God of Green

With this away goal, Alkmaar not only leads Zenit St. Petersburg by four goals, 6-2, but also leads by one away goal.

If Zenit St. Petersburg wants to eliminate Alkmaar, it is useless to score four goals to tie the total score. It must score five goals in regular time and eliminate Alkmaar with a total score of 7-6.

And now it is the 44th minute of the first half.

In fact, Zenit St. Petersburg only has 45 minutes left in the second half.

Is it possible to score five goals in 45 minutes?

No one believes it.

Therefore, Jiang Xiaolin's goal is an away goal that really kills the suspense of the quarter-finals.

Alkmaar is here in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup.

This can be heard from the excitement of Jones, the Dutch TV commentator who came to the commentary booth to comment on the away game, when he saw Jiang Xiaolin's lob shot fly into the goal of Zenit St. Petersburg:

"Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal..."

"The ball is in!"

"Jiang Xiaolin's lob shot is in!"

"The game is over! Jiang Xiaolin's goal completely ended the suspense of this game!"

"Alkmaar leads the total score 6-2, and there is still an away goal. Zenit St. Petersburg can't turn the tables again!"

"Although the The first half is not over yet, but I can already announce that Alkmaar has advanced to the quarterfinals of this season's UEFA Cup. "

"Congratulations to Alkmaar, congratulations to Van Gaal, he was right to bring Jiang Xiaolin to the away game!"

"Jiang Xiaolin's goal helped Alkmaar completely kill the suspense of the game."

"Zenit St. Petersburg doesn't have to struggle."

"The defending champion has been eliminated."

Indeed, before Jiang Xiaolin scored, the players of Zenit St. Petersburg who had just scored the second goal were still in high spirits, constantly imagining that they might score the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth goals to perform a miracle!

Unexpectedly, just a few minutes later, they were completely beaten into hell by Jiang Xiaolin's counterattack.

Jiang Xiaolin's goal was indeed like a touch of ice water, completely extinguishing the hope and enthusiasm of all the players and fans of Zenit St. Petersburg.

With a total score of four goals behind and Jiang Xiaolin scoring an away goal, Zenit St. Petersburg had to score five goals in the next period of time and prevent Jiang Xiaolin from scoring again in order to eliminate Alkmaar.

This was simply an impossible task.

Even if they were as arrogant as polar bears, no one believed that there would be such a miracle.

Therefore, Jiang Xiaolin's goal was the last shot that really extinguished the last bit of hope of Zenit St. Petersburg players and fans.

In this case, even when Jiang Xiaolin and his teammates celebrated for more than half a minute, no Zenit player stood up to protest to the referee.

In the end, the referee saw that Jiang Xiaolin and others had celebrated for too long, and took the initiative to stand up and let them end the celebration and start the game quickly.

After the game resumed, the players of Zenit St. Petersburg seemed to have lost their spirit and no longer had the previous spirit of charging forward without hesitation.

Anyway, now that they have scored two goals, they will not be shaved bald.

But it is impossible to reverse the situation.

Therefore, everyone simply gave up and there was no need to waste time on this game.

Soon, the referee ended the first half of the game.

During the halftime break, Van Gaal decisively replaced Jiang Xiaolin.

Moreover, he replaced him with a substitute midfielder instead of a striker.

Alkmaar will play a thorough iron bucket bus defense in the second half.

With a four-goal lead in the total score and an away goal, Van Gaal is completely relieved that there will be no accidents.

As for Zenit St. Petersburg, after seeing Jiang Xiaolin being replaced at the beginning of the second half, they were refreshed for a while and immediately pressed forward to struggle again.

But after the actual combat drills in the first half, the cooperation between Alkmaar's starting and substitute players has become more tacit.

In addition, a professional defensive midfielder was replaced in the second half, so even with the number of people, Alkmaar's penalty area and goal could be defended tightly.

After all, intensive defense has always been a global problem, and Zenit St. Petersburg will not have more solutions.

No matter how they play, Alkmaar's players firmly guard their penalty area and do not allow Zenit to take advantage of them.

As time goes by, Zenit, who had originally ignited hope because Jiang Xiaolin had left the field,The players and fans gradually despaired.

