God of Green

After a 15-minute break, the two sides changed sides and continued the game.

At the beginning of the second half, Lekpsner made a substitution, replacing a full-back with a midfielder and changing to a 352 formation.

This was a desperate attack.

Lekpsner's change of formation really caught Alkmaar off guard and achieved a certain effect.

On the one hand, after playing with three central defenders, there was no need to worry about the wing. The three central defenders just had to firmly guard the middle to prevent Jiang Xiaolin's counterattack, and the wing defense was left to the wing forwards and midfielders to fight for.

On the other hand, after increasing the number of midfielders, Lekpsner's control in the midfield was much higher than Alkmaar in both offense and defense.

Often, once Alkmaar's players got the ball, they would face two or three, or even three or four opposing players to scramble for it, and either the ball was intercepted and lost, or the hasty pass made a mistake.

In this case, it was difficult to pass the ball to Jiang Xiaolin's feet, let alone a counterattack.

In the 62nd minute, with more than 10,000 home fans cheering wildly, Lekpusna's desperate and crazy attack finally paid off.

They pushed the attack into the penalty area, and striker Lian Jiefu made a high-quality volley from the side of the penalty area.

Although the shot was saved by Sergio Romero, it was not saved at the bottom line, but bounced back and fell at the feet of Lekpusna midfielder Rosicky who also rushed into the penalty area.

Rosicky shot the ball before the Alkmaar defender cleared it, and shot the ball into the Alkmaar goal.

The desperate substitution of the Lekpusna coach actually paid off, allowing the team to score and tie the score.

Suddenly, the Lekpusna fans at the scene and in front of the TV went crazy, shouting and celebrating wildly in the stands, and the players on the field also ran wildly to celebrate.

However, in fact, they only tied the score, and this was their home court.

It was just that the second goal was too difficult to come by, so they celebrated so wildly.

Although the players of Alkmaar were a little depressed after losing the ball, they did not disturb the celebration of the players of Lekpsner.

Because it was not them who needed time.

If the game ended with a score of 2-2, Alkmaar would actually have won.

After getting a draw from the away game and holding two away goals, Alkmaar will have the tactical initiative after returning to the home court in the next round, while Lekpsner can only choose to attack. At that time, Alkmaar can counterattack the opponent more easily at home.

At the same time, Van Gaal also called Stein Schalls, who was close to him, to his side when the opponent was celebrating and explained the new tactics.

Facing the opponent's 352 three-center-back formation, Van Gaal made corresponding tactical instructions at this time, asking the two wing forwards to strengthen their assists, and the front midfielder Van der Velden needed to divide the side more instead of passing the ball to Jiang Xiaolin.

Because Jiang Xiaolin was alone in the front and involved the opponent's three central defenders, the other striker Ali also needed to expand his running range. It would be best if he could run out of space to receive the pass from the winger and shoot.

After Schalls conveyed Van Gaal's latest tactical instructions to all the players, everyone knew how to play next.

After celebrating for more than half a minute, the players of Lekpusner finally celebrated and returned to their own half to wait for Alkmaar to kick the ball in the middle circle.

After the game resumed, Lekpusner, who had tasted the benefits of using the advantage of numbers to fight in the midfield, paid more attention to the fight in the midfield. The two wingers almost didn't return to defense, but fought in the midfield and tried to get the ball to the bottom line.

In the system of three central defenders, if the two wingers did not return to defense, there would be large gaps in the backfield of Lekpusner. Van Gaal asked his two full-backs to go to the front field more often to take advantage of this weakness of the opponent.

However, Lekpsner, who was in high spirits after scoring the goal and continued to attack, did not notice this problem.

Or, even if someone noticed it, they could not take care of both, because they needed to attack and score more, and could not take care of both ends.

They were still fighting fiercely in the front and middle court, trying to counter-attack and attack on the spot to score.

But scoring is not that easy?

