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After the Champions League match against Marseille, Alkmaar still has an arduous task. They have four games during the winter break, three league games and one Holland Cup, and these four games will be completed within two weeks. It is a very tense game for any team, but Alkmaar is lucky. They drew the Dutch second team Telstadt in the knockout round of 16 of the Dutch Cup.

Although upsets in cup games are rare, any game must be based on strength. The strength of the Dutch second team is definitely far behind that of the Dutch first team. Jiang Mu can use a substitute or even the second team to play this game Competition, let your main force take a break.

The results of Alkmaar's second team are very good. Although it is not as good as the first team, in the youth team league, Alkmaar's second team did not lose face of the first team. They also topped the list and are the favorites to win the championship.

The match against Fortunasi in the 16th round of the league was very difficult. This is not due to the strength of Fortunasi. Physically and psychologically, I am in a period of fatigue. At this time, it is like the end of the battle, and the overall strength is not much stronger than Fortunaxi.

However, this game is played at the home court of Alkmaar. With fans at home, the referee’s whistle will naturally be affected, which is beneficial to Alkmaar. Not daring to make mistakes, they still set up the iron bucket formation, ready to take a point and finish the job.

If it was the original Alkmaar team, facing a lowly team like Fortunasi and playing at home, it would definitely be a violent storm. After a big lead, slow down the pace and deal with garbage time, but now The current Alkmaar is powerless and can only patiently control the ball in the midfield, looking for opportunities around the penalty area.

It is definitely not easy to break through the iron barrel formation with this style of play, but it is very stable and will not be counterattacked by Fortunasi. Now Alkmaar wants to win this game on a stable basis.

Fortunasi didn't know Alkmaar's state, and thought that Alkmaar was going to play a cat-and-mouse game with them. They were determined not to be fooled, and they dealt with Alkmaar in their own half.

Neither side scored a goal in the first half. In the second half, Alkmaar suddenly sped up the tempo and made continuous breakthroughs and crosses from the side of Fortunasi. In the 56th minute, he scored the first goal of the game. Drogba.

Alkmaar's goal pushed Fortunasi to a desperate situation. They had to attack. After this attack, Fortunasi was surprised to find that this Alkmaar team was a paper tiger. It turned out that they had come in vain.

Then Fortunasi turned away and attacked Alkmaar at the De Hoult Stadium. The whole game was pressed, and Alkmaar had to defend and counterattack.

In the end, Alkmaar used a counterattack to score the second goal, and Fortunasi also used a corner kick to get back a goal, but because the time was too short, their physical fitness was not brought to the extreme, and they finally lost by one goal.

After this game, Jiang Mu finally discovered that although the players hadn't reached their limit physically, they were already exhausted psychologically. If they continued to play, they might not be far from collapse.So he made up his mind to use the players of the second team and a few substitutes in the knockout round of the Dutch Cup.

Telstar is naturally wishing for it. If Alkmaar really enters the first team, they can only treat this knockout match as a friendly match. Alkmaar sent their own second team, and of course they have a chance to reach the top eight. Strong, for an unknown team like them, the Holland Cup is a good opportunity to show their faces.

Although many of Alkmaar's second team players are good young players dug from various places, they are young after all. Although substitutes such as Martens and Suleiman have played a role in stabilizing the morale of the army, they cannot replace these players in the game. The knockout match with Telstar was very intense, and the goals were scored like a plum blossom. At the end of 90 minutes, the two sides even scored a score of 4:4.

Because the Holland Cup is a decisive game, Alkmaar and Telstar must play overtime. In the overtime, Robben and Huntelaar, the two stars of the second team, finally showed superhuman strength. Strength, they scored a goal in the first and second halves, helping Alkmaar advance to the quarter-finals 6:4.

The second team of Alkmaar performed very well in the Dutch Cup. It is not easy to beat a first-class team in the second division of the Netherlands. Telstar eliminated the leader of the second division of the Netherlands, the Eagles and advanced to the top 16.

However, there is something more amazing than the performance of the second team of Alkmaar in the Dutch Cup, that is, the second team of Ajax. They even reached the quarter-finals with the Ajax first team. This is the Ajax youth team.

The other six teams in the quarter-finals of the Dutch Cup are Ajax, PSV, Feyenoord, Groningen, Heerenveen and Dordrecht.

Among them, Ajax vs. Groningen, Eindhoven and Feyenoord have a strong dialogue, Utrecht vs. Heerenveen, Ajax Youth Team vs. Alkmaar. The game will be played after the winter break.

