Fox in the Penalty Area

When Li Qingqing walked out from the exit of the terminal, she saw enthusiastic fans and media reporters.

Seeing her appear, the latter flocked to her, put the microphone in front of her, and asked warmly: "Is Qingqing tired from the journey?"

Although mentally exhausted, Li Qingqing cheered up, smiled and shook her head facing the reporters: "I'm not tired, I slept on the plane."

Looking at Li Qingqing's smile, it seemed that he was not affected by the journey, and many reporters breathed a sigh of relief.

The next game is really important for the Chinese women's football team.

They must beat the Australian women's football team at home to qualify for the Olympics.

No wonder the reporters were so concerned about Li Qingqing's physical condition.

As the only overseas player in the team, in order to participate in the competition, she had to take a plane across the entire Eurasian continent. The exhaustion of the journey and the relationship of jet lag made her poor performance in the competition very normal.

But if Li Qingqing does not perform well, the Chinese women's football team will be in danger of qualifying for the Olympics this time. Who would have thought that the Chinese women's football team, which has never missed every Olympic Games, would face the same predicament as the men's football team? ?

Because of the poor performance of the team before, it was bitten tightly by the direct competitor of the Australian women's football team.

"For the next game, Qingqing, do you have any expectations?"

Li Qingqing originally wanted to reflexively say hello, me, hello, everyone, but just as she opened her mouth, she thought of the content of Hu Lai's chat with her on WeChat: "Let me tell you, I have already won the Olympic Games." Qualifications, if you don't make it to the Olympics, you owe me sixty meals!"

At that time Li Qingqing protested: "Why sixty meals?!"

"Because you proposed this agreement in the first place, and I completed it, but if you let me go, you will have to pay double the responsibility!"

Thinking of this, Li Qingqing said confidently to the reporters: "We will definitely go to Madrid!"

This is also her reply to Hu Lai on WeChat.

Seeing Li Qingqing's direct and confident reply, the reporters looked at each other in blank dismay, feeling a little different from Li Qingqing's usual style...

But everyone was very happy to hear Li Qingqing say that.

I hope that the performance of the women's football team in the qualifiers this time is just a small episode, and they can successfully go to Madrid to participate in the Olympic Games in the end.

Otherwise, the men's football team went to the Olympics this time, but the women's football team did not. What a pity!

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"Why are they all old faces?" When eating in the restaurant, Hu Lai and his teammates greeted each other one by one, and then sat down and asked Wang Guangwei at the same table.

"The method of inspecting new players can no longer be used at this juncture." Wang Guangwei explained to him. "August is the Olympic Games, and training camps will be held in July. What newcomers are still being inspected now? All those who should be inspected have been inspected, and those who feel capable of entering the Olympic team are here. Now even if there are any newcomers , Director Shi won’t recruit either.”

"Then Xiaoyu has no chance to participate in the Olympics?" Hu Lai felt sorry for his junior.

"This is something that can't be helped. What will others think if we are still inspecting newcomers now? How can the Olympic team get good results in the Olympics without even fixing the most basic lineup? And I think it's a small It is a good thing for Director Zhao that Yu does not come to the Olympics, otherwise we will all leave by then, how can we play in the league?"

"Hey, do you think Brother Huan will go to Madrid with us as an overage player?" Chen Xingyi asked beside him.

"Nine times out of ten... So Xiaoyu can't go anymore, he has to guard the house! Otherwise, when we come back, the house will be stolen, and what a fart!"

Wang Guangwei's analysis is quite correct. For the current Olympic team, the focus is no longer on new players, but on the basis of the existing lineup, constantly deepening the tacit understanding among players and their ability to understand and execute tactics.

So for this match against the Serbian Olympic team, not only did Shi Wuyin not recruit a newcomer, but he also seemed very indifferent to the result of this warm-up match.

He chose completely different tactics and staffing in the first half and second half of the game.

Hu Lai and Chen Xingyi started the game. Chen Xingyi scored a goal for the Chinese team in the game, but it did not change his fate of being replaced with Hu Lai at halftime.

Wang Guangwei came off the bench in the second half and finished the game.

Under such a fierce rotation, it is reasonable for the Olympic team to lose 1:2 to the powerful Serbian Olympic team.

In the eyes of professionals, this is not surprising.

The result of this game itself is not what everyone values. What they value more is the performance of the players in the game, and the players' understanding and implementation of Shi Wujian's tactics.

