Li Qingqing and Yan Yan both guessed correctly. Although Hu Lai came on as a substitute in the quarter-finals and scored a goal, this did not change his fate.
In the semi-finals of the weekend qualifiers, Dongchuan Middle School faced a strong opponent, the Provincial Experimental Middle School football team from Jincheng, and fell into a tough battle at its home court. Hu Lai failed to take the field until the end of the game.
Luo Kai encountered tight marking from the opponent in this game.
It also exposed the shortcomings of Dongchuan Middle School's lack of scoring points other than Luo Kai.
In the end, it was Luo Kai who relied on his super personal ability to break the deadlock for Dongchuan Middle School. The Provincial Experimental Middle School fell short.
It was with this goal that Dongchuan Middle School finally defeated the Provincial Experimental Middle School and advanced to the Anton Cup finals.
While the players of the Dongchuan Middle School football team were celebrating wildly for reaching the final, as the coach, Li Ziqiang was very calm and even looked a little ugly...
If nothing else goes wrong, there should be no suspense about the result of the other semi-final, and Jiaxiang High School will enter the final.
But with the current situation of Dongchuan Middle School, Li Ziqiang is not sure that he can win if he meets Jiaxiang.
Although Dongchuan Middle School won this game, it was a thrilling victory. It can even be said that winning the ball was entirely based on luck.
If they didn't have Luo Kai, they might end up in the semifinals.
Luo Kai is indeed the biggest achievement of Dongchuan Middle School. It is not wrong to describe him as "a treasure found".
So far, he has scored a total of 12 goals in the six qualifiers, ranking first in the Anton Cup scorer list, five goals more than the second place.
It stands to reason that having such an outstanding forward is the dream of any head coach.
But Li Ziqiang doesn’t see it that way now.
Because apart from Luo Kai, the team lacks other scoring points.
Li Ziqiang believes that the coaching staff of the Jiaxiang High School football team is not a bunch of idiots. They must have noticed the importance of Luo Kai and discovered the problems of Dongchuan Middle School.
As long as they lock down Luo Kai in the final, it is very likely that Dongchuan Middle School will not be able to score.
Does Jiaxiang High School have this ability?
That's Jiaxiang High School, which is good at defense...
Of course, Li Ziqiang can make some tactical changes to allow Luo Kai to get rid of the defense and get more shooting opportunities.
But he feels that not all eggs can be put in one basket, and some back-ups should always be prepared.
Besides Luo Kai, who else is good at scoring?
Li Ziqiang's eyes searched the team, and then he saw Hu Lai waving vigorously in the direction of his daughter.
His pupils shrank.
Then I thought about this kid's performance after coming off the bench in the last game.
He ran into space several times, and finally scored with a rebound ball. Many people said that the ball was scored by bad luck. He admitted that Hu Lai's ball had a strong element of luck, but he
It's not luck to be there.
His sense of smell at the door is extraordinarily sensitive.
Looking at Hu Lai, an idea came to Li Ziqiang's mind, but he was still a little hesitant.
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"Captain Chu, do you think I'm right?" While celebrating the victory and waving to the supporters in the stands, Yan Yan approached Chu Yifan and winked at him. "This is Hu Lai's game.
Didn’t play.”
"Um... Yan Yan, I have thought about what you said carefully when I went back, but there is one thing I still don't understand." Chu Yifan said.
"whats the matter?"
"You said Hu Lai is the person our coach is optimistic about, so what exactly does our coach think highly of him? What is there to be optimistic about as a rookie with no football foundation?"
Hearing what Chu Yifan said, a mysterious smile appeared on Yan Yan's face: "Captain Chu, you still know why Hu Lai joined the school team, right?"
"I heard that he scored a hat-trick in a test match..."
"Yes, in our new test match, there were only two people who completed the hat trick. One was Luo Kai and the other was him. But do you know how he completed the hat trick? The first ball was a clearance by the defender.
The kick was wrong, and the football fell right in front of him. The second goal was missed by his teammate, shaking the opponent's goalkeeper and defender, and then the football rolled in front of him. The third goal was even more incredible -
- He wanted to stop the ball, but ended up stopping the football on his face, and it bounced into the goal - Look, look, Captain Chu, this works! If you hit him in the face, it can bounce into the goal again.
