Fox in the Penalty Area

The latest website: When Xie Lan came home from get off work, she met Li Ziqiang who had just parked her car in the underground parking lot, so she warmly extended an invitation to Li Ziqiang:

"Hey, Lao Li, come to my house to watch the Europa League final!"

"I won't trouble you with this..." Li Ziqiang wanted to refuse.

"No trouble, no trouble! There are so many people watching the game in the middle of the night, so there is nothing to trouble you!" Xie Lan waved her hands repeatedly.

"That's what you say, Miss Xie. But every time I go to your house to watch a game, you have to invite me to dinner..."

"That's not troublesome. It's just an extra pair of bowls and chopsticks. Besides, in our family, the children are not around, and we don't often walk around. It was so deserted in those days, don't you think?"

The two walked into the elevator while talking.

Li Ziqiang knew that he could not reject Sister Xie's enthusiastic invitation, so he nodded, "Then I will bother you. But it's still early..."

Xie Lan shook her head: "It's not too early, it's not too early. It's only twenty days. This time will pass in the blink of an eye, but it's almost here!"

Li Ziqiang bowed his head and said nothing, twenty days is still fast?

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Twenty days is really fast.

For Leeds City, it is just a matter of two games.

On Monday, May 10th, in the thirty-seventh round of the Premier League, Leeds City challenged Thorpton away.

Although he had just experienced the Europa League final against London Bridge, Clark did not arrange for the main players to rest in this game.

After all, there will be no competitions in the future, and the opportunity to compete at this time is very expensive.

Because it is necessary to prevent the main players from losing their status after not playing for too long.

This is what the players of Leeds City hope for-there are three games left before the end of the season, and Lasky has not yet completed the task goal assigned to him by his boss Clarke.

The Europa League semi-final second leg scored twice, bringing Lasky's season total to 18 goals.

Two goals short of the goal.

In order to ensure the completion of the task, of course, the sooner the goal is better.

It can't be delayed until the Europa League final to complete this task, right?

So playing Thorpton and letting all the main players start the game will help Lasky complete the task.

In this game, the entire Leeds City team is trying to create opportunities for Lasky.

But perhaps because he wanted to score too much, Laski's performance in this game was not as easy as the last Europa League semi-final.

His teammates created more opportunities for him, and he wasted more opportunities.

Until the end of the game, he failed to score a goal.

Leeds City finally relied on Hou Lai's brace to beat Thorpton 2:1 in the away game.

After the game, everyone in the locker room comforted Lasky, who was depressed, and told him not to care too much about not scoring in this game.

In the last round, Leeds City played the relegated Sandwell at home, and he still has a chance.

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On Sunday, May 16, the 2026-2027 Premier League season will finally come to an end.

At this point in the league, the suspense of winning the championship and relegation is over-the league championship belongs to Athletic Manchester, and the three teams that will be relegated are also confirmed.

They are Helmer, who is ranked eighteenth, Sandwell, who is ranked nineteenth, and Northumbria, who is ranked last.

Among them, Northumbria performed well in the Premier League last season, and even almost qualified for the European war.

As a result, this season's performance has plummeted - only six wins and two draws in the 37 rounds of the league, and 29 losses. Scored 19 goals, conceded 63 goals, accumulated 20 points, and was relegated early.

The 18th-ranked Helmer has 28 points, 11 points away from Burleigh, who is 17th in the league, and is also determined to be relegated very early.

At present, the only suspense in the league is the qualification for the European war.

The most competitive is the Champions League qualification.

The top four in the league are Manchester Athletic with 89 points, Stan Park Rangers with 70 points, Wiggerston with 69 points, and London Bridge with 68 points.

Tramed, who is fifth in the league, has 67 points.

It can be said that apart from the league champion Manchester Athletic, the other four teams are very likely to qualify for the Champions League next season.

In order to ensure fairness and justice, the last round of the league was kicked off at the same time.

But none of this has anything to do with Leeds.

They only care about one thing, and that is whether Laski can complete the league's 20-goal goal in this game.

Captain Pete Williams even wanted to talk to Lasky specifically, hoping to reduce his pressure and let him not have too much psychological burden.

But he was persuaded by Hu Lai: "The more you do this, the more pressure he will have! A professional player, can't even bear such a little pressure?"

"Then what do you say?"

"Kick as you want. Instead of avoiding the pressure, it is better to face the pressure. I believe Dominic can withstand this level of pressure." Hu Lai looked at Pete who seemed to be hesitant, and asked: "Why? , don’t you trust your teammates?”

Pete shook his head quickly: "No, I believe it."

Hu Lai spread his hands together: "Then it's over?"

Then he patted Pete on the shoulder: "Peter, you are going to be the leader of this team in the future. No matter what, you must trust your teammates. This is very important."

Pete was lost in thought.

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From the first minute of the game, Leeds City, who played at home, launched a fierce attack on Sandwell's goal.

Sandwell, who has been relegated early, lacks fighting spirit.

