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In the league, Jiang Mu dared to take risks with two young central defenders, but Jiang Mu was a little more cautious in a cup game where the winner was determined. He played the midfielder Enke as a guest central defender and led Hoffs to guard the middle. Just to be on the safe side, In front of the two, Jiang Mu placed Gattuso and Van Bommel, and only Altidore played in the midfield.

This kind of defense is a bit more stable than the previous game against Utrecht. The offensive players in front didn't have to worry about hanging on both ends, so they played a lot more easily. After Van Bommel scored a goal in Fortunasi in the first half, Alkmaar's players firmly controlled the game until the end of the first half. Drogba scored another goal at the beginning of the second half, and the game seemed to have no suspense.

But in the last 10 minutes, the situation changed suddenly. Enke, who changed from a defensive midfielder to a central defender, made a fatal mistake. He stopped the ball on the penalty area line and was caught by the opponent's striker.

This mistake could have been avoided, because Enke shouldn't have stopped the ball at all. As the last defender's central defender, he should have cleared his teammate's return pass at this time instead of stopping it.

Enke's conceded goal caused tension in the entire defense. After 3 minutes, the young Hofs finally couldn't bear the pressure. When the opponent took a free kick that was not a big threat, he headed the ball into his own home. Gate, with an own goal to help the opponent equalize the score.

Although Alkmaar bombarded Fortunasi's goal indiscriminately, there was too little time. They were still unable to break through Fortunasi's goal and had to play overtime with their opponents.

Overtime is the last thing Jiang Mu wants to see, because the physical fitness of the players has reached the limit at this time, and if overtime is played, the next game may not be able to rest, which will affect his overall plan It's big, but at this time he can't do it if he doesn't want to.

Overtime is still very difficult, the opponent's defense is very tenacious, and Alkmaar's own defense makes the midfielder dare not fully invest in the frontcourt. This kind of heart-wrenching game is the most difficult to play until stoppage time In the 5th minute of the second half, Alkmaar scored with a rare long-range shot from Thomason. With this goal, he defeated Fortunasi and reached the quarterfinals of the Dutch Cup.

After the Dutch Cup, Alkmaar rushed to the Sparta Stadium in Rotterdam almost non-stop, where they will hit their 18th consecutive league victory this season and their 20th consecutive victory including the cup.

Sparta Rotterdam is Alkmaar's first league opponent. We meet again after a cycle. I have a special feeling in my heart. For the first time, Sparta Rotterdam is still a veteran Eredivisie team. They look at Alkmaar with a bird's eye view. Kemar, the newly promoted little brother, no matter the coach Jane.Evans, still their player, used a mentality of a big brother teaching a little brother a class.

But now, four months later, Alkmaar is already the leader of the league, the favorite to win the championship, a super team with 17 consecutive victories, and Sparta Rotterdam is still waiting to die in the middle.Facing such an old opponent, the head coach of Sparta Rotterdam, Jane.Evans can only meet the opponent's challenge with the identity and mentality of the weak.

"Alkmaar's strength is undeniable, but this is not a reason for us to give up fighting. We don't want to be a number on Alkmaar's winning streak. We must have the courage to end their victory. Although this is very difficult, for us In other words, the only positive thing is that they played a fierce Dutch Cup match three days ago, and neither of the two central defenders was the original main force. We will try to seize the opportunity."

Before the game, many media advocated that Alkmaar broke the 86-game winning streak created by Eindhoven in the 87-22 season. Jiang Mu raised objections to this. He believed that these records were meaningful in track and field, but they were just icing on the cake in football. , he does not want this record to become a pressure on the players.

For the start of a new cycle, Jiang Mu has made sufficient preparations. A small part of the main players who participated in the Holland Cup three days ago were substitutes, and Jiang Mu, who was too physically exhausted, was placed on the bench.In the center back position that has attracted much attention in this game, Jiang Mu still chose the combination of Enke and Hoffs. Although this combination made a major mistake in the last game, Jiang Mu really couldn't come up with a better one. combination.It was beyond Jiang Mu's expectation that the two central defenders were injured at the same time.

After the start of the game, Alkmaar, who was playing away from home, took the initiative to attack. Recently, substituting offense for defense has been their main tactic. No matter what kind of opponent they face, Jiang Mu always wants the players to press forward, overwhelm the opponent in terms of momentum, and let the flames of war Staying away from his own penalty area is also the main reason why Alkmaar has continued his winning streak after the two defenders were injured at the same time.

Although Sparta Rotterdam knows that Alkmaar's back line is unstable, they are not able to reach Alkmaar's hinterland for the time being. In terms of coordination, they are almost the same as Alkmaar, but Alkmaar, who has many potential superstars, has personal ability. Marl is far better than Sparta Rotterdam.

But after experiencing the disastrous defeat in the first confrontation, Jane.Evans also learned a good lesson, that is to press wildly, not to play long passes through the midfield, and not even through the wings, directly threatening the opponent's defense.

