"Madrid Pirates' counterattack... Hu! He saved the ball! He put it over Bowman's head! He... Barb?! He shot with an barb! God! The ball went in! The ball went in!
It’s unbelievable! Hu scored a goal with an upside-down golden hook from such a long distance!!”
Highlights of the highlights from this round of the Champions League group stage are being played on the TV.
The hoarse commentary comes from British commentator Matthew Cox.
In the "White Rose" bar, everyone looked up at the goal screen on the TV.
Someone lamented: "I don't know if it's my imagination. I always feel that after Hu went to Madrid, he became a phenomenon-level player in Europe. We can always see news and news about him in the media every now and then..."
Someone refuted him: "That's just because he was in Leeds City before, and we could see news about him every day, so we didn't think it was anything. If you think about Pirates fans now, they can also see news about him every day."
"But no matter what, Hu is indeed more famous than before. After all, pirates are truly wealthy..."
"I don't care what happens to the pirates, I really miss Hu now..."
Everyone was emotionally affected by such a sentence, and they all sighed.
In another Champions League group match held at the same time yesterday, Leeds City in the same group challenged Kiev away from home, but was tied 0:0 by their opponents.
Failed to score a goal and failed to take all three points.
In fact, Leeds City ran into trouble after the start of the new season.
Hu Lai's departure has a huge impact on the team.
Leeds City's tactics are mainly offensive, and all their previous achievements have been based on being able to score goals.
It is precisely because they have the ability to score goals that they can threaten their opponents and gain the initiative in the game.
But if they can't score goals, the threat level will plummet.
The opponent will think: Since you can't threaten my goal, your offensive football is just to free up the backcourt for us to counterattack.
So Leeds City's original advantage turned into its current disadvantage.
When offensive football is no longer strong, their shortcomings of poor defense are infinitely magnified.
After four rounds of the Premier League in the new season, Leeds City has drawn two and lost two, and has yet to win a game.
Ranked 17th with only two points, the situation is not good.
Scored four goals but conceded 11 goals.
Such a performance naturally did not satisfy the fans, and everyone missed Hu Lai even more.
In fact, this season Leeds City is paying more attention to defense than before. They have also invited coaches who are good at defense to train and adjust the team's defensive ability.
But the change in tactics did not happen overnight. The players were accustomed to the previous offensive football, and it was not easy to adapt to the new football in the post-Hulay era.
After watching Hulay leave Leeds City, he went to Madrid and scored in every game for Pirates. He scored nine goals in five games in total, which was simply unstoppable.
Leeds City fans feel so happy...
It's sour and unpleasant.
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Those who are sour and unhappy include Zhou Zi Jing.
At this moment, he was doing simple warm-up activities in the warm-up area next to Flanders Stadium.
But this does not mean that he will play for the team.
As a substitute, you cannot really wait until you are about to go on the field before being called to warm up. After all, not every substitution will give you a few minutes to fully warm up before you go on the field.
Sometimes it is due to unexpected situations such as player injuries, or it may be that the head coach suddenly decides to make a substitution. At that time, there is not enough time to wait for you to warm up slowly, but you need to be called upon and ready to fight.
Therefore, in order to ensure that the bodies of substitute players are always ready to play, players on the bench are often called to the sidelines in batches to warm up.
At this moment, Zhou Zijing was warming up on the sidelines with some of his teammates.
Just a regular warm-up does not mean he will be sent on the field.
After warming up for a while, it is normal to return to the bench and sit down to watch the game.
In fact, being able to warm up on the sidelines is already a good treatment for Zhou Zijing.
You must know that throughout August, he could not even make the squad in Leeds City. He was not qualified to come to the sidelines to warm up!
Now at least he can watch the game from the nearest distance, which is even more VIP than the VIP box upstairs.
But Zhou Zijing doesn’t want this VIP treatment!
He wants to go further!
It has been two months since he came to Leeds City in mid-July. Although he has played in some insignificant warm-up matches, he has not played a minute for Leeds City in an official game.
After playing for the national team, perhaps because he scored goals in the national team game, he was finally selected into the squad.
But whether it was the last round of the Premier League away to the Highlanders, or the last Champions League away to Kiev.
Although he was selected into the squad, he stayed on the bench for 90 minutes and was not able to play.
In these two games, Leeds City first shook hands with the Highlanders 1:1, and then drew 0:0 with Kiev.
