Fox in the Penalty Area

After the semi-finals of the FA Cup, the final will not kick off until November 4, two months later, and the middle is all league games.

Flash Star can turn all their attention back to the league, and use the nine league games in these two months to establish their superiority.

Because the next round of the league was two days after the Football Association was defeated in the semi-finals, the Flash Star team flew back to Jincheng on the night of the game.

Then in Saturday's league game, Zhao Kangming replaced all the players who played in the FA Cup semi-finals, and let those substitute players who didn't play and the rotation players who didn't go to the away game at all play.

Against Youjiang Honglian, who is not strong.

Flash Star, who rotated a lot of players, was not able to beat Youjiang Honglian at home, but he didn't lose either.

They drew 0:0 with their opponents at home.

Considering that Shining Star did its best in the semi-finals of the FA Cup and many players suffered from cramps, even if they win the Sea God, it can be said to be a "miserable victory". Then the result has not been lost in the league, this result is completely acceptable.

Next, for Flash Star, it is a key battle:

In the twenty-third round of the league, they will challenge Ning Tian Yongan away. The latter is currently ranked third in the league, one point less than the Flash Star, which has one game less.

If Flash Star loses to Ning Tian Yongan in the away game, the opponent will temporarily surpass Flash Star by two points in points.

Although Flash Star will make up for the missed league game, if they can win, they can continue to rank second with a one-point advantage, pushing Ning Tianyongan down.

But isn't the gap between the two sides completely narrowed to one point?

Everyone thought that this game would be a very fierce competition.

But when the game started, they realized that was not the case at all.

Flash Star, who sent all the main players in this game, played very proactively even though it was an away game.

After ten minutes, they had the upper hand.

In the 23rd minute of the game, Zhang Qinghuan scored a goal in the penalty area to break the deadlock.

Five minutes later, Hu Lai made a supplementary shot in front of the goal to expand the score.

At the end of the first half, the guest Flash Star led the home team Ning Tianyong'an, a team relegated from the Chinese Super League, with a score of 2:0.

The commentator of Ningtian Satellite TV exclaimed: "This Xingxing team is completely different from the Xingxing team from the first half of the season!"

He made a little fuss.

After all, this Shining Star team is the sixth-ranked Poseidon team in the Chinese Super League, and they can eliminate their opponents 2:1.

That is the real Chinese Super League team, and Ning Tianyong'an is just a team relegated from the Chinese Super League no matter what...

When Zhao Kangming decided not to give up the FA Cup so quickly, he just hoped to use the Chinese Super League team to test the quality of the current star team.

He who made the decision at that time never thought that it would help the team's performance in the league.

Because the flash star players who have seen the world in the FA Cup suddenly feel that those "strong teams" in the Chinese League One are just bluffing...

Ning Tian Yongan ranked 15th in the Super League last season, second to last. The Poseidon, which Flash Star previously defeated in an away game, ranked sixth in the Chinese Super League.

From this point of view, what is Ning Tian Yongan afraid of?

In the first half of the season, Shining Star was forced to a 0-0 draw by this team at home. Now that I think about it, their performance at that time was really not that good...

The flash stars who reached the final of the FA Cup have gained confidence that other teams in the Chinese Premier League can hardly have, which will be of great benefit to their next league.

And this kind of benefit was unexpected by those who accused Flash Star of not doing their best in the FA Cup and giving up the FA Cup to play in the league.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again, and Qin Lin and Chen Xingyi scored goals for Shining Star.

In the end, they defeated Ningtian Yongan 4:0 in the away game.

To be honest, Flash Star defeated Ningtian Yongan, the third place in the league, 4:0 away. This game caused no less shock to other teams in the Chinese League One than Flash Star beat the then league leader Nanhai 4:2 at home. Team, no less than Flash Star in the FA Cup semi-finals 2:1 away away to eliminate the Chinese Super League team Poseidon.

After all, in the match against Nanhai, Flash Star still conceded two goals. Judging from the process of the game, it was not easy for Flash Star to win the game. They tried their best to win the game.

Not to mention playing Poseidon, they used very creative set-piece tactics, which was a bit tricky. After that game, Flash Star's set-piece tactics also became the subject of heated discussions. Many analysts believe that the unconventional set-piece tactics are the key to Flash Star's ability to score two goals against Poseidon.

These analyzes speak well. In fact, if it weren't for Hu Lai's contribution to the set-piece tactics, the only winning strategy that Zhao Kangming could think of was to drag the game into a penalty kick and leave everything to luck.

In these two games, Shining Star won both, but it was not easy to win, and it was tricky to win.

But in the match against Ning Tianyong'an, Flash Star played the away game like it was at home, scoring two goals in each half, and defeated the opponent without bloodshed.

After the game, the players of Ning Tianyongan have not yet reacted. Some players said in an interview after the game that when they played against Flash Star, they felt as if they played in the Super League last season...

What do you mean by that?

It means that Flash Star's performance is already at the Super League level.

This may be the result of Flash Star's two consecutive rounds of elimination of the Chinese Super League team in the FA Cup.

