Fox in the Penalty Area

Carey's wife Sophia is actually right.

Her husband's advice to Hu Lai belongs to "distant water", and distant water cannot quench the near thirst.

Even if Hu Lai immediately pulled Li Qingqing to start their "couple training", it would not be possible to show the results of the training in a few days.

After playing against Catalonia, Madrid Pirates faced off against Valentia in the Super Cup semi-finals.

Parotti, who saw problems in the match against Catalonia, adopted a rotation strategy for this Super Cup match to rest more main players.

On the one hand, it is to prepare for the third round of the King's Cup at the weekend, and on the other hand, Parotti is determined not to let the Super Cup involve too much energy-if they eliminate Valentia, there will be another Super Cup. cup final.

We have to squeeze in more time, and then the entire month of January will be spent in double matches a week.

The Spanish Super Cup was a tasteless event, so Parotis thought about it and decided to let it happen.

I won’t say that I will give up voluntarily, but I won’t try my best to fight for it either.

It was originally a super warm-up match used to warm up before the start of the season, but now it has been moved to the middle of the season, and it has changed from a confrontation between two teams to a battle between four teams... Parotti feels that the Spanish Football Association has arranged it like this. Considered their own interests, but completely ignored the interests of the team.

After half a season of competition, the players were already very tired.

The measly Christmas break is simply not enough for players to regain their physical fitness.

Due to the Copa del Rey in January, the schedule is already very intensive, and shoehorning two Super Cups into it will simply make things worse for the players' physical fitness.

Although Hulay came on as a substitute in the Super Cup against Valentia, he failed to help the team defeat their opponents.

In the end, Madrid Pirates lost to Valentia 1:2 in the Super Cup semi-finals and withdrew from the competition for the Super Cup.

After getting rid of a burden, the Madrid Pirates welcomed the Spanish second division team Sant'Andre in the third round of the King's Cup.

In fact, playing in the Super Cup requires energy, and playing in the Copa del Rey also requires energy. But Parotti still gave up the Super Cup because playing in the Super Cup requires much more energy than playing in the Copa del Rey.

Opponents have different levels.

The King's Cup can also be used to train the rotation, and the Super Cup is really useless for head-to-head competition.

Hulay started the game in this game and broke his "scoring drought" of three consecutive games with a goal.

His goal also helped Madrid Pirates defeat their opponents 4:0 away from home and advance to the fourth round of the Copa del Rey.

But at this point, it is almost impossible to encounter any weaker opponents in the King's Cup.

A total of sixteen teams are basically teams from La Liga.

Madrid Pirates drew Sporting Vizcaya in the draw, and this powerful team from the Basque Country will be their opponent in the fourth round of the Copa del Rey.

The fourth round will be held on January 26th.

If Madrid Pirates can reach the fifth round of the Copa del Rey, one more game will be added on Wednesday, February 2.

And if the Madrid Pirates continue to advance and reach the Copa del Rey semi-finals, then this game will be scheduled for February 8th or 9th.

Then in the middle of the week, on February 15th and 16th, the Champions League quarter-finals will begin.

Of course, the Madrid Pirates' Champions League match will be played one week later, kicking off on Tuesday, February 22nd.

It can be said that starting from the New Year, Madrid Pirates will almost always have double matches a week.

This has a huge impact on the team's physical fitness.

In addition, as the game progresses and physical energy is exhausted, the number of injuries within the team also begins to increase. Joaquín Vela sprained his ankle in previous training and has already missed the Super Cup with Valentia and the Copa del Rey with Sant André. He will continue to miss the game for nearly a month.

In addition, minor injuries that do not affect the game but affect the state are also common among many players.

After the Madrid Pirates team made great progress for half a season, it seems that they have finally exhausted all the strength they accumulated during the summer training camp, and their progress has gradually slowed down.

These circumstances gave Parotti the idea of ​​giving up the Copa del Rey.

In the next round of the Copa del Rey against Sporting Biscay, he is considering whether to use a full substitute lineup...

In the 21st round of the league, Madrid Pirates defeated Valero 4:2 away from home. Hulay had one goal and one assist and was elected the best of the match after the game.

He also scored in two consecutive games.

It looks like things are recovering.

But there's bad news, too.

That is, the team's substitute center Ruiz injured his cruciate ligament after playing five minutes in the game. Fortunately, the situation is not too bad. With conservative treatment, he will only have to miss two months of competition.

Yes, "only" needing to miss two months of games is already good news among bad news for Madrid Pirates.

At least Ruiz's season has not been reimbursed, and he can return to the team at the end of March and make his contribution in the sprint phase of the season.

But Ruiz's injury means that the Madrid Pirates are even more stretched on the front line.

Originally, the Madrid Pirates had four forwards: Maxi Carey, Daniel Dikunzo, Hulay, and Sanabria Ruiz. The four had different characteristics and could form different partners. can effectively complement each other.

As a result, after the start of this season, Carey and Ruiz were injured successively.

Now only Hulay and Di Kunzo are still healthy.

