God of Green

The fact that he was only one goal away from catching up with Coen Dillon's record was the focus of everyone's attention.

With Jiang Xiaolin's goal-scoring efficiency, he will most likely tie or even surpass Coen Dillon's 43-goal single-season Eredivisie goal record in this match against Heracles.

Therefore, in an away game that usually only has one or two thousand or even hundreds of away fans, today Alkmaar brought about 4,000 away fans, almost half of the fans of Heracles.

In fact, these fans can travel with the team to away games, and their craziness is not inferior to that of the home fans of Heracles, and even more so.

Therefore, in the warm-up cheering before the start of the game, Alkmaar's 4,000 away fans created a momentum that was no less than that of the 8,000 fans of Heracles.

It gave the players of Alkmaar the illusion of playing at home.

In this atmosphere, not only Jiang Xiaolin, who was determined to break the record, but also other players of Alkmaar were full of fighting spirit, and they couldn't wait for the game to start and have a big fight.

In addition to the fans on the scene, the Dutch National Television also selected this game as the live broadcast of this round, and broadcast it to the whole country.

As for the sports channel of China National Television, which has already purchased the live broadcast rights of the Dutch League, it is naturally the first choice. As long as there is a game of Jiang Xiaolin, unless there is an irresistible event, China National Television Sports Channel will broadcast it live.

In addition to the Netherlands and China, there are different numbers of TV stations or online live broadcast platforms in Europe, Asia, America, Oceania, etc. that broadcast live.

It may not be the most important channel, but if there are fans of Jiang Xiaolin or viewers of the Dutch League who want to watch this game, they can still find a way to watch it.

This is the highest ratings of the Dutch League so far this season. Even the strong dialogue between Alkmaar and Ajax cannot compare with the global ratings of this game.

On the one hand, with Jiang Xiaolin's outstanding performance on all fronts, he has more and more fans around the world.

On the other hand, the attraction of Jiang Xiaolin's potential to break the Eredivisie single-season goal record has made many platforms that do not usually broadcast the Eredivisie broadcast it live.

You know, Cohen Dillon's 43-goal Eredivisie goal record was set in the 1956/1957 season, which has been dusted for half a century and more than a year.

If Jiang Xiaolin can break this record, it will undoubtedly be a groundbreaking feat.

Even if the Eredivisie is not one of the top five leagues, as the star factory of world football and the birthplace of all-out attack and defense, its popularity is still not low.

Therefore, the news that Jiang Xiaolin may set a new record has attracted so many TV and online video live broadcast platforms from all over the world to broadcast it.

If Jiang Xiaolin can really score in this game, tie or even break Cohen Dillon's 43-goal record, Jiang Xiaolin's popularity and fame will undoubtedly usher in a surge.

Of course, as an opponent, Heracles naturally did not want to be a stepping stone for Jiang Xiaolin to become famous all over the world.

Before the game, they shouted the slogan of completely freezing Jiang Xiaolin and not letting him score.

Moreover, they did what they said.

In the starting lineup announced before the game, Heracles sent out the ultimate defensive formation of 541.

If 352 is a crazy attack formation, then 541 is a clear bus-style defensive formation.

Moreover, among the four people standing in parallel in the midfield, Heracles still sent defensive players.

The two people in the middle are defensive midfielders, and the forwards on both sides are defensive forwards.

Only the center forward at the front is their top scorer, No. 9 center forward Schulmecida.

It is estimated that Schulmecida's role is not to score, but just to be in the front to involve Alkmaar's back line, so that they dare not press forward to assist.

When the starting lineup of Heracles came out, the media and fans were already in an uproar.

Obviously, Heracles, who played at home, didn't care about their face in order to stop Jiang Xiaolin and avoid becoming the background board of Jiang Xiaolin's record. In the all-out attack and defense environment of the Dutch League and witnessed by the home fans, they shamelessly thought of setting up a bus defense.

This is also the reason why the 8,000 Heracles home fans failed to suppress the 4,000 Alkmaar away fans during the pre-match warm-up.

