Carey's wife, Sophia, was actually right.

Her husband's advice to Hu Lai is "distant water", and far water can't quench the near thirst.

Even if Hu Lai immediately pulled Li Qingqing to start their "couple training", it is impossible to show the training results in a few days.

After the game against Catalan, the Madrid Pirates ushered in the Super Cup semi-final against Valentia.

Parrotti, who saw the problem in the game against Catalan United, adopted a rotation strategy for this Super Cup game, allowing more main players to rest.

On the one hand, it is to prepare for the third round of the Copa del Rey at the weekend, and on the other hand, Parrotti is determined not to involve too much energy in the Super Cup - if they eliminate Valentia, there will be a Super Cup finals.

There is still more time to be squeezed, and the entire month of January will be spent in a week of double matches.

The Spanish Super Cup is really tasteless. Parotis thought about it and decided to let it happen.

I won't say that I voluntarily give up, but I won't try my best to fight for it.

It was originally a super warm-up match used to warm up before the start of the season, but now it has been moved to the middle of the season, and the confrontation between two teams has been replaced by four teams fighting against each other... Parotti thinks that the Spanish Football Association only considers the arrangement. For their own interests, but completely ignore the interests of the team.

After half a season of games, the players were already exhausted.

The pitiful Christmas holiday is not enough for players to recover.

In January, due to the Copa del Rey, the schedule was already very dense, and two Super Cups were forced into it, which would make the players' physical fitness worse.

Although Hou Lai came off the bench in the Super Cup against Valentia, he failed to help the team beat their opponents.

In the end, the Madrid Pirates lost to Valentia 1:2 in the Super Cup semifinals and withdrew from the competition for the Super Cup.

After throwing off a burden, the Madrid Pirates ushered in the second team San André in the third round of the Copa del Rey.

In fact, it takes energy to play the Super Bowl, just as it takes energy to play the Copa del Rey. But Parrotti gave up the Super Bowl, because it takes much more energy to play the Super Bowl than to play the King's Cup.

Opponents are of different levels.

The Copa del Rey can also be used to train the rotation lineup, and the Super Cup is really a head-to-head tasteless.

Hu Lai started this game and broke his "scoring drought" of not scoring in three consecutive games with a goal.

His goal also helped the Madrid Pirates beat their opponents 4:0 away and advance to the fourth round of the Copa del Rey.

But here, it is almost impossible to meet any weaker opponents in the Copa del Rey.

A total of sixteen teams are basically teams from La Liga.

Pirates of Madrid drew Atlético Vizcaya in the draw, the Basque country's strong team will be their opponents in the fourth round of the Copa del Rey.

The fourth round will be held on January 26.

If the Madrid Pirates can reach the fifth round of the Copa del Rey, there will be an additional game on Wednesday 2 February.

And if the Madrid Pirates continue to move forward and reach the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey, then this game will be scheduled for February 8th or 9th.

In the middle of the next week, on February 15th and 16th, the quarter-finals of the Champions League will start.

Of course, the Madrid Pirates' Champions League match will be a week later, kick-off on Tuesday, February 22nd.

It can be said that starting from the New Year, almost all the Madrid Pirates have double matches a week.

This has a huge impact on the physical fitness of the team.

In addition, as the game progressed, physical energy was consumed, and injuries within the team began to increase. Joaquin Bella sprained his ankle in the previous training, has missed the Super Cup with Valentia, and the Copa del Rey game with San André, and he will continue to miss the game for nearly a month.

In addition, those minor injuries that do not affect the game but will affect the state are also common in many players.

After half a season of triumphant progress for the Madrid Pirates team, it seems that they have finally exhausted the strength they accumulated during the summer training camp, and their progress has gradually slowed down.

These circumstances gave Parotti the idea of ​​giving up the Copa del Rey.

In the next round of the Copa del Rey against Sporting Vizcair, he is considering whether to use a full bench lineup...

In the 21st round of the league, the Madrid Pirates defeated Valero 4:2 in an away game. Hou Lai had one goal and one assist, and was elected the best player in the game after the game.

He also scored in two consecutive games.

It looks like the state is recovering.

But there is also bad news.

That is, the team's backup center Ruiz injured his cruciate ligament after playing for five minutes in the game. Fortunately, the situation is not too bad. If he is treated conservatively, he only needs to miss two months of games.

Yes, "only" missing two months is the good news for the Madrid Pirates.

At least Ruiz's season has not been reimbursed, and he can return to the team at the end of March to make his own contribution in the sprint of the season.

But Ruiz's injury means that the Madrid Pirates' strength on the front line is even more stretched.

Originally, the Madrid Pirates had four forwards: Maxi Carey, Danielle Di Kunzo, Hou Lai, and Sanabria Ruiz. The four have different characteristics and can form different partners. can effectively complement each other.

As a result, after the start of this season, Carey and Ruiz were injured successively.

Now only Hou Lai and Di Kunzo are still healthy.

The offense of the Madrid Pirates depends entirely on them.

