Fox in the Penalty Area

"Hey, Hu Lai, have you started special shooting training yet?" Li Qingqing was standing in the corridor, chatting with Hu Lai who was sitting by the window through the open window. From the chat, she knew that Hu Lai had already passed away. Started shooting special training, her father didn't tell her about it, and of course it didn't seem necessary to tell her...

"Yeah, except for the warm-up, all the training content is shooting training." Hu Lai sat in his seat, leaned his head on his raised arm, and then used his other hand to move Li Qingqing to the side.

"Why?" Li Qingqing asked suspiciously.

"You're blocking me from the sun."

"Oh." Li Qingqing saw that his shadow was just covering Hu Lai, so he took a step to the side, letting out the sunlight that came in through the glass curtain wall, and all the sunlight shone directly on Hu Lai's face. He tilted his head slightly, closing his eyes and enjoying himself.

Luo Kai, who was standing in the distance, saw this scene with a very ugly expression on his face.

Is Lao Tzu's goddess just being called around by you?

But Li Qingqing didn't seem to care at all. After she got out of the sunlight path, she still leaned on the window sill and chatted with Hu Lai inside.

"This is good news, Hu Lai. The coach asked you to practice shooting. It must not be aimless. I think he may want you to play in the final..."

"Let me play in the final?" Hu Lai was also a little surprised. "Can't you? That's the final. I wasn't allowed to play in the semi-finals. Will I be played in the final?"

"If the coach asked you to continue with basic training, then you really wouldn't be able to play in the final. But now he asks you to practice shooting, which shows that he at least has this idea. He may need you to score, so he only Let you practice shooting. After all, time is limited, if you treat you like normal training, in the end you may not learn anything. So it is better to strengthen your shooting so that if you need to play, that is for you to score goals." Li Qingqing analyzed it to Hu Lai.

Hu Lai rubbed his chin, showing a thoughtful expression: "It seems that the coach has also seen that Luo Kai can only bully the weak, and I still have to rely on me to fight tough battles!"

Song Jiajia, who was also lying on her desk basking in the sun, closed her eyes and said lazily, "I think too much, Hu Lai. You are Luo Kai's spare tire..."

Hu Lai was furious: "You are Luo Kai's backup tire!"

Song Jiajia originally wanted to refute, but his mouth was opened, and he remembered the scene that happened on the sidelines of the training field yesterday.

Damn it, maybe in the hearts of those girls, I really have some inexplicable relationship with Luo Kai...

But who can blame this? Didn't you cause it yourself? Sigh, it's not good to be too competitive...

After thinking up to this point, Song Jiajia closed her mouth resentfully, and continued to bask in his sunshine.

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Luo Kai has been staring at Li Qingqing and Hu Lai from a distance. These two people seem to be no longer hiding from others. They just got together in the school openly. Unlike before, they still seemed to be secretive, doing some tricks like going out to meet after school.

When he saw that Li Qingqing didn't come to see the training before, he thought there was some conflict between the two of them, and Li Qingqing no longer cared about Hu Lai.

But now it seemed that there was no problem between the two of them... which made him happy in vain.

Then why didn't Li Qingqing come to the training?

At this moment, Li Zhiqun suddenly came up and called out in a low voice with a strange expression: "Brother Kai..."

"Why?" Luo Kai was in a bad mood and his tone was not good.

"Well... I was going to the bathroom just now, and I heard some girls seem to be spreading gossip about you..."

"Gossip? What gossip do I have?"

"Uh, they...they said..." Li Zhiqun was very embarrassed.

"Speak up if you have something to say." Seeing this, Luo Kai glanced at Li Zhiqun.

"They... said you were interested in Song Jiajia..."

"Interesting? What do you mean?" Luo Kai has not yet reacted.

"It means that you two are...a couple..." Li Zhiqun pointed to Song Jiajia who was lying next to Hu Lai and enjoying the sunshine with her eyes closed.

Luo Kai stared at the pig-headed face, froze for a few seconds, then gritted his teeth and said, "Who the hell is so boring!?"

