Chapter 61 Final Opponent
Li Qingqing and Yan Yan both guessed correctly. Although Hu Lai came on as a substitute in the quarter-finals and scored a goal, this did not change his fate.
In the semi-finals of the weekend qualifiers, Dongchuan Middle School faced a strong opponent, the Provincial Experimental Middle School football team from Jincheng, and fell into a tough battle at its home court. Hu Lai failed to take the field until the end of the game.
Luo Kai encountered tight marking from the opponent 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 relied on his super personal ability to break the deadlock for Dongchuan Middle School. The provincial experimental middle school fell short.
It was with this goal that Dongchuan Middle School finally defeated the Provincial Experimental Middle School and advanced to the Anton Cup finals.
While the players of the Dongchuan Middle School football team were celebrating wildly for reaching the final, as a coach, Li Ziqiang was very calm and even looked a little ugly...
If nothing else, there should be no suspense about the result of the other semi-final, and Jiaxiang High School will enter the final.
But with the current situation of Dongchuan Middle School, Li Ziqiang is not sure he can win if he meets Jiaxiang.
Although Dongchuan Middle School won this game, it was a thrilling victory. It can even be said that winning the ball was completely based on luck.
If they didn't have Luo Kai, they might end up in the semifinals.
Luo Kai is indeed the biggest gain of Dongchuan Middle School. It is not wrong to describe it as "a treasure found".
So far, he has scored a total of 12 goals in the six qualifiers, ranking first in the Anton Cup scorer list, five goals more than the second place.
It stands to reason that having such an outstanding forward 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 believed that the coaching staff of the Jiaxiang High School football team was not a bunch of idiots. They 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...
Li Ziqiang can certainly make some tactical changes to allow Luo Kai to get rid of the defense and get more shooting opportunities.
But he feels that not all eggs can be put in one basket, and some back-ups 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 waving vigorously in the direction of his daughter.
His pupils shrank.
Then I thought about this kid's performance after coming off the bench in the last game.
He ran into space several times and finally scored on a rebound ball. Many people said that the goal was scored by luck. He admitted that Hu Lai's goal had a strong element of luck, but it was not luck that he was there.
His sense of smell in front of the door is extraordinarily sensitive.
Looking at Hu Lai, an idea came to Li Ziqiang's mind, but he was still a little hesitant.
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"Captain Chu, you see, am I right?" While celebrating the victory and waving to the supporters in the stands, Yan Yan approached Chu Yifan and winked at him. "Hulai did not play in this game."
"Um... Yan Yan, I have thought about what you said carefully when I went back, but there is one thing I still don't understand." Chu Yifan said.
"What happened?"
"You said that Hu Lai is the person our coach is optimistic about, so what does our coach think highly of him? What is there to be optimistic about as a rookie with no football foundation?"
Hearing what Chu Yifan said, a mysterious smile appeared on Yan Yan's face: "Captain Chu, you still know why Hu Lai joined the school team, right?"
"I heard that he scored a hat-trick in a test match..."
"Yes, in our new test match, there were only two people who completed the hat trick. One was Luo Kai and the other was him. But do you know how he completed the hat trick? The first ball was a clearance by the defender. The kick was flawed, and the football fell right in front of him. The second goal was missed by his teammate. He hit the opponent's goalkeeper and defender, and then the third ball rolled in front of him, which was even more amazing - he wanted to stop the ball, but ended up stopping the ball in his face, and it bounced into the goal - you see. Look, look, Captain Chu, even if you hit him in the face, it will bounce back into the goal!”
"I have an impression." Chu Yifan also nodded. "A lot of people said he was unlucky."
"Yes, it was really bad luck. Then after joining the school team, he was dissatisfied with only doing basic training and insisted on playing. Our coach specially arranged special training for him. Everyone could see that this special training was deliberately to make things difficult for him. What's the result? He got into the world wave by luck! Captain Chu, what do you think? With Hu Lai's ability, is it possible for him to score a goal with an overhead kick? You don't even know how good that kick is. Let me tell you, he shot in my face. How good am I? Team, you also know..." Yan Yan, as a party involved, gave his own personal account to further enhance his persuasiveness.
Chu Yifan nodded slowly. To be honest, in the eyes of all the school team players, Hu Lai is just a football enthusiast with no foundation. He may really like football, but his strength is almost zero. It’s normal...
"Okay. He scored a goal in the last game. You can clearly see how the goal was scored. I don't need to tell you. Just forget it once or twice. He scored in the same way three or four times. , what does this mean? ”
"What does it mean?"
"It shows that he is the chosen one!" Yan Yan slapped his thigh, "Of course, his running without the ball is something, but so what? The most important thing is his luck! He is so lucky. At this level, I have never seen anyone else in my life. Our coach must have taken a fancy to Hu Lai. Because of this characteristic, we plan to help him make up for his shortcomings, so that when he comes on the field with strong luck, won't the balance of luck be on our side? Maybe the opponent's goalkeeper will make a mistake when the time comes, and he will fall directly. He fell to the ground and gave us the football and the empty goal?”
Chu Yifan was speechless. He didn't expect that the truth would be like this...
