Chapter 217

After Jiang Xiaolin's goal was blown off, the players and coaches of Alkmaar had a long dispute and abuse with the referee, which consumed a lot of time.

After the players and coaches of Alkmaar were suppressed by the referee, the time of the first half had reached the 47th minute, far exceeding the 1 minute of stoppage time.

Therefore, after Nijmegen's goalkeeper Babos kicked the ball that Jiang Xiaolin was offside, the referee blew the whistle to end the first half.

The two sides entered the halftime break with a score of 2-1, and Nijmegen, who played at home, led by one goal.

However, this score was unfair.

During the halftime break, major TV stations played back the two controversial penalties in the first half in detail from multiple angles.

The playback showed that the penalty kick in the first controversial penalty was taken by Hemu himself and hung on Moreno's feet, which was a diving fake fall.

The offside in the second controversial penalty did not exist.

The TV playback clearly drew a line based on the last defender of Nijmegen.

The lines drawn show that at the moment when Martens passed the ball, although Jiang Xiaolin was in the process of counter-offside and rushing towards the Nijmegen penalty area, he was flush with the last defender and was not offside.

Jiang Xiaolin's full-value off-ball running, although there were times when he was offside, but it was rare.

This time, it was a very successful counter-offside.

The referee's penalty this time was not only related to offside. If it was just a misjudgment of offside and lost an attacking opportunity, then everyone would be better off.

The key is that Jiang Xiaolin had successfully countered offside this time and scored the ball, but the linesman raised the flag and the referee blew the whistle, which wiped out Jiang Xiaolin's goal!

This is very infuriating.

If there was no penalty kick from Nijmegen, and if Jiang Xiaolin's goal was not blown off, the score in the first half would be Alkmaar leading Nijmegen 2-1.

Obviously, the referee's black whistle caused a clear reversal of the result of the game.

Of course, from the perspective of the media, except for the media in Alkmaar, other media will not explicitly say that the referee blew the whistle.

They just said that the referee made two controversial decisions in the first half, which will definitely cause huge controversy after the game.

There is no doubt about it.

In fact, Van Gaal has already prepared to fire at the referee team after the game.

In the locker room, the players of Alkmaar were also indignantly denouncing the referee team's decisions in the first half.

Moreno: "The referee blew the whistle too far today!"

Jiang Xiaolin: "It's not far, it's a black whistle, okay? If he hadn't blown my ball, we could have equalized the score."

Hamdaoyi: "Yes, this is a naked black whistle! Whether it's Moreno's foul, penalty, or Jiang's offside, they all don't exist."

Yarriens: "Fak, if you hadn't pulled me away, I really wanted to punch that damn referee!"

Just as everyone was angrily denouncing the referee's penalty in the first half, assistant coach Junker After hanging up the phone, he came over and clapped his hands, asking everyone to calm down and said:

"Okay, the referee's decision will be appealed to the club after the game. Your task is to calm down and prepare for the second half of the game."

"No matter what the referee's decision is, we have to continue the game. It is impossible to not play the game because of two penalties in the first half. That would be surrendering and admitting defeat."

"Do you want to surrender and give up the qualification for the League Cup next season?"

The players shook their heads.

If Van Gaal was there, seeing that everyone just shook their heads and did not show that kind of anger and unwillingness to admit defeat, he would definitely ask everyone to answer loudly again.

But Juncker hesitated for a while and did not do so. He might still lack courage and temperament.

After all, the identity of an assistant coach is different from that of a head coach, not to mention a famous coach like Van Gaal.

In the team, Juncker's status is probably not as good as that of an ordinary player in the first team, so he does not have the confidence to give a speech in the locker room.

Therefore, Jonker only conveyed what Van Gaal arranged on the phone, and asked Hector Moreno, who had a yellow card, to rest, and sent No. 25 Moisander to play.

Tactically, Jonker asked everyone to play defensive counterattacks, and asked everyone to move cleanly, not to give the referee a chance to make a fuss.

After a 15-minute break, the two sides changed sides and continued to fight.

Nijmegen, who led 2-1 in the first half, continued to attack.

On the Alkmaar side, although the players were still very dissatisfied with the referee's penalty in the first half, they did not dare to be impulsive or make too big moves, fearing that the referee would continue to blow the whistle and give you a yellow card for a slight foul.It would be too uneconomical to give a card or even a red card.

After all, as Juncker said in the locker room, Alkmaar cannot surrender or admit defeat.

The game still needs to go on and try to win.

However, when everyone seems timid in defense, they lose momentum.

Nijmegen's frontcourt attack is better than Alkmaar's defense, and with the replacement of the main central defender Moreno, Alkmaar seems to be unable to defend.

Fortunately, Van Gaal issued a defensive counterattack tactic through Juncker, allowing Alkmaar to accumulate enough numerical advantages in the midfield and backcourt, so that the goal was not lost.

After all, breaking dense defense is a global problem for any team.

Even those world-class giants sometimes seem helpless when facing the dense defense of a weak team.

In addition, Jiang Xiaolin's presence is also the key to restraining Nijmegen's backcourt players.

Jiang Xiaolin's counterattack ability is something that Nijmegen players have to take into account, so it is difficult for the midfield and backcourt to press forward and assist at all costs, resulting in insufficient number of Nijmegen attacking in the frontcourt, which has delayed the breakthrough of Alkmaar's dense defense.

After the start of the second half, it was not until the 56th minute that Nijmegen, who had been attacking in Alkmaar's half, got the first chance to shoot, but unfortunately it was a long shot outside the penalty area.

Because it was really impossible to attack the penalty area, No. 17 right forward Scholten finally took a long shot from outside the penalty area line.

The quality of this long shot was not bad, but Sergio Romero was very focused and tried his best to save the ball from the bottom line.

The next corner kick did not pose a threat to Alkmaar's goal, and was cleared by central defender Ragnar Klavan out of the penalty area.

On the Alkmaar side, it was not until the 63rd minute that they launched the first threatening counterattack, with Yarians dribbling the ball to assist, and finally passing the ball from the wing, and Jiang Xiaolin grabbed the first point in the middle and made a diving header.

Unfortunately, when he jumped, he was pulled by the opponent's defender and failed to hit the ball at the right position and angle. The ball flew straight to the goalkeeper and was easily caught by Babos.