Especially when their players were not as good as Jiang Xiaolin in shooting, it was difficult to score even if they got the chance.

In the 74th minute, Lekpsner had a great chance to score.

It was a pass error made by the backcourt players of Alkmaar under the pressure of the opponent's players, and wasThe Lekpusna player intercepted the ball and quickly passed it to Liyunduski in the penalty area.

Liyunduski made a shot from the right side of the penalty area, which caused the last central defender Ragnar Klavan to fly to block the shot, and the goalkeeper Sergio Romero also stood at the near corner and nervously prepared to save his shot.

As a result, Liyunduski's foot landed, but he did not shoot, but passed the ball horizontally to the corner of the small penalty area at the back point.

Liyunduski's fake shot caught all the Alkmaar players, including the goalkeeper, off guard.

Lekpusna midfielder Banzuski, who cut into the penalty area from the other side, got a chance to shoot without interference.

You know, at this time, goalkeeper Romero was still rushing back on the other side of the goal!

In fact, Banzuski was facing a huge empty goal.

As a result, when all the Lekpsna fans in the stands had stood up to cheer and celebrate the goal, Banzuski, who rushed to the position, did not choose a more stable push shot without interference, but chose a violent volley.

Maybe he wanted to use a powerful and violent volley to score a goal to overtake the score.

However, his choice hurt himself.

In such a good opportunity, he actually kicked it!

Not only did he not kick the ball into the goal, but he kicked the ball so hard that it rolled out of the baseline, which was equivalent to helping Alkmaar to get out of the siege, and he didn't get a corner kick.

The fans in the audience were stunned, and Banzuski himself was dumbfounded. He suddenly collapsed and knelt on the ground, covering his head and feeling annoyed.

The players of Alkmaar were glad that they escaped.

As the saying goes, those who survive a great disaster will have good fortune in the future.

Less than 5 minutes after Banzuski wasted this sure-shot chance, in the 80th minute, Alkmaar launched a high-quality counterattack.

This counterattack was an opportunity to break through Lekepsner's defense from the wing, in accordance with Van Gaal's tactical instructions.

Alkmaar's defensive midfielder David Mendes first intercepted the ball in the midfield, and then passed the ball a few times to Van der Velden's feet.

Van der Velden, who was holding the ball, did not pass it to Jiang Xiaolin, who was running quickly to the penalty area but was facing the defense of three central defenders, but made a diagonal pass to the large gap on the right wing of the opponent's backcourt.

The disadvantage of Lekepsner not having a full-back was clearly shown in Alkmaar's counterattack.

Alkmaar's right forward Stein Schalls made a high-speed insertion, received Van der Velden's pass and waded forward for a long distance, and then chased him at full speed, so that the Lekepsner side forward who was returning to defend could not catch up with him.

Of course, when Stein Schars was dribbling forward, he cut inside a little, not completely along the sideline.

This forced the central defenders defending Jiang Xiaolin and Ali in the middle to move one out to defend him.

Sure enough, seeing Schars cutting inside while advancing and seemingly trying to break into the penalty area and shoot directly, Tanevsky, who was on the right of the three central defenders of Lekpsner, had to give up his defense against Jiang Xiaolin and move to the right to intercept Schars.

After all, it was Schars who had the ball now, and his threat might be more direct than Jiang Xiaolin.

As a result, just as he moved his body and had not blocked Schars's forward route, Schars passed the ball.

The target of the pass was not Jiang Xiaolin, but Ali at the far end: Schars used a long pass in the air to avoid everyone in the middle, including Jiang Xiaolin.

Now one of the three central defenders was ready to block Schars, and the other two were defending Jiang Xiaolin, while Ali at the far end was empty.

No one was defending.

This is exactly what Van Gaal wanted.

Because Jiang Xiaolin's deterrence was too strong, the opponent focused their main attention on Jiang Xiaolin, so another striker Ali got more opportunities.

This opportunity was formed in this way.