Alkmaar had a fierce battle in the middle of the week, and Sparta Rotterdam was eliminated early in the Dutch Cup. At this moment, they are waiting for work. They have the upper hand in terms of physical fitness. Alkmaar cannot compete with them in physical fitness and can only use their technical advantages. To avoid the opponent's pressing.

Jiang Mu knew very well what kind of tactics the opponent would use to deal with him, because he often dealt with technical teams like this. Facing the opponent's scrambling, Jiang Mu's method was to avoid the dense center and take two sides , The mid-range pass avoids the midfielder and passes directly to the powerful center Drogba and Tony. The twin towers respond inside and outside the penalty area, directly forming a threat to the opponent's goal.

Jiang Mu's tactics are very correct, of course the main reason is that they have such players, there are no two center forwards like Drogba and Tony, you can't even get the ball in the penalty area, and you can't even talk about posing a threat.Without the fast horse Suleiman on the wing and the Kronkamp who is both offensive and defensive, the wing cannot form a breakthrough.

After half an hour of the game, Alkmaar scored a goal. It was a very typical goal. Kronkamp broke through from the side and crossed the middle. Tony, who has frequently appeared as the main force recently, performed very well. He used With the advantage of height, he scored with a header and scored his fifth league goal of the season.

After the goal, Alkmaar did not shrink back, but continued to expand the result of the victory. The offensive was wave after wave, and a small ** was played. It's like a bunch of headless flies, rather than an organized, planned and technical scramble.

Three minutes later, Alkmaar scored another goal, this time Drogba, who scored his 3th league goal, second only to Thomasson with 15 goals.

And Tony was not willing to fall behind. At the last moment of the first half, he received a long pass from the backcourt, headed the ball, and completed an unexpected goal. The goalkeeper of Sparta Rotterdam was deceived and could only be dumbfounded. Watching the ball fly into the corner.

With a 18-10 lead in the first half, it seems that Jiang Mu's team won the 15th game in a row. Jiang Mu didn't make any special arrangements in the locker room, but asked the players to play in the second half. The first three [-] minutes were played like the first half, and the last [-] minutes were played defensively.

There is nothing wrong with this arrangement itself, but there is a problem with the physical fitness of the Alkmaar players. After half an hour of onslaught in the second half, their physical fitness suddenly collapsed. What made Jiang Mu even more headache and angry was Altidore's attack in the second half. Injured in the 20th minute, the blow to Alkmaar was almost fatal.

Because in this Alkmaar camp, Altidore is the team's metronome. He doesn't score many goals and has average defense, but he controls the rhythm of the game and reflects Jiang Mu's meaning on the court. Without Altidore, this Alkmaar team is almost brain dead.

In this case, Jiang Mu could only let the team return to defense, replacing Altidore, Klose, Tony, and Thomason, and played a defensive counterattack.

Of course it is not a problem to play a defensive counterattack at this time. The problem is that when the defense is difficult, you cannot counterattack, and the result becomes defense without counterattack.

That's what Alkmaar is now.

The two cheating central defenders made every player, including goalkeeper Silva, trembling, worried that Engel and Hoffs would suddenly fall ill.

But according to Murphy's law, the more you are afraid of making mistakes, the more mistakes you will make. As a result, in the 78th minute of the game, Hoffs missed someone, allowing the opponent's main striker Oss to shoot and score. The score became 1:3.

Alkmaar still has the advantage of two goals. They continue to defend, hoping to hold the remaining ten minutes. However, the game is no longer under Alkmaar's control. After 5 minutes, Sparta Rotterdam played an attack The little **, Oss took a long shot from the outside of the penalty area. The ball hit his player's leg and flew into the net. The score became 2:3.

At this time, Jiang Mu couldn't sit still anymore, he didn't dare to defend anymore, and quickly asked the players to use their last bit of strength to push out, but at this time, the army was defeated, the opponent's morale was up, and the fight was extremely fierce, Jiang Mu couldn't hold it. Stop, the game is still the opponent's pressure on Alkmaar's onslaught.

In the 90th minute of the game, Oss, who had already played crazy, scored a free kick and completed a hat-trick of the game, which also helped Sparta Rotterdam equalize the score.

Alkmaar doesn't want to be tied, because they are only five games away from the 86-game winning streak created by PSV Eindhoven in the 87-22 season, and they are only five games away from the 199495-game winning streak created by Ajax in 199596-19. There are only two games left. Although Jiang Mu said not to care about these records, who would not want to create records when the hope of winning the championship is high.

The 3 minutes of stoppage time were 3 minutes of bloody battle between the two sides. Alkmaar really tried his best. Every player rushed to attack. In the last minute, goalkeeper Silva rushed to the half of the opponent. In the end, fate once again favored Jiang Mu. Gattuso, who had not improved in the attack, scored a header in the melee and broke through the opponent's goal, helping Alkmaar beat Sparta Rotterdam in the away game. 1 consecutive victories in the league.