Fox in the Penalty Area

Sean Barnett stared blankly at the figure who was interacting with fans under the North Stand.

That should have been his treatment.

He has been cheered by the North Stand countless times in the past.

He is the biggest player in Leeds City, the most famous star.

Even after he left the team, his influence is still there, so that today he returned to Flanders with the North London Wanderers, so many fans returned to the North Stand just to welcome him.

Only he has this kind of treatment.

But at this moment, when he saw the scene in front of him, he realized that maybe he was no longer "the only one" in Leeds.

It shouldn't be like this...

This game should not be like this!

I come back here, score goals, help North London Wanderers win the game and then win the hearts of the Leeds fans by not celebrating, win-win!

This should be my script.

But why is the protagonist turned out to be that person? !

What went wrong?

No, I still have a chance, there is still time in the second half, I can score...

But just as Xiao En looked at Hu Lai's back and felt ruthless in his heart, he heard a teammate calling his name.

"Sean!"

When he came back to his senses, he saw his teammates pointing to the sidelines.

He looked over and saw that the fourth official on the sidelines was holding an electronic number plate for substitutions, which had his number on it...

At the same time, assistant coach Olsen also hooked him and shouted: "What are you doing!"

Sean finally understood - he was going to be replaced!

Immediately afterwards, it was unbelievable. He pointed at himself and kept confirming to the assistant coach Olsen on the sidelines: "Is it me? Is it really me? You are not mistaken, are you? How could it be me?!"

Olsen nodded and hooked again and again,

An impatient expression gradually appeared on his face: "Hurry up, it's you! Come down!!"

Sean's face became very ugly, but he didn't have the guts to go against the will of the head coach, so he could only walk off the field angrily with his head down.

He didn't even give high-fives to his teammates who were waiting to play, and he didn't pay attention to the head coach Oman who was standing next to him. He walked straight back to the coach's bench, sat down and looked at the court with a slumped face.

"Sean was substituted, and to be honest he had a really bad day today. It seems that although he said before the game that he would not be affected when he faced his old club. He has a deep love. Facing Leeds City, his feet are weak..."

That last sentence was a little heavy, Cox said to Sean Barnett in televised footage. But it's not wrong, because his performance is really bad.

It can even be said that Leeds City was able to lead the North London Rangers 3:1 at home. Sean Barnett, who played for the North London Rangers, contributed a lot... If he hadn't wasted so many opportunities, what would the score be? Will it be like this?

Fans of North London Rangers are already cursing Sean Barnett on the Internet: "So we spent 25 million pounds to buy him, so that he can be back at the critical moment when the team competes for the Champions League qualification. The one who stabbed us?"

"What a shameful performance! I think Sean Barnett has no professional ethics! In order to please the fans of the former club, he would rather sell the interests of the current team... What is in his mind? What does he know? I don't know who gave him six million pounds a year!"

"Look at him, pretending to be dissatisfied with being replaced...If we don't come down, we might lose more goals!"

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It's a pity that Sean Barnett can't play with his mobile phone after returning to the bench at this time, otherwise he would vomit three liters of blood when he saw these North London Rangers fans on the Internet.

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"Sean was replaced..." In the North Stand, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay at the result.

Levin looked down at the banner which he had tied to the railing with his own hands and checked repeatedly.

It hasn't been expanded yet.

"What...how?" He pointed to the rolled-up banner and asked David Miller behind him.

"Put it away." David Miller sighed.

There will no longer be an opportunity to unfurl this banner during this match.

The banner that said "He should have been our hero" was for Shaun after he scored. Use Sean's goal to question the top management of the Leeds City club, just let go of a striker who can bring goals to the team, and I don't regret it later.

But looking at the current situation, Sean failed to score and was replaced early. How can his performance make the club executives regret it?

Besides... In this game, Hou Lai scored a hat-trick. With this kind of performance, if they display the banner again, whether the club executives will regret it, they don't know, but they will definitely become the laughing stock of everyone, this is 100% certain.

Leeds City once lost a hero, but now we seem to have a new one...

Levin silently took off the banner to which he was tied.

The fans in their area have mixed emotions.

Everyone can feel that the atmosphere in the North Stand has changed.

After this game, regardless of whether the "White Rose" fan organization decides to continue to protest, I am afraid that more people will return to the North Stand one after another, just like what happened during the previous period. Only this time, they came back faster than before.

After all, there is only one home game left this season.

After they yelled that sound when Hu Lai landed, some changes had already occurred, and they were irreversible.

Right now, in many places in the Flemish stands, people can still be heard shouting Hou Lai's name.

When the team was sent off and a goal was pulled back by the opponent, when the lead was in jeopardy, Hu Lai stepped forward and used his hat-trick to help the team regain a two-goal lead.

