God of Green

However, sometimes, on the football field, it is not enough to just attack aggressively to score a goal.

In particular, when Jiang Xiaolin retreated to the outside of his own penalty area to participate in the defense, his full-valued positioning skill had a great interference effect on Lekpsner's midfield and frontcourt passing and cutting cooperation.

Even though Jiang Xiaolin rarely directly intercepted the ball, his position alone could make the opponent extremely uncomfortable, and it was difficult to launch a threatening attack within the 30-meter area of ​​​​Alkmaar's goal.

The game time passed by minute by minute.

There were no fans of Lekpsner standing in the stands, and everyone stood up to cheer for the host team.

Alkmaar, on the other hand, almost all of its players retreated, and even Jiang Xiaolin retreated outside the penalty area to participate in the defense.

In the last ten minutes or so, Alkmaar had almost no counterattack.

It was precisely because Alkmaar did not counterattack for a long time, and Jiang Xiaolin had been staying in the backcourt to participate in the defense, that the players of Lekpsner became somewhat paralyzed and careless.

All three central defenders crossed the center line and participated in the pressure attack on the front court. Even the goalkeeper Lukeski stood on the penalty area line, as if he wanted to rush out to participate in the attack at any time.

In this situation, the regular 90 minutes were quickly completed, and the referee gave 4 minutes of extra time.

Lekpsner pressed forward more frantically, trying to force Alkmaar's goal.

But no one in their team had the shooting skills of Jiang Xiaolin. When they couldn't attack the penalty area, the long-range shooting rate outside the penalty area was also very low.

What's more dangerous is that because Alkmaar retreated across the board in the final stage, everyone in Lekpsner, including the goalkeeper, forgot Jiang Xiaolin's threat.

Jiang Xiaolin didn't think about scoring another goal.

But sometimes when the opportunity comes, you can't waste it.

In the 93rd minute, when the game was about to end, Lekepsner striker Lian Jeff had no choice but to shoot a long shot from the penalty area line, but defender Yarence flew to block the shot hole.

The ball hit Yarence's knee and bounced in front of David Mendes outside the penalty area. Before receiving the ball, he saw Jiang Xiaolin's running position and passed the ball to Jiang Xiaolin without stopping.

In the backcourt, Jiang Xiaolin would naturally not be so closely guarded.

In addition, this was originally Lekepsner's attack, and Yarence blocked the shot hole.

In addition, Jiang Xiaolin's flexible running position made it so that there was no one guarding him this time.

So, about 15 meters away from the center line, Jiang Xiaolin first looked up at the Lekepsner goalkeeper's position, and then without stopping the ball, he directly swung his thigh and kicked the ball towards Lekepsner's goal.

Because the distance was too far, when David Mendes passed the ball to Jiang Xiaolin, Lekpusna's goalkeeper Lukeski had not yet realized the danger. He was still standing on the penalty area line to watch the excitement, and he was still thinking that if his team got a corner kick, he would also rush up to use his height advantage to participate in the header.

As a result, Jiang Xiaolin suddenly shot directly from such a far distance.

When the ball flew into the air, passed over the head of the defender Gao Wei, who was pretending to block the gun hole but actually did nothing, and flew towards the goal behind him, Lukeski woke up from his dream and retreated in shock, trying to save Jiang Xiaolin's ultra-long-range lob.

Jiang Xiaolin's ball was too far away and flew in the air for too long.

If Lukeski realized the danger and retreated in time when David Mendes passed the ball to Jiang Xiaolin, he might have saved the ball.

But after Jiang Xiaolin had finished shooting, he realized it belatedly and began to retreat from the penalty area line, but it was too late.

The ball flying in the air is always faster than the speed of a person running.

Although Rukowski tried his best to retreat, the ball still drew a parabola in the air, passed over the palm of Rukowski who had not yet returned to defense and could only jump hastily, and fell into Lekpsner's goal.

Suddenly, the more than 10,000 home fans in the entire Lesha Stadium were silent, and everyone lost all hope and motivation. Only a few hundred away fans of Alkmaar were left celebrating ecstatically in a corner of the stands.

