Fox in the Penalty Area

The game has already started, and Hu Lai is running back and forth on the court following the formation of the whole team.

At this time, Sydenham was attacking, and he was ordered to retreat behind the center line.

Just five minutes ago, when Hu Lai stepped onto the pitch, he received a new task issued by the system, requiring him to help the team win with a goal in his Premier League debut. The task reward was 50,000 points, and There is a bottle of [Strength Potion of Wisdom].

For Hu Lai, this could be said to be a big gift package.

After replacing all the points with [Consonance Card], Hu Lai is now very short of points.

Without points, he has no way to buy various training scrolls.

Although he has improved with the normal training of the team, he hopes to improve faster. After all, he didn't want to spend a year slowly improving himself. It may take six months to adapt to things like the Premier League. The bosses may think it is fast, but Hu Lai thinks it is unbearably slow-six months later, the season is over long ago, and the task is not completed. Even if he succeeds in relegation in the end, but his performance in the relegation process is mediocre, then the prospect of this team may be very worrying.

Hu Lai can't accept that it really takes six months to adapt to the Premier League. Regardless of whether it is reasonable or not to adapt to the Premier League for six months.

If you can use the training scroll to enhance the training effect and greatly shorten the adaptation time, why not do it?

It's all right now, the system not only thoughtfully prepared 50,000 points for him, but also directly gave him a bottle of [Powerful Wisdom Potion], which will be valid for half a year after use.

Valid until the end of the season.

He also no longer needed to exchange his points for various training scrolls.

[Smart Potion] covers all training items, whether it is technical and tactical training or physical training, all of them can be synergistic.

To get these rewards, he only needs to score a goal in his Premier League debut and help the team win.

Sydenham's attack over there ended, and Leeds City launched an attack.

Hu Lai looked around, did not turn around and run forward, but retreated to meet his teammates, making a transfer point, allowing the two sides to have time to attack.

Sure enough, the football was quickly passed to his feet.

"Hu Lai caught the ball!" He Feng shouted.

This is Hu Lai's first touch of the game... no, it's the first time in the Premier League.

Xie Lan, Hu Lixin, and relatives in front of the TV also cheered.

It's as if Hu Lai would turn around and dribble past five players after receiving the ball, and then send the football into the goal.

But in fact, in the TV broadcast, Hou Lai passed the football diagonally to Pete Williams, and then turned and ran forward.

It is a very common catch and pass, which is the basis of basic movements on the football field.

Even so, it still attracted many Chinese fans in front of the TV to get excited.

Many people tried to see more meaning from Hu Lai's move.

This includes the guest commentator Yan Kang: "Hu Lai's choice is very correct. He didn't turn around with the ball, which is not what he is good at... This shows that his mind is very clear, and it seems that he has not been overwhelmed by the excitement of playing in the Premier League. head……"

Chinese fans are like Yan Kang, desperately looking for something that can give them confidence and keep them hopeful from every action of Hu Lai.

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Leeds City's attack did not succeed after the attack, and Sydenham's players quickly recovered, blocking their space in the penalty area.

Pete Williams called out to his teammates to slow down the pace, control the football, and reorganize the positional battle.

Football was also quickly passed to his feet.

When he caught the ball, the Leeds City fans in the stands cheered—although everyone was dissatisfied with the club's top management, these fans who were willing to come to watch the game were still very tolerant and considerate of the players and the team of.

Williams, as a local talent cultivated by Leeds City,

The status in the hearts of Leeds City fans is quite high.

He scored a long shot from outside the penalty area in the first half, which also proved that he is in good condition today.

Fans all hope that he can be the one who leads Leeds City out of the relegation quagmire.

After Williams took the ball, he glanced at the front penalty area. Captain Lorenzo was in the middle, and that Hu Lai ran to the side... Huh?

He found that there seemed to be an empty space where Hu Lai ran!

But just as he was considering whether to pass the football, Sydenham's left-back turned his head and saw Hou Lai in the blind spot behind him, so he quickly retracted to the center to erase the space.

Williams felt a little regretful. If he could have seen the space earlier, he might have passed the football ahead of time without waiting for Hu Lai to arrive.

At that time, it will be too late for the opposing defender to make up for it.

At the same time, Sydenham's midfielder saw Williams looking up and tried to take advantage of his unpreparedness to come up and grab the ball.

As a result, as soon as he came up, Williams' right foot pulled the football behind him and knocked the football to the left side of his body. At the same time, he turned around and got rid of it, passing the football to the left.

There, the team's left-back Farrek Quinn has plugged in.

The Leeds City fans in the stands cheered Williams' escape.

