Chapter 956 Is this the Chinese team?
"Hu's run... free throw! Ah!!" the Brazilian commentator exclaimed, "Lemos judged the wrong direction! Spoon! It was a spoon penalty! Hu used a spoon penalty to break the goal guarded by Lemos!"
Lemos fell to the ground and hammered the turf hard before getting up.
He is not always so upset after losing the ball, but he will inevitably be a little more emotional towards Hu Lai.
Before the game, he specifically ran to Hu Lai and said something that would not allow him to score in this game.
Unexpectedly, in just thirty-eight minutes, he was scored by Hu Lai.
Although it was a penalty...
But is a penalty kick considered a goal?
Lemos finally got up from the ground, picked up the football from the net, and kicked it forward.
Then he stood in front of the goal with his hands on his hips, tilted his head to look at the Chinese team players celebrating the goal, and shook his head slightly.
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After Hu Lai made his signature celebration, he was surrounded by excited Chinese players.
They celebrated collectively in front of the Brazilian fans.
"Hu Lai's penalty kick was really good!" He Feng and Yan Kang commented after the initial excitement. "Under huge pressure, he chose to use the 'spoon' method, which was really unexpected...it caught Lemos completely off guard, ha!"
"Yeah. When everyone was worried about him, he told everyone in such a light way: Don't worry, I'm fine! And He Feng, this spoon's penalty kick method not only deceived Lemos , which is equivalent to untying the players of the Chinese team and greatly reducing their psychological pressure... It is like a psychological hint, constantly reminding other players of the Chinese team that Brazil has nothing to be afraid of, they can do it, We can do it too!”
"That's right. Before taking the penalty kick, he seemed to have an exchange with Lemos, with a smile on his face. From this penalty kick, it can be seen that his calmness was definitely not deliberately pretending to be bluffing. It's about feeling calm and calm from the bottom of my heart! "Those who have thunder in their chests and faces as flat as a lake should be worshiped..." He Feng praised.
Seeing Hu Lai being gradually overwhelmed by his teammates on the sidelines, Shi Wuyin turned to Li Zhifei and Hong Renjie, showed a relaxed smile and said: "He is stronger than we imagined, and he is more powerful than we thought!"
Li Zhifei and Hong Renjie also laughed and exhaled.
When Hu Lai kicked the football into the goal, they were all stunned for a moment before coming back to their senses and hugging in celebration.
It can be seen that they did not expect that Hu Lai would choose to take the penalty kick with a spoon.
Although the spoon penalty looks cool, the goal rate is not high, so it is not a safe choice.
If it is for stability, the players will kick to the angle they are best at, and they will try their best to hit a ground ball, so that the football will stick to the turf and roll towards the goal. This kind of ball is the most difficult for the goalkeeper to save.
Or just round your legs and try to work hard to achieve a miracle, and you can do it ten times with one force.
Spoon penalty kick is a penalty kick method that is highly entertaining but not very practical. It is also very difficult and requires a higher mentality of the penalty kick player.
An unstable mentality may be self-defeating: either you exert too much force and lift the football directly over the crossbar; or you exert too little force and do not have enough strength, and the goalkeeper reacts and then blocks it.
Therefore, anyone who dares to use a spoon to kick a penalty kick must be a bold person with a high skill level. Technical skills must be excellent, and psychological quality must be excellent. Both are indispensable.
Another thing that made them all particularly happy was that Hu Lai chose to kick the penalty kick with a spoon, which was really encouraging.
Originally, when the Chinese team faced the world champion Brazilian team, people felt that the Chinese team was naturally shorter and lacked confidence.
Especially when Kabangka knocked Xia Xiaoyu to the ground with a high-speed running cow's tail just now... It was not only the morale of the Chinese team that was hit, but also the morale of the Chinese fans.
Some people have speculated that maybe after this game, the shot of Kabangka knocking down Xia Xiaoyu will appear repeatedly in various highlight collections produced by fans around the world, and will be labeled as a "criminal move" reputation.
Kabangka has become famous all over the world, and poor Xia Xiaoyu has become the best background, and has been "whipped to death" repeatedly...
Thinking about it this way, the Chinese team simply couldn't raise its head in front of the Brazilian team and was humbled to the ground.
At this moment, Hulay equalized the score with a masterful spoon penalty, and also pulled the Brazilian team out to create the best background board.