This time it was really desperate, there was no hope at all.

In the 65th minute of the second half, seeing that the players on the field still failed to score even a goal in the second half, the head coach of Zenit St. Petersburg also knew that the situation was over.

So, with more than 20 minutes left before the end of the game, he even replaced two players, replacing two main players to prepare for the league.

This substitution by the head coach of Zenit St. Petersburg was considered to be a complete abandonment of the game, marking that the game had entered garbage time.

Sure enough, in the rest of the game, Alkmaar continued to firmly guard its penalty area, and Zenit St. Petersburg no longer attacked vigorously.

The two sides drew in the 45 minutes of the second half, and no one scored a goal.

After 3 minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle to end the game. Zenit St. Petersburg defeated Alkmaar 2-1 with two goals in the first half.

However, it was Alkmaar who celebrated after the game.

Because although Alkmaar only scored one goal and lost the game, they won 6-2 in the two-round quarter-finals and advanced to the quarter-finals of this season's UEFA Cup by stepping on the body of the defending champion Zenit St. Petersburg.

Therefore, Alkmaar, who advanced to the quarter-finals, interacted and paid tribute to hundreds of Alkmaar away fans who accompanied the team to Russia on the opponent's territory at the St. Petersburg Stadium, and then returned to the locker room to take a shower, change clothes and leave.

After losing the game, Jiang Xiaolin only gained 20,000 basic experience for one goal.

However, in terms of game performance, Jiang Xiaolin did get a "good" rating with a rating coefficient of 2. It may be that the system thinks that Jiang Xiaolin's goal completely killed the suspense of the game and is more valuable.

Therefore, the total experience Jiang Xiaolin finally gained was 20,000*2=40,000. With the previous daily training, his experience rose to level 22 206.62/3 million.

Although Alkmaar lost the game and Jiang Xiaolin only scored one goal, Jiang Xiaolin still received unanimous praise from the outside media and fans after the game.

Because Jiang Xiaolin's total number of goals in the UEFA Cup has reached 14, which is only one goal away from Klinsmann's record of 15 goals in a single season in the UEFA Cup.

And Alkmaar has entered the quarterfinals, and there are at least two games left.

In terms of Jiang Xiaolin's goal efficiency, it is a high probability event that he will score goals in these two games to tie or even surpass Klinsmann's record.

Such performance is not worth the media's attention, so what kind of results are needed?

As for Alkmaar's loss on the road, no one cares at all.

Because Alkmaar has advanced to the quarterfinals.

After Alkmaar's 5-0 home win and Van Gaal brought a bunch of substitutes away, everyone knew that Alkmaar would definitely lose on the road, and it was not worth making a fuss at all.

As for Jiang Xiaolin, he only played half a game.

What else do you want after scoring a goal in the first half?

With the promotion confirmed, it is the right thing to do to leave the field early and prepare for the next league game!

After returning to the base, Van Gaal gave Jiang Xiaolin a day off to let him rest.

Three days later, at 14:30 on March 22, with the referee's whistle, the 28th round of the Eredivisie Alkmaar home game against Feyenoord officially began.

As one of the three traditional giants in the Eredivisie, Feyenoord's situation this season is not good.

So far, Feyenoord is still only ranked 11th in the standings, and has not even entered the UEFA Cup play-off zone.

Therefore, although this game is away, despite facing Alkmaar with Jiang Xiaolin, Feyenoord did not retreat, but bravely fought a battle against Alkmaar.

Perhaps, they want to fight for their life and death, and try their chance of winning!

But the final result of the game proved that it was a death wish to play against Alkmaar, which had Jiang Xiaolin.

At the same time, this game also attracted countless media reporters from all over the world to conduct on-site interviews, as well as countless TV stations to broadcast and countless fans to watch the live broadcast.

Because before this game, Jiang Xiaolin had already scored 49 league goals, and everyone wanted to witness history and witness the moment when Jiang Xiaolin's Eredivisie goals reached 50 this season.

With the cheers of more than 10,000 Alkmaar home fans, the game was very intense from the first minute.

