When Eli intercepted the ball from Pete Williams, the Alvara fans in the stands couldn't wait to cheer.
Then Junpei Morikawa got the ball back, and the Alvara fans were not too disappointed.
After all, their defense is still intact, and it is still difficult for Leeds City to get decent opportunities.
Do not believe?
You see, the Leeds City players have no choice but to take long shots from outside!
This shows that our defense is very good...Eh?!
"ah!!!"
When they saw goalkeeper Ze Ferreira save the ball while Hulay was already approaching him, the Alvara fans who had been confident just now screamed.
Someone was shouting: "Offside! He's offside!!"
But nothing changes.
The football was kicked into Alvara's goal by Hulay!
An Alvara player signaled to the referee that Hulay was offside, but Hulay ran off to celebrate regardless.
Judging from the replay of the goal that followed, at the moment when Kamara shot, Hulay was still in front of the line between Bruno Pinto and Matthew Keffier, and was not offside!
After seeing Kamara shoot, he suddenly moved forward and came out from behind Pinto.
"There's no problem with this ball! It's clean and beautiful!" Cox cheered happily.
"3:1!! When Leeds City was in danger again, Hu used his best method to help the team resolve the crisis! Ladies and gentlemen! What is the best defense? This is it! There is nothing better than using
It’s a better way to defend by scoring goals to defeat your opponents and expand your lead again!”
He Feng also praised Hu Lai's goal and was not stingy with his compliments: "It seems that Hu Lai just missed the goal. But if Hu Lai hadn't spared no effort in running and attacking in this attack,
Accurate timing, when Ferreira let go, how could he run to the football? It seems that Hu Lai is very lucky, but opportunities only favor those who are prepared not to give up! So this ball is not only not technical.
Low, on the contrary, fully embodies Hu Lai’s core technology!”
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"This ball is not offside?!" Valente turned his head and looked at Xia Xiaoyu with wide eyes.
Xia Xiaoyu shook his head with a complicated expression and answered him: "It's not offside, our back line didn't keep an eye on anyone..."
Valente knew that Xia Xiaoyu would not lie to him, so he sighed and said in frustration: "It's over... It took a lot of effort to gain momentum, and now this loss of the ball is a fatal blow!"
Xia Xiaoyu didn't know how to comfort him, or indeed couldn't comfort him.
Because Valente was right, I saw Alvara's momentum building up just now, and it almost became a success. By then, Alvara might really be able to equalize the score, or even come back and win.
But at such a critical moment, Leeds City's goal was like a punch to your pubic area just when you were about to cheer up.
All the "qi" that I finally remembered was gone, and there was also a backlash.
As Hu's former teammate, he is very aware of the fatality of Hu's goals at such critical moments.
As a player with a strong ability to seize opportunities, Hu Ge's scoring efficiency allows the team with him to gain such an ability invisibly - that is, the goals come in a timely manner...
When we were teammates before, we would only applaud Brother Hu for such goals.
Now I can only swallow the bitter pill silently - being the enemy of Brother Hu is really an uncomfortable thing!
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Valente and Xia Xiaoyu's feelings were correct. Alvara's head coach Moya was stunned on the spot after seeing Hulay's goal.
Because he knows in his heart how deadly this ball is!
The team's morale was dropping at a speed that was almost visible to the naked eye - although there was no status bar above the players' heads, Moya could feel it.
Hulay scored in the 72nd minute.
This time is also very deadly.
It is a watershed moment for players’ physical fitness.
Normally, at this point in the game, everyone's physical fitness will reach a bottleneck and they will run out of energy. At this time, they usually grit their teeth and persevere.
As a result, now they are hit by conceding a goal... It is easy for people to relax when their physical fitness is running low, and now they are given a reason to "reasonably relax" - it is not that we don't want to work hard, but fate.
...too cruel!
This kind of physical and mental devastation is particularly likely to cause the team to collapse.
Originally only one goal away, Alvara's players could grit their teeth and persevere even if they were exhausted. As long as they could equalize the score before the game and get a draw, the second round would start from scratch and they would still have 100 points.
50% chance of advancing to the top 16.