In the future, if fans make videos about those "Mr. Big Scenes", "Classic Penalty Kick Highlights", "World Cup Famous Scene Highlights", etc., the Brazilian team and goalkeeper Victor Lemos will also be "whipped" repeatedly.
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The Chinese team players ended their celebration and ran back to their own half.
The TV broadcast focused a close-up on Hu Lai, who was waving to the Chinese fans in the stands.
A brief introduction is printed in the subtitles at the bottom of the screen:
Goal scorer: Hu Lai
The third goal of this World Cup
"Three World Cup goals! Before he participated in this World Cup, I didn't even dare to think about it..." Matt Dawn, who saw this scene in front of the TV, said with emotion. "We at Leeds City also have players who can score goals in the World Cup!"
Tony Clark smiled and said: "What I am most fortunate about now is that the club has successfully renewed Hulay's contract before the World Cup. This way we don't have to worry about him leaving us after the World Cup..."
Matt nodded vigorously in agreement.
Before the start of this World Cup... to be precise, after the end of the Premier League last season, the club had already started the contract renewal process with Hu Lai.
Hulay's current contract is still the one he signed when he moved to Leeds City. The contract period is four and a half years, with a salary of two million pounds in the first year and an annual increase of 15%. Now in his second year at Leeds City, his annual salary has increased to £2.3 million.
Even for an ordinary Premier League player, this annual salary is not high. This is because Hu Lai wants to take away 100% of the image rights. Even if Leeds City Club wants to use Hu Lai's image rights, it will have to pay Hu Lai additional money. As a player who relies on the Chinese market, image rights are obviously more profitable than dead wages.
However, the annual salary figure always represents a player's grade.
The annual salary is too low to justify.
As Leeds City's top scorer, Premier League champion, and top scorer in the Premier League, Hu Lai doesn't even earn the team's maximum salary. This is too embarrassing to say.
Careful people may even think that Leeds City does not pay attention to Hu Lai and deliberately humiliates Hu Lai?
If someone incites him and a wealthy club poaches him... Leeds City is really worried about Hu Lai leaving through transfer.
Since Leeds City won the Premier League championship, many players in the team have been poached.
The most important task of the club management this summer is not even signings, but renewing the contracts of the team's main players in the hope of retaining them.
If Hu Lai can successfully renew his contract with the club, it will be a major benefit to the contract renewal of other players.
So just after the league ended, the club couldn't wait to start contract renewal negotiations with Hu Lai's agent Yong Jun and his affiliated agency Champion Legend Sports Agency Co., Ltd.
What makes Leeds City Club happy is that Hu Lai did not deliberately set any obstacles to the contract renewal, such as dragging the club's contract offer without replying, waiting for other clubs to bid, or otherwise making obviously impossible treatment requirements. For example, if you score one goal, you will get one pound, if you score two goals, you will get two pounds, if you score three goals, you will get four pounds, if you score four goals, you will get eight pounds...
It can be seen that Hulay himself has no intention of transferring and leaving after only playing for one and a half years in Leeds City.
After Hulay won the Premier League Golden Boot, everyone worried that he would use Leeds City as a springboard and leave decisively after attracting the attention of wealthy clubs. But now it seems that he may indeed have no intention of playing in Leeds City for the rest of his life - Leeds City does not expect to keep such a talented young player forever, but the day when he leaves is still far away.
Although Hulay himself is very happy to renew his contract with the club, his agency is not so easy to nod.
They put forward a dead condition, that is, Hu Lai's annual salary must be the first in the team.
At present, the highest salary in the Leeds City team belongs to Peter Williams, who renewed his contract with the team after successfully avoiding relegation last season, with a weekly salary of 100,000 pounds and an annual salary of 5.2 million.
In other words, Hu Lai's annual salary in his new contract must not be lower than this amount.
In the end, after some bargaining, the two sides settled on Hu Lai's weekly salary of 130,000 pounds and an annual salary of 6.76 million pounds, the highest salary in Leeds City.
In addition, the portrait rights are still exclusive to Hu Lai.
Various bonuses are also very generous.
It can be said that Leeds City did not hesitate to spend money to keep Hu Lai. Of course, being able to spend so much money to keep Hu Lai is also because Leeds City won the Premier League championship last season. The share of broadcast fees alone is an astronomical sum. In addition, for more than a season, many Chinese companies have sponsored Leeds City, the club's wallet is richer now than before.
Before the start of the World Cup, the news of Hulay's contract extension with the club had been publicly publicized.
