Chapter 144

On Sunday, April 6, 2008, the weather was fine, and the home stadium of the Venlo team, which only had a capacity of 6,000 people, was full.

Except for a few hundred away fans from Alkmaar, the rest were all home fans of the Venlo team.

With the record of the Venlo team this season, it is actually not worthy of a full home stadium.

But the problem is that it is now the end of the season, and the Venlo team has not lost the hope of relegation. This is the critical period of the relegation battle.

So, these fans came to cheer for the team and hope that the team will fight hard and finally successfully relegation.

In addition, the capacity of the stadium itself is small, so it is still easy to fill all the seats.

Before the game, Jiang Xiaolin spent another attribute point to increase the fried meatballs to 15, and the attribute point balance was 29.

At 14:30 noon, with the referee's whistle, the 32nd round of the 2007/2008 Dutch Eredivisie, which is also the third to last round of the Dutch Eredivisie this season, the match between Venlo and Alkmaar officially started at Venlo's home stadium, De Koel Stadium.

Jiang Xiaolin and Honda Keisuke both started as everyone hoped.

This East Asian derby has entered a real confrontation since the beginning of the game. It depends on who can perform better and win this East Asian derby.

Jiang Xiaolin plays as a striker, and basically only receives the ball and shoots, and cannot break through and shoot by himself.

Therefore, Jiang Xiaolin has fewer touches of the ball.

Honda Keisuke plays as a right midfielder, who needs to connect the front and back fields, attack, defend, and break through, pass, and shoot.

Therefore, Honda Keisuke has more touches of the ball.

Although Honda Keisuke did not dare to brag in the pre-match interview, in his heart, doesn't he want to win this East Asian derby?

Whether it is the confrontation between countries or the acquisition of personal honors, as well as the need for the team to stay in the league, Honda Keisuke has definitely put in 100% of his efforts, which is much more active and positive than other games. He almost entered the state from the first minute of the game.

As for Jiang Xiaolin, on the one hand, he needs to rely on the assists of his teammates, and on the other hand, because the venue of the game is away, he will be more or less affected by some negative factors.

Another point is that his starting partner in this game is no longer Hamdaoyi.

Consecutive starting games made Hamdaoyi, who was not as strong as Jiang Xiaolin, a little tired. He sat on the bench in this game. No. 9 Ali replaced Hamdaoyi in the starting lineup and partnered with Jiang Xiaolin as a double striker.

Although Ali is also capable, he has not been a partner with Jiang Xiaolin for a long time. Compared with Hamdaoyi, there is still a lack of tacit understanding. Sometimes the passing and cutting positions cannot be thought of together. Even if Jiang Xiaolin's full team cooperation is not as good as Ali's random running and passing.

Therefore, on the surface, within 10 minutes of the start of the game, Honda Keisuke's performance was better and more active than Jiang Xiaolin.

Even in the 6th minute, he cut inside after breaking through the wing and completed a long shot from the corner of the penalty area.

Although the ball missed the post in the end, it was not far off, and the threat was still not small.

Jiang Xiaolin, apart from helping his teammates to transfer the ball, had almost no performance.

Of course, this is also related to the strict defense of Jiang Xiaolin by Venlo.

Now Jiang Xiaolin is already well-known in the Eredivisie and is the focus of every opponent. In every game, he is strictly guarded by the opponent, and the number of opportunities to shoot has been much less than in the previous games.

Everyone was a little contemptuous and careless about Jiang Xiaolin at the beginning, but now no one despises this 16-year-old boy.

Whether it is a coach or a player, or even an ordinary fan, everyone knows that Jiang Xiaolin is a goal machine.

Seeing that Jiang Xiaolin hadn't shot a goal in 10 minutes, and that he couldn't break through, pass or shoot like Honda Keisuke, the Japanese reporters in the press box were a little complacent. Occasionally, they turned their heads to look at the Chinese reporters, and their eyes were full of arrogance and complacency, which made Peng Zhijie and other Chinese reporters quite depressed.

However, everyone was not very anxious.

Because Jiang Xiaolin himself was not the kind of person who often took the ball to organize attacks, often broke through, passed the ball, and controlled the rhythm.

Jiang Xiaolin was an assassin who went deep into the enemy's hinterland, hid near the enemy's goal, and looked for opportunities to make a fatal blow.

Moreover, with Jiang Xiaolin's shooting skills, if he really had as many opportunities to hold the ball as Honda Keisuke, the opponent would have been beaten into a sieve long ago.

It was precisely because Jiang Xiaolin didn't have many opportunities to hold the ball that he could score in a limited number of shots, which made him look like a superb shooting skill.

Chinese reporters all knew that Jiang Xiaolin was concerned about the goal rate, not the ball possession rate.

As long asWhen Jiang Xiaolin caught the chance to shoot, he could score a goal after two shots, or at most three shots.

This goal rate is very high, much higher than many forwards who need four or five shots, or even more than ten shots to score a goal.

It is precisely because they know Jiang Xiaolin better than those Japanese reporters that Peng Zhijie and other Chinese reporters did not panic and continued to watch firmly. They believed that Jiang Xiaolin would definitely perform better than Honda Keisuke and win this East Asian derby.

However, what everyone did not expect was that the first goal of this game had nothing to do with Jiang Xiaolin or Honda Keisuke.

In the 16th minute, Venlo left midfielder Amrabat made a cross from the bottom, and No. 9 forward Paul Zans followed up in the middle, overpowering Alkmaar's central defender Ragnar Klavan and heading the ball into Alkmaar's goal.

Venlo, playing at home, led Alkmaar 1-0. More than 5,000 home fans in the stands immediately cheered and screamed to celebrate their first goal.

The Venlo players on the field also rushed to the front court very happily, hugged and celebrated with Paul Zans who scored the goal, and also wanted to give Alkmaar players some nausea.

This goal proved that even if they were a relegation team, they could score against the 8th-placed team and might win the final victory.

If they beat Alkmaar with the advantage of home court and took all three points, they might have a greater advantage on the road to relegation.

However, their dream was shattered by Jiang Xiaolin within a few minutes.

Although Jiang Xiaolin had less time to perform before, before being scored by Venlo, Jiang Xiaolin only completed one shot, and it flew over the crossbar under the interference of the Venlo defender.

However, this does not mean that Jiang Xiaolin's threat has decreased.

On the contrary, Jiang Xiaolin cherishes every chance to shoot more.

When he is unsure, he always passes the ball back to his teammates and does not waste time shooting randomly.

Once he decides to shoot, his goal rate can even reach about 50%.