Fox in the Penalty Area

After Hu Lai went off due to injury and Sun Haomin was sent off with a red card, although there was still nearly half an hour of the game, the suspense of the game was gone.

The South Korean team has one less player, and the one less is the main central defender. Li Anren had to replace the forward Zheng Daejin who had just been replaced in the second half, and then replaced another main defender Xu Yongzhe.

Under such circumstances, even at his own home court, it is still too difficult to get back three goals.

Not to mention that the current Chinese team players are fighting against each other because of Hu Lai's injury-they don't even know that Hu Lai has nothing to do with him...

Shi Wuyin immediately adjusted his tactics. He did not let the Chinese team continue to play the full-court pressing tactic. Instead, he set up a bus and handed over the areas outside the third defensive area.

But even so, it is difficult for the South Korean team to organize an effective offensive.

Park Guixian, who is known as the No. 1 striker of U23 in East Asia, has a hard time getting opportunities in the game. Most of the time, he can't even enter the penalty area and can only shoot long shots from outside.

Everyone originally thought that this game would be the stage for Park Guixian to perform. After all, after the Kirin Cup, he was forced to apologize to the Chinese fans and the media, but he considered it humiliating.

Isn't the East Asian Cup being held in his own homeland the best chance for revenge?

Before the game, many Korean fans expected that Park Guixian would kill in this game and turn the humiliation in his heart into a goal.

Unexpectedly... the protagonist of this game has become an unknown No. 14 player of the Chinese team.

He used a hat-trick and a foul, which directly cost the South Korean team almost all of their fighting power.

Park Guixian said before the game that whether Guan Xinyan will come or not will not affect the game.

Looking at him now, he was wrong. If Guan Xinyan came, the Chinese team might not even be able to win!

Because Korean fans know a little bit about this Guan Xinyan, who is a talented newcomer who has emerged in Chinese football in recent years.

Together with Park Guixian of the South Korean team and Tatsuya Sugiyama of the Japanese team, they are called the three most promising young people in East Asian football.

It's just that Korean fans think that this is simply a way of bragging by the Chinese media. In fact, Guan Xinyan's ability is not worthy of being compared with Park Guixian and Sugiyama Tatsuya?

This is basically because of China's international status and forcibly pulling out generals.

I found it to make up the number.

As the game time passed, the expectations of South Korean fans and commentators for the game changed from "I hope we can achieve a shocking reversal and let the Chinese team know what will happen to us if we are angered" to "I hope we can equalize the score, at least guarantee the Chinese team four The 11-year unbeaten record has been continued", and then "I hope we can score at least one goal in the game, save a little face, otherwise it would be too embarrassing to be shaved by the Chinese team"...

But even such a humble goal is not easy for the South Korean team to achieve.

In the end, Park Guixian simply fell into the trap of fighting alone. His physical fitness is indeed good, but he may not be able to win if he only relies on his body to fight hand-to-hand with the Chinese defenders.

In this game, Wang Guangwei, who also played for the Chinese team for the first time, was responsible for defending him.

He defended Park Guixian very embarrassingly in the game.

In terms of physical fitness, he may be slightly inferior to Park Guixian, but his defensive skills are better, his timing is accurate, and his kicks are firm and ruthless. Even if he is in his own penalty area, he will never hesitate when it is time to kick, and he will hit a hit.

As long as Park Guixian is pasted on, it is like a piece of chewing gum stuck to the sole of a shoe, it is difficult to be easily thrown off.

In fact, a national team debut like Wang Guangwei is definitely worthy of being on the front page of the news after the game.

But who told this game to have a more monstrous existence?

Hou Lai's hat-trick and injury simply stole the limelight from everyone.

In the remaining half an hour of the game, whether it was Chinese fans or commentators, Hu Lai's injury was the most talked about.

Seeing that he didn't go to the locker room, nor was he taken directly to the hospital by an ambulance, everyone was relieved—it doesn't seem like it was a very serious injury?

You must know that Gao Chen was seriously injured by South Korean player Park Sung-heung in the top 12 match the year before, but he was taken to the hospital by ambulance on the spot, and he never had a chance to sit on the bench and watch the game with ice packs.

Although it is possible to miss the rest of the East Asian Cup in this state, as long as it is not a major injury that can affect Hu Lai's future career, everyone thinks it is acceptable.

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South Korea's offense intensified in the final minutes of the game.

But the Chinese team tenaciously withstood their attack.

Seeing that there is not much time left in the game, the score is still 3:0, and the Chinese team is leading. Everyone knows that the Chinese team is going to win and beat the Korean team!

