Chapter 242

After the second half, the game seemed much duller, because the Jordanian team almost gave up attacking and completely retreated to defense.

On the Chinese side, with a 3-0 lead, the players seemed a little slack and satisfied, and lost the motivation to continue to put pressure on the Jordanian team.

After all, this is just a friendly match, not a real World Cup qualifier, and there are no major interests involved.

Anyway, there is no need to force the opponent too much since they are already leading by a large score. What if the opponent is forced too hard and gets injured, which affects the next real World Cup qualifier?

Only Jiang Xiaolin maintained the same fighting attitude as in the first half, which made the fans at the scene and in front of the TV talk about it.

"Look, everyone else is a little slack, only Jiang Xiaolin is still actively running and looking for opportunities."

"Yeah, this attitude towards the game is different."

"No wonder Jiang Xiaolin can achieve such great success in Europe. Talent aside, this attitude towards friendly matches is very different from that of domestic players."

"Unfortunately, it's useless for Jiang Xiaolin to run alone. His teammates are not active and it's difficult to create opportunities!"

Indeed, facing the dense defense of the Jordanian team, it's really difficult for Jiang Xiaolin to create any opportunities alone.

Although his dribbling and fried meatballs both have a full value of 20 points, it's still difficult for him to dribble into the penalty area and shoot under the dense defense of the opponent's backcourt.

For example, in the 54th minute, Jiang Xiaolin used fried meatballs and speed to pass two Jordanian defenders outside the penalty area, and was about to enter the penalty area and shoot, posing a threat.

Unfortunately, when passing the second player, he used a little more force, and the ball was a little too big, so the third player in the opponent's penalty area fell to the ground and shoveled the ball away to clear the siege.

Apart from individual breakthroughs, Jiang Xiaolin's teammates barely made any decent assists in the second half.

On the one hand, everyone's attitude towards the game was somewhat slack, and on the other hand, their abilities were limited.

The Chinese Super League is often ridiculed by fans as "Chinese rough", because the technical level of domestic players is not good, too rough.

When the opponent piles up people in the backcourt for intensive defense, to accurately and appropriately send the ball to Jiang Xiaolin's feet, the required skills, vision, timing grasp, etc. are very high, and it is difficult for the players of the Chinese team to reach that level.

Even if it happens occasionally, it is a blind cat meeting a dead mouse, which cannot be counted.

This made Jiang Xiaolin play a little uncomfortable and not very adaptable.

If it were in Alkmaar, even if the opponent piled everyone in the backcourt for intensive defense, teammates such as Maarten Martens and Hamdaoyi would be able to send him a few good passes.

But these teammates of the Chinese team can't do it.

This is the gap!

However, for Jiang Xiaolin, the lack of support from his national football teammates was something he had expected.

As a Chinese fan, Jiang Xiaolin knew the ability and level of his national team players.

With a three-goal lead, it was foreseeable that everyone would slack off.

But Jiang Xiaolin would not slack off.

On the one hand, he needed a good performance to get a higher system rating, and on the other hand, he hoped to use his performance to drive his teammates, so that they would not be arrogant when they won or discouraged when they lost, and would concentrate and go all out in every game, develop good game habits, and prepare for the World Cup qualifiers and even the real World Cup.

Therefore, although his teammates were not strong, and it was difficult for Jiang Xiaolin to dribble the ball into the penalty area and shoot, Jiang Xiaolin did not relax and continued to run and fight actively in the midfield, hoping to create some good opportunities and try to score goals.

However, it was really difficult for Jiang Xiaolin to display his skills in the penalty area. Even with his skills and abilities, it was difficult for him to get any opportunities in the crowded Jordanian penalty area.

Therefore, Jiang Xiaolin began to retreat frequently, squeezing the space of the front midfielder Huang Bowen.

However, there was no center forward in the penalty area to suppress the opponent, so the Jordanian team's central defenders, defensive midfielders, etc. could safely press out to defend Jiang Xiaolin, making it difficult for Jiang Xiaolin to get too good a long shot opportunity.

Even if he occasionally kicked the ball, it was difficult to pose too much threat to the goal under the interference of the opponent.

Seeing this, in the 67th minute, the executive head coach Forado finally made a substitution adjustment for the Chinese team, replacing Huang Bowen with the No. 11 center forward Han Peng.

After the adjustment, Han Peng, who was 185 cm tall, was nailed in the Jordanian team's penalty area, which could suppress the Jordanian team's central defender, so that he did not dare to boldly press out of the penalty area to defend and interfere with Jiang Xiaolin.

Jiang Xiaolin completely retreated and played the front midfielder position of Huang Bowen.

Jiang Xiaolin playedThe purpose of the midfielder was not to let him organize the attack, but to let him strengthen his long-range shooting outside the penalty area.

This substitution had a good effect.

At least Jiang Xiaolin did not need to frequently insert into the penalty area, and the Jordanian team's central defender was suppressed by Han Peng and did not dare to rush out of the penalty area to defend Jiang Xiaolin, so that Jiang Xiaolin could get more opportunities to get the ball in the frontcourt, and naturally had more opportunities to shoot.

Not long after Han Peng came on, in the 72nd minute, Jiang Xiaolin received a pass from Hao Junmin in the gap outside the penalty area, and then dunked the ball to avoid a gap, and shot a powerful long-range shot outside the penalty area about 25 meters away from the goal.

This shot was of high quality, and it can be said to be Jiang Xiaolin's most threatening shot since the second half.

The ball passed through the penalty area like an arrow from a string, and flew towards the left goal post. Judging from the angle, it was a sign that it would fly into the goal by sticking to the goal post.

However, the goalkeeper of the Jordanian team performed exceptionally well this time. He actually rushed out at the moment when Jiang Xiaolin kicked the ball, and miraculously saved Jiang Xiaolin's shot from going out of the bottom line.

The subsequent corner kick by Hao Junmin failed to reach Jiang Xiaolin's head, and was cleared by the defender of the Jordanian team out of the penalty area.

Although this wave of attack did not score a goal, it still made the fans in the stands very excited, and they kept shouting Jiang Xiaolin's name to cheer him on.

Seeing that Jiang Xiaolin's long-range shot was so threatening, the Jordanian team naturally did not dare to be careless, and there were still two or three players guarding Jiang Xiaolin at any time.

But after withdrawing from the penalty area, Jiang Xiaolin's range of activities was much larger, and with his speed and ability to run without the ball, the Jordanian players could not completely freeze Jiang Xiaolin even if they were cautious.

Even if some teammates were a little slack, Jiang Xiaolin could still create opportunities through his continuous efforts.

Besides, not everyone played passively.

A few people, like captain Zheng Zhi and National Olympic teammate Hao Junmin, are still actively fighting for the ball and trying to assist Jiang Xiaolin.