From this point of view, the performance of the boys of the Olympic team is not bad.

Basically, the task of this training warm-up match has been completed.

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After the afternoon games, the players of the Olympic team disbanded after returning to the hotel. They will return to their clubs, wait for June to regroup, play two warm-up matches, and disband again. Then in July, I came to the National Olympic Team to report and conduct a one-month training camp to prepare for the Olympics.

After Hu Lai, Chen Xingyi and Wang Guangwei went through the security check, they found a KFC and had dinner while waiting for the plane.

The three of them carried their respective dinner plates, and as soon as they sat down at a table in the corner, Hu Lai took out his mobile phone, put on a wireless bluetooth headset, and skillfully opened the live broadcast software.

"What are you looking at?" Chen Xingyi approached curiously, and saw a close-up of Li Qingqing appearing on the phone screen at a glance. "Oh, look at Li Qingqing."

Hearing his words, Wang Guangwei also cast his eyes on the phone screen: "Is there a women's football match today? Oh, yes, the key match for the right to qualify for the Olympics... What's the score? It's still 0:0? It's already the second half." ..."

"The commentator said that Li Qingqing was in trouble." Hu Lai took off half of the earphones and said.

Chen Xingyi and Wang Guangwei changed positions and moved to Hu Lai's side, holding a hamburger in their hands, staring intently at the small phone screen.

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Li Qingqing got up from the ground, and the jersey and shorts on her body could not find a few clean places.

In this game, as the core of the Chinese team's midfielder and the number one star, she was taken care of by the Australian women's football team. At least there was one person around her, and sometimes there were even four people guarding her. It was as if she was locked up. It's like being in a cage.

The referee called the Australian women's football player a foul, and the player who was called foul was complaining to the referee. She believed that she did not make a foul, but that Li Qingqing was too careless.

At the same time, she glanced at Li Qingqing, hoping to see a restless and angry expression on Li Qingqing's face.

This is the team's tactical goal, which is to use repeated physical confrontations and fouls to make Li Qingqing lose his mind.

As long as Li Qingqing can't play normally, the Chinese team's offense will fall into a quagmire.

Whoever wins this game can go to Madrid. Naturally, there is no limit to the tactical design.

Australia's goal is to destroy Li Qingqing.

But to the surprise of the foul player, after Li Qingqing got up from the ground and patted the grass clippings on his jersey, there was no anxious expression on his face. He only gave a verbal warning to the referee instead of issuing a card. No dissatisfaction either.

On the contrary, her teammates seem to be angrier than her...

In the next game, what surprised the Australian female football player was that Li Qingqing was not only not frightened by herself, but even came to her specifically. When Li Qingqing rushed forward with the ball, the goal was obviously Own!

this little girl...

She decided to give the other party a little real power.

So she also went forward, trying to stop Li Qingqing by using her physical advantage again, even if she was called a foul again, it doesn't matter, she must not let this little girl's aura come up, let her know that she is afraid!

But when she rushed up, Li Qingqing swung her past with a very clean emergency stop and change of direction.

The Australian female football player who had rammed into Li Qingqing with all her might lost her balance and fell out...

The Phoenix Football Stadium in Yunyang City, Zechu Province was originally the home ground of the Yunyang Phoenix Club, but now it is the home ground of the Chinese women's football team. Half of the stadium that can accommodate 30,000 people was seated, and the 15,000 spectators cheered Li Qingqing with the loudest decibels at this moment, dispelling the aggrieved and dissatisfied that the goddess in their hearts had been knocked to the ground time and time again. All vented out.

The three Olympic team players in front of the mobile phone screen couldn't help exclaiming: "I'll go! Beautiful!"

Li Qingqing, who made a breakthrough, did not go straight to Huanglong, but took advantage of the opportunity of the opponent's defenders to surround him, stretched out his foot and stabbed the football to the front right, and gave it to the Chinese team's forward Ni Sumei.

Because Australia's defensive focus is on Li Qingqing, Ni Sumei is in an empty space.

After receiving the pass from Li Qingqing, she rushed into the penalty area. Facing the weak defensive force, she calmly kicked the ball into the goal from the upper back corner, and the Chinese team took the lead!

Amidst the roar of cheers, the door to Madrid, which was originally closed, finally loosened a little.

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After losing the ball, the Australian women's football team strengthened their counterattack. At one time, the Chinese team was very passive.

In this tense atmosphere, the game came to the last ten minutes.

The game is still 1:0, and the Chinese team is temporarily leading.