The high-cold persona didn't hold back, and all the swear words were brought in.

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During the training in the afternoon, the girls even went to find Song Jiajia first among the crowd. The fat man was standing at the other end of the rostrum, looking at his phone with his head down.

Then they went to see Luo Kai one after another, and found that Luo Kai walked onto the court without squinting, and then began to warm up with the team. During this process, he never cast a glance at the rostrum.

The girls wondered if their comments had reached Luo Kai's ears, and he deliberately didn't look at the rostrum to avoid suspicion?

Otherwise, the act of deliberately avoiding the rostrum is too suspicious...

After warming up, the team started training, and the offensive team was called to the goal alone for shooting training.

Holly is among them.

Although Hu Lai also did shooting training in basic training before, it is different from today's shooting training.

The shooting training in the basic training is mainly to let Hu Lai master the technical movements of shooting, such as what the correct shooting movement should be, such as how to exert force correctly, such as paying attention to straightening the instep when shooting, such as using different parts What is the effect of the shot.

Only train for the technical action of shooting.

Now the shooting training in the team is really aimed at shooting the football into the goal.

And it is different from basic training, it is no longer as simple as placing the football in a fixed position and letting Hu Lai kick the football towards the goal.

In the current shooting training, the players need to run to the designated position and finish shooting after receiving Chu Yifan's pass.

While they are receiving the ball, there is a defensive player in front of them interfering - it will not really come up to grab it, but will stand in front of them, increasing the sense of presence, allowing the trained players to gradually adapt to shooting under the influence of someone's pressure technical action.

These are completely different from Hu Lai kicking against the wall alone.

Li Ziqiang also asked them to only touch the ball twice, catch the ball once and shoot once during shooting training.

Hu Lai understands this, because the training is all from the perspective of actual combat. In actual games, if you adjust the number of touches with the ball one more time, you may miss the chance to shoot.

And at this time, it reflected the value of his previous basic training.

Although they are all very ordinary training, but now he has practiced the catching and shooting movements for nearly two months, and one month of them has the effect of [Smart Potion], and it is no longer as good as it was at the beginning. As in training, a stop can stop ten meters away.

After finishing shooting training with the rest of the team, the team went to other training, and Hu Lai came to the other end of the goal by himself, ready to start his own shooting training.

He picked up a small foldable shelf, walked into the restricted area, and opened the shelf.

The four borders of the stretched shelf are pulled by the tight nylon rope net, because it is very tight, even if you press it hard with your hands, it may not be much softer.

This little prop is the character responsible for passing the ball to him.

Because other teammates have to carry out their own training content, no one can come to pass the ball to Hu Lai, so Li Ziqiang found such a prop to help Hu Lai practice, and at the same time, he can also train Hu Lai's passing.

After starting the training, he had to kick the football towards this small support. After the football was stopped by the tight rope net, it bounced back. Hu Lai ran to catch the bounced football and completed the shot.

After setting up the frame, Hu Lai started his shooting training alone.

Li Ziqiang stood on the sidelines of the training field, his eyes wandered between each set of training, and then fell on Hu Lai.

He saw that Hu Lai kicked the football towards the rope net with the inside of his right foot. At a distance of about five or six meters, Hu Lai's kick did not miss, but hit the rope net accurately, and the football was bounced back. Fly obliquely forward.

After Hu Lai passed the ball, he moved forward quickly, and when he received the bouncing football, he raised his foot to stop the football with the inside of his right foot, then supported his body with his left foot, and swung his right foot again, with a muffled bang After that, the football was shot to the lower left of the goal, and finally went into the net smoothly.

After completing a shooting training, Hu Lai did not go to pick up the ball in the goal, but ran to a large net bag next to him, hooked out a football with his feet, took it to the starting point of the shooting training, and continued to repeat all the actions just now.

Li Ziqiang has been staring at Hu Lai. This kid's passing is much better than before, and the movement of catching and shooting is also smoother than when he practiced like this yesterday.