!”
"I have an impression." Chu Yifan also nodded. "Many people say that he has bad luck."
"Yes, it was really bad luck. Then after joining the school team, he was dissatisfied with only doing basic training and insisted on playing. Our coach specially arranged special training for him. Everyone could see that this special training was deliberately to make things difficult for him.
Well. What's the result? He got lucky and made it into the world wave! Team Chu, do you think that with Hu Lai's ability, it is possible for him to score a goal with an overhead kick in a normal performance? You don't even know how high the level of that kick is
, let me tell you, he completed the shot in my face, and you know how good I am..." Yan Yan, as the person involved, gave his own account to further enhance his persuasion.
Chu Yifan nodded slowly. To be honest, in the eyes of all the school team players, Hu Lai is just a football enthusiast with no foundation. Maybe he really likes football, but his strength is almost zero, and he is not good at playing.
Without knowing it, it is so normal to be laughed at...
"Okay. He scored a goal in the last game. You can clearly see how the goal was scored. I don't need to tell you. It doesn't matter once or twice. He scored in the same way three or four times.
,This shows what?"
"What does it mean?"
"It shows that he is the chosen one!" Yan Yan slapped his thigh, "Of course, his running without the ball is something, but so what? The most important thing is his luck! He is so lucky.
To this extent, I have never seen anyone else in my life. Our coach must have taken a fancy to this trait in Hu Lai, so he planned to help him make up for his shortcomings, so that when he comes on the field with strong luck, he will be lucky
Isn’t the balance tilted towards our side? Maybe when the opponent’s goalkeeper makes a clearance, he kicks incorrectly and falls to the ground, leaving us with both the football and the empty goal.”
Chu Yifan was speechless. He didn't expect that the truth would be like this...
He had only thought that Hu Lai had some talent in judging football placement and running without the ball, but he didn't expect that Hu Lai's strongest strength was luck... He wanted to refute Yan Yan, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he heard
When Yan Yan said to him: "Don't say this is metaphysics. You must know that the end of science is metaphysics! Isn't there a lack of superstition on the football field? Just like the number fourteen. Speaking of Hu Lai, Captain Chu
Think about it, No. 14 is a cursed number, but when it was worn by Hu Lai, it seemed as if the curse had lost its effectiveness... The lucky hat trick in the school team selection, the lucky world wave in the special training, and the appearance on the court
The lucky centerpiece of the game bounced to his feet...you taste it, Captain Chu, you taste it carefully."
Chu Yifan's mouth closed again.
Because in the face of these hard facts, he really couldn't produce any convincing evidence to refute Yan Yan's statement.
He also knows that the world is full of wonders, and there may really be those lucky people in this world who are so lucky that everyone is envious of them.
Is this Hu Lai such a winner in life?
He set his sights on Hu Lai. Although he did not play in this game, he was not depressed at all and was celebrating the victory happily with the others.
He didn't know how to explain what happened to this rookie, and his mind was in a mess.
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The stands of Jiaxiang High School Stadium were filled with cheers. Students wearing Jiaxiang High School uniforms were celebrating their school's seventh consecutive appearance in the Anton Cup finals.
Amidst the deafening cheers, the players of the Jiaxiang High School football team on the field were much calmer.
After all, reaching the Anton Cup final is as normal as eating for them.
They will only be happy if they win the Anton Cup championship and reach the finals of the national competition.
This is the mentality that the players of Jiaxiang High School, the king of high school football in Andong Province, should have.
After expressing their gratitude to the students in the stands as usual, they ran back to the locker room at the urging of the team coach.
They need to quickly change out of their wet clothes, take a shower, put on dry clothes, and blow-dry their hair to avoid catching a cold.
The secret to Jiaxiang High School becoming the dominant high school football team in Andong Province is reflected in these details.
After driving the players back to the locker room, the coaching staff of the Jiaxiang High School football team came to the office and held a meeting.
"Our opponent in the final is Dongchuan Middle School." the team's assistant coach said after entering the office.
