God of Green

Although Jiang Xiaolin only scored one goal and one assist in this league, which seems to be a little worse than his previous hat tricks, Jiang Xiaolin was still widely praised by media from all over the world after the game.

Because even if he only scored one goal, he is still constantly setting new Eredivisie records.

"Jiang Xiaolin continues to break the Eredivisie record with 45 goals in a single season."

"In the 25th round of the Eredivisie, Jiang Xiaolin continued to score goals and broke the Eredivisie single-season goal record."

"Not only scoring, Jiang Xiaolin broke the Eredivisie single-season goal record he just created in the last round of the league with 45 goals."

This is the title given by media from all over the world when reporting on Jiang Xiaolin's game.

In the past, the popularity of the Eredivisie itself was not as good as the five major leagues and the Champions League. If Jiang Xiaolin only scored one goal, he would hardly get any coverage opportunities except for the media in the Netherlands and China.

But now, Jiang Xiaolin is already a well-known star that is extremely concerned by media and fans from all over the world. Even if he only scores one goal in a game, and it is only in the Dutch Eredivisie, it is worth reporting by the media.

Just like stars like Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, and Beckham, even if they go to Brazil and the United States, their goals will be paid attention to and reported by international media.

This is the different treatment between big stars and ordinary players.

After Jiang Xiaolin set the single-season goal record in the Dutch Eredivisie, he also began to transform into a world-class star. Even if he only scored one goal in a game, he would be reported by media from all over the world.

In the future, when Jiang Xiaolin becomes more famous, even if he did not score a goal, but just made a wonderful pass or a wonderful pass, he might be reported by the media.

This is the completely different treatment of big stars.

So why many world-class stars, although they are old and their competitive state has declined, can still get high salaries to retire in some local tycoon teams, because they have such fame and such appeal, and can bring attention and reports to their parent teams.

Jiang Xiaolin is now enjoying this treatment.

After this league match, there are still five days before the next Dutch Cup match, so Van Gaal gave everyone a rare holiday the next day, allowing the players to take a break and relax their tense nerves since the second half of the season.

On March 2, the team resumed daily training and began to prepare for the fourth round of the Dutch Cup.

Three days later, at 20:45 on the evening of March 5, 2009, with the referee's whistle, the fourth round of the 2008/2009 Dutch FA Cup quarter-final Alkmaar VS Breda officially started at Alkmaar's home AFAS Stadium.

Alkmaar played all its main players in this match, and Van Gaal wanted to advance to the semi-finals.

Because there are more leading advantages in the league, and the cup has entered the quarter-finals, it is false to say that Van Gaal does not want to win the championship.

Because the cup is a one-game winner, the quarter-finals will be the semi-finals, and the semi-finals will be the finals.

In other words, Alkmaar is now only three games away from the championship.

As long as they win all three games, Alkmaar will be the champion of the Dutch Cup, and even the number of games required is less than that of the league.

Moreover, the league is 11 points ahead of the second place, and there is at least 3 games of margin for error.

Therefore, Alkmaar will naturally play all its main players in this game, hoping to defeat its opponent in one fell swoop.

On the other hand, Alkmaar's opponent Breda did not take the initiative to admit defeat just because it was an away game and Alkmaar played all its main players.

For them, they have already entered the quarterfinals, and they are also only three games away from the championship.

Therefore, even if they know that they have little chance of advancing away from home against Alkmaar, who played all its main players, they still have to fight.

Breda also played all its main players and wanted to compete with Alkmaar at the AFAS Stadium.

Since it is so important to both players and coaches, Jiang Xiaolin, who is determined to complete the task of the small triple crown and is determined to transfer away in the summer, must win this game 100%.

In order to ensure safety, Jiang Xiaolin also checked Alkmaar's overall on-the-spot status before the game.

He thought that once the on-the-spot status was lower than 80%, he would at least use 10 attribute points to increase it to more than 80%.

In order to win and advance, and complete the final small triple crown mission, even if the attribute points are wasted, it is worth it.