It wasn't just that he scored his first hat-trick in the Premier League personally, it meant that he brought a ray of hope to Leeds City fans in a moment of despair and pain.

It's always easier to remember those who gave us a helping hand.

These Leeds City fans realized that this Chinese boy, who is not in outstanding physical condition, has a huge energy that does not match his body, and he can be the savior of the team.

The voice of Leeds radio commentator Heinnis passed the broadcast signal, and then through the radio, to the ears of every Leeds City fan who could not go to the scene to watch the game:

"After Hu scored his third goal of the game, Sean was replaced by Oman, the manager of North London Wanderers ... it was really symbolic for Leeds City fans: no matter what we want Shaun's departure is so sad, just like the passing time, and it can no longer be retained. The past will eventually pass. We must look forward, and we can only look forward. Looking forward, we have a only A talented shooter who scored ten goals in thirteen league matches. Sean is off, and Hu Lai is on!"

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After replacing Sean Barnett, North London Wanderers tried to continue to launch a fierce offensive against Leeds City's goal, trying to chase three goals in a row and regain victory.

But this task is impossible for them today.

The difference in morale between the two teams erased a lot of the original strength gap between them.

In addition, Leeds City's tactics make the North London Wanderers particularly uncomfortable-if they try their best to counterattack, I'm afraid they will concede more goals.

After all, Leeds City has a player who is particularly good at scoring goals in the frontcourt. He doesn't need too many opportunities, and he can seize them.

For the rest of the game, Hu Lai just harassed the North London Wanderers' goal from time to time, telling them to be cautious and dare not really press on and go out.

So until the referee blew the whistle to end the game, North London Wanderers failed to score another goal.

"competition is over!!!"

With three whistles, there was a huge cheer at the Flanders Stadium, louder than any time they had won a game.

"The game is over! With Hu's hat-trick, Leeds City defeated the North London Rangers 3:1 at home! They got the most important three points of the season! Because it means that they have successfully relegated two rounds in advance, and once again stay In the Premier League!"

Amidst the loud cheers, someone stepped over the LED billboard from the North Stand and rushed into the stadium.

This person's actions were like flares, waking up more Leeds City fans.

So it was like opening the floodgates of the reservoir dam. Excited Leeds City fans poured into the stadium from all directions, rushing to every Leeds City player and coach, whether it was on the sidelines or on the field...

Soon the players were overwhelmed by them, and then reappeared in the crowd - all lifted by the Leeds City fans and carried on their shoulders.

As the crowd flows, they also rise and fall above the crowd, like ships on the sea.

When the fans rushed towards Hu Lai, he thought that those people were here to take off his clothes, so he quickly covered his crotch, trying to leave a pair of underwear for himself. As a result, these fans didn't say anything, they bent down and lifted him up.

Hu Lai, who was no longer afraid, sat on the shoulders of the fans, and looked around excitedly, all of them were densely packed with human heads.

It's really a new experience.

He laughed happily and shook hands with the fans below who raised their arms one by one.

"Leeds successfully saved relegation! The fans of Leeds are crazy!" He Feng, who saw this scene in the studio, also laughed happily. "Hu Lai also enjoyed the treatment of being lifted up... This scene will definitely become a classic scene in the history of Chinese players studying abroad!"

In front of the TV, Xie Lan had already taken out his mobile phone and pointed at the TV screen to record.

For people like He Feng who look at the problem from the perspective of Chinese football, this is a classic scene in the history of Chinese football. She just wanted to keep the scene of her son being treated as a hero in her mobile phone.

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When the fans rushed into the stadium from the stands, Sean Barnett's teammates had quickly exited the field and returned to the locker room through the player tunnel, but he was still standing on the sidelines, looking at the stadium filled with fans in front , his eyes finally fell on the Chinese player who was carried high on his shoulders.

Who is the real hero of this Leeds City team?

The fans finally gave the answer with their actual actions...

A person who leaves him, although he can be warmly welcomed by the fans when he returns to Flanders, he still cannot replace the person in Leeds City.

After all, when the team fell into the quagmire of relegation, it was not him who only returned home once in a while to lead the team out of the predicament.

More Leeds fans continued to rush down the stands, with some cheering past Sean Barnett and others bumping into him as they ran past, complaining instead of apologizing that he was in the way .

No one looked back at the person who was in the way, let alone realized that the person they complained about was the former superstar of the team.

In the on-site commentary booth, Heinnis looked at the spectacular scene in the stadium and said while crying:

"...a lot of things have happened to Leeds this season. Some good, some not so good. Now the season is coming to an end and we've been in the Premier League early, in the Premier League again... after the After going through so many hardships, we are still alive, and we are still qualified to look forward to the moment when the ice and snow will thaw and everything will recover in the cold and darkness. This is our greatest happiness. My friends, another winter has passed, and the city of Leeds is still standing On the ice, and waiting for spring!"