Fox in the Penalty Area

The relegation team is really difficult to play. Don't think that the Madrid Pirates only locked the victory at the last minute because of their performance.

Catalonia's performance was not much better, and they were not distracted by the Champions League, and they almost rolled over on the road.

Just sixteen minutes into the opening, Real Huelva took the lead.

Then he shrunk back and started to set up the bus at his home ground.

The Catalan United bombed indiscriminately for the rest of the time.

Siege for so long, until 70 minutes later, Catalan's top scorer, Emond Peterson, equalized the score for the team.

But if it is just a draw, Catalan United is completely unacceptable. .

In the case of being eliminated from the Champions League, the Catalan United have only the league and the Copa del Rey to compete for - they have already joined the Copa del Rey final with the King of Madrid.

The King's Cup is a little tasteless, the league championship is the most important thing.

With the Madrid Pirates winning, if Catalan can't take Real Huelva away, they will be thrown further and further down the table.

Before this round of the league, Catalan were four points behind the Madrid Pirates. The Madrid Pirates have already won this round. If the Catalan United just draws with Real Huelva, the difference between the two teams will be extended to six points.

This will make the last round of the dialogue between their home court and the Madrid Pirates directly meaningless.

Because even if they win the Madrid Pirates at home, they will not be able to win the championship. In turn, they may be cheaper than the King of Madrid. The Catalan United and the Pirates of Madrid are not mortal enemies. Their rivals are only the King of Madrid and Saria. .

Similarly, the mortal enemies of the King of Madrid are the Catalan United and the Madrid Pirates.

Everyone has an enemy in the same city.

Unlike Catalonia, Real Huelva can accept a draw.

Since none of their direct rivals for relegation have won, even a draw would not have dropped them into the relegation zone.

Although they won the game, the ranking may be higher, but compared with the risk of being beaten by the Catalan United in order to win the game, it is not unacceptable to draw the Catalan United at home...

So Real Huelva began to recycle, hoping to shake hands with Catalan at home.

But this relieved the pressure on the Catalan United defense line, allowing Catalan United to attack with full force in the last 20 minutes of the game.

With the offensive strength of Catalonia, when they let go of their hands and feet, the threat immediately increased greatly.

The result was that in the 78th minute, Paterson scored twice to help Catalan turn defeat into victory.

The giants from Barcelona scored three points without a hitch.

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Of the three teams vying for the league title, only the King of Madrid has it easier.

They beat the second-to-last Phoenicians 4-0 at home.

Merry started this game and played the whole game. He scored twice and was the primary contributor to the team's easy victory.

Twenty-five league goals also made him chasing Hu Lai in the league scorer list.

There are still five rounds left in the league, he will not only defeat Hu Lai in the competition for the league championship, but also will not surrender to Hu Lai in the personal honor of the top scorer!

The gap of six goals, he felt that with his current state, is not an insurmountable moat.

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"Hey Merry, do you practice shooting again?"

After training, seeing Merry continue to stay on the court, some teammates asked.

"Yeah." Merry replied simply.

"But your archery is already very good..." Everyone was half-joking. "Leave a way for us! Haha!"

Merry laughed first, then shook his head and said, "Not yet, I'm still far behind."

The team's left back Rafael Fonseca exclaimed: "25 goals in the league, how far is it?"

He was obviously following the joke just now and continued to joke.

But Meli's response surprised other Madrid Kings players, including him.

He nodded and said, "I'm not the number one scorer yet."

"Huh?" Rafael Fonseca's smile froze on his face. "You...want to compete for the Golden Boot?"

Seeing the Brazilian left-back's expression, Meli asked, "You think I can't do it, Rafael."

Fonseca was a little unaccustomed to Melli's aