Chapter 18 Alkmaar's Anger

Alkmaar's players have not warmed up on the court for a few minutes, nor have they found Jiang Mu cheating on the court. They thought it was because of the artificial turf. At this time, the referee and the fourth official sent by the Dutch Football Federation came to the court. The game will be officially started soon. The players from both sides went back to the locker room to change their clothes and followed the coach to make the final arrangements before playing.

In the visiting team's locker room, Van Dijk looked serious and said to the 11 players who started the game: "The opponent is just a fourth-level amateur team, but the more it is like this, the less we can't overturn in the gutter. We not only want to win, but also win beautifully. I hope to end the suspense and tactics of the game in the first half. I don't want to talk more now. If we talk about so many tactics with the CET-4 amateur team, we don't have to rush to the first place. But I hope you don't underestimate the enemy. This is a team in the same city as us. Not to mention losing, we have scored fewer goals, and we don't have the face to meet our fans.

"Ten to zero! They scored ten goals."

"Never give them a chance to turn over."

"Winning them is not a piece of cake."

Alkmaar's players have also been suffocated by interviews with Oriental Dragon players and Jiang Mu these days. They have shouted to the head coach to express their determination to teach the Oriental Dragons those amateur players who don't know the depth of heaven and earth.

When Van Dijk saw that the players were in high spirits and fighting spirit, he nodded. He led the team with the most morale, and he also had to play morale in the game. For this kind of amateur team, as long as the morale came out and suppressed them, it would definitely collapse ten minutes later.

In the locker room of the home team, the atmosphere is very relaxed. Jiang Mu is talking to the players, but the background music is Zhu Bajie's daughter-in-law, and Jiang Mu's speech before the war is also very relaxed and humorous.

"... Alkmaar is the boss here, but we can't give face to the boss today, because the boss bullied us and came to our house. Of course, the boss is stronger than me, better than we can fight, otherwise can he be called the boss? But we can't be afraid. Everyone will be timid when we play against a professional team for the first time. If someone says he is not afraid, it's a lie. Some people are timid, but this does not prevent them from fighting like warriors. The real hero is a man who fights bravely even if he is timid. Some players will overcome their fears in less than a minute. Some take an hour. Also, it will take a few days. A real man will not let fear overcome his sense of honor and responsibility.

But if it takes a few days to overcome the fear, please tell me that you are starting to brew now. It will take an hour to participate in the next game. Please also tell me that you can be a substitute...

The players were laughed out of Jiang Mu's easy ridicule.

"In fact, the boss came to us to provoke, and we should thank them, because they gave us a chance to become heroes and bosses. After winning this game, the brothers here today will get a qualification worth boasting. In 20 years, you will be lucky to have participated in this game. At that time, the grandson sat next to you and asked you, "Grandpa, what record did you get when you said you played football?" You don't have to cough awkwardly and stammer, "Ah... Grandpa forgot." On the contrary, brothers, you can stare straight into his eyes and say righteously, "Grandson, Grandpa, I lost the professional team Alkmaar in the Dutch Cup. Look! It's the Eerste Divisie!"

"Kle the boss and be a brave man."

There was rainstorm-like applause in the simple locker room. The players of the Oriental Dragon have a heartfelt respect for Jiang Mu. Although Jiang Mu is very young and younger than them all, Jiang Mu has won everyone's respect with his wisdom and personality charm in the past few months.

When Jiang Mu said this, some players recorded these words, which were later spread out and learned by many media and coaches as a classic pre-match mobilization example.

At 2:50, Alkmaar and the Oriental Dragon walked to the court from the locker room. The game of advancing to the top 16 of the Dutch Cup slowly kicked off.

Jiang Mu, as the host, walked over and shook hands with Van Dijk, but although Van Dijk stretched out his hand, his eyes stared at the sky, as if he found a UFO in the sky, and deliberately made Jiang Mu ugly.

Jiang Mu was not angry. He smiled and returned to his seat with satisfaction. The more arrogant the opponent is, the happier he is. Only in this way can he have a chance to defeat his opponent.

On the court, Alkmar captain Maher and Ke Liang, captain of the Oriental Dragons, are exchanging the team's flag emblem, picking sides and serving rights.

Ke Liang and Maher actually knew each other, but on this occasion, the two only hugged briefly and did not communicate further.

With the approaching time of the game, there are more and more fans. At that time, when the needle pointed to 3 o'clock, there were 7,000 to 8,000 spectators, men and women, most of whom were residents of Alkmaar City, most of whom were fans of Alkmaar, and some of them were due to It's fun to watch the game between the two Alkmaar teams. In fact, because of the region, there were not many fans when Alkmaar played the league, that is, 3,000 or 4,000 people.

"False..."

With the referee's whistle, the game of 32 in 16 in the fourth round of the Dutch Cup kicked off.

