Chapter 514 People feel refreshed during happy events
Not long after the game between Dashun Golden Arrow and Hiroshima Shooter ended, the news media and the Internet were already full of reports about the result.
The reason why the media is so enthusiastic is naturally because they all know what this result means.
When the group results came out, some people noticed this - according to the rules, the opponents of the qualifying teams in Group H in the quarter-finals are the qualifying teams in Group F.
But more people still didn't take it to heart. After all, it was too difficult for the two teams to meet in the knockout stage.
On the one hand, they need new AFC Champions League team Shining Star to qualify for the group. On the other hand, Dashun Golden Arrow also needs to strive for success, not only to qualify, but also to qualify first in the group.
Only in this way can the two teams meet in the quarter-finals.
Dashun Jinjianzhao has been a regular in the AFC Champions League in recent years, but they have only qualified from the group stage twice and won the first place in the group...none of them.
On the Flash Star side, no one expected them to qualify from the group stage.
As a result, what everyone thought was impossible happened.
Flash Star, who participated in the AFC Champions League for the first time, got the right to qualify from the group, while Dashun Golden Arrow, which had stumbled in the league, showed its power in the AFC Champions League group stage and locked the first place in the group one round in advance.
This created a situation that no one expected.
"Fate has its way with people!" Xie Lan sighed while holding the phone, with a smile that couldn't be hidden on his face.
"Are you quite happy?" Hu Lixin rolled his eyes at his wife.
"I've thought about it before. Only two encounters in the league are certain. But if I teach that bastard twice in one season, I don't think it's enough. Now, let's add two more!" Xie Lan stretched out two sticks. The fingers look like they are making a "V" sign.
Hu Lixin shook his head and said nothing.
Wang Xianke was asked about this incident by media reporters at the post-match press conference. Of course, he still said the same thing, firmly denying that he did it on purpose and only said that it was an accident that year. He also expressed his understanding of Hu Lai's statement that he would "beat him once and for all" and said that it was his freedom to do what Hu Lai wanted to do.
His pitiful hypocrisy made Xie Lan very unhappy, but Hu Lixin actually didn't care much about what Wang Xianke said anymore. Even if Wang Xianke refuses to admit what he did to him, he can't change the way Hu Lixin is now.
Even if Wang Xianke admits it, what will happen?
Hu Lixin knew that with Wang Xianke's ability, as long as he could lead the team to victory and win the championship, what he did to himself back then would have almost no impact on him. Over time, when everyone gets tired of this matter and loses interest, Wang Xianke will still thrive.
For Hu Lixin, thirty years have passed, and as time goes by, the anger he felt back then has become less and less. If there was any last trace of anger, it all disappeared with his son's hat-trick in last season's FA Cup final.
After seeing his son's future, the conflict between him and Wang Xianke was no longer a big deal.
After all, although Wang Xianke has a successful coaching career, he is considered a winner in life.
But Hu Lixin is not bad now, because he has a wife who loves him deeply, and a son who is getting more and more promising.
Isn’t this a goal that many people dream of?
For him who has no ambition, this is also his desire for a happy life.
But he can also fully understand the thoughts of his wife and son.
After all, they did not have thirty years to slowly digest the impact of this incident like themselves.
Today they are just like themselves back then, angry, unwilling and confused.
I don’t understand how a person can live openly and well after doing such a thing.
There has to be this stage, and he slowly came out of this emotion.
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Hu Lai controlled the villain in the game. He had just entered the penalty area of Xia Xiaoyu's team and was about to take a shot when he heard Chen Xingyi next to him suddenly shouting: "Holy shit!"
His voice next to him scared Hu Lai so much that his hands trembled. When he pressed the shooting button, he felt a little stronger.
The villain in the game fired an anti-aircraft gun.
"Fuck, little Xingxing, you did it on purpose!" Hu Lai threw the game controller on the sofa, turned around and rushed towards Chen Xingyi.
"No...our opponent in the quarterfinals is determined!" Chen Xingyi raised his phone in front of Hu Lai's eyes when he pounced on him. "Let's make golden arrows!"