After the lottery, when Alkmaar played against the Ajax youth team, the reporter asked Jiang Mu whether he would play in the second team. Jiang Mu replied simply, "It's possible, but it's not big. I want It depends on the situation of the team. The winner of the Holland Cup is also the national champion. We will not lose the championship for the sake of face.

Jiang Mu's remarks caused controversy after the game. Many reporters said that Jiang Mu was too utilitarian and lacked the idealism of Dutch football, so he was more suitable to coach in Italy.There are also many reporters defending Jiang Mu, thinking that the utilitarian Jiang Mu led Alkmaar to play the most beautiful offensive football since Van Gaal's Ajax, while other idealistic Dutch teams played very badly. There are not many goals, and they were eliminated early in the European war, which is simply incomparable with Alkmaar.

Jiang Mu doesn't care much about the evaluation of the outside world. He has only one goal, which is to win and win the championship. As long as he continues to win, history will not underestimate him.

In the 17th and 18th rounds, Alkmaar faced Dordrecht and Nijmegen. These are also the last two games before the winter break. If Alkmaar does not lose one of them, they will take the undefeated The record has expanded to 51 games, which is a terrifying result. You must know that during the Milan dynasty, their unbeaten record was only 58 games. Alkmaar only needs to win 8 more games to break this dusty unbeaten record.

After the rotation of the players of the second team in the middle of the week, Alkmaar's players have recovered about [-]% of their skills, but this is enough to deal with these middle and lower teams in the Eredivisie.

In the match against Dordrecht, Dordrecht learned the lesson from the previous Fortunazi game, and used his physical fitness to run wildly at the beginning, hoping to drag Alkmaar down, but Alkmaar's rest Two days later, both mental and physical fitness recovered a lot. Faced with Dordrecht's pretentious cleverness, Alkmaar patiently waited for the opportunity to come. Finally, in the final stage of the first half, Thomasson's anti-offside was successful. Help Alcar open the scoring.

In the second half, Alkmaar took advantage of Dordrecht's lack of concentration. After Van Bommel received Ronaldinho's pass, he scored a long-range shot about 7 meters from the front of the penalty area and extended the score by 2:0.

Dordrecht's offense was hit. The players lacked confidence and did not do enough to press in the second half. Dodrecht's strength was not good enough, and he was unwilling to exert physical strength. It was very dangerous for them.

Sure enough, in the last 10 minutes of the second half, Alkmaar suddenly accelerated the rhythm of pressing and passing the ball in the frontcourt, which made Doddrecht a little flustered. In the end, Ronaldinho and Dirk Kurit each scored a goal, and the final 4:0 bloodbath Dordrecht.

The 18th round of the game was held on December 12. After this game, the winter break began, and Christmas is coming soon. At this time, all teams hope to end with a victory in the first half , live this holiday happily.

After accepting the lessons of Dordrecht and Fortunasi, Nijmegen wisely chose to defend and counterattack, not the Fortuna-style iron barrel formation, nor the Dodrecht-style mad attack, but It is a real defensive counterattack, boldly investing in offensive forces, in order to wear down Alkmaar's physical fitness.

Alkmaar has a headache for this style of play. They failed to attack in the frontcourt. Immediately after a counterattack by the opponent, their entire defense line and midfielder had to run back. They were counterattacked by the opponent several times in a row. The defender They can't take it anymore.It can only be dragged behind to prevent the opponent from counterattacking.

The distance between the three lines of a team must be closely connected. If they are out of touch and the opponent inserts between the defender and the midfielder, it will be difficult for the defender, so the defender will not go up. Alkmaar's midfielder and midfielder The strikers also have to fall back, so it is impossible to maintain a high pressure in the frontcourt.You can only play positional warfare when you have the ball.

The game was not fierce, but there was a murderous intention hidden in the dark. Every time Alkmaar attacked, he would encounter the same fierce counterattack from Nijmegen. There was a strange balance between the two sides throughout the game. For a while, after a while, the rhythm of the game was fast and slow. In the end, no one could do anything about it, and they shook hands with 0:0.

This is Alkmaar's first game without a goal this season, but Jiang Mu did not express disappointment. He felt that Alkmaar dropped No.2 Eindhoven by 8 points after halftime. I am happy, the young Alkmaar is proud to have achieved such a result in the first third-line battle. He wished the players a Merry Christmas in advance, and hoped that the players would have a good rest during the holidays and wait for more intense competitions in the coming year.