Hulay's goal helped Leeds re-extend the lead to two goals.

After the 3:1 lead, the Leeds City players still remember what the head coach Clark said to them during the intermission:

"Offense! In addition to offense, offense!"

So they continued to attack.

Seven minutes later, Leeds launched a counterattack.

Camara drove the ball in the middle and drove the ball straight in. When he attracted the Helmer players to come up and surround him, he pushed the football through the cracks.

Passed to Hu Lai who was pulled to the ribs.

"Have a chance!" He Feng saw the football being passed to Hu Lai and couldn't wait to shout out first.

Then he saw Hu Lai starting to adjust his pace and the direction of his body while running.

When the adjustment was completed, the football just rolled right in front of him.

He didn't stop the ball, but raised his right leg and directly rubbed the inside of his foot to shoot!

The football flew in an arc, bypassing the leg of the Helmer defender who came up to block the shot, and then bypassing the finger of Helmer goalkeeper Arnett, wiping the inside of the far goal post and flying into the goal!

"Pretty——!!! Hu Lai——!!! Go straight without stopping the ball, beautiful!! A brace! Two three goals! Hu Lai! Aha!" He Feng laughed happily.

No matter what Zhang Qinghuan, Luo Kai, Chen Xingyi, Xia Xiaoyu, and Wang Guangwei are like, Hu Lai is the reserved program...

At this stage, Chinese fans still can only pin their feelings on Hu Lai.

At the same time, because of Hu Lai, everyone will not feel that time is too difficult while waiting for the others to grow up.

How can you not love so much?

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After Hulai scored twice, Leeds has led Helmer with three goals.

However, after successive substitutions and adjustments, Helmer's performance improved, and in the seventy-second and seventy-seventh minutes, he scored twice in five minutes.

Chased the score to 3:4.

Helmer's morale, who had pulled back two goals, seemed to be trying to knock the defending champion to the ground on the road.

But Leeds City eventually maintained a one-goal lead until the end of the game, winning by 4:3 and taking all three points.

The post-match commentator Matthew Cox quipped: "This fully illustrates how correct Coach Clark’s theory is: As long as we score enough goals, we can be guaranteed to win the game! The best defense is to beat the opponent. More balls! Logically impeccable!"

As if to echo Cox’s remarks, Clarke first criticized the team’s defense at the post-game press conference: "We were in the lead and failed to keep our attention all the time... This is because we lost three. The reason for the ball."

Then he changed his words: "Fortunately, we scored four goals in the game, so in the end we won the victory..."

Cox reposted the news of the post-match press conference on his social media afterwards, with a smile of tears.

But in any case, Leeds City did win the game and scored three points.

After two rounds of the league, they ranked second with six points.

The first place belongs to Wigerston, who has six points with the same score. They have one more goal difference than Leeds City, so they ranked first.

After two league matches, the Premier League now has seven teams accumulating six points, all of which are determined by goal difference or the number of goals scored.

Of course the league rankings at the beginning of the season are actually meaningless.

For example, Wiggston and Liverpool United, Sidham and other teams are now ranked in the top seven, does not mean that they will eventually be ranked in the top seven.

Although Leeds City won the Premier League title last season, they gradually calmed down from the excitement and excitement at the beginning. After recollecting it, it will be clear that Leeds City's championship belongs to the "miracle" of this era.

Since it is a "miracle", it is naturally impossible to reproduce, or it cannot be reproduced easily.

Not to mention the mid-range teams such as Vijayston and Liverpool.

Even for Leeds, they will not be able to reproduce the glory of last season in all likelihood this season.

For a civilian team like Leeds, it is the greatest honor to be able to collect a Premier League championship trophy in the club's honor room.

Some media once commented:

"...Leeds City Club should put the Premier League championship trophy in the most conspicuous and most important position of their honor room, so that every visitor who visits their honor room can see the trophy at a glance no matter where they are. After all, this is them. The only honor that can be achieved..."