The first one to kick off is Alkmaar, the leader of the second league. Under the order of the tough and manic head coach Van Dijk, the players of Alkmaar can't wait to beat the Oriental Dragon at the beginning. After they catch the ball, they all attack and directly raised the defense line near the middle circle, not the Oriental Dragon at all. Keep it in your eyes. Because in their opinion, this is not a heavyweight competition at all. Playing with the Oriental Dragon is an insult to their professional team.

However, the Oriental Dragons have long been psychological, spiritual and tactically prepared for the difficulty and hardship of the game and the strength of their opponents. In the face of the aggressive opponents, the players of the Oriental Dragons tighten the fence with three midfielders and four defenders as the main defensive system. The three forwards harass Alkmaar's defense in the midfield, patient Entangled with Alkmaar.

However, the difference between a professional team and an amateur team cannot be compensated by external things such as the field, the number of people and morale. The striker who carried out the harassment task in front had to come back to defend after less than two minutes and set up an iron barrel array to deal with the Alkmaar team, which is far higher than them.

After playing less than five minutes of the game, Alkmaar's players felt something wrong. They have never played on the artificial turf field, but today's field is very different from the completely non-artificial turf. The ball speed is extremely slow, the running is not strong, the feet are slippery, there is no foot feeling at all, and there is almost no forced to grab it. It's a 100% accurate pass, and it's often not in place now.

Some careful Alkmaar players took time to squat down and looked, only to find that the turf was too long and wrapped around his feet. What's more annoying was that there was a thick layer of sand sprinkled on the turf.

Sprinkle sand? Pigs! It's too much!"

"Despicable Chinese! How can you play football with such a long turf!?

"How dare you use such a trick!"

Alkmaar's players were angry and scolded at the players of the Oriental Dragon.

The players of the Oriental Dragons did not show weakness, and they did not feel embarrassed at all. They scolded Alkmaar's players righteously.

"This is our stadium. We can do whatever we want."

"That's right, don't we play football on it?"

"Don't make excuses for yourself. You are at this level, just a second-class team."

This is also one of the tactics of the Oriental Dragon Team. It uses all means to hit the opponent and make the opponent lose its calmness. The game is 90 minutes. As long as the opponent can't play the real level in 90 minutes, you will win. Even if you play Alkmaar a hundred times later, it is useless to win. Football is a game of winning within a certain period of time.

Van Dijk on the sidelines also saw the situation on the court. He angrily grabbed a handful of sand and said to Jiang Mu, "Is this the coaching style of your Chinese coach?"

Jiang Mu's face did not change his color and his heart did not beat. He spread out his hands and said, "We also play on the same court. Is this unfair?"

"Shameless! Even if we go to the beach and vegetable field, we will still defeat you. Van Dijk said with a pale face.

"What else can I say? I thought your level would change with the venue." Jiang Mu said disapprovingly.

Van Dijk was choked by Jiang Mu and stopped talking. He stood on the sidelines and shouted to the players, asking them to continue the front line and score as soon as possible.

Of course, Alkmaar's players also want to score quickly. However, although the opponent is an amateur team, their defense is very good, and they invest a large number of defensive numbers. More importantly, the field is too poor and the passing speed is slow, so that Alkmaar's offensive speed can't be played. There is no overall speed, relying on skills alone. It is difficult for the skill and body to break the defense of the iron barrel array, even if the opponent is an amateur team.

Alkmaar could not break the defense line of the Oriental Dragon for a while, while the Oriental Dragons only had the ability to fight and did not fight back. Even the three strikers went back to be defenders and did not have the ability to attack the loopholes left by Alkmaar's big pressure. The game fell into a stalemate from the beginning.

Jiang Mu sat on the sidelines, as if he didn't care about the outcome of the game at all. In fact, his smart computer has been collecting and recording all the information of the game and analyzing the situation at any time.

However, Van Dijk, the head coach of Alkmaar, stood up and sat down for a while. There was no steadyness and self-restraint that the coach of a professional team should have, just like a frizzy young man, which made Jiang Mu laugh secretly. After the fans around him saw the comparison of postures and expressions between the two people, they all looked at Jiang. Mu was surprised and admired by such calmness in this kind of competition.

Ten minutes passed quickly. Alkmaar, the leader of the second division, still could not help this brother in the same city who was worse than his fourth level. Not only that, they even had little chance to shoot. Moreover, the game scene is still ugly, the rhythm is slow, and there are mistakes in passing the ball from time to time. Unjustifiable physical confrontations emerge one after another, because the Oriental Dragon is an amateur team, and the referee's requirements for them are relatively loose. As long as there is no maliciously hurting people, he will turn a blind eye and the other, at most a warning or two.

This made Alkmaar, who had no ordinary heart before the game, more angry and impatient. The attack became very impatient. He just wanted to score goals in the fastest and most relieved way. The bottom pass and personal ability became their most conventional weapon, but in the face of intensive defense, the bottom pass and personal ability are the most efficient. Low, it can't break the intensive defensive tactics that the Oriental Dragon has been training for a long time.