In this way, Hu Lai moved out of the hotel, rented a house with Wang Guangwei, and went to training together every day. After the training, they came back together. When they came back, they stopped by the vegetable market to buy the ingredients for dinner.
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Since Hu Lai didn't know how to cook, they also agreed that it was Wang Guangwei's job to cook and Hu Lai's job to wash the dishes.
Life is calm and regular.
Two days later, Hu Lai returned to the rental house alone, while Wang Guangwei followed the team to the away game.
This weekend, Anton Shining Star challenged the Eagle Club of Tongqi Province away from home. The game kicked off at 3:30 on Saturday afternoon, so the Shining Star players who were selected for the game squad were all training after training this morning.
After having lunch at the base, we took a bus to the airport to catch a plane.
Wang Guangwei was selected into the competition squad, so naturally he would not go home with Hu Lai.
So that night, Hu Lai ate takeout. He ordered three beef and vegetable salads with different salad dressings through the takeout app, and ate them all without even a single corn kernel left.
The team did not train the next day. In the morning, he walked around nearby university campuses and supermarkets to familiarize himself with the surrounding environment.
After having a simple lunch outside, I returned to the rental house and turned on the TV at 3:30 in the afternoon to watch the Stars game on the Anton TV sports channel.
The TV broadcasts of the Chinese Premier League and the Chinese Super League are different. The broadcast rights of the Chinese Super League are sold to CCTV Sports Channel, which broadcasts them live nationwide. However, they also sell the broadcast rights of each team's games to local satellite TVs, allowing them to
If there is no satellite connection, the broadcast will only be carried out within the local signal coverage.
However, the broadcasting rights of the Chinese League One are not broadcast by any national broadcasting agency. They are subcontracted to various local TV stations. They can only broadcast the games of their own teams and cannot broadcast the games of other teams.
This is naturally because the players in the Chinese League One are not as famous and entertaining as those in the Chinese Super League. No organization is willing to spend a lot of money to buy the broadcast rights of all teams, so they simply split them off and local stations support their own teams.
You can also save a lot of money by buying the broadcast rights of your own team.
For this reason, before Hu Lai came to Shining Star, he had never watched a complete Shining Star game. Because he could not watch the Anton TV sports channel in Lingnan City. Only Anton Satellite TV could send the broadcast signal to the satellite.
, the following sub-channels do not have this qualification. The sports channels of local satellite TV can only be seen in the local area.
In addition, Flash Star is not a strong team in the Chinese League One. Before Qin Lin came, there were no big-name players and their popularity was not strong. There were no videos of the entire game uploaded by enthusiastic fans on the Internet, only some scattered game highlights.
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Today, Hu Lai regards watching the live broadcast of this game as an excellent opportunity for him to get to know the team.
He has only been here for half a week, and he has just identified the names and faces of everyone on the team. Even if he had learned about the Stars through online news before, it would not be as good as watching a complete game.
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This year's Chinese League One has played seventeen rounds. Flash Star currently has 24 points, ranking fourteenth, six points behind Yunshan Caiyun, who is third and sixteenth from the bottom. Six points does not seem to be the case.
It's less, but in fact it's just the difference between two games.
And in terms of rankings, there is only one team between the fourteenth and sixteenth places. This position is really unsafe.
Hu Lai knows that Director Zhao has adjusted the focus of his work from promotion at the beginning of the season to relegation. In the next half season, the team will have to fight for relegation.
In the final match against the Tongqi Eagles, Flash Star won 0:0 in the away game and did not lose. Considering that the Tongqi Eagles ranked second in the Chinese League One this season, this result is already very good.
You know, they lost to Hexi Daqin 0:1 at their home court in the last round.
His roommate Wang Guangwei played in this game and played the full 90 minutes. He performed well and was one of the contributors to the team's draw with the second-placed team in the away game.
In fact, this is not the first time that Wang Guangwei has played the entire game this season. After Zhao Kangming came, he vigorously promoted young players and gave them more opportunities. This is of course risky, after all, some young players face
The pressure on the first team means that the performance is not that good, and there is a possibility of exaggerating the results. But with Wang Guangwei, there is no such problem.
At the same time, Qin Lin came on as a substitute in the 64th minute of the game and made two key passes, but the Star forwards, neither Lai Zekai nor foreign aid Macaulay Murphy, were able to score.
While Hu Lai was happy that his roommate was gradually gaining a foothold in the team, he also discovered the team's current problem and inability to attack.
This season, Flash Star has played 18 rounds in the league, scoring 16 goals and conceding 18 goals. It cannot be said that the team has conceded the fewest goals in the league, but it is also a better team.
First, there are only two teams that have conceded fewer goals than them, the second-ranked Eagles and Capital Athletic.
As a team ranked extremely low, it can be said to be very good to have such a defensive performance.
This may be related to the fact that Zhao Kangming was an excellent central defender before retiring, and he is better at coaching the team's defense.
Compared with the excellent defense, Flash Star's offense is too poor.
In the eighteen rounds of the league, they only scored sixteen goals, not even one goal per game.
What kind of level does this result count? Among the 18 teams in the Chinese League, only Jiang Ansheng's Wuzhou Dongshan scored 14 fewer goals than them. And this team is currently ranked second from the bottom in the league.
Not counting Hu Lai, who has not played a single game, the Stars now have five forwards, but have only scored 16 goals. It is really embarrassing to say that.
His transfer to Flash Stars was finalized in April this year, not long after the Chinese League One had just started. At that time, Director Zhao should not have imagined that the team's forward performance would be so poor...
But after watching the team's performance, a very bold idea popped into Hu Lai's mind. Since these forwards can play, why can't I play? Based on their performance, I feel that I may not be able to play after I play.
