Chapter 226

In this game, Nijmegen had too many players piled up in the backcourt, and they were all in a defensive bus defense.

Even if one or two people were broken by Jiang Xiaolin, others would soon come to make up for them.

In the open style of attack and defense in the Eredivisie, everyone is used to playing quick counterattacks and scoring goals when the opponent has no time to retreat.

Fighting positional battles and offensive battles like playing against the Italian team is really not what the Dutch team is good at.

Just like the record of the Dutch national team and the Italian national team, the Netherlands is at an absolute disadvantage, and Italy's defensive style of play is more restrained than the Dutch offensive style of play.

In this game, although Alkmaar had the advantage on the field, it had almost no way to defend Nijmegen's bus defense, and it was difficult to even have a chance to shoot.

Even if Hamdaoyi had a long shot outside the penalty area in the 12th minute, it was an anti-aircraft gun and failed to threaten Nijmegen's goal.

Although the players of Alkmaar tried hard to play a fine combination, pass the ball into the dangerous area of ​​Nijmegen, and send Jiang Xiaolin a wonderful pass that was enough to threaten the opponent's goal, they could not do it.

Jiang Xiaolin's face was already a little heavy.

He thought that the team's 92% on-the-spot state was good enough to win this game and the two-round final.

What he didn't consider was that Nijmegen also attached great importance to this final, and everyone played with the belief and attitude that they must defend the two-goal advantage.

Therefore, Nijmegen's overall state is not bad.

Moreover, Nijmegen is the leading side after all, and has more psychological advantages than Alkmaar's players.

As long as they defend for 90 minutes and don't lose more than two goals, they can win the final and qualify for the League Cup.

If Alkmaar can't score for a long time, the longer the game time is dragged on, the more anxious the players of Alkmaar will be and the worse they will perform, while the confidence of the Nijmegen players will be more sufficient and the advantage will be greater.

The current situation has some dangerous signs.

Although it was only the first half of the game, Alkmaar was the lagging team, and it was two goals behind.

The importance of this game was very high, which put a lot of psychological pressure on Alkmaar's players.

According to the system's explanation, the team's on-site status that Jiang Xiaolin saw when he clicked on the team halo was only the on-site status at that moment.

In other words, that status was only a numerical reflection of the on-site status at the beginning of the game.

If the game goes well, that status can be maintained, or even increased.

But if the situation is not opened for a long time, as time goes by, the players' psychological state will fluctuate, and Alkmaar's overall state may decline, eventually leading to the failure of the final.

Fortunately, Alkmaar's head coach Van Gaal is not an ordinary person. He had taken this situation into consideration when arranging the tactics of this game yesterday.

After all, Nijmegen was leading by two goals. Van Gaal had expected that Nijmegen would most likely adopt a defensive counterattack tactic, and in order to maintain the advantage of two goals, there was a high probability that they would set up a bus defense.

Therefore, in response to this possible situation, Van Gaal has told the players and coaches how the team should respond if no goal is scored after 15 minutes and the opponent continues to defend.

Soon, the time was close to 15 minutes, and Alkmaar still hadn't opened the situation, and even Jiang Xiaolin hadn't had a chance to shoot.

The players looked a little unhappy and kept looking at Junker on the sidelines.

Junker is really not suitable to be a head coach.

He actually remembered Van Gaal's instructions to change the lineup after 15 minutes, and he actually looked at the watch on the sidelines.

It seemed that he would never give instructions to change the lineup before 15 minutes.

Is he so rigid that he insisted on waiting for 15 minutes before letting the players change the lineup?

Although the players didn't know the time on the field, Jiang Xiaolin felt that the team's morale was already in danger.

So, he gritted his teeth, without waiting for Junker to give a clear order, he left the penalty area, told Maarten Martens, and asked him to switch positions with him.

Martens had been a little impatient for a long time, and he was looking forward to it.

He had also wanted to change the formation a long time ago.

So, as soon as Jiang Xiaolin moved, Martens advanced into Nijmegen's penalty area without resistance, leaving the position outside the penalty area to Jiang Xiaolin.

Junker on the sidelines saw the players complete the tactical change by themselves, and moved his mouth, but didn't say anything after all.

Sure enough, with his ability and courage, he can only be an assistant coach for others, and it is completely impossible for him to be independent.Yes.

As Jiang Xiaolin and Martens changed positions, other players on the field followed suit.

The two wing forwards pressed forward to suppress the defensive players in the Nijmegen penalty area.

The defensive midfielder and two full-backs also pressed forward to support Jiang Xiaolin.

According to Van Gaal's tactical arrangement, after Jiang Xiaolin and Martens changed positions, Jiang Xiaolin was asked to strengthen long shots outside the penalty area.

Facing the bus defense, it is a common practice to strengthen long shots outside the penalty area, and Van Gaal's tactics are no exception.

There is a convenience for Alkmaar to shoot long shots, that is, Jiang Xiaolin's shooting power is strong and his shooting skills are excellent.

