Fox in the Penalty Area

The Florence City Stadium, which can accommodate 45,000 people, is full of seats.

There are about 42,000 fans of the home team Ferenc, and less than 3,000 are Leeds fans from afar.

These two thousand people couldn't play any tricks in front of the Ferenc fans.

In fact, it stands to reason that Leeds City fans should come more.

But the Italian side only gave Leeds City fans 2,800 tickets for safety reasons.

The reason for safety is actually nonsense.

If English football hooligans are notorious, Italian football hooligans are not far behind.

When the Ferenc fans went to the away game, the Leeds City Club did not give more than 2,000 tickets.

The Flender Stadium can only accommodate 30,000 people, but Ferencz was allocated 5,000 tickets.

So obviously, Ferencz just doesn't want Leeds City fans to come to the away game to cheer for the team. They have tried their best to create a near-perfect home atmosphere.

Actually they did.

The game hasn't started yet, and it's like a pot is boiling in the city stadium.

In terms of creating an atmosphere, everyone knows that England fans are very understanding, but in fact the Italians are not weak at all.

If the English like to use singing to ignite the atmosphere of the game.

The Italians, then, are really good at "igniting" the home court - literally. They will use various fireworks flares to make their home court look like an erupting volcanic crater.

Red, orange and green fireworks and signal flare smoke permeated the stadium, making the PM2.5 value on the scene directly off the charts.

Chinese fans must be deeply impressed by the foggy Serie A broadcast in winter. In some games, they can’t even find football. It makes people wonder whether the players on the field can see each other—if one side is wearing white The jersey, maybe it will be optically invisible on the court...

There is quite a sense of déjà vu watching the Silent Hill Football League.

Although today's game is not so exaggerated, there are also purple and yellow fireworks in the stands-that is the color of Ferenc's home jersey. Ferenc also has a nickname called "Purple and Gold Army".

Now this purple and gold team has lined up their strongest lineup, and with the support of fanatical home fans, everything is ready and ready for battle.

Singing and roaring, coupled with the smoke and fire that diffused throughout the stadium...

After the sound and light effects are activated, the atmosphere of the home court is very good.

But that doesn't mean much to the Leeds players...

After all, they have seen the home court with more visual impact than here.

One of the benefits of participating in European competitions is that you can increase your knowledge.

After going to Turkey, the Leeds City players now feel that there are few home games in the world that have a more terrifying atmosphere.

So in the face of the Ferenc fans who were about to ignite their home court, the Leeds City players seemed calm...at least on the surface.

Hou Lai looked calmly at Mauro Albertazzi who walked up to him, and the latter walked up to him, stretched out his hand, and shook hands with him.

This is a regular procedure before the game.

Even if the next two teams have played their brains out, they still have to shake hands before the game, saying "friendship first, competition second".

Because every player knows very well that this is going through the motions, so they are very perfunctory when performing this procedure. To say "shake hands" is actually more appropriate to say "touch hands".

One side stands still, and the players on the other side come one by one, walking non-stop, and touching each other's players one by one is considered a handshake.

It might be more appropriate to say "high fives".

Unless the relationship is particularly good, for example, two people are originally friends but play for different teams, and it is normal for them to take this opportunity of shaking hands to chat with each other, exchange pleasantries, and say hello.

As for those who have hatred... Maybe they can't even hold hands,

Skip it directly to save time.

Albertazzi and Hou Lai are not familiar with each other, nor do they have any enmity.

So in the first round of the match, the two people just shook hands in a very ordinary way, without any other communication.

But today, when Albertazzi walked up to Hu Lai, he took the opportunity of shaking hands, stared into his eyes and said, "As I said, Hu, don't try to score against me."

After he finished speaking, he left without stopping any longer.

If the people around didn't pay attention to them, they probably wouldn't know that Albertazzi had said a word to Hu Lai.

But Ferenc centre-back Nicolo Serafini, who was following Albertazzi, knew.

After Albertazzi finished speaking, he saw that Hou Lai stayed where he was.

He was obviously taken aback by Albertazzi's words.

Think about Albertazzi's 18 successful saves in the last match...it would be foolish to replace anyone.

Serafini naturally knows about Hu Lai, the winner of the Premier League Golden Boot World Cup Golden Boot European Best Young Player Award... so many halos, the top talent among young talents.

Such an outstanding person must be very proud and confident.

As a result, he was completely zero-blocked in the last confrontation with Albertazzi. After the game, so many fans and the media made a joke and made a video mocking "whip the corpse".

I must have suffered a very heavy blow in my heart, right?

Maybe, the self-confidence that was hit is gone, and it is entirely possible to start doubting yourself...

Thinking of this, Serafini even sympathized with Hu Lai in his heart.

There are more than one or two "geniuses" whose confidence has been destroyed by Albertazzi.

"Iceberg" Albertazzi has been a leader since the youth team. He has met countless opponents who are also the best, and there are many people who have no confidence in being beaten by him.