And if Flash Star is already at the Super League level, does it mean that they will definitely succeed in upgrading this season?

In this way, there may be only one promotion spot for other teams that want to be promoted...

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Even though Shining Star still ranked second after winning this game, the Nanhai team, which is number one, has already felt the tremendous pressure.

Because in the middle of the next week, when other teams are resting, Shining Star will face Xinzhou Kunlun at home. This game is a make-up match for the eighteenth round of the league.

After this game, Flash Star will play the same number of games as other teams.

So far, the Nanhai team, which has played one more game, has 52 points and ranks first-they lost to Ning Tianyong'an in the last round, and missed the best chance to get rid of Shining Star in the standings. Because in that round of league rotation, Flash Star was tied by Youjiang Honglian at home.

The result is that now they are only two points ahead of Flash Star.

If Flashstar beats Xinzhou Kunlun in the mid-week make-up match, Flashstar will overtake the South China Sea team by one point and take the top spot in the league standings.

Judging from the state of Flash Star in the game against Ningtian Yongan, they have a very high probability of defeating Xinzhou Kunlun at home.

As it turned out, on Wednesday, September 20th, the Shining Star returned to the home court with a half-main and half-rotation lineup and still defeated Xinzhou Kunlun 2-0.

After the game, they ranked first in the league standings with 53 points. This is the first time they have returned to the league after losing the first place in the league on August 27 in an away game against Heihe Polaris. this location.

Although they only lead the South China Sea team by one point.

But many people should have noticed that Flashing Star's current state is difficult to be interrupted.

Sure enough, the following Sunday, they played against the 11th-ranked Tongqi Eagles at home. The Flash Star won 3:1, and Hu Lai scored twice in the game.

While helping Flash Star continue to lead the league standings, he also scored 18 goals in the scorer list, also leading the scorer list.

Second-placed Ivar Moses has thirteen goals.

Hu Lai's lead is still huge.

Following this trend, many people feel that Hu Lai's chances of winning the Golden Boot are getting bigger and bigger.

In fact, even if he doesn't get the top scorer in the league, his performance this season can definitely be called a phenomenon, which is rare in the history of the Chinese League One.

After all, although there were local strikers before him who had won the top scorer in the Chinese League in the 2012 season, Lin Gang was already 26 years old when he won the top scorer, and Hu Lai had just passed On his twentieth birthday, at such a young age, he was able to score so many goals in the league, which is not much in the entire history of Chinese football.

Not to mention that there are still ten rounds of the league before the end of the league, and Hu Lai has already scored 18 goals.

It is only three goals away from Lin Gang’s record of 21 goals scored in a single season by a local Chinese striker created ten years ago. The scoring record in a single season in the Chinese Premier League is only four goals short.

Judging from his current state, he is very hopeful to break these two records, and maybe he may also greatly improve these two records, making it difficult for latecomers to surpass.

For a while, many people on the Internet began to pay attention to the scorer list of the Chinese League One and Hu Lai's performance.

With the attention of so many people, Hu Lai didn't feel a lot of pressure because of this, so he performed abnormally.

On the contrary, in the twenty-fifth round of the league three days later, in the away game against the relegation team Yunshan Caiyun, he scored another goal in the game.

Help the Flash Star 2:0 to retreat from the home court of the relegation team.

In the same round of the league, the Nanhai team lost and their points remained at 55 points. With this victory, Shining Star accumulated 59 points, leaving the Nanhai team by 4 points and widening the gap in points.

At the same time, Ning Tianyong'an won two consecutive victories after losing to Flash Star, accumulating 52 points, and is already approaching the South China Sea team.

Considering that the South China Sea team will play against the Flash Star at home in the penultimate round of the league, this situation cannot but be reminiscent of their last season-the South China Sea team, which still had a glimmer of hope for promotion, lost to the Flash Star at their home court. Completely lost the opportunity to upgrade.

Is it going to happen again this year?

Fortunately, in the next twenty-sixth round of the league, Luo Kai broke out. He scored twice and helped the Nanhai team defeat Tangdu Nine Dragons, stopping the decline.

His personal league goals have also reached nine, and he is already the second-leading scorer in the South China Sea team.

This is already his best season in professional football.

If any twenty-year-old young player has this performance, he will wake up laughing from a dream.

You must know that Chen Xingyi, who was loaned from the Golden Arrow to the Flash Star, also scored nine league goals, just like him.

But Luo Kai couldn't laugh at all.

Who let there be a monster in front of him...

Although Hu Lai did not score in this round of the league, he continued to lead the league's scorer list with 19 league goals, ten more than Luo Kai, who had the best season of his career!

The number of goals scored in the best season of his career is only a fraction of the number of goals scored by others. What is there to be proud of?

Still happy?

It's a joke to say it!

The only piece of good news may be that after this round of the league, Luo Kai received a call from the Olympic team to participate in the three friendly matches of the Olympic team on October 7th, 12th, and 15th.

This will be his first time playing for the country and wearing the Olympic team jersey.

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PS, in the last few hours of September, ask for tickets!