God of Green

Under Roda JC's continuous high-pressure attack, they still gained some advantages on the field and even had a shot.

In the 3rd minute, Roda JC's No. 18 midfielder Diodi completed a long shot outside the penalty area in the frontcourt.

Although the shot did not hit the goal frame and went out of the bottom line, it still won applause from the home fans.

In the 5th minute, Roda JC launched a wing attack, and the ground ball was passed into the penalty area. The No. 8 striker Fan Zhancheng, who was flanking in the middle, flew in the penalty area and shot, but missed the ball by a hair's breadth.

Otherwise, it might have been a threatening shot.

In the 7th minute, Roda JC got a corner kick, which caused chaos in the Alkmaar penalty area.

If goalkeeper Romero hadn't pressed the ball under him one step ahead, the Roda JC player who almost got the first point might have scored.

Roda JC's offensive wave after wave was higher and higher, pressing Alkmaar into its own half and making it almost impossible for the more than 15,000 fans at home to sit down. The excited cheering has not stopped since the beginning of the game.

It seems that it is only a matter of time before Alkmaar's goal is broken by them.

But in fact, in the first 10 minutes of the game, Roda JC did not hit a shot within the range of the goal frame, and did not pose any threat to Romero's goal.

Because Alkmaar played a defensive counterattack, the backcourt defense was relatively tight, and did not give the opponent any good opportunities.

Roda JC's offensive looked fierce, but in fact, it was a lot of thunder and little rain, and there was no real threat.

Instead, Alkmaar was waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.

In the 6th minute, Alkmaar had a counterattack after stealing the ball.

However, when the ball just passed the midfield, forward Simon Poulsen made a mistake in passing the ball, and the ball was slightly off-center. The opponent's central defender kicked the ball back before Jiang Xiaolin, and the counterattack failed.

This interception and counterattack did not attract the attention of anyone in Roda JC.

After all, the counterattack did not succeed at all, and Jiang Xiaolin had not even rushed up, let alone run into the penalty area to head the ball.

And Jiang Xiaolin's age and skin color also make it easy for people to ignore his threat.

Although the two goals in the first two games were exaggerated by the Chinese media, in fact, the first one was a penalty kick. In everyone's opinion, it is normal to score a penalty kick, and it is abnormal not to score.

So, in fact, Jiang Xiaolin only scored a header from a corner kick, and his game experience was only two substitutes for only 20 minutes.

Such thin experience and data are really hard to take seriously.

As a result, Roda JC, who underestimated the enemy, soon realized their mistake: Van Gaal's decision to let Jiang Xiaolin replace No. 9 Ali as the starter was not a whim.

In the 13th minute, Roda JC's No. 27 winger Bodor dribbled the ball on the wing and wanted to go to the bottom. The other Roda JC teammates almost pressed across the half court. To cooperate with Bodor's attack, there were only two central defenders and one full-back in the backcourt.

As a result, Bodor's dribbling on the wing failed to go to the bottom. More than 20 meters away from the bottom line, Alkmaar's No. 5 full-back Poconioli saw it and made an accurate tackle, intercepting the ball. Bodor was also tackled to the ground.

The nearby Roda JC players immediately expressed excitement that the ball was a foul and wanted the referee to award a free kick in the frontcourt.

But the ball that Poconioli tackled first was not a foul, and the referee signaled the game to continue.

Just when the Roda JC players were still trying to get the referee to judge Poconioli for a foul, Poconioli on the ground had quickly turned over and climbed up, and before the Roda JC players, he poked the ball to the back midfielder Lux.

The players of Roda JC were shocked, and some rushed to grab the ball and some retreated, trying to prevent Alkmaar's counterattack.

But Alkmaar's counterattack was too fast, and they didn't wait for the opponent's players to retreat and organize the defense.

After receiving the pass from Pocognoli, Lux didn't wait for the opponent's players to grab it, and he made a long pass in time to pass the ball to Jiang Xiaolin in the center circle.

There were two central defenders of Roda JC in front of Jiang Xiaolin, and it was unlikely for him to break through with the ball.

One reason was that the speed of running with the ball was not as fast as running without the ball, and the other was that his breakthrough ability was very low.

Although the dribbling had been added to 17, Jiang Xiaolin didn't know how many breakthroughs there were. He only knew that his breakthrough ability was definitely far from the level of dribbling in the Eredivisie.

But football is a team sport. Jiang Xiaolin couldn't break through by himself, but it didn't mean there was no way out.

He still had teammates, and he still had 18 pointsShort pass.

At the moment when Lux passed the ball, Hamdaoyi, who was in the same line with Jiang Xiaolin and about ten meters away, had turned around and started to rush to Roda JC's half.

After Jiang Xiaolin received the pass from Lux, Hamdaoyi had crossed the center line and rushed into Roda JC's half, and was almost level with the opponent's two central defenders.

Although there were Roda JC's full-backs on Hamdaoyi's side who were retreating and blocking, they had not yet come up to defend, after all, Hamdaoyi had no ball at his feet.

So, Jiang Xiaolin passed the ball without hesitation and passed it in front of Hamdaoyi.

Then Jiang Xiaolin ran without the ball towards Roda JC's half, with the midfielders of both sides behind him, and everyone was sprinting desperately.

Roda JC's players naturally tried to return to defense, and Alkmaar's players tried to cooperate with Jiang Xiaolin and Hamdaoyi in attacking.

Roda JC's two central defenders are No. 24 Sankai and No. 2 Hinton.

After Jiang Xiaolin passed the ball and rushed forward without the ball, one of them returned to the penalty area at full speed, and the other blocked Jiang Xiaolin's sprint route while returning to defend, trying to delay Jiang Xiaolin's attack.

The one responsible for delaying Jiang Xiaolin's attack was No. 24 Sankai, who blocked the route and tried to use his body to block Jiang Xiaolin's sprint.

But Jiang Xiaolin, who was only 16 years old, was world-class in speed, body, and flexibility.

Without the restraint of the ball, Jiang Xiaolin's speed of running without the ball was more than one level higher than Hinton, a central defender.

Moreover, Jiang Xiaolin's physical strength and flexibility also surpassed Hinton.

The two ran less than 10 meters before Jiang Xiaolin caught up with Hinton.

Hinton was trying to block the position and deliberately bumped into Jiang Xiaolin.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Xiaolin suddenly took a step outward during the sprint, avoiding Hinton's deliberate collision, causing Hinton to lose balance and sway.

Jiang Xiaolin took this opportunity to overtake and rushed in front of Hinton.

Hinton wanted to reach out to pull Jiang Xiaolin again, but he couldn't reach him.

At this time, Hamdaoyi, who was blocked by the opponent's full-back, had passed the ball to Stein Schars, who was unguarded from the side.

Schars rushed forward on the right, and there was no one to defend him in the sudden counterattack, which allowed him to kick the ball far away, and then sprinted at full speed, and the Roda JC players who returned to defend couldn't catch up.