Hu Lai had just finished eating in the restaurant and came out when he met Matt Dawn who was about to come to eat. The latter looked down at the tablet in his hand and did not see Hu Lai at all.
So he took the initiative to say hello: "Hi, Matt, I haven't seen you for a while, what are you busy with?"
“Ah? Hi, Hu.” Matt came back to his senses and raised his tablet: “I’m busy being your coach in the game, ha!”
“How many goals did I score?” Hulay asked.
“You just won the Premier League Golden Boot.”
“Sounds really good.”
After making a joke, Matt said: "Well, actually, it's mainly because I'm busy with work. You know, your boss treats me like an animal... Did you see the dark circles under my eyes? I feel like as long as I'm with Tony,
Together, the dark circles under my eyes will never go away for the rest of my life..."
Hu Lai laughed. He knew that Tony Clark and Matt Dawn were friends who had known each other for many years. Although their ages were different, it did not prevent them from having a close relationship.
After greeting Matt, he was about to take a nap, but when he was saying goodbye to Matt, he was stopped by the latter: "Wait a minute, Hu."
"Um?"
"I studied all your previous goals, and I found a problem, Hu. That is that none of your goals were scored outside the penalty area. Your avatar in the game does not have a preference for long shots...
…I’m curious why this is happening?”
Matt picked up his tablet and showed Hu Lai the attribute data of "LaiHu" in his game save. Among the preferences, he said: "Shoot immediately, get into space, catch the ball, seldom dribble, move forward when there is a chance, like to fight against offside."
”, but there is no item “try more long shots”.
“Well, I feel that the closer I am to the goal, the more threatening I am. When I get further away, my shooting accuracy plummets…”
This is not a random excuse for Hu Lai. He tried it before when he was playing for Flash Star. Even if he can hit the hat hanging on the crossbar at the penalty spot, let him leave the penalty area.
If he shoots again, his accuracy is really not as good as when he is in the penalty area.
"That's because your thigh muscle strength is too weak and you can't balance precision and strength." Matt said. "But now your muscle strength has increased significantly. How did you feel after your second ball yesterday?"
Like? When William Patton crashes into you?"
Hu Lai carefully recalled his feelings at that time, and then said: "I feel like I can't lose my center of gravity so easily. I was able to complete the shot after being bumped by him. This is really incredible."
"This is the role of core strength. The strength in your waist and abdomen has increased significantly, which helped you withstand Button's collision. The strength of your thigh muscles has increased, so that your last shot was still very powerful. So I think, you
It’s time to consider improving your scoring outside the penalty area, Hu. You now have the basis for long-range shooting.”
Matt seemed to have forgotten what he came to the restaurant for, and was chatting with Hu Lai outside:
"As your performance in the Premier League gets better and better, more opponents will definitely notice your past scoring performances... They will easily come to the conclusion that you are a player who is no threat away from the goal.
, then they will try their best to prevent you from entering the penalty area and approaching the goal. If you can shoot directly from outside the penalty area, it will not be easy for the opponent to guard you."
After listening to Matt’s suggestion, Hu Lai fell into deep thought for a short time.
He had thought about long-range shots before, but the Flash Star tactics really suited his taste. He only needed to be in the penalty area and someone would feed the football to his feet. Long-range shots were really not a particularly urgent matter.
things.
So this is just a thought.
Now that Matt said this, he felt it made sense.
To put it bluntly, he was able to score three goals in the first two games of the Premier League. In addition to the effect of [Lingxi Card], it was also because his opponents did not understand him.
Although it is very likely that until the end of this season, other Premier League teams may not know much about him.
But he can’t just think about this season, right?
How can you die if you get so addicted?
For the long term, we should really improve our ability to score outside the penalty area.
So he nodded: "Good advice, Matt, thank you."
Matt laughed: "You're welcome, Hu. I hope you can score more goals, and I hope you can play better and better."
"I will, I promise. Goodbye, Matt, I have to take a nap." Hu Lai waved.
“Goodbye, Hu.”
Watching Hu Lai turn and leave, Matt reopened the tablet, lowered his head and looked at it while walking into the restaurant, continuing to be immersed in his game world.
In that world, the Leeds City he led had already dominated the Premier League, and the next step was to go to Europe.
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Luo Kai was playing with footballs on the training ground. Between him and the goal, there was a row of easy-to-understand dummy walls with wheels, which allowed him to easily adjust his position in front of the goal.
