Glancing at the 3:0 score in the upper right corner of the TV, Xie Lan picked up his phone and decided to pay attention to the situation of another group match that was being held at the same time.
The reason why it is one game, not two games, is because as Yan Kang said just now, no matter how the game between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates goes, it will not affect the Chinese team.
As long as the Chinese team can defeat Qatar in the away game, even if Saudi Arabia beats the UAE by ten goals, it will be just a desperate struggle.
She is more concerned about Australia's home game against South Korea.
Because after seeing the score of the Chinese team, she suddenly realized that if Australia lost to the South Korean team, the Chinese team might still have a chance to directly qualify for the World Cup as the second place in the group...
But as soon as she opened the webpage, she cursed: "Day!"
Hearing her words, Hu Lixin clicked his tongue: "You'd better pay attention to your image..."
"Besides me and you in this room, what other image should I pay attention to?" Xie Lan replied, and then cursed: "What a stupid stick!"
Hu Lixin knew why Xie Lan was swearing. It was most likely because Australia was leading the South Korean team.
He also went to check it out, and sure enough, Australia led the South Korean team 1:0 at home.
If this score is used, Australia and South Korea will qualify together with 18 points.
The Chinese team can only participate in the play-offs as the third place in the group.
Hu Lixin comforted his wife: "It's enough to finish third in the group. Originally, we couldn't even finish third in the group... Besides, the Korean team qualified early, so it's normal to send more substitutes and young players to play. It's not intentional.
We’re going to lose to Australia.”
"The South Korean team even started Park Kyuhyun, and they said they didn't want to lose to Australia on purpose...Park Kyuhyun played so poorly in the last game against us, and was substituted in the first 20 minutes. This game was even better.
To be able to start... If he is not the illegitimate son of the Korean team's head coach, then the Korean team is deliberately letting things slip!" Xie Lan said plausibly, and it sounded quite reasonable.
Hu Lixin couldn't laugh or cry: "What? Just because he didn't perform well in the last game, it doesn't mean he didn't perform well in this game... After all, he is the best among the young players in South Korea. If he is not allowed to start, who else can be started? Park Soon-tae
He has left the team and returned to London Bridge..."
Before Hu Lixin finished speaking, he heard Xie Lan suddenly say in surprise: "Huh? Park Guixian has been replaced!"
Hu Lixin took advantage of the situation and said: "So you see, the Korean team doesn't want to lose to Australia in an away game..."
Xie Lan said confidently: "Who calls them sticks? Of course I have to think more about it. They have criminal records!"
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Park Guixian walked off the court, briefly shook hands with head coach Yang Zhongxun, and walked back to the bench with his head lowered.
After sitting down, he still lowered his head, fully demonstrating what it means to be "downcast".
In this game, he once again got the opportunity to start. He was originally holding back his energy to prove himself in the game and reverse the bad impression he left on the head coach in the previous game.
As a result, I don't know what went wrong. He just couldn't perform to his normal level.
With his performance in the club, he felt that he should not be so miserable in the national team...
What went wrong?
Why can't I be as good as Hu Lai in the national team?
He thought of his old enemy.
He scored twice in the last game, what about this game?
Thinking of this, he asked his teammate Xu Jiongde: "What's the situation on the Chinese team?"
Our teammates were surprised that Park Guixian immediately cared about the Chinese team after being replaced. How the Chinese team plays has nothing to do with us.
"Don't you know?" Park Guixian frowned.
"No...I heard that the Chinese team is already three goals ahead of Qatar." Xu Jiongde came to his senses and said quickly.
"Three goals ahead..." Park Guixian's face turned ugly, "Where is Hu Lai?"
"He...uh, scored twice..."
Scored twice in two consecutive games!
And he was substituted early for two consecutive games!
Park Guixian's mentality collapsed.
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Hu Lai didn't know that in far away Australia, some people were depressed because he scored twice in two consecutive games. Now he doesn't feel that it is amazing that he scored twice because he has not been able to complete the tasks given by the system.
Task.
Two consecutive national team games consumed a huge amount of points, and he urgently needed to complete tasks to replenish his points.
Because if the Chinese team successfully gets third in the group, there will be play-offs to play, and the opponents in the play-offs will also be difficult to deal with. They will also need to exchange points for props.
Previously, Coach Shi said that he focused on the overall situation of the team, and it didn’t matter whether he could get the Qatari fans to give him a standing ovation.