He had only thought that Hu Lai had some talent in judging football placement and running without the ball, but he didn't expect that Hu Lai's strongest strength was luck... He wanted to refute Yan Yan, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he heard When Yan Yan said to him: "Don't say this is metaphysics. You must know that the end of science is metaphysics! Are there not enough superstitions on the football field? Just like the number fourteen. Speaking of Hu Lai, think about it, Captain Chu, No. 14 is a cursed number, but when it was worn by Hu Lai, it seemed that the curse had lost its effect... A lucky hat trick for the school team selection, especially The lucky world wave in training, and the lucky center post in the last game bounced to his feet...you taste it, Team Chu, you appreciate it carefully.”
Chu Yifan's mouth closed again.
Because in the face of these hard facts, he really couldn't produce 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 in this world who are so lucky that everyone is envious.
Is this Hu Lai such a winner in life?
He set his sights on Hu Lai. Although he did not play in this game, he was not depressed at all and was celebrating the victory happily with others.
He didn't know how to explain what happened to this rookie, and his mind was in a mess.
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The stands at the Jiaxiang High School Stadium were filled with cheers. Students wearing Jiaxiang High School uniforms were celebrating their school's seventh consecutive appearance in the Anton Cup finals.
Amid the deafening cheers, the players of the Jiaxiang High School football team on the field were much calmer.
After all, reaching the Anton Cup final is as ordinary as eating for them.
They will only be happy if they win the Anton Cup and reach the finals of the national competition.
This is the mentality that the players of Jiaxiang High School, the king of high school football in Andong Province, should have.
After expressing their gratitude to the students in the stands as usual, they ran back to the locker room at the urging of the team coach.
They need to quickly change out of their wet clothes, take a shower, put on dry clothes, and blow-dry their hair to avoid catching a cold.
The secret to Jiaxiang High School becoming the dominant high school football team 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 held a meeting.
"Our opponent in the final is Dongchuan Middle School." the team's assistant coach 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 among the freshmen this year is Luo Kai, the best player in the Anton Cup in junior high school," said a coach. "Luo Kai, our school originally wanted to recruit him, but his family was unwilling to send him to Jincheng to attend high school. In the end, he chose Dongchuan Middle School..."
The old man sitting behind the desk at the back of the office waved his hand: "It doesn't matter, we have a lot of Gao Fei, he is more suitable for our tactics."
This old man is Feng Yuanchang, the head coach of the Jiaxiang High School football team.
He has gray hair on his temples, but he is energetic and has an undoubted aura in his movements.
Just listen to him continue: "Li Ziqiang was a coach at Quanshun Football School before, and he is considered a very capable coach. But his problem is that he just took over Dongchuan Middle School and has not had time to implement his things into the team. . From the time he took over the team to the start of the qualifiers, there seemed to be only two Weeks. It's too hasty. So he can only rely on Luo Kai's personal ability. Luo Kai is indeed very good, but he is not without weaknesses. Got more shots than anyone else.”
Having said this, he looked at his assistant coach, who quickly took out his tablet and read out the data on it: "We made statistics. Luo Kai shot an average of twelve times per game. Not only the Dongchuan Middle School team The player with the most shots, the average in the entire Anton Cup It is also the highest. In the quarter-final match against Brown North Middle School, he set a record for the number of shots he took, with as many as nineteen shots in one game and scored two goals in this year's Anton Cup. More than three-quarters of the shots were completed by Luo Kai.”
After reading this, the assistant coach stopped and looked at the old man.
Feng Yuanchang continued: "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 have no threat. As far as I know, before the end In that semi-final, Dongchuan Middle School eliminated Experimental Middle School 1:0. Although they won, it was difficult for Dongchuan Middle School to win. Experimental Middle School. He kept an eye on Luo Kai throughout the game and did not give him a chance to kick, so he only completed five shots in this game, and the entire Dongchuan Middle School team only had seven shots. There is a problem with their approach, but the problem is their people - they don’t have a defender like Wang Guangwei.”
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Entering the air-conditioned locker room, the Jiaxiang High School players all felt much more comfortable. After all, it is already December. Although Andong Province is not located in the north and rarely snows in winter, due to the humid climate, it feels colder than in the north.
While taking off clothes 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's them?"
"What's so surprising? After all, they have that Luo Kai..."
"Tsk, that Luo Kai is really awesome. He ranks first in the scorer list. If nothing else, he will be the top scorer in this Anton Cup, right? Dongchuan Middle School has really found a treasure!"
"So what, no matter how powerful you are, you are still no match for our captain!"
As soon as he said this, 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 center of everyone's attention is Wang Guangwei, the captain of the Jiaxiang High School football team and a junior in high school.
"Captain, can Luo Kai mess up your hair?" 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 the question, everyone happily went to the shower room in the locker room. The sound of rushing water and noise soon came from inside.
"Why don't you take a shower?" Wang Guangwei withdrew 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 as boring as them?" Wang Guangwei said helplessly.
"No, don't get me wrong." Wu Yue waved his hands repeatedly. "I'm not curious whether that Luo Kai can mess up your hair."
"Then what are you curious about?" Wang Guangwei asked, staring at his partner on the defensive line.
"I'm just curious..." Wu Yue cast his eyes on Wang Guangwei's hair, "How much hairspray do you use before the game..."
"You're more boring than them!" (End of Chapter)