Chapter 1925 After the upset

When the match between the Chinese team and the Spanish team is about to start, in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, there is a pre-match press conference for the first second round of the World Cup group match tomorrow.

Debut is the hosts Portugal and Senegal.

Portugal's number one star Ricardo Balia is being interviewed by reporters.

He spoke about tomorrow's game:

"For us, the World Cup has no retreat, and every next game is a final. We will do our best to play the game against Senegal. The team has seriously summed up the experience and lessons of losing in the last game..."

Just as he said this, the originally quiet reporters in the audience suddenly became commotion.

Someone exclaimed: "Hu scored a goal!"

"...we're going to get into the... what?!"

Balia's words were interrupted in the middle, and he turned his head to look in the direction of the exclamation with a shocked expression.

"In the match between the Chinese team and Spain, Hu scored the opening goal!"

"To be precise, he used the opportunity of kick-off to score directly in the middle circle..."

"Just like his goal in the Champions League final in the 2028-2029 season!"

Ricardo Balia was a little dazed in the face of reporters who were chattering and making voices from different directions. He shook his head left and right, and his eyes jumped back and forth on every reporter who spoke, but his brain hadn't reacted yet:

What are they talking about?

China's opening lead?

Hu kick-off goal?

Center shot?

Are you kidding?

How can this be?

This is the World Cup!

But after a brief shock, Barea came back to his senses. He didn't bother to continue answering the question just now, but took out his mobile phone to watch the real-time game.

He wants to verify the reporters' claims.

It was too outrageous... He didn't believe that Hu Lai could do it!

After turning on the phone, he quickly found the real-time score.

It clearly shows:

Spain 0:1 China

Below the Chinese flag, there is the name of the goal scorer and the time of the goal:

Hu Lai 1min

Balia's eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets.

Whether it is a live broadcast of the game or the time of the goal shown in the statistics, it will only be counted to the minute, and it will not be accurate to the second.

So a goal scored within one minute, regardless of whether it was scored in ten seconds or fifty seconds, is counted as one minute.

This goal time means that it is really possible that Hu Lai scored directly from the kick-off...

It is unbelievable to score a goal in the middle circle, but Hu Lai has indeed done it before, so it cannot be said that it is completely impossible for him to score such a goal.

When he did it for the first time in the Champions League final, it shocked the whole of Europe... no, the whole world.

Since he can have such a kick in the Champions League, why can't he also do it in the World Cup?

The only question is... is Rodriguez Buckle brainless?

Why does he have a share every time such a goal is conceded?

The pre-match press conference between Portugal and Senegal is still in progress, but whether it is the people sitting on the stage or the people in the audience, everyone's thoughts are not on it...

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During the training interval, Renardo Lima brought a football to the middle circle, and then kicked the football towards the goal with a big foot.

The football finally flew high over the bar without any suspense.

"What are you doing, Renardo?"

The teammates who witnessed the whole process asked.

"What else can he do? He must want to score a kick-off circle like Hu did." Someone explained for Lima.

"How can it be so easy to kick off the ball in the middle circle... Otherwise, wouldn't everyone do that? If you want accuracy, you have to sacrifice speed. What's so difficult about a slow ball? If you want suddenness, you have to sacrifice accuracy. Sex, it's normal to kick the bottom line directly..."

"Yes. Then why can Hu do it twice?" someone asked.

As soon as this rhetorical question came out, the Brazilian players present didn't know how to answer it.

Yes, no one else can do it, so why can Hu Lai do it? And do it twice!

Does he have some special magical powers, or does Rodriguez Buckle have some fatal flaws?

"Don't count on this crooked approach. Hu's goal also blocked all subsequent imitators." Kabanka said, "Because future goalkeepers must pay special attention to their own position when kicking off."

On the training ground, Lima tried again. This time he slowed down. After the football landed on the penalty area line, it bounced towards the goal, and finally turned into a rolling stick, and it rolled into the goal slowly. .

Then Lima himself stopped trying.

Obviously, after these two experiments, he also knew that what he did was meaningless.

Lima, who came off the court, was still muttering: "How did Hu do it? From such a long distance, he can still use volley instead of swiping his big foot..."

Kabanka patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "Don't think about it, Renardo. You are really incomparable to this. You are an excellent striker, but not every excellent striker has to kick the football directly from the center circle. In the opponent's goal."

Lima sighed both aggrieved and helpless.

Yeah, he really can't compare to Holly.

Although he knew this, the words sounded somewhat harsh...

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"China team kick-off, Hu... Hu?! Hu! Ahhhhhh! Huh! My God! My God! What kind of goal is this! Scored the goal of the Spanish team! Did I read it correctly? Something went wrong? Could this really happen?!"

