Chapter 1504: Fight
"The plum blows and speaks!"
"Do those who used to blow Melly hard now feel pain in their faces?"
"You black men haven't learned one thing yet? That is, don't provoke Hu Lai. Who do you think is not good for provoking? Why do you provoke him? You don't even understand the principle of making a fortune in silence? If you hadn't been so good, Jumping up and down arrogantly, I think Hu Lai may not be able to score four goals in this game, but it’s better now...Thank you, black guys! Let’s continue to be black next time!”
"Actually, although Hu Lai has scored a lot of goals, four goals are really rare. This time he was able to complete four goals, which shows how good his condition is. I hope this four goals is a sign that his condition has improved... ”
"When you hit a navigator, you get excited. It seems that Hu Lai is destined to be a 'famous navigator'!"
"My only regret is that this game is at the Pirates' home court. It would be great if it was at the Navigators' home court. I really want to see the expressions of the Navigators' home fans..."
"You still need to kill someone to kill someone?!"
"Now I can't help but look forward to the twenty-fifth round, when the Navigators play the Pirates at home... The star is going home, hahaha!"
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After the match between Madrid Pirates and Sevilla Navigators, even though it was early in the morning, the Chinese domestic Internet was very lively.
Chinese fans who couldn't sleep due to excitement made various excited remarks on the Internet and participated in other people's topics.
Xie Lan is also one of them.
She didn't even go back to bed. Instead, she sat on the sofa, holding her mobile phone in her hands, and kept refreshing Weibo and "Goal" on her mobile phone with a smile on her face.
Hu Lixin was used to it and didn't ask her if she slept. Anyway, today was Sunday and she didn't have to go to work. Sleep whenever you want and wake up whenever you want.
Instead of sitting on the sofa scrolling through his phone like his wife, he got up and left.
His wife asked him strangely: "What are you doing? Can you still sleep?"
"I'll go figure out the team's training plan."
"Oh..."
Hu Lixin walked into the study, turned on the light first, and then sat down at the desk. Turn on the computer, type on the keyboard with two-finger meditation, and perfect the training plan he made for the elementary school team.
For him, watching football is not only a way to spend time with his wife, but also a way for him to learn.
He insisted on watching his son's games so many times and taught himself a lot. He learned about the developed side of European football and then combined it with his actual work. I want to introduce advanced football concepts and training methods to children as much as possible.
In his view, Chinese football is very lucky to have such golden generations as Hu Lai, Chen Xingyi, Zhang Qinghuan and Luo Kai.
But it would be irresponsible to pin the development of a country's football on illusory luck.
After the golden generation, if the youth training does not keep up and no new talents emerge to take over, it will not even be the Bronze Age, but will fall directly into the Dark Age - this is entirely possible.
This has been proven in countless European football clubs. Some teams have achieved very dazzling results by relying on a group of talented players who suddenly emerged from the youth training. But when these players gradually aged and left, their youth training could no longer produce comparable talents, and the team could only rely on the gold rush in the transfer market...
But there is a fundamental difference between mercenaries bought with money and talents trained by oneself. It's not that easy to regain glory.
Zooming into a country, the continuation of talent training is even more important. Because football clubs can still spend money to buy people from outside, how can your national team buy them?
As a primary school football coach, Hu Lixin can be said to be at the grassroots level of Chinese football. He knows very well that if Chinese football wants to have a better future, it must start from the grassroots level, starting from the children.
Now that he is known as Hu Lai's father, more and more parents are coming to him to train their children.
Some people even send their children to this elementary school just because he is the football coach of this elementary school...
Hu Lixin also felt tremendous pressure.
If he cannot teach other people's children well, he will fail others' expectations and also have a bad impact on Chinese football.
He wants to try to make up for the mistakes he made over the past decade.
Even if he can bring one more player to Chinese football, it will be his salvation.
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“…The most eye-catching game in this round of the league is undoubtedly the Madrid Pirates vs. Sevilla Navigator at home. In the end, relying on Hu’s big four, the Madrid Pirates defeated Sevilla Navigator 4:0 at home… ...Before this game, Hu was three goals behind in the league's top scorer list. After this battle, he completed the lead over Melli in the top scorer list...The competition for the league's top scorer became fierce from the beginning... …”
Kabangka couldn't help laughing when he saw the news.
His girlfriend who was having dinner with him asked curiously: "What are you looking at? So happy?"
"Ah...it's nothing, it's just that Hu scored four goals." Kabangka explained to his girlfriend.
My girlfriend became even more curious: "Hu scored four goals? Why are you so happy that he scored four goals? Didn't you say that Hu is your competitor?"
Facing his girlfriend's doubts, Kabangka said patiently: "Hu is my competitor for the championship, but not my competitor in the scorer list. I am not a forward, and scoring goals is not my primary goal. So I It doesn’t matter how many goals Hu scored, but Melli wants to compete with Hu for the Golden Boot, so Melli definitely doesn’t want to see this news.”
