The next day when Hu Lixin returned home from get off work, he saw his wife excitedly shaking her cell phone at him: "Old Hu, Lao Hu, do you remember what I said before?"
Hu Lixin was confused: "What did you say?"
Xie Lan was disappointed: "You just forgot?"
Hu Lixin felt aggrieved: "No, you talk so much all day long, how do I know the specific sentence you are referring to?"
"I asked why the Haihe River Port would not underestimate the enemy!" Xie Lan handed the phone to her husband. It was a news about the Football Association Cup.
Hu Lixin took a look:
"Haihe Shuanggang announced the lineup for the away game in Jincheng, and nearly half of the lineup will be rotated..."
"I even went to check them one by one, and it's true that some of the main players didn't come. What do you mean by not underestimating the enemy?" Xie Lan was very happy.
Hu Lixin looked at the news in his hand in trance.
I really underestimated the enemy...
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"It is normal for goalkeepers to use substitutes. It seems that Haihe Shuanggang always starts the substitute goalkeeper in the FA Cup. This can be regarded as giving the substitute goalkeeper some opportunities to practice in the game."
In the head coach's office at the training base of Flash Star, assistant coach Chen Mo and Zhao Kangming are studying the newly released Haihe Dual Port roster.
Although this is not the starting lineup, we can still see some clues.
For example, the team's main goalkeeper Liu Yu did not come to the away game at all, which means that the starting goalkeeper in their game must be the team's substitute goalkeeper Huang Anjie. This is also in line with the starting arrangement of Haihe Shuanggang in the previous two FA Cups.
"Their core midfielder Green is not here..."
"I heard that after the last league game, Green felt some discomfort in his groin. To be on the safe side, Kuang Mingjian didn't bring him here," Chen Mo explained.
"The main center back Wei Daqun and the main forward Yi Zhongping are not on this list...compared with the lineups of the previous few Chinese Super League games, five people are not on this list. I watched Haihe Shuanggang's next
The Chinese Super League schedule is a home game, and the opponent is Hexi Daqin. This opponent does not deserve to be rotated like this." Zhao Kangming frowned.
Chen Mo snorted: "Stop studying, isn't it just obvious underestimation of the enemy? You think it won't be so hard to beat us in an away game. In that case, why bring all the main players to Jincheng? Wouldn't it be better to let them rest and recuperate at home?
Believe it or not, if we were replaced by South China Tigers or Golden Arrows, no one would care about Green's groin discomfort - can it be considered an injury?"
"This is really... I want to have a real fight with a Chinese Super League team, but I didn't expect people to look down on us..." Zhao Kangming shook his head and sighed helplessly.
"So I say, Zhao, your idea is a bit wishful thinking. If we are successfully promoted, we will compete with those teams as a Chinese Super League team next season, and their attitude will definitely be different from today's FA Cup. After all, we are just
It’s normal for people to look down on us as a Chinese League One team. Just like the Nanhai team looked down on Dongtai Star City back then. Theoretically speaking, people do have reasons to look down on us.” Chen Mo spread his hands.
Zhao Kangming thought for a while and then said: "Okay, let's use this game to make the Chinese Super League teams look up to us!"
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"Ah——" When the players from Haihe Shuanggang got off the bus and walked towards the door of the hotel where they were staying, someone took a deep breath and then sighed, "They all said that even the air in Jincheng is full of dust.
I can really smell the smell of hot pot!”
His teammate patted his shoulder and pointed across the street: "Did you see that? 'Jianghu Smell', one of the most popular hotpots in Jincheng in the past two years, what you smell is the smell from their place!"
"It smells so good. Jincheng Hotpot really has its own tricks!" Another player also took a deep breath.
"Well, there is no Jincheng team in the Chinese Super League, which is a huge loss for the entire Chinese Super League. Otherwise, we can have hot pot at least once a year..."
"Then do you want to eat later tonight?"
"Ha, if you eat hot pot before the game, you don't want to play, right? You only have a weak stomach, so who cares if you have diarrhea?"
"Tsk, let's go eat after the game is over!"
"We're still waiting for the game to end... After the game, we will probably go directly from the stadium to the airport!"
"Why is this? We don't have a game in the middle of the week, why are we in a hurry to go back? It would be great to finally come to Jincheng and give the team a day off after the game to see the pandas..."
"Then you tell Director Kuang?"
"I'm not going, why don't you go..."
"Don't you want to eat hot pot and watch pandas?"
The players from Haihe Shuanggang walked into the lobby of their hotel while joking.
The club has dedicated people to check in. After completing the check-in procedures, they will return to the players with their ID cards and room cards to issue them.
The players gathered together to wait, while not forgetting to look around.
This is a five-star hotel in downtown Jincheng, and guests come and go from time to time.
The players looked at these guests and easily found the target.
"Let me go, the beauties in Jincheng are truly well-deserved!"
"Hey, that one is good, that one is good!"
“Beautiful and smooth!”
"I know why Zhang Qinghuan was willing to rent to Flash Star in the first place, because there are so many beauties here! There are too many capital cities with high average quality!"
"Hahahaha!" Everyone laughed again.
Their roars of laughter attracted the attention of many people, including ordinary hotel guests, fans and reporters.
In their eyes, this fully reflects the relaxation of the Haihe Shuanggang players.
But some people saw different meanings.