Because the home team's formation doesn't look like they want to win.

If it weren't for watching the top team and Jiang Xiaolin and other star players, these Heracles fans would not come to the scene to be abused!

Everyone is almost certain that Heracles will lose this game.It was just a matter of how many goals they would lose, and whether they could successfully freeze Jiang Xiaolin and prevent him from scoring.

At 19:45 on the evening of February 21, 2009, with the anticipation of countless fans at the scene and in front of TVs around the world, the 24th round of the 2008/2009 Dutch Eredivisie match between Heracles and Alkmaar officially began with the referee's whistle.

As everyone saw and analyzed before the game, although Heracles got the kick-off right, they didn't even have a tentative attack, but passed the ball back to the backcourt and all the way to the goalkeeper's feet.

Even some of Heracles' home fans shook their heads and couldn't bear to watch.

How could the party that got the kick-off right just after the start pass all the way back to the goalkeeper's feet, without even the courage to make a tentative attack?

Is this still the Dutch team that claims to be all-out attack and all-defense?

Fortunately, the game had just started, and everyone knew the strength comparison between the two sides, so the Heracles fans didn't boo the home team.

Then, when Jiang Xiaolin, Hamdaoyi and other Alkmaar players pressed forward, the players of Heracles began to pass the ball forward.

Moreover, when the ball was passed to the wing and faced with the pressing of Alkmaar's midfielders, the player holding the ball kicked the ball to the front court with a clean and neat kick, not even wanting the ball, which made some reporters and commentators shake their heads.

It seems that Heracles is really determined to stop Jiang Xiaolin in this game. From the beginning of the game, there was no desire to counterattack and score goals!

Sure enough, after the ball changed hands, except for the center forward Schulmecida wandering in the midfield near the midline, involving Alkmaar's back line, all other players of Heracles returned to the 30-meter range around the goal in the penalty area, defending the penalty area and the goal like an iron barrel.

The key is that these starting players of Heracles are all professional defenders, not the type of pure frontcourt offensive players who defend with their eyes after returning to the backcourt.

In terms of defense, both their individual defensive ability and team cooperation ability are much stronger than the bus defenders that Alkmaar had encountered before.

Even their goal is not to stop Alkmaar from scoring, but only to stop Jiang Xiaolin from scoring.

In this way, Heracles' defensive goal will be much clearer.

Not to mention the dangerous areas inside and outside the penalty area, as long as Jiang Xiaolin dares to run in, there will be at least three or four defensive players around him to double-team him!

As long as he gets the ball, he will be pulled and collided by the opponent's players in the next second, and then there will be others waiting for the opportunity to fly and poke the ball.

The action is not big, but the double-teaming of three or four people is enough to make Jiang Xiaolin helpless.

Even if he is the king of football, I am afraid he will be helpless in the face of this situation, let alone he is not.

What's more hateful is that even the goalkeeper is always watching him, and will not be easily touched by the possession of the ball at the feet of other Alkmaar players. Anyway, he is wholeheartedly preventing Jiang Xiaolin's shot.

In this case, even if Jiang Xiaolin occasionally gets a chance to shoot in the dangerous area with his strong physique, speed, and ability to grab points and run without the ball, he will not be able to score because the goalkeeper's attention is on him and he will make a save in the first time.

In the 17th minute, after Jiang Xiaolin attracted the attention of most of the Heracles defense, Hamdaoyi got a chance to shoot on the right side of the penalty area without anyone defending.

Unfortunately, with the goalkeeper staring at Jiang Xiaolin and not even making a save, Hamdaoyi's shot hit the post and bounced back into the penalty area.

This sudden rebound ball gave Jiang Xiaolin the opportunity. With his super speed, ability to grab points, and ability to run without the ball, he rushed to the front of the landing point and shot before everyone else, trying to poke the ball into the goal.

Of course, because there were so many people staring at him, Jiang Xiaolin rushed the follow-up shot in order to save time. He just poked the ball out with one kick, and there was no time to control the angle with his full shooting skills.

