Chapter 1698 Was looked down upon by the Chinese team

Hou Lai didn't just score a goal with a penalty kick.

He scored another goal in the 30th minute after the penalty kick.

At that time, the game had already progressed to 83 minutes, and the Sevilla Navigator pulled back a goal before that, so the score was 2:1, and the Madrid Pirates took the lead.

This one-goal gap allowed the Sevilla Navigators to see the hope of tying the score and even winning the game.

So in the last ten minutes of the game, they launched a fierce offensive against the Madrid Pirates' goal.

At this time, Parotti had used up all the substitutions.

Because the next day is the national team match day, he has to give the international players in his team more rest time to prevent them from playing with accumulated fatigue during the national team match and reduce their risk of injury.

But in exchange, Hu Lai is still on the court.

It's not that Parrotti has to embarrass the Sevilla Navigators, it's really...he doesn't need to replace Hou Lai in advance.

In the next two Chinese team games, Hu Lai will not return to China at all.

So there is no need to replace it in advance for the national team game.

In the 83rd minute, Hou Lai, who was still on the field, received a pass from the Croatian left winger Luka Celovic, who came off the bench, and shot in front of the goal, scoring his second goal of the game. a ball.

Helped the team to fix the score at 3:1 and seal the victory.

In the end, the Madrid Pirates defeated the Sevilla Navigator with this score in the away game.

After the game, Pirates fans mocked the navigator on the Internet:

"Last season, I remember we beat Navigator 4:0. From this point of view, this season's Navigator is indeed more difficult than last season, and the improvement is obvious!"

Immediately someone replied to him: "You are wrong, 4:0 is the home game. We won 3:2 in the away game last season. This season is also an away game. We also scored three goals, but the Voyagers scored one less. The ball, so they still regressed!"

The two sang together and satirized the Seville navigator again.

There are also people who are angry: "Please don't talk about 'celebrities coming home'! At the home court of the Navigator, Hu only scored six goals in three games. But he scored against the Navigator at the Pirate Park Stadium... Five goals. Well, more away goals...yes! That's 'The Great Comes Home'!"

It was enough to ridicule the fans of the arch-enemy.

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After the match against the Sevilla Navigators, La Liga was temporarily suspended to make way for the national team.

World Cup qualifiers in both Europe and Asia are in their final stages.

There are still two rounds left in the Asian qualifiers, that is, the top twelve matches. The winners and losers will be decided on the two national team match days in early September. By then, we will naturally know which teams can go directly to Spain and Portugal , which teams have to go to the play-offs.

The Chinese team has already qualified for the World Cup two rounds ahead of schedule. In another group, the South Korean team also advanced to the World Cup finals ahead of schedule under the leadership of Park Chun-tae.

At the same time, this is also the last time in his career that the 34-year-old Park Chun-tae will participate in the World Cup finals-five years later, at the age of 39, he will never have the chance to play in the World Cup. Park Chun-tae, who was good at speed when he was young, got older and suffered more injuries, and his speed dropped seriously. Without the advantage of speed, he naturally lost his former glory.

Except for China and South Korea, the other teams have not yet secured their qualification, and they will try their best in the last two rounds.

Especially the Japanese team, they don't want to break the record of not being absent from eight consecutive World Cups since 1998.

In the last round of the top twelve, the Japanese team failed to beat Iran at home, which is a great hidden danger.

So now they are only two points ahead of Iran. If there is a slight mistake in the next two rounds, the Japanese team will have to play a play-off...

In the next penultimate round, their opponent is the Chinese team.

For the Japanese team, there is a major positive.

That is Hu Lai, the number one star of the Chinese team and the leading shooter, who was not called back by Jorge Dillon this time.

In fact, apart from Hu Lai, there is another player from the Chinese national team who has not been recalled. That is Ou Yangjin who just went to Claude Ranger. Ou Yangjin stays at ease in the team and adapts to everything in Scotland.

However, Ou Yangjin is only a substitute player in the Chinese team. His presence or absence has little effect on the strength of the team.

Therefore, the focus of the Japanese team is only on Hu Lai.

As long as Hu Lai does not come, for them, the biggest threat to the Japanese team will not exist.

As for the others?

They don't really care.

Although it is also very strong, there is still a huge gap with Hu Lai.

From the perspective of the Japanese media, aside from Hu Lai, the Chinese team's overseas players are about the same level as their Japanese overseas players.

But the Japanese team has a lot of overseas players...

So as long as there is no Hu Lai, the Japanese team will not be afraid of the Chinese team at all.

