Chapter 1799 The captain without the armband

When Hou Lai landed in front of the Catalan fans with boos, ignoring their boos, abuse and middle fingers, Renardo Lima, who was on the bench, thought this scene was really cool.

But he quickly came to his senses - hell! I am a Catalan player, how can I think my opponent is handsome? !

Then he put his head in his hands, and together with the substitute teammates around him, he regretted and suffered for his team's conceded goal.

On the coach's bench diagonally in front of the bench, the team's head coach Reilly Vicente did not hold his head and sigh like other players.

He has already walked to the sidelines, comforting and encouraging his players while the Madrid Pirates players are still celebrating their goals.

He pressed his hands down, signaling the players not to panic and keep calm.

Hu Lai will score goals in the game, which is a plan that their coaching staff has long had, and they also told the players this in the tactical meeting before the game.

Vicente is not counting on his team to be able to keep Houlay from scoring at home - even though Catalan have only conceded 17 goals so far this season, the fewest goals conceded in La Liga However, Vicente did not think that Catalonia's defense would be able to limit Hou Lai's scoring.

In the pre-match arrangements, he did not focus on how to contain Hu Lai's goals, but spent more time on how to make Catalan United score more goals.

As long as the Catalan United scored more goals than the Madrid Pirates in the end, wouldn't they be able to win?

So despite losing the ball, Vicente gestured to the players to continue playing as they had been set before the game.

It doesn't matter how the Madrid Pirates play, press high or fly with both wings, Catalonia must stick to its own pass control system.

If they press high, then use pass control to mobilize them and consume their energy.

If they fly on both wings, then the Catalan United will shrink in the middle, focusing on pirate players like Hu Lai who are capable of threatening the goal. Anyway, no matter how they fly, the Madrid Pirates will hit the ball in the middle in the end.

Responding to all changes with the same is Vicente's idea.

While the head coach reassured the players, Lima set his sights on Kabangka.

He wanted to see what his big brother would do.

Kabanka is encouraging his teammates on the field, like a captain without an armband.

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"...If you lose the ball, aren't you a sinner?"

The words of Hu Lai a minute ago sounded in Van der Stern's ears again, the words are still in my ears, the words are still in my ears...

I didn't expect to lose the ball!

Van der Stern blamed himself very much, and he was inseparable from this conceded goal-it was he who fouled Kamara in the game and gave the Madrid Pirates this free kick.

It was precisely because he briefly diverted his attention in the process of defending Hu Lai and missed Hu Lai that Hu Lai had the opportunity to hit the ball into the goal.

So this conceded goal is his responsibility.

No one can remain indifferent after making such a mistake.

Especially van der Stern, who missed the last round of the two sides' match this season due to injury.

He arrived at Catalan United from Albanian Munich, where great expectations were high, but he was injured before the third round of the league against Pirates of Madrid and missed that game.

The result was that game, Catalan United lost.

It is also the only game Cathay Pacific has lost so far this season.

After the game, the head coach of Catalan United, Vicente, believed that if van der Stern was not absent in that game, then it is entirely possible for Catalan United to fight back against the Madrid Pirates in an away game.

After all, the score of that game was 2:3, and the Catalan United only lost one goal.

Van der Stern is very grateful to the head coach for his trust and support, so he has been looking forward to this game since then, trying his best to prove that the head coach's trust has not been let down in the game.

As the main defensive midfielder of the original Blue and White Munich, he was poached by the Catalan United in his prime. Van der Stern immediately showed strong personal ability and excellent adaptability after recovering from injury.

So far in the league, Catalan United has only lost one game and tied one game, conceding the fewest goals in La Liga, and Van der Stern has contributed a lot.

In the end, he didn't expect that in this game, he made such a serious mistake in just over 20 minutes.

It made him depressed and ashamed.

He covered his face with his hands and bowed his head as the Madrid Pirates celebrated their goal wildly.

At this moment, someone tapped him on the shoulder:

"Don't blame yourself, Victor. That's the way the defender is. He can always take advantage of the defender's mistakes. But who can guarantee that he will not make mistakes in the game?"

"Kendor..." Van der Stern turned around and saw Kabanka, and he didn't make excuses for himself. "But the **** is right, the conceded goal is indeed my responsibility."

Hearing that Hu Lai said this to Van der Stern, Kabanka twitched the corners of his mouth: "Don't listen to him, that kid has a bad mouth. Don't take his words to heart, and don't let this throw away the ball." Take it to heart, the important thing is not the ball you have lost, but the next game. If you lose the ball and affect your performance, it will be more dangerous. Think about the fight against Hu before, isn’t it like this?”

Van der Stern and Hou Lai have played against each other several times, but what impressed me the most was the second leg of the Champions League semi-final last season.

