Fox in the Penalty Area

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The next round of the Football Association Cup will not be until July 10, and the next round of the AFC Champions League will not be until the end of August. This period of time is a rare respite for Zhao Kangming.

Teams no longer have to play double games every week.

These days will continue until the AFC Champions League resumes its war.

But that doesn't mean the team can really sit back and relax.

Even though the team is currently ranked fourth in the league, there is still a Sword of Damocles hanging over Zhao Kangming's head.

He was always worried that starting from the Olympic team training, without these absolute main players, the results would plummet.

Out of worries about this future, Zhao Kangming decided to score more points in the league while Hu Lai, Chen Xingyi and Wang Guangwei were still there.

If this statement spreads, many people will find it unreasonable - you are now fourth in the league!

Who is fourth in the league worried about being relegated?

What the fourth place player in the league should consider is ensuring they can qualify for the AFC Champions League, right?

But Zhao Kangming is really not showing off, but is really worried about relegation.

Not only for the Olympics, many of his main players will be absent from the game for about two months.

The Chinese Super League will not be suspended in the past two months, and it will miss about seven league rounds.

There are only thirty league rounds in the entire Chinese Super League season.

Even though the Flash Stars are currently ranked fourth in the league, the fifth-place Nanjiarui Lions are only one point away from them. The sixth-placed Capital Tenglong is only two points behind them, and the seventh-placed Shanhailanyue and Flashing Stars are three points behind them.

Next, from eighth to eleventh, the four teams have fifteen points.

These four teams are five points apart from the Flash Stars.

Judging from the points situation, although Flash Star ranks fourth, the advantage in points is not that big.

From the fourth place in the league to the eleventh place in the league, it is only five points and only two goals apart.

In other words, if Flash Star makes a mistake in two games, the ranking may drop a lot.

Not to mention that after Hu Lai and the others joined the Olympic team, they missed about seven games.

With this mentality, in the away game against Zhongshan Qianfan on the weekend, the main force of Shining Star was used.

Zhang Qinghuan, who was absent from the Capital Tenglong game before, also started.

Even though it was an away game, Shining Star, which played with all its main players, defeated Chiho Shigeyama 2:1 and escaped with three points.

A week later, the Flash Stars returned to their home court to face the Huanghai Bluebirds, who were ranked last in the league. There was nothing good to say about this opponent. The Flash Stars simply defeated their opponents and took all three points.

3:0, each of the front three scored one goal.

Flashing Star also relied on this two-game winning streak to move up one spot in the league rankings to third place.

Shanhaimen, who was originally ranked second, fell all the way to fourth due to three consecutive draws.

The sailor seemed to be a warning to Flashing Star, deepening Zhao Kangming's sense of crisis.

You must know that Shanhai Mariners have been ranked first in the league this season, and they are not temporarily first in the league. They have been at the top of the league for several rounds.

As a result, it has now slowly slipped from the first place.

From leading the league standings alone, to being caught up with the South China Tigers, then being at a disadvantage on goal difference, and becoming second place with the same points as the South China Tigers.

Now simply go from second place to third place in the standings, and then to fourth place.

Even though the South China Tigers are currently ranked first, with fierce competition, no one knows what their final league ranking will be.

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After the game against Huanghai Jade Bird, the league was temporarily suspended and the national team match day came.

The Chinese national team is going to participate in the top 40 of the World Cup qualifiers.

The Olympic team has two warm-up matches.

Ding Yuanhai and Zhang Qinghuan participate in the Chinese team's World Cup qualifiers.

Hu Lai, Wang Guangwei, and Chen Xingyi once again represented the Olympic team.

These two warm-up games are also the last two warm-up games before the Olympic team training.

After these two warm-up games, when the league ends in June, the Olympic team will gather again for a month-long training camp.

During the first half of the training camp, they will train domestically.

In the second half, they will fly to Europe and go to Spain for training in advance to adapt to the local weather and diet and prepare for the Olympic team's first trip abroad to participate in the Olympics.

In these two warm-up games, the Olympic team finally achieved one win and one loss.

Different from the warm-up match in March where no player could play the entire game, the lineup of the Olympic team in these two warm-up matches was relatively fixed. Players in several key positions all started and played for a long time. time.

Among them, Hu Lai even played the entire game.

Obviously, with the Olympics approaching, Shi Wuyin no longer tests unlimited personnel combinations, but tries to fix the lineup and step up the running-in of this lineup so that they can perform at their best in the Olympics.

Through these two games, the outside world can see to some extent what the main offensive lineup of the Olympic team will look like.

Center Hu Lai, left Chen Xingyi, right Luo Kai, behind them is Guo Junfu.

This is the main offensive lineup of the Olympic team.

What their offensive firepower is, this has been demonstrated and proven in the U23 Asian Cup.

