The game has begun, and Hu Lai is running back and forth on the court following the team's formation.
At this time, Sydenham was attacking, and he was ordered to retreat behind the center line.
Just five minutes ago, when Hulay stepped onto the court, he received a new task issued by the system, requiring him to score to help the team win in his Premier League debut. In addition to 50,000 points, the task reward also included
There is a bottle of [Powerful Intelligence Potion].
This can be said to be a big gift package for Hu Lai.
After converting all his points into [Lingxi Card], Hu Lai is now very short of points.
Without points, he has no way to purchase various training scrolls.
Although he is still improving with the team's normal training, he hopes to improve faster. After all, he does not want to spend a year to slowly improve himself. It takes six months to adapt to the Premier League.
Maybe the boss and others think it's fast, but Hu Lai feels it's unbearably slow - six months later, the season has ended long ago, and the task has not been completed, let alone saying that. Even if he succeeded in relegation in the end, his performance in the process of relegation was mediocre.
If you don't do anything, then your prospects in this team may be very worrying.
Hu Lai cannot accept that it really takes six months to adapt to the Premier League. No matter whether six months to adapt to the Premier League is reasonable or not.
If you can use training scrolls to enhance the training effect and greatly shorten the adaptation time, why not do it?
Now it's okay, the system not only thoughtfully prepared 50,000 points for him, but also directly gave him a bottle of [Powerful Intelligence Potion], which will be valid for half a year after use.
It is still valid until the end of the season.
He no longer needs to exchange points for various training scrolls.
[Smart Potion] covers all training items, whether it is technical and tactical training or physical training, it can all be effective.
To get these rewards, he only needs to score a goal in his Premier League debut and help the team win.
Sydenham's attack over there ended, and Leeds City launched an attack.
Hu Lai looked back and forth, and did not turn around and run forward directly. Instead, he first retreated to meet his teammates and served as a transfer station to allow the two wingers time to attack.
Sure enough, the football was quickly passed to his feet.
"Hu Lai caught the ball!" He Feng shouted.
This is Hulay's first touch of the ball in this game...no, in the Premier League.
Xie Lan, Hu Lixin, and relatives in front of the TV also cheered.
It's like Hu Lai would turn around and dribble past five people after receiving the ball, and then send the football into the goal.
But in fact, in the TV broadcast, Hulay passed the football diagonally to Pete Williams, then turned around and ran forward.
It is a very common pass, which is the basis of basic movements on the football field.
Despite this, it still caused many Chinese fans in front of the TV to get excited.
Many people tried to see more meaning from Hu Lai's move.
This includes commentator Yan Kang: "Hu Lai's choice was correct. He did not control the ball and turn around. That is not what he is good at... This shows that his mind is very clear and he does not seem to be overwhelmed by the excitement of playing in the Premier League.
head……"
Chinese fans are like Yan Kang, desperately looking for something in Hu Lai's every move that can give them confidence and keep them hopeful.
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Leeds City's attack failed after it went up. Sydenham's players quickly recovered and blocked their space in the penalty area.
Pete Williams shouted to his teammates, asking them to slow down the rhythm, control the football, and reorganize the positional battle.
The football was quickly passed to his feet.
When he caught the ball, the Leeds City fans in the stands cheered - although everyone was dissatisfied with the actions of the club's senior management, these fans who were willing to come to watch the game were still very tolerant and considerate of the players and the team.
of.
As a local talent cultivated by Leeds City itself, Williams has a very high status in the hearts of Leeds City fans.
He scored a long shot from outside the penalty area in the first half, which also proved that he was in good condition today.
Fans hope he can be the one to lead Leeds City out of the relegation quagmire.
After Williams got the ball, he glanced at the penalty area in front. Captain Lorenzo was in the middle, and Hu Lai ran to the side... Huh?
He found that there seemed to be an opening where Hu Lai ran!
But just when he was considering whether to pass the football, Sydenham's left back turned his head and saw Hu Lai in the blind spot behind him, so he quickly shrank to the center and erased the gap.
Williams was a little regretful. If he could have seen the gap earlier, he might not have to wait for Hu Lai to run and pass the football ahead of time.
At that time, it will be too late for the opponent's defender to make up the position.
At the same time, Sydenham's midfielder saw Williams looking up and planned to take advantage of him to steal the ball.
As a result, as soon as he came up, Williams' right foot pulled the football behind him and knocked the football to the left side of his body. At the same time, he turned around to get rid of it and passed the football to the left wing.
There, the team's left back Falek Quinn has stepped in.
Leeds City fans in the stands cheered for Williams's escape.
