Fox in the Penalty Area

Yong Jun, who was staring at the La Liga schedule on his phone, suddenly sighed heavily.

This caught Zhang Qinghuan’s attention: “What’s wrong, Uncle Yong? Homesick? It’s okay, we’ll go back in two days, and you can also accompany you at home…”

Yong Jun interrupted Zhang Qinghuan’s guess: “What do you think? I’m a pity for you!”

“What a pity do I have? What pity do I have?”

“On the 15th, the 16th round of La Liga, you could have gone to the Crown Stadium to challenge the Madrid Kings.”

Zhang Qinghuan suddenly, that round of the league was Sarria’s away game against the Madrid Kings.

So he laughed and teased his agent: “Uncle Yong, do you have an achievement system for your agent?”

“What nonsense are you talking about?”

“Then why are you so obsessed with’punch-in’? I can’t go to the Crown Stadium this time, and there will be another time. Do you think I won’t be in Sarria next season?”

“The future is the future, now is the present. How good is your momentum now, and you are going to play in the Asian Cup… When you come back, the position in the team is gone, you have to compete again and readjust…”

“That can’t be helped, isn’t it?” Zhang Qinghuan spread his hands together, “Can I still go to the national team?”

Yong Jun sighed and said nothing.

Zhang Qinghuan certainly cannot refuse the national team. So unless the national team is not called up, Zhang Qinghuan must play the Asian Cup when he is in good condition.

If he doesn’t care about the Asian Cup four years later, just go. But now this is Zhang Qinghuan’s first season in Europe, the most critical period of adaptation… At this time, playing in the Asian Cup makes Yong Jun feel that the Football Association’s consideration is not proper.

But he is just an agent, so don’t interrupt anything about the national team. So he adhered to the bottom line and stopped talking.

But Zhang Qing laughed and said: “It’s a pity to say that Hu Lai is a pity. He couldn’t even play the last Champions League group match.”

“What’s the pity? Whether Leeds played in this UEFA Champions League group stage will not affect their play in the UEFA Europa League in the second half of the season…”

Seeing that Uncle Yong didn’t understand the point, Zhang Qinghuan explained: “But Hu Lai missed one game and lost the chance to compete for the Champions League Golden Boot…”

“What the hell?” Yong Jun thought he had heard it wrong. “The Champions League Golden Boots? What do you think? How can anyone who can become a Golden Boot only in the group stage?”

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Qinghuan said: “World Cup Golden Boots!”

“Cough!” Yong Jun coughed, “That’s different. After the World Cup, you can score five or six goals to compete for the Golden Boot in seven games. But how many games are in the Champions League? There will be six games in the group stage. Adding the knockout rounds and playing to the finals, it will be 13 matches. In total 13 matches, if you want to get the Golden Boots by scoring six group matches? You really underestimated all the heroes in the world!”

Zhang Qinghuan waved his hand grinningly: “It’s not me, Uncle Yong, it’s Hu Lai!”

“This is what Hu Lai said?”

“No, we used this to make a joke on Hu Lai…”

Yong Jun breathed a sigh of relief: “I don’t think he is so inflated…”

Hu Lai, who scored five goals, was lucky enough to win the Golden Boot trophy at the World Cup this summer, but the same five goals are not prominent enough in the Champions League.

At present, the top scorer in the Champions League is Paris-Herger striker Mendy Payer, who scored seven goals in five group games.

Then came the “Prince” Alexandra Cerrados, who played for the Madrid Kings. After missing the first group stage due to injury, he scored six goals in just four games. It’s equally amazing.

Serius Caesar of the Italian giants Turin Bulls also scored six goals. At the age of thirty-four, his state has not significantly declined, and he is still the “Caesar the Great” who made his opponents fearful.

Behind the three of them is the camp that scored five goals-there are as many as four people in this camp, except for Hu Lai. There are also Manchester Athletic’s main striker Marvin Stones, the Madrid Pirates of Holland Maxi Carey, and the blue and white Munich’s Souza Espinola.

No one is unknown, all are top figures who have long been famous in world football.

This shows how fierce the competition in the Champions League is.

That’s why Yong Jun said that they think Hu Lai can get the Golden Boots only by the group stage.

As the most technical and tactical football event on the planet, the Champions League brings together the world’s top players, all positions are the same. To be able to become a Champions League golden boot means that he must be one of the top players with scoring ability.