So the game has completely entered the rhythm of Leeds City.

Eleven minutes after the whistle kicked off, Kamara was dragged to the ground by Sandwell's defender when he broke into the penalty area from the wing. The referee decisively whistled and sentenced Sandwell to death.

Hou Lai, who was originally the number one penalty shooter in the team, directly stuffed the football into Lasky's arms.

"Come on, Dominic."

This scene surprised the narrators.

It is really difficult for them who don't know the inside story to understand why Hu Lai gave up this penalty.

Could it be that after missing the Premier League Golden Boot this season, the can was broken?

Before this round of the league, Hu Lai basically bid farewell to the competition for the Premier League Golden Boot this season. His 20 league goals are seven away from Stones' 27 goals. How can he not score eight goals in this last game?

Pete saw that Hu Lai just casually stuffed the football into Lasky's arms, and then he didn't care about Lasky's surprised expression, waved his hand, and then turned and exited the penalty area.

He remembered what Hu Lai said to himself before the game.

Believe in your teammates...

So he shouted at Laski who was still in a daze: "Dominique!"

Laski was called back to his senses, and looked up.

"Come on, you can do it!" Pete clenched his fists and waved.

He noticed that the expression on Laski's face changed little by little, and finally he nodded vigorously towards himself.

Then he turned around and set up the football.

After laying out the football, Laski got up and stepped back, looking at the goal again, he felt unprecedented pressure.

He felt as if he was facing the most crucial goal in the penalty shootout of the Europa League final.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

Thinking of Hu Lai without saying a word, he gave himself the penalty.

I also thought of Pete's encouragement to himself.

Thinking about the help the whole team gave him this season...

How can there be no pressure?

But how could he be afraid of pressure?

When the whistle sounded, he opened his eyes, exhaled, ran up, kicked up!

The football was slammed by him...in the middle!

Sandwell's goalkeeper dives to the right!

Amid huge cheers, the football flew into the goal!

"Beautiful! Only 12 minutes into the game, Leeds City took the lead! Lasky scored his twelfth league goal this season! Ranked second only to Hu Lai in the Leeds City team two!"

After scoring the goal, Lasky did not rush to celebrate, but raised his head and roared, venting all the pressure of not scoring in the last round of the league.

Immediately after he was overwhelmed by the swarming Leeds City players.

Everyone cheered loudly in his ears.

The Leeds City players on the bench were even more excited, they were shouting: "One more! One more!!"

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After Laski opened the scoring for Leeds City, Leeds City scored again in the 36th minute.

This time it was Hu Lai who scored the goal.

He shot a cold arrow at the front of the penalty area and pierced Sandwell's goal with a long shot.

Leeds City lead 2:0!

After leading by two goals, there is basically no suspense for Leeds City to win the game.

The players began to feed Lasky the ball continuously, hoping to help him complete the goal of 20 goals in this game.

Their actions were so obvious that the commentators couldn't understand it-why the Leeds players were desperately trying to create opportunities for Lasky.

It would be more or less understandable if they created opportunities for Hu Lai. Although Hu Lai has no hope of winning the Premier League Golden Boot, what if it is to make him rank higher in the Premier League scorer list?

What is the purpose of creating opportunities for Lasky?

Can Laski still hit the Premier League Golden Boot?

Or is Lasky's popularity in the Leeds City team already so good?

You must know that not only the other players in Leeds City are creating opportunities for Laski, but even Hu Lai is doing it-Leeds City's first goal of the game, Lasky's first goal, but It was the penalty opportunity that Hu Lai gave him!

Everyone can't understand, and it's normal. After all, no one would have imagined that the players of Leeds City would fight so hard for a meal...

The actions of the Leeds City players deeply stimulated the Sandwell players, who regarded it as a "provocation" to themselves.

So they stepped up their defense against Lasky.

Although they have no idea why Leeds are so obsessed with letting Laski score...

In the 72nd minute, Hu Laila took the ball after leaving the penalty area, and he sent a through kick very rarely!

This caught Sandwell by surprise-after all, when did you see Hou Lai organize an attack outside the penalty area before?

Lasky ran into the space, and after receiving a pass from Hu Lai, he kicked and shot directly!

The football rolls from the Sandwell keeper's feet into the net!

"Lasky! Lasky finally scored again! He was very excited after the goal, ran to Pete Williams who passed the ball to him, hugged him, and was followed by more Leeds City The players surrounded... All Leeds City players looked very excited and excited, which somewhat puzzled us... But anyway, Leeds City scored again! They led Sandwell 3-0 at home! With A clean and clear victory has brought an end to this season's league!"

Matthew Cox cried, also wondering.

Because after Laski scored, the Leeds players were so excited, it felt like they won the league championship...

On the pitch, even the Leeds City players on the bench rushed out to their teammates on the field who were celebrating, joined them and continued to celebrate.

Sam Randle nudged Clark. "It's going to bleed again!"

Clark didn't speak, but answered him with a hearty laugh.