Chapter 1451 Underestimating the Enemy
The first in Group A will play against the second in Group B, and the second in Group A will play against the first in Group B.
The first in Group C will play against the second in Group D, and the second in Group C will play against the first in Group D.
After the top four are determined, there will be a cross-match match, with the winner of the first place in Group A and the second place in Group B playing against the winner of the first place in Group C and the second place in Group D.
The winner of the second place in Group A and the first place in Group B will play the winner of the second place in Group C and the first place in Group D.
Melly was silently calculating the rules of this matchup in his mind.
The first place in Group A is the host United States, and the second place is Japan.
His Argentina Olympic team won first place in Group B, and second place in Group B was South Africa.
Germany is first in Group C and China is second in Group C.
Spain is first in Group D and Brazil is second.
The quarter-final matches are as follows:
USA vs South Africa.
Argentina vs Japan.
Germany VS Brazil.
Spain VS China.
In the semi-finals, the winner between the United States and South Africa plays against the winner between Germany and Brazil, and the winner between Argentina and Japan plays against the winner between Spain and China.
The situation is very clear - it is really possible for him to meet Hu Lai in this Olympics!
But first the Chinese team has to defeat the Spanish Olympic team in the quarter-finals...
"What are you looking at, Mellie?"
Friend Ramon Cantero came up and saw Melly looking at the game map in a daze.
He knew immediately what Merry was doing.
So he patted Melli on the shoulder: "Don't think about it, they can't beat Spain. Let's not say that Spain won the bronze medal in the last Olympics. After all, it is not a team. In this Olympics, Spain, they are the European youth team The runner-up in the competition.”
"But the Chinese team drew with the European Youth Championship champion Germany in the group stage." Melli said.
"That game cannot be used as a reference, because the German team has already qualified early and obviously did not try its best. The players' mentality is different."
"The Chinese team didn't do its best, Ramon."
"But Melli, whether the Chinese team can win mainly depends on Spain's performance, not their own performance. In terms of the strength gap between the two teams, as long as Spain goes all out and does not underestimate the opponent, then the Chinese team will win It's hard to win," Cantero said plausibly.
Melli wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by Cantero: "I know the Chinese team has Hu, and Hu is a very powerful player, but the game cannot be won by him alone. The Chinese team The problem is that the gap between others and Hu is too big.”
Melly thought for a while and did not continue to refute him. Instead, he nodded seriously: "You are right, Ramon."
Then he picked up his phone, opened his address book, and found Hu Lai's number.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Cantero was surprised.
When Melly saw him leaning his head over, he simply got up and left, holding his cell phone and walking out: "Nothing."
Cantero felt strange, but didn't follow him out because he knew Melly's temper. If he did, it meant he didn't want him to see it.
If you don’t want to watch it, don’t watch it. It’s not that important anyway.
After avoiding Cantero's gossipy gaze, Melly began to edit information for Hulay:
"Cantero said that it is impossible for you to beat Spain. After all, your opponent is the runner-up of the European Youth Championship. I think he is right. What a pity that your opponent in the quarter-finals turned out to be Spain. I still wanted to play with you in the semi-finals." We met in the final..."
After finishing writing, Melly did not send it immediately. Instead, he frowned at the text, considered it carefully, then deleted the sentence "I still think about meeting you in the semi-finals" and re-entered:
"...You lost the opportunity to seek revenge from me."
Then he pressed send.
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Hu Lai was chatting with Li Qingqing on WeChat, holding his mobile phone with a silly smile on his face.
Ou Yangjin, who lived in the same room with him, saw everything. Even though he really wanted to ask Brother Hu what he was looking at, it was so funny... but he still held back.
After all, this is private privacy. Even if his relationship with Hu Lai has developed rapidly during this period, it is not good enough to pry into other people's privacy.
Ou Yangjin still has a sense of proportion.
His style of play is vulgar, but his person is not vulgar.
Until he saw Brother Hu suddenly looking solemn and even spitting out: "Fuck!"
Ou Yangjin, who had been holding back for a long time, took the opportunity and asked: "What's wrong, Brother Hu?"
He originally thought that Hu Lai would tell him, but he didn't expect that the other party handed him the phone directly: "You can see for yourself."
Ou Yangjin took it and took a look... then silently handed it back to Hu Lai: "Brother Hu, I can't understand..."
Only then did Hu Lai react, and he patted his forehead.
Ou Yangjin asked aggrievedly: "Brother Hu, what language is that? French or Spanish? I can barely understand English..."
"Spanish." Hu Lai translated to Ou Yangjin, "It's from Meili."
Ou Yangjin was stunned for a moment and asked excitedly: "Merry? Is it that Merry Banega?"
Hu Lai curled his lips and acted quite calmly: "Who else can there be besides him?"
Ou Yangjin also came to his senses - isn't it natural for Brother Hu to be so calm? He and Merry have fought against each other several times.
