Chapter 830 Hero and Clown
When Hulay hit the football, Menaye's feet had not yet arrived.
When Menaye's foot arrived, the football had already flown into the goal, and he missed it!
With his body tilted, Menaye sat down on the goal area line. He turned around and looked at the ball again. It had already flown into his team's goal.
Goalkeeper La Mei rolled on the ground, rolled up grass flakes, and threw himself into a lonely place.
He looked at Hu Lai again, and he had already rushed to the corner flag area.
Huge cheers rang out over the Flanders Stadium, and Leeds City fans were excitedly waiting for that moment to come.
He jumped high, turned around in the air, waved his hands down, like a rock standing on the seaside, letting the incoming waves hit his back, making a roar:
"HUUUUUU!!!"
At this moment, Menaye was stunned and still sat on the ground without getting up.
Next to him, goalkeeper Lame had already stood up from the ground, kicked the football out of the goal, and cursed a French curse.
Another person who cursed was North London Wanderers coach Ludwig Aumann, who used a Swedish curse.
Trailing by two goals in the 67th minute of the game, this game was very difficult to play.
It also means that the tactics he previously prepared for the team failed.
We are two goals behind. How can we continue to play this game?
That's why Oman cursed.
All the North London Wanderers players are probably swearing in their minds, except Sean Barnett.
He was so ecstatic that he almost gave Hu Lai a standing ovation:
Well done! Chinese boy!
Next it’s time for me, Sean Barnett, to come on board!
He set his fiery eyes on coach Aumann.
Put me on the field, boss! I will definitely pierce the sword of revenge into their hearts!
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Auman did make substitution adjustments after conceding the second goal, but he made adjustments in the midfield.
The effect of the previous tactics was actually quite good, but the physical requirements were relatively high.
So when starting defensive midfielder Jack Emmett showed signs of physical exhaustion, Allman decisively made substitution adjustments.
Substitute one midfielder and bring on another midfielder.
Nothing to do with Sean Barnett.
Seven minutes later, North London Wanderers' offense still failed to improve, and the score was still 0:2. They were trailing away from home.
So Auman made another substitution adjustment.
This is his second substitution of the game, and this substitution is very critical.
When a player is substituted in the 74th minute of the game, the player he replaces must be shouldering the expectations and responsibilities of the head coach, and is a carefully considered choice. This is completely different from the desperate substitutions in the final minutes of the game.
This time, Oman was substituted and finally made adjustments to the offensive line.
He removed a defender and added a forward.
Dutch youngster Jordi Teixes takes the field!
Still nothing about Sean Barnett.
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"Damn it, why doesn't that Allman guy let Barnett play?"
In the North Stand, David Miller folded his arms and cursed.
His companions around him also yelled in disappointment.
After Hulay scored, they finished singing happily. Even if most of the tasks in this game were completed, there was only one task left, and that was to boo fucking Sean Barnett.
As a result, the Leeds City fans who were waiting so hard did not wait for Barnett to be replaced.
North London Wanderers made two substitutions, both of which had nothing to do with Sean Barnett.
This gave Leeds City fans nowhere to vent their pent-up anger and boos.
They couldn't help but wonder if Orman knew what they were going to do to Barnett, so they were reluctant to let Barnett play and be booed.
After all, that would be a direct waste of a substitution spot...
"Did someone leak the news?" Levin asked.
John thought this question was too stupid: "Who needs to leak this? All England knows that we are going to fuck that traitor Barnet hard in Flanders!"
David Miller snorted: "I suspect that bitch Barnett must have asked Orman not to send him on the field... He is a coward, a coward!"
Everyone turned their angrily eyes to Sean Barnett, who was sitting on the visiting team's bench, and could only send their regards to the family of this coward in their hearts.
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Hulay was replaced by Clark in the 87th minute. This was Leeds City's last substitution of the game.
At that time the score was still 2:0.
Everyone can see that it is almost impossible for North London Wanderers to make a comeback on the road.
They have used up all three substitutions, and their desperate efforts still have no effect. Now it is more like a desperate struggle.
