When Hulay hit the football, Menaye's feet had not yet reached it.
When Menaye's foot arrived, the football had already flown into the goal, and he missed!
With his body tilted, Menaye sat down on the goal area line, turned his head and looked at the ball again, and saw that it had already flown into his team's goal.
Goalkeeper Lame rolled on the ground, picked up grass clippings, and threw himself into a lonely place.
Looking at Hu Lai again, he had already rushed to Jiaoqi District.
Huge cheers rang out over the Flanders Stadium, and Leeds City fans were excitedly waiting for that moment to come.
He jumped high, turned around in the air, and waved his hands down, like a rock standing on the seashore, letting the incoming waves hit his back and roar:
“HUUUUUU!!!”
At this moment, Menaye was so stunned that he still sat on the ground without getting up.
Beside him, goalkeeper Lame had already stood up from the ground, kicked the football out of the goal, and cursed a French curse.
Another person who cursed was North London Rangers manager Ludwig Aumann, who used a Swedish curse.
Being behind by two goals in the 67th minute of the game, this game was very difficult to play.
It also means that the tactics he previously prepared for the team failed.
We are two goals behind, how can we still play the game?
That's why Oman curses.
All North London Rovers players are probably swearing in their minds, except Sean Barnett.
He was so ecstatic that he almost gave Hu Lai a standing ovation:
Well done! Chinese boy!
Then it’s time for me, Sean Barnett, to come on board!
He set his fiery eyes on head coach Auman.
Put me in, boss! I will definitely plunge the sword of revenge into their hearts!
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Oman did make substitution adjustments after conceding the second goal, but he made adjustments in the midfield.
The effect of the previous set of tactics was actually quite good, but it required relatively high physical fitness.
So when defensive midfielder Jack Emmett showed signs of physical exhaustion, Orman decisively made substitution adjustments.
Replace a midfielder and bring on another midfielder.
Nothing to do with Sean Barnett.
Seven minutes later, North London Wanderers' offense still failed to improve, and the score was still 0:2. They were trailing away from home.
So Auman made another substitution adjustment.
This is his second substitution in this game, and this substitution is very crucial.
When a substitution is made in the 74th minute of the game, the player who is substituted must be shouldering the expectations and responsibilities of the head coach, and is a carefully considered choice. This is completely different from the all-or-nothing substitutions in the last few minutes of the game.
This substitution of Oman finally made adjustments to the offensive line.
He removed a rearguard and sent in a forward.
Dutch youngster Jordi Teixes takes the field!
Still nothing happened to Sean Barnett.
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“Damn it, why doesn’t that Allman guy let Barnett play?”
In the north stand, David Miller folded his arms and cursed.
The companions around him also yelled in disappointment.
After Hulay scored, they sang happily. Most of the tasks in this game were completed. There was only one task left, and that was to boo fucking Sean Barnett.
As a result, the Leeds City fans who were waiting so hard did not wait for Barnett to be replaced.
North London Wanderers made two substitutions, both of which have nothing to do with Sean Barnett.
This gave Leeds City fans nowhere to vent their pent-up anger and boos.
They couldn't help but wonder if Orman knew what they were going to do to Barnett, and that's why he was unwilling to let Barnett take the field and be booed.
After all, that would be a direct waste of a substitution spot...
“Did someone leak the news?” Levin asked.
John thought this question was too stupid: "Who needs to leak this? All England knows that we are going to fuck that traitor Barnet hard in Flanders!"
David Miller snorted: "I suspect that bitch Barnett must have asked Orman not to send him on... He is a coward and a coward!"
Everyone turned their angrily eyes to Sean Barnett, who was sitting on the visiting team's bench, and could only send greetings to the family of this coward in their hearts.
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Hulay was replaced by Clark in the 87th minute. This was Leeds City's last substitution of the game.
The score on the field was still 2:0.
Everyone can see that it is almost impossible for North London Wanderers to make a comeback in the away game.
They have used up all three substitutions, and their desperate attempt still has no effect. Now it is more like a death struggle.