Now... trailing by two goals, with twenty minutes left in the game, their physical fitness has reached a bottleneck. When the players of Alvara think that they have to chase two goals in a row to get a draw under such circumstances... it is simply...
Life would be worse than death, and half of his energy was immediately exhausted.
Ricardo Moya is just a football coach, not an omniscient and omnipotent god.
Facing this lost ball, he was a little at a loss and didn't know what to do.
When the Leeds City players were running wildly on the pitch in front of him to celebrate, he just stood there, expressionless, like a sculpture.
The TV broadcast also gave Moya a close-up shot at this time. Seeing the stunned Alvara coach in the shot, British commentator Matthew Cox asserted: "Hu's second goal almost destroyed the game."
The outcome of this game is in suspense! Leeds City will get their first victory in the Europa League in history!"
The broadcast camera quickly cut to Hu Lai, who was running back to his own half with his teammates.
He still had a smile on his face in the camera. Under his smile, the broadcaster printed subtitles:
Europa League
One game, two goals
"Hu only played five group matches in the Champions League this season and scored five goals, averaging one goal per game, which is highly efficient. Now the efficient shooter in the Champions League has come to the Europa League and continued the same efficient performance.
Performance, what surprises will he continue to bring us in the Europa League?"
Matthew Cox said expectantly.
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After the game restarted, the Alvara players, whose morale was severely damaged, behaved very passively on the court, and their active mistakes increased significantly.
The morale of the team was hit not only by the team, but also by the Alvara fans in the stands.
Both the singing and cheering shouts are much smaller than before.
Many Alvara fans were watching the game going on in the stadium, their eyes were blank, as if they had lost all their strength, they could not open their mouths or raise their hands at all.
No singing, no shouting, no clapping or waving scarves.
They are just a group of wooden piles standing silently in the stands.
The wooden stakes watched the stadium silently, and the Lisbon Arena became quiet for the first time in this game.
When Leeds City opened the scoring, it was never so quiet here.
When Leeds City took a two-goal lead in the first half, harsh boos and unwilling roars could still be heard here.
Leeds City, already leading by two goals, was still attacking.
It stands to reason that when they attack, the space left behind them is a good opportunity for Alvara to take advantage of and counterattack.
But in fact, Alvara's players no longer have the ability to accurately deliver the football to players like Lecinho in the frontcourt.
On the contrary, the defense line that they tried their best to maintain looked shaky. It seemed that 1:3 was not the end of the score and they might lose another goal.
This really makes Alvara fans despair.
Finally, with ten minutes left before the end of the game, the camera captured Alvara's fans in the stands starting to leave one after another.
"Let's go too, Xia... Let's go now, there won't be so much traffic jam on the road." Valente, who was driving, said to Xia Xiaoyu.
Xia Xiaoyu originally wanted to stay and watch the game, but at this moment, he saw the fourth official on the sidelines holding up a Leeds City substitution sign.
Charlie Potter was about to be replaced, and it was Hu Lai who was replaced.
So he nodded: "Okay, let's go, Joao."
At the exit of the stands, Xia Xiaoyu looked back for the last time at Brother Hu, who was walking towards the field. He walked slowly and leisurely, just like before.
It looked like he was exhausted, but Xia Xiaoyu knew very well that Brother Hu was deliberately stalling for time.
We were already two goals ahead, but we still used this method...
Xia Xiaoyu laughed and shook his head.
Brother Hu is still the same Brother Hu, who never forgets his original intention and keeps people speechless...
The Alvara fans in the stands who were in a bad mood because of the loss naturally could not have a good attitude towards Hulay's behavior. They booed deafeningly and vented all their anger on Hulay.
The emotions I had been holding back for the whole game finally found a target.
It's him!
It's this damn guy!
Not only did he score two goals in the game, he beat us!
He also deliberately delayed time when he was replaced!
Brothers, go for it!
Boo him to death!
Amid the boos, Hu Lai even stopped, raised his arms and applauded the fans in the stands.
Not affected at all, and even a little bit tempted to turn against customers...
Valente stopped when he heard the booing, turned around and saw this scene, and was speechless.
And Xia Xiaoyu pulled him: "Let's go."
The two reserve team players quietly left, with loud boos behind them.