Therefore, the selection of the best team of the Champions League in each season can be regarded as representing the eleven people with the highest level on the planet today:

There is no selection of the best players in the UEFA Champions League today. The team of the season can be considered as the best selection of the UEFA Champions League. Those who can occupy a place in this lineup are the best players in European football that year.

At the same time, because of the status and level of European football in the world football, it can also be roughly equal to the world football leader.

Those players who can be selected for the Champions League’s best team for many consecutive seasons are naturally the most top-notch people in their positions.

And such a person is the undisputed top star in world football.

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“In the eighty-first minute of the game, Leeds City used up the last substitution spot. Clark replaced Camara with Walsh. This means that Hu will stay on the court and finish the game… …Because there is no need to participate in the last group stage of the Champions League next week, there is no need to worry about Hu’s physical ability to keep up…”

The TV broadcast gave Hu Lai a close-up shot with subtitles at the bottom of the screen:

“Two goals in this game”

Leeds led the newly promoted Sandwell with a score of 4:1 in the away game.

With about ten minutes of game time left, this score almost means that Leeds City scored three points ahead of schedule.

When Wales international Jack Walsh played, the atmosphere of the game was very relaxed.

There is nothing wrong with saying that this game has entered the garbage time ahead of schedule.

Leeds slowed down and stopped being aggressive. Sandwell at home also lost the thought of resisting in the face of such a huge point difference.

Walsh didn’t have much expectation for his substitute appearance.

He was injured in the game at the beginning of October and only recently returned. Now coming off the bench is to let him find the feeling of a long-lost game, and the coach does not have high hopes for him.

This game does not require any outstanding performance from him.

So when Walsh sent a pass from the side, it was indeed a bit random, passing the front point and the middle, rushing to the back point.

Just when Walsh didn’t expect anything to happen, a figure shot to the back point, flew with a very small angle, and padd the flying football towards the goal!

Sandwell’s goalkeeper couldn’t make a save, so he could only watch the football fly into the goal he guarded again in the middle!

“Wow! Hu!!! It’s Hu! Hat trick! This is his first hat trick in the league this season! It’s finally here! Clark was right to keep him on the court!”

Jack Walsh was in a daze. He didn’t expect that he would complete an assist right after he came on the court…

But Hu Lai ran to him to celebrate and gave him a thumbs up: “It’s a good pass, Jack!”

Walsh froze for a moment, and then nodded again and again: “Yes, yes, I saw you running back, so I deliberately passed the ball to the back! Ha, Hu, you really didn’t waste my pass. !”

“You can have such a level of cross just on the court, Jack, you are in good condition!” Lorenzo, wearing the captain’s armband, ran up, hugged Walsh, praised him, and was happy for him.

The other Leeds City players ran up to surround them, cheering for Hulay’s hat-trick, and cheering for Jack Walsh’s assist when he returned from injury, which meant that his comeback was a success. It is also a good sign.

Clark turned his head and said to assistant coach Landier: “I really didn’t leave him on the court just to get him to complete a hat trick…”

Randyl laughed loudly: “No matter what. Walsh had an assist just after he recovered from injury. This will greatly enhance his confidence. And if Walsh can perform normally, I think for us next This half of the season is absolutely beneficial! You can treat it as a parting gift from Hu, ha!”

Clark shook his head: “He is like this, I’m even more reluctant to let him go…”

Matthew Cox also said: “I don’t know if the fans in Leeds will miss him more after seeing Hu’s hat-trick… Then he will be absent for at least one month. When he comes back, The Europa League may be re-ignited. But this is good news for the other teams in the Premier League-see Hu, who is in such a good state, say goodbye to the Premier League~www.wuxiax.com~ They can breathe a sigh of relief. !”

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On December 13, 2026, the day after Leeds City defeated Sandwell 5:1 away, Hulai, the hero who helped the team win, packed his bags, left Leeds alone, and returned to China by plane.

Among all the overseas players, he was the latest to start because his game was played last.

Players like Wang Guangwei and Xia Xiaoyu, who did not play in the first team at all, even bid farewell to the club a week ago and returned to the national team to train with everyone.

When the Hulais were still at the London airport, Chinese journalists posted their photos and videos on the domestic Internet.

As the last player of the Chinese team to return to the team, his return means that the Chinese team, which has been training for half a month, can finally prepare for this much-anticipated Asian Cup in the most complete form.

(End of this chapter)