Feyenoord, who played away, took the initiative and launched a fierce attack on Alkmaar's penalty area by taking advantage of the opportunity to kick off first.

However, the quality of their finishing shot wasNot high, and finally Roy Makaay's shot from the corner of the penalty area was a cannon.

Soon, Sergio Romero kicked the ball out and Alkmaar began to attack.

This attack was naturally a positional advance.

In the positional attack, Alkmaar's attack was not as sharp as Jiang Xiaolin's counterattack.

This attack was the same. After the ball was passed to the front court, it was not passed to Jiang Xiaolin's feet for a long time, and even if it was passed to his feet, it was difficult to form a turn and shoot.

In the end, the ball was still intercepted by the opponent in the midfield.

The two sides went back and forth, constantly switching between offense and defense.

But in general, Alkmaar was stronger and the quality of the shot was higher.

In the 4th minute, after Jiang Xiaolin pulled away two central defenders of Feyenoord, Hamdaoyi received a pass from Maarten Martens in the penalty area and made a threatening shot.

Unfortunately, goalkeeper Henk Maya made a wonderful save, not only saving Hamdaoyi's shot, but also not giving Alkmaar a chance to make a follow-up shot, so Jiang Xiaolin, who rushed into the penalty area to make a follow-up shot, did nothing.

In the 6th minute, Feyenoord also responded with a cross from the sideline that threatened Alkmaar's goal.

Feyenoord striker Sloer grabbed the first diving shot in the penalty area with a more alert ability to grab points, and also hit the goal frame. Unfortunately, the angle was slightly right and was blocked by Sergio Romero, who then immediately pressed it under his body.

In the back and forth between the two sides, in the 11th minute, a scene that made reporters and fans boil finally appeared on the field.

Because Alkmaar's winger Stein Schars was pushed to the ground by Feyenoord defender Gerd Anderson when he dribbled the ball in the middle of the frontcourt.

When Gerardsson pushed Schalls to the ground and saw the referee whistling and rushing over, he looked up at the place where he had committed the foul and realized that something was wrong.

Because this position was very good.

He gave Jiang Xiaolin a free kick opportunity in the frontcourt with an excellent position and distance.

Gerardsson wanted to argue with the referee, but the referee ignored him and firmly penalized his foul and gave Alkmaar a free kick.

Not giving him a yellow card was considered a special favor.

This free kick made countless fans at the scene and in front of the TV stand up, and even the commentator in the commentary booth couldn't wait to stand on the bench, looking down and ready to roar loudly at any time.

Because Jiang Xiaolin's free kick technique was so good, everyone was mentally prepared for Jiang Xiaolin to score this free kick.

Once Jiang Xiaolin really scored the ball, it would be Jiang Xiaolin's 50th goal in the Eredivisie this season.

The record of 50 goals in a single season in the league is a level that no one has ever touched in the European league. Even with the efficiency of the German goal machine Gerd Muller, he has never reached it.

Once Jiang Xiaolin scores this goal, he will become the first person in European football to score 50 league goals in a single season.

The first person in Europe is not just the first person in the Eredivisie!

Therefore, whether it is on the scene or in front of the TV, countless people stretched their necks and looked forward to it.

Of course, Feyenoord's players also know this.

The free kick has been awarded by the referee, and they can no longer change it. They can only try their best to block Jiang Xiaolin's shooting angle and prevent him from scoring this ball.

Under the command of goalkeeper Henk Maya, Feyenoord arranged a wall of 5 people, all of whom are tall and strong, and blocked the straight angle of Jiang Xiaolin's shot.

As for the arc, it cannot be blocked. It depends on who is better, Jiang Xiaolin or the goalkeeper.

The human wall was formed for half a minute, and the referee was a little impatient. Henk Maya instructed his teammates to form a human wall that satisfied him, and then returned to the midpoint of the goal line and signaled to the referee that he was ready.

The referee looked at Jiang Xiaolin again. Jiang Xiaolin had naturally been ready in the run-up position behind the penalty spot, and also told the referee that there was no problem.

After the referee confirmed that there were no accidents on the field and no one had committed any fouls, he finally blew the whistle to allow Jiang Xiaolin to take the free kick.