Chapter 230

When the time entered the stoppage time, Nijmegen's players and fans were in high spirits, while many of Alkmaar's players and fans began to express disappointment.

It was really that Nijmegen's bus defense was too difficult to break through.

The ball that Jiang Xiaolin assisted Martens with before can be said to be a classic work of teamwork, which is difficult for Alkmaar to replicate.

And Nijmegen also paid attention to this aspect of defense. No matter who entered the penalty area, they would be strictly guarded and would not be negligent.

In this case, with 3 minutes of stoppage time, most people had no confidence that they could break through Nijmegen's tortoise shell.

Only a few players such as Jiang Xiaolin, Hamdaoyi, Martens, and Yarions were still attacking unremittingly.

As time passed, the game had come to the last minute, and even the referee was frequently looking at the watch, and it was estimated that he would blow the whistle to end the game at any time.

The commentators in the commentary booth were also commenting that Nijmegen would win the UEFA Cup play-off final. Although Alkmaar won the game, they would still lose the two-round final with a total score of 3-4.

Moreover, it was a very unfair loss to the referee.

If Alkmaar had not been misjudged twice in a row by the referee in the first round, Alkmaar would at least have a draw in the first round.

Then if they won the second round at home, Alkmaar would have won the entire final and successfully qualified for the UEFA Cup next season.

Some commentators and guests have even said that "the game is basically over, and the winner is Nijmegen".

As a result, just when everyone thought that the game was about to end and Alkmaar was about to be eliminated, Alkmaar launched almost the last attack.

The biggest contributor to this attack was not the striker, nor the front midfielder or the forward, but the central defender, Hector Moreno.

In the last game, he gave the opponent a penalty because of the referee's misjudgment.

Although the main reason for the penalty was the opponent's diving and the referee's misjudgment, Moreno was also a little stressed.

Therefore, he was very active in normal games, and Nijmegen's limited counterattacks failed to break through his defense line, which was considered to be the defensive guarantee for Alkmaar to maintain high-pressure offense in this game.

I thought his performance today was qualified.

Unexpectedly, he chose to rush to the front court at the last moment of the game and made great contributions.

This time, Stein Schars took the ball on the wing and wanted to find a player to respond in the middle, but Martens and Hamdaoyi in the middle, and even Jiang Xiaolin who withdrew from the penalty area, were closely watched by Nijmegen's defensive players.

There are always people watching these dangerous elements closely.

But Hector Moreno, who quietly moved forward from the back line of the last row, has not attracted anyone's attention for the time being.

Because Nijmegen could not arrange a special person to defend Alkmaar's central defender.

Other defensive players have mission targets that need to be defended, and a super striker like Jiang Xiaolin even needs two people to defend him closely, and someone needs to assist him next to him.

Therefore, Hector Moreno's back-up was not noticed for a while.

As a result, at the moment when Schals made a cross from the wing, Hector Moreno, as a central defender, not only crossed the center line and rushed to the front court, but also drove straight into Nijmegen's penalty area.

Jiang Xiaolin was originally going to grab the ball from Schals' cross, but there were too many people around him.

Then, Jiang Xiaolin found Moreno's back-up.

As a central defender, Moreno's header technique is also very good. Otherwise, he cannot protect his own goal in the penalty area.

Jiang Xiaolin, who was tightly surrounded by two or three opposing players, chose to move to the side, taking away two Nijmegen defenders, and freeing up space in the middle of the penalty area for Hector Moreno.

Then, Moreno rushed into the penalty area smoothly without being marked, jumped high near the penalty spot, and headed the football before Nijmegen's No. 24 center back Elabi, and smashed the ball into the goal.

After Jiang Xiaolin took away the two defenders, Elabi thought that the ball would definitely be cleared by his head.

Unexpectedly, Alkmaar's center back Hector Moreno actually rushed up in the mobile battle and ran into Nijmegen's penalty area.

After Elabi saw Moreno, he wanted to move forward to grab the ball, but it was too late.

Moreno jumped in front of him and headed the ball to the goal, and then the two collided with each other and fell together in the penalty area.

But at this time, naturally no one cared about the situation of the two of them. Everyone was more concerned aboutIt was Moreno's header. Could it fly into Nijmegen's goal?