Fortunately, perhaps because of the day's rest before, and Van Gaal's belief that he must win and advance, Alkmaar's overall on-the-spot status in this game was very good, reaching 88%.

This is relativelyWhen the team was in good on-the-spot state, it was much better than Jiang Xiaolin expected.

Therefore, Jiang Xiaolin did not use attribute points to improve the team's overall on-the-spot state.

He felt that with the team playing at home, all the main players out, and an overall on-the-spot state of 88%, there should be no problem in winning this game.

Sure enough, Jiang Xiaolin's confident judgment was not wrong.

Although Breda also wanted to win and sent all the main players to play, the gap between Alkmaar, the first in the Eredivisie, and Alkmaar, the seventh in the Eredivisie, was still a bit big.

What's more, Alkmaar was playing at home and all the main players were out.

In the 12th minute, Alkmaar took advantage of the opportunity when Breda's defensive players focused their attention on Jiang Xiaolin, and Maarten Martens, who started again, assisted Hamdaoyi to score the first goal.

Amid the cheers of more than 10,000 fans at home, the faces of Breda players and coaches who wanted to compete with Alkmaar had sunk.

Facing Alkmaar, as long as the score fell behind, they were almost dead.

Because they had to attack, they had to invest manpower, and then they would inevitably be counterattacked by Jiang Xiaolin.

Sure enough, when Breda had to forcefully attack and try to equalize the score, they had not scored a goal yet, but Alkmaar quickly scored the second goal.

It was Jiang Xiaolin who scored the goal.

The way to score was also a defensive counterattack.

In the 30th minute, Breda's attack was intercepted after hitting the front court, and then Hector Moreno, who had the ball, passed the ball to Stein Schars.

At this time, Jiang Xiaolin had already started to rush into the opponent's half.

Schars did not hesitate, and passed the ball into Breda's half with a wonderful long pass.

And Jiang Xiaolin also successfully used his body and speed to force overtaking and counter-offside successfully, and received Stein Schars's pass in Breda's half, forming a single knife meeting.

Jiang Xiaolin's single knife rarely missed.

Although there were two central defenders of Breda desperately trying to defend behind them, they could not catch up with Jiang Xiaolin who was running with the ball even if they ran without the ball.

At the front of the penalty area, facing the attacking Breda goalkeeper Lu Huana, Jiang Xiaolin easily lobbed the ball over the goalkeeper's head, drew a parabola in the air, and accurately fell into Breda's goal.

Jiang Xiaolin scored the second goal for Alkmaar, and Alkmaar led 2-0 at home.

The cheers of Alkmaar fans in the stands were even louder.

Everyone can almost be sure that Alkmaar will definitely beat Breda and enter the semi-finals of the Dutch Cup.

However, although Breda's players are a little frustrated, they have not given up completely.

They are still holding on.

What supports their belief is that there are many examples of reversing the situation after falling behind by two goals in world football.

Although the chances are slim, this is just a decisive game anyway. As long as the reversal is successful, they can advance to the semi-finals.

Therefore, after Jiang Xiaolin scored the second goal for Alkmaar, Breda's players did not give up, and continued to strengthen their offense, trying to score goals to narrow the score gap, or even equalize or reverse the score.

However, in the process of attacking, they paid more attention to guarding against Jiang Xiaolin. The running range of the midfielders and backfielders was larger and more active, sprinting back and forth, not only to assist forward, but also to prevent Jiang Xiaolin's counterattack.

In such a strong attack, they actually scored a goal to get back one point.

In the 38th minute, Breda's front midfielder Jonas passed David Mendes in the frontcourt with a stunning bicycle kick, and then when facing the central defender Ragnar Klavan who was rushing up, he dodged the angle in time and sent a wonderful pass to the empty space in the penalty area.

At this time, Breda's striker Isantosciel made a very exquisite and perfect run, and just got into the gap to receive Jonas's wonderful pass, and shot in time before Alkmaar's defender flew to block the shot.

