Fox in the Penalty Area

In the locker room, before the training, the players of Shining Star chatted while changing their clothes. Of course, the topic was the upcoming semi-final of the FA Cup. Along with the recent noise of this game, the players would also chat about it in private sound.

Of course, they disagreed with the bad-mouthing of the outside world and their incomprehension of Director Zhao.

After all, the outside world doesn't even know what the team has done for half a month.

But Zhao Kangming also imposed discipline on the team, that is, he was not allowed to disclose the internal situation of the team. Everyone consciously abides by and strictly enforces it, because they know that if the opponent does not understand them, the chances of defeating the opponent will increase.

Some people on the Internet wondered that Zhao Kangming was thinking of revenge, but how exactly should he take revenge? With Flashing Star's level, how can they defeat the sixth Poseidon team in the Chinese Super League?

All Flash Star players knew what they were going to do, but they couldn't tell the outside world.

"Obviously, Director Zhao wants us to take a bus with the Sea Gods in the away game..."

There are two days left before the game. After this period of training, everyone knows what tactics the team will adopt.

"And the final penalty shootout?"

Speaking of penalties, everyone turned their attention to Hu Lai.

Since Hu Lai became the team's number one penalty shooter, Flash Star has not won a penalty in the game. But Hu Lai still insisted on giving himself half an hour of penalty kicks after training every day.

Obviously, if Flash Star can draw with Poseidon in the 90-minute away game, then it will be the turn of Hu Lai's penalty kick to come in handy.

Under everyone's gaze, Hu Lai had a different opinion: "It doesn't have to be a penalty kick, but also a set kick."

"Set-pieces are of course our main scoring weapon, but set-pieces are also risky. The central defenders are all going up to fight for the top. If the Poseidon team makes a quick counterattack, wouldn't it be cold?" Zhang Qinghuan said.

"Then use the set kick to hit the ball in!" Hu Lai said with full momentum.

Chen Xingyi sneered from the side: "You put it simply, Hu Lai. With your small body, if you compete with Poseidon's players in the penalty area, you may not even touch the ball!"

"Who said that? Shanren has his own tricks!" Hu Lai was triumphant.

Everyone looked at Hu Lai's posture: "Yo ho, Hu Lai, it seems that you have some ideas?"

Hu Lai chuckled: "I do have some bold ideas..."

"I'm going, I can already hear the sound of bad water sloshing in your stomach, Hu Lai..." Chen Xingyi shouted exaggeratedly.

Others were also very curious: "What do you think, come and hear it?"

Hu Lai was also polite, walked to the whiteboard in the dressing room, picked up a marker pen and began to write and draw on it.

A group of people stood behind him with folded arms, smiling and looking at the whiteboard.

But looking at it, the expressions on their faces changed.

"Fuck, Hu Lai, what are you thinking about all day long?!"

Hu Lai turned around and looked at them: "What do you think? We can find time to do special training..."

Qin Lin said: "I think Hu Lai, you can try to give advice to Director Zhao and ask him to allow us to practice such set-piece tactics. It is impossible for us to practice secretly by ourselves, we must get the approval of the coaching staff. "

"But will Director Zhao agree?" Hu Lai was not sure.

"If it was you, I think he would agree." Zhang Qinghuan said beside him. "You have an unusual relationship with Director Zhao!"

Qin Lin also nodded: "Zhang Qinghuan is right."

In this way, the important task of communicating with Director Zhao was handed over to Director Zhao's "godson" Hu Lai.

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"There are two days left before the semi-finals. Today we have only one training content, that is, various positioning ball tactics training. In the game against the Poseidon team, if we want to win, then we must use positioning. effort!"

Before the start of training on a new day, Zhao Kangming emphasized the training tasks for all the first-team players participating in the training.

At this moment, Hu Lai raised his hand.

"What's the matter with you, Hu Lai?" Zhao Kangming asked.

"Director Zhao, I have some ideas that I think can be used in set-piece tactics." Seeing the change in Zhao Kangming's face, Hu Lai quickly explained. "I thought that Sea God would never have imagined that we would play set kicks like this..."

There was a burst of laughter among the team members.

Hearing everyone's laughter, Zhao Kangming's face was a bit uneasy. He thought that Hu Lai was going to play tricks again according to the usual practice...

At this time, Qin Lin stood up and said to Zhao Kangming: "Director Zhao, we discussed this in the locker room... Just before today's training started, Hu Lai told us in the locker room what he was doing. Creative free-kick tactics. We all thought we could try it."

When Zhao Kangming saw Qin Lin say that, he swallowed the words he wanted to refuse.

At the same time, Qin Lin's words also reminded him that the reason why everyone wanted to fight the Sea God with such high spirits was to avenge Hu Lai... and he also benefited from it, so this bit of face should be given to Hu Lai.

So he nodded: "If everyone has no objections, I will give you 30 minutes of extra training time after the normal training in the morning."

Hu Lai let out a long breath: "Thank you, Director Zhao!"

Seeing him like this, Zhao Kangming couldn't help laughing: "What's up with your kid?"

Hu Lai quickly waved his hand: "There are no bad ideas, Director Zhao, just some... er, ideas, small ideas."

