Fox in the Penalty Area

When Hu Lixin came home from get off work the next day, he saw his wife excitedly shaking her mobile phone at him: "Old Hu, Lao Hu, do you remember what I said before?"

Hu Lixin was confused: "What did you say?"

Xie Lan was very disappointed: "You just forgot?"

Hu Lixin was very wronged: "No, you talk so much all day long, how do I know what specific words you mean?"

"I said why Haihe Shuanggang didn't underestimate the enemy!" Xie Lan handed the phone to her husband, it was a news about the FA Cup.

Hu Lixin took a look:

"Haihe Shuanggang announced the roster for the away game against Jincheng, and nearly half of the lineup has been rotated..."

"I went to check them one by one. It's true that some of the main players didn't come. What do you mean by underestimating the enemy?" Xie Lan was very happy.

Hu Lixin looked at the news in his hand in a daze.

Really underestimated the enemy...

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"It's normal for a goalkeeper to use a substitute. Haihe Shuanggang seems to have always started the FA Cup with a substitute goalkeeper. It can be regarded as giving the substitute goalkeeper some opportunities to practice in the game."

In the head coach's office of Shining Star's training base, assistant coach Chen Mo and Zhao Kangming are studying the freshly released Haihe Shuanggang roster.

Although this is not the starting list, some clues can still be seen.

For example, the team's main goalkeeper Liu Yu did not come to the away game at all, which means that their starting goalkeeper must be the team's substitute goalkeeper Huang Anjie. This is also in line with the starting arrangement of Haihe Shuanggang in the previous two FA Cup games.

"Their core midfielder Green didn't come..."

"I heard that after the last league game, Green felt a little uncomfortable in his groin. To be on the safe side, Kuang Mingjian didn't bring him here." Chen Mo explained.

"The main central defender Wei Daqun and the main forward Yi Zhongping are not in this list...Compared with the lineups of the previous Super League games, there are five people who are not in this list. I watched Haihe Shuanggang next In the Chinese Super League match, the opponent is Hexi Daqin at home. This opponent can't afford to let them rotate like this." Zhao Kangming frowned.

Chen Mo hummed: "Stop researching, isn't it obvious that you underestimate the enemy? I don't think it takes so much effort to play us away. If so, why do we bring all the main players to Jincheng? Wouldn't it be better to let them rest at home to recuperate? Believe it or not, if we were replaced by South China Tigers, or Golden Arrows, no one would care about Green’s groin discomfort—that would count as an injury?”

"This is really... I want to fight a Chinese Super League team for real, but I didn't expect them to look down on us..." Zhao Kangming shook his head and sighed helplessly.

"So I said, Lao Zhao, your idea is a bit wishful thinking. If we succeed in upgrading, we will play against those teams as a Chinese Super League team next season. Their attitude must be different from today's FA Cup. After all, we are only now It's normal for people to look down on us as a Chinese team. It's just like the South China Sea team looked down on Dongtai Juxing City back then. In theory, they really have reasons to look down on us." Chen Mo spread his hands.

Zhao Kangming thought for a while, and then said: "Okay, then use this game to make the Super League team think highly of us!"

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"Ah——" when the Haihe Shuanggang players got off the bus and walked towards the gate of the hotel where they stayed, someone took a deep breath and then said with emotion, "They all said that Jincheng even has the air in the air. I can really smell the smell of hot pot!"

His teammate patted his shoulder and pointed to the other side of the street: "See that? 'Jianghu Smell', one of the hottest hot pots in Jincheng in the past two years, what you smell is the smell coming from them!"

"It's really fragrant, Jincheng Hot Pot really has a set!" Another player also took a deep breath.

"Hey, there is no Jincheng team in the Chinese Super League, which is a huge loss for the entire Chinese Super League. Otherwise, at least once a year, I can come to eat hot pot..."

"Then do you want to have dinner later?"

"Ha, eat hot pot before the game, you don't want to play, right? You have that stomach,

Whose fault is it if you have diarrhea? "

"Tsk, let's go eat after the game!"

"We're still waiting for the game to end... After the game, we probably have to go directly from the stadium to the airport!"

"Why is this? We don't have a game in the middle of the week. Why are you in a hurry to go back? It's hard to come to Jincheng, give the team a day off after the game, and go see the pandas..."

"Then you tell Director Kuang?"

"I'm not going, why don't you go..."

"Don't you want to eat hot pot and watch pandas?"

The Haihe Shuanggang players walked into the lobby of the hotel where they were staying while talking and laughing.

The club has a special person to check in, and after the check-in, they will return to the players with their ID cards and room cards for distribution.

The players gathered together and waited, not forgetting to look around.

This is a five-star hotel in downtown Jincheng, and guests come and go from time to time.

The players looked at these guests and easily found the target from inside.

"I'll go, Jincheng's beauties really live up to their reputation!"

"Hey, that's good, that's good!"

"The plate is beautiful and the strips are smooth!"

"I know why Zhang Qinghuan was willing to rent Xingxing, because there are too many beauties here! The average quality is high and there are too many capitals!"

"Hahahaha!" Everyone laughed again.

Their laughter attracted the attention of many people, including ordinary hotel guests, fans and reporters.

In their eyes, this fully reflects the relaxation of the Haihe Shuanggang players.

But some people saw a different meaning.

