Chapter 221 We need to score goals
In this way, Hu Lai moved out of the hotel, rented a house with Wang Guangwei, and went to training together every day. After the training, they came back together. When they came back, they stopped by the vegetable market and bought the ingredients for dinner. .
Because Hu Lai didn't know how to cook, they also agreed that cooking would be Wang Guangwei's job, while washing the dishes would be Hu Lai's job.
Life is calm and regular.
Two days later, Hu Lai returned to the rental house alone, while Wang Guangwei followed the team to the away game.
This weekend, Anton Shining Stars challenged the Eagle Club of Tongqi Province in an away game. The game kicked off at 3:30 on Saturday afternoon, so the Shining Stars players who were selected for the game squad were all training after training this morning. After having lunch at the base, we took a bus to the airport to catch a plane.
Wang Guangwei was selected into the competition squad, so naturally he would not go home with Hu Lai.
So that night, Hu Lai had takeout. He ordered three beef and vegetable salads with different salad dressings through the takeout app, and ate them all without even a single corn kernel left.
The team did not train the next day. In the morning, he walked around nearby university campuses and supermarkets to familiarize himself with the surrounding environment.
After having a simple lunch outside, I returned to the rental house and turned on the TV at 3:30 in the afternoon to watch the Stars game on the Anton TV sports channel.
The TV broadcasts of the Chinese League One and the Chinese Super League are different. The broadcast rights of the Chinese Super League are sold to CCTV Sports Channel, which broadcasts them live nationwide. However, they also sell the broadcast rights of each team's games to local satellite TVs, allowing them to If there is no satellite, it will only be broadcast within the local signal coverage.
However, the broadcasting rights of the Chinese League One are not broadcast by any national broadcasting agency. They are subcontracted to various local TV stations. They can only broadcast the games of their respective teams, but not the games of other teams.
This is naturally because the players in the Chinese League One are not as famous and entertaining as those in the Chinese Super League. No organization is willing to spend a lot of money to buy the broadcast rights of all teams, so they simply split them off and local stations support their own teams. You can also save a lot of money by buying the broadcast rights of your own team.
For this reason, before Hu Lai came to Flash Star, he had never watched a complete Flash Star game. Because he can't watch the Anton TV sports channel in Lingnan City - only Anton TV can send broadcast signals to the satellite, and the following sub-channels do not have this qualification. The sports channels of local satellite TV can only be seen in the local area.
In addition, Flash Star is not a strong team in the Chinese League One. Before Qin Lin came, it had no big-name players and was not very popular. There were no videos of the entire game uploaded by enthusiastic fans on the Internet, only some scattered game highlights. .
Today, Hu Lai regards watching the live broadcast of this game as an excellent opportunity for him to understand the team.
He has only been here for half a week, and he has just identified the names and faces of everyone on the team. Even if he had learned about the Stars through online news before, it would not be as good as watching a complete game. .
This year's Chinese League One has played seventeen rounds. Flash Star currently has 24 points, ranking 14th, six points behind Yunshan Caiyun, who is third and 16th from the bottom. Six points seems like a lot, but in fact it is only the difference between two games.
And in terms of rankings, there is only one team between the fourteenth and sixteenth places. This position is really unsafe.
Hu Lai knows that Director Zhao has adjusted the focus of his work from upgrading at the beginning of the season to relegation. In the next half season, the team will fight for relegation.
In the final match against the Tongqi Eagles, Flashing Stars scored 0:0 in the away game and did not lose. Considering that the Tongqi Eagles ranked second in the Chinese League One this season, this result is already very good.
You know, they lost to Hexi Daqin 0:1 at their home court in the last round.
His roommate Wang Guangwei started the game in this game and played the full 90 minutes. He performed well and was one of the contributors to the team's draw with the second-placed player in the league away from home.
In fact, this is not the first time Wang Guangwei has played the entire game this season. After Zhao Kangming came, he vigorously promoted young players and gave them more opportunities. This is of course risky. After all, some young players do not perform so well when faced with the pressure of the first team, and there is a possibility that they will be exploited. But for Wang Guangwei, there is no such problem.
At the same time, Qin Lin came on as a substitute in the 64th minute of the game and made two key passes, but neither Star forward Lai Zekai nor foreign aid Macaulay Murphy scored.
While Hu Lai was happy that his roommate could gradually gain a foothold in the team, he also discovered the team's current problem - a weak offense.
This season, Flash Star played 18 rounds in the league, scoring 16 goals and conceding 18 goals. The goal-conceding performance cannot be said to be the team that conceded the fewest goals in the league, but it is also one of the better teams. There are only two teams that conceded fewer goals than them, the second-ranked Tongqi Eagles and the Capital City. sports.
As a team ranked extremely low, it can be said to be very good to have such a defensive performance.
This may be related to the fact that Zhao Kangming was an excellent central defender before retiring. He is better at coaching the team's defense.
Compared with the excellent defense, Flash Star's offense is too poor.
Only sixteen goals were scored in eighteen league rounds, not even one goal per game.
What is the level of this score? Among the 18 teams in the Chinese League One, only Wuzhou Dongshan of Jiang'an Province scored fewer goals than them - 14 goals. This team is currently ranked second to last in the league.
Not counting Hu Lai, who hasn't played a single game, the Stars now have five forwards, but have only scored 16 goals. It's really embarrassing to say that.
His transfer to Flash Stars was finalized in April this year, not long after the Chinese League One had just started. At that time, Director Zhao should not have imagined that the team's forward performance would be so poor...
But after watching the team's performance, a very bold idea popped into Hu Lai's mind - since these forwards can play, why can't I play? Based on their performance, I feel that I may not be worse than them after I play.
