Fox in the Penalty Area

Hu Lai had just finished eating in the restaurant when he met Matt Dawn who was about to come to eat. The latter looked down at the tablet computer in his hand, but didn't see Hu Lai at all.

So he took the initiative to say hello: "Hi, Matt, haven't seen you for a while, what are you up to?"

"Ah? Hi, Hu." Matt came back to his senses and raised his tablet: "Busy being your coach in the game, ha!"

"How many goals have I scored?" Hou Lai asked.

"You just won the Premier League Golden Boot."

"Sounds really good."

After making a joke, Matt said: "Well, it's mainly busy with work. You know, your boss treats me like an animal... see my dark circles? I feel that as long as I'm with Tony Together, I will never get rid of dark circles in my life..."

Hu Lai just laughed. He knew that Tony Clark and Matt Dawn were friends who had known each other for many years. Although their ages were different, it did not prevent them from being very close.

After exchanging pleasantries with Matt, he was about to take a nap, but when he said goodbye to Matt, he was stopped by the latter: "Wait a minute, Hu."

"Ok?"

"I researched all your previous goals, and I found a problem, Huh. That is, none of your goals were scored from outside the penalty area. There is also no long-range shooting preference in the game about your avatar... ...I'm curious as to why this is happening?"

Matt picked up his tablet and showed Hu Lai the attribute data of "Lai Hu" in his game archive. In the preferences, there are "first time shooting", "pull to catch the ball when open", "rarely dribble", "has Go forward when you get a chance" and "like to counter-offside", but there is no such item as "try more long-range shots".

"Well, I feel that the closer I am to the goal, the more threatening I am. The accuracy of my shots plummets when I am far away..."

This was not an excuse that Hu Lai made up casually. He tried it before when he played in Flash Star. Don't look at his ability to hit the hat hanging on the crossbar from the penalty spot, but if you want him to leave the penalty area and shoot again, the accuracy is really not as good as when he is in the penalty area.

"That's because your thigh muscles are so weak that you can't balance precision and strength," Matt said. "But now your muscle strength has increased a lot. Yesterday your second ball, how did you feel? When William Button hit you?"

Hu Lai carefully recalled his feelings at that time, and then said: "It seems that I don't lose my center of gravity so easily.

It was incredible that I was able to finish a shot after getting hit by him. "

"This is the role of core strength. The strength of your waist and abdomen has increased significantly, helping you withstand Barton's impact, and the strength of your thigh muscles has increased, so that your last kick is still very powerful. So I think, you It's time to think about improving your scoring outside the box, Hu. You now have the base to shoot from distance."

Matt seemed to have forgotten what he came to the restaurant for, so he talked with Hu Lai outside:

"As you get better and better in the Premier League, more opponents will take notice of your goalscoring performances...they will easily come to the conclusion that you are a player who is not a threat away from goal. , then they will try their best to prevent you from entering the penalty area and approaching the goal. If you can shoot directly from outside the penalty area, it will be difficult for the opponent to defend you."

After listening to Matt's suggestion, Hu Lai fell into a brief thought.

He has thought about long-range shooting before, but the tactics of the Flash Star are too much for him. He only needs to be in the penalty area, and someone will feed the football to his feet. Long-range shooting is really not a particular urgency. things.

So it's just a thought.

Now that Matt said so, he felt very reasonable.

To put it bluntly, he was able to score three goals in the first two games of the Premier League. In addition to the role of the [Consonance Card], it also relied on the fact that none of the opponents knew him.

Although it is very likely that until the end of this season, the other Premier League teams may not know much about him.

But he can't just think about this season, can he?

If you really get addicted and die, how can it be?

In the long run, he should indeed improve his ability to score outside the penalty area.

So he nodded: "Good advice, Matt, thank you."

Matt laughed: "You're welcome, Hu. I hope you can score more goals, and I hope you can play better and better."

"I will, I promise. Bye, Matt, I have to go take a nap." Holly waved.

"Goodbye, Hu."

Watching Holly turn and leave, Matt reopened the tablet, walked into the restaurant while looking down, and continued to immerse himself in his game world.

In that world, the Leeds City he led had already smashed the Premier League, and the next step was to go to Europe.

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Luo Kai was fiddling with footballs on the training ground. Between him and the goal, there was a row of dummy walls with wheels that were easy to understand. This allowed him to easily adjust his position in front of the crowd by himself.