The Madrid Pirates' offense depends entirely on them.

This means that in the remaining games, neither of them can make any mistakes. If anyone is injured again, then Parotti will really be like "a clever woman cannot make a meal without rice."

He has to be more cautious in every subsequent game.

So Parotti made up his mind to play all substitutes against Sporting Vizcaya.

Neither Hulay nor Dikunzo is on the list, not even on the game roster!

The front line is handed over to the young men of the second team.

How it looks like.

If you lose, it's best to be eliminated directly.

If you advance by accident, you will still play like this in the next round.

Unless... we reach the Copa del Rey final like this.

It would be unjustifiable to give up in the finals.

Anyway, the Copa del Rey final will have to wait until almost mid-April. By then Ruiz should have returned from injury. With luck, Maxi Carey will also be able to meet the playing standards.

Prior to this, all competitions, whether it was the King's Cup, the league, or the Champions League... had to grit their teeth and hold on and get through it.

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In Tokyo, Japan, the third and fourth place finals of the U23 Asian Cup are ongoing at the National Arena.

The two sides facing each other are the Chinese Olympic Team and the Iranian Olympic Team.

At the 83rd minute of the game, the score was 2:1, and the Chinese Olympic team temporarily took the lead.

The Iranian Olympic team is seizing the last game time to launch a fierce attack on the Chinese Olympic team's goal.

This game is related to the last place to participate in the Olympic Games.

The winners of the third and fourth place finals will win a plane ticket to Los Angeles.

The Chinese team is currently in the lead, but Iran still has a chance.

It is absolutely impossible to say who will win until the referee blows the whistle to end the game.

After all, if you include injury time, there are still about ten minutes left.

Everything is possible.

The Iranian Olympic team is attacking like crazy.

They had been attacking like this for five minutes.

The players of the Iranian Olympic team feel that if they continue to attack like this, it won't be long, maybe in a few minutes... they will be able to blast away the goal of the Chinese Olympic team.

The psychological quality of Chinese players has always been very poor, and they break defenses at every turn.

As long as they can continue to exert pressure, it will be the Chinese who cannot withstand it in the end!

As long as we equalize the score, maybe we don't have to wait until overtime. We can score another goal in injury time and give the Chinese team another "three black minutes"!

But their wishful thinking did not come true, because their attack was blocked by the Chinese Olympic team.

After the captain of the Olympic team, center back Cai Shuyi, who plays for the Chinese Super League Shanhai Mariners, intercepted the ball, he handed the football to Xia Xiaoyu in front.

Xia Xiaoyu protected the football and turned around. After adjusting the direction, he took a long pass!

What he was looking for was Zhou Zijing at the front!

"Zhou Zijing! The Olympic team's counterattack opportunity! Can Zhou Zijing kill the game?!"

The narrator gets excited.

This is indeed a great opportunity for the Olympic team.

Because of the siege on the Chinese Olympic team, most of the players on the Iranian Olympic team passed half the game.

The only one in the backcourt at this moment is their goalkeeper!

Faced with such a situation, the goalkeeper could only abandon the goal and attack.

As long as Zhou Zijing can calm down, he might be able to defeat Kong Meng directly!

With everyone watching, Zhou Zijing caught up with the football, and at the same time, the opponent's goalkeeper was almost rushing to him.

At this time, the goalkeeper must be outside the penalty area. According to the rules, he cannot touch the football with his hands.

But he still jumped up and opened his arms, hoping to increase the defensive area - he had already guessed that Zhou Zijing would directly lob!

Zhou Zijing did make a lob, but he didn't actually shoot the football. Instead, he dunked the football to the left and passed the goalkeeper of the Iranian Olympic team!

"Zhou Zijing...beautiful!! Passed!"

Amid the cheers of the commentator, countless Chinese fans were waiting in front of the TV for Zhou Zijing to kick the football into the goal of the Iranian Olympic team.

But Zhou Zijing did not do this...

After he caught up with the football, he continued to run towards the Iranian Olympic team's goal with the ball!

Even though there was no Iranian Olympic team player around him at this time, everyone was still watching with fear.

Some people couldn't help shouting: "Shoot! What a mess!"

Of course Zhou Zijing couldn't hear the complaints these people made at the TV.

The goalkeeper of the Iranian Olympic team who landed on the ground looked back and saw that Zhou Zijing had not yet shot, but was dribbling the ball. He regained hope and turned towards Zhou Zijing.

He didn't know why the Chinese Olympic team's No. 9 didn't shoot, but he would make the opponent regret doing so!

Other Iranian Olympic teams are also desperately trying to catch up.

In their eyes, Zhou Zijing's entrustment gave them hope.

But that hope was fleeting.

Because Zhou Zijing brought football to the goal earlier than all of them.

No one can stop him from shooting...

But he still didn't shoot!

Zhou Zijing just stepped on the football in front of the Iranian Olympic team's goal, then turned around to look at the desperate and lucky Iranian Olympic team players, and grinned at them:

"This is for you!"

He knocked the football into the Iranian Olympic team's goal with his heel!