When seeing Moreno, the central defender of Alkmaar, suddenly appear in Nijmegen's penalty area, grab the first point of the ball from Schals's cross, and head the ball into the goal before Elabi, many Nijmegen fans couldn't help but scream in fear.

Moreno's header was powerful and threatening because of the potential energy that followed his rush from outside the penalty area.

Unfortunately, although Elabi failed to grab the ball, he still interfered with Moreno's header at the moment of collision with Moreno, causing Moreno's header to be slightly correct.

And goalkeeper Babos happened to be standing in the middle of the goal.

As a result, Moreno's ball failed to break through goalkeeper Babos's ten fingers and fly into Nijmegen's goal.

Although Moreno's ball was very powerful and fast, Babos, who was standing on the goal line, subconsciously jumped up and reached out to touch the ball.

However, Moreno's ball was too powerful and too fast. Although Babos touched the ball with his first reaction, he was unable to completely lift the ball over the crossbar.

The ball bounced on Babos' palm and changed its line upward, but hit the crossbar with a bang, and did not fly out of the bottom line, but bounced back into the penalty area.

Moreno's header still failed to score.

However, just when some nervous Nijmegen fans breathed a sigh of relief and thought that the danger was over, Jiang Xiaolin, who had just led two Nijmegen defenders to the side, shook off the defensive players and appeared like a ghost before the ball landed in the penalty area.

This was due to Jiang Xiaolin's full ability to grab points and run without the ball.

These two abilities would not allow Jiang Xiaolin to judge whether Moreno's header could go in, nor would they allow him to judge whether Babos could save the ball.

However, these two abilities allow him to intuitively judge the most likely landing area if the ball cannot go in and Babos does not hold the ball completely in his arms and hits the crossbar and bounces back to the penalty area.

This area is naturally not 100% accurate, otherwise Jiang Xiaolin would definitely score more than two goals in a game. He just intuitively ran to the area with the highest probability among all possible landing points.

As a result, after his bad luck in the last game led to an own goal and another goal was blown, the goddess of luck favored Jiang Xiaolin in the last second of this game.

When Jiang Xiaolin changed direction to shake off the defender and ran to the landing area, the ball bounced back by Babosto on the crossbar fell right in front of him.

Jiang Xiaolin almost didn't need to make any adjustments, and he lightly kicked the ball to the goal.

Goalkeeper Babos had lost his balance and fell to the ground because of saving Moreno's close-range header. Jiang Xiaolin was facing a huge empty goal.

This situation was not surprising for Jiang Xiaolin's full-value shooting skills.

Although the ball was not fast, it flew over Babos' body and flew into Nijmegen's goal.

At the last moment of the game, Jiang Xiaolin, with his full-value ability to grab points and run without the ball, predicted the landing point of Babos's ball before everyone reacted, and kicked the ball into the empty goal with a light kick.

Alkmaar took a 2-0 lead in this game, and the total score became 4-4.

If the game ends with this score, then Alkmaar will eliminate Nijmegen with the advantage of more away goals when the total score is tied, and win the final victory of this season's Eredivisie UEFA Cup play-off final, and get the qualification for the UEFA Cup next season.

Therefore, when seeing Moreno's header being hit by Babos and bounced back into the penalty area, many of the more than 10,000 home fans at the AFAS Stadium couldn't help but sigh.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Xiaolin appeared at the landing point the next second, and kicked the ball back to Nijmegen's goal with a light kick.

At this time, Babos was still lying on the ground, and naturally he could do nothing about Jiang Xiaolin's shot.

So, all the fans inside and outside the AFAS football stadium went crazy.

Countless people cheered and screamed unconsciously.

The commentators in the commentary booth also stood up excitedly, holding the microphone and shouting excitedly:

"Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooal..."

"The ball is in! The ball is in!"

"Jiang scored again!"

"A lore goal, Jiang scored a real lore goal!"

"The game is about to end, and the referee has been looking at the clock frequently. I didn't expect Jiang to score at such a moment."

"The last-second goal was crazy!"

"Jiang is really amazing!"

"And this is a goal worth a thousand gold!"

"This is Jiang's goal at the last minute of the game."

"Jiang's shot saved Alkmaar and sent Alkmaar into the League Cup next season."

"Nijmegen was more tragic. They kept their lead until the last minute. Seeing that victory was about to be won, Jiang's shot sent them into the abyss of hell."