Fox in the Penalty Area

"Actually, Hu Lai, you can already use your left foot."

Seeing that Hu Lai used his left foot to firmly stop the ball passed by him, Li Qingqing said to the opposite side.

"Didn't you try to shoot with your left foot in training?"

Hu Lai nodded: "I tried."

"How about it?"

"Scored some goals." Hu Lai said and passed the football back to Li Qingqing with his left foot.

He did score with his left foot in training, and it wasn't a hit or miss. Even the coaches and teammates were amazed and praised by the speed of his left foot progress.

"Then why don't you try to shoot with your left foot during the game?" Li Qingqing asked strangely.

She has watched Hu Lai's game and made serious statistics.

Instead of forcing himself to shoot with his left foot in training, he seems to force himself not to shoot with his left foot in games.

So so far, Hu Lai has not had a single left-footed shot in the game...

"Uh, this..." Hu Lai hesitated to speak, "Good steel should be used on the blade..."

"Blade?" Li Qingqing was stunned for a moment, then slapped her hand: "Okay, do you want King Yin?"

"Tsk! The words are so ugly! What is 'yin'?" Hu Lai, who had been exposed, said dissatisfied.

"Is not it?"

"Of course not! This is called 'tactics'! When the time comes, the king will be caught off guard!"

"Understood, anyone who plays tactics has a heart." Li Qingqing nodded and passed the ball at the same time.

Hu Lai caught the ball and let out a hey, but didn't make any further excuses.

Li Qingqing asked suddenly: "After you told me about your 'tactics', aren't you afraid that I will leak the secret?"

Hu Lai pouted: "Will you leak the secret?"

Li Qingqing shook her head: "No."

"Then it's over?" Hu Lai spread his hands, "If I can't even trust you, who else can I trust?"

Hearing Hu Lai's words, Li Qingqing put his hands on his hips and said proudly, "You're right, Hu Lai! You can always trust Li Qingqing!"

"Wang Po..." Hu Lai muttered.

"What did you say?"

"It's nothing, I say continue!"

Hu Lai signaled Li Qingqing to pass the ball quickly.

"Go on!" Li Qingqing volleyed vigorously.

"Wow, you shot!" Although he exclaimed, Hu Lai stopped the football this time.

Although he is not as proficient as his right foot, considering that he only started training his left foot with himself when he came to Madrid Pirates at the end of July, it is remarkable that he can achieve such results.

"Not bad, Holly."

"That's right, don't you look at who I am? A genius among geniuses!" Hu Lai was shameless.

Li Qingqing gave a thumbs up: "Give me a thumbs up, a famous teacher produces a great apprentice!"

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"Series of tasks: Try to score a goal with your left foot in the game. Task reward: [Physical Potion] x 5, points x 10000, and start the next phase of the task at the same time."

Hu Lai looked at the mission in his mission log.

This wasn't a new quest, in fact it had been showing up in his system task log for some time.

It popped up about half a month ago.

The task is very simple, in fact, let him score a goal with his left foot.

Considering that Hu Lai has already used his left foot to score goals in the training match, this requirement is not difficult.

Perhaps because of this, the rewards of the mission are very general.

Ten thousand points and five bottles of [Physical Potion].

If it was just for these two mission rewards, Hu Lai probably wouldn't even bother to take a look at them.

But the description of "starting the next stage of the task" makes Hu Lai's imagination run wild.

This is a series of quests. It is normal for the first step of the quest to have low rewards, but as long as the last step of the quest is completed, the rewards will not be bad.

It's just... Although this task has been stored in the diary for half a month, Hu Lai still has no intention of completing it.

As he explained to Li Qingqing,

Good steel should be used on the blade.

Since you must score a goal with your left foot, of course you cannot complete the task casually.

It is the best choice to combine the completion of tasks with actual needs.

Therefore, Hu Lai has not completed this task, but intends to do it at the most critical time.

The left foot is his secret weapon, and he will never use it until the critical moment.

So what is the moment of truth?

The next round against the King of Madrid is a critical moment.

But is the match against Pamplona, ​​who is 18th in the league, considered a critical moment?