The worst thing is that he can't score goals... What's the difference between that and other forwards' current performance?
With his seniors backing him up, Hu Lai is not afraid of anything.
Although Hu Lai really wants to play, what should he do?
He ran to Director Zhao and said directly: "Director Zhao, I want to play in the game. Can you please arrange it?"
It is estimated that he will be kicked out of the office directly by Zhao Kangming.
No matter how good his relationship with Director Zhao is, it can't be this good.
If Director Zhao wants to consider letting him play in the game, he can only perform well in training.
After all, the court is a place where strength speaks for itself.
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The away game was able to tie with the second place in the league. For the Shining Star players, this game was considered to have achieved the set goal, so on the way home, everyone was generally in a good mood.
Head coach Zhao Kangming has no such mood. He is studying the next round opponent with assistant coach Chen Mo - the Kunyang City Team of Kunyang City, Jiang'an Province.
This game is very important for the Flash Stars to successfully avoid relegation this season, because they can be regarded as direct competitors.
After this round of league play, Flash Star ranked fourteenth with 25 points. Kunyang City ranks 13th with 26 points.
If Flash Star can defeat Kunyang City, which is almost the same as itself in strength, it will temporarily find a back-up in the relegation battle.
"Our biggest problem is the lack of forward attack." Assistant coach Chen Mo said. "The lack of goals in this game can also be said to be the reason for our tactical arrangements. After all, we are playing away in the second place in the league. We must retreat across the board to ensure that we do not concede goals. But in the next round of games, we will play Kunyang City away from home. It’s impossible to strive for a draw, right?”
Zhao Kangming nodded: "Yes, we have to win the next game. A draw is no different from losing..."
"In fact, we don't need to score many goals. With our defensive level, even one goal will be fine. It's a pity..."
"It's a pity that our forwards can't even score a goal." Zhao Kangming frowned.
"Qin Lin performed well. How about pushing him to the front line in the next game?" Chen Mo suggested, "He has played as a forward before..."
Zhao Kangming was amused by his assistant's words: "How many years ago was that? He really played as a forward when he debuted, but he soon became a center back... If he really plays well as a forward, Can you still play as a central defender? ”
Qin Lin initially played as a forward in the youth team of Andong Xingcheng. He later went to a professional team and also played as a forward. However, within a season, he was placed in the central defender position by the then head coach. He shined in this position and was eventually selected to the national team in this position.
Later, Qin Lin played as a full-back and an attacking midfielder. As he grew older and gained experience, he was fixed in the defensive midfielder position.
Now Chen Mo wants to let such a defensive midfielder serve as a forward, which shows that he is also disappointed with the performance of his team's forwards...
In the past half of the season, they have tried different combinations of forward personnel, but with little effect. Double forwards, three forwards, and a single forward have all been tried, and the effect is better than nothing.
Just when Chen Mo didn't know what to say, he heard Zhao Kangming say: "How about letting Hu Lai try it."
"Hu Lai? He just came to the team..."
"So we will observe his training and integration into the team for another week. At least in training, there will still be some chemical reaction between him and Qin Lin."
"But now, what if he is under too much pressure to play and can't score?"
"That's it, no matter how bad it is, it can't be much worse. And I have confidence in Hu Lai. Our problem now is not that the midfield and backcourt can't create opportunities. You see, Qin Lin has two very good feet in this game. Beautiful pass...but our forward can't seize the opportunity. As you know, that kid is the best at seizing the opportunity. Although Hu Lai's characteristics are relatively simple, he can score goals, but now we can't. Just need to score goals.”
Chen Mo was convinced by Zhao Kangming because he was Hu Lai's head coach in the Poseidon Youth Team and directly trained Hu Lai. He was the one who led him to play games, not Zhao Kangming, so he also had a good impression of Hu Lai's characteristics and abilities. A very deep understanding.
Judging from the standards of a professional player, Hu Lai has many shortcomings. For example, it can be seen at a glance that he has poor strength and is too thin; he also has average speed and poor dribbling. It can be said that he basically has no breakthroughs. His ability can be said to be good; his passing ability is quite satisfactory, and he won’t be unable to pass the ball five meters apart, but he can’t let the pass go where he wants it. Don’t expect him to pull the ball to the wing and then use accurate crosses to pass the ball accurately. Send it to the door.
So after Zhao Kangming and Chen Mo left, Hu Lai quickly lost his place in the Poseidon Youth Team. Obviously other professionals, including Sun He, were not very optimistic that such a partial subject could become a qualified student. Professional players.
But in the eyes of two experienced youth training coaches, Zhao Kangming and Chen Mo, Hu Lai has a very outstanding advantage, which is better than any of his peers.
That's his ability to seize opportunities.
The ability to seize opportunities is a composite ability and does not only refer to shooting.
Just like coordination is not just about physical agility.
The ability to seize opportunities includes two parts: finding opportunities and completing shots. The first part is that Hu Lai has a very outstanding talent. Zhao Kangming could see this in the national competition. In one sentence, this kid knows the direction of the goal.
The second part was mastered by Hu Lai through hard training.
As his head coach, Chen Mo naturally knows how hard Hu Lai works in training. The youth team lives in a dormitory in the training base. Downstairs is the youth team training ground, which is very convenient for training. Therefore, you can often see Hu Lai still practicing shooting alone on the field after the team's training.
After spending double or even triple the training time than others, his shooting ability naturally became the No. 1 in the Poseidon youth team. In every shooting training, he was the best performer in the team. one.
Yes, Hu Lai can only shoot and score goals. But just like Lao Zhao said, we just need to score goals now!
(End of chapter)