God of Green

When Jiang Xiaolin left the court, he was naturally applauded by the fans.

Including those fans of Nijmegen, many of them stood up and applauded Jiang Xiaolin.

His performance in the Eredivisie this season not only won results for Alkmaar, but also improved the overall image and popularity of the Eredivisie. Many Dutch fans are proud of Jiang Xiaolin's appearance.

After Jiang Xiaolin left the court, the game between the two teams finally became normal, and Nijmegen, who was two goals behind, finally began to counterattack desperately.

After all, being two goals behind is not the end of the world. There is still about half an hour left, and if they are lucky, it is enough for them to score two goals to tie the score.

Alkmaar's substitute lineup is indeed lacking in strength and tacit cooperation. Soon the situation became passive and was really suppressed by Nijmegen.

This is not the strategy of deliberately defending and counterattacking when Jiang Xiaolin was on the court before, but the real lack of strength and being suppressed.

After all, Alkmaar is not luxurious enough to have two sets of main lineups.

Fortunately, the defensive midfielder David Mendes and the central defender Hector Moreno acted as the mainstays, and the goalkeeper Sergio Romero played steadily, which prevented Nijmegen from taking advantage of the situation to score a goal.

In addition, the players of Nijmegen were not as good as Jiang Xiaolin in shooting skills. Even if they occasionally shot, it was difficult to hit the goal frame. Even if they did, they rarely shot hard and heavy dead corner shots to form a real threat.

Therefore, it was not until the 89th minute when the game was about to end that Nijmegen scored their first goal through a corner kick opportunity, tying the score to 1-2.

But it was too late at this time.

It was too late to score a second goal in the remaining time.

After 3 minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle to end the game. Alkmaar relied on Jiang Xiaolin's double goal to take away a 2-1 away victory from Nijmegen's De Gufot Stadium and continued to lead the standings.

After the referee blew the final whistle, Jiang Xiaolin also received experience rewards for this game.

Jiang Xiaolin received 2 goals 4000 + win 4000 = 8000 basic experience.

In terms of performance, the system gave a "good" rating, with a rating coefficient of 2, so the final experience he received was 8000*2=16,000.

Combined with the previous daily training, Jiang Xiaolin's level experience reached level 22 173.54/3 million.

After the game, Jiang Xiaolin's double goal and the new record of 47 goals in the Eredivisie were naturally reported and praised by the global media.

Of course, there are more things to be happy about for Alkmaar.

On the one hand, they sent most of the substitutes to play but still won.

On the other hand, Twente and Ajax, who ranked second and third in this round, all capsized and were tied by their opponents.

Therefore, after this round, Alkmaar leads the second place Twente with 68 points, which is 13 points ahead of the second place Twente with 55 points.

Alkmaar, who sent a group of substitutes to play away games, not only did not fall behind the opponent, but also widened the points gap with the second place in this round.

With 13 points, Alkmaar already has room for error in four games.

There are only 8 rounds left before the end of the Eredivisie, which has a total of 34 rounds.

This is a very wonderful result for Alkmaar's goal of winning the Eredivisie or the strategic allocation of three-line operations.

Therefore, when the team was training on the second day, both the coach and the players were in a very good mood.

Everyone is more and more confident in winning the Eredivisie.

At the same time, with such a big advantage in the league, everyone's ideas about the Dutch Cup and the UEFA Cup have naturally become bigger.

Everyone is very motivated for the first round of the next UEFA Cup quarter-finals. They all want to start the game quickly, defeat the defending champion Zenit St. Petersburg, and advance to the quarterfinals.

As the match day approaches, the Dutch and Russian media, and even the European media, pay more and more attention to this game, and the fans are getting more and more enthusiastic about it.

This game is the most watched game in this round of the UEFA Cup, no doubt about it.

Even the match between Ajax and Marseille is not as popular as the match between Alkmaar and Zenit St. Petersburg.

On the one hand, it is because Alkmaar is currently very popular because Jiang Xiaolin is in the team.

Jiang Xiaolin is breaking the single-season record of the Dutch Eredivisie in every league game, so the attention he receives is naturally very high.

