Chapter 233 Offside and Counter-Offside
Raizekai, who started the game in this game, was indeed working hard. He knew that this was the opportunity he had always wanted. If he could score in the game, it would reduce Hulay's weight in the head coach's mind.
From the first minute of the game, Lai Zekai was very active in running and looking for opportunities.
Many fans of Lai Zekai couldn't help crying: "Who said our brother Lai can't do his best? His performance in this game will shatter all such rumors!"
However, in the eyes of the commentators and guest commentators, Lai Zekai cared too much about scoring goals. He would shoot as soon as he got the ball. He always only thought about himself and did not care about his teammates around him. This actually put the Stars' offense into trouble.
Fortunately, in the first half, Shining Star took advantage of a corner kick and center back captain Li Tielin scored with a header, giving Shining Star a 1:0 lead at home. Otherwise, Shining Star might have fallen behind.
Because after the start of the second half of the game, Youjiang Honglian's counterattack was very fast and menacing. After the relegation team made adjustments during the halftime break, it was as if they had collectively beaten their blood. After all, Flash Star is only one goal ahead of them. As long as they can score a goal, they can equalize the score.
Even if we can't win in the end, it would be good to draw with the Stars in the away game and get a point. Every point on the road to relegation is precious.
In this kind of game situation, it seems very irrational for Lai Zekai to squander Flash Star's offensive opportunities again and again...
Fans who even had Flash Star in the stands couldn't help but booed his performance.
After booing, they still cursed.
"Damn! You still have the nerve to stay on the court after this performance! Get off quickly! Let Hu Lai play!"
"That's it! Go down! It's like shit!"
The ones who booed and cursed were the teammates of the Dongchuan Middle School football team organized by Yan Yan.
Their boos and curses quickly resonated with other Flash Star fans around them.
So some people followed them and booed Lai Zekai.
Lai Zekai became even more anxious when he heard the boos.
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On the sidelines of the coaching bench, Chen Mo was saying to head coach Zhao Kangming: "Old Zhao, I don't think we can continue to let Lai Zekai start just because we want to reduce the pressure on Hu Lai. He has obviously gone crazy..."
Zhao Kangming nodded and pondered: "Indeed, I forgot to take into account Lai Zekai's mentality. I thought Hu Lai's goal could stimulate him and they could form a healthy competition... Who would have thought that Lai Zekai was really resting on his laurels? It’s so comfortable that I don’t want to compete anymore.”
"It may not be that he doesn't want to, but it may also be that he doesn't dare." Chen Mo snorted. "I'm afraid that the truth will be exposed. I have long said that Lai Zekai's outbreak last season was due to accidental factors. He is not the kind of forward that suits our tactics. His ability to grasp opportunities is too poor..."
While the two were talking, Laizekai finally scored a goal amidst boos on the field.
But just when he was celebrating with excitement, the referee's rapid whistle and the linesman's flag raised high poured cold water on him - he was offside when receiving the ball, and the goal was invalid!
Lai Zekai, who was in ecstasy, was shocked at first when he saw this. Then he rushed towards the linesman who raised the flag with an angry face and yelled at him: "Where am I offside? Are you blind!?"
The linesman didn't argue with him, but called the referee through the headset.
At the same time, other teammates of Flashing Star also rushed up and dragged Lai Zekai out desperately, for fear that he would make any drastic action again.
Even Wang Guangwei was anxious to go up and help drag people away.
Because if Lai Zekai really gets a red card because of his excitement... then Hu Lai might not have a chance to play.
Fortunately, Qin Lin had already rushed forward and persuaded Lai Zekai to come back.
Lai Zekai could pretend to be crazy in front of other teammates, but he didn't dare to do it in front of Qin Lin. Although he was very unhappy, he was still pushed back by Qin Lin.
The referee did not intend to let Lai Zekai go just like that, and directly showed him a yellow card after coming over!
This time, Yan Yan and the others no longer needed to set the pace in the stands, and the boos were much louder than before.
How much of this was issued for Lai Zekai's uncool behavior, and how much of it was issued for the referee's yellow card, is unknown.
"No, we can't let Lai Zekai stay on the court any longer. Call Hu Lai and let him play!" Seeing this scene on the court, Zhao Kangming frowned and ordered Chen Mo next to him.
