God of Greenery

Because Jiang Xiaolin scored 10 consecutive goals in the first three games, the Groningen youth team defended Jiang Xiaolin more tightly than Feyenoord.

In the midfield, Jiang Xiaolin didn't face too much pressure, and he could easily pass and cut with his teammates.

However, once Jiang Xiaolin enters the 30-meter area of ​​the goal, he will often face a close defense of a defensive player, plus one or two defensive players in the area to help defend.

This is really treating Jiang Xiaolin as the core of the Alkmaar youth team's offense and defense, rather than an ordinary 16-year-old Huaguo youth player.

The defensive treatment encountered by those world-class strikers in the top leagues in the game is probably nothing more than this.

In the situation where the opponent is strictly defending, even if Jiang Xiaolin has superhuman speed and full off-the-ball running ability, it is difficult to find a real shooting gap within 30 meters of the goal.

Even if Jiang Xiaolin occasionally finds a gap, his teammates still need to find out in time and pass the ball in time to form a tacit pass-run cooperation. This kind of opportunity is even less.

This caused Jiang Xiaolin to not complete a shot in the first 10 minutes.

This made Jiang Xiaolin a little anxious.

In his view, a striker's outstanding performance is scoring goals.

In order to gain Van Gaal's approval in this game and be transferred to the first team, Jiang Xiaolin believes that he must score goals, and try to score as many goals as possible.

So, Jiang Xiaolin, who was anxious and wanted to score a goal, ignored his teammate Kagel's request for the ball in the 12th minute and took a strong long shot about 35 meters away from the goal.

Jiang Xiaolin's excellent physical fitness allowed him to kick the ball with great strength and speed. Moreover, Jiang Xiaolin's full shooting skills allowed him to shoot the long shot without leaving the goal, and it was still within the range of the goal frame.

If the goalkeeper was unprepared, Jiang Xiaolin might have made a sneak attack.

But things backfired.

Jiang Xiaolin, who scored 10 goals in three games, is now famous in the Heqing League. The goalkeepers of all youth teams regard him as an enemy. How could he be so defenseless?
When Jiang Xiaolin took the ball, the goalkeeper of Groningen began to move his position, so that he was always in the best defensive position, just to prevent Jiang Xiaolin's sudden shot.

In addition, Jiang Xiaolin can't kick the arc. Although the ball is powerful and fast, it basically goes straight to the goal without any difficulty.

The goalkeeper only moved two steps, stood firmly on the ball path, and caught the ball in his arms, so that Alkmaar didn't even get a chance to make a supplementary shot.

Seeing Jiang Xiaolin ignoring his own existence, taking a non-threatening long shot from such a long distance, and giving the ball to the opponent in vain, Cagle frowned slightly.

But he is not too good at criticizing Jiang Xiaolin.

Because although Jiang Xiaolin's shot was reluctant, it was still within the range of the goal frame, which was much better than Cagle's many times when he couldn't even hit the goal frame.

And now that Jiang Xiaolin's status in the team is higher than everyone else's, it's even more inconvenient for Cagle to criticize him.

After all, the football team is still a place that pays attention to strength.

A strong person, even if he is not a ball bully, few teammates are willing to offend.

Langlot and others also complained that Jiang Xiaolin did not pass the ball to Cagle who was in a better position this time, but chose to take a long-range shot.

But everyone is the same as Cagle, it is not easy to speak up and criticize.

It doesn't matter if there is only one person.

And he is where the duty lies.

This is the team captain, midfielder Douglas.

As the captain, Douglas felt that he had the responsibility and obligation to coordinate the relationship between his teammates and lead the team to victory.

This time, Jiang Xiaolin's shot made Douglas see something bad.

Therefore, he approached Jiang Xiaolin without hesitation, and asked in a low voice with reproach, "Jiang, what's the matter? You should have passed the ball to Cagle just now."

In fact, Jiang Xiaolin had already reacted after his shot was confiscated by the opponent's goalkeeper: he was too impatient.

Therefore, after hearing the captain's question, Jiang Xiaolin apologized: "I'm sorry, captain, I was a little anxious just now, and I won't do it next time."

Hearing that Jiang Xiaolin realized his mistake, Douglas nodded and said, "Next time, pay attention to the running position of your teammates, and don't lose the ball easily."

Jiang Xiaolin nodded, indicating that he had made a note of it.

In the stands, Van Gaal also frowned at Jiang Xiaolin's shot, thinking that this was not a good opportunity to shoot.

However, in the subsequent games, Jiang Xiaolin did not make such a mistake again.

After realizing that he was too impatient, Jiang Xiaolin took the time to look at his mission 5 again, and confirmed that the mission requirements only required him to help the team win, and did not say that he must score goals.

If you can send a few assists to help the team win, it will be regarded as a good performance. Can you conquer Van Gaal?

After he figured it out, Jiang Xiaolin never made the same mistake again.

In the next game, Jiang Xiaolin instead began to take advantage of the opponent's strict marking of himself to create gaps and opportunities for his teammates.

In the 19th minute, it was Jiang Xiaolin who moved to the side, taking away two defensive players in the middle, leaving Groningen empty in the middle, and giving Langlot a chance to drive straight into the penalty area and shoot.

If it weren't for the final shot from a slightly right angle and being saved by the goalkeeper from the bottom line, Alkmaar might have taken the lead.

Jiang Xiaolin missed the next corner kick and was cleared by a player from Groningen who pushed out of the penalty area.

In the 23rd minute, Jiang Xiaolin took the ball from the corner of the penalty area again and attracted the defense of two Groningen players, but then he passed the ball to the center with a short pass.

Joel followed up in time, volleyed the ball without stopping, and the ball missed the post slightly.

Jiang Xiaolin used his attractiveness to Groningen's defense to continuously create murderous opportunities for his teammates.

For a while, there was a lot of turmoil in the Groningen penalty area, and it seemed that the ball might be lost at any time.

Although Jiang Xiaolin didn't score a goal or even take a shot, Van Gaal was quite satisfied with his role in the offense during this period.

The team is a whole, and sometimes you don't have to score a goal to make a contribution.

Like Jiang Xiaolin is now, using his attractiveness to the opponent's defense to create gaps and shooting opportunities for his teammates is also a very good performance.

Van Gaal is happy with that.

Such Jiang Xiaolin, even if he no longer shoots goals, he has decided to transfer Jiang Xiaolin to the first team.

Because he can enrich the offensive play of the first team.

But sometimes games are just that unpredictable.

When you're desperately trying to score goals you never score, but when you're not so obsessed with scoring goals, opportunities can suddenly appear unexpectedly.