Chapter 143 Kill
In the league, Jiang Mu dared to take risks with two young central defenders, but Jiang Mu was a little cautious in a final cup match. He guested with Enko as a central defender and took Hoffs to guard the middle. For the sake of safety, Jiang Mu put Gattuso and Van Bomel in front of the two, and the only player in the midfield attack was A. Ertidore.
Such a defense is a little more stable than the last game against Utrecht. The front offensive players did not pay attention to both ends, but played much more easily. After Van Bomel scored a goal for Fortunassy in the first half, Alkmaar's players controlled the game steadily until the end of the first half, and Droba at the beginning of the second half. With another goal, there seems to be no suspense in the game.
But in the last ten minutes, the situation suddenly changed. Enke, who changed from the back to the centre-back, made a fatal mistake. He stopped the ball on the penalty area line, was grabbed by the opponent's striker, and scored a single-knife ball into the penalty area.
This mistake could have been avoided, because Enko should not stop the ball at all. As the central defender of the last defender, he should relieve his teammate's return pass at this time, instead of stopping.
Enko's goal caused tension in the whole defense line. Three minutes later, the young Hoffs finally couldn't stand the pressure. When the opponent made a less threatening free kick, he headed the ball into his door and helped the opponent equalize the score with an own goal.
Then, although Alkmar bombarded Fortunaxi's goal indiscriminately, there was too little time for them to break Fortunaxi's goal and had to play overtime with their opponents.
Overtime is the last thing Jiang Mu wants to see, because the players' physical fitness has reached its limit at this time. If he plays overtime, he may not be able to rest in the next game, which has a great impact on his overall plan, but he doesn't want to play at this time.
The overtime is still very difficult, and the opponent's defense is very tenacious. Alkmaar's own defensive line makes the midfield and front court afraid to fully invest his troops. This kind of heart-wish game is the most difficult to play. It was not until the 5th minute of the second half that Alkmaar scored with a rare long-range shot by Tomarson. And with this goal, he defeated Fortunaxi 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 win the 18th consecutive victories of the league this season and the 20th consecutive victories, including the Cup.
Sparta Rotterdam is Alkmaar's first league opponent. After a cycle, we meet again. There is a different feeling in my mind. For the first time, Sparta Rotterdam is still a veteran Dutch team. They look down at Alkmaar, the promoted little brother, whether it is coach Jane. Evans, and their players, all use the mentality of big brother to give his little brother Class A class.
But now, four months later, Alkmaar is already the leader of the league, winning the championship, a super strong team with 17 consecutive wins, and Sparta Rotterdam is still waiting to die in the middle class. In the face of such an old opponent, the head coach of Sparta Rotterdam, Jane. Evans can only meet the challenge of his opponent as a weak person and mentality.
"Alkmaar's strength is no taboo, but this is not the reason for us to give up the battle. We don't want to be a number on the road to Alkmaar's winning streak. We should have the courage to end their victory. Although this is very difficult, for us, the only benefit Fortunately, they fought a fierce battle in the Dutch Cup 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 22-game winning streak set by Eindhoven in the 86-87 season. Jiang Mu objected. He believed that these records were meaningful in track and field, but they were just the icing on the cake in football. He did not want this record to become the pressure of players.
Jiang Mu made sufficient preparations for the beginning of the new round of cycle. The main force who participated in the Dutch Cup three days ago was a substitute, and Jiang Mu, who consumed too much physical energy, was put on the bench. In the position of the central defender that has attracted much attention in this game, Jiang Mu still has a combination of Enko and Hofs. Although this combination made a major mistake in the last game, Jiang Mu can't come up with a better combination. It was beyond Jiang Mu's expectation that the two central defenders were injured at the same time.
After the game began, Alkmaar, who fought away from home, took the initiative to attack. Recently, attacking and defending is their main tactic. No matter what kind of opponent they face, Jiang Mu wants the players to press on, overwhelm the opponent in momentum, and keep the war away from his penalty area. This is also after the two defenders were injured at the same time. The main reason why Erkmal continues to maintain a winning streak.
Although Sparta Rotterdam knows that Alkmaar's guard line is unstable, they do not have the ability to hit Alkmaar's hinterland for the time being. In terms of cooperation with them, they are almost the same as Alkmaar, but their personal ability, Alkmaar, who has many potential superstars, is far better than Sparta Rotterdam.
However, after the fiasco of the first confrontation, Jane. Evans also learned to be obedient, that is, to rush, not to play a long pass through the midfield, not even through the side, directly threatening the opponent's back line.
Alkmaar had a fierce battle in the week, and Sparta Rotterdam was eliminated early in the Dutch Cup. At this moment, they have the upper hand in physical fitness. Alkmaar can't compete with them, so he can only use his technical advantages to avoid the opponent's robbed.