The team's regular training has ended, but he stayed alone to practice his own free kicks.
This is not what he did on a whim today.
Since returning to the team for pre-season training, he has been practicing free kicks.
Head coach Yan Li and assistant coach Jiang Yufeng stood on the sidelines, watching Luo Kaijia practice free kicks from a distance while chatting quietly.
"I feel that Luo Kai was 100% influenced by Hu Lai. The two were classmates at school, and Luo Kai's level in the school team was higher than Hu Lai's. As a result, Hu Lai now has three goals in the Premier League, and he also has
In the Chinese Super League..." Jiang Yufeng muttered beside Yan Li.
“We will also give Luo Kai more opportunities this season.” Yan Li said, and then he asked Jiang Yufeng, “You didn’t say you wanted to give him the right to take the free kick, right?”
Jiang Yufeng shook his head: "How could I possibly say this? It's still early for him to take free kicks in the team... We have so many free kick players in the team, how can we get him?"
After hearing the assistant coach’s answer, Yan Li stopped saying anything and continued to watch.
After seeing Luo Kai place the football, he took three steps back.
Then he seemed to blow out the air in his chest, then took a running approach and kicked the ball!
The football has no obvious arc. It hits the wall straightly, then passes high and goes straight to the goal.
“It’s high...” Jiang Yufeng whispered.
But before he finished speaking, he saw the football heading straight for the crossbar suddenly dropped and flew into the goal!
He and Yan Li turned to look at each other at the same time, with shock in their eyes.
“Elevator ball?!”
Then he shook his head sternly and sighed: "It seems that he was quite stimulated by Hu Lai..."
Then he said to Jiang Yufeng: "Let's put him on the list of free kick takers and put him at the bottom... When there is no suitable candidate, he will be considered."
Jiang Yufeng glanced at him and finally nodded: "Okay."
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Zhang Qinghuan and Xia Xiaoyu are doing back-to-back squat training. They are back-to-back, holding each other's arms, using each other's backs as a wall, and then squat down at the same time until their knees complete a ninety-degree right angle, and then slowly return to an upright position.
.
This is mainly a training exercise for the quadriceps and gluteus maximus.
The two of them were training and chatting at the same time.
“Brother Huan, I find that Brother Hu’s strength seems to be much stronger than before. Is the training level in Europe so high? He has never seen such an obvious increase in strength before when he was in Flash Star...” Xia Xiaoyu asked in a low voice.
Soon Zhang Qinghuan's voice came from behind: "The training level in Europe must be higher than here, otherwise why are they the best? But the reason that Hu Lai's strength grew slowly in Flash Star is because he did not focus on training in the later period.
In strength.”
“Brother Huan, when do you plan to go abroad to play football?” Xia Xiaoyu asked again.
“It’s not a matter of when I want to go abroad, right?” Zhang Qinghuan said with a low smile, “It’s not like I can go out and play football if I want to... But I think I won’t be able to go abroad this year.”
"Why?"
"It mainly depends on Hu Lai. How he can perform in Europe will determine whether we can go out. If he doesn't play well, European football will have no confidence in our Chinese players. But if he plays well... he will
There are more European teams interested in us." Zhang Qinghuan analyzed Xia Xiaoyu.
Hearing what Brother Huan said, Xia Xiaoyu felt better: "Now Brother Hu has three goals, three goals in two games!"
"Don't be too happy, Xiaoyu. People don't look at the performance of these two games, they look at the entire season. That's why I said you don't want to go out this year, even if Hu Lai plays in Leeds City for half the season.
He's pretty good, and there's still 'second grade' waiting for him."
After Zhang Qinghuan finished speaking, he didn't hear Xia Xiaoyu's voice behind him, and then said: "So those of us in China should not think so much. We can train and compete with peace of mind, work hard to improve, and make ourselves stronger... To put it bluntly, we still have to
If you are capable, if you are not capable, even if you spend your own money to go abroad to play football, it is not like sitting on the bench and watching the game... Oh, being able to watch the game on the bench is considered capable, and maybe you are not in the stands at all.
The two stopped talking and continued their training.
When they stood up from squatting down and raised their heads, they were all filled with their own expectations for distant Europe.
On this day, in Lingnan, in the mountains and seas... On the training grounds of different clubs, during training or between matches, there will always be some young people who set their sights on the distant west, and their hearts are restless.