Although fans, media and players themselves are all looking forward to the next "Chinese Derby" in the Champions League.
But in fact, there are still two months until the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals.
Before that, no game should be played less.
In the sixteenth round of La Liga, Madrid Pirates faced Valentia at home, and they finally defeated their opponent 3:0.
Hulay did not score a goal in the game.
A week later, in the seventeenth round of La Liga, Atletico Madrid was still at home and their opponent was Turias.
This is also the last official game before the end of 2027.
The Madrid Pirates will have a holiday next, and the team will not regroup until Christmas is over to prepare for the eighteenth round of the league on the first day of the new year.
"Hu!"
The commentator Sanchez suddenly yelled during the commentary.
Because when his eyes followed Tonini's cross and moved to the door, he saw Hu Lai appearing in front of the door as expected.
Then he swung his legs to meet the incoming ball.
The football was swept into the goal by him!
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!"
"Hu Lai! Hu Lai! Hu Lai scored!! Beautiful!" He Feng was also very excited.
Although he said "beautiful", in fact this goal had nothing to do with being beautiful.
Before Toni's pass, there was neither a wonderful pass, nor an amazing teamwork.
It's just a casual pass by a Brazilian.
The result was a goal.
"Julay's ability to seize opportunities in front of the goal is really great! With his goal, Madrid Pirates also led Turias 3:2 at home!"
Yan Kang said: "Seventy-five! Hu Lai's goal is his seventy-fifth goal in 2027! This number makes him the player with the most goals in a natural year among active players. It is incredible.
, at the age of twenty-four, Hu Lai can create such achievements..."
Before Hulay, the player with the most goals in a single natural year was Serius Caesar who played for the Turin Bulls.
He set an active player record of seventy goals in 2019.
And now this record has been broken by Hu Lai.
In fact, Hu Lai tied Caesar's record in the national team match on November 12.
Before the top 40 match between China and Bangladesh, he scored 66 goals in 2027.
This is already the year he scored the most goals.
At that time, the media and fans were paying attention to the record of Hulay and Selius Caesar.
The record of 82 goals set by Celine Montiel is too far away, so they don't consider it. They only focus on Celius Caesar's record of 70 goals. I wonder if Hulay can catch up with Caesar this year.
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At that time, Hulay had nine games left. Judging from his scoring efficiency, there was not much suspense about catching up with Caesar.
The suspense is whether he can break Caesar's record.
In the end, no one expected that Hulay would tie Caesar in just one game.
He scored four goals in the top 40 against Bangladesh, helping the Chinese team defeat Bangladesh 15-0.
In addition to him, Chen Xingyi also completed a hat trick in that game.
This is the second time Hu Lai has scored four dollars in the game.
The first time he completed the "Big Four" was when he was playing football in China.
At that time, he played for Anton Shining Stars and faced Dashun Golden Arrow coached by Wang Xianke in the AFC Champions League quarter-finals. He scored four goals in the second round of the away game to help Flash Stars defeat Dashun Golden Arrow 5:0.
Of course, four goals is not Hu Lai's record for most goals in a single game.
His highlight moment was of course the U23 Asian Cup group match against the Qatar Olympic team, when he scored five goals in nine minutes.
The most goals scored by Hu Lai in his career was "a double". He scored a total of forty-five times and could be called "Mr. Double"...
The big four against Bangladesh helped Hulay catch up with the "Four Kings" Selius Caesar in just one game.
What everyone is paying attention to next is no longer whether he can replace Caesar as the player with the most goals in a natural year among active players, but whether he can break Celine Montiel's record of 82 goals in one go.
Although there is still a gap of twelve goals and there are only eight games left in the game, with Hu Lai's efficiency, it may not be impossible...
Of course, in the end it turned out that Montiel's record of 82 goals was indeed difficult to break.
Hulay's number of goals in 2027 is fixed at 75.
Throughout 2027, he played 58 times, scored 75 goals, and averaged 1.29 goals per game.
His outstanding form after moving to Madrid Pirates left a deep impression on people. Many people thought that it was his crazy goals in La Liga and the Champions League that allowed him to set such a record.
But in fact, among these seventy-five goals, more than half of the goals were scored by Hulay during his time at Leeds City, a total of thirty-eight goals.
Among them, he scored ten goals for the national team, and the remaining 28 goals were in the Premier League and Europa League.
Hu Lai's sudden outbreak this year was something that many people did not expect.
After all, judging from the previous data, no one could have imagined that he could increase his number of goals to such a terrifying level in just one year.
Last year in 2026, Hu Lai's natural number of goals was 47 goals, seven for the national team, and the remaining 40 were all club goals.
In 2025, when he first arrived in Europe, he scored even fewer goals, only thirty-eight.
Although this number of goals is very good, it is definitely not up to the top level.
Before this year, Hulay's record for the most goals in a single natural year belonged to 2024. In that year, Hulay scored 61 goals in the Super Cup, Chinese Super League, AFC Champions League and Olympic team combined.
