Chapter 404 Record-breaking performance
Fans of the Nanhai team may still be imagining that losing the first round of the FA Cup final and losing the FA Cup championship early will suffer a huge blow to the morale of the Flash Star team. In addition, they just lost all their main players in the game against the Golden Arrow. Go out there and give it your all.
In this way, when their Nanhai team faces Flash Star at home, will they face a group of defeated soldiers?
And when the time comes, the Nanhai team will be able to take advantage of their home court and defeat Flash Star, and return to the top of the league with the advantage of one more game.
But the reality is very skinny.
After returning from Dashun, Flash Star prepared for a week and fielded its strongest lineup against the Nanhai team.
In the first round of the FA Cup final, Shining Star, who was still embarrassed when facing Dashun Golden Arrow, turned out to be a completely different team after returning to the Chinese League One.
Even if Luo Kai performed well in this game, he alone could not withstand the collective outburst of the Flash Star offensive lineup.
It seems that just as Flash Star fans expected, the Flash Star team really vented all their dissatisfaction and unwillingness to lose in the FA Cup final into the league.
After ninety minutes of fierce battle, even in the away game, Shining Star still defeated Nanhai Team with a score of 3:1.
For the Nanhai team, their double defeat by Flashing Star meant that they were forced into a desperate situation.
Because the current league standings are like this: Flash Star, which has one game less, continues to lead with 74 points. Nanhai team lost this game, so it has 70 points. Not only did Flash Star regain the lead, Even worse, they were caught up by the third-placed Ningtian Yongan. The two teams had a score of 70 points. It was only because of their advantage in goal difference that the Nanhai team was ranked second.
They are really likely to repeat the same mistakes as last season, losing in the sprint stage and missing out on the Super League.
If they are unable to advance to the Premier League for two consecutive seasons, it will be almost a devastating blow to a club like Nanhai Team that aims to advance to the Premier League.
The club has invested for many years, but it cannot be exchanged for the qualification of a Chinese Super League team. Then the future prospects of this team may plummet, and the sponsor behind it may not be willing to continue playing. After reducing investment, this team It's hard to say how much fighting power the team can still have...it might even be difficult to stay in the Chinese Premier League.
There are countless precedents like this, and the Nanhai team will not be the last.
Luo Kai scored a goal in this game, and his personal league goals this season reached 11.
It's just that his performance was not enough in front of Hu Lai.
Hu Lai only scored one goal in this game, but this goal was very meaningful.
Because this is Hu Lai's 21st league goal this season, he tied his predecessor Lin Gang's single-season scoring record for local players in the Chinese League.
The next goal is only one goal away from the real Chinese League single-season scoring record set by Olivier Ferrier.
As for the league's Golden Boot this season... the suspense has been completely lost.
Flash Star has four league rounds left to play, while Ningtian Yongan, where Ivar Moses is playing, has only three games to play.
The latter is five goals behind Hulay. Unless a miracle happens, it is impossible for Moses to overtake Hulay in the league's scorer list.
When Yong Jun negotiated a new contract for Hu Lai, he added a special clause. If Hu Lai could win the league's golden boot, Flash Star would give Hu Lai an additional bonus of one million.
Now it seems that he has great hope of getting the money.
Yong Jun regretted it a little - he should have added another one if he had known that: if Hu Lai could break the single-season scoring record, Flashing Star would give him another 500,000.
He added such a Golden Boot award to Hu Lai's new contract at that time, hoping to see where Hu Lai's limit was.
As a result, now he found that he seemed to have underestimated Hu Lai.
Hu Lai should have no difficulty getting the Golden Boot this season...
In the 32nd round of the league on Thursday, Flash Stars will face Capital Athletic at home.
Although they just played a game against the Nanhai team last Saturday, Zhao Kangming did not rotate in this game. He is still the main force and the strongest lineup.
Starting from the away game against Nanjia Tianyu in the 29th round of the league, the Stars have not returned to their home court for half a month.
In the previous two league matches and one FA Cup final, Flash Stars played away games.
For this home game, more than three-quarters of the stands at the Provincial Sports Center were filled.
Considering that some seats have to be vacated for security purposes, such an attendance rate is already very scary. You know, some Chinese Super League games do not have such an attendance rate.
After losing the first leg of the FA Cup final, Flash Star fans hoped to express their support and encouragement to the team in this way.
Of course, they also wanted to witness a historical moment - before the game, Chen Jianyu reminded everyone in the game preview column of Anton TV that Hulay was close to tying Olivier Ferrier's Chinese League single-season scoring record. Just one goal away.
Although he didn't say that Hu Lai would catch up with the record in this game, can everyone still understand what this means?
So many fans also came to witness Hu Lai's record-tying.
Hu Lai did not disappoint these people.
Thirteen minutes into the game, he received a cross pass from Chen Xingyi in front of the goal and swept the football into the Capital Athletic goal!
"Hu Lai! Wow! Beautiful! He scored easily in front of the goal! This is his 22nd goal this season! He officially tied with the Brazilian foreign aid Olivier Ferrer of Hexi Daqin. A record for goals scored in a single season in the Chinese League One!" Anton TV commentator shouted excitedly.
The entire provincial sports center burst into cheers, and everyone was happy for Hulay's goal.
After scoring the goal, Hulay ran to the corner flag area, made his signature celebration, and then hugged and celebrated with his teammates who came up to him.
Tying the record was enough for everyone to be happy for a long time, but ten minutes later, at the 23rd minute, Hu Lai came again!