He Feng gritted his teeth and said: "We have said this sentence countless times in the past, so that later this sentence became a joke mocking Chinese football... and now it's time to return this sentence to the Korean team-leave it to the Korean team." The Korean team...is running out of time!"

Not long after he finished speaking, the referee blew the whistle to end the game. After seven minutes of stoppage time, the game ended!

"The game is over! The game is over!" He Feng raised his arms and shouted in the studio behind the capital. "We won! We won! We defeated South Korea! The 41-year embarrassing record of not winning against South Korea was broken today! The 'Koreaphobia' is over!"

The bar was in a mess, and someone was calling someone, shouting loudly on the phone: "Yes, yes, it's 3:0! It's 3:0! Yes, yes...it's the Chinese team! Yes, yes... yes Men's football! Nonsense, the Korean team is also a men's football!!"

Some people wiped their tears alone, and some cried with their heads in their arms.

I don't know how many people are crying and howling.

At this time, the person who said that he would pay the bill for the audience squeezed a bottle of beer in front of Yan Yan, and said to him: "Awesome, this classmate, you really hit the mark..."

Yan Yan saw the other person's appearance clearly, and was taken aback for a moment: "Aren't you a student of our school?"

The other party smiled: "You see, I don't look like I can be a student. I want to be a college student again, but I'm afraid that other schools don't want me, haha!"

Yan Yan looked at the excited students around him and said, "Then uncle, you are going to bleed profusely today..."

"It's okay, it's the first time in 41 years, and the bleeding is worth it!" The middle-aged man on the opposite side raised the wine bottle, "Is there any more wine? I don't want any more."

"Yes, yes." Yan Yan quickly picked up a bottle of beer on his table.

"How do you know Hu Lai so well? His fans?" the middle-aged man asked.

Yan Yan shook his head first, then puffed out his chest and said proudly: "No, I'm his teammate!"

"Why did the people from Shining Star come here?" The middle-aged uncle was very surprised. This is a bar after all. As a fan, he was a little concerned when he saw professional players appearing in the bar.

Yan Yan also understood, and quickly explained: "Uh, no... I mean, I was his teammate in the Dongchuan Middle School team."

"Oh yes, he came from campus football..." The middle-aged man suddenly realized. "You were his teammate on the school team, no wonder you know him so well... Come on, let's go."

The wine bottles of the two collided with each other, making a crisp sound.

At this moment, someone stood on a chair and shouted: "I declare——tonight everyone's orders will be waived!!"

"Who are you!" Someone asked loudly.

"The owner of the bar!" The other party replied confidently.

"Damn it! Boss is arrogant!"

"Arrogance!"

"I wish the boss a prosperous business!!"

"Thank you very much! The Chinese team defeated Han today, and we are all happy!" The boss stood on the chair and cupped his hands at everyone.

The middle-aged man withdrew his gaze, smiled at Yan Yan, and downed the beer in his hand.

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Zhao Kangming saw that Shi Wuyin had just shaken hands with South Korean coach Li Anren symbolically, so he couldn't wait to dial the phone.

But the ring on the other end of the phone kept ringing until the system automatically hung up, and the other party didn't answer.

"Oh, wait a minute... It's so noisy there now, how could he hear your phone? And maybe it was muted before the game?" the wife persuaded.

Zhao Kangming hurriedly paced back and forth in the living room, as if he couldn't sleep today without knowing the exact condition of Hu Lai's injury.

"Hey, Hu Lai?" When he was pacing back and forth with his head down, he heard his wife exclaim.

He quickly looked up to watch the TV.

Hu Lai's figure did appear on the screen, and he had already walked to the post-match interview area, ready to be interviewed by the reporters!

"Huh?" Zhao Kangming was very surprised, his eyes widened and he wanted to look for props such as crutches in the picture, but he didn't see them.

So he turned to his wife and asked, "How did he get here?"

"How did it come here? It came here."

"How did you get here?"

"Just walking on two legs..."

"No crutches, no one to support you? How about your walking posture? Are you limping?" Zhao Kangming asked again and again.

The wife shook her head: "He walked normally, without crutches, no one to help, and no limp."

Zhao Kangming frowned, staring at Hu Lai in the picture.

The kid is not hurt?

So lucky?

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"Look, he walked into the screen by himself, which means that his injury may not be serious, or he was not injured at all." Hu Lixin pointed to Hu Lai on the TV screen and said to his wife.

Xie Lan stared at his son, but still shook his head: "I'll ask him directly after a while!"