Clark's substitution in the 87th minute was not only Leeds City's last substitution, but also the last substitution of the game.
He chose to replace Hu Lai at this time, not because he wanted to consolidate the victory, or to withstand the near-death counterattack of the North London Wanderers.
He just wanted the team's top scorer to have a moment alone to enjoy the applause and cheers from the fans in the stadium.
This moment is exclusive to Hu Lai.
"Hulay was replaced. He was replaced when there was little game time left. In this game, Hulay earned a penalty kick for Leeds City and scored a goal himself. It can be said that Best of all!”
Although the game is not over yet, and the selection of the best player in the game has not yet been concluded, the commentator He Feng has already given the answer with confidence.
And he is not afraid of being slapped in the face in the end.
Because no matter what the final result is, in his mind and in the minds of all Chinese fans, Hu Lai is the best in the game and will not accept any refutation!
In the TV broadcast, Hu Lai walked to the sidelines. He did not walk very fast, and no North London Wanderers players came up to urge him - they also knew that the North London Wanderers had actually lost this game.
The only person who was anxious and didn't want to admit defeat was Sean Barnett, but he was still on the bench and was not eligible to play, so it was useless for him to worry.
No one paid any attention to him.
When Hu Lai walked off the field, the TV broadcast suddenly cut to the live stands.
And not just one grandstand.
North Stand, South Stand, East Stand, West Stand.
Almost all Leeds City fans in the stands on all sides stood, with serious expressions on their faces, applauding toward the stadium!
The applause of 30,000 people was clearly transmitted to thousands of households through television broadcast signals.
Even as far away as China, you can hear it.
Leeds Radio football commentator Ryan Haynes was silent until the applause gradually became sparse and then said: "Listener friends, what you just heard was not the current noise of the broadcast signal, let alone the sound of rain or wind, but the sound of The applause from the stands of Flanders Stadium! This applause is all for one person, that is the young Chinese forward Hu——Lai! ”
"He is the hero of Flanders Stadium and the hero of the whole city!"
Ryan Heinis leaned forward and looked at the scene off the field and said in an exciting voice.
Amid the applause, Hulay walked off the court and after hugging head coach Clark, raised his hand to wave to the fans in the stands.
It was not the first time that he had enjoyed the treatment of being substituted early, but it was indeed the first time that he saw all the fans standing up and applauding him after being substituted early.
Cheers and applause have different meanings.
He knew what that meant.
Seeing this scene, Matt Dawn, who was guarding the filming machine on the high platform, suddenly thought of the walls of private houses he saw on the way to pick up Hulay from the hotel to the training base in a commercial vehicle when Hulay first joined Leeds City. Large portrait of Lauren Galli. He told Hulay that one day Hulay would be painted on the outer wall of their house by Leeds City fans.
At that time, he was actually drawing a pie for Hu Lai. Even he himself had no idea. It was more like a psychological suggestion of self-encouragement.
He didn't know how long that "someday" would have to wait.
Anyway, he never expected that day to come so quickly - hearing the applause of the audience, Matt thought that maybe it wouldn't be long before he could see Hu Lai's giant graffiti on the streets of Leeds City.
We will eventually write our names into the history books of this city!
This time, Matt wasn't encouraging himself.
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Amidst the applause, Sean Barnett sat on the bench and looked around.
Auman had already used up all three substitutions, and he ultimately failed to get the chance to prove himself.
He wasn't very bitter about the fact that the team's defeat was certain. Who asked the head coach not to let him play?
Failure has nothing to do with me.
Instead, he focused all his attention on the scene in front of him.
He was deeply loved in this stadium, and even after he left, he could still hear the greetings from the fans when he returned here again.
But...even when he was playing in Leeds City, he never had all the Leeds City fans stand up and applaud him after being replaced early.
When the applause rang out, he felt that all traces of his existence in this city and the stadium were being quickly erased.
The city has a new hero.
And he is just a clown that no one cares about.
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PS, there is a single chapter at the back, I want to talk to you for a few words. (End of chapter)