Julay continued: "Melli didn't think we could beat Spain."
Ou Yangjin opened his mouth but said nothing.
It felt like it was a fight between gods, and a mortal like him had no right to intervene.
After Hu Lai explained, he lowered his head and texted Meili back:
"Shouldn't it be that you lost the opportunity to seek revenge from me? 'Triple Crown', 'Triple Crown', 'Triple Crown', whose 'Triple Crown' flew away like a bird and never came back? Besides, what qualifications does Cantero have to judge whether we can beat Spain? Is he the god of football? "
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When Merry saw the "Triple Crown", he felt veins jumping on his forehead, but he laughed again when he saw Hu Lai's last words.
He replied: "So you can beat Spain?"
Soon he received a message from Hu Lai: "I don't know if I can win. I don't play the 'Bright Light Game'. I also won't think about whether I can give you a chance for revenge. After all, we still have a game with Spain. I want to play, unlike you, you don’t pay attention to the Japanese team at all, it’s like you have eliminated the Japanese team.”
"My goal is an Olympic gold medal," Meili wrote.
This time he didn't wait for Hu Lai's reply.
So he put away his mobile phone, returned to the room, and said to Cantero: "I just went to send a message to Hu Lai."
Cantero did not expect that Melly would take the initiative to inform him. He was surprised: "What message did you send him?"
"Tell him what you said. Then he said that you were his defeated general and that everything you said was... fart."
Cantero was stunned for a moment, then became furious: "He just farted! He was defeated by his subordinates? Hahaha, he was double-killed by Manchester United in his last season in the Premier League! He had the nerve to say that I was his defeated opponent. ? He is obviously the loser! That bastard... I have changed my mind, Melly. I hope he can defeat Spain, and then I will show him some improvement in the semi-finals! ? ”
Melly nodded: "Well said, Ramon, I support you!"
Ramon Cantero is now the main player of Manchester United. His style of play is somewhat similar to that of Melli before, with excellent skills at his feet and a flexible body. In the season that just ended, he scored a total of twelve goals in all games and assisted as many as twenty-one.
Is a very good winger.
This is why he also participated in this Olympics as an over-age player. His assists coupled with Melli's increasingly powerful scoring ability are the scoring guarantee for the Argentina Olympic team.
Argentina scored a total of seven goals in the group stage, and the two of them jointly contributed five of them.
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Hu Lai took a screenshot of only part of the message Meili sent him, and sent it to the small group, and at the same time circled Junpei Morikawa:
"Morikawa Morikawa, look!"
Morikawa Junpei came out quickly and made a difficult expression: "I can't understand, Hu Sang..."
"Don't you have translation software on your phone?" Hu Lai asked.
"Oh, yes, wait a moment."
Half a minute later, Junpei Morikawa sent a screenshot: "Is this it?"
The message sent by Melli in the picture has been translated into Chinese, and the meaning is quite different. He said that Cantero and he both believed that the Chinese team would lose to Spain, so Hulay had no chance of revenge.
"Although we look down on us a little, what does this have to do with Morikawa?" Zhang Qinghuan came out and asked.
"Melli skipped the match against the Japanese team and directly assumed that they had reached the semi-finals. This is a naked insult to Japan!" Hu Lai explained. "Can you bear this, Morikawa?"
Junpei Morikawa: "[Laughing and crying] But Hu Sang, I didn't participate in this Olympics..."
Zhang Qinghuan: "That's right, Morikawa is not even in the Japanese Olympic team. What does it have to do with him whether he is humiliated or not?"
Hu Lai: "You're not here, but isn't Tatsuya Sugiyama participating as an over-age player? You can forward this picture to him, saying that Melli looks down on him and insults the entire Japanese Olympic team. Japanese football! ”
Junpei Morikawa: "Husan, shouldn't you hope to play against Melli? What do you mean, do you want the Japanese team to beat Argentina?"
Hu Lai: "No, no. I hope that the Japanese team can use up more of Argentina's strength in the quarter-finals. This move is like 'the snipe and the clam compete with each other'!"
Zhang Qinghuan: "... Damn it, you're still humiliating Japan after doing this for a long time, right?"
Morikawa Junpei: "[face covering]"
Hu Lai asked: "Morikawa, did you send it to Sugiyama Tatsuya?"
Morikawa Junpei: "I sent it."
"What did he say?"
“He asked me where I got this screenshot.”
"Just say that Hu Laifa was in the group."
"I said it."
"Then what?"
"He said he knew."
Hu Lai was a little surprised: "That's it?"
"Well, that's it."
"Damn, isn't Tatsuya Sugiyama a coward?"
Morikawa Junpei said: "Sugiyama is not the kind of person who expresses emotion and anger. Maybe the fire in his heart has been stoked?"
"Okay... Come on Team Japan!" (End of Chapter)