As soon as Ramon Cantero entered the room he shared with Meli, he heard the exclamation of the Argentine commentator from Meli's cell phone.

He was very surprised: "Why did Mellie watch this?"

Meli looked back and saw Cantero approaching, and shook his phone at him: "Don't you think this goal is really beautiful, Ramon?"

"So what if it's beautiful? That's Hu's goal! If you scored this goal, that's fine, Merry, I promise to watch it a hundred times a day..."

Meli shook his head: "I can't score such a goal."

Surprised and distressed, Cantero said, "You weren't like this before. Where's the proud Merry I knew?"

"What are you talking about... Do you think I can get in?"

Cantero was silent for a moment.

So Mei Li laughed: "You don't think I can get in, do you?"

"No, you can score, and you can definitely score directly from the center circle, Melly!"

Melly shook her head, "Stop talking nonsense. I really can't get in."

Then he looked down at the frozen picture on the phone screen and said with emotion: "This ball is really beautiful..."

"Yes, I admit, it's fantastic. But you don't want to watch it forever, do you?"

"It's really good...well, I've finished watching." Meli exited the video and raised her hands.

"Don't pay attention to Hu, don't make yourself angry." Cantero persuaded.

Mei Li shook her head, and said seriously: "It's okay, I don't feel like I've been offended..."

Cantero looked directly at Mellie: "You are not the Mellie Banega I know, tell me who you are pretending to sneak in! What did you do to Mellie!"

Meli couldn't laugh or cry: "What, Ramon!"

"Then you've surrendered, Melly. You feel inferior to Hu, and you're afraid of him..."

Meli smiled and said, "You're half right, Ramon. I really think I'm not as good as Hu. But I'm not afraid, and I'm not admitting defeat."

Cantero looked at Merry who said that with a dumbfounded look.

"I think I'm not as good as Hu now, but it doesn't mean I'll always think I'm not as good as Hu. It's like a game, do you think you're going to lose when you fall behind by one goal in the first half?"

Cantero shook his head.

"So I don't think I have lost to Hu, I am only temporarily behind in the contest with him. Whether I win or lose with him... can only be concluded after we have all finished our respective careers."

After listening to Cantero, he was stunned for a while before he said: "You have really changed a lot, Meli. What happened? Was the failure last season so miserable?"

Meili smiled slightly: "Because I have a good girlfriend."

"Sylvia?"

"Well. She made me realize my problems. As she said, if you don't admit your shortcomings, you can't improve. Taking a step back is not admitting defeat, but to punch better."

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"The game is over! The game is over! In the 100th minute, this unbelievable game is finally over! The Chinese team beat the defending champion 3-0 in the game! This is the biggest upset of this World Cup so far !Although the Chinese team has a top striker like Hu, their overall strength is still inferior to that of Spain, and they were able to beat Spain with three goals, which no one had guessed before the game!"

The picture on the projection screen was suspended when the Chinese players were cheering, and the commentator's voice naturally stopped abruptly.

The head coach of the Italian national team, Matteo Caviglia, said to the players who had just watched the game highlights: "The Chinese team beat Spain, which is definitely not good news for us. This means that the last round of the group stage Spain It will be against us. But it is also a good thing, because as long as we can beat them in the final round of the group stage, there is a great possibility of getting out of the group.”

"Now let's put aside the third group match. If we lose to the Chinese team in the second round, the situation will be very critical. So no matter what, we can't lose! Let's go to rest first, tomorrow's training will be for the Chinese team. I cheer up!"

After speaking, he called Caesar's name again: "Selius, please stay."

Someone on the team has their sights set on Caesar.

"Okay." Caesar sat still in his seat.

After everyone left the conference room ~lightnovelpub.net~ there were only the head coach Matteo Caviglia and Celius Caesar in the huge room.

Only at this time did Caveglia say to Caesar: "Selius, we have decided to make you a...substitute for the next game against the Chinese team."

Caesar just looked at him without saying a word.

"Don't look at me like that, Celius..." Caviglia said in a pleading tone. "We won the World Cup together eight years ago, you know, we are good friends, teammates for many years, you and I are always of the same mind. But now we need some changes. The Chinese team is a very dynamic team. The team, most of their players are in their prime, with good physical strength, we also need to make our offense more active..."

Caesar cut him off: "If it's good for the team, then I'm fine."

After speaking, he got up and left very simply.

Caviglia looked at the backs of his former teammates, and didn't say anything to defend himself, but just watched Caesar leave.

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PS, the single update starts today, I will try my best to collect manuscripts!

(end of this chapter)