On the other hand, it is because Zenit St. Petersburg was the champion of last season.As the defending champion, Zenit St. Petersburg will naturally receive the most attention in the new season.

The encounter between these two teams naturally became the most popular round of the quarter-finals of this season's UEFA Cup.

There is an even more coincidental reason, because Alkmaar and Zenit St. Petersburg were in the same group in the UEFA Cup last season.

In the UEFA Cup group stage of the 2007/2008 season, Alkmaar and Zenit St. Petersburg were divided into Group A together, and the two teams ended up with a 1-1 draw.

But after the group stage, Alkmaar ranked fourth and was eliminated in the group stage, while Zenit St. Petersburg qualified from the group and eliminated Villarreal, Marseille, Leverkusen, Bayern Munich, Glasgow Rangers and countless other giants to win the championship.

In particular, the result of a 5-1 victory over the super giant Bayern Munich in the two rounds of the semi-finals gave the players of Zenit St. Petersburg super confidence.

Regarding Jiang Xiaolin's average of more than 2 goals per game, constantly breaking the new record of Eredivisie goals, and ranking first in the UEFA Cup scorer list, St. Petersburg Zenit No. 9 striker Deji expressed his views in an interview:

"There is no doubt that Jiang Xiaolin is a talented player."

"But football is a collective sport of 11 people, and one person can never beat the whole team."

"Zenit was the champion last season. We defeated all the giants in the UEFA Cup last season and won the championship. Even Bayern Munich lost to us, let alone Alkmaar?"

"Alkmaar couldn't even qualify for the group stage last season. This season, because they have Jiang Xiaolin, they can reach the quarter-finals. It's their limit."

"When they meet us, Zenit St. Petersburg, Alkmaar will just surrender like Bayern Munich."

"Otherwise, what awaits them will be an unprecedented defeat!"

Forget it, Bayern Munich, who originally had nothing to do with it, was pulled out to whip the corpse.

In addition, Zenit not only defeated Bayern last season, but also defeated Leverkusen. The German media and fans instantly became supporters of Alkmaar and Jiang Xiaolin, supporting Alkmaar to teach Zenit a lesson and eliminate it.

The attention paid by the German media and fans to this UEFA Cup match is the highest except for the Netherlands and China.

As long as Jiang Xiaolin can lead Alkmaar to eliminate Zenit St. Petersburg, or even slaughter the opponent by a large score, Jiang Xiaolin will definitely be loved by German fans.

Of course, Jiang Xiaolin and his teammates certainly can't care about the German fans at this time.

They just talked about their own views in the interview, which is also a warm-up for the game, as well as a war of words and psychological warfare with the opponent.

According to the captain Yarians in the interview, Alkmaar was still away from home to challenge Zenit St. Petersburg last season, and they could get a draw from the away game.

This season, Alkmaar is stronger and will definitely be able to kill Zenit St. Petersburg both at home and away.

As for Jiang Xiaolin, he said in an interview that football is not a one-man sport, and he is not prepared to challenge the entire defense of Zenit St. Petersburg alone.

The key is that he does not have to play alone in the game, he also has teammates.

He also has excellent teammates, such as Sergio Romero, David Mendes, Maarten Martens, Hamdaoyi, etc., who are all strong players and the leading players of various national teams.

Jiang Xiaolin is also a helper.

Therefore, it is wishful thinking for Zenit St. Petersburg to think that they can win by focusing on Jiang Xiaolin alone.

On the contrary, with the help of his teammates, Jiang Xiaolin expressed his confidence in winning.

Moreover, when asked by reporters whether he could break Klinsmann's single-season record of 15 goals in the UEFA Cup in the quarter-finals, Jiang Xiaolin showed his arrogance.

He said: "I will go all out in the two rounds of the match against Zenit St. Petersburg, and strive to score four goals and set a new record for goals scored in a single season in the UEFA Cup. I think that with my current efficiency of scoring more than 2 goals per game, Zenit St. Petersburg has no ability to stop me."

If this statement is made public, it will be too hateful.

