Fox in the Penalty Area

No. 1 looked down upon

Hulay didn't just score a goal with a penalty kick.

He scored another goal in the 30th minute after the penalty kick.

At that time, the game had reached the 83rd minute, and Sevilla Navigator had pulled a goal back before that, so the score was 2:1, with Madrid Pirates leading.

This one-goal gap gave Sevilla Navigators hope of equalizing the score or even winning the game.

So in the last ten minutes of the game, they launched a fierce attack on the Madrid Pirates goal.

At this time, Parotti has used up all substitutions.

Because the national team match day is next, he has to give his international players more rest time to prevent them from playing with accumulated fatigue in the national team match and reduce their risk of injury.

But after all the changes, Hu Lai is still on the court.

It's not that Parotti must embarrass the Sevilla Navigator, it's really...he doesn't need to replace Hulay in advance.

For the next two Chinese team games, Hu Lai will not return to China at all.

So there is no need to substitute in advance for the national team game.

In the 83rd minute, Hule, who was still on the court, received a pass from Croatian left winger Luka Celovic, who came on as a substitute, and shot in front of the goal, scoring his second goal of the game. ball.

Helped the team set the score at 3:1 and sealed the victory.

In the end, Madrid Pirates defeated Sevilla Navigators with this score in the away game.

After the game, some Pirates fans mocked the Navigators on the Internet:

"Last season, I remember we defeated the Navigators 4:0. It seems that the Navigators this season are indeed more difficult than last season. There is obvious improvement!"

Someone immediately replied to him: "You are wrong, 4:0 was at home. Last season we won 3:2 on the road. This season it is also an away game. We also scored three goals, but the Navigators scored one less. ball, so they still regressed!"

The two sang together and satirized the Seville navigator again.

Some people were angry: "Please don't say 'famous players go home' anymore! At the home court of the Navigators, Hu only scored six goals in three games combined. But when he faced the Navigators at Pirates Park, he scored... …Five goals. Well, more goals on the road…that’s right! It’s ‘The Masters Come Home’!”

It simply ridiculed the rival fans.

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After the game against Sevilla Navigator,

La Liga is temporarily suspended to make way for national team matches.

Both Europe and Asia's World Cup qualifiers have entered the final stages.

There are still two rounds left in the Asian qualifiers, that is, the top 12. The winner will be decided on these two national team match days in early September. By then, we will naturally know which teams can go directly to Spain and Portugal. , which teams have to participate in the play-offs.

The Chinese team has already qualified for the World Cup two rounds ahead of schedule. In another group, the South Korean team, led by Park Soon-tae, also advanced to the World Cup finals ahead of schedule.

At the same time, this is also the last time that the 34-year-old Park Soon-tae will participate in the World Cup finals in his career. Five years later, at the age of 39, he will never have the chance to play in the World Cup. Park Soon-tae was known for his speed when he was young. As he gets older and suffers more injuries, his speed drops seriously. Without the speed advantage, he will naturally lose his former glory.

Except for China and South Korea, other teams have not yet ensured qualifying, and they will try their best in the last two rounds.

Especially the Japanese team, they don't want their record of not missing eight consecutive World Cups to end here.

In the last round of the top 12, the Japanese team failed to defeat Iran at home, which is a huge hidden danger.

So now they are only two points ahead of Iran. If there is a slight mistake in the next two rounds, the Japanese team will have to play in the play-offs...

In the penultimate round, their opponent is the Chinese team.

There is a major plus for the Japanese team.

That is Hu Lai, the Chinese team's top star and top scorer, who was not recalled by Jorge Dillon this time.

In fact, in addition to Hu Lai, there is another player from the Chinese national team who has not been recalled, and that is Ou Yangjin, who just went to Claude Rangers - Dillon adheres to the principle of not recruiting players who have just left to study abroad to return to the national team to play games. Let Ou Yangjin stay in the team with peace of mind and adapt to everything in Scotland.

However, Ou Yangjin is only a substitute player in the Chinese team. His presence or absence has almost no impact on the team's strength.

Therefore, the Japanese team's focus is only on Hu Lai.

As long as Hu Lai doesn't come, the biggest threat to the Japanese team will disappear for them.

As for the others?

They don't really care.

Although he is also very strong, there is still a huge gap between him and Hu Lai.

In the eyes of the Japanese media, aside from Hu Lai, the Chinese team's overseas players are at about the same level as their Japanese players.

But the Japanese team has a lot of overseas players...

So as long as there is no Hu Lai, the Japanese team is not afraid of the Chinese team at all.

