Fox in the Penalty Area

Both Li Qingqing and Yan Yan guessed correctly. Although Hu Lai came off the bench in the quarter-finals and scored a goal, this did not change his fate.

In the semi-finals of the qualifiers on the weekend, Dongchuan Middle School faced a strong enemy from Jincheng's provincial experimental middle school football team, and Dongchuan Middle School fell into a hard fight at their home court. Until the end of the game, Hu Lai was unable to play.

Luo Kai encountered the opponent's strict marking in this game.

It also exposed the shortcomings of Dongchuan Middle School's lack of scoring points other than Luo Kai.

In the end, it was Luo Kai who broke the deadlock for Dongchuan Middle School by relying on his super personal ability. Provincial Experimental Middle School fell short.

It was also with this goal that Dongchuan Middle School finally defeated the Provincial Experimental Middle School and advanced to the final of the Anton Cup.

When the players of the Dongchuan Middle School football team were wildly celebrating their reaching the final, as the coach, Li Ziqiang was very calm, and even looked a little ugly...

If there is no accident, there should be no suspense about the result of the other semi-final, and Jiaxiang High School will enter the final.

But if the current situation of Dongchuan Middle School meets Jiaxiang, Li Ziqiang is not sure that he can win.

Although Dongchuan Middle School won this game, it was very thrilling to win. It can even be said that it was completely lucky to win the ball.

If they didn't have Luo Kai, they might stop at the semi-finals.

Luo Kai is indeed Dongchuan Middle School's biggest achievement, and it is absolutely correct to describe it with the phrase "picking up a treasure".

So far, in the six qualifiers, he has scored a total of twelve goals, ranking first in the Anton Cup scorer list, five goals more than the second place.

It stands to reason that being able to have such an outstanding striker is the dream of any head coach.

But Li Ziqiang doesn't see it that way now.

Because apart from Luo Kai, the team lacks other scoring points.

Li Ziqiang believes that the coaching staff of the Jiaxiang High School football team is not a bunch of idiots, and must have noticed the importance of Luo Kai and discovered the problems of Dongchuan Middle School.

As long as they lock Luo Kai in the final, it is very likely that Dongchuan Middle School will not be able to score.

Does Jiaxiang High School have this ability?

That's Jiaxiang High School, which is good at defense...

Of course, Li Ziqiang can adopt some tactical changes to let Luo Kai get rid of the defense and get more shooting opportunities.

But he feels that all eggs can't be put in one basket, and some backups should always be prepared.

Besides Luo Kai, who else is good at scoring?

Li Ziqiang's eyes searched the team, and then he saw Hu Lai who was waving vigorously in the direction of his daughter.

His pupils constricted.

Then I thought of the kid's performance after coming off the bench in the last game.

He ran into space several times, and finally scored with a bounced ball. Many people said that the goal was scored by shit luck. He admitted that Hu Lai's goal had a strong element of luck, but it was not luck that he could appear there.

His sense of smell is uncannily acute.

Looking at Hu Lai, an idea came to Li Ziqiang's mind, but he still hesitated.

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"Captain Chu, do you think I'm right?" While celebrating the victory and waving to the supporters in the stands, Yan Yan leaned close to Chu Yifan and winked at him. "Hu Lai didn't play this game."

"That... Yan Yan, I have thought about what you said carefully when I went back, but there is one thing that I still haven't figured out." Chu Yifan said.

"whats the matter?"

"You said that Hu Lai is the person our coach is optimistic about, so what is our coach optimistic about him? A rookie with no football foundation, what is there to be optimistic about?"

Hearing what Chu Yifan said, Yan Yan showed a mysterious smile on his face: "Chu team, do you know why Hu Lai got into the school team?"

"I heard that he scored a hat-trick in the test match..."

"right,

In our Gaoyixin test match, a total of two people completed a hat-trick, one was Luo Kai, and the other was him. But you know how he got his hat-trick? The first ball was a defender's clearance kick, and the football fell right in front of him. The second ball was shot by his teammate and swung away, shaking the opponent's goalkeeper and defender, and then the football rolled in front of him. The third ball was even worse—he wanted to stop the ball, but he stopped the football on his face and bounced into the goal—look, look, Team Chu, it’s all right! Hitting the face can bounce back into the goal! "

"I have an impression." Chu Yifan also nodded. "A lot of people say he got shit luck."