But now that he sees the team leading by three goals, Hu Lai is worried about gain and loss again - he still can't bear to part with the 200,000 points!
No, I will continue to score goals!
After using [Powerful Charming Essence Lotion], the only thing left to complete the task is to score a goal!
Hulay became furious and turned to look at the Qatar goal.
However, the Qatari goalkeeper, who was standing well in front of the goal, suddenly trembled, and a sense of crisis came to his mind.
He cast his gaze forward in confusion, but saw nothing strange.
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The three-goal deficit caused the morale of the Qatari players to hit rock bottom. After the game restarted, it was obvious that the Qatari players were fighting independently on the court.
The forwards only focus on attacking, and once they go up, they don't come back.
The defenders were determined not to press because they were afraid of losing the ball again.
As a result, Qatar's disconnection between front and back is very serious.
In response, the head coach of the Qatar national team was furious on the sidelines. He kept waving his arms and shouting, asking Qatar's defense to press forward and participate in the attack.
We are already three goals behind, and if we are still so conservative, then there is really no hope at all.
Now go out in full force and attack with all your strength, maybe there will be a chance to make a comeback...
Although it is difficult to come back from being behind by three goals, you still have to give some explanation to the fans on the scene, right?
You can lose, but you can never surrender early.
In his roar, Qatar's back line finally followed the offensive and pressed forward.
With the help of the back line, Qatar's offense does look more threatening...
But it just looks threatening.
There are only a handful of offenses that can truly create a threat.
On the contrary, the Chinese team took advantage of Qatar's opportunity to attack and launched counterattacks that were more threatening.
"Luo Kai... long shot -!! Ah! What a pity! It hit the crossbar! This kick was so powerful that the Qatar goalkeeper had basically given up the save, but he didn't expect the football to be ruthlessly hit by the crossbar.
Shut out!"
"The Chinese team is here again, another quick counterattack! Chen Xingyi's shot missed slightly..."
As the Qatari fans were frightened by the Chinese team's counterattacks time and time again, the Chinese fans in front of the TV gradually relaxed. They have begun to look forward to the World Cup qualifying play-off games to understand what the Chinese team will encounter in the play-offs.
opponent.
As for the game itself, everyone doesn’t take it too seriously.
The game has now reached seventy minutes, and with twenty minutes left, it is almost impossible for Qatar to chase three goals in a row.
Upon seeing this, Shi Wuyin also began to ask more players to warm up and prepare for substitution adjustments.
"Are you going to replace Hu Lai?" Li Zhifei, the assistant coach next to him, saw that the team's forward Gao Chen was called to warm up, and he knew what Shi Wuyin wanted to do.
Shi Wuyin nodded: "Yes. He will fly back to participate in the Premier League game next. It is better to replace him early so that he can take more rest."
Hu Lai flew tens of thousands of kilometers this time and scored four goals in two games. He was the biggest contributor to the Chinese team's third place in the group.
He has tried his best for the national team, and as the head coach of the national team, naturally he has to be considerate of him.
"But... he said before the game that he wanted the Qatari fans to give him a standing ovation. If you replace him now, wouldn't that mean..."
Shi Wuyin turned to look at Li Zhifei: "Old Li, do you really believe that Qatari fans will give Hu Lai a standing ovation?"
"What if...what if?" Li Zhifei didn't finish his words, he did have some thoughts in his heart.
"Don't think about it, there is no chance. The Qatari fans are so angry now that they can't even hate Hulay. How can they give him a standing ovation? That thing... let Hulay learn a lesson. Some words are really unacceptable.
Nonsense. Besides, we won the game, who cares if the Qatari fans gave Hulay a standing ovation... I believe Hulay himself doesn't care."
Hearing Shi Wuyuan's words, Li Zhifei frowned and stopped talking.
He knew that Shi Wuyuan was right, he was thinking too much.
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"It looks really unlikely..." Xie Lan saw that the national team forward Gao Chen was suddenly called to warm up. As an old fan, she naturally understood what this meant.
If Gao Chen is to be substituted, his son Hu Lai, whose position overlaps with his, may have to be substituted.
"Are you really thinking about it?" Hu Lixin asked in surprise.
"Why can't you think about it? What if the Qatari fans collectively lose their minds?"
"Hey..." Hu Lixin rolled his eyes, "Listen to what you said for yourself. Is it possible for it to happen?"
Of course, Xie Lan also knew that it would never happen. Although there should be no suspense about the team's victory, his son would be the butt of others' jokes, which still made Xie Lan feel a pang in his heart.