"This year's Dongchuan Middle School has really changed a lot. They invited Li Ziqiang as the head coach. Among the freshmen this year is Luo Kai, the best player in the junior middle school Anton Cup." A coach said. "Luo Kai, we
The school originally wanted to recruit him, but his family was unwilling to send him to Jincheng to attend high school, so in the end he chose Dongchuan Middle School..."
The old man sitting behind the desk at the back of the office waved his hand: "It doesn't matter, we have a lot of Gao Fei, he is more suitable for our tactics."
This old man is Feng Yuanchang, the head coach of the Jiaxiang High School football team.
He has gray hair on his temples, but he is energetic and has an undoubted aura in his movements.
Just listen to him continue: "Li Ziqiang was a coach at Quanshun Football School before, and he is considered a very capable coach. But his problem is that he just took over Dongchuan Middle School and has not had time to implement his things into the team.
From the time he took over the team to the start of the qualifiers, there seemed to be only two weeks. It was too hasty. So he could only rely on Luo Kai's personal ability. Luo Kai's level is indeed very high, but he is not without weaknesses. Although he
He has a seemingly impressive number of goals, but he gets them by taking more shots than anyone else."
Having said this, he looked at his assistant coach, who quickly took out his tablet and read out the data on it: "We made statistics. Luo Kai shot an average of twelve times per game. Not only the Dongchuan Middle School team
He is the player with the most shots in the game, and the average number is also the highest in the entire Anton Cup. In the quarter-final match against Brown North Middle School, he set a record for the number of shots, with as many as nineteen shots in one game.
Scored two goals. In this Anton Cup, nearly three-quarters of Dongchuan Middle School’s shots were completed by Luo Kai.”
After reading this, the assistant coach stopped and looked at the old man.
Feng Yuanchang continued: "In other words, Dongchuan Middle School has put all its treasures on Luo Kai. As long as we can suppress Luo Kai, Dongchuan Middle School will have no threat. As far as I know, before the end of
In that semi-final, Dongchuan Middle School eliminated Experimental Middle School 1:0. Although they won, it was very difficult for Dongchuan Middle School to win. Experimental Middle School focused on Luo Kai throughout the game and did not give him a chance to kick off, so this game
He only completed five shots in the game, and the Dongchuan Middle School team only took seven shots. Although Experimental Middle School lost the game in the end, it did not mean that there was something wrong with their approach. The problem was with their people - they did not
A defender like Wang Guangwei."
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Entering the air-conditioned locker room, the Jiaxiang High School players all felt much more comfortable. After all, it is already December. Although Andong Province is not located in the north, it rarely snows in winter, but due to the humidity,
The climate feels colder than in the north.
While taking off clothes and preparing to take a shower, someone asked loudly: "Who is our opponent in the final?"
"It seems to be Dongchuan Middle School..."
"Hey, it's actually them?"
"What's so surprising? After all, they have that Luo Kai..."
"Tsk, that Luo Kai is really awesome. He ranks first in the scorer list. If nothing else, he will be the top scorer in this Anton Cup, right? Dongchuan Middle School has really found a treasure!"
"So what? No matter how powerful you are, you are no match for our captain!"
As soon as this statement came out, everyone in the locker room turned their attention to a boy with a wheat complexion. After playing a game, his hair was still meticulously combed back, which was very eye-catching.
The center of everyone's attention is Wang Guangwei, the captain of the Jiaxiang High School football team and a junior in high school.
"Captain, can Luo Kai mess up your hair?" someone in the team asked.
Faced with this question, Wang Guangwei said with a straight face: "What are you thinking about all day long? Go take a shower and change clothes. Do you want to catch a cold?"
Seeing that the captain refused to answer the question, everyone happily went to the shower room in the locker room. The sound of rushing water and noise soon came from inside.
"Why don't you take a shower?" Wang Guangwei withdrew his gaze and looked at Wu Yue who was standing beside him.
Wu Yue smiled and said: "Actually, I'm also curious..."
"Why are you as boring as them?" Wang Guangwei said helplessly.
"No, don't get me wrong." Wu Yue waved his hands repeatedly. "I'm not curious whether that Luo Kai can mess up your hair."
"Then what are you curious about?" Wang Guangwei asked, staring at his partner on the defensive line.
"I'm just curious..." Wu Yue turned his attention to Wang Guangwei's hair, "How much hairspray do you use before the game..."