Chapter 324

This shot perfectly demonstrated Jiang Xiaolin's running position, speed and shooting skills. Although the players of Heerenveen had been doing their best to defend, the negligence just now still allowed Jiang Xiaolin to seize the opportunity and receive the pass from his teammates to shoot, and accurately sent the ball into the goal.

Jiang Xiaolin's ability is really too * and too comprehensive.

After scoring this goal, Jiang Xiaolin has scored in three consecutive games. No one is worried about whether his injury will relapse or whether he can recover to his peak state.

Such Jiang Xiaolin is already in his peak state!

Alkmaar took a 2-1 lead away from home.

This score is even more fatal to Heerenveen, because they can't even defend with all their strength.

If they continue to defend with all their strength, even if they really defend the goal, it will be meaningless, because now they are behind in the score, and even if they keep this score until the end, they will lose.

Therefore, in the next game, Heerenveen can only start to try to counterattack.

Once a counterattack is launched, someone must press forward to participate in the attack, and the formation begins to become loose. Once Alkmaar intercepts the ball and forms a counterattack, the possibility of Heerenveen losing the ball will be much greater than when they were defending with all their strength before.

Moreover, the shooting and goal-scoring ability of Heerenveen players cannot be compared with Jiang Xiaolin at all. Even if they want to counterattack, scoring is a luxury.

Sure enough, in the 42nd minute, after two or three attacks, Heerenveen was finally hit by a quick counterattack by Alkmaar.

This was a ball that David Mendes, the defensive midfielder, grabbed from the opponent's front midfielder with a flying shovel, and there was no foul.

Then, Mendes kicked the ball to the front court. Although Heerenveen had two defenders to grab the ball with Jiang Xiaolin, Jiang Xiaolin still occupied the ball landing point with his superior ability to grab the ball, and successfully headed the ball with his full physique, jumping ability, and heading ability, and accurately sent the ball to the feet of his teammate Hamdaoyi who inserted.

After completing the header pass, Jiang Xiaolin, who fell to the ground, could run without the ball and get rid of the defender and rush into the penalty area.

There were also people defending Hamdaoyi, so he did not try to pass the player to waste time, but passed the ball diagonally to the side.

Stein Schars, who was running at high speed on the side, received Hamdaoyi's pass, and with a strong dribble, he passed the Heerenveen full-back who was blocking him in front of him, and then dribbled the ball to the bottom line.

At this time, Jiang Xiaolin was about to run without the ball and rush into the Heerenveen penalty area, but there was only one Heerenveen central defender in the penalty area: everyone else was left behind.

So, after looking up at Jiang Xiaolin's running position, Schars did not continue to go to the bottom, but made a long diagonal pass about 20 meters away from the bottom line and passed the ball into the penalty area.

Schars' pass was of high quality, and the landing point was just in front of Jiang Xiaolin's running position.

Although the opponent's central defender occupied the landing point and jumped to compete for the header, Jiang Xiaolin, with his sprinting speed and better jumping ability, jumped to a higher height than the Heerenveen central defender during the sprint, then overpowered his opponent and headed the ball towards the Heerenveen goal following Schall's pass.

Although the Heerenveen central defender who was pressed under Jiang Xiaolin interfered with Jiang Xiaolin, Jiang Xiaolin's strong balance ability still allowed him to stabilize his body in the air and complete the header before he lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground.

However, it was meaningless at this time, because the ball Jiang Xiaolin headed out had already flown into the far corner of the goal.

The goalkeeper Van den Busche, who was standing in the near corner to defend, saw the angle of the header and didn't even make a save. He just turned his head and watched the ball fly into the net.

Because this was a header in the penalty area, the distance was too close, and even saving it was meaningless.

It was too late.

Therefore, Van den Busche did nothing in the end, just watched the ball go into the net.

Jiang Xiaolin helped Alkmaar take a 3-1 lead with two goals and one assist.

Such an opponent made all the players of Heerenveen feel desperate.

After Jiang Xiaolin and others celebrated for more than 20 seconds and the game resumed, the overall morale of the Heerenveen team seemed a little low. They had no idea of ​​attacking again, but honestly guarded their own penalty area and goal, and did not allow Alkmaar to get another chance to shoot and score.