Wang Guangwei raised his head suddenly: "Hey, did the radio call just now that our flight has started boarding?"

"I don't know." Hu Lai and Chen Xingyi didn't raise their heads, and continued to stare at the phone screen, seemingly indifferent.

Wang Guangwei saw that these two people were too unreliable, so he took out his mobile phone, checked the flight information through Hanglv, and found that boarding had indeed begun.

So he reminded the two: "It's really boarding, we should go."

Chen Xingyi had no choice but to get up: "Then let's go..." His eyes were still fixed on Hu Lai's phone screen reluctantly.

At this moment, when Li Qingqing made a breakthrough in the middle of the live broadcast, he was pulled to the ground by an Australian player. The Chinese team won a free kick 32 meters away from the goal and in the center.

Hu Lai raised his hand: "Wait a minute, finish watching this attack."

"Okay!" After finishing speaking, Chen Xing sat down again without hesitation.

"Then I have to leave after watching..." Wang Guangwei had no choice but to stand by and continue watching the game while waiting for his two teammates.

The airport announcement above his head came again, "Passengers who took flight 3U8962 from Shanhai to Jincheng, your plane has already started boarding, please bring your luggage..."

Wang Guangwei thought to himself, fortunately this place is relatively close to the boarding gate, and he doesn't have to go through half the terminal building, otherwise he would really drag two people and leave.

On the screen of the mobile phone, the Australian women's football players had already formed a human wall in the penalty area, while for the Chinese team, Li Qingqing bent down and placed the football on the spot marked by the referee with spray.

It looked like she would have taken the free-kick she had won herself.

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After Li Qingqing set up the football, he got up and stepped back to make room for the run-up.

Then she stood with her hands on her hips, turned her head to look at the referee, and waited for the referee to blow his whistle.

In the stands of the Phoenix Stadium, the shouting suddenly became much quieter, and many fans couldn't help but breathe lightly.

In the quiet scene, the crisp whistle sound was very clear.

When the whistle sounded, Li Qingqing took a deep breath, let out the breath in his chest, and started to run.

After a very crisp two-step approach, she kicked the football with her left foot!

Then the football soared into the sky, passed high over the wall of Australians who were struggling to take off, and then fell rapidly, like a cruise missile drilled out of the clouds, heading towards Australia's goal!

Although the Australian goalkeeper struggled to take off, she was blocked by the wall of people, and the timing of the jump was too late. Now she is far from the football, and she can't touch it with her arms stretched as far as possible.

Looks like nothing more than a failed death struggle...

The football flew into Australia's goal amidst the huge cheers that couldn't wait!

"Beautiful!! Beautiful!! Li Qingqing directly scored the goal with such a beautiful free kick, almost securing the ticket to Madrid for the Chinese team!" Hu Lai's excited roar of the commentator came from the headset.

He also vaguely heard the exclamations of Chen Xingyi and Wang Guangwei.

"I'll go, this ball is beautiful! Elevator ball! It's a first-class world wave in men's football!" Chen Xingyi quickly offered his knee.

Wang Guangwei also forgot about the boarding reminder, and stared at the small mobile phone screen dumbfounded: "Li Qingqing is too strong!"

After scoring the goal, Li Qingqing ran to the corner flag area, and was surrounded by his teammates, hugging and celebrating.

The old coach Yan Encai rushed out from the coaching bench, then excitedly took off his lucky hat and threw it into the sky. The pressure accumulated on his head by the team's poor performance in the qualifiers before was also thrown out of the sky with this action.

After hugging every teammate who came up to celebrate, Li Qingqing followed them back to her own half. On the way back, she raised her palm to the sky, then retracted her four fingers, leaving only her little finger upright, slightly bent.

Then she looked up at the sky and smiled at the face that didn't exist in the night sky.

According to the agreement, Hu Lai, I'm going to Madrid too!

Pull hook hanging, see you in Madrid!

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"Li Qingqing's celebration is so unique, what does it mean? 666?" Chen Xingyi guessed.

"Isn't the gesture of six compared with the thumb and the little finger? How can there be only the little finger?" Wang Guangwei corrected his guess beside him.

Hu Lai didn't participate in their speculation, but got up and put away his phone: "Go, go home!"

Wang Guangwei and Chen Xingyi followed him with their respective suitcases, still guessing and arguing about the meaning of Li Qingqing's gesture.

Hu Lai, who was walking in front of them, was grinning.