Chen Jianyu, who was in the hotel lobby, couldn't help curling his mouth when he saw this scene-the players of Haihe Shuanggang relaxed as if they had come to Jincheng for training and tourism.

This is good, this is good...

Jincheng welcomes you as an excellent tourist city, and I hope you enjoy eating and playing here!

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"That's the way it is. We hope to wrestle with a Chinese Super League team to fully test our current level. But obviously, our opponents don't have such an idea, and they don't even use all their main players. Bring it to Jincheng. So we are facing a remnant team. But don’t think that we can easily defeat them in this way, put away your bold ideas.” Zhao Kangming said to him very seriously with a straight face said his players.

Now they are in the locker room of the home team at the Anton Provincial Sports Center. In ten minutes, they will compete with the Chinese Super League team Haihe Shuanggang in this stadium.

"They did it because they could beat us without going all out, which is the fact. So I hope you don't feel like you have an opportunity just because the other side doesn't go all out. It's still like we prepared before. That way, go all out in the game and fight for every goal!"

Zhao Kangming waved his arms and said loudly.

"As a Chinese Super League team, Haihe Shuanggang is qualified to make such adjustments. But as a Chinese Premier League team, we are not qualified to relax. Do you understand?"

"Understood!" The team members answered him loudly.

But Zhao Kangming shook his head, and the assistant coach Chen Mo next to him yelled, "Speak up! Didn't you eat?!"

Now all the players shouted hoarsely: "I understand!"

Only then did Zhao Kangming nod his head: "That's right, you're very energetic! Just go on the field with this spirit and show your ability to the Chinese Super League team!"

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Before the start of the game, players from both sides stood in the player channel, waiting for the referee team to lead them to play.

The central defender Fan Hongpeng of Haihe Shuanggang looked at the flashing star lineup next to him for a long time, and then locked his target. He changed positions with his teammates, stood beside Hu Lai, turned his head and sneered at him: "You are Hu Lai ?”

Hu Lai turned to look at this bumbling guy, shook his head and said, "No, brother, I'm not Hu Lai."

He saw that the other party was obviously stunned for a moment, then frowned and said, "Aren't you Hu Lai?"

"Chen Xingyi, big brother, I am Chen Xingyi."

When Chen Xingyi, who was standing in front of Hu Lai, heard this, he turned around and looked at him in surprise.

Just as he was about to ask what Hu Lai was doing, he saw Hu Lai pointing at himself and saying, "Brother, this is Hu Lai."

He was stunned for a second, coughed, and smiled obsequiously at the Haihe Shuanggang players opposite him: "That's right, brother, I'm Hu Lai."

Fan Hongpeng looked at the two smiling young people repeatedly, and then said angrily, "Are you kidding me? Do you think I don't know that you are Chen Xingyi!"

He pointed at Chen Xingyi and reprimanded angrily.

His voice also attracted other people's attention, Qin Lin who was standing in front looked back after hearing the sound: "What's wrong?"

With just one mouthful, Fan Hongpeng's anger was extinguished by three points.

And Hu Lai quickly waved at Qin Lin: "It's nothing, Brother Lin, we are just joking with this elder brother!"

Then he said to Fan Hongpeng: "Brother, relax, you Chinese Super League team, I just want to make a joke with you to ease the atmosphere. I'm a little nervous, ha, I made my brother laugh... I'm Hu Lai, I It's Hu Lai, I'm Hu Lai, brother, what are your orders?"

Seeing Hu Lai nodding and bowing like this, Fan Hongpeng didn't know what to say for a while.

Then he shook his head: "It's nothing, forget it."

After speaking, he turned around and walked back, and changed back with his teammates.

"Old Fan, what are you doing here?" After changing back, the teammates standing behind him asked strangely.

"I wanted to put some pressure on that Hu Lai."

"Then did you succeed?"

"I don't know...he seems a little too nervous, at a loss what to do, and talks nonsense when he sees me." Fan Hongpeng said, staring at Hu Lai's back. "He didn't want to admit that he was Hu Lai at first... I don't know if he was afraid that I would find fault with him."

"I'll go, old Fan, then you're going to scare people so badly! Ha!"

"Am I that fierce?"

The teammate laughed: "It's quite fierce to put on a straight face!"

"go to hell!"

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"Hu Lai, what were you doing just now?" Although Chen Xingyi cooperated with Hu Lai, there were still many children in his mind... No, it was small question marks.

"I'm testing his reaction to see if he really doesn't recognize me," Hu Lai said.

"What are you thinking? How could he not recognize you? You are the one who scored a hat-trick against the South Korean team. Let me tell you, if he doesn't know me, it's reasonable and he doesn't know you... unless he It's blind."

"But didn't you realize that he was really confused just now?"

Chen Xingyi thought about it carefully and said, "Maybe I just didn't expect that the famous anti-Korean hero could be so cheap?"

"Hehe. Anyway, from his reaction, I found that they really didn't think much of us. I saw this saying on the Internet before, and I posted photos of them checking in in the hotel, and they all laughed so hard Happy. I didn't quite believe it then, but I do now."

"Isn't it normal to not take it seriously? They are in the Chinese Super League, and we are in the Chinese Premier League." Chen Xingyi spread his hands, "What can you do?"

"What should I do? Of course, I will give them a formal self-introduction again later in the game." Hu Lai smiled slightly.