"Tsk, why don't you believe me?" Hu Lixin said, "Let me tell you, if he was really injured, if he suffered such a serious injury, it would be impossible for Hu Lai to stay here and he would have been sent to the hospital long ago Yes. The team will definitely not let him go for an interview like this... I think if he can be interviewed, it means that his injury should be fine."

While talking, the reporter on TV asked Hu Lai: "First of all, Hu Lai, everyone is very concerned about your injury..."

"Ah, I was lucky. It was a little painful at the time, but now I don't feel any pain in my ankle. Thank you for your concern for me. I'm fine now."

"Is it true?" The CCTV reporter still couldn't believe it.

"Of course, otherwise Director Shi would definitely not let me be interviewed, would they?"

"That's true..." The reporter also felt that Hu Lai said nothing wrong, so he said, "Then congratulations, Hu Lai. This is your first national team game, and you have completed a hat-trick, and the opponent is still With your hat-trick, the South Korean team ended the 'Koreanphobia'. At this moment, do you have anything to say?"

"What I want to say...is to be happy, very happy." Hu Lai smiled happily, and his smile made his answer all the more believable. "I didn't expect to be able to play like this in my first show. I thought I could score only one goal, but I didn't expect to score three goals. I feel..."

Here he paused, his eyes obviously glanced up the camera.

Because he saw Li Qingqing waving to him from the stand directly opposite him.

The smile on his face grew wider.

Then he quickly withdrew his gaze, continued to look at the camera and said: "I feel that the Seoul World Cup Stadium is my blessed place. I especially enjoy the feeling of playing here. If I have the opportunity in the future, I would like to come here to play!"

The CCTV reporter who interviewed him was a woman. When she heard Hu Lai say this, the smile on her face froze—with her female intuition, she felt that Hu Lai's words were obviously not as simple as he said.

This kid is actually mocking the Korean fans' performance today, right?

Reminiscent of his celebration after the third ball, the female reporter became more and more sure of her guess.

She suddenly realized that the "hero" of Chinese football in front of her might be different from the Chinese players she had interviewed before.

If you want to say that he is simple, he is obviously an "old onmyoji"; but if you want to say that he is quite sophisticated, he didn't even talk about the scene when he was interviewed.

Even if he didn't mock the Korean fans at the end, what did he mean by "I thought I could only score one goal"?

How many people can't even score a goal in the China-Korea match, but you say "only one goal is enough", is this something that can be done? It's not guaranteed consumption...

What do you think other people hear?

The female reporter realized that she was still in the middle of an on-site interview, and she should not be distracted, so she quickly withdrew her thoughts and asked, "I got off to a good start in the first game and defeated the powerful South Korean team. Then, may I ask Hu Lai, do you What is your ultimate goal in the East Asian Cup? Or what are your expectations for your performance in this East Asian Cup?"

Hu Lai chuckled: "Two small goals, first, to help the team win the championship. Second, to be the top scorer personally."

The female reporter froze for a moment, why did this answer sound so familiar...

By the way, isn't that what Park Guixian said? He was interviewed by the South Korean media before the East Asian Cup when he was asked what his goal was, and he answered this way...

Is Hu Lai going to fight Park Guixian?

Let’s not talk about the title of the champion, let’s talk about personal honors. Hu Lai is currently at the top of the scorer list with one goal, while Park Guixian is zero. The gap is huge...

You must know that in the previous East Asian Cup, there were even cases where two goals could win the top scorer.

Even if Hu Lai doesn't score a goal in the next two games, these three goals may make him the top scorer in the East Asian Cup.

He is really likely to get it, and others have the guts to say it!

Only now did the female reporter realize where the weirdest part of this matter was...

You have to know how many Chinese players before, no matter whether they are capable or not, they dare not speak like this.

If you dare to say it, you will definitely be scolded to death by the media and fans.

"Arrogance", "disrespect for opponents", "toad wants to eat swan meat"... Such hats are buckled at him one after another, and each person spit, can drown such an ignorant player.

So much so that a reporter like her would be shocked by his daring attitude after hearing this kind of answer, rather than the specific content of his answer.

But this one in front of me, not only said it openly, but also didn't make her, a reporter, feel unbelievable. Instead, she seriously thought about whether he could really achieve it.

By the way, this young man said before that his dream is to represent the Chinese team to win the World Cup...

Compared with the East Asian Cup champion and top scorer, the World Cup champion is obviously more powerful, right?

Now that the latter has been said, what is the former?

After all, compared with the World Cup champion, the East Asian Cup champion and the top scorer of the East Asian Cup are really... "small goals"!

Thinking about it this way, the reporter suddenly felt that it was not worth making a fuss about, so she smiled and said, "Then I wish you luck! Hu Lai!"