At the beginning, after the Chinese team won the World Cup qualification two rounds ahead of schedule, some Japanese media optimistically estimated that in the next top 12 match between the Chinese team and the Japanese team, the Chinese team might not recruit any overseas players. Wouldn't it be easy for the all-main Japanese team to win the Chinese team in an away game?

In the end, only Hu Lai and Ou Yangjin did not return to China, and all the other overseas players returned.

But for the Japanese media, this is also a perfectly acceptable situation.

As long as Hu Lai doesn't come back, it's easy to talk about anything.

In the road map for the Japanese team to enter the World Cup planned by the Japanese media, the Chinese team is the biggest obstacle.

As long as the Japanese team can beat the Chinese team in the away game and take all three points, it almost means advancing.

Because in the last round of the top twelve, the Japanese team played against Thailand at home. The latter is the last and weakest team in this group.

There is no suspense in beating Thailand.

As long as China wins first, the Japanese team will get six points.

Even if Iran wins all of the remaining two rounds, the Japanese team still maintains a two-point lead over Iran.

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In fact, Jorge Dillon originally planned not to recruit any overseas players.

But was persuaded by the translator Yu Jintao.

"I understand your thoughts, Jorge. But Japan is a special opponent. If it's other teams, even Iran, you can use all domestic players...but Japan can't."

Dillon's idea is to use the opportunity of the last two top 12 games to train domestic players and narrow the gap between domestic players and overseas players in the national team.

But after listening to Yu Jintao's grievances between China and Japan, he immediately understood how unreliable his plan was.

But he still insisted not to let Hu Lai return home.

It's not to let Hu Lai rest, but to use the Japanese team to test it. If the current Chinese team does not have Hu Lai, it will still be a little better.

In this way, even if the Chinese team loses to the Japanese team in the end, at least the scene must be much better than the lineup composed of domestic players.

The most important thing is that just by not recruiting Hu Lai alone, the domestic media and fans may not let Dillon criticize him as "surrenderism" and "be timid before fighting."

It's not that Chinese fans can't accept losing to Japan - when Chinese football was weak in the past, they also lost to Japan - what they can't accept is losing to the Japanese team without resistance.

So if Dillon really dared to let domestic players play against the Japanese team without recruiting any overseas players, he would definitely be scolded to death.

And... this approach is actually very detrimental to domestic players. Because the Japanese team will definitely do their best in order to qualify for the World Cup. It is a huge psychological torture for every Chinese player to let domestic players who are not as strong as them face a wolf-like enemy at their home court, coupled with the grievances between China and Japan.

So doing this will not train them, it may even ruin them—this should not be the consequence they have to bear, but it is very unfair to them if it is imposed on them.

But in fact, Dillon did not recruit Hu Lai back, which still caused a lot of controversy. The media and fans did not accept this arrangement just because he recalled all overseas players except Hu Lai.

Mainly because everyone wanted to see Hu Lai too much-this was supposed to be the first time Hu Lai appeared in front of Chinese fans after winning the Ballon d'Or.

Everyone has been looking forward to that scene, and they're going to give Holly all the cheers.

In the end, Dillon messed things up.

Of course, some people will be upset, and some people even secretly hope that the Chinese team will lose to the Japanese team, so as to give them a reason to attack Dillon:

Let you not recruit Hu Lai!

lost?

deserve it!

I can't scold you to death!

Let's see if you still dare not recruit Hu Lai in the future!

It’s also a good thing that Hu Lai was not recalled. If according to Dillon’s original plan, no foreign players were recruited, then although he would not be fired by the Chinese Football Association just because he lost to the Japanese team, he would definitely offend all Chinese fans and fans. media reporter.

Then his life in Chinese public opinion will be difficult, UU reading www.uukanshu. With the help of the media consciously fueling the flames, the slightest problem with com will be magnified into a "too many to book" crime.

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"I really didn't expect that one day we would be looked down upon by the Chinese team..."

In the hotel room where he stayed, Sugiyama Tatsuya said with emotion.

"Although it is really uncomfortable, but in this way, our hope of qualifying for the World Cup will be greatly increased."

His teammate Kuroiwa Takenori said.

Others in the room agreed.

Then Junpei Morikawa suddenly said: "I advise you not to be so optimistic. The Chinese team without Hu Lai is definitely not a toothless tiger."

Everyone looked at each other, when Sugiyama Tatsuya stood up, and he said seriously:

"Indeed, although Hu Lai is missing, they still have many players who play in Europe like us. They are no worse than us. In the game the day after tomorrow, everyone still has to go all out. We will definitely go to Spain! Japanese football The glorious tradition cannot be broken in our hands! Otherwise, by then, we will really be looked down upon by others!"

(end of this chapter)