Worse than them.
The worst thing is just not being able to score goals... What's the difference between that and the current performance of other forwards?
With his seniors backing him up, Hu Lai is not afraid of anything.
Although Hu Lai really wants to play, what should he do?
He ran to Director Zhao and said directly: "Director Zhao, I'm going to play. Can you help me make some arrangements?"
It is estimated that he will be kicked out of the office directly by Zhao Kangming.
No matter how good his relationship with Director Zhao is, it cannot be this good.
If Director Zhao wants to consider letting him play in games, he can only perform well in training.
After all, the court is a place where strength speaks for itself.
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The away game was able to tie with the second place in the league. For the Flash Star players, this game was considered to have achieved the set goal, so on the way home, everyone was generally in a good mood.
Head coach Zhao Kangming is not in such a mood. He is studying the next round opponent Kunyang City Team of Kunyang City, Jiang'an Province with assistant coach Chen Mo.
This game is very important for whether Flash Stars can successfully avoid relegation this season, because they can be regarded as direct competitors.
After this round of the league, Flash Star ranked 14th with 25 points. Kunyang City ranked 13th with 26 points.
If Bingxing can defeat Kunyang City, which is almost the same strength as itself, in the away game, it will be considered that they have temporarily found a back-up in the relegation battle.
"Our biggest problem is the lack of offensive power at the front," said assistant coach Chen Mo. "The lack of goals in this game can also be said to be due to our tactical arrangements. After all, we are playing second place in the league away from home. We must retreat across the board to ensure that we do not score.
We conceded a goal. But in the next round, we will play Kunyang City away from home, so we can’t possibly strive for a draw, right?”
Zhao Kangming nodded: "Yes, we have to strive to win the next game. A draw is no different from losing..."
"Actually, there is no requirement to score many goals. With our defensive level, even one goal will be fine. It's a pity..."
"It's a pity that our forwards can't even score a goal." Zhao Kangming frowned.
"Qin Lin performed well, why don't we just push him to the front line in the next game?" Chen Mo suggested, "He has played as a forward before..."
Zhao Kangming was amused by his assistant's words: "How many years ago was that? He really played as a forward when he debuted, but he soon became a central defender... If he really played well as a forward,
Can you still play as a central defender?"
Qin Lin initially played as a forward in the youth team of Andong Xingcheng. He later went to a professional team and also played as a forward. However, within less than a season, he was placed in the central defender position by the then head coach.
He shined in this position and was eventually selected to the national team in this position.
Later, Qin Lin played as a full-back and an attacking midfielder. As he grew older and gained experience, he was fixed in the defensive midfielder position.
Now Chen Mo wants to let such a defensive midfielder serve as a forward, which shows that he is also disappointed with the performance of his team's forwards...
In the past half of the season, they have tried different combinations of forwards, but with little effect. They have tried double forwards, three forwards, and a single forward, and the effect is better than nothing.
Just when Chen Mo didn't know what to say, he heard Zhao Kangming say: "How about letting Hu Lai try it."
"Hu Lai? He just came to the team..."
"So we will observe his training and integration into the team for another week. At least in training, there will still be some chemical reaction between him and Qin Lin."
"But now, what if he is under too much pressure to play and can't score goals?"
"That's it, no matter how bad it is, it can't be much worse. And I have confidence in Hu Lai. Our problem now is not that the midfield and backcourt can't create opportunities. You see, Qin Lin has two very good feet in this game.
Beautiful pass...but our forward can't seize the opportunity. And Hu Lai, you know, that kid is the best at seizing the opportunity. Although Hu Lai's characteristics are relatively simple and he can score goals, but now we are also
Just need to score goals."
Chen Mo was convinced by Zhao Kangming because he was Hu Lai's head coach in the Poseidon Youth Team and directly trained Hu Lai. He was the one who led him to play the game, not Zhao Kangming, so he also had a good impression of Hu Lai's characteristics and abilities.
A very deep understanding.
If we evaluate Hu Lai from the standards of a professional player, this kid has many shortcomings. For example, it can be seen at a glance that he has poor strength and is too thin; he also has average speed and poor dribbling. It can be said that he basically has no breakthroughs.
His ability is remarkable; his passing ability is quite satisfactory, and he won’t be unable to pass the ball five meters apart, but he can’t let the pass go where he wants it. Don’t expect him to pull the ball to the wing and then use accurate crosses to pass the ball accurately.
Send it to the door.
So after Zhao Kangming and Chen Mo left, Hu Lai quickly lost his place in the Poseidon Youth Team. Obviously other professionals, including Sun He, were not very optimistic that such a partial subject could become a qualified student.
professional player.
But in the eyes of two experienced youth training coaches, Zhao Kangming and Chen Mo, Hu Lai has a very outstanding advantage, which is better than any of his peers.
That is his ability to seize opportunities.
The ability to seize opportunities is a composite ability and does not just refer to shooting.
Just like coordination doesn't just mean physical agility.
The ability to seize opportunities includes two parts: finding opportunities and completing shots. The first part is that Hu Lai has a very outstanding talent. Zhao Kangming could see this in the national competition. In one sentence, this kid knows the direction of the goal.
The second part was mastered by Hu Lai through hard training.
As his head coach, Chen Mo naturally knows how hard Hu Lai works in training. The youth team lives in a dormitory in the training base, and the youth team training ground is downstairs. It is very convenient to train. So you can often see him
After the team's training, Hu Lai still practiced shooting alone on the field.
After spending double or even triple the training time than others, his shooting ability naturally became the No. 1 in the Poseidon youth team. In every shooting training, he was the best performer in the team.
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Yes, Hu Lai can only shoot and score goals.
But just like Lao Zhao said, we just need to score goals now!