"Williams played so cool!" Matthew Miller's teammate Andrew Thurman shouted excitedly in the stands.
He also played as a midfielder in the Leeds City youth team and regarded Peter Williams as his idol and role model.
On the field, after receiving the ball, Quinn did not observe and consider for a long time like Williams, but directly passed the football at a 45-degree angle to Sydenham's goal.
He's looking for captain Lorenzo Esposito!
Lorenzo saw the football coming, rushed towards the landing point, then jumped high, and competed with the opponent's defender Elliott Moore who also jumped up.
He hit the ball!
But instead of heading toward the goal, it hit Moore's back.
The football bounced down and landed in the penalty area.
“Opportunity—oops!”
As soon as the football fell, He Feng, who was familiar with Hu Lai, shouted. He had already seen Hu Lai rushing towards the football and was preparing to take a follow-up shot.
But at this moment, Sydenham's defender took the first step and kicked the football out...
Hu Lai missed it!
He said "Oh" because he felt sorry for Hu Lai.
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"oops!!"
Huge sighs also erupted in Xie Zelin's crowded living room.
In their view, Hu Lai was almost able to complete the shot - others had already come running, they just needed to stretch their feet.
As a result, the opponent's defender reacted faster than everyone expected. After all, the football fell next to him...
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!"
Countless people in the bar were holding their heads and roaring, feeling sorry for Hu Lai.
Then Yan Yan loudly encouraged Hu Lai: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter! Come on Hu Lai!"
He successfully led more than a hundred people in the bar to chant: "Come on Hu Lai!!"
It's also a pity for the group of people right in front of the home team's coaching bench.
When he saw Hu Lai rushing forward to prepare for a follow-up shot, Tony Clark's whole body tensed up, ready to eject at any time.
As a result, Sydenham's defender took the first kick to clear the football. His body swayed, and then he looked up to the sky and sighed.
Assistant coach Sam next to him performed exactly the same as him, and the two people were 100% synchronized.
Above the rostrum of the stadium, video analyst Matt Dawn, who was recording the game with a camera, gritted his teeth and shook his fist.
He is not as regretful as his New Year friend.
He was still a little excited, and his body was shaking slightly with excitement.
Because he saw something familiar from Hulay's attack that failed to complete the shot.
This thing was something he had seen time and time again in the game.
Looking at it from this perspective, he looks like he is really playing "The Godfather of Champions", even the perspective is exactly the same.
Just like Hu Lai said, the real-life version of "The Godfather of Champions".
Matt's dream has finally come true...
Go ahead, Hu!
Just like you do in the game, appear in the most deadly position, poke your foot, and start celebrating the goal!
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Li Qingqing was in the small apartment she rented, holding a furry doll in her arms, sitting cross-legged on the sofa, watching the game quietly.
If her arms holding the doll hadn't been shaking slightly, I would have really believed that she was as calm as she appeared.
Come on, Hu Lai. Try to get off to a good start, and the road ahead will be much easier...
Li Qingqing went through such a running-in period when he joined Paris Eger.
After losing weight in accordance with the coach's requirements, she got a chance to play, but maybe she was not able to adapt to the new body after losing weight. She had no goals, no goals and no assists in five consecutive games.
As a result, local media and some domestic media also criticized her performance, causing fans to worry about her prospects of studying abroad this time.
During that time, she was really under tremendous pressure.
She didn't tell anyone, including her father and Hu Lai.
I don't tell my father because I don't want him to worry about me.
I didn't tell Hu Lai because I didn't want to damage my tall image in his mind.
So Li Qingqing chose to bear it alone.
Fortunately, she finally got through it. In the sixth game, she scored twice, breaking the goal drought. After that game, she gradually established a foothold in Paris Eger and became the main force step by step.
Until now, she is the absolute core of the team.
It is precisely because of such an experience that Li Qingqing sincerely hopes that Hu Lai will not follow his own path.
As a striker, wouldn't it be nice to be able to score goals and open a path to the sky?
After playing abroad, Li Qingqing realized how difficult it is for Chinese players to make a name for themselves in Europe.
Trust is always fragile, and doubt is always around.
Scoring is the best answer to these questions.
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The game continued on the field, and Hu Lai never got a chance.
Although Pete Williams tried to pass the football to him in the meantime, he was unable to complete the shot due to the squeeze of the Sydenham centre-back.
Most of the other times, he didn't even appear in the close-up shots of the TV broadcast - in other words, he didn't show any outstanding performance that could make the TV broadcast take extra care of him.
