Chapter 133

The minor injury affected Jiang Xiaolin's subsequent performance.

In the following time, although Jiang Xiaolin was still trying to run without the ball, it was indeed difficult for him to pose any threat to Grafschaap in terms of technical movements.

For example, when stopping the ball, Jiang Xiaolin obviously could not reach the level of lifting a heavy weight with ease.

The flexibility and balance of the body during running were also greatly affected.

And because the right foot was injured, Jiang Xiaolin could not shoot, and could only shoot with his left foot.

But Jiang Xiaolin is a right-footed player, and his left foot ability is almost negligible.

Jiang Xiaolin had two reluctant left-foot shots, but not only was the power insufficient, but he did not even score within the goal frame.

Seeing this, Grafschaap's head coach replaced two people in the 75th minute, replacing a central defender with a front midfielder and a defensive midfielder with an offensive midfielder to strengthen the offense.

Although they were two goals behind, if they tried hard, they would not have no chance at all.

Anyway, Alkmaar's biggest threat Jiang Xiaolin has been eliminated, so there is almost no need to worry about the backcourt.

After the substitution, Grafschaft's backcourt, which was missing a central defender, suddenly became much more empty.

If Jiang Xiaolin had not been injured, and Grafschaft's own strength was relatively low, Jiang Xiaolin might have been able to score a goal.

But now that he is injured, it is more difficult.

However, as time goes by, the injury on Jiang Xiaolin's instep is only a hard injury after all, and the swelling is slowly subsiding, and Jiang Xiaolin is also slowly adapting and his condition is recovering.

But Grafschaft, who was focused on attacking and wanted to equalize the score, was not noticed by anyone.

After the substitution, Grafschaft, who attacked with all their strength, did not get the result they wanted, because Alkmaar, which was already two goals ahead, did a pretty good job in defense.

Everyone was not in a hurry.

In addition, goalkeeper Romero was reliable, and Grafschaft did not score a goal after attacking for more than ten minutes.

On the contrary, Alkmaar constantly took advantage of the opportunity when Grafschaap's formation pressed forward to launch a quick counterattack and threaten Grafschaap's goal.

However, knowing that Jiang Xiaolin's injury affected his condition, no one passed the ball to Jiang Xiaolin, and the attack was mostly completed by Hamdaoyi and two wingers.

Even if the ball was passed to Jiang Xiaolin, it was only for him to make a short transition and serve as a transit station, and Jiang Xiaolin would not be allowed to dribble or shoot.

Jiang Xiaolin did not force a dribble or shoot, one because there was no good opportunity, and the other was that he was still recovering from his injury and paralyzing his opponent.

He wanted to find an opportunity to suddenly burst out and give the opponent the final blow.

Time passed slowly, and it had entered the stoppage time. When the game was about to end, Jiang Xiaolin's long-awaited opportunity finally came.

At this time, Jiang Xiaolin's injury had almost recovered, and there was no big problem with his right foot whether passing or shooting.

Although there was still some impact, it was not a big impact.

So, in the 91st minute, Jiang Xiaolin received a pass from Van der Velden at the front of the penalty area, but instead of passing it out, he dribbled past defender Werder Cares who was closely guarding him, and then rushed to the penalty area.

Werder Cares, who was dunked by Jiang Xiaolin, was shocked when he saw Jiang Xiaolin pass him and rush to the penalty area.

Although the game was coming to an end at this time, Grafschap's players had already stopped and no longer had the hope of scoring, but it did not mean that they wanted to be scored by the opponent.

The game was already lost, so they did not want to lose more goals.

0-2 and 0-3, although both were 0 points, there was still a difference in the calculation of goal difference.

In the relegation battle, sometimes you may have to use goal difference.

Therefore, try to lose as few balls as possible.

With this idea in mind, when Jiang Xiaolin was about to enter the penalty area, Werder Cares could not intercept him from the front.

So, he reached out and pushed Jiang Xiaolin.

Jiang Xiaolin was originally dribbling the ball at high speed and wanted to rush into the penalty area to complete the final shot.

He thought he had passed Werder Cares and the opponent had been thrown away by him. He didn't expect the opponent to use this trick at all. It was shameless.

Jiang Xiaolin, who was pushed, immediately fell forward and looked like he was going to fall to the ground.

At this position, even if Jiang Xiaolin really fell down and the referee saw Werder Cares's foul, at most he would be given a free kick, and he wouldn't even take out a card.

And Hamdaoyi's free kick technique was actually not that good. He might not score even one free kick out of 10.

Therefore, free kicks were not the goal-scoring tactics that Alkmaar focused on practicing.

Jiang Xiaolin naturally knew this, and he also knew the opponent's intention, which was to want Jiang Xiaolin to fall down, even if he gave AlkmaarErkmar was willing to take a free kick.

But Jiang Xiaolin didn't want to fall down.

He tried hard to support himself, wanted to get up, and then complete the shot.

But the injury on his foot always affected him.

After entering the penalty area, although Jiang Xiaolin had not completely fallen down, he was unable to stand up completely to complete the shot. On his side, another defender of Grafschaap had already rushed over, ready to clear the ball.

Jiang Xiaolin knew that he couldn't waste any more time, otherwise the ball would be gone.

So, Jiang Xiaolin pressed his hands on the ground, exerted his whole body, and finally stood up using the strength and full balance brought by his physical fitness.

However, there was no chance.

The opponent's defender was about to block the ball path, and the goalkeeper had moved to the near end, blocking most of the shooting routes.

Jiang Xiaolin saw his own players following up in the middle from the corner of his eyes.

The perfect teamwork made Jiang Xiaolin give up the idea of ​​forcing a shot, and instead he flew and threw his body out, then endured the discomfort on his right foot and kicked the ball to the middle.

Then, Jiang Xiaolin fell in the penalty area and collided with the Grafschaap defender who thought Jiang Xiaolin was going to fly and shoot and wanted to intercept Jiang Xiaolin's shot.

But this is no longer important.

Jiang Xiaolin's pass to the middle was volleyed into the goal by Moussa Dembele who cut in from the side and entered the penalty area.

The goalkeeper thought that Jiang Xiaolin threw his body out to fly and shoot, and continued to block the near end of the goal without moving.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Xiaolin finally passed the ball to the middle. When the goalkeeper reacted and rushed back to the middle to save the ball, it was too late.

Jiang Xiaolin, who insisted on not leaving the field despite the injury, actually assisted Alkmaar to score the third goal in the 91st minute of stoppage time.

Everyone thought Jiang Xiaolin was staying on the field to occupy the toilet, but they didn't expect Jiang Xiaolin to perform this in the end.

All of a sudden, all the fans stood up and applauded, both for Dembele and Jiang Xiaolin.