Although neither party disclosed the specific salary figure, the media with great media still made a close guess.
The famous football information website "Transfer Window" gives Hulay's annual salary as seven million pounds, which is very close to the real figure.
After this amount was reported by the media, some people were shocked. Because this is not only the highest salary in the Leeds City team, but also the highest salary in the history of the Leeds City club.
For the small club Leeds City, whether it is necessary to spend 7 million pounds a year to keep Hulay has also caused some controversy in the media and the Internet.
Some experts believe that Leeds City should take advantage of Hulay's winning of the Premier League Golden Boot and take decisive action when his worth reaches its peak to maximize profits and earn the highest transfer fee.
After all, Hu Lai now has no worries about buyers.
It's still the "transfer window". This senior and authoritative website in the industry has already valued Hu Lai at as high as 80 million euros.
This is an unimaginable sky-high price for the small team of Leeds City.
Of course, the value in the "transfer window" does not represent the actual transfer fee of the player. After all, the value is only an estimate based on the player's recent performance. It does not mean that the transfer price must be this price - if a team really bids eight Ten million, Leeds City didn't sell it, so the other party increased the price to 100 million, and finally sold it, and the value became 100 million.
If Hu Lai performs poorly after his transfer and his worth drops from 100 million to 50 million after one season, that would be normal.
The value fluctuates at any time, and the transfer fee is a recorded figure given in real money.
A player's transfer fee is whatever it is, but his worth changes at any time.
Of course, there are also people who are firmly opposed to Leeds City selling Hu Lai. Even a fool can see Hu Lai's importance to this team. If Hu Lai is really sold, it would be really short-sighted.
There are supporters of both views, and debates rage online.
However, after Hu Lai played his first World Cup group match, the controversy became much smaller and almost disappeared.
Because everyone feels that Leeds City really made a profit by renewing Hulay's contract before the World Cup. If they wait until the World Cup is over before renewing the contract with Hu Lai, the annual salary of seven million pounds will not be worthy of Hu Lai no matter how much it sets a record in team history.
And those wealthy clubs may be tempted to snatch Hu Lai away from Leeds City at all costs.
Now because Hulay has just successfully renewed his contract with Leeds City, it is impossible for him to break his promise and transfer again. At the very least, it can guarantee that Hulay can continue to play in Leeds City for another season.
In fact, Hu Lai and his agency can wait until the World Cup is over to talk about contract renewal with the club, and they can sell it at a price. This is also a common method used by some big brokers.
It's just that Hu Lai didn't do this.
Although he loves money, as he said himself, when the amount of money reaches a certain order of magnitude, it is really just a number. There is a difference of four million pounds between ten million pounds and six million pounds. There is a huge gap, but for Hu Lai, who does not have a high desire for consumption, there is really no difference.
In the end, he renewed his contract with the club before the World Cup, which also allowed him to prepare for the World Cup with peace of mind.
While watching the game, Clark discussed the team building plan for next season with Matt: "Hulay will still be the core of our offense next season, and we will make a fuss around him. But we need to sign in and strengthen in some places... …”
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When the game restarted, Brazil experienced chaos and downturn after being equalized, and their performance on the field was poor.
After the Chinese team equalized the score, their morale was greatly boosted and their confidence doubled.
Be more daring to make moves on the field.
Especially Chen Xingyi.
From the moment he made the penalty kick, his status became "arrow up".
Facing Kievel, he tried to move from the wing to cut inside and go to the middle. After Kievel paused for a moment, he suddenly made a deep-fried ball pass and passed by the opponent!
"Chen Xingyi...Okay, pass him!! Beautiful!! Fried meatballs!!"
Chen Xingyi, who got rid of Kewell, dribbled the ball into the penalty area.
Fortunately, Brazil's center back Amorim made up the defense in time and got stuck in Chen Xingyi's path, finally shoveling the football out of the bottom line.
"Very good, Star! Just play like this!" In front of the TV, Jorge Dillon clapped his hands hard and shouted, as if he was directing the game from the sidelines. "Don't be led by the other party, use your own rhythm!"
Chen Xingyi in the camera first felt sorry for not being able to make an effective cross, and then he laughed again.
His handsome smile made many female fans in front of the TV feel happy.
On the Tengfei live video broadcast, countless colorful barrages floated by:
"Xingzai is back! That dashing Xingzai is back!"
"This is the star boy I want to see in the World Cup!"
