“Williams made a great save on Cordero’s long shot! He kept the goal clean! Leeds City got a corner kick... This is a chance to score, but it should also be noted that this is also a chance for Catalonia to score.
,because they can fight back..."
Matthew Cox reminds.
At the same time, in front of the home team's coaching bench on the sidelines, assistant coach Alberto Vazquez had returned to Bernal with the French forward Fabian Bouffre who was about to be replaced.
“Do you want to make a substitution now?” Vazquez asked.
Bernal shook his head: "No, wait a moment, wait until the corner kick is finished."
Then he said to Vazquez: "Let Mario stay in front and don't come back to participate in the defense."
Vázquez understood immediately what Bernal was trying to do.
He wanted to take advantage of this corner kick opportunity to counterattack Leeds City.
Salado is fast and good at dribbling and attacking. He is indeed the most suitable candidate for counterattacks.
Although he had consumed a lot of physical energy before, after two minutes of rest, he still had enough energy to fight back just this time...
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Mario Salado on the field saw Leeds City getting a corner kick and tried to return to the penalty area to participate in the defense, just like before.
But on his way back he heard the assistant coach yelling, instructing him to stay in front.
He couldn't believe it at first and pointed at himself.
After getting a nod from the assistant coach, he took a deep breath and realized that he had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders. Although the assistant coach did not elaborate on it, the significance of just asking him to stay in front and not to return to defense was not simple. He knew this arrangement very well.
Just to let him fight back from the front.
Mr. Bernal trusted him and entrusted him with the most important tasks.
Then he must not live up to Mr. Bernal’s expectations.
Even center Pettersson returned to the penalty area, but he could stay alone near the midline.
This is a huge pressure, but it also means a great honor.
Salado had a smile he was trying to hide as Leeds centre-backs Ben Grist and Teddy Bradford ran past him.
The opponent's two central defenders both stepped up, which means...
Mario, you are going to be the hero of the Sagrada Familia Stadium!
He tried to take a deep breath, as if trying to get as much oxygen as possible.
His heart and lungs are like an engine, which needs to inhale a large amount of oxygen in order to explode with more surging power.
Now he is storing energy for the next explosion.
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As the two Leeds City center backs came to the Catalan United goal, all the Leeds City players involved in the corner kick attack arrived.
There is no doubt that the two central defenders have attracted the most attention from the Catalan United defense.
In particular, Ben Grist, who is over 1.9 meters tall, is currently the tallest person in front of the Catalan United goal. The tallest person in the Catalan United team is their center back Joel Jimenez, who is 1.88 meters tall.
, two centimeters shorter than Grist.
His centre-back partner Paul Fortune is only 1.84 meters tall.
Goalkeeper Carlos Cordero is 1.86 meters tall.
High center forward Pettersson is 1.87 meters tall.
They are the tallest people in the Catalan League.
As for Leeds City, Ben Grist is 1.9 meters tall and Teddy Bradford is 1.88 meters tall.
The arrival of the two of them has indeed added a lot of air defense pressure to Catalonia's defense.
Jimenez and Fortune naturally faced off against Leeds City's two central defenders. The former entangled Grist, and the latter followed Bradford.
This does not mean that Hu Lai is defenseless.
As Leeds City's top scorer, Catalonia did not ignore Hulay in positioning ball defense because of his short height. They specially sent someone to follow Hulay at every step.
Insua looked at Hulay in front of him. This was his goal in this set-piece defense.
His task is very simple. He doesn’t have to worry about football. He just keeps an eye on the person in front of him. Wherever he goes, he will go.
Although Leeds City's corner kicks will most likely involve two central defenders, Insua has to defend Hulay to grab the second goal.
The man in front of him has scored two goals in this game.
This is even after the head coach Mr. Bernal repeatedly emphasized to them before the game that they must be on strict guard against Hu Lai...
Both goals took advantage of the successful counter-offside opportunity and caught the Catalan United defense by surprise.
This further illustrates how cunning the person in front of him is and how rogue he is when running without the ball.
So Su Ya dare not take it lightly.
He really stared at Hu Lai without blinking.
While he was staring at Hu Lai, the person he was staring at suddenly spoke: "Is there something on my face?"
Yinsuya was stunned for a moment, unable to understand why Hu Lai asked this.
“Why else are you staring at my face? Is it because I’m handsome?”
Insua, who came back to his senses, hummed: "Don't be so sentimental. I'm just defending you."