Clark's substitution in the 87th minute was not only Leeds City's last substitution, but also the last substitution of the game.
He chose this time to replace Hu Lai, not because he wanted to consolidate the victory, or to withstand the near-death counterattack of North London Wanderers.
He just wanted the team's top scorer to have a moment alone to enjoy the applause and cheers from the fans in the stadium.
This ment is exclusive to Hu Lai.
"Hulay was replaced. When there was little game time left, he was replaced. In this game, Hulay earned a penalty kick for Leeds City and scored a goal himself. It can be said that
Best of the match!”
Although the game is not over yet, and the selection of the best player in the game has not been concluded yet, the commentator He Feng has already given the answer very confidently.
And he is not afraid of being slapped in the face in the end.
Because no matter what the final result is, in his mind and in the minds of all Chinese fans, Hu Lai is the best in the game and will not accept any refutation!
In the TV broadcast, Hu Lai walked to the sidelines. He did not walk very fast, and no North London Wanderers players came up to urge him. They also knew that the North London Wanderers had actually lost this game.
The only person who is anxious and does not want to admit defeat is Sean Barnett, but he is still on the bench and is not eligible to play, so it is useless for him to worry.
No one paid any attention to him.
When Hu Lai walked off the field, the TV broadcast suddenly cut to the live stands.
And it’s not just a grandstand.
North Stand, South Stand, East Stand, West Stand.
Nearly all the Leeds City fans in the stands on all sides were standing, with serious expressions on their faces, applauding toward the stadium!
The applause of 30,000 people was clearly transmitted to thousands of households through television broadcast signals.
Even as far away as China, you can hear it.
Leeds Radio football commentator Ryan Haynes was silent until the applause gradually became sparse and then said: "Listener friends, what you just heard was not the current noise of the broadcast signal, let alone the sound of rain or wind, but the sound from
Applause from the stands of Flanders Stadium! This applause is all for one person, and that is the young Chinese forward Hu Lai!!"
“He is the hero of Flanders Stadium and the hero of the whole city!”
Lian Heinis leaned forward and looked at the scene below the court and said in an excited voice.
Amidst the applause, Hulay walked off the court and after hugging head coach Clark, he raised his hand and waved to the fans in the stands to thank him.
This is not the first time he has enjoyed the treatment of being substituted early, but it is indeed the first time he has seen all the fans standing up and applauding him after being substituted early.
Cheers and applause have different meanings.
He knew what it meant.
Seeing this scene, Matt Dawn, who was guarding the filming machine on the high platform, suddenly thought of the walls of private houses he saw on the way to pick up Hulay from the hotel to the training base in a commercial vehicle when Hulay first joined Leeds City.
A huge portrait of Lauren Galli. He told Hulay that one day Hulay would be painted on the outside of their house by Leeds City fans.
At that time, he was actually drawing a pie for Hu Lai. Even he himself had no idea. It was more like a psychological suggestion of self-encouragement.
He doesn’t know how long it will take for that “one day” to come.
At the time, he never expected that day to come so quickly. When he heard the applause from the audience, Matt thought that maybe it wouldn't be long before he could see Hulay's giant graffiti on the streets of Leeds City.
We will eventually write our names into the history books of this city!
This time, Matt wasn't encouraging himself.
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Amid applause, Sean Barnett sat on the bench and looked around.
Oman had already used up all three substitutions, and in the end he still failed to get a chance to prove himself.
He is not very bitter about the fact that the team's defeat is certain. Who asked the head coach not to let him play?
Failure has nothing to do with me.
But put all your attention on the scene in front of you.
He was deeply loved in this stadium. Even after he left, he could still hear the greetings from the fans when he returned here again.
But...even when he was playing in Leeds City, he never had all the Leeds City fans stand up and applaud him after being substituted early.
When the applause rang out, he felt that all traces of his existence in this city and the stadium were being quickly erased.
The city has a new hero.
And he is just a clown that no one cares about.
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PS, there is a single chapter at the back, I want to talk to you for a few words.