Chen Jianyu, who was in the hotel lobby, couldn't help but curl up his lips when he saw this scene - the players from Haihe Shuanggang were as relaxed as if they were on a training trip to Jincheng.
That's good, that's good...
Jincheng welcomes you as an excellent tourist city. I hope you will have a good time eating and having fun here!
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"That's the thing. We hope to compete with a Chinese Super League team to fully test our current level. But obviously, our opponents have no such idea. They don't even have all their main players.
Bring them to Jincheng. So we are facing a remnant team. But don’t think that we can easily defeat them this way, put away your bold ideas." Zhao Kangming said to him with a serious face.
his players said.
Now they are in the home team's locker room at the Andong Provincial Sports Center. In ten minutes, they will play against the Chinese Super League team Haihe Shuanggang at this stadium.
"The reason why they did this is because they can defeat us even without using all their main forces. In fact, that's the case. So I hope you don't think that you have an opportunity just because the opponent doesn't use all their main forces. It's still like what we prepared before
That way, give your best in the game and fight for every ball!"
Zhao Kangming waved his arms and said loudly.
"As a Chinese Super League team, Haihe Shuanggang is qualified to make such adjustments. But as a Chinese League One team, we are not qualified to relax. Do you understand?"
"I understand!" the team members answered him loudly.
But Zhao Kangming shook his head, and the assistant coach Chen Mo next to him raised his voice and shouted: "Louder! Haven't you eaten yet?!"
Now all the players shouted at the top of their lungs: "I understand!"
Zhao Kangming nodded: "Yes, very energetic! Just bring this spirit to the field and show your abilities to the Chinese Super League team!"
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Before the game starts, players from both sides stand in the tunnel, waiting for the referee team to lead them out.
Fan Hongpeng, the central defender of Haihe Shuanggang, looked at the Star lineup next to him for a long time, and then locked his target. He changed positions with his teammates and stood next to Hu Lai. He turned and sneered at him: "You are Hu Lai.
?”
Hu Lai turned to look at this pretentious guy, shook his head and said: "No, brother, I am not Hu Lai."
He was obviously stunned for a moment when he saw the other party, then frowned and said, "Who are you if you're not Hu Lai?"
"Chen Xingyi, big brother, I am Chen Xingyi."
Chen Xingyi, who was standing in front of Hu Lai, heard this and turned around to look at him in surprise.
Just as he was about to ask Hu Lai what he was doing, he saw Hu Lai pointing at him and saying, "Brother, this person is Hu Lai."
He was stunned for a second, coughed, and smiled flatteringly at the Haihe Shuanggang players on the opposite side: "Yes, brother, I am Hu Lai."
Fan Hongpeng glanced at the two young people with smiles on their faces repeatedly, and then said angrily: "Are you kidding me? Do you think I don't know that you are Chen Xingyi!"
He pointed at Chen Xingyi and yelled angrily.
His voice also attracted the attention of others. Qin Lin, who was standing in front, turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"
The moment he opened his mouth, Fan Hongpeng's anger was extinguished by three points.
Hu Lai quickly waved to Qin Lin: "Nothing, Brother Lin, we are joking with this big brother!"
Then he said to Fan Hongpeng: "Brother, relax, you are the Chinese Super League team, I just want to make a joke with you and lighten the atmosphere. I am a little nervous, ha, I made brother laugh... I am Hu Lai, I
It’s Hu Lai, I’m Hu Lai, brother, what are your orders?”
When Fan Hongpeng saw Hu Lai nodding and bowing, he didn't know what to say for a moment.
Then he shook his head: "Nothing, forget it."
After saying that, he turned around and walked back, switching back with his teammates.
"Old Fan, what are you doing up here?" After changing back, his teammates standing behind him asked strangely.
"I originally wanted to put some pressure on that Hu Lai."
"So did you succeed?"
"I don't know... He seems to be a little too nervous and at a loss. He talks nonsense when he sees me." Fan Hongpeng stared at Hu Lai's back and said. "He didn't want to admit that he was Hu Lai at first... I don't know if that's the case.
Afraid that I would find trouble with him."
"I'll go, Lao Fan, you scared people so much! Ha!"
"Am I that cruel?"
The teammates laughed: "It's quite fierce to have a straight face!"
"go to hell!"
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"Hu Lai, what did you do just now?" Although Chen Xingyi cooperated with Hu Lai, he still had many children in his mind... no, they were little question marks.
"I'm testing his reaction to see if he really can't recognize me," Hu Lai said.
"What are you thinking? How could he not recognize you? You are the one who scored a hat trick against South Korea. Let me tell you, if he doesn't know me, it's reasonable to know that he doesn't know you...unless he
He is blind."
"But didn't you notice that he was really confused just now?"
Chen Xingyi thought about it carefully and said, "Maybe people just didn't expect that the famous anti-Korean hero could be so cheap?"
"Haha. Anyway, I found from his reaction that they really didn't seem to pay much attention to us. I saw this statement on the Internet before, and posted photos of them checking in at the hotel, and they all laughed so hard.
I’m so happy. I didn’t quite believe it at the time, but I do now.”
"Isn't it normal to ignore it? They are in the Chinese Super League, and we are in the Chinese Premier League." Chen Xingyi spread his hands, "What can you do?"
"What should I do? Of course, I will give them a formal self-introduction again during the competition later." Hu Lai smiled slightly.