For example, Marco Rossini, a talented midfielder who plays for the giants Insubre, is only one year older than Albertazzi, so the two are almost completely synchronized in the process of growing up, and they have played against each other a lot This time, they can be regarded as a pair of "old rivals".

But this organizational midfielder actually played as a striker in Insubre's youth team at the beginning. He once scored 89 goals in a season and was hailed as a "genius striker".

Why is it now an organizational midfielder?

Because he met Albertazzi.

In many confrontations with Albertazzi, the talented striker did not take advantage of the slightest advantage. In the end, he was beaten directly at the forward position and lost his confidence.

However, after switching to midfield, I regained my confidence and found my feeling. Otherwise, it's hard to say how his career will go in the future.

Rossini is now a regular rotation player in the Insubret first team. For him who is only 20 years old, being able to play in the first team of the giants so quickly is considered a very good development... After all, there are still many young geniuses who are at the same time as them, and later they can't even play professional games. .

Seeing that Hu Lai was in a daze, Serafini ignored him, went around and shook hands with the next Leeds City player.

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Just as Albertazzi was talking to himself, Hu Lai heard the emotionless mechanical sound in the system space.

But he didn't pay attention, his attention was all attracted by Albertazzi's words just now.

That statement itself is actually nothing special.

It is nothing more than what Albertazzi said to himself at the European Best Young Player Awards Ceremony.

What made Hu Lai concerned was that the "iceberg" Albertazzi actually had a psychological battle with himself before the game.

Of course, it is also possible that it is not some kind of psychological warfare, but simply wants to say this sentence to himself.

But no matter what the reason is, in Hu Lai's view, as soon as Albertazzi said this, his personality in his mind collapsed.

The Italian super-genius goalkeeper who stood alone and cold like an ice peak in the sky and the earth collapsed.

During this period of time, the media were frantically boasting about Albertazzi's "Heavenly Genius" and "Iceberg Man Design", which made Hu Lai really think that this kid is some kind of chosen one, who can be as strong as an iron before he is 20 years old. Can be calm and calm in the face of any situation.

Especially the 18 saves in a single game are really astonishing, and after each save, he doesn't throw a punch or growl, and is steady.

Invisibly also consolidated the "personal design" of Albertazzi.

As a result, what he said today made Hu Lai realize that Albertazzi was not a real iceberg, and he couldn't really be as calm as he said.

This discovery is actually very important.

Because that means that in this game, Albertazzi's heart fluctuates, there are ups and downs... If this is the case, there are loopholes to take advantage of.

Three consecutive games with zero seals, helping the team beat their new club next season, setting a record in the Europa League, being praised by the whole of Europe... How many people can really maintain a normal mind after going through these things?

Hey……

Hu Lai felt that the snow on the top of the fabled iceberg had begun to melt.

Eh wait?

He suddenly thought, did he hear other voices just now?

By the way, the system...

System Dad!

Hu Lai burst into tears.

How long has it been since the World Cup?

Nine months!

In nine months, he had only seen one mission, and it was the Asian Cup mission that ultimately failed.

Dad, do you know how I got here for nine months?

Except for the fixed points for scoring goals, all of them are going out. Just one Asian Cup cost 700,000 yuan, but it was all in vain.

Now all the points in his hand are kept.

When he returned to the national team to participate in the China Cup, he did not use any props. This championship was completely won by the team's own efforts.

In the club, apart from using three cards for Morikawa Junpei at the beginning, the points have never been used now. Even if it was the two games against Ferencz, he couldn't bear to use such things...

Being so stingy is naturally because there are no new tasks to come, so there is no way to get a lot of points. The points in your hand will be less if you use them, so don’t use them if you can.

If it weren't for being able to enter the system space at any time, maybe Hu Lai would have thought that the system had left him...

So when Hu Lai realizes that the system has just released a new task, don't mention how happy it is-if it doesn't open for three years, it must eat for three years after opening!

Thinking of this, he entered the system's task log.

In fact, before he clicked on the mission log, he more or less guessed that it was probably related to Albertazzi.

And needless to say, he must have allowed himself to score a goal against Albertazzi in the game.

Nothing more than these, what kind of flowers can this kind of task conjure up?

"Mission: The mountain is a man-made peak. Alpine climbing comes from the Alps. It is a huge challenge to quickly conquer a mountain in a self-sufficient way with a small amount of tools and supplies without the help of fixed ropes to carry equipment supplies and oxygen cylinders. But the sense of accomplishment you get after successfully challenging the challenge is also huge. Therefore, you are required to complete the task without the help of any system props..."

Hu Lai snorted when he saw this.

Without the help of any system props?

Of course, that's no big deal. I haven't been here for the past few months! Besides, since I want to defeat Albertazzi, of course I have to defeat him myself to make sense!

This is also specially prompted by the system?

Even without this restriction, I wouldn't use props!

Adding this restriction now makes it look like he underestimated him—what about thieves?

After complaining about the system in his heart, Hu Lai continued to look down:

"...Mission Objective: Score a hat-trick against Albertazzi in this game."

"Task Reward: Points x300000, x1."

...

What the fuck are you about the system!