After 1 minute of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle to end the first half of the game. The two sides entered the halftime break with a score of 1-3, and Alkmaar, who played away, led by two goals.

During the halftime break, Van Gaal praised the performance of the whole team.In particular, Jiang Xiaolin took the initiative to withdraw from the penalty area and frequently exchanged positions with the two wingers to cut in and shoot from the side.

Van Gaal affirmed Jiang Xiaolin's move from the team level, believing that this was a good tactic that was very suitable for Jiang Xiaolin and beneficial to the team's victory.

In the future, the team will strengthen tactical training in this regard. When Jiang Xiaolin can find an opportunity in the penalty area, he will enter the penalty area and wait for an opportunity to shoot.

If the opponent's defense in the penalty area is too tight, he will take the initiative to withdraw from the penalty area and strengthen long shots outside the penalty area. Anyway, Jiang Xiaolin's strength and shooting skills make long shots very threatening.

If the area facing the goal outside the penalty area is also heavily defended by the opponent and there is no opportunity, then Jiang Xiaolin will exchange positions with the two wingers, either break through the side to cross the ball, or break through the side to cut in and shoot, anyway, he can always find an opportunity.

If the opponent really concentrates all its strength on marking Jiang Xiaolin alone, so that he really can't find any shooting opportunities, then other parts of the opponent will definitely be left open, and Jiang Xiaolin only needs to use his equally superb passing skills to pass the ball to his teammates.

Just like the first goal he assisted Pocognoli to score.

As long as this set of tactics is practiced and used, according to Van Gaal, they will definitely win the Eredivisie championship this season!

Van Gaal's tactical analysis in the locker room during the halftime break was considered to be an affirmation of Jiang Xiaolin's approach, and also strengthened the execution of other teammates on this set of tactics.

Everyone was ready to use it vigorously in the second half and achieve a big away win.

After a fifteen-minute break, the two sides changed sides and fought again.

Perhaps it was inspired by the coach's words during the halftime break that Heerenveen launched a sudden and aggressive attack at the beginning of the second half, trying to reproduce the sneak attack results at the beginning of the first half.

However, Alkmaar was prepared this time, and naturally would not let Heerenveen succeed in the sneak attack again.

Although Alkmaar's offense is more eye-catching because of Jiang Xiaolin. However, in fact, as the top team, Alkmaar's defense is also remarkable.

Although it is not the team with the fewest goals conceded so far, the number of goals conceded can also be ranked in the top three with the least.

At least, it is much less than Heerenveen's number of goals conceded.

It is still difficult for Heerenveen to break through Alkmaar's goal except for the sudden sneak attack during the opening period.

This is the current situation. Although Heerenveen has invested a lot of players to press forward, they have never been able to break through Alkmaar's goal.

On the contrary, because the score is behind and they have to actively press forward, Heerenveen's backcourt has exposed large areas of gaps, just like a racecourse, which can be used by Jiang Xiaolin at any time.

Although Heerenveen left two central defenders and a defensive midfielder in the backcourt to defend Jiang Xiaolin and Hamdaoyi, the two full-backs only took turns to assist, and always left one behind to assist in defense, but it was still useless.

Because Alkmaar's offensive ability is much better than that of the Chinese Olympic team.

Not to mention the ability of the backcourt teammates to seize opportunities and pass the ball, Hamdaoyi's coordinated running alone can share most of Jiang Xiaolin's pressure and provide Jiang Xiaolin with more and greater counterattack opportunities.

You know, before Jiang Xiaolin joined Alkmaar, Hamdaoyi was the team's top scorer.

Does Heerenveen dare to relax its defense against Hamdaoyi and concentrate all its strength on defending Jiang Xiaolin alone?

No!

Then, the result of Jiang Xiaolin and Hamdaoyi counterattacking at the same time is that there are more counterattack possibilities, making it more difficult for the opponent to defend.

In the second half of the game, after Heerenveen pressed forward for a few minutes but did not score a goal, Alkmaar finally seized a counterattack opportunity.

This was a long shot from outside the penalty area that Heerenveen had no choice but to send the ball softly and directly into the arms of goalkeeper Romero.

Romero, who got the ball, did not throw it again to attack, because he found that it was too slow. He had not been able to pass the midfield for several times before, and the ball was lost under the opponent's pressure.

This time Romero simply kicked the ball to the front court and into Heerenveen's half.