Someone else drew such a cartoon with the title "Leeds City Hall of Honor":

A room called the "Leeds City Hall of Honor" is full of Premier League championship trophies. At first glance, you might think that Leeds City is a giant team that has won many Premier League titles. But looking again, every trophy has the words "2025-2026" written on it.

This cartoon is obviously used to satirize Leeds with a Premier League champion to pretend to be rich.

Although Leeds City won the championship last season, there was indeed a wave of presence around the world. Media from various countries rushed to report their inspirational stories, which moved many people. There are also calls for Hollywood to adapt the story of Leeds City into a movie.

But to be honest, Leeds City Club did not use this Premier League champion to "pretend".

Many Leeds fans are quite triumphant.

Perhaps it is these triumphant Leeds fans who have angered many people, after all, "one fan is top ten black".

But this group of fans is so fanatical and unreasonable. Of course, you have to vent your emotions and blow your team to the sky if you win the championship.

This applies to the fan base of any team.

If you use this as a reason to attack the Leeds City club, you have to be careful when the team supported by these people wins the championship and gets overwhelmed and gets attacked by others for the same reason...

In fact, there is another reason-not everyone thinks that Leeds City won the Premier League title last season is a good thing, those rich and traditional supporters, of course, will not miss any opportunity to hit Leeds City.

Writing articles in the media to slander Leeds, drawing cartoons to satirize Leeds... all belong to their routine operations.

Of course, they can only make a fuss about Leeds City.

For Leeds’s most important player, Hu Lai, there is no way to do anything.

After all, Hu Lai’s performance so far has no black spots-only two rounds of the Premier League have been played in the new season, Hu Lai scored three goals, occupying the top of the league's scorer list.

What can we say about this performance?

And there are more powerful ones in the back:

Both the British media and the Chinese media have begun to hype a piece of news.

That is... Hu Lai is very likely to win the European Young Player Award in the 2025-2026 season!

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"...'Europe's Best Young Player Award' is one of a series of awards held by the French "Golden Globe" magazine every summer at the beginning of the new season. It is only awarded to all European football clubs. Players under the age of twenty-three. This award is also affectionately called the "Golden Globe Award for Youth" by fans. From the nickname, you can know the gold content and importance of this award... Since the establishment of this award in 2000, there have been two in total. Fifteen players won this award, and ten European Ballon d'Or winners were born out of these twenty-five players... So if you win the European Young Player Award, you have a high chance of being the best player in Europe. Golden Globe...

"Hu Lai, who will turn 23 on September 9 this year, is his only and last chance to win this award... at the 25th European Young Player Award last year. He has just joined Leeds for half a season. Although he scored 11 goals in his Premier League debut in half a season, his performance in helping the team relegation is also very impressive, but this obviously does not make him the best young player in Europe. Ten candidates... Last season, Hulay scored 32 goals in the Premier League. He won the Premier League’s top scorer and also helped Leeds, a little-known relegation team, unexpectedly win the Premier League championship. In addition, in the United States and Canada World Cup, he scored five goals to win the World Cup Golden Boot... This kind of performance is enough to make him stand out among the young players of all European clubs.

"In the ten-man shortlist of the best young European players just announced, Hu Lai's name is impressive... and his rivals are really not competitive in the face of Hu Lai's superb performance and results last season. ...It can be said that as long as there are no factors other than football, Hu Lai's winning of the most important personal award in his career should be a sure thing. He hasn't run away..."

Xie Lan, who was standing in the "Son Honor Room," put down her phone and looked around the glass cabinet.

The 2024 Chinese Footballer's trophy, the 2025 Chinese Footballer's trophy, the 2024 Super League top scorer trophy, the 2024 Super League best player trophy... These golden or silver trophies are lined up in the showcase.

These are all personal honor trophies that Hu Lai won in different periods.

