God of Green

Looking down from the sky, the current situation on the field is that Alkmaar took advantage of Roda JC's overall pressure to suddenly intercept the ball and launched a quick counterattack.

Wing forward Tyne Schals dribbled the ball on the wing, and about three meters behind him was Roda JC's full-back Yun Gay, who was desperately chasing.

Because Schals was on the outside and Yun Gay was on the inside, if Schals wanted to cut inside, he would have to slow down and increase the running distance, which would make it easy for Yun Gay to catch up and entangle him.

Running with the ball is slower than Yun Gay's running without the ball, and the distance between Yun Gay and Schals is gradually shortening.

If he cuts inside again, Schals will most likely be caught up and entangled by Yun Gay, and he will lose the opportunity for a quick counterattack.

Therefore, Schals can only continue to rush to the baseline with the ball at the fastest speed on the wing.

Behind Yungai, near the middle, was Hamdaoyi, who had passed the ball to Schars. He was also rushing towards the bottom line of Roda JC, aiming to meet Schars and give Schars a place to pass the ball when Yungai caught up with him.

However, not far behind Hamdaoyi, there were also Roda JC midfielders desperately returning to defense.

Further to the middle, there was Roda JC's central defender No. 24 Sankai, whose running position was basically level with Schars.

About five or six meters behind Sankai was Jiang Xiaolin, who was running at high speed. The distance between the two was constantly shortening as both sides sprinted.

Behind Jiang Xiaolin was the central defender Sinton, who had just been overtaken by him, but the distance between the two was increasing.

Jiang Xiaolin was faster than Roda JC's two central defenders Sankai and Sinton.

Behind Sinton were the midfielders of both sides, Martens and Poulsen, who rushed up closely.

But they were all in the second echelon and could no longer catch up with Jiang Xiaolin and Sankai.

Compared with Jiang Xiaolin who fell behind, Sankai had the advantage of turning back to defense first and rushed back to the penalty area first.

But Jiang Xiaolin was not slow either, and even faster than Sankai.

When Sankai retreated to the penalty area, Jiang Xiaolin had basically caught up with him, only one or two meters behind, and was about to rush into the penalty area right after him.

Schars on the wing was almost approaching the baseline, and was about to be blocked by the full-back Yun Gaoyi who was catching up.

Schars, who was dribbling the ball and observing the situation in the middle, saw that Jiang Xiaolin was about to rush into the penalty area, so he decisively kicked the ball and crossed it.

After kicking the ball out, Schars couldn't stop the inertia of his body sprinting, and he lost his center of gravity and fell out of the baseline, and didn't stop until he hit the baseline billboard.

The ball flew into the air, passed by Yun Gaoyi's toes, and flew into the penalty area of ​​Roda JC.

Schals' cross was sprinting at full speed, so it was impossible to grasp the ball's line so accurately, and it just fell on Jiang Xiaolin's head.

The only way was to kick the ball into the penalty area in the general direction, and the rest depended on Jiang Xiaolin to compete with the opponent's defender and goalkeeper.

And Jiang Xiaolin's advantage was that the judgment of the ball's landing point brought by the full value of off-ball running was higher than that of ordinary players.

Although he entered the penalty area later than Sankai, his judgment of the ball's landing point was more acute and accurate than Sankai.

Schals' cross had just been passed, and the ball had not yet flown to the highest point, but Jiang Xiaolin directly judged that the ball would land at the back point.

So, Jiang Xiaolin, who rushed into the penalty area with Sankai, slightly deviated from the route and rushed towards the back point of the goal behind Sankai.

Sure enough, the ball from Schals's cross flew to the highest point and then began to fall, falling to the back point of the penalty area and the corner of the small penalty area.

At this time, Sankai, who was on the small penalty area line in the middle, wanted to turn around and run back, but it was too late.

He could only jump with all his strength on the small penalty area line, trying to clear the ball.

However, he failed to catch the ball in the air, and the ball flew over his head: Sankai headed it.

Jiang Xiaolin, who ran to the back point of the penalty area, almost jumped into the air without any defense and headed the ball.

Until Jiang Xiaolin headed the ball out, Hinton, who was chasing closely behind, rushed to Jiang Xiaolin and bumped Jiang Xiaolin in the air, causing Jiang Xiaolin to lose balance and fall from the air.

But it was no use, Jiang Xiaolin had already headed the ball towards the goal.

Hinton's late collision had no effect on Jiang Xiaolin's goal at all.

Jiang Xiaolin's header was of high quality, with no interference.

Goalkeeper Castro was well prepared and had already moved to the back of the goal to wait for the ball.

But Jiang Xiaolin's header was too sharp, with great power and speed, and the small penalty area was very close to the goal.

Castro jumped up and tried to grab the ball with one hand, but missed it.

Almost instantly, the ball went into the goal from the intersection of the crossbar and the post above Castro's head.

This was a header from a blind spot.

When Jiang Xiaolin jumped up and was about to hit the ball, the TV commentator in the commentary booth had already stood up, staring at the restricted area of ​​Roda JC without blinking.

When the ball flew into the goal, the commentator supported the commentary booth with one hand and clenched his fist with the other hand and shouted excitedly:

"Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal..."

"The ball is in! The ball is in!"

"A quick counterattack from Alkmaar!"

"After being suppressed by Roda JC for 10 minutes, Alkmaar made a quick counterattack with a cross from the side, and the 16-year-old Chinese player Jiang scored a wonderful header."

"Alkmaar took the lead and scored the first goal. Roda JC, who played at home, fell behind."

Alkmaar fans in front of the TV all shouted excitedly with the commentator's roar.

Some fans in the bar even slammed their tables and shouted:

"Good shot!"

"I like No. 29!"

"Three goals in three games, awesome!"

"Jiang is a genius!"

"I like him!"

There is no doubt that after only three games, many Alkmaar fans have remembered Jiang Xiaolin's name.

On the court, Jiang Xiaolin, who was knocked to the ground by Hinton, has also turned over and climbed up, running wildly on the court to celebrate.

Behind him, teammates are constantly gathering!

Including Hamdaoyi.

Jiang Xiaolin has won the recognition and respect of the whole team with his performance in training and games.

Everyone hugged and high-fived for Jiang Xiaolin's goal and the team's lead.

In the stands, there were more than 15,000 silent Roda JC fans.

Many people were dazed with lifeless eyes, and some couldn't believe how Alkmaar, who was just suppressed by them, scored a goal and took the lead in an instant.

Only a very small number of Alkmaar away fans who had traveled with the team were waving Alkmaar flags in a corner of the stands, cheering, screaming and celebrating wildly.