It wasn't worth it at first, but it's hard to say now.

Because there is not much time left for Hu Lai.

Although he was put on the starting list, before the start of the game, the head coach Parotti specifically told him that he would be replaced early in the game. The specific replacement time is still uncertain, it may be 60 minutes, but it may also be during the intermission.

Now that the first half has been played for 30 minutes, Hu Lai has not scored yet.

In other words, he still has at least fifteen minutes to score consecutive goals.

Just now, two minutes ago, he had a good chance in the penalty area.

At that time, the football came from the right, and Hu Lai only needed to push with his left foot to score.

But after he stopped the ball with his left foot, he adjusted to shoot with his right foot.

The Pamplona central defender who was rushed over blocked the baseline with his legs.

So... do you want to use your left foot to complete the goal?

Hu Lai finally shook his head.

Not to the point where you can't score without using your left foot.

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In the 38th minute, the Madrid Pirates launched an attack from the left side of the frontcourt.

Ion Martinez took the ball from the wing and then dribbled horizontally. After attracting the opponent's defensive attention, he sent a through ball and passed it behind Pamplona's defense.

Luka Celovic, who replaced Tonini in the starting line-up in this game, just received the ball there, and then went into the penalty area!

When he entered the penalty area, he was tripped by the Pamplona defender who rushed to the ground.

The referee decisively blew the whistle to punish the Pamplona player for a foul, and at the same time gave the Madrid Pirates a penalty!

"Penalty kick! Hu Lai's chance!"

Seeing this, He Feng cheered happily.

Sure enough, I saw Hu Lai running over to pick up the football with his feet, and then hugged it to the penalty spot.

He was not polite, and no one came up to compete with him for the penalty kick.

This is not because everyone knows that Hu Lai needs this goal, but because during the penalty kick training in the team, everyone knows that Hu Lai's penalty kick is very stable, so Parotti has given the power to take the penalty kick to Hu Lai.

In other words, Hou Lai is now the number one penalty shooter for the Madrid Pirates.

As long as there is a penalty kick in the game, if he is not off the field, he will definitely take the penalty kick.

Seeing Hu Lai put the football on the penalty spot, many people became nervous.

Although penalty kicks are a scoring method with a high scoring rate, it does not mean that penalty kicks are 100% sure to be scored.

It is precisely because everyone thinks that penalty kicks are easy to score that they put forward high requirements for penalty kick players-it is normal to score goals, and it is your problem not to score.

When a thing is only allowed to succeed and not to fail, it is actually not far from failure.

In the face of tremendous pressure, the action is out of shape, leading to the precedent of missing penalty kicks is not uncommon.

Now everyone knows how much Hu Lai needs this goal, so can he withstand the pressure and kick the ball in?

Pamplona's keeper bounced around the line, looking very relaxed.

At the same time, he was also taking this opportunity to put pressure on Hu Lai and interfere with him.

The TV broadcast gave a close-up of Hou Lai who was about to take the penalty kick.

He looked calm in the camera.

The camera zoomed out, the whistle sounded, Hu Lai ran up, kicked, and shot!

The goalkeeper decisively pounces to his left, and Hu Lai's right-a player who is good at right foot will be more inclined to kick the football to his good foot.

But when he jumped out, he realized that Hu Lai had pushed the middle!

The football rolled into the goal against the turf!

"Beautiful! Hu Lai! He has scored goals in six consecutive league rounds! He is making steady progress towards Rivero's record!"

After the goal, Hu Lai ran to the corner flag area and made his signature celebration.

This time, in the stands of the Pirate Park Stadium, the roar of "HUUUUU!" sounded in conjunction with his actions.

But it's still sporadic, not neat enough, and not imposing enough.

Some regrets. If the 80,000 people can be uniform, then the momentum of shouting together will definitely be more shocking than the 30,000 people at the Flanders Stadium...

The players of the Madrid Pirates rushed up and hugged Hou Lai after finishing the celebration. Everyone patted his body excitedly and yelled.

Parrotti and Valentine on the sidelines looked at each other and smiled, and they could sense each other's relief.

The team broke the deadlock at home, and they can also replace Hu Lai without burden...

All the best!