Ali easily unloaded Stein Schars's aerial pass on the left side of Lekpsner's penalty area, stepped forward, and then shot the ball to the lower right corner of the goal before the defender who was still defending Jiang Xiaolin and rushed over to block the shot after seeing Schars' pass.

Ali caught the opponent's goalkeeper Lukowski off guard again.

When Stein Schars passed the ball to Ali, Lukowski, who was on the right, began to move to the left, intending to prevent Ali's shot from the left.

As a result, during his movement, Ali shot a reverse angle in the opposite direction.

Lukowski fell back reflexively, trying his best.He tried to save the ball, but because the ball was in the opposite direction of his center of gravity, Lukowski missed the ball by a hair's breadth and his hand failed to touch it.

The ball flew to the far corner in Lukowski's desperate eyes.

On the football field, there is a phenomenon that many players will subconsciously stop running or fighting when someone shoots, and then stare at the direction of the ball to see whether it goes in or is saved by the goalkeeper.

It seems that after someone shoots, the game will be suspended and everyone will wait for the result of the shot.

Many defensive players will subconsciously forget who they should defend at this time.

The last central defender of Lekpsna, Govik, who defended Jiang Xiaolin this time, made such a mistake.

One of their three central defenders just went to block Stein Schars, and the other went out to block the shot after Schars passed the ball to Ali.

Although the flying shot was unsuccessful this time, the player had indeed left the area where he could defend Jiang Xiaolin.

Finally, only Govik was left in the middle of the penalty area to defend Jiang Xiaolin.

However, after Ali shot the ball, Govik subconsciously turned his head to look in the direction of the ball.

Then, he saw that goalkeeper Rukski failed to touch the ball. Then, he saw the ball fly to the far corner.

His heart was about to jump out, fearing that the ball would fly into the goal.

In this brief moment, he completely forgot who he was supposed to defend.

Then, under the nervous gaze of the players and fans of Lekpusna, the ball that Ali shot to the far corner hit the post, and it did not bounce into the goal or the bottom line, but bounced back into the penalty area, and bounced towards Govik's position.

Govik was delighted and was about to move forward two steps and kick the ball out of the sideline to clear the siege.

As a result, a figure wearing an Alkmaar jersey suddenly rushed out from his side, and with a flying shovel shot, he touched the ball before Govik and shoveled the ball into the empty goal.

Govik just subconsciously looked at Ali's shot and ignored Jiang Xiaolin's defense, allowing Jiang Xiaolin to bypass him by running and shovel the ball that bounced back into the penalty area into the goal before him.

Govik was then tripped by Jiang Xiaolin who fell to the ground, but it was too late. The referee could not call Jiang Xiaolin a foul and cancel the goal because Jiang Xiaolin tripped Govik after shooting.

The referee pointed firmly at the center circle and made a valid goal.

Jones, the commentator of the Dutch TV station in the commentary booth, suddenly screamed excitedly:

"Goooooooooooooooooooooooooal..."

"The ball went in!"

"Jiang Xiaolin made a supplementary shot and scored twice."

"Alkmaar regained a 3-2 lead away from home."

"When Ali's shot was blocked by the goal post and the players and fans of Lekpsna thought they would escape, the sharp Jiang Xiaolin stood up and shoveled the ball into the goal, giving The opponent's fatal blow. "

"The goal at this time was quite fatal to Lekpusner."

"After falling behind at home and letting Alkmaar score three away goals, Lekpusner has been forced into a desperate situation."

"There is not much time left for Lekpusner, but they can only choose to attack, there is no other way to go."

Indeed, playing at home, falling behind in the total score, and conceding three away goals to the opponent...

Lekpusner was indeed forced into a desperate situation and had no time to think about defense.

After Alkmaar celebrated for more than half a minute, Lekpusner complained, the referee intervened, and asked Jiang Xiaolin and others to end the celebration and return to their own half. After the game resumed, Lekpusner's players launched a crazy attack.