"Star I love you!!"
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Not long after, the Brazilian team made a passing error during the attack. Dudu Carlos passed the ball to Kabangka a little backward. Kabangka turned around to reach it and reluctantly stopped the football. .
As a result, Xia Xiaoyu who was ambushing next to him immediately poked the ball away.
The football fell to Zhang Qinghuan's feet, and he gave it to Chen Xingyi who was on the sidelines before Du Du came up to pounce.
Kewell came up to prevent Chen Xingyi from repeating his old tricks again, creating a breakthrough on the wing.
Chen Xingyi, who was holding the ball, leaned forward and made a gesture of speeding up the breakthrough. Seeing this, Kewell quickly retreated.
But Chen Xingyi just made a feint. He used his left foot to dunk the football back, and then immediately made a pass with his right foot!
"It was a direct pass!"
"Luo Kai!!"
Luo Kai appeared in the middle and competed with Brazil's center back Persson for the top, but failed to top the ball.
The ball was confiscated early by goalkeeper Lemos.
"Although there was no shot... the Chinese team has continuously threatened the Brazilian team's goal during this period. Our offensive has picked up and the quality is also very good. I think... we can still compete with the Brazilian team!" He Feng said in an exciting tone.
"That's right, He Feng. And we also have the conditions to do so. After all, for this Chinese team today, the results are not important. What is important is to fully perform to their own level in this last group match. There are no performance requirements or burdens. The players face the Brazilian team with a relaxed attitude, and maybe they can really do well. ”
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The Brazilian team launched an attack, and this time they successfully pushed the football to the 30-meter area of the Chinese team, and then left back Fonseca took the ball from the wing.
Wang Guangwei got stuck in his position and took off, successfully heading the ball to clear the ball.
Dudu grabbed the second shot outside the penalty area. When he just got the ball, Jiang Wanqing pressed forward and used his hands and feet to interfere with his control of the ball.
Dudu used his skillful foot skills to protect the football, and then passed it to Kabangka who was asking for the ball next to him.
The moment Kabangka caught the ball, he moved the football forward. After passing by Xia Xiaoyu, he caught up with the football and shot a long shot!
The football flew towards the far corner of the Chinese team's goal!
Goalkeeper Lin Zhiyuan jumped in and knocked the football out with both fists!
When the ball was about to fly out of the sideline, the Chinese team's right back Bai Di stretched out his foot to save the ball. Then facing the rushing Fonseca, he quickly poked the ball to Yao Huasheng next to him.
Yao Huasheng passed the football forward to Luo Kai, who retreated to support.
Luo Kai, who had his back to the attacking direction, passed the ball directly to the wing without stopping. There, Bai Di did not stay where he was, but moved forward at high speed, and he caught the ball!
"The Chinese team picked the football out with a series of consecutive passes, so beautiful!"
The Chinese fans in the stands used the loudest cheers to express their support and joy for the Chinese team's performance during this period.
Although there was no goal scored during this period, just being able to play back and forth with the world's top team Brazil on the court was enough to make the Chinese fans feel proud.
No, it’s not “just.” After all, it is difficult for many teams to not be at a disadvantage when facing the Brazilian team.
Now the Chinese team has done it!
They are amazing!
There were some spectators in the stands with their faces painted with five-star red flags. They looked at the stadium in surprise and murmured: "Is this really a Chinese team game I'm watching?!"
In fact, it is not only the overseas Chinese who did not know much about Chinese football who were surprised. The Chinese fans who witnessed how the Chinese team qualified step by step from the Asian qualifiers were also very shocked by the performance of the Chinese team during this period. .
And the Chinese team's performance of not falling behind in the situation was not temporary - they played until the end of the first half.
Some Chinese fans even believe that if Hu Lai’s penalty kick equalized the score and there was not much time left for the Chinese team, the Chinese team might have scored another one...
Yes, that's how it looks from the scene.
When the commentators He Feng and Yan Kang heard the half-time whistle, they announced the end of the half-time game in a regretful tone.
It seems like the Brazilian team has escaped death...
But in fact, the Chinese team and the Brazilian team were only tied on the field and did not have any upper hand.
In the eyes of Chinese fans, this is already something worth bragging about.
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PS, we will continue to update three times tomorrow. In addition, in the semi-finals in the early morning, I am optimistic that England will defeat Denmark by two goals, and I am even optimistic that they will win the championship!
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