"Williams played really cool!" In the stands, Matthew Miller's teammate Andrew Thurman shouted excitedly.

He also played midfield in the Leeds City Juniors, and he regards Pete Williams as his idol and role model.

On the field, Quinn didn't observe and think for a long time like Williams after receiving the ball, but directly passed the football at a forty-five-degree angle to Sydenham's goal.

He's looking for Captain Lorenzo Esposito!

Lorenzo saw the ball flying towards him, tried his best to reach the landing point, and then jumped high to compete for the top with the opposing defender Elliott Moore who also jumped up.

He hit the ball!

But instead of hitting the goal, it hit Moore's back.

The football bounced off and landed in the penalty area.

"Chance - oops!"

At the same time as the football fell, He Feng, who was familiar with Hu Lai, shouted. He had already seen Hu Lai rushing towards the football, ready to make a follow-up shot.

But at this moment, Sydenham's full-back kicked first and kicked the football away...

Hu Lai missed it!

He said "Oh" because he felt sorry for Hu Lai.

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"oops!!"

In Xie Zelin's crowded living room, a huge sigh also erupted.

In their view, Hu Lai was almost able to complete the shot-he had already run and just needed to stretch his feet.

As a result, the opponent's defender reacted faster than everyone imagined. After all, the football fell next to him...

"Ah ah ah!!!"

Countless people in the bar were holding their heads and screaming, feeling sorry for Hu Lai.

Then Yan Yan loudly encouraged Hu Lai: "It's okay, it's okay! Come on, Hu Lai!"

He successfully led more than a hundred people in the bar to shout together: "Hu Lai, come on!!"

It is also a pity that there is a group of people in front of the coach of the home team.

When he saw Hu Lai rushing up to prepare for a follow-up shot, Tony Clark's whole body tensed up, ready to be ejected at any time.

As a result, Sydenham's defender took the first kick to clear the football. He shook his body and then sighed.

Assistant coach Sam and his performance are exactly the same, and the synchronization rate of the two is 100%.

Above the rostrum of the stadium, Matt Dorn, a video analyst who was recording the game with a video camera, gritted his teeth and shook his fist next to him.

He is not as regretful as his Wangnian friends.

He was still a little excited, and his excited body was shaking slightly.

Because he saw something familiar from Hu Lai's offense that didn't complete the shot this time.

This thing is something he has seen time and time again in the game.

Looking at it from this angle, it was as if he was really playing "The Godfather of Champions", even the angle of view was exactly the same.

Just like Hu Lai said, the live-action version of "The Godfather of Champions".

Matt's dream has finally come true...

Go ahead, Hu!

Just like you do in the game, show up in the most deadly position, stick your foot out, and start celebrating goals!

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Li Qingqing sat cross-legged on the sofa in the small apartment she rented, holding a fluffy doll in her arms, watching the game quietly.

If it weren't for the slight trembling of her arms holding the doll, she would have believed that she was as calm as she appeared.

Come on, Holly. Try to get off to a good start, and the road ahead will be much easier after this...

When Li Qingqing joined Paris Erger, he went through such a running-in period.

After losing weight according to the coach's request, she got a chance to play, but it may be that after losing weight, she was a little uncomfortable with her new body. She had no results in five consecutive games, without scoring or assisting.

The local media and some domestic media also criticized her performance, causing fans to worry about her prospect of studying abroad this time.

During that time, she herself was really under tremendous pressure.

She didn't tell anyone, including her father and Hu Lai.

I didn't tell my dad because I didn't want my dad to worry about me.

If he didn't tell Hu Lai, he didn't want to destroy his tall image in his mind.

So Li Qingqing chose to bear it alone.

Fortunately, she survived in the end, and she scored twice in the sixth game, breaking the scoring drought. After that game, she gradually gained a firm foothold in Paris Eger, becoming the main force step by step. Until now, she is the absolute core of the team.

It is precisely because of this experience that Li Qingqing sincerely hopes that Hu Lai will not follow his old path.

As a striker, wouldn't it be nice to be able to use goals to open up a road to the sky?

After playing football abroad, Li Qingqing realized how difficult it is for Chinese players to make a name for themselves in Europe.

Trust is always fragile, and doubts are always around.

Goals are the best answer to these questions.

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The game is still going on, and Hu Lai has not been able to get a chance.

Although Pete Williams tried to pass the ball to him in the middle, he was unable to complete the shot under the pressure of the Sydenham centre-back.

Most of the rest of the time, he didn't even appear in the close-ups of the TV broadcasts-in other words, he didn't have any outstanding performances that would make the TV broadcasts pay extra attention to him.