Hearing what he said, Hu Lai burst into laughter: "You're just going to defend me with your eyes like this? Oh, come and let me teach you how to defend me. I'll run forward to catch the ball in a while..."
At this point, he pointed to the previous point specifically, as if he was afraid that Insuya would not know the specific place.
As expected, Yinsuya looked along.
Seeing this, Hu Lai smiled slightly: "But this is just a fake move. Then I will suddenly change direction and run to the back point. That is the landing point of the football. If you don't follow me closely, you will be completely thrown away by me here."
Open, and then I will put the ball into the goal from behind to complete the hat trick. How about it, have I made it clear enough?"
Yinsuya opened his mouth slightly and looked at Hu Lai in surprise, with an expression as if he heard "The Queen is pregnant"...
Although the 24-year-old Insua is not a veteran, he has played many games in Catalonia. This is the first time for him to meet an opponent who candidly tell his next moves during the game.
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After the initial shock, he fell into deep thought. So was this the nonsense of the kid in front of him, or was it true?
Wait a minute, Insua, what are you thinking about?
How could it be true?!
How could any offensive player tell the defensive players all their running routes?!
There is absolutely no such stupid person in the world!
And those who believe this nonsense are even more stupid!
Seeing that Insua was confused, Hu Lai smiled in a contemptuous tone: "I told you everything. If you really lose the ball, don't blame me for not telling you in advance."
As soon as he finished speaking, the referee blew the whistle, and Pete Williams lowered his raised arms and started to kick the ball!
The football is flying towards the penalty area!
Almost at the same time as the football took off, Hu Lai did run forward!
Yin Suya quickly followed after seeing this.
He was stuck inside, with his back to the goal, not looking where the football was, and all his eyes were focused on Hu Lai.
In his sight, Hu Lai, who was running forward, suddenly stopped and changed direction...
Sure enough, we turned back to the back point!
Yin Suya was so shocked that he didn’t expect that Hu Lai was not tricking him!
He quickly followed.
Even so, Insuya has been thrown away a little bit by Hu Lai...
“Then I will suddenly change direction and run to the back point, which is the landing point of the football. If you don’t follow me closely, you will be completely thrown away by me here..."
Yinsua’s mind was full of these words at this time.
You must not be thrown away by him!
Insuya, pick up the speed and accelerate!
Then he successfully surpassed Hu Lai!
Just when Yinsuya was overjoyed, he suddenly realized that something was wrong because he saw that Hu Lai, who was overtaken by him, did not come up to block his position, but just allowed himself to be overtaken...
This gave him a very strange feeling: maybe it was not that he was faster than Hu Lai just now, but that Hu Lai took the initiative to slow down and was overtaken by him!
As for why he took the initiative to slow down...
Does it still need to be said?
In Suya's eyes widening, Hu Lai, who had slowed down, directly came to a dry land to pull onions and jumped up on the spot!
He did not go to the front point, nor the back point, but right in the middle, under the cover of Ben Grist and Teddy Brayford, rising out of the dense crowd!
“Hulai!!”
Jimenez and Fortune both intend to stop Hulay, but there are two Leeds City center backs between them and the latter, so they can only watch the ball and sigh, unable to do anything!
The closest person to Hu Lai is Insuya, but he has been thrown away long ago and is one body away from Hu Lai. Now he can only reach out his hand reflexively and catch nothing in vain!
"Hu!!"
Catalan United fans in the stands of the Sagrada Familia booed loudly.
Huluai jumped up behind the crowd amid the boos, like the rising sun!
He hit the ball exactly where it landed!
The football flew past the people in front of the goal and towards the goal!
Goalkeeper Cordero was obviously blocked from sight by the dense crowd in front of him. When he saw the football flying over and jumped into the air to save it... it was already too late!
The football flew into the goal before he could reach it!
When the ball really flew into the goal, whether it was Catalan United fans, Leeds City fans, or Chinese fans staying up late watching in front of the TV thousands of miles away... many people couldn't even believe their eyes.
, when they saw the net being lifted up, they thought a football had hit the side netting from the outside.
It wasn’t until they saw that the football did not go away without returning, flying out of the baseline, but was trapped in the "cage" made of the net... They suddenly realized that the ball... the ball had gone in!
Cheers from bars large and small resounded over Leeds.
The sleeping land of China was almost awakened by the sudden roar!
"Hulay...Hulay! Hulay scored his first...hat-trick in the Champions League!!!"
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PS, the third update is complete!
Use Hu Lai’s hat trick to ask everyone for monthly votes!
In addition, double updates will resume from tomorrow~