This means that in the rest of the game, neither of them can make a mistake. If anyone gets injured again, then Parotti will really be "a clever woman can't cook without rice".

He had to be more cautious about every next game.

So Parotti made up his mind and went to play Vizcaya with all the substitutes.

No matter whether it is Hu Lai or Di Kunzo, no one will make it, not even the squad for the competition!

The striker is handed over to the young people of the second team.

What does it look like.

It is best to be eliminated directly if you lose.

If you accidentally advance, you will continue to play like this in the next round.

Unless... so into the Copa del Rey final.

It is unreasonable to give up in the final.

Anyway, the Copa del Rey final will have to wait until almost mid-April, by which time Ruiz should have returned from injury, and with luck, Maxi Carey will also be able to meet the playing standards.

Before that, all competitions, whether it was the Copa del Rey, the league, or the Champions League... had to grit their teeth and get through it.

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In Tokyo, Japan, the third and fourth finals of the U23 Asian Cup are underway at the National Stadium.

The opponents are the Chinese Olympic team and the Iranian Olympic team.

In the 83rd minute of the game, the score was 2:1, and the Chinese Olympic team temporarily took the lead.

The Iranian Olympic team is seizing the last game time and launching a fierce attack on the goal of the Chinese Olympic team.

This game is related to the last place to participate in the Olympic Games.

The winners of the three or four finals will win a ticket to Los Angeles.

The Chinese team is currently leading, but Iran still has a chance.

It is absolutely impossible to say who will definitely win until the referee blows his whistle to end the game.

After all, counting injury time, there are about ten minutes left.

Everything is possible.

The Iranian Olympic team is attacking like crazy.

They have been attacking like this for five minutes.

The players of the Iranian Olympic team feel that if they continue to attack like this, it will not be long, maybe a few minutes...the Chinese Olympic team's goal will be blasted away.

The psychological quality of Chinese players has always been poor, and they break defenses at every turn.

As long as they can continue to exert pressure, the Chinese must be the ones who can't stand it in the end!

As long as we equalize the score, maybe we don't have to wait until overtime, we can score another goal in stoppage time, and give the Chinese team another "black three minutes"!

But their wishful thinking did not come true, because their attack was blocked by the Chinese Olympic team.

The captain of the Olympic team, the central defender Cai Shuyi who played for the Chinese Super League Shanhai Sailors, handed over the football to Xia Xiaoyu in front after stealing the ball.

Xia Xiaoyu protected the football and turned around. After adjusting the direction, he kicked a long pass!

What he was looking for was Zhou Zijing at the front!

"Zhou Zijing! The Olympic team's counterattack opportunity! Zhou Zijing, can he kill the game!"

The narrator gets excited.

This is indeed an excellent opportunity for the Olympic team.

Because of the siege of the Chinese Olympic team, most of the players of the Iranian Olympic team overwhelmed halftime.

At this moment, only their goalkeeper is in the backcourt!

Faced with such a situation, the goalkeeper can only abandon the goal and attack.

As long as Zhou Zijing can calm down a bit, maybe he can hang the empty door directly!

Under everyone's gaze, Zhou Zijing caught up with the football, and at the same time, the opponent's goalkeeper was already rushing to him.

At this time, the goalkeeper must be outside the penalty area. According to the rules, he cannot touch the football with his hands.

But he still jumped up and spread his arms, hoping to increase the defensive area - he had already guessed that Zhou Zijing would directly lob!

Zhou Zijing did make a shot, but he didn't actually shoot the football. Instead, he buckled the football to the left, just like that, past the goalkeeper of the Iranian Olympic team!

"Zhou Zijing...beautiful! Passed!"

Amidst the cheers of the commentator, countless Chinese fans in front of the TV were waiting for Zhou Zijing to shoot the football into the goal of the Iranian Olympic team.

But Zhou Zijing didn't do that...

After he caught up with the football, he continued to run towards the goal of the Iranian Olympic team!

Although at this time, there was no Iranian Olympic team player around him, everyone was still terrified.

Someone couldn't help yelling: "Shoot! What a mess!"

Of course, Zhou Zijing couldn't hear these people complaining to the TV.

The goalkeeper of the Iranian Olympic team who landed looked back and saw that Zhou Zijing was dribbling the ball instead of shooting.

He doesn't know why the No. 9 of the Chinese Olympic team doesn't shoot~lightnovelpub.net~ But he will make the opponent regret doing so!

The other Iranian Olympic teams are also desperately chasing back.

In their eyes, Zhou Zijing's entrustment gave them hope.

But that hope was fleeting.

Because Zhou Zijing brought football to the goal earlier than all of them.

No one can stop him from shooting...

But he still missed the shot!

Zhou Zijing just stepped on the soccer ball in front of the Iranian Olympic team's goal, then turned around to look at the desperate and lucky Iranian Olympic team players, and grinned at them:

"This is for you!"

He knocked the football into the goal of the Iranian Olympic team with his heel!

(end of this chapter)