Chapter 128

On March 22, Saturday, there was no training during the day because of the game in the evening.

Jiang Xiaolin took this opportunity to complete the shooting of the advertising video and photo shoot with Mitchell's Yiwei Supermarket in the morning.

Because it is just a small chain supermarket, the endorsement fee is not high, the advertising video and photos are relatively simple, and they were completed in the morning.

He even took two sets of photos for Song Zhicheng, who would take them back and enlarge them and paste them in the restaurant as a sign.

After completing the advertising shoot, everyone agreed to participate in the game tonight, and then Jiang Xiaolin would go to the Yiwei Supermarket branch near Amsterdam Chinatown to work as a cashier for a day tomorrow, which would be considered as fulfilling the contract with Yiwei Supermarket.

As for the endorsement fee, it will naturally be transferred to the club account by Yiwei Supermarket, and then the club will transfer it to Jiang Xiaolin's card together when the March salary is paid at the beginning of next month.

Next, it is to wait for the evening game to start.

Tonight is the 30th round of the Eredivisie, with Alkmaar playing against Grafschap at home.

Grafschaft is currently ranked 15th, fourth from the bottom, and only 1 point away from the relegation zone of the third from the bottom.

Therefore, Grafschaft looks weak, but now it is the end of the season, and Grafschaft needs to stay in the league.

There is a phenomenon in football that relegation teams are more difficult to play than championship teams.

Because championship is only about honor, while relegation is about life and death. The first division and the second division seem to be only one level apart, but in fact they are worlds apart.

Therefore, although Grafschaft may be weaker than Alkmaar on paper, it may be much more desperate than Alkmaar in terms of its level of fighting.

As the saying goes, the barefoot are not afraid of the shoes. Some players of the relegation team may really fight hard, even if they are injured.

Players of teams that do not need to stay in the league sometimes do not have the courage to fight and collide when grabbing the ball, for fear of injury.

This will definitely affect the success rate of grabbing the ball and competing for the top to a certain extent, especially the half-and-half opportunities.

Therefore, this game is very difficult to play.

But whether they want to play or not, they have to play, and this is not up to Alkmaar's will.

In any case, Alkmaar's paper strength is definitely much stronger than Grafschap, and there is no reason to be afraid of the opponent before the game.

But we can't be careless.

After all, Alkmaar still has to strive to stay in the UEFA Cup play-off zone and try to improve its ranking.

Therefore, Van Gaal did not dare to be careless at all and still sent out the strongest starting lineup he could.

The starting goalkeeper is still No. 22 Sergio Romero, left back No. 5 Pocognoli, and right back No. 2 Yarians.

Hector Moreno, the central defender who started in the last game, was suspended due to accumulated yellow cards. This game will be played by No. 14 Ragnar Klavan and No. 25 Moisander as double central defenders.

The defensive midfielder will continue to be No. 6 David Mendes, left midfielder No. 7 Moussa Dembele, and right midfielder No. 8 Stein Schars.

Attacking midfielder Maarten Martens may have caught a cold in the rainy game last time, and he has not recovered yet, so he sat on the bench.

The starting attacking midfielder of this game is No. 23 Van der Velden, a substitute attacking midfielder who has not trained much with Jiang Xiaolin even in training.

The tacit understanding on the field is worrying.

Fortunately, Jiang Xiaolin now has a full value of team cooperation attributes, which may make up for it a little.

The forwards will continue to be Jiang Xiaolin and Hamdaoyi as double strikers.

As long as they are not injured, No. 9 Ali can only stay on the bench with a face full of resentment.

Before the game started, Jiang Xiaolin spent 5 attribute points to increase the dribbling of 19 points to the full value of 20 points, and spent 1 attribute point to increase the fried meatballs of 12 points to 13 points, and the attribute point balance was 31.

After careful counting, Jiang Xiaolin's shooting, running without the ball, heading, jumping, physical strength, acceleration, stopping the ball, dribbling, short passing, grabbing points, balance, scorpion tail, and teamwork, a total of 13 physical qualities or skills have reached the full value of 20 points.

The system is really domineering.

With these abilities, even if Jiang Xiaolin no longer opens new skills in the future and cannot add other skills to the full value, these abilities alone are enough for him to gain a foothold in the Eredivisie.

Even the five major leagues can be tried.

Of course, Jiang Xiaolin will not be satisfied with these abilities, and the system will not be either.

This level is still far from "God".

Still need to work hard.

At 9 p.m. on March 22, 2008, with the referee's whistle, the 30th round of the 2007/2008 Eredivisie Alkmaar VS Grafschap match officially kicked off at Alkmaar's home AFAS Stadium.

The weather is good today, cloudyIt's not raining.

And tomorrow is Sunday, so there's no need to go to work.

Therefore, the AFAS, which can accommodate 17,000 people, has attracted more than 16,000 fans, and it is almost full.

This is all the benefit of Alkmaar's performance in recent games.

If they still lose like the first six games in the second half of the season, few fans will be willing to come to watch the game.

It's also a torture to come.

Now Alkmaar has rebounded strongly, and has achieved an unbeaten record of three wins and two draws in the last five games, and has entered the League Cup play-off zone.

Therefore, with only a few rounds of league games left and fewer and fewer home games, fans are willing to come to the home court to cheer for the team.

They all hope that Alkmaar will continue to work hard, win better against the weak team fourth from the bottom of the standings, and continue to improve the ranking to get a better play-off match arrangement after the end of the season.

However, the situation after the start of the game is not optimistic.

The core of the organization, Maarten Martens, caught a cold and sat on the bench. After the starting midfielder was replaced by Van der Velden, Alkmaar's offense was greatly negatively affected.

Others were fine, after all, they had trained and played together for a long time, but Jiang Xiaolin was not.

He had only been in the team for more than a month, and even trained with Martens. It was just that Martens caught a cold a few days ago, and Van Gaal temporarily asked Van der Velden to join the main team for training for a few days, but the time was too short and the effect was very little.

Even though Jiang Xiaolin now has a full value of team cooperation attributes, this is only the attribute of Jiang Xiaolin to cooperate with the opponent, while the attribute of the opponent to cooperate with Jiang Xiaolin is very low.

What's more annoying is that Van der Velden's personal ability is far from that of Maarten Martens.

This resulted in Van der Velden being far inferior to Maarten Martens in both personal breakthroughs and offensive organization, which reduced Alkmaar's offensive organization by more than one level.

Of course, Graf Sharp's targeted tactics for this game were also the reason why Van der Velden had almost no performance.