This game immediately became an imperfect victory.
"Relax and be normal. We can't let our son take advantage of all the good things, right?" Hu Lixin knew that his wife couldn't think about it for a while, so he enlightened her.
As the two people were talking, they saw the Chinese team launching another attack on the TV screen. When they advanced to the frontcourt, Qatar chose to cause offside as a defensive countermeasure.
As a result, when Zhang Qinghuan made a pass, Hu Lai succeeded in countering offside!
"Eh? Eh! Eh! Not offside!" He Feng was surprised at first, and then shouted excitedly, "Hu Lai is not offside! He received the ball behind all the Qatar defenders!"
Xie Lan and Hu Lixin no longer bothered to discuss whether their son could make Qatari fans give him a standing ovation. They were focused on the TV and did not dare to take a breath.
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When Hu Lai received the ball, there was a burst of boos in the sky.
But the intensity of the boos was still much smaller than when the game just started.
Maybe Hu Lai himself didn't notice the subtle change, but this change did happen.
Anyone who is familiar with Hu Lai will feel "stable" when they see him receiving the ball behind the opponent's defense.
For a striker with superb shooting skills like Hu Lai, this opportunity is as good as being given for free!
But everyone soon discovered that Hu Lai did not shoot the ball immediately, but dribbled the ball into the penalty area!
At the same time, Qatar's goalkeeper also rushed out, trying to compress Hulay's shooting angle!
"Shoot! What are you waiting for?!"
The anxious people couldn't help shouting when they saw this scene.
But more people were speechless by the sudden nervousness, and just stared at the figure entering the penalty area.
Under their gaze, Hu Lai's left shoulder suddenly sank, as if he was about to break through to the left and pass the goalkeeper.
Upon seeing this, the Qatar goalkeeper immediately leaned over and turned over.
But he soon saw that Hu Lai's foot did not touch the football, but just made a false shot behind the football!
Then he lowered his shoulders to the right!
A fake move! Going to the left is a fake move!
The Qatar goalkeeper was glad that his reaction was a little slow just now...he immediately turned back.
But Hu Lai's move was still a fake move! His right foot didn't even kick towards the football, he lifted it up and just stepped on it!
"This is……"
Shi Wuyin on the sidelines saw this and his eyes widened. He suddenly remembered that familiar scene...
In the U23 Asian Cup final, Hu Lai planned to do the same when facing the goalkeeper of the Japanese Olympic team alone.
As a result, he lost his balance and fell to the ground. By some mistake, he deceived the opponent's goalkeeper and hit the football instead.
But that was just luck... You can't expect it to happen again, right?!
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Hu Lai gritted his teeth and put his right foot next to the football, but did not touch the ball.
He felt the strength from his knee and thigh muscles supporting his body's two consecutive weight shifts.
This is completely different from the last time he did this action in the U23 Asian Cup final.
This is the benefit of building core strength!
Hu Lai suddenly felt confident that he had completed the real pendulum, so his center of gravity shifted to the left again.
The Qatar goalkeeper's center of gravity was extremely unstable at this time. When he saw Hu Lai going to the left again, he had no more options and fell to the ground to pounce on him - because if he didn't pounce, his body would lose support and balance, and he would immediately lose his balance.
He sat down on the ground, so that no matter whether Hu Lai went to the left or the right, he couldn't stop him, so he might as well gamble!
Just when he fell to the ground, from the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Hu Lai gently moving the football to the right with the tip of his right foot...
Already falling to the left, he could only stretch his legs as far as possible, hoping to disturb Hu Lai.
But this is nothing more than a desperate struggle.
After pushing away the football, Hu Lai easily jumped over the opponent's feet!
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"Pendulum pass!! Wow!! Hulay!! He passed the Qatar goalkeeper with a pendulum pass!!"
He Feng roared at the top of his lungs.
There is no suspense about the rest!
Zhang Qinghuan, who entered the drama mode after passing the ball, opened his mouth unknowingly. He watched dumbfounded as Hu Lai caught up with the football that he had passed, and then calmly started to push the ball.
The football rolled quickly on the turf until... it was caught by the rope net in the goal.
This kid...
He stood there blankly and forgot to go up to Hulay to celebrate the goal immediately.
"Hat trick! Hat trick!! Hu Lai completed his first hat trick in World Cup qualifying with a pendulum pass!!!"
When Hulay made his signature celebration for the third time, this time there were no boos in the stadium stands. Instead, there was... silence.