In the football winter training base on the outskirts of Haijiao City, Yuezhou Province, four Chinese Super League teams and three Chinese League One teams chose to conduct pre-season training and preparations here.
The restaurant of the huge training base was still bustling last night - seven teams gathered together to hold a unique Spring Festival party, in this way to alleviate the homesickness of the players who could not go home to spend time with their families during the Spring Festival.
the suffering.
Today, many people gathered here again.
Unlike yesterday, today they came here to watch the live game through a huge projection screen.
In fact, at the beginning, only all the Anton Shining Star players who were training here were asked to watch the game and cheer for Hu Lai. After all, Hu Lai came out of their team, and they were also the group of people who cared most about Hu Lai's performance in the Premier League.
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But as the news spread, people from other teams arrived, and more and more people came. The scale was no less than yesterday’s Spring Festival Gala.
Everyone was watching the game and talking about it.
"The pace of confrontation in the Premier League is so fast... I was attacking from the front just now, and now everyone has to defend..."
"What's wrong? When Hu Lai was in the Chinese Super League, he didn't suffer too much in the confrontation. As a result, he was squeezed by the opponent's defender and had no chance to shoot!"
"This is just a clash between two teams at the bottom of the Premier League. They are both fighting so fiercely... If you don't experience it, you will never know what the world's top football should be like..."
"You really can't let your mind wander when playing a Premier League game. It forces you not to stop for even a minute..."
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Listening to the discussions coming from various places behind them, Zhao Kangming and Chen Mo looked at each other.
Why do they force all players to come to this game?
On the one hand, it is to cheer for Hu Lai who left the team. On the other hand, it is to hope that the players can feel the level of the Premier League through understanding Hu Lai.
In the past, if we simply watched the game, due to the lack of reference, many people actually did not understand the gap between the Chinese Super League and the Premier League - everyone knows that the Premier League is better than the Chinese Super League, but how much better it is and where it is better, many people have no idea.
It's different now. Everyone is familiar with Hu Lai. As his teammate, we know very well what his performance should be like in daily training and games. This has established a reference point in everyone's mind.
Through the reference point of Hu Lai, when watching a Premier League game, many concepts that were previously vague suddenly became clear.
Unexpectedly, players from other teams who did not train with Hu Lai but only played against Hu Lai could clearly feel the difference...
That's okay. If everyone can learn something from it, it can be considered a contribution to Chinese football.
While everyone was discussing, they saw Hu Lai suddenly making a diagonal pass in the penalty area, and then the football was passed from the right.
"Hu Lai——!"
Amid He Feng's loud shout, the restaurant with hundreds of people instantly fell silent, and everyone was staring at the projection screen.
The ball just slipped over the heads of Sydenham defender and Leeds City forward Lorenzo in the center and flew to the back point.
There Hu Lai jumped to head the ball!
Hit the side net!
"Alas——!" A huge sigh sounded in the restaurant.
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When she saw the football flipping up the net and people in front of the TV screaming, Xie Lan sat firmly on the sofa. She was experienced in watching football and knew that the ball hit the side netting and was not a goal.
Sure enough, others quickly discovered this and sat down again in disappointment.
Hu Lixin comforted everyone: "Although we didn't score, we are very close to scoring! Just keep playing like this..."
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"Come on Hu Lai! Come on Hu Lai!"
In the bar, Yan Yan led everyone to shout slogans in unison, just like they did before in the stands of the Andong Provincial Sports Center.
Everyone in the bar, both men and women, stood up from their seats and waved their arms rhythmically in response to Yan Yan's slogans, as if they were all in the stands at the Flanders Stadium, Leeds City's home stadium.
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Seeing the football hitting the side net, Hu Lai raised his hands and held his head, feeling sorry for it.
Then he turned around and gave a thumbs up to Charlie Potter, who sent him the cross, indicating that the latter had made a good pass.
This ball must have been directed towards him by Charlie, otherwise how could it not have been pushed by a group of big men in the middle?
Hu Lai praised Charlie for his beautiful cross, and Charlie comforted him: "It's okay, Hu! We can do it again!"
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Leeds City's attack failed to score a goal, so Sydenham regrouped and launched an attack on Leeds City's goal.
This game is also important to them. After all, although they are ranked 14th, they are only three points more than Leeds City.
If they cannot win, they may also fall into the quagmire of the relegation zone.
Leeds City are fighting to avoid relegation and so are they.
Seeing Sydenham's attack starting from the sidelines, Tony Clark looked up at the game time on the big screen.
63:49
It's been almost sixty-four minutes.
To be honest, after replacing Hu Lai, he has seen immediate results, and Hu Lai did get a chance.