But because the level of competition between the Chinese Super League and the Olympic team is not high, such a number of goals is meaningless, and the international mainstream will not recognize it.
In the past, when South American football had not completely declined, everyone recognized the data of South American football. Now that European football is the dominant player, data outside European football is naturally regarded as "insufficient in gold content." Even if it is calculated, European media
He and the fans also defaulted to not taking him to play with him, just pretending they didn't see it.
If they didn't see it and didn't report it, it naturally didn't happen.
So when Hulay scored 61 goals in a single calendar year, he was silent in the European continent. Except for a few people who had been paying attention to Hulay, no one knew about it.
Now that Hulay has scored 75 goals in one year in Europe, he can no longer turn a blind eye this time.
Of course there are still people who are sour grapes.
Some people were very unhappy that an Asian player broke Caesar's natural-year scoring record for active players.
They believe that the person who breaks the record should be a European player, or at the worst, a South American player.
For example, if Merry sets a new record, everyone will have nothing to say.
Asian football, which has always been regarded as having a low level of football, how can a strong man from the sky break the record set by us Europeans?
This idea is somewhat racist, so people who have this idea will not say it directly, but just sourly express the low level of Asian football. This can be seen from the fact that the Chinese team defeated Bangladesh 15:0 in a World Cup qualifier.
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I just want to expel Bangladesh from being a "FIFA member", so that the six goals Hulay scored against Bangladesh in the two top 40 games can be ignored.
In this way, Hulay's number of goals in a single natural year is actually 69, which is exactly one short of Caesar.
How wonderful!
But it's a pity that racists like them have no say in whether Bangladesh is a member of FIFA or not.
Therefore, Hulay surpassed Caesar and became the player with the most goals in a single natural year among active players.
And he is only twenty-four years old.
This record was just fixed.
It is conceivable that for a long time to come, this record will serve as the highest standard for future generations to look up to.
And it is not easy to surpass...
A player needs to be in good enough shape and have enough luck.
There are many factors, all of which are indispensable.
Hu Lai was able to break Caesar's record. In addition to his excellent condition, he was also very lucky. It happened to coincide with the Asian Cup this year. He scored seven goals in the Asian Cup. He also caught up with the top 40.
Because the opponents in the top 40 games were generally not strong, he scored nine goals in the top 40 games.
Luck and good form are also reflected in the fact that after he moved to Madrid Pirates, he scored 16 goals in 11 consecutive league games and eight goals in four consecutive Champions League games.
The most important thing is that he did not miss the game due to injury.
If latecomers want to surpass his record of 75 goals, they must maintain good enough condition throughout the year without getting injured.
Maxi Carey had a chance to get close to Selius Caesar's seventy-goal record in his best year in 2026. He scored thirty goals in the first half of the year, but he was injured before the World Cup. His form
Good enough, but not very lucky.
Alexandra Cerrados once scored 25 goals in 17 consecutive league rounds, and his status was comparable to Hulay. But his 25 goals were distributed in 2022 and 2023, and cannot be counted in one year.
In his scoring record, his luck is not very good either...
And those players who are quite lucky and have no disaster or illness after a year, their condition cannot keep up with the above two.
Before Hulay, apart from Caesar's record of seventy goals, the closest to this number was fifty-nine, also created by Selius Caesar.
Cerrados once scored 51 goals in one year, which was considered a top performance.
The vast majority of players can be classified as first-class forwards if they can score more than 40 goals in a year.
The record of seventy-five goals is like Celine Montiel's record of eighty-two goals, which is difficult for latecomers to surpass.
After the game, Celine Montiel, who set a record of 82 goals, or not to disgust Igovara, still praised Hu Lai greatly this time:
"When did I score 82 goals a year? When I was 29, that was the peak of my career. And Hu scored 75 goals at the age of 24... keep
If this momentum continues, I am optimistic that he will create new history! Maybe he can even break my record? Haha!"
The last sentence was somewhat like a polite remark. He didn't really believe that his record could be broken.
But those words praising Hu Lai came from the heart.
Because this is truly amazing.
Another Caesar, whose record had been broken by Hu Lai, seemed neither salty nor cool when facing the reporters who came to interview him.
"He did a great job. I know how difficult it is."
That's it.
So much so that some new Chinese fans who didn't know him well before thought that he was also the kind of racist who wouldn't like to see Hu Lai break records.
Or should other old fans explain to them that "The Great" is just such a person.
He is extremely competitive. After losing a game, he will refuse to shake hands with opponent players or exchange jerseys. When he falls behind, he will kick someone because of his bad temper. If he runs into position but his teammates fail to pass the ball, he will make loud noises on the court.
Accusing his teammates... He is like a "tyrant" whether to his teammates or opponents.
How could such a person be able to congratulate Hulay with a smile like Montiel for breaking his own record?
But it doesn't matter, congratulations or not, reluctantly, Hu Lai broke his record and surpassed him to become the first among active players.