Throughout the U23 Asian Cup, the Chinese team scored the most goals among all participating teams. Of course, this was partly due to Hulay's five goals in nine minutes against the Qatar Olympic team - the Chinese team scored seven goals in that game, which was more than many teams scored in the entire U23 Asian Cup. many.

In the two warm-up games in June, this main offensive combination played together for a very long time, and Shi Wuyin did not make substitutions easily.

With the ability of the Chinese Olympic team, it is meaningless to talk about the thickness of the bench. It would be good to ensure that the main lineup has combat effectiveness. After all, with the overall strength of Chinese football, they cannot produce so many capable young players at once.

Compared with the thickness of the bench, Shi Wuyin paid more attention to the performance of the main players in these two games.

What makes him gratified is that the Olympic team's offensive firepower is pretty good.

Facing the Italian Olympic team and the Cameroon Olympic team, they scored two goals and three goals respectively.

Hu Lai scored one goal in each of these two games, and the remaining goals were taken by three different players. He scored goals on both the left and right attacks, and there was no phenomenon of walking lamely.

After playing the Olympic team game, Hu Lai and his teammates returned to Flashing Star.

However, they can't stay in Flash Star for long. In half a month, they will go to the Olympic team again, and this time they will be away for a longer time.

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Zhao Kangming certainly hopes to gain more points while Hu Lai, Chen Xingyi and Wang Guangwei are still in the team.

But it backfired.

In the fourteenth round, Flashing Star was tied by the tenacious Shangdu Shenwei on their home court.

They took the lead twice in the game and were equalized twice.

After being equalized for the second time, the players were generally impatient, played poorly, and failed to win in the end. In the locker room after the game, Zhao Kangming rarely lost his temper and made very severe criticisms of the players' performance.

But this did not help the team win the next game, because next they have to challenge the league leader Lingnan South China Tigers in the league.

The South China Tigers, which lost the Super Cup, are holding back their energy to take revenge in this game.

They finally defeated the Flash Stars 4:1, which finally let out all the bad breath they had been holding in since the Super Bowl.

It was Lin Zhiyuan who guarded the goal for the South China Tigers in this game.

Although the team won the game, his mood did not improve.

Because he still lost a goal in the game, and the goal he lost was scored by Hu Lai.

So in the personal duel with Hu Lai, he still lost...

Winning was originally a joyful thing, but now that Hu Lai scored a goal, Lin Zhiyuan felt as if he had eaten a fly and was not happy at all.

Of course, Hu Lai was not happy just because he scored Lin Zhiyuan's goal.

After two consecutive rounds without a win, Flash Star's league ranking dropped from third to fifth, and it was about to slide towards the relegation zone!

Fortunately, in the next sixteenth round of the league, Flash Star finally broke out and defeated Yunyang Phoenix 3:2 away from home.

With the victory in this game and the draw with Tamron, Flash Star moved up one spot in the league rankings to fourth place with 30 points.

Before Hu Lai and the others left the team, they managed to stop the decline and prevent the collapse from coming early...

However, in the eyes of outsiders, their feelings are obviously completely different from Zhao Kangming's.

At the post-match press conference after defeating Yunyang Phoenix 3:2, reporters asked Zhao Kangming: "The second half of the league has already begun. Flash Star is currently ranked fourth with as many as 30 points. Is there such a thing?" According to the saying, if you want to avoid relegation in the Chinese Super League, your points must not be less than 30 points. And Flash Star happens to have 30 points now. I would like to ask Director Zhao, do you think the team has completed the task of avoiding relegation ahead of schedule?"

The atmosphere of the post-match press conference was generally very relaxed, and the reporter who asked the question also asked the question with a smile.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Kangming changed his face when he heard this question, and said seriously: "I don't know if thirty points can keep us from relegation. I only know that in the next two months, we will be short of major generals." situation. I don’t know what will happen then, so 30 points is not safe for us at the moment.”

After hearing what Zhao Kangming said, a group of reporters looked at each other in shock, and many of them still had the relaxed smiles on their faces.

What does Zhao Kangming mean?

Sixteen rounds of the league have been played, and Huanghai Jade Bird, the last registered team, only has eight points, not even double digits.

The Nanhai team, ranked second from last, currently only has 13 points. There is a difference of seventeen points from Flashing Star.

Doesn't such a huge point difference guarantee that the Flash Stars will successfully avoid relegation this season?

What's going on? Are you planning to lose the next seven games in a row?

What Zhao Kangming said really deserves a beating...

Your fourth-ranked team can't be said to have successfully avoided relegation, so why should the second-to-last Nanhai team be embarrassed?

People who don’t know may think you are mocking the South China Sea Team.

Some people thought Zhao Kangming was joking, but looking at his expression, there was no hint of any joking in it.

After a group of reporters looked at each other, they all lowered their heads.

Okay, just write it truthfully.

"...The head coach of Flash Stars, who is fourth in the league, Zhao Kangming said that the team has not yet succeeded in relegation..."