Hou Lai's six-minute hat-trick is called the "miracle six minutes", but in fact, the collapse of the blue and white Munich was started by Hou Lai's goal just one minute after they scored.

That ball broke the hearts of all the Blue and White Munich players. Some were miserable and frustrated, some were angry and unwilling, and some were absent-minded.

So immediately after the kick-off in Blue and White Munich, the Madrid Pirates immediately intercepted the ball to fight back, and then Hou Lai scored another goal...

Although Hu Lai hadn't completed his hat-trick at that time, all the blue and white Munich players knew very well at this time... The general trend is over!

Van der Stern still remembers how he felt at that time, and his mentality collapsed.

Thinking of this, he nodded to Kabanka: "You are right, Kendor. I can't be immersed in the emotion of conceding the ball, the game is not over yet."

Glad that van der Stern could say that, Kabanka patted van der Stern **** the back.

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After Kabanka comforted and encouraged his teammates, he stood in his position and waited for the players of the Madrid Pirates to finish celebrating and return to their half.

He cast his eyes on Hu Lai.

This scene has been seen too many times since he moved to Cathay United.

When he was playing in Manchester before, he was able to stabilize Hu Lai at one end-in the history of the confrontation between the two, Hu Lai really didn't take advantage of him. At that time, the only time Leeds City won Manchester Athletic was because Kabanka had just recovered from a serious injury. The head coach did not dare to take the risk of letting him play, so he watched Hu Lai beat Manchester Athletic from the sidelines.

But when Hou Lai transferred from Leeds City to the Madrid Pirates, Kabanka felt that the opponent seemed to have undergone earth-shaking changes, completely different from the previous period in Leeds City.

And his relationship with Hu Lai has also changed from being chased to being chased.

At the beginning, Kabanka also had a psychological gap.

But after a season of tempering, Kabangka gradually came out of this psychological gap.

The "normal heart" he repeatedly mentioned in front of Lima is definitely not a cover, let alone an excuse to educate newcomers.

He really hid his ambitions, buried them deep in his heart, and then tried to deal with those rumors and the ups and downs in the game as calmly as possible.

He is not yet twenty-eight years old, but now he already has a sense of a veteran who is over thirty years old.

The mentality is much better than when I was young.

Perhaps it was the changes brought about by the two-year trough period...

Now watching the Madrid Pirates players wildly celebrate goals, he is neither frustrated nor anxious.

But this kind of calm does not mean giving up and surrendering, but for better efforts to defeat Hu Lai!

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When the Madrid Pirates players finished celebrating and ran back to their own half, the Catalan players had already "waited for a long time" in their positions.

Fans in the stands booed the Pirates players, who they believed were deliberately using celebrations to stall for time, and were slow to return to their own half.

And Hu Lai even had the face to wave to them.

So... boo him!

The boos didn't die down until all the Madrid Pirates players had returned to their positions.

In the quiet Sagrada Familia Stadium, the referee's whistle was particularly crisp.

With a clear whistle, the game restarted.

The morale of the leading Madrid Pirates is high, and the game seems to have entered their rhythm again.

As if everything will be the same as last season.

But the Madrid Pirates soon encountered a hard stubble.

Vukovic tried to break through with the ball in the middle, but was blocked by Van der Stern very hard-the Dutch midfielder also knocked down Vukovic while stealing the ball.

The latter lay on the ground to protest and complain to the referee, but this time the referee did not call Van der Stern for a foul.

"Van der Stern was not affected by the conceded goal! This is a great thing for Catalan United!"

After Van der Stern intercepted the ball, he passed the football to Kabangka who dropped back to meet him.

The latter turned and dribbled the ball away from Joaquin Bella, then played one-on-one with Juan Ramirez and passed the ball to Mario Salado, who was running behind Ramirez.

After the latter cut inside, he tried to shoot from the far corner, and the football slid out of the goal!

"Oh! Salado! It's so dangerous! It's almost there!"

After completing the shot, Salado held his head in both hands~lightnovelpub.net~ and then screamed in frustration.

But Kabanka gave him a thumbs up and shouted:

"Nice shot, Mario! That's it! That's it!"

Salado, who was praised by him, nodded, indicating that he understood.

The Catalan fans in the stands cheered for the team with loud singing. The atmosphere at the Sagrada Familia Stadium was warm, and the home team did not behave like it should have just conceded a goal.

Head coach Reilly Vicente stood in front of the coach's bench and said to his assistant Stein van Hoyzent:

"Kabunka is more mature and we are holding our ground."

But Van Hoyzen was not so optimistic: "Look again, Rayleigh. The game has just resumed."

Not only before the game, but even during the game, Van Hoyzen didn't dare to stand up at will...

Although he has only been in Cathay United for half a season, he has already fully realized the horror of Hu Lai.

(end of this chapter)