This time it was Qin Lin's long pass from the backcourt. Hu Lai stepped forward to counter offside, leaving Capital Athletic's defenders behind. He first unloaded the football very beautifully, and then crossed the ball into the penalty area, facing the attacking goalkeeper. He used a calm push to push the football into the near corner of the goal.
"2:0!! Flash Star leads Capital Athletic with two goals! But that's not important!" Shen Lang, the commentator of Tengfei Video, shouted, "What's important is that Hu Lai scored his first goal in the Chinese League One this season. Twenty-three goals! He broke the record set by Olivier Ferrier last season! A brand new league scoring record! Set by the 20-year-old Flash Star player Hu Lai! He has left his name in the history of Chinese football forever! With a goal record, Hu Lai will be an unavoidable name!”
"Only a season ago, he was a player who couldn't even play in the Poseidon youth team, and now he is the top scorer in the league of Flash Stars! If we can finally upgrade successfully, then Hu Lai must be the biggest contributor!" An The sports commentator of East Satellite TV was equally excited. He was also at the Poseidon Club. To add salt to the club’s wounds, “I have to say that Hu Lai said that he needed to thank Sun He, who was the director of Poseidon Youth Training at the time. I also want to thank him and thank Poseidon Club for giving us a head coach and a Main shooter! Thank God, haha!
Ever since the affair between Hu Lai and Sun He was exposed by Lingnan Evening News, it soon became known to the whole country.
For a time, the Poseidon Club became a laughing stock among the fan base.
What the Anton TV commentator said is more or less a joke.
It is said that if Flash Star obtains the qualification for the Chinese Super League, then they should be grateful to Poseidon Club the most, because Poseidon Club gives away people and money.
It’s easy to understand why I gave it away, as I gave away two coaches, Zhao Kangming and Chen Mo.
What does it mean to give money?
Hu Lai transferred to Flash Star, and Flash Star paid him a transfer fee of 500,000 yuan. But talented netizens feel that Hu Lai was sold for 500,000 yuan, and Poseidon Club is clearly changing its direction to give money to Flash Star. After all, with Hu Lai's performance, no one would think it's expensive even if it's worth 10 million. So isn't the 9.5 million that Flashing Star owes a gift from Poseidon Club?
Therefore, Poseidon gives gifts to people and money and takes great care of them. A special thank you guest for being honored with the upgraded Flash Star.
Fans of Flash Star have decided to make a large number of banners, even TIFOs, with a sentence on them when they see Poseidon again after they are promoted to the next level: "Thank God, Poseidon!"
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In the first half, Flash Stars led Capital Athletic 2:0 with Hu Lai's brace.
The Stars' offensive continued unabated after the second half, and Zhang Qinghuan and Wang Guangwei each scored a goal. In the end, the Stars defeated Capital Athletic 4-0 at home.
With one game in hand, they still rank first in the league with 77 points.
Although Ningtian Yongan also won the game next, the point gap with Flash Star is still four points.
But you must know that Ningtian Yongan only has two rounds of league games left, and Flash Star has three games left.
That is to say, in the next round of the league, as long as Flashing Star wins, no matter what the result of Ningtian Yongan's side is, Flashing Star will definitely be promoted.
Because Yong'an, who only have one round of league left at that time, is four points behind Shining Star with one game less, there is no way they can get four points in the final round of league. It doesn't matter if the Flash Stars lose all the remaining two rounds of make-up games. At most, they will lose the league championship, but their qualification for the Chinese Super League will be retained.
It has to be said that the competition for the top spot in the Chinese League One this season is very fierce. With two rounds left in the league, Flash Star won another ten consecutive games after the FA Cup semi-finals. It’s not yet certain that they can be promoted...
Ningtian Yongan really wants to return to the Chinese Super League, which is completely different from Nanan Jinpeng.
If this season's Flash Stars hadn't been so evil, they might have joined hands with Lingnan Nanhai to advance to the next level.
In this round, the Nanhai team relied on Luo Kai's outstanding performance and did not suffer two consecutive defeats. They scored all three points in the away game and finally were not squeezed out by Ning Tian Yong'an.
Their overtaking situation is much more severe than that of Flash Star.
Flashing Star only needs to win one more game, but they are very likely to fight Ning Tian Yongan until the last round before they can see the outcome...
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After the match against Capital Athletic, Flash Star's double-match week is temporarily over.
There are still two rounds of the league left, but there are still three league games left for the Flash Stars.
But it doesn't matter, as long as Flashing Star wins one more game, other games are not important.
The most critical thing is that in the 32nd round of the league on Monday, November 20, Flash Stars will challenge Tangdu Kowloon away from home.
This is the last game of the current league round. If the Stars can win away from home, the remaining two league games will be "garbage time" for the Stars.
But despite the fact that Tangdu Jiulong is not strong, it is not easy for Flashing Star to defeat them in the away game.
Because Tangdu Jiulong wants to avoid relegation. They are currently ranked 16th, third from the bottom, and right in the relegation zone. It's just two points away from jumping out of the relegation zone.
So if they can defeat the Flash Stars at home, they still have a chance to successfully stay in the Chinese League One, otherwise they will have to go back to play in the Chinese League Two next season.
Everyone knows that in the final stage of the league, the relegation teams are the most difficult to beat. Of course, even if Flash Star fails to win Tangdu Kowloon in this round, there are still two league games left. After all, they can't lose three consecutive games in the final stage of the league, right?
(End of chapter)