In the football winter training base in the suburbs of Haijiao City, Yuezhou Province, four Chinese Super League teams and three Chinese Premier League teams chose to conduct pre-season training here.

In the huge training base restaurant, it was still very lively last night-seven teams gathered together and held a special Spring Festival Gala, in this way to alleviate the homesickness of the players who cannot go home and reunite with their families during the Spring Festival suffering.

Today, many people gathered here again.

Unlike yesterday, they came here today to watch the live broadcast of the game through a huge projection screen.

In fact, at the beginning, only all the players of Anton Shining Star who were training here were asked to watch the game and cheer for Hu Lai. After all, Hu Lai came out of their team, and they are also the group of people who care most about Hu Lai's performance in the Premier League.

But as the news spread, people from other teams came, and there were more and more people, and the scale was not inferior to yesterday's Spring Festival Gala.

Everyone watched the game and talked about it.

"The pace of confrontation in the Premier League is really fast... just now they were attacking in front, and now they are all going back to defense..."

"What's wrong? When Hu Lai was in the Chinese Super League, he didn't see too many losses in the confrontation. As a result, he was squeezed by the opponent's defender just now, and he didn't have a chance to shoot!"

"This is just a confrontation between the two bottom-ranked teams in the Premier League. They are so fierce... If you don't experience it, you will never know what the world's top football should be like..."

"You really can't be distracted while playing in the Premier League, forcing you to stop for a minute..."

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Listening to the discussions coming from various places behind them, Zhao Kangming and Chen Mo looked at each other.

Why do they force all players to watch this game?

On the one hand, it is to cheer for Hu Lai who walked out of the team. On the other hand, I hope that the players can feel the level of the Premier League through their understanding of Hu Lai.

In the past, if you just watched the game, because of the lack of reference, many people actually did not understand the gap between the Chinese Super League and the Premier League. Everyone knows that the Premier League is better than the Chinese Super League.

It's different now. Everyone is familiar with Hu Lai. As his teammate, he knows exactly what his performance should be in daily training and competitions. This establishes a reference in everyone's mind.

Through the reference of Hu Lai, and then watching the Premier League game, many concepts that were previously vague became clear.

In the end, I didn't expect that players from other teams who didn't train with Hu Lai but only played against Hu Lai could clearly feel the difference...

It's okay, if everyone can learn something from it, it can be regarded as a contribution to Chinese football.

While everyone was discussing, they saw Hu Lai suddenly make a diagonal thrust in the penalty area, followed by a football pass from the right.

"Hu Lai—!"

Amidst He Feng's loud shouts, the restaurant with hundreds of people fell silent instantly, and everyone was staring at the projection screen intently.

I saw the football just slipping over the heads of the Sydenham defender and Leeds City striker Lorenzo in the middle, and flew to the back point.

There, Hu Lai jumped with a header!

Hitting the side net!

"Alas!" There was a loud sigh in the dining room.

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Seeing the football flipping the net, the people in front of the TV screamed, but Xie Lan sat firmly on the sofa. With rich experience in watching football, she knew that the ball hit the side net, not a goal.

Sure enough, other people quickly discovered this, and sat down again in disappointment.

Hu Lixin comforted everyone beside him: "Although we didn't score a goal, we are very close to it! Just keep playing like this..."

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"Come on, Hu Lai! Come on, Hu Lai!"

In the bar, Yan Yan led everyone to shout slogans in unison, just like they did in the stands of Anton Provincial Sports Center before.

Both men and women in the bar stood up from their seats, waving their arms rhythmically following Yan Yan's slogan, as if they were also in the stands of Leeds City's home court, the Flanders Stadium.

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Seeing the football hitting the side net, Hu Lai raised his hands and held his head, feeling sorry for it.

Then he turned around and gave him a thumbs up to Charlie Potter who sent him the cross, indicating that the latter passed it beautifully.

This ball Charlie must be running towards him, otherwise how could he not be supported by a group of big men in the middle?

Hu Lai praised Charlie's beautiful cross, and Charlie comforted him: "It's okay, Hu! We can do it again!"

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Leeds City's offense failed to score a goal, so Sydenham regrouped and attacked Leeds City's goal.

This game is equally important to them. After all, although they are ranked fourteenth, they are only three points ahead of Leeds City.

If they can't win, they are also likely to fall into the quagmire of the relegation zone.

Leeds are fighting for relegation, and so are they.

Seeing Sydenham's attack from the sidelines, Tony Clark glanced up at the game time on the big screen.

63:49

It was nearly sixty-four minutes.

To be honest, after replacing Hu Lai, he has seen immediate results, and Hu Lai did get a chance.