And Isantosciel's shot was of very high quality, going straight to the lower right corner of the goal.

This time Sergio Romero finally failed to save the ball, and the ball went into Alkmaar's goal along the post.

Breda scored one point, and the score between the two sides became 2-1, and the gap was narrowed to one goal.

This goal boosted the morale of Breda players and fans, and seemed to see the hope of a reversal.

However, there was too little time left for both sides in the first half.

After 1 minute of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle to end the first half. The two sides entered the halftime break with a score of 2-1. Alkmaar, playing at home, temporarily led by one goal..

After a 15-minute break, the two sides changed sides and continued to fight.

At the beginning of the second half, Breda used the kick-off right to continue to launch a strong attack on Alkmaar, seemingly trying to catch Alkmaar off guard.

But the experienced Van Gaal had expected it, and reminded his players during the halftime break that they must pay attention to the opponent's attack at the beginning of the second half.

Therefore, although Breda's attack looked powerful, it did not achieve any effect, and was almost counterattacked by Alkmaar.

In the 54th minute, Jiang Xiaolin got another chance to receive the ball and counterattack.

However, this time Jiang Xiaolin failed to get rid of the opponent's defender who returned to defense in time to form a single knife, and was finally disturbed when shooting, and the ball flew out of the crossbar.

In the back and forth between the two sides, Alkmaar has always been stronger.

Breda has to attack and guard against Jiang Xiaolin's counterattack, so it is inevitable that the defense of other players of Alkmaar will be looser.

So, in the 65th minute, Jiang Xiaolin deliberately delayed the time when dribbling the ball in the front court, attracting three players from Breda to surround and snatch it.

As a result, Jiang Xiaolin passed the ball before the encirclement was formed, and sent it to the feet of the front midfielder Maarten Martens.

Since Breda had three players to double-team and defend Jiang Xiaolin, naturally other Alkmaar players were in the gap.

Maarten Martens promptly sent the ball to the feet of Stein Schals who came in from the wing.

Schals inserted from the right side, received the pass from Martens, and instantly passed a defender who rushed over from the side with a dunk, and then successfully entered the penalty area and made a shot.

Jiang Xiaolin's attraction and distribution, Martens's pass, Schals's inside cut, etc., have torn open Breda's defense line and made it completely chaotic.

Everyone could no longer calmly defend the dangerous enemies in their respective areas. The two defenders closest to Schals' shooting route in the penalty area flew over to block the gun hole without thinking.

Goalkeeper Lu Huana also rushed to the near corner without hesitation, ready to block Schals' shot.

As a result, who would have thought that Schals, who had already entered the penalty area, actually refrained from shooting this time, but changed his shot into a pass the moment his foot landed, and passed the ball horizontally to the penalty spot in the middle of the penalty area.

At this time, because of a series of actions by Jiang Xiaolin, Martens, Schals and others from Alkmaar, Breda, whether it was a defender or a goalkeeper, had completely lost their positions, the defense system was in disarray, and the position of the penalty spot in the middle was completely empty.

Otherwise, Schals would not have passed the ball there.

He just saw the huge gap there, and his teammates could get a better shooting opportunity than him by inserting from the back row.

You know, goalkeeper Lu Huana had been knocked down by his fake shot and real pass.

The teammate following up in the middle only needed to receive the ball and easily push it into the empty goal at the far end of the goal.

The player who inserted from the back row was none other than David Mendes, the defensive midfielder of Alkmaar.

He did not make any mistakes this time.

As Schars expected, with goalkeeper Luvarna knocked down, other defenders pulled away, and no one defending, Mendes rushed into the penalty area and pushed the ball steadily into the empty goal at the far corner of the goal.

In the 65th minute, David Mendes received a cross pass from Stein Schars to help Alkmaar score another goal and regain a 3-1 lead.

The Alkmaar fans in the stands cheered again.

At this time, there should be less than 30 minutes left before the end of the game, and no one believed that Breda could still turn the tables.

The fans were convinced that Alkmaar would win this quarter-final of the Dutch Cup.