortunately, Feyenoord has not been able to score the second goal.

Although their overall strength is higher than Alkmaar and they have more shooting opportunities than Alkmaar, their forward shooting skills are still not as good as Jiang Xiaolin, and they can't achieve the same high goal frame hit rate as Jiang Xiaolin.

They even wasted at least two must-goal opportunities in the second half, so that the score has not been expanded and has remained at 0-1.

It was this delicate score that made Alkmaar never give up the counterattack.

After all, if they scored even one goal, it would have a huge impact on the result.