Without saying a word, Chen Mo turned to the bench to find Hu Lai.
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"This ball, Lai Zekai was almost five or six meters offside before catching the ball... The offside is very clear, I think there is nothing to argue about at all. He is so irrational, it will only put the team into an unfavorable situation..." The narrator is complaining too.
Guest commentator Lu Guanlin analyzed: "I guess it's because he didn't score in a row, which put pressure on him and made him restless..."
"It's not a matter of two games if he doesn't score. Why are you starting to get impatient now?"
"Because he couldn't score goals before, and other forwards couldn't score goals, and no one could threaten his position. It's different now. Hu Lai just came off the bench in the last game... He obviously feels for Hu Lai The pressure is on. Look, wasn’t Hu Lai called up from the bench?”
At this time, the TV broadcast cut to the bench of Shining Star. Sure enough, the assistant coach of Shining Star turned his back to the camera and hooked toward the bench, and then Hu Lai stood up from the bench.
"Yeah!" Xie Lan cheered after seeing this scene in front of the TV, but she didn't go to take the video with her phone.
Because she felt that she needed to adjust her mentality. Her son would definitely appear frequently in the future, so would she use her mobile phone to record every appearance?
Let’s not talk about whether the storage space of her mobile phone can be accommodated. Just say that she has to record her son every time he appears. Wouldn’t that give people the feeling that they have never seen the world?
She just stared at the TV screen. Instead of recording it with her mobile phone, she might as well keep this scene in her mind.
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When Marvin shoveled the football thrown out by the opponent player out of the sideline, the referee raised his hands in the air and made a substitution gesture.
The fourth official held up a sign on the sidelines.
Number nine is down, number thirty-three is up.
"Finally, Flash Star completed the first substitution of the game. This was only the 55th minute of the game. The young player Hu Lai, who scored a goal for the team as a substitute in the last game, once again He came on as a substitute, and the one he replaced was still Lai Zekai! ”
"Hu Lai is on the stage! Hu Lai is on the stage!"
"Quick, take out the banner!" Yan Yan quickly directed his former teammates to shake out the banner they had prepared in advance.
While they were busy, other Stars fans in the stands applauded and cheered for Hu Lai's appearance.
Chen Jianyu laughed helplessly when he saw this scene in the media box.
He wrote that article in the hope that everyone would calm down and view the emergence of a new star.
But it seems that everyone obviously did not understand what he meant, or it may be said that Chinese fans have long been accustomed not to think about the long-term future, but to have wine tonight and get drunk tonight.
In fact, the fans can't be blamed for this. After all, if you want to take a long-term view, then all Chinese fans will not be able to watch the game happily, because no matter how happy you are now, you will always be unable to laugh when the World Cup qualifiers come.
There are always people who accuse those Chinese fans who are elated about winning a game or scoring a goal that they have not seen the world. They can always find many reasons why they are not worthy of celebrating the victory in front of them. But I never thought that Chinese fans have been suppressed for so long, can't they be happy for the happy things in front of them?
As a senior football media person and practitioner, Chen Jianyu is naturally accustomed to looking at and thinking about problems in a high-level way.
So he also made a mistake that people like him generally make in this matter.
Most fans will think that nothing bad has happened in the future anyway, so why can't we have fun now?
So when you see a young player who performs well suddenly appear in Flash Star, you will naturally start to pay attention to him, like him, and cheer for him.
This is just human nature...
He shook his head and turned his attention to Hu Lai.
I hope this kind of attention and love will not turn into huge pressure and burden. Young people don't seem to be strong, so don't be unable to hold on.
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Hu Lai did not wear a red bracelet when he ran on the field.
The first game is because everything is difficult at the beginning and you need the help of a lucky bracelet.
And now that he has scored a goal, his mentality is naturally different. Hu Lai feels that now he can try not to rely on the help of luck and see how his own strength performs in professional competitions.
His performance after coming off the bench in the last round gave him some confidence.
Not talking about the goal, but the things other than the goal, which made Hu Lai feel that he should be able to handle it.
In this game, because they were already one goal behind, Youjiang Honglian moved higher in order to equalize the score. This resulted in a lot of space behind them. In fact, as long as they could pass the ball behind them, they would have a chance.