After the Chinese team won the right to qualify for the World Cup two rounds in advance, some Japanese media optimistically estimated that in the next top-12 match between the Chinese team and the Japanese team, the Chinese team might not recruit any overseas players. Wouldn't it be easy for the Japanese team with all its main players to win the Chinese team in an away game?

In the end, only Hu Lai and Ou Yangjin did not return to China, while all the other players studying abroad came back.

But for the Japanese media, this is a completely acceptable situation.

As long as Hu Lai doesn't come back, nothing can be said.

In the road map planned by the Japanese media for the Japanese team to enter the World Cup, the Chinese team is the biggest obstacle.

As long as the Japanese team can defeat the Chinese team on the road and take all three points, it will almost mean promotion.

Because in the last round of the top 12, the Japanese team faced Thailand at home, which was the last and weakest team in the group.

There is no suspense about beating Thailand.

As long as it beats China first, the Japanese team will get six points.

Even if Iran wins the remaining two rounds, the Japanese team still maintains a two-point lead over Iran.

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In fact, Jorge Dillon originally planned not to recruit any overseas players.

But he was persuaded by his translator Yu Jintao.

"I understand your thinking, Jorge. But Japan is a special opponent. If it is other teams, even Iran, you can use all domestic players... but Japan cannot."

Dillon's idea is to use the last two top-12 games as an opportunity to train domestic players and narrow the gap between domestic players and overseas players in the national team.

But after listening to Yu Jintao's popular science about the grievances between China and Japan, he immediately understood how unreliable his plan was.

However, he still insisted not to let Hu Lai return to the country.

It's not to let Hu Lai rest, but to use the Japanese team to test that the current Chinese team is still somewhat good without Hu Lai.

In this way, even if the Chinese team loses to the Japanese team in the end, at least the scene will definitely be much better than the lineup composed of players from across the country.

The most important thing is that if Hu Lai is not recruited, the domestic media and fans may not criticize Dillon for "capitulationism" and "cowardice before fighting."

It’s not that Chinese fans can’t accept losing to Japan—when Chinese football was weak in the past, they often lost to Japan—but what they can’t accept is losing to the Japanese team without any resistance.

So if Dillon really dares not to recruit any overseas players and lets domestic players play against the Japanese team, he will definitely be scolded to death.

Moreover...this approach is actually very detrimental to domestic players. Because the Japanese team will definitely try their best to get the right to qualify for the World Cup. Let domestic players who are not as strong as them face powerful enemies like wolves and tigers at their home court. Coupled with the grievances between China and Japan, it is a huge psychological torture for every Chinese player.

Therefore, not only will this fail to train them, it may even destroy them - this is a consequence that should not have been suffered by them, but it is imposed on them, which is also very unfair to them.

But in fact, Dillon did not recruit Hu Lai back, which still caused a lot of controversy. The media and fans did not accept this arrangement just because he recalled all overseas players except Hu Lai.

Mainly because everyone wanted to see Hu Lai so much - this was supposed to be Hu Lai's first appearance in front of Chinese fans after winning the Ballon d'Or.

Everyone has been looking forward to that scene, and they will give all the cheers to Hu Lai.

As a result, Dillon caused trouble.

Of course, some people will be unhappy, and some even secretly hope that the Chinese team will lose to the Japanese team, so as to give them a reason to attack Dillon:

Don't let you get into trouble!

Did you lose?

Deserve it!

I can’t scold you to death!

Let’s see if you dare not recruit Hu Lai in the future!

It's also a pity that Hu Lai was not recalled. If according to Dillon's original plan, not a single overseas player was recruited, then although he would not be fired by the Chinese Football Association because of the loss to the Japanese team, he would definitely offend all Chinese fans and Media reporter.

That way he would have a difficult time in Chinese public opinion. If something goes wrong, the slightest problem will be magnified into a serious crime that is "too numerous to describe" with the conscious fueling of the media.

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"I never thought that one day we would be looked down upon by the Chinese team..."

In the hotel room where he stayed, Tatsuya Sugiyama sighed.

"Although it is indeed unpleasant, this will greatly increase our hopes of qualifying for the World Cup."

said his teammate Takenori Kuroiwa.

Others in the room agreed.

Then Junpei Morikawa suddenly said: "I advise you not to be so optimistic. The Chinese team without Hu Lai is definitely not a tiger without teeth."

Everyone looked at each other, and then Sugiyama Tatsuya stood up and said seriously:

"Indeed, although Hu Lai is missing, they still have many players who play in Europe like us. They are no worse than us. In the game the day after tomorrow, everyone still has to go all out. We will definitely go to Spain! Japanese football The glorious tradition cannot be cut off in our hands! Otherwise, by then, we will really be looked down upon!"