Jiang Xiaolin has a greater chance of hitting the goal frame than others when shooting long shots, posing a threat.

Of course, the goal rate of long shots is not very high, even if Jiang Xiaolin comes to shoot.

On the one hand, because the distance becomes farther, the chance of hitting the goal frame naturally becomes smaller. On the other hand, it is much easier for the goalkeeper to save.

After all, facing long shots outside the penalty area, the goalkeeper has more reaction time than shots inside the penalty area.

With one give and one decrease, the long-range shot scoring rate will naturally decrease, and even Jiang Xiaolin is no exception.

However, Van Gaal's tactical arrangement will naturally not be so monotonous, with only this one trick.

What if Jiang Xiaolin's long-range shot doesn't work until the end of the game? Will Alkmaar just sit there and wait for death?

Therefore, Van Gaal's tactical arrangement has other back-ups.

However, now that Jiang Xiaolin and Martens have just completed the position change, let's try a few long-range shots first.

So, Jiang Xiaolin retreated outside the penalty area and began to move in an area about 30 meters away from the goal.

Although there are also Nijmegen's midfielders and frontcourt players assisting in defense here, the area is too large after all, and the number of people is much less than in the penalty area.

Moreover, the defensive ability of these frontcourt players is much weaker than that of the defenders, and the defensive pressure on Jiang Xiaolin is much smaller.

For example, it is much easier for Jiang Xiaolin to use the same fried meatballs to break through Nijmegen's frontcourt players than to break through the backcourt players.

So, not long after retreating outside the penalty area, Jiang Xiaolin received a pass from the full-back Yarence.

Jiang Xiaolin just made a simple dunk, and even did not use the fried meatballs, and broke through the traitor Lens who rushed up to interfere with him.

Lens wanted to reach out and pull Jiang Xiaolin, but Jiang Xiaolin was much stronger than him. Lens was dragged to the ground by Jiang Xiaolin, screamed, and rolled on the ground holding his face, pretending that Jiang Xiaolin raised his hand to hit him in the face and fouled him.

Unfortunately, the referee ignored him.

After Van Gaal's bombardment in the last game, although Van Gaal was also punished, Van Gaal will continue to coach after the three-game suspension, and it will not affect his salary.

The referee is different. He was bombarded by Van Gaal and made a lot of noise in the media, which brought a lot of face to the refereeing community and the Football Association.

On the surface, he was only suspended for a few games, but who knows whether the Football Association still trusts his ability to enforce the law and whether he will let the unlucky referee enforce the law in the Eredivisie?

If he is assigned to the second or third division, his income will be much lower.

Therefore, the referee team of this game was very cautious in enforcing the law, for fear of being caught by Van Gaal and bombarded.

Moreover, this game was at Alkmaar's home ground. Under the pressure of more than 10,000 home fans, the referee was inevitably biased towards the home field, which was also understandable.

Moreover, Jiang Xiaolin's breakthrough was clean and neat this time. Whether he raised his hand to hit Lens or not, the referee saw it clearly. He was very restrained in not judging Lens for diving.

Therefore, no one paid attention to Lens' rolling and screaming on the ground.

Jiang Xiaolin took a few steps forward with the ball and entered the 30-meter area of ​​the Nijmegen goal, where he met another striker Hem who came to interfere with his defense.

However, the moment Hemu approached him, Jiang Xiaolin made a fake move of deep-fried meatballs and broke through Hemu in an instant.

Jiang Xiaolin's full-value deep-fried meatballs were very effective against Hemu, who was not a professional defender.

After breaking through Hemu, Jiang Xiaolin was only about 27 or 28 meters away from the goal.

Davis, the midfielder of Nijmegen, wanted to rush up and defend Jiang Xiaolin, but Jiang Xiaoli would not give him the opportunity to get close.

Jiang Xiaolin flicked the ball to the right, dodged an angle, and then swung his thigh to shoot.

This was the purpose of Van Gaal's replacement of Jiang Xiaolin and Martens, so that Jiang Xiaolin could shoot from outside the penalty area.

Jiang Xiaolin kicked the ball hard, and the ball instantly left the ground and flew towards the penalty area of ​​Nijmegen.

Davis turned and jumped, trying to block the hole, but failed, the ball flew past his shoulder, then crossed the penalty area and flew to the upper left corner of the goal.

Under the nervous gaze of about 2,000 Nijmegen away fans, Jiang Xiaolin's long shot from outside the penalty area hit the post and flew out of the goal.

Although Jiang Xiaolin's ball did not score, it still made Nijmegen's players and fans sweat.

This ball was very threatening. If it was slightly more deviated from the goal by a few centimeters, it might have resulted in a goal.

Next, Nijmegen's midfielders and frontcourt players paid great attention to interfering with Jiang Xiaolin. Even the midfielder Yun Bakar moved forward to specifically guard Jiang Xiaolin to prevent him from shooting from a distance.

However, the area outside the penalty area was too large, and Jiang Xiaolin's speed, physical strength, and off-ball running were all very good.

It was really difficult to block Jiang Xiaolin's long shot.