Hu Lai took a closer look:
"...The 'Chinese Derby' will be staged in the quarter-finals of the AFC Champions League, and the Golden Arrow will face the Flash Star!"
He was also stunned.
"No, that result with odds of 2,500 to 1 actually came true?"
What Zhang Qinghuan was talking about was the odds previously offered by overseas gaming companies for the AFC Champions League.
Those professional bookmakers can bet on anything, not only on who will win the championship, but also on the score of each game, and even on which teams will meet, they can provide odds.
Under various possibilities for the meeting of the four teams in Group F and Group H, the odds given by the bookmaker for the possibility of Dashun Golden Arrow and Flashing Star meeting are 2,500 to 2,500.
After reacting, Hu Lai slapped his thigh hard and laughed: "Okay!"
"Hu Lai, I suspect you are manipulating the AFC Champions League..."
"Control your sister! Can I control this thing? It can only be said that even God can't stand it!" Hu Lai happily threw the game controller on the sofa, picked up his mobile phone and ran "Goal" to watch everyone online comments on this matter.
Almost everyone can't wait, hoping that the game can start immediately.
Hu Lai couldn't wait. He asked his companions: "When will the AFC Champions League quarter-finals start?"
Wang Guangwei shook his head: "It's not certain yet. We won't have a specific date until all qualifying teams come out."
"There must be a certain range, right?" Hu Lai asked relentlessly.
"It should be in May..." Wang Guangwei could only use last season's AFC Champions League as a reference. "Last season's quarter-finals were in May, but it was the end of May."
"May? It's almost here! Today is April 11th." Hu Lai happily looked at the calendar and counted the days. "Less than twenty days left!"
He was looking through his calendar and suddenly froze while holding his cell phone.
"What's wrong?" Wang Guangwei asked.
"I remembered, our league match against the Golden Arrow was also in May, right?"
"Uh...it seems so."
Hu Lai laughed again: "Hey, this May is great!"
Then he stopped playing the game and went straight to the stairs while humming a song on his phone.
Xia Xiaoyu looked at the unfinished game on the projection screen and wanted to stop him, but his mouth was opened but no sound came out.
Hu Lai had disappeared around the corner of the stairs, and the sound of footsteps and singing floated together.
"...Run, proud boy! There is a firm belief in the young heart...Burn, proud blood! I will sing the song of victory again -!"
When his roommates heard Hu Lai's tone-deaf singing, they all looked away at the stairs, and then looked at each other in confusion.
After just looking at each other for a while, Xia Xiaoyu hummed softly: "I want to sing the song of victory again..."
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After training the next day, Hu Lai was blocked by reporters outside the training ground.
Everyone only cares about one thing, and that is what Hu Lai thinks of the outcome of this match.
"How else can I watch it? I was so excited that I couldn't even fall asleep last night!"
Hu Lai opened his mouth and everyone started laughing. It was really Hu Lai's old hermaphrodite style.
Everyone knows the grudge between him and Wang Xianke, and no further explanation is needed.
In short, everyone just wants to watch the match between Hu Lai and Wang Xianke.
Let's see if Hulay has the ability to fulfill the solemn promises he made.
Or maybe it's to see what reasons Hu Lai will find to defend himself after losing to Wang Xianke.
Invariably, no matter whether Hu Lai or Wang Xianke wins in this wave, the melon-eating crowd who are watching the excitement will not lose. They will always be invincible.
So what does Hu Lai think of this issue?
He never cared about how others viewed the game, nor did he care about what others secretly commented on what he did, whether it was because "young people don't follow martial ethics" or whether he "had to be merciful to others". "Forgive me"...
He just sticks to his original intention.
And this original intention is that he must kill Wang Xianke.
By a strange combination of circumstances, the AFC Champions League provided him with such an opportunity, and of course he would not let it go.
At the end, he said to the reporters who had their own thoughts: "I keep my word. Please stay tuned, just look forward to it."
After saying that, he turned around and said goodbye to the reporters and walked towards the locker room, leaving only their backs behind.
Tone-deaf singing came from afar:
"...I want to sing the song of victory again——"
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PS, the song comes from "The Proud Boy" of the Southern and Northern Wars. (End of chapter)