So, when he was less than 5 meters away from the goal, Jiang Xiaolin's close follow-up shot was blocked by goalkeeper Martin Pickenhagen's subconscious sitting save with his toes.

The blocked ball was kicked out of the sideline by the defender of Heracles.

It seemed that Alkmaar's attack was threatening, but after completing the attack, the players and fans of Heracles celebrated.

The fans in the stands applauded and cheered for Martin Pickenhagen's wonderful save, and the Heracles players on the field also went to the goal line to high-five Pickenhagen to celebrate that he blocked Jiang Xiaolin's close follow-up shot.Shooting is a chance to score.

On the other hand, although Hamdaoyi and Jiang Xiaolin completed threatening shots in succession, they still failed to score, which was a pity.

Especially for those fans who watched this game for the sole purpose of watching Jiang Xiaolin tie and break the record, they immediately beat their chests and wanted to go on the court to kill Martin Pickenhagen.

For them, Martin Pickenhagen's wonderful save was blocking history and blocking the new record of the Eredivisie, and he was an unforgivable sinner.

Of course, the fans' resentment could not change anything. All the players on the field, including Jiang Xiaolin, did not even know that this game attracted so many TV broadcasts and fans around the world.

The game continued.

When Heracles defended Jiang Xiaolin with all their strength, although they put up a barrel-like bus defense, other Alkmaar players still occasionally got the opportunity to shoot, just like Hamdaoyi's shot just now.

After besieging Heracles for half an hour, in the 32nd minute, Alkmaar finally used a wonderful cooperation of the frontcourt players except Jiang Xiaolin to pass the ball into the penalty area, and then Hamdaoyi made a wonderful pass with his heel, and Moussa Dembele, who cut into the penalty area from the side, appeared in front of the ball at the right time, and shot the ball into the dead corner of the goal from the crowded penalty area.

Although there were many people in the penalty area, it was lucky that no one touched the ball with this shot.

Alkmaar finally took the lead 1-0 away from home with Moussa Dembele's goal.

But the players of Heracles were indifferent, without any frustration, as if they were not the ones who lost the ball and fell behind.

It seems that the head coach had prepared them for the loss of this game before the game.

After all, facing the top team Alkmaar led by Jiang Xiaolin, it is extremely difficult for Heracles, which ranks in the middle and lower reaches, to ensure that they will not lose even if they play at home.

Moreover, they have to do their best to defend Jiang Xiaolin and block Jiang Xiaolin, so as not to let them become the background wall for Jiang Xiaolin to tie or break the record.

In this case, the defense will definitely overlook other players of Alkmaar.

As the top team under Van Gaal, Alkmaar not only has Jiang Xiaolin, but other players are also in excellent form and on-the-spot performance this season.

Otherwise, they would not have been ranked at the top of the standings before Jiang Xiaolin returned at the beginning of the season.

Therefore, as long as Jiang Xiaolin is successfully frozen, it doesn't matter if other players of Alkmaar score goals or even lose in the end.

They played the game with an extremely firm belief, and Moussa Dembele's goal did not shake their confidence at all.

Therefore, in the next game, Heracles continued to defend with a bus and concentrated all its energy on defending and intercepting Jiang Xiaolin, which made Jiang Xiaolin* fall into the quagmire of attack.

Even if he took the initiative to retreat, withdraw from the penalty area, withdraw 30 meters away, or even switch to the wing, he would still face at least two opponent players' close defense.

Even if he retreated to the midfield, the opponent's No. 9 striker Shulmesida, who was at the front, would cooperate with a midfielder to interfere with his defense.

Anyway, he was not allowed to get the ball and break through comfortably.

Unless he retreated to the midline and returned to his own half!

But what's the point of that?

He couldn't make a lob shot when the opponent's goalkeeper was very focused and didn't attack outside the small penalty area. It would be a waste of opportunity.

Once he entered Heracles' half, he would be closely guarded and had no chance to break through and shoot to score a goal.

Even a long shot from 30 meters away was impossible.