Even the national championship gold medal, the best player, and the top scorer trophy won in high school are all there.

In addition, Hu Lai won the championship gold medal and golden boot trophy in the Premier League last season, as well as the Player of the Season Award and the Best Young Player Award awarded by the Premier League Players Association and the Premier League.

The most conspicuous trophy in this honor room now is the "Twenty-third World Cup in the United States and Canada in 2026, the best shooter trophy"-a gold-cast sneaker-like trophy.

This is the most important personal honor her son Hu Lai has received so far.

Although more professional and experienced fans may think that the best players in the Premier League have higher gold content-after all, the World Cup golden boots are not always obtained by the best performing players. The four-year World Cup Golden Boots are also more like a short-lived reward.

The best players in the Premier League each season can better reflect the level and ability of the award-winning players.

But in Xie Lan's view, all the honors of the World Cup should be higher, after all, this is the World Cup!

The best player in the Premier League is born every year, and the World Cup Golden Boot will not have one until four years!

Things are rare and expensive, so the World Cup Golden Boots are more powerful than the Premier League Golden Boots, and there is nothing wrong with them.

Of course Xie Lan also knows that the World Cup best player's trophy is better than the World Cup Golden Boot trophy, but it's a pity that her son didn't get it... She couldn't help it.

When Song Jiajia helped Hu Lai deliver the trophy to Hu Lai's home in Dongchuan, Xie Lan invited the best Premier League trophy originally placed in this cabinet and put the World Cup Golden Boot trophy in.

But now...

Xie Lan had already calculated in his heart that he would move the World Cup Golden Boot trophy from the cabinet in the center of the room and make room to wait for the trophy that the media said was the world's best trophy for players under the age of 23.

"What are you looking at?" Hu Lixin passed the door, saw his wife, he asked curiously.

"Look at the trophy!" Xie Lan didn't turn her head back, but by hearing Hu Lixin's voice, she knew that his wife must have a smile on her face now.

He shook his head, really like a dragon patrolling in his own treasure house.

But this time he didn't say anything. After all, he was looking forward to it together...

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Attached:

All the honors Hu Lai’s football career has won so far:

2019 Anton Provincial Middle School Student Football Championship Anton Cup · High School Champion;

2020 Anton Provincial Middle School Student Football Championship Anton Cup · High School Group Champion;

The best scorer and best player in the Anton Cup High School Group in the 2020 Anton Provincial Middle School Football Championship;

Champion of the 7th National High School Football Championship in 2021;

The best scorer and best player in the 7th National High School Football Championship in 2021;

The best rookie in the Chinese League in the 2022 season;

2023 East Asian Cup champion;

2023 East Asian Cup best scorer and best player;

Champion of China League One in the 2023 season;

The best scorer, best local scorer, best popular player, and best player in the Chinese League in the 2023 season;

Champion of the Chinese Football Association Cup in the 2023 season;

The best scorer and best player of the Chinese Football Association Cup in the 2023 season;

Champion of U23 Asian Cup in 2024;

The best scorer and best player in the U23 Asian Cup in 2024;

Champion of the 2024 Super League;

The best scorer, best local scorer, best popular player, best player in the 2024 Super League;

The best scorer in the 2024 AFC Champions League;

Chinese Footballer of 2024;

Chinese Footballer of 2025;

Premier League champion in the 2025-2026 season;

2025-2026 Premier League best scorer, official best player, best goal (the 37th round of Tramed's goal), PFA (Player Association) best player, PFA best young player;

Top scorer in the 23rd U.S.-Canada World Cup in 2026;

Note: The personal honors of the Premier League’s monthly best and the best on the spot are not counted because there are too many ~lightnovelpub.net~ Also, because there is no "best scorer" award in Olympic football matches, the so-called Olympic best scorer is only However, it is the customary term used by fans for the player who scored the most goals in Olympic football matches, so it is not included in the official honor statistics.

(End of this chapter)