The team's regular training has ended, but he stayed alone for his own free kick extra training.

This is not what he did on a whim today.

Since returning to the team to start pre-season training, he has been practicing free kicks.

Head coach Yan Li and assistant coach Jiang Yufeng stood on the sidelines, chatting quietly while watching Luo Kaiga practice free kicks from a distance.

"I feel that Luo Kai was 100% influenced by Hu Lai. The two were classmates at school, and Luo Kai's level in the school team was higher than that of Hu Lai. Now Hu Lai has three goals in the Premier League. In the Chinese Super League..." Jiang Yufeng muttered beside Yan Li.

"We will give Luo Kai more opportunities this season." Yan Li said, and then he asked Jiang Yufeng, "You didn't say you would give him the right to take the free kick, did you?"

Jiang Yufeng shook his head: "How could I say that? It's too early for him to take a free kick in the team... There are so many good free kick players in our team, where can we get him?"

After Yan Li heard the assistant coach's answer, he stopped talking and continued to watch.

After seeing Luo Kai set up the football, he took three steps back.

Then he seemed to forcefully spit out the breath in his chest, and then he ran up and kicked the ball!

There is no obvious arc in the football, it hits the wall straightly, then goes over high, and goes straight to the goal.

"It's too high..." Jiang Yufeng said in a low voice.

But before he finished speaking, he saw the football that was going straight to the top of the crossbar suddenly fall, flying into the goal!

He and Yan Li turned their heads to look at each other at the same time, with shock in their eyes.

"Elevator Ball?!"

Then he shook his head severely and sighed: "It seems that he was greatly stimulated by Hu Lai..."

Then he said to Jiang Yufeng: "Let's put him in the list of free-kick takers and put him at the bottom... When there is no suitable candidate, consider him."

Jiang Yufeng glanced at him, and finally nodded: "Okay."

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Zhang Qinghuan and Xia Xiaoyu are doing back-to-back squat training-the two of them back to back, hold each other's arms, use each other's back as a wall, and then squat down at the same time until their knees complete a ninety-degree right angle, and then slowly Return to an upright position.

This is primarily a workout for the quadriceps and glutes.

The two were training while chatting.

"Brother Huan, I found that Brother Hu's strength seems to be much stronger than before. Isn't the level of training in Europe so high? He didn't see such an obvious increase in strength when he was in Shanxing..." Xia Xiaoyu asked in a low voice.

Soon Zhang Qinghuan's voice came from behind: "The training level in Europe must be higher than ours, otherwise why are they the best? But Hu Lai's slow growth in Flash Star's strength is because he didn't focus on training in the later stage. strength."

"Brother Huan, when do you plan to go abroad to play football?" Xia Xiaoyu asked again.

"It's not about when I want to go abroad, is it?" Zhang Qinghuan said with a low smile, "It's not like I can go out to play football if I want to... But I don't think I will be able to go out this year."

"why?"

"It mainly depends on Hu Lai. How he can perform in Europe determines whether we can go out. If he doesn't play well, European football will have no confidence in our Chinese players. But if he plays well... it will There are more European teams interested in us." Zhang Qinghuan analyzed to Xia Xiaoyu.

Hearing what Brother Huan said, Xia Xiaoyu felt better: "Then Brother Hu has three goals now, three goals in two games!"

"Don't be too happy, Xiaoyu. People don't look at the performance of one or two games, they look at the whole season. That's why I said that I don't want to go out this year, even if Hu Lai played in Leeds City for half the season. That's right, there's still 'Second Year' waiting for him."

Zhang Qinghuan didn't hear Xia Xiaoyu's voice behind him after finishing speaking, and said again: "So those of us in China don't think so much. Peace of mind to train and compete, work hard to improve, and make ourselves stronger... To put it bluntly, we still have to If I am capable, if I am not capable, even if I go abroad to play football at my own expense, I am not going to sit on the bench and watch the game... Oh, being able to watch the game on the bench is considered capable, maybe it is in the stands at all Go watch the game."

"You're right, Brother Huan." Xia Xiaoyu's voice sounded again.

The two stopped talking and continued their training.

When they squatted down to stand up, they raised their heads, and they were all full of expectations for the distant Europe.

On this day, in Lingnan, in Shanhai... on the training grounds of different clubs, in the intervals of training or competitions, there will always be some young people looking to the far west, and their hearts are restless.