After all, he is good at inserting people into space behind him.
It's just that passing the ball... he can't control it.
So I can only wait patiently for the opportunity.
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After Hu Lai came on the field, Youjiang Honglian threw a foul ball and the game continued.
Facing the shrunken Shining Star, the Red Lotus team did not directly kick the football forward. They had tried this before, and the effect was not very good. So he simply passed the ball back from the backcourt until it reached the goalkeeper's feet.
Flash Star's foreign aid forward Macaulay Murphy chased the football towards the opponent's goalkeeper.
This gave the Guren team's goalkeeper no chance to adjust after receiving the ball and rethink how to organize the offense. Instead, he directly kicked the football towards the frontcourt with a big kick.
Seeing the football flying over, Wang Guangwei roared: "Mine!"
He rushed forward, leaped high towards the football, and pushed the football back before the opponent's forward could catch the ball.
The football pushed back by Wang Guangwei fell between Qin Lin and the opponent's midfielder.
When Wang Guangwei pushed the football over, Qin Lin did not watch the ball. Instead, he quickly raised his head and glanced behind Youjiang Honglian's back line.
He noticed that just at the far end of Youjiang Honglian's back line, there was a looming figure wearing a red jersey...
Then he withdrew his gaze and rushed forward to meet the flying football.
At the same time, so did the opponent's midfielder. The two rushed towards the football at the same time, fighting for the ball.
In the end, Qin Lin got there first, but the opponent's players also stepped forward, and it looked like they were about to have a kick!
Without thinking, Qin Lin picked up his right foot and kicked the football behind Honglian's far-end defense.
The force is so fierce that it looks like a powerful swipe at the ball out of desperation, just a frontcourt clearance to not let the football fall at the opponent's feet...
When everyone's eyes and TV broadcast cameras moved along with the football, they were surprised to find that behind Youjiang Honglian's back line, a red figure shot towards the football like an arrow from a string!
"It's Hu Lai!!" the commentator shouted!
At the same time, the guest next to him, Lu Guanlin, quickly glanced at the linesman at the top of the screen and found that he was just running along without raising the flag!
However, most of Youjiang Honglian's defenders stood still, raising their hands to signal to the referee that player No. 33 of Flash Star was offside.
Only two players turned around and chased Hu Lai.
"Not offside!" Lu Guanlin yelled. "This ball is not offside!"
Yan Yan and the others in the stands saw Hu Lai running towards the football. They couldn't help but stand up from their seats. They didn't care about waving the banners in their hands. They even forgot to shout and just stayed blank. Looking at the scene on the court.
Deafening shouts had already sounded from the stands of Andong Provincial Sports Center!
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Hu Lai's speed is not very fast, but this time he was too decisive to prevent offside - he didn't even turn his head to confirm the linesman's signal. Once he made the move, he never looked back, as if he never doubted that he would be offside. ——So he and the nearest pursuer were almost ten meters apart.
Such a huge distance is enough to make any defensive player despair...
Even the Honglian players chasing after them knew in their hearts that the goal was just a one-on-one between their goalkeeper and the opponent's No. 33, and they couldn't do much to help...
"Single sword!!"
Amid the shouts of the commentator, Hu Lai caught up with the football and then put the football into the penalty area.
At the same time, Youjiang Honglian's goalkeeper abandoned the goal and attacked, but he did not rush to Hu Lai in one breath. Instead, he slowed down when he ran near the penalty spot. He seemed to be hesitant, not sure whether Hu Lai would If you pass him, you will still shoot directly...
Just when he hesitated, Hu Lai took a decisive shot!
He raised his right foot and shot, twisting the football into a not too obvious arc, just bypassing the goalkeeper who was diving sideways, and rushed in from the near corner of the goal!
When Qin Lin suddenly sent a through ball forward, the shouts that rang out in the Provincial Sports Center were like a carp jumping over a dragon's gate, suddenly increasing in volume and turning into thunderous cheers, soaring into the sky.
On the Jincheng North Third Ring Road, which is dozens of meters away from the Provincial Sports Center, people in every car passing by with their windows open can clearly hear the cheers, like bursts of thunder, rolling from the northern sky. Come!
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PS, there is also a video of the goal! (End of chapter)