It can be said that there is no problem with his adjustment. If he keeps playing like this, Hu Lai will score goals sooner or later.
But now there is a question - can your team withstand Sydenham's attack before scoring?
If Sydenham scores a goal first, the situation will become complicated.
When the time comes, Sydenham, which is one goal ahead, will shrink its defense, leaving less and less space for Hulay in the penalty area, and it will not be easy to score.
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Through the long-range lens of the TV broadcast, you can see that some places in the stands are empty, with patches here and there.
This is the "attitude" expressed by Leeds City fans who are dissatisfied with what the club is doing.
David Miller was sitting on the sofa in the living room at home and watching the game when he heard his wife complaining behind him: "You said you... you said it so fiercely at first, I thought you were going to
Let’s just watch the Leeds City game. It turns out I just didn’t go to watch it live…”
David snorted: "What do you know? We don't go there to watch just to embarrass the club, but we are still Leeds City fans, how can we not pay attention to Leeds City's games?"
The wife glanced at the score on TV and asked: "Do you particularly hope that Leeds City will lose this game now? Do you hope that Leeds City will be relegated?"
"What are you talking about?" The husband turned back and glared at his wife.
"Did I say something wrong? After all, only if they are relegated will the club's executives regret that they drove away Lauren Galli..." the wife said, spreading her hands.
David Miller was stunned and didn't know how to answer her question.
At this moment, the noise from the TV behind him suddenly increased!
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"Porter got the ball on the wing, and he passed the football to Williams who came up to meet him...Williams passed the ball...a ground ball! The football rolled to the back point!"
Following He Feng's extremely fast explanation, the people in front of the TV widened their eyes.
They saw that in the Sydenham penalty area, their defender was suddenly taken away by Leeds City captain Lorenzo. In the direction of Williams' pass, there was a medium-sized gap, which happened to be
Enough for one person to take a stance and shoot!
In fact, there was actually a man there already bending his bow and nocking an arrow!
"Hulai!!"
"Hu Lai——!"
"Hu! Lai!"
In the CCTV studio in the capital, in the living room of Xie Lan's elder brother Xie Zelin, in the bar where Yan Yan and the others were...in front of countless TV sets across the country, this name was shouted out by them in different accents.
Hu Lai, who ran into the space amid the roar, swung his leg to sweep the ball from Williams!
The defensive player stretched out his foot to block, but it was too late!
Sydenham's goalkeeper jumped back, but it was too late!
The football grazed the inside of the back post and entered the goal!
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"Hu Lai——!! The ball is in! The ball is in! Beautiful! The ball is in——!!! The first Premier League goal in the history of Chinese players!! Hu Lai!! He did it! He did it
Arrived! Amazing!! Beautiful!! Hats off to him!!!”
He Feng was roaring hysterically on the TV. Maybe he didn't even know what he was talking about now.
Outside the TV, Xie Lan was surrounded by people who jumped up and raised their arms and shouted, but she herself sat blankly on the sofa without moving.
Then she felt someone holding her hand, so she turned her head and followed the hand upwards, and saw her father.
The face covered with age spots was looking at her with a smile.
He Feng was still talking on the TV, and he seemed to have finally recovered from the initial ecstasy: "Dear viewers! For a long time, high-level events like the Premier League have been like another world to us Chinese players.
The world is beyond our reach... But today, Hu Lai opened the door to this world for us with this very typical 'Hu Lai goal'! Welcome to the new world!"
People outside the TV were still clapping their hands and shouting...laughing.
Xie Lan, who was staring at his father, pursed his lips and started to laugh. Tears were squeezed out of the corners of his eyes and fell down.
When Hu Lixin saw this scene in the distance, he quietly lowered his head and raised his hand to wipe the corners of his eyes.
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PS, this is a big chapter of 6,000 words, plus more than 4,000 words in the morning, a total of 10,000 words. Is it fun for everyone to read?
I don’t prepare for every game in such detail. After all, not every game has such a high degree of attention-no matter inside or outside the book. Many games will not have this kind of treatment, but if I write
Yes, that must be such a foreshadowing.
There is a lot of foreshadowing in front of it, also for the emotional release at the moment when Hu Lai scores a goal. Otherwise, without those foreshadowing, his goal would be just a goal.
As mentioned at the end of the previous chapter, although this goal is just one of Hulay's career, it is of great significance to Chinese football and will be recorded in history forever.
I use these 10,000 words and this goal that will go down in history to ask everyone for monthly tickets. It’s the end of the month, let’s see how far we can go in this month’s rankings!
I have racked my brains and tried my best to write, and I will leave the rest to you!