The players, coaches and fans of Zenit St. Petersburg are all furious. Everyone clamors to keep an eye on Jiang Xiaolin and let Jiang Xiaolin taste the taste of not scoring a goal.

As for the record, Jiang Xiaolin should talk about it next season!

His goal record this season will be permanently stopped at 12 goals, and he will be eliminated by Zenit St. Petersburg. To create a new record for goals scored in a single season in the UEFA Cup, Jiang Xiaolin can only think about it next season.

There are even radical Russian fans clamoring for Jiang Xiaolin to be careful of his legs and ZenitThe players gave him a hard kick like in the Olympic final, causing him to fracture his bone again.

Although no player shouted this openly, the media reported it, which was undoubtedly a psychological warfare against Jiang Xiaolin.

If it could interfere with Jiang Xiaolin's performance and affect Jiang Xiaolin's state, it would undoubtedly be very successful.

Such pre-match psychological warfare is undoubtedly hated by many neutral fans and media people.

As neutral fans and media reporters, what they most want to see is obviously a wonderful game and dazzling performance of players.

Football has finally produced another amazing genius, who is only 17 years old. His future achievements are still worth looking forward to. No one wants to be ruined by malicious fouls before he grows up.

Therefore, this clamor from the Russian media and fans has been unanimously criticized by neutral media and fans from various countries, and has also been strongly protested by the Dutch media.

Finally, even UEFA had to send officials to warn the two teams:

"This game will become the focus of UEFA's monitoring. If any player uses non-competitive intentional killing tactics in the game and maliciously injures the opponent's players, once it is determined by UEFA as malicious injury, they will face the most severe punishment, whether it is the player or the club."

UEFA's official language warned the two teams, without specifying Zenit St. Petersburg, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that UEFA was warning Zenit St. Petersburg, because it was their fans and media who mentioned the Olympic final before the game and asked Jiang Xiaolin to be careful of breaking his leg.

It can be said that Zenit St. Petersburg's pre-match psychological warfare not only failed to achieve the effect, but also put a layer of shackles on itself.

If it were normal, fouls would be fouls, injuries would be injuries, and maybe an apology would be made after the game, and there would not even be a suspension, and the injured people would just think they were unlucky.

But the result has now attracted strong attention from UEFA, so whether Zenit St. Petersburg dares to maliciously hurt people or not, it really needs to be carefully considered.

For individual players, I am afraid that no one dares to do such a stupid thing at the risk of offending UEFA and being banned for a long time.

If they succeed, the club and the team will benefit, but if they fail, they will suffer.

As long as they are not stupid, no player will dare to do such intentional hurting again.

However, even so, some media still interviewed Jiang Xiaolin, asking him about his views on the remarks made by Zenit St. Petersburg fans and the media, and asking him if he is afraid.

Not every media supports Jiang Xiaolin and Alkmaar.

For example, the pro-Ajax media wished that Alkmaar would lose and be eliminated.

Jiang Xiaolin's dark history of being kicked out of the Ajax youth training camp is brought up by the media every once in a while, severely slapping Ajax in the face.

Therefore, they came to interview Jiang Xiaolin with the mentality of watching the fun. No matter Jiang Xiaolin was tit-for-tat or cowardly retreating, they could find a topic.

But Jiang Xiaolin did not fall for their tricks. He just smiled and said that everyone would see each other on the court.

In fact, it was not because Jiang Xiaolin had profound experience in dealing with this problem, but because Jiang Xiaolin was assigned by Van Gaal to play psychological warfare with Zenit St. Petersburg, release smoke bombs, and disrupt the opponent's tactical arrangements when he clamored to score at least 4 goals in two rounds before the game and set a new record for goals in a single season in the UEFA Cup.

Knowing that Jiang Xiaolin would be closely guarded by the opponent, Van Gaal asked Jiang Xiaolin to add fuel to the fire during the pre-match interview, so that the opponent would be more closely guarded against Jiang Xiaolin, thereby freeing up other players of Alkmaar.

In other words, in this game, Van Gaal actually positioned Jiang Xiaolin as a tactical center forward, not an offensive terminator.