As a center forward, Zhou Zijing can only be a spectator off the court, but cannot go on the court to help the team score goals. He is very frustrated.
With this performance, what can make Leeds City fans forget about Hu Lai?
Leeds City fans miss Hu Lai very much now!
Because the invincible Leeds City encountered "powerlessness".
In previous games, head coach Clark tried various striker combinations.
But no matter what the combination is, the effect is not very understandable.
Lasky performed well last season, also because he had Hulay by his side. Hulay helped him attract a lot of defensive firepower, and he was under much less pressure.
Now that Hulay is gone, the Poles have to face most of the attention from the opponent's defense alone.
The Poles have not been able to seize every rare offensive opportunity and convert it into goals like Hulay did. This has led to Leeds City often facing the dangerous situation of being unable to attack during the offense and then being counterattacked by the opponent.
Now in this match between Leeds City and London Mars at home, Clark chose to pair Lorenzo and Lasky.
He wanted to use the heading ability of high center Lorenzo to create opportunities for Lasky.
However, the Italian high forward who has reached the last season of his career has obviously declined in physical fitness and ability. Although he is still diligent in training, he still cannot make up for the age gap.
He had no advantage in the confrontation with the London Mars defenders.
In the first half, Leeds City could maintain a certain advantage amidst the cheers of the home fans.
But when they failed to score a goal in the first half, Leeds City's offense was a bit exhausted.
After the start of the second half, London Mars' counterattack became more and more fierce, and now it was Leeds City's backline's turn to be in danger.
And all this, Zhou Zijing could only watch from the sidelines.
Let Leeds City fans forget Hulay?
Now it seems like an "impossible mission".
Just a few minutes ago, Leeds City fans sang "Hu's Song" in the stands.
This song was supposed to be sung after Hulay scored. But with Hulay's transfer and departure, Leeds City fans seemed to have lost the opportunity to sing this song.
Today, it suddenly sang in this game. In fact, everyone knows what it means.
Leeds City fans are remembering Hulay.
Especially under such circumstances, his team's offense is weak, but Hu Lai scored twice in the previous Champions League group stage, and the second goal was a wonderful long-distance overhead kick...
The whole of Europe is discussing Hulay's goal, and the whole of Europe is praising that goal.
Compared with such a person, he is a nobody who has never even played in Leeds City.
He originally thought that he was the only one living in the shadow of Hu Lai, but now he discovered that the entire Leeds City team was actually in the shadow of Hu Lai...
Are you still clamoring to defeat him?
Zhou Zijing thought it was a bit ridiculous.
Let alone Hu Lai, he can't even compare to Luo Kai.
Luo Kai is now starting to play games for Tramed, even though he comes on the bench... but that's a good sign.
What about yourself?
I haven’t even opened my head yet!
It’s so irritating that people are so different from each other!
When will the era that belongs to me, Zhou Zijing, come?
Or...can it still come?
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Just when Zhou Zijing was upset, the situation on the court suddenly changed.
London Mars, which had always had the advantage before, penetrated Leeds City's defense through a quick counterattack, and finally their young Australian forward Benjamin Torio scored!
Leeds City fell behind at home!
And just when Leeds City fans were still feeling regret and pain for losing the goal, London Mars goal scorer Benjamin Torrio made an unexpected move...
He ran towards the corner flag area, then jumped up, turned 180 degrees in the air, and swung his arms back when he landed!
Although it is not very standard, everyone can see that this is Hu Lai's signature celebration!
Scored a Leeds City goal at Leeds City's home ground, and then made the iconic celebration of a Leeds City legend...
What does it mean?
This is not over yet. After scoring the goal, Torrio made a motion towards the Leeds City stands, putting his hands on the awning and looking around:
Where did your Hu Lai go?
The Flanders Stadium exploded directly.
A storm of boos formed instantly!
The Leeds City players on the field were still upset about losing the ball, holding their heads with their hands and looking in pain. After seeing Torrio's celebration, their expressions instantly changed, and they all ran to find trouble with the opponent with wide eyes.
Other London Mars players quickly ran over to protect their teammates.
The two sides just pushed and shoved together!
The boos in the stands were mixed with the shouts and curses of Leeds City fans.
Listening to the boos and watching the players from both sides shouting at each other, Zhou Zijing was dumbfounded.