At the end, he laughed again.
Then my girlfriend understood: "You are happy when you see Meili deflated..."
Kabangka did not hide his smile: "Yes, it makes me happy to make that proud Argentinian boy unhappy. Even if his unhappiness is not caused by me. Ha!"
As a midfielder, Kabangka does not pursue honors such as the Golden Boot. He cares more about the team's results. As long as Catalonia can win the league championship or the Champions League this season, then he will be successful.
Even if he ranks outside the top ten on the scorer list, it doesn't matter.
But there is actually another very important reason that Kabangka did not say:
After playing against Hulay in the Premier League, Kabangka knew that if he scored against Hulaybi, he would definitely not be able to beat the Chinese.
Why do you still torture yourself with things that you can't win 100% of the time?
How hard did he have to think to do this?
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"...'HUUUUU!!!' Such shouts rang out a total of four times in the Pirates Park stadium in this game...four goals in a single game! The Hu who frightened all his opponents last season is back!"
In the same round of the league, the Madrid Kings defeated Real Catajon 2:0 away from home and won four consecutive league victories.
However, Melli did not score in this round of the league, and his streak of scoring goals was also terminated.
Because the game between Pirates and Sevilla Navigators ended earlier, even though no goal was scored, no one thought it was a big deal at the time.
Melly has scored in three consecutive league games and one Champions League group match. With his condition, what does it mean to not score in a game occasionally?
His number of goals is twice that of Hu Lai!
Even Melli didn't feel annoyed or unhappy about his failure to score. After the game, he cheered for his team's victory and was in a good mood.
As a result, half a day later, he learned that his advantage in the scorer list was gone...
The three-goal lead was actually able to be wiped out by Hu Lai in one game, and he was even one goal behind!
He found the game highlights and wanted to see how Hu Lai scored four goals.
After reading it, he stared at the phone screen in a daze.
As a high-level player, Melly is obviously better than those who watch the excitement and can see some clues through the game highlights.
It looked like there was some luck involved in Hulay's big four, especially the fourth ball. Although the commentator Sanchez kept praising Hulay's shooting skills, Melly bet that if Hulay were to repeat the scene again, his kick might not be able to hit the goal.
But that's not important.
Melly knows why Hulay can score four goals in the game.
Because the Madrid Pirates seem to have gradually adapted from the running-in period at the beginning of the season.
Their team's state and tactics in this game are very different from the beginning of the season.
Vukovic was particularly active, driving the Madrid Pirates' midfield and also activating Carey.
So Kyrie sent two assists in this game...
If Madrid Pirates can continue this form, it won't just be the Golden Boot. In the competition for the league title, they will also become strong contenders for Melli and the Madrid Kings.
Thinking of this, Melly suddenly felt very upset that he failed to score in the 2:0 victory over Real Catharón - even if he scored a goal, he would now be tied with Hulay at the top of the scorer list. And because he has less playing time, he is still able to overwhelm Hu Lai.
Now we can only leave it to the next game.
The next game is a Champions League match, with the Kings of Madrid playing away to Razgrad, the weakest Bulgarian team in this group.
The Madrid Pirates will face the Turin Bulls, the strongest competitor in their group, at home.
This is good news for Mellie.
Because scoring a goal against Razgrad is definitely easier than scoring a goal against the Turin Bulls.
The competition between Melli and Hulay this season is all-round, not only for team honors, but also for personal honors, not only the league golden boot, but also the Champions League golden boot.
As long as he can compete with Hu Lai, he will compete.
Melli, who just won the European Ballon d'Or, is extremely confident. He is in the best period of his career.
He needs to prove to the world that he, Meli Banega, is the leader among the younger generation of players in world football!
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Appendix:
2028-2029 Champions League groupings:
Group A: Madrid Pirates (Spain), Turin Bulls (Italy), Piraeus (Greece), Ribesburg (Sweden);
Group B: Kings of Madrid (Spain), Atlético Amsterdam (Netherlands), Basson (Switzerland), Razgrad (Bulgaria);
Group C: Manchester United (England), Ruhr Rhein (Germany), Monaco City (France), Mehidiya (Turkey);
Group D: Alvara (Portugal), Tramed (England), Vesseldorf (Germany), Brussels FC (Belgium);
Group E: Blue and White Munich (Germany), Stan Park Rangers (England), Vesuvius (Italy), Apollo Atletico (Cyprus);
Group F: Insubre (Italy), Catalonia (Spain), Westphalia (Germany), Mahiburg FC (Slovenia);
Group G: Porto United (Portugal), Sporting Vizcaya (Spain), Metallurgy St. Petersburg (Russia), Orobicaspor (Italy);
Group H: Paris Eger (France), Portuguese (Portugal), North London Rangers (England), Berezina FC (Belarus);
Note: Porto United became the seeded team in this season's UEFA Champions League group stage as the Europa League champion last season. (End of chapter)