"Yeah, it's really shit luck. Then after entering the school team, he was dissatisfied with only doing basic training and insisted on playing. Our coach specially arranged special training for him. Anyone can see that this special training is deliberately making things difficult for him. Well. The result? He was lucky enough to score a world wave! Team Chu, do you think it is possible for Hu Lai to score with a barb in his normal performance? You don’t even know how high the level of that kick is. , Let me tell you, he finished the shot on my face, you know what level I am in the Chu team..." As a party involved, Yan Yan showed his own experience to further strengthen his persuasion.

Chu Yifan nodded slowly. To be honest, in the eyes of all the school team players, Hu Lai is a football lover with no foundation. Maybe he really likes football, but his strength is almost zero. Normal……

"Okay. He scored a goal in the last game. You can see how that goal was scored clearly. I don't need to say it. It's fine once or twice. Three times and four times, he scored in the same way. ,This shows what?"

"What do you mean?"

"It means that he is the chosen one!" Yan Yan slapped his thigh, "Of course, there is something about his off-ball running, but so what? The most important thing is his luck! His luck is so good It’s so bad, I’ve never seen anyone else in my life. Our coach must have taken a fancy to Hu Lai’s traits and planned to help him make up for his shortcomings. In this way, when he plays with strong luck, luckily Isn’t the balance tilted towards us? Maybe when the opponent’s goalkeeper made a clearance, he kicked flawedly and fell to the ground, giving us both the football and the empty goal?”

Chu Yifan was speechless, he did not expect the fact to be like this...

Before, he only thought that Hu Lai had some talents in judging the football's landing point and running without the ball, but he didn't expect that Hu Lai's strongest thing was luck... He really wanted to refute Yan Yan, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he heard Then Yan Yan said to him: "Don't say this is metaphysics. You must know that the end of science is metaphysics! Are there less superstitions on the football field? It's the same as the number fourteen. Speaking of Hu Lai, Team Chu Think about it, No. 14 is a number that has been cursed, but in the end it was worn by Hu Lai, but it seems to have lost the effect of the curse... The lucky hat-trick in the school team selection, the lucky world wave in the special training, and playing The lucky centerpiece of the game rebounded to his feet... You take it, Chu team, you take it carefully."

Chu Yifan's mouth closed again.

Because in the face of these hard facts, he really couldn't come up with any convincing evidence to refute Yan Yan's statement.

He also knows that the world is full of wonders, and there may really be those lucky people who are so lucky that they explode and make everyone envy them.

Could it be that Hu Lai is such a winner in life?

He set his sights on Hu Lai. Although he didn't play in this game, he was not depressed at all. He was happily celebrating the victory with others.

He didn't know how to explain what happened to this rookie, his mind was in a mess.

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The stands of the Jiaxiang High School Stadium were full of cheers, and the students in the stands wearing the uniforms of Jiaxiang High School were celebrating their school’s seven consecutive Anton Cup finals.

Amidst the deafening cheers, the players of the Jiaxiang High School football team on the field were much calmer.

After all, reaching the final of the Anton Cup is as common as eating for them.

Only when they win the Anton Cup and reach the finals of the national competition, they will feel happy.

This is the mentality that the players of Jiaxiang High School, the king of high school football in Anton Province, should have.

After expressing their gratitude to the students in the stands as usual, they ran back to the locker room under the urging of the team coach.

They need to quickly change out of their wet clothes, take a shower, put on dry clothes, and dry their hair to avoid catching a cold.

The knack of Jiaxiang High School's ability to become the overlord of high school football in Andong Province is reflected in these details.

After driving the players back to the locker room, the coaching staff of the Jiaxiang High School football team came to the office and had a meeting.

"Our opponent in the final is Dongchuan Middle School." The assistant coach of the team said after entering the office.