Jiang Mu is very clear about what tactics the opponent will use to deal with him, because he often deals with technical teams like this. In the face of the opponent's struggle, Jiang Mu's approach is to avoid the dense middle road, take two sides, pass the ball from the middle distance to avoid the midfield, and pass directly to the strong center Drogba and Tony. The twin towers are in The reception inside and outside the penalty area directly forms a threat to the opponent's goal.
Jiang Mu's tactics are very right. Of course, the main reason is that they have such players. There are no two centers like Drogba and Tony. You can't even get the ball in the penalty area. What's the threat? Without the side road, the fast horse Suleiman and the offensive and defensive Clone Camp, the side road cannot form a breakthrough.
After playing for half an hour in the game, Alkmaar scored a goal. A typical goal was scored. Clone Camp broke through the bottom and crossed the middle. Recently, Tony, who frequently appeared as the main player, performed well. He took advantage of his height to head the goal and scored the fifth league goal of the season.
After scoring the goal, Alkmaar did not retract, but continued to expand the victory. The offensive came one after another, and played a small **. Sparta Rotterdam was a little messy. The midfield fight looked more like a bunch of headless flies, rather than organized and planned. The scramble of technology.
Three minutes later, Alkmaar scored another goal. This time it was Drogba, who scored his 15th league goal, second only to Tomasson with 17 goals.
And Tony was not willing to fall behind. At the last moment of the first half, he took a long pass from the backcourt, headed the ball, and completed an unexpected attack. The goalkeeper of Sparta Rotterdam was cheated and could only watch the ball fly into the corner in a daze.
In the first half, he took a three-zero lead. It seems that Jiang Mu's team's 18th consecutive victory is a certainty. Jiang Mu did not make any special arrangement in the locker room, but asked the players to play like the first half in the first 30 minutes of the second half and play defensive counterattack in the last 15 minutes.
There is nothing wrong with the arrangement itself, but the physical fitness of the Alkmar players is very bad. After attacking for half an hour in the second half, their physical fitness suddenly collapsed. What gave Jiang Mu a headache and anger was that Artidore was injured in the 20th minute of the second half, which was a fight against Alkmaar. The attack is almost fatal.
Because in this Alkmaar camp, Altidore is the team's metopme. He doesn't score many goals and is average defense, but he controls the rhythm of the game and reflects Jiang Mu's meaning on the court. Without Altidore, this Alkmaar is almost equivalent to brain death.
In this case, Jiang Mu can only let the team return to defense, replace Artidore, replace Klose, replace Tony, replace Tommasson, and start a defensive counterattack.
Of course, it is not a problem to fight back against the defense at this time. The problem is that when the defense is difficult, you can't fight back, and the result becomes that the defense does not fight back.
Alkmar is like this now.
The two cheating central defenders scared every player, including goalkeeper Silva, for fear of Enger and Hovs' sudden illness.
But according to Murphy's Law, the more you are afraid of making mistakes, the more you will definitely make mistakes. As a result, in the 78th minute of the game, Hofs missed and let the opponent's main striker Oss grab the point and shoot into the goal, turning the score 1:3.
Alkmaar still has the advantage of two goals. They continue to defend, hoping to hold on for the remaining ten minutes. However, the game is no longer under the control of Alkmaar at this moment. Five minutes later, Sparta Rotterdam played an offensive small **. Oss pulled out a long shot outside the penalty area and hit the ball. His player's leg changed and flew into the net, and the score became 2:3.
At this time, Jiang Mu couldn't sit still. He didn't dare to defend any more. He quickly let the players try their best to push out. But at this time, the defeat was like a mountain. The opponent's morale came up, and the fight was extremely fierce. Jiang Mu couldn't hold it. The opponent still pressed Alkmaar to attack in the game.
When the game lasted for 90 minutes, Oss, who had gone crazy, scored directly with a free kick, completing the hat-trick of the game and helping Sparta Rotterdam equalize the score.
Alkmaar doesn't want to be tied, because they are only five games away from the record of 22 consecutive wins set by Eindhoven in the 86-87 season, and only two games away from the 19 consecutive wins set by Ajax in 1994/95-1995/96, although Jiang Mu said don't care about these records, but with great hope of winning the championship, who doesn't want to set a record?
The three minutes of stoppage time is the three minutes of the bloody battle between the two sides. Alkmaar really tried his best. Every player rushed to attack. In the last minute, the goalkeeper Silva rushed to the opponent's half. In the end, fate favored Jiang Mu again. Gattuso, who had been improving in the attack. In the melee, a header broke through the opponent's door, helping Alkmaar beat Sparta Rotterdam in the away game, thrillingly completing 18 consecutive victories in the league.