Watching and watching, a strange thought in his mind was getting stronger and stronger, and it popped up uncontrollably—this kid... seems to be improving a bit fast?

Li Ziqiang still clearly remembers that when this kid first joined the team, he was just a beginner, no different from a blank sheet of paper. Letting him do the basic training alone was of course intentional, because at that time Li Ziqiang didn't regard Hu Lai as a member of the team at all. Cut off high-intensity training and voluntarily quit the team.

Unexpectedly, Hu Lai not only persevered, but the basic training for nearly two months has also trained this kid to look good.

Li Ziqiang thinks about it now, since Hu Lai joined the team, it seems that he has been earnestly completing the training tasks he assigned to him, and he has never been lazy or complained.

He always felt that Hu Lai should be someone who is good at stealing, raping and playing tricks, but he trained harder than anyone else--this kind of training content on him, it is estimated that another person may not be able to last for so long.

This gave Li Ziqiang a very complicated feeling for Hu Lai.

As a father with a daughter, he doesn't like Hu Lai, but as a coach, he should like Hu Lai, a hardworking and down-to-earth player...

Like it or not?

This is a problem.

Li Ziqiang forcibly dispelled the distracting thoughts in his mind, and continued to focus on Hu Lai's training.

After watching for a while, he felt more and more that his previous feeling should not be an illusion.

Hu Lai is really improving because his performance is getting more and more consistent. It's not a "good performance" where you do a good job or two in training every once in a while.

Even Li Ziqiang, who has always been strict, couldn't help but nodded.

It's a pity that Li Qingqing is not here, otherwise her jaw would drop if she saw it—her father actually nodded at Hu Lai!

Just this one picture can make Li Qingqing happy for several days...

Of course, Li Ziqiang may have realized his understanding very quickly, and did not even make a gesture of nodding in approval again.

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Hu Lai didn't know that the coach behind him stared at him for a long time and watched the intense and wonderful inner drama. He kicked the football towards his "teammate" again. Rotate upwards, then fly out from the upper edge of the rope net, draw a parabola in the air, and fly obliquely forward.

Looking at this perfect arc, Hu Lai suddenly had the urge to kick directly...

After all, he has also been excited for those wonderful volleys, and he has fantasized more than once that he can score such a volley on the court.

Thinking of this, Hu Lai adjusted his pace, instead of raising his right foot to catch the ball, he opened his right leg a little...

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Li Ziqiang, who saw this scene from behind, frowned. This is definitely not the posture of stopping the ball.

In the next moment, he saw Hu Lai swung his right leg towards the football!

He immediately knew what Hu Lai was going to do - he was going to shoot without stopping the ball!

Li Ziqiang had prominent veins on his forehead, but before he could make a sound to stop him, Hu Lai's right foot caught the football.

Boom!

The football flew high over the goal crossbar, dropped over a bunker, hit the stadium wall, bounced back and landed on the red plastic track.

When the football landed on the track, Li Ziqiang's growl was late but still arrived: "Nonsense! You haven't practiced well after stopping the ball and then shooting, just thinking about volleying? Do you want to reach the sky in one step, kid? I'll give you Say, don't give me these vain things! Keep your feet on the ground and do what you have to do well!"

Hu Lai, who was in the distance, quickly used gestures to admit his mistake to the coach, and then ran to take down a football.

This time, his training returned to normal, honestly stopping the ball first and then shooting.

Li Ziqiang snorted in his heart when he saw this scene: From joining the team and doing basic training for a month, he wanted to play the game, and now he just practiced shooting for a day and wanted to volley. If you can endure hardship, you can endure hardship, but this is honest But not necessarily... As expected, we still have to keep an eye on it!

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After hearing the head coach's roar, Yan Yan winked at Chu Yifan, which meant: Look, our coach is always staring at Hu Lai, and his attention is more than that of Luo Kai!

Chu Yifan did not express doubt this time, he cast his eyes on that thin figure.

It seems that the weakest person in the team is actually the person most valued by the head coach.

He was about to start doubting his eighteen years of life experience...