God of Green

Alkmaar celebrated for almost half a minute at Roda JC's home stadium, which eventually led to crazy boos from more than 10,000 home fans. Only after the referee's intervention did they end the celebration and return to their own half, waiting for Roda JC to kick the ball in the middle circle.

The game started again.

Roda JC launched a more crazy attack.

Because they were not convinced!

They were obviously in the lead on the field, so how could they be careless and let Alkmaar break the goal with a counterattack, causing the score to fall behind?

Of course, with the lesson of losing the ball just now, they dared not press all the players again.

At least, there should be enough people in the backcourt, so that Alkmaar can't easily counterattack successfully.

But in any case, it was Roda JC who fell behind in the score. No matter how much they paid attention to defense, they had to devote most of their energy to attacking.

Because if they want to equalize and win, they must attack and score.

But they don't have a shooter like Jiang Xiaolin who is so skilled in shooting that he can shoot wherever he points.

Of course, not only Roda JC doesn't have it, but any team except Alkmaar doesn't have it.

Jiang Xiaolin's full-value shooting skills are unique in the world. Except for Jiang Xiaolin who can use the system plug-in to add 20 points to the full value, no one can reach the full value of 20 by relying on the players' own training and competition improvement. There are always flaws.

Therefore, although Roda JC's offense can also create some shooting opportunities, there is no guarantee for scoring goals, and it feels like a lucky break.

Only when the forward shoots well, with good power and angle, can it score a goal.

But obviously, Roda JC's luck today is not very good.

The game has been going on for more than 20 minutes, and their forwards have not made any threatening shots.

Of course, the midfielders have not made any.

For more than 20 minutes, Roda JC has only had one shot that hit the goal frame, and it was soft and weak, and was easily confiscated by Romero.

If the quality is not enough, you can only make up for it with quantity.

According to the rules of football statistics, when the number of shots reaches a certain number, a goal will definitely be scored.

If one shot doesn't work, then two shots, if two shots don't work, then three shots, if three shots don't work, then ten shots, if ten shots don't work, then twenty shots...

As long as you keep attacking and shooting, you will always score.

This simple truth is the reason why Roda JC never gives up and keeps pressing forward.

They believe that hard work will always pay off.

The longer they can't score, the more anxious they are, and the more they want to invest more manpower to strengthen the attack.

As a result, although they have more players left in the backcourt than when they lost the first goal, they are not enough to defend the huge space in the backcourt tightly.

Jiang Xiaolin's full-value off-ball running ability means that he can run out of space even in dense defense, not to mention the huge space left after the opponent actively presses forward to attack.

As long as Alkmaar can counterattack, it will be a huge threat.

Because it was a counterattack, the opponent's defense was not enough, and there was no one to block the loophole. As long as Jiang Xiaolin touched the ball, he could basically make a shot.

In the 19th minute, Alkmaar intercepted the ball and launched a counterattack, but this time Roda JC returned to defense very quickly.

In the end, the ball was not headed by Jiang Xiaolin when it was passed into the penalty area, but was blocked by central defender Hinton and headed out of the penalty area to relieve the nervous Roda JC fans in the stands.

This made Roda JC think that their defense was fine and continued to maintain high-pressure attack in the frontcourt.

But they lacked a little luck and had not made any threatening shots, let alone scored.

Jiang Xiaolin's strength is real. Although scoring a goal still requires a certain amount of luck, Jiang Xiaolin's reliance on luck is not as great as Roda JC.

In the 28th minute, midfielder Lux successfully intercepted the ball in the backcourt, and then kicked the ball directly to the frontcourt without waiting for the opponent to counter-grab.

Counterattacks should be so simple and direct.

Jiang Xiaolin, before Lux had stolen the ball, began to move closer to Roda JC's back line, preparing for Lux's long pass after the steal.

The moment he saw Lux successfully steal the ball, Jiang Xiaolin immediately turned and rushed towards Roda JC's penalty area.

Jiang Xiaolin's counter-offside was premeditated, and Roda JC's back line reacted a step slower than him.

When Lux passed the ball with a long foot, Jiang Xiaolin just rushed past Roda JC's back line, and the referee did not blow the whistle, and the counter-offside was successful.

Because Jiang Xiaolin was sprinting towards the opponent's penalty area, while Roda JC's back was facing the Alkmaar goal, there was a process of turning and chasing back when returning to defense.Jiang Xiaolin himself has a full acceleration of 20, which makes Jiang Xiaolin's acceleration in the starting phase invincible.

Sankai and Hinton were a beat slower. When they reacted, turned around and started to chase back, Jiang Xiaolin had already rushed out three or four meters away from them.

And the distance was getting farther and farther.

Jiang Xiaolin was almost in a single shot.

However, this ball was a bit difficult for Jiang Xiaolin to handle.

Because Jiang Xiaolin was not facing the ball, but in the same direction as the ball. He was rushing forward, and the ball was also flying forward in the air.

How to unload the ball steadily and control it under his feet, and continue to dribble forward, and finally break into the penalty area to form a shot, is a big problem.

Van Gaal, Juncker, Alfred and others all clenched their fists on the sidelines, hoping that Jiang Xiaolin could perform beyond his normal performance and handle this ball well.

They only felt that Jiang Xiaolin's ball-stopping skills had improved significantly recently, and were incomparable to those during the trial training, but they didn't know that Jiang Xiaolin had already increased his ball-stopping skills to 19 points, close to the maximum value, before the game started.

Anyway, they were very distressed, and felt that it would be very difficult to stop this high-altitude long-foot pass flying in the same direction, and even the top strikers in the five major leagues might not be able to stop it well.

Even if Jiang Xiaolin managed to stop, it might delay time, and then he would be caught up by Sankai and Hinton, and he would not be able to form a single shot.

In addition to the difficulty of stopping the ball at the end, Jiang Xiaolin had to occasionally look up at the ball while running, observe the flight path of the ball, and then adjust his running route: Lux's long-footed aerial pass could not be accurate enough to be exactly on the path Jiang Xiaolin was moving in a straight line.

In this way, although Jiang Xiaolin was faster than Sankai and Hinton, he had to look back to observe the ball path in the air and adjust his pace and route, which affected his speed. The distance between him and Sankai and Hinton did not continue to increase, but remained at a distance of about five meters. Both sides sprinted towards the penalty area of ​​Roda JC at the same time.

At this distance, if Jiang Xiaolin paused for a second when stopping the ball, he would be caught up and entangled.

Therefore, Van Gaal and others were very nervous, fearing that they would miss the opportunity.