"This year's Dongchuan Middle School has really changed a lot. They invited Li Ziqiang as the head coach, and this year's high school freshman also has Luo Kai, the best player in the Anton Cup in junior high school." A coach said. "Luo Kai's school originally wanted to recruit him, but his family was unwilling to send him to Jincheng to attend high school, so he finally chose Dongchuan Middle School..."

The old man sitting behind the table in the back of the office waved his hand: "It doesn't matter, we have Xu Gaofei, he is more suitable for our tactics."

This old man is Feng Yuanchang, the head coach of Jiaxiang High School football team.

He has gray temples, but he is hale and hearty, and there is an unquestionable aura in every gesture.

I just heard him continue to say: "Li Ziqiang was a coach at Quanshun Football School before, and he is a very capable coach. But his problem is that he has just taken over Dongchuan Middle School, and he hasn't had time to implement his things in the team. .From the time he took over the team to the start of the qualifiers, it seemed to be only two weeks. It was too hasty. So he could only rely on Luo Kai's personal ability. Luo Kai's level is indeed very high, but he is not without weaknesses. Although he Looks like a decent number of goals, but that's by taking more shots than anyone else."

Speaking of this, he looked at his assistant coach, who quickly took out the tablet and read the data on it: "We counted, Luo Kai averaged twelve shots per game, not only the Dongchuan Middle School team The player with the most shots on goal has the highest average in the entire Anton Cup. In the quarter-final match against Brown North Middle School, he set a record for the number of shots, as many as 19 shots in a game, Scored two goals. In this year's Anton Cup, nearly three-quarters of Dongchuan Middle School's shots were finally completed by Luo Kai."

After reading this, the assistant coach stopped and looked at the old man.

Feng Yuanchang went on to say: "In other words, Dongchuan Middle School has put all its treasures on Luo Kai. As long as we can suppress Luo Kai, Dongchuan Middle School will not be a threat. As far as I know, before the end In the semi-final, Dongchuan Middle School eliminated Experimental Middle School 1-0. Although they won, it was very difficult for Dongchuan Middle School to win. Experimental Middle School stared at Luo Kai throughout the game and did not give him a chance to kick. He only completed five shots in the game, and the Dongchuan Middle School team only had seven shots. Although Experimental Middle School lost the game in the end, it does not mean that there is a problem with their approach. The problem is their people-they have no A defender like Wang Guangwei."

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Entering the air-conditioned locker room, the players of Jiaxiang High School felt much more comfortable. After all, it is already December now. Although Anton Province is not located in the north, it rarely snows in winter, but due to the humid climate, the body feels colder than in the north.

While undressing and preparing to take a shower, someone asked loudly, "Who is our opponent in the final?"

"It seems to be Dongchuan Middle School..."

"Hey, it turned out to be them?"

"It's no surprise, after all, they have that Luo Kai..."

"Tsk, that Luo Kai is really good. He is number one in the scorer list. If there is no accident, he is the top scorer in this year's Anton Cup, right? Dongchuan Middle School really found a treasure!"

"So what, no matter how powerful you are, you are no match for our captain!"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone in the locker room turned their attention to a boy with a wheat complexion. After playing a game, his hair was still meticulously combed back, which was very eye-catching.

The focus of everyone's attention is Wang Guangwei, the captain of the football team of Jiaxiang High School and the third grader.

"Captain, can that Luo Kai mess up your hairstyle?" Someone in the team asked.

Faced with this question, Wang Guangwei said with a straight face: "What are you thinking about all day long? Go take a shower and change clothes, do you want to catch a cold?"

Seeing that the captain refused to answer this question, everyone went to the shower room in the locker room laughing, and the sound of splashing water and noise soon came from inside.

"Why don't you go take a shower?" Wang Guangwei retracted his gaze and looked at Wu Yue who was standing beside him.

Wu Yue smiled and said, "Actually, I'm also curious..."

"Why are you just as boring as them?" Wang Guangwei said helplessly.

"No, don't get me wrong." Wu Yue waved his hands again and again. "I'm not curious if that Rocky can mess with your hair."

"Then what are you curious about?" Wang Guangwei asked, staring at his partner in the defense.

"I'm just curious..." Wu Yue cast his eyes on Wang Guangwei's hair, "How much hair gel do you use before the competition..."

"You are more boring than them!"