With Jiang Xiaolin, a striker who is good at grabbing points and heading, it would be a pity not to kick the ball to the front court for Jiang Xiaolin to compete for the header.

Sure enough, Jiang Xiaolin used his keen ability to grab points to seize the position where the ball landed, and then used his strong body to firmly occupy the landing point. The two defenders of Heerenveen next to him could not push him away.

Of course, they did not dare to push too hard, as that would be a foul.

After Jiang Xiaolin occupied the landing point with his strong body, he grabbed the ball with his superior jumping and header ability.The first point was made, and the ball was passed to Hamdaoyi who was not far away.

Although Hamdaoyi was also closely guarded by a full-back of the opponent, he had no problem receiving the ball.

After unloading the ball, Hamdaoyi did not try to break through the full-back who was closely guarding him, because Jiang Xiaolin had already landed on the ground and was ready to run to the penalty area of ​​Heerenveen.

Therefore, Hamdaoyi did not turn around at all, and directly passed the ball diagonally in front of Jiang Xiaolin's running, letting Jiang Xiaolin chase.

Jiang Xiaolin did not disappoint Hamdaoyi.

After landing, Jiang Xiaolin started instantly, rushed to the front court at the fastest speed, shook off the defender around him, and rushed towards the ball passed by Hamdaoyi.

Although another Heerenveen midfielder Mika returned to defense in time and rushed to the ball passed by Hamdaoyi, ready to clear it in advance.

Even, Mika's position was still in front of Jiang Xiaolin who was delayed for a while because of the aerial ball.

But Hamdaoyi felt that Jiang Xiaolin would be faster than Mika.

Sure enough, when Mika was about to get close to the rolling ball, Jiang Xiaolin ran past him like the wind: Jiang Xiaolin completed the reversal of Mika.

As long as Jiang Xiaolin successfully countered the offside and got the ball, it would form a chance to go to the meeting alone, and Heerenveen would lose the ball.

Mika, whose face changed drastically, gritted his teeth and prepared to foul from the side and make a tactical foul to block Jiang Xiaolin's single shot.

But as soon as this idea appeared in his mind, Mika suppressed it himself.

Because Jiang Xiaolin was shoveled from behind by his opponent at the Olympics more than two months ago and broke his calf, it caused an uproar in the world football. The shoveler Gare was also banned from the world by FIFA for one year and was not allowed to participate in any football-related activities and competitions within one year, not even friendly matches.

This is a very severe punishment. Garay might not be able to play for a year and his career might be ruined.

Besides, it was the Olympic final, Garay was fighting for his country, and Argentina was only one goal behind.

After the tackle, Argentina might have scored a goal in the remaining time, tied the score, dragged the game into overtime, and completed the reversal.

But the situation Mika is facing now is obviously different.

Heerenveen is already two goals behind, what's the point of tackling Jiang Xiaolin? With Alkmaar's strength, they can crush Heerenveen without Jiang Xiaolin.

Heerenveen is unlikely to complete the reversal.

Besides, even if they reversed, what would it matter? This is not the Olympic final. Reversing skills can win the championship.

Even if they win Alkmaar in this game, it can't decide anything.

Mika himself may face condemnation from the media and fans, and may even be banned by the Football Association.

Because Jiang Xiaolin had just recovered from an injury, if Mika injured Jiang Xiaolin again, the pressure he would face would probably be greater than that of Gare.

He was too sensitive.

Jiang Xiaolin could have a one-on-one chance, since they were already two goals behind. What difference would it make if they were two or three goals behind?

After thinking this through, the idea of ​​a foul by shoveling from the side flashed through Mika's mind, but he gave it up in the end and didn't put it into practice.

He just stretched out his hand and pulled Jiang Xiaolin to pull him down.

If this succeeded, although it would be considered a foul, there would be no risk of hurting Jiang Xiaolin, and he would not become the target of public criticism.

Of course, Mika also knew that with Jiang Xiaolin's physique and balance ability, the possibility of him pulling Jiang Xiaolin down was not high.

Sure enough, although Mika's hand grabbed the corner of Jiang Xiaolin's clothes, Jiang Xiaolin broke free in an instant and then left in a cloud of dust.

Mika couldn't even stop Jiang Xiaolin by committing a foul.