It can be said that his adjustment is no problem. If he continues to play like this, Hu Lai will score sooner or later.

But now there is a question - can one's own team withstand Sydenham's offensive before scoring?

If Sydenham scored a goal first, the situation would become complicated.

At that time, Sydenham, who is leading by one goal, shrinks the defense, leaving less and less space for Hu Lai in the penalty area, and it will not be easy to score goals.

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Through the long-range shot of the TV broadcast, it can be seen that there are no people sitting in some places in the stands, and there are blocks here and there.

This is the "attitude" expressed by those Leeds City fans who are dissatisfied with what the club has done.

David Miller was sitting on the sofa in the living room at home and was watching the game when he heard his wife complaining behind him: "You said you... you said it so fiercely at the beginning, I thought you were going to Let’s just watch the Leeds game. It turns out that I just didn’t go to the scene to watch it..."

David snorted: "What do you know? We didn't go to the scene to embarrass the club, but we are still fans of Leeds City. How could we not pay attention to Leeds City's games?"

The wife glanced at the score on TV and asked: "Then do you really want Leeds City to lose this game now? Do you want Leeds City to be relegated?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" The husband stared back at his wife.

"Did I say something wrong? After all, only the relegation will make the club's executives regret that they drove Lauren Galli away..." the wife spread her hands.

David Miller froze, not knowing how to answer her question.

At this moment, the noise on the TV behind him suddenly increased!

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"Potter got the ball from the wing and he passed the ball to Williams who came up to meet him...Williams made a cross...a ground kick! The ball rolled to the back!"

Accompanied by He Feng's extremely fast explanation, the eyes of the people in front of the TV widened.

They saw that in Sydenham's penalty area, their defender was suddenly taken away by Leeds City captain Lorenzo. In the direction of Williams' pass, there was a small space, just right. Enough for a person to stance and shoot!

In fact, there is indeed a man there who is already bending his bow and nodding his arrow!

"Hoola!!"

"Hu Lai—!"

"Hu! Lai!"

In the CCTV studio in the capital, in the living room of Xie Lan's elder brother Xie Zelin, in the bar where Yan Yan and the others are...in front of countless TVs all over the country, they yelled this name in different accents.

Hu Lai, who ran into the space amidst the roar, swung his legs to face the ball from Williams!

The defensive player stretches his foot to block, it's too late!

Sydenham's goalkeeper jumped back to the point, and it was too late!

The football brushed the inside of the back post and went into the goal!

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"Hu Lai-!! The goal is scored! The goal is scored! Beautiful! The goal-score-la!!! The first Premier League goal in the history of a Chinese player!! Hu Lai!! He did it! He did it Arrived! AMAZING!! BEAUTIFUL!! Hats off to him!!!"

He Feng was screaming hysterically on the TV, maybe he doesn't even know what he is talking about now.

Outside the TV, Xie Lan was surrounded by people who jumped up and raised their arms and shouted, but she herself sat blankly on the sofa without moving.

Then she felt someone holding her hand, so she turned her head and looked up that hand, and saw her father.

The age-spotted face was smiling at her.

On the TV, He Feng was still saying that he seemed to have finally recovered from the initial ecstasy: "Friends from the audience! For a long time, high-level competitions like the Premier League have been like another Chinese player. The world is unattainable...but today, Hu Lai opened the door to this world for us with this very typical 'Hu Lai-style goal'! Welcome to the new world!"

People outside the TV are still clapping and yelling... LOL.

Xie Lan, who was staring at her father, pursed her lips and laughed, tears were squeezed out from the corners of her eyes and fell down.

Hu Lixin in the distance saw this scene, quietly lowered his head, and raised his hand to wipe the corners of his eyes.

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PS, the 6,000-word chapter, plus the more than 4,000 words in the morning, makes a total of 10,000 words, let everyone enjoy it, right?

I don't plan every game in such a detailed way. After all, not every game has such a high degree of attention-whether it is in the book or not. Many competitions will not have this kind of treatment, but if I write it, it must be such a foreshadowing.

There are many foreshadowings in front, and it is also for the release of Hu Lai's emotions at the moment of scoring a goal. Otherwise, without those foreshadowings, his goal would be just a goal.

As mentioned at the end of the last chapter, although this goal is only one of Hu Lai's career, for Chinese football, this goal is of great significance and will be recorded in history forever.

Use this 40,000 words and this goal that will go down in history to ask everyone for a monthly ticket. It's the end of the month, let's see how far our ranking of this month can go!

I have racked my brains and written as much as I can, and I will leave the rest to you!