He pinched the thumb and index finger of his right hand almost together, lifted them up, squinted his eyes and smiled and explained to Zhao Kangming.

Zhao Kangming felt that you could explain Hu Lai as long as you explained, but why are both expressions and movements so...wretched?

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After the normal training, Zhao Kangming gave the team 30 minutes of extra training time as promised, allowing them to conduct special set-piece tactical training.

Because the specific tactics were all in Hu Lai's thinking, this training session did not require any guidance from Zhao Kangming.

It stands to reason that he could leave, but he stood on the sidelines, wanting to see what Hu Lai's so-called "little idea" was.

Chen Mo helped out as an assistant coach, but it was mainly just blowing the whistle. He also didn't know how the team should train, and what he could do was very limited.

As for how the players stand and run...these are all up to Hu Lai.

The other players follow his instructions.

If a teammate didn't understand what he meant, he would directly pull the opponent to the correct position with his hands.

Zhao Kangming, who was on the sidelines, always had a strange sense of sight when he saw this scene: The way this kid directs his teammates to stand like this is really a bit like a coach...

After directing everyone to stand in their positions, Hu Lai told them how to run next, and pulled out Chen Xingyi and Zhang Qinghuan to cooperate with him to demonstrate to everyone.

Looking at it, Zhao Kangming's eyes widened:

What kind of "little" idea is this? !

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The 30-minute special training is over, and the whole training process is constantly mixed with laughter and laughter. If it is not training, others think that the players of Shining Star are playing games on the training ground.

Although the scene looked very unscrupulous, the training had indeed achieved some results. At least they had already practiced the corner kick tactics that Hu Lai mentioned.

After the training, everyone walked to the locker room talking and laughing, took a shower and changed their clothes. They would go to the base restaurant for dinner, and then go to the dormitory for lunch break to prepare for the afternoon training.

Today's training is two exercises a day, with training sessions in the morning and afternoon.

Hu Lai also walked towards the locker room among his teammates, but he was stopped by Zhao Kangming who had been standing on the sidelines.

"Hu Lai, you stay here for a while."

Hu Lai came out of the team and ran to the head coach: "Director Zhao, what orders do you have?"

Seeing him nodding and bowing, Zhao Kangming wanted to laugh: "Hu Lai, what's the name of your corner attack tactic?"

"The heavenly maid scattered flowers!"

Zhao Kangming thought about what he saw during the training, and nodded: "It's quite appropriate..."

"Hey!" Hu Lai scratched his head.

Seeing him like this, Zhao Kangming asked again: "Tell me honestly, do you still have such set-piece tactics?"

"Yes, yes..." Hu Lai was a little hesitant, not understanding what Director Zhao meant by asking this question, nor did he know how to answer it.

"Use your lunch break to pour out all your bad water, tidy it up, and give it to me before training in the afternoon." Zhao Kangming said.

Hu Lai was surprised when he heard this: "Director Zhao, what are you doing?"

"Huh? You didn't refute the 'bad water' statement?" Zhao Kangming slightly widened his eyes.

"No...Director Zhao, this is the fruit of my wisdom. How can it be bad water? In addition, Director Zhao, my wisdom tree is a bit big, and I have a lot of wisdom fruits. I can't finish it in one lunch break..."

Zhao Kangming ignored Hu Lai's nonsense: "Then we need five corner kicks and five free kicks each. After sorting it out, we will use it all to practice these set-piece tactics in the afternoon."

Hu Lai looked at the head coach in disbelief. He didn't expect Director Zhao to affirm these fantastic ideas of his own, and to use them to replace normal set-piece training!

He quickly puffed up his chest: "Director Zhao, don't worry, I promise to come up with ten sets of tactics before training in the afternoon!"

Zhao Kangming nodded with a smile: "Okay, hurry up and change clothes and eat."

Looking at Hu Lai's back, Chen Mo came up and shook his head and said, "This kid has grown up in all directions, and he can even be a coach...Although I think he just has a big brain."

Zhao Kangming smiled happily: "He always surprises us, Lao Chen. Whether it's on the field or off the field. To be honest, I didn't have much hope for set kicks. I was more inclined to defend Penalty shootout, anyway, there is no extra time in the FA Cup."

Chen Mo nodded: "It can be seen that you have arranged a lot of penalty kick training in training."

"But now I want to try a set kick. Didn't the outsiders say that they want to break their heads and can't figure out what Shining Star can do to defeat Poseidon? Indeed, they can't think of the corner kick tactic of "Heavenly Girl Scattering Flowers" .At first glance, I really just thought 'what kind of shit is this', but I watched them practice from the sidelines, and the more I watched it, the more I realized that this is not a joke game, although it looks like... Ha!"

"Don't tell me, I feel the same way. At first, I thought it was Hu Lai who was messing around again, but his seemingly foolish approach really made sense...just disperse everyone so suddenly, let The opponent can't figure it out, so it's really hard to guard against." Chen Mo nodded in agreement. "And the positioning itself can confuse the opponent and distract the opponent in defense."

Zhao Kangming turned around with a smile: "Let's go, Old Chen, let's go to eat too, and wait to see what surprises Hu Lai can bring us."