In the last minute of stoppage time, Jiang Xiaolin scored a hat trick with an ultra-long-range lob shot of more than 60 meters, securing the victory for Alkmaar.

Alkmaar took a 4-2 lead away from home.

This score completely killed the game.

Not only this game, but also the second round.

Lekpusner can now be declared out of the UEFA Cup knockout roundsEven if there is a second round, their chances of making a big comeback away from home, defeating Alkmaar and successfully advancing to the round of 16 are almost zero. Including the players and fans of Lekpsner, few people still believe that they have the possibility of advancing. While Jiang Xiaolin and other Alkmaar players were celebrating and taking the opportunity to delay time, the players of Lekpsner did not protest and tried to use the last time to tie the score. Goalkeeper Lukeski, who made a big mistake and was lobbed into the empty goal by Jiang Xiaolin, did not even get up for a long time since he fell into the goal after saving the ball. He was not injured, but he was lying on the ground regretting, annoyed, ashamed and frustrated. He had not yet recovered from the blow of being lobbed into the empty goal by Jiang Xiaolin! Jiang Xiaolin and his teammates celebrated for more than 40 seconds after their hat trick away from home. The referee couldn't stand it anymore, so he intervened and ended their celebration, letting them return to their own half and letting Lekpsner's players kick the ball in the middle circle.

After the game restarted, although the game time had passed 94 minutes, the referee still didn't end the game.

Because of Alkmaar's extra-long celebration, the referee added a certain amount of stoppage time.

But Lekpsner didn't seize the opportunity.

Their last attack was far below standard. Under the defense of Alkmaar's Zhongzhi Chen Cheng, they failed to pass the ball into the dangerous area, and as a result, midfielder Enchas made a far-fetched long shot more than 30 meters away from the goal.

The ball didn't even enter the goal frame and went directly out of the bottom line.

Then, after Alkmaar's goalkeeper Sergio Romero kicked the ball to the midfield with a big foot, before the players from both sides competed for the header, the referee blew the whistle to end the game.

With Jiang Xiaolin's assist and three goals, Alkmaar defeated Lekpsner 4-2 in the first round of the UEFA Cup 1/16 finals, basically announcing the opponent's elimination.

With a total score of 4-2 and four away goals, if Alkmaar was eliminated in the second round at the AFAS Stadium, it would be a shame that would be recorded in the history of world football.

Neither Van Gaal, Jiang Xiaolin, nor other players of Alkmaar would let this happen.

Therefore, when the referee blew the whistle to end the game, it was basically announced that Alkmaar had advanced to the top 16 of the UEFA Cup in the 2008/2009 season.

The players of Lekpsner fell to the ground, enduring the pain of being almost eliminated in the first round of the first round of the knockout round. Most of the home fans in the stands also left the stadium with their heads shaken and dejected, leaving only the players, coaches and hundreds of away fans of Alkmaar who traveled with the team to celebrate.

For Jiang Xiaolin, this game was also very rewarding.

Because it was a League Cup game, the basic rewards were much more generous.

In this game, Jiang Xiaolin gained 1 assist 10,000 + 3 goals 60,000 + win 40,000 = 110,000 basic experience.

In terms of performance, Jiang Xiaolin's hat trick plus one assist and all four goals of Alkmaar were rated as "excellent performance" by the system, with a rating coefficient of 4.

Therefore, the total experience Jiang Xiaolin finally gained was 110,000*4=440,000. With the previous daily training experience, his level experience rose to level 22 133.74/3 million.

Gaining 440,000 experience in a League Cup game made Jiang Xiaolin yearn for the five major leagues, the Champions League, and the World Cup.

Presumably, as the world's top events for clubs and national teams, the experience of the Champions League and the World Cup must be much higher than that of the League Cup and the Olympics.

For Jiang Xiaolin, who has difficulty getting promoted simply by relying on the experience of the Dutch Eredivisie, he can't wait to transfer to the top five leagues and play in the Champions League.

Therefore, Jiang Xiaolin secretly vowed in his heart that no matter what, he would help Alkmaar win the small triple crown this season, complete the system task, and then decisively transfer away from Alkmaar and go to the top five leagues that can play in the Champions League.

After the game, Alkmaar's away victory over Lekpsna and the result of basically confirming its advancement to the top 16 were naturally praised by the Dutch media.

Because Alkmaar is representing the Dutch football world in the European war, every step forward is to grab European war points for the Dutch football world.

At this time, naturally the whole country will support Alkmaar.

For the media in other European countries or China, Asia, and America, the focus is different.

Everyone is more concerned about Jiang Xiaolin's performance.

Because Jiang XiaoLin's performance was really eye-catching.

He scored a hat trick in the away game of the UEFA Cup knockout match, plus an assist, and scored all four goals of Alkmaar alone, completely conquering the Lecha Stadium. Such a performance is not exaggerated no matter how much you praise it.

In addition, Jiang Xiaolin's last super long-distance lob goal is a classic that can be selected as the top ten goals of the year, which is even more praised by the world media and fans.

Fortunately, this is the UEFA Cup, not the Champions League, otherwise, he would be praised as the world's number one.

Even so, after Jiang Xiaolin scored a hat trick and his total number of goals in the UEFA Cup this season reached 9, he still rose to the first place in the UEFA Cup scorer list this season.

And Alkmaar still has at least three games to play: the second round of the 1/16 finals and the two rounds of the quarter-finals.

Judging from Jiang Xiaolin's current scoring rate of more than 2 goals per game, as long as Jiang Xiaolin scores more than 6 goals in these three games, he may tie or even surpass Klinsmann's record of the highest goal scored by a player in a single season of the UEFA Cup in the 1995/1996 season.

That season, Klinsmann led Bayern Munich to the final and defeated Bordeaux 5-1 in the final, winning the UEFA Cup championship that season, and created a personal record of the highest goal scored by no one so far with 15 goals.

Now, Jiang Xiaolin may break this record.

Even if Jiang Xiaolin leads Alkmaar to the semi-finals or even the finals, everyone can be sure that Jiang Xiaolin will break Klinsmann's record. The only question is how high Jiang Xiaolin will raise his goal record in the end.

Although Jiang Xiaolin is not much praised in Europe because of his popularity in the Eredivisie and the UEFA Cup, he has become the focus of daily hot discussions among the media and fans in China.

Even though the game had been over for two or three days, the Chinese media and fans were still immersed in the joy and heated discussion about Jiang Xiaolin's hat trick and ranking first in the UEFA Cup scorer list.

Amid the heated discussion outside, the Alkmaar team, which returned to its base from the away game, rested for a day and conducted a day of recovery training, and then rushed to the away game on February 21 to prepare for the 24th round of the Eredivisie against Heracles.

Having just traveled a long distance and played a high-intensity away knockout match in Poland in the UEFA Cup, plus the next game four days later was the second round of the UEFA Cup knockout match, Van Gaal naturally made a certain degree of rotation and put on several substitutes.

Of course, the bigger reason for this is that Heracles is not strong and is currently only ranked at the bottom of the standings.

Van Gaal felt that with Alkmaar's strength, even if it was away, with Jiang Xiaolin and Romero starting one after the other, one spear and one shield, they should be able to win.

Hercules' home stadium can only accommodate more than 12,000 people, and the team's performance is not good. The average attendance of Hercules this season is only about 6,000 people.

But the audience against the top team Alkmaar filled the entire Hercules home stadium.

Of course, these are not all Hercules fans.

Facing the top team, although the attendance of Hercules fans is higher than other games, it is only about 8,000 people.

The remaining 4,000 seats are occupied by fans of Alkmaar and Jiang Xiaolin, as well as Chinese and overseas Chinese fans from all over Europe.

There are even Jiang Xiaolin's die-hard fans who flew thousands of miles from China.

Why?

The reason is that Jiang Xiaolin has scored a total of 42 league goals in the previous Eredivisie.

This number not only allows Jiang Xiaolin to continue to rank first in the Eredivisie scorer list, but also brings his number of goals close to the Eredivisie single-season personal goal record of 43 goals set by PSV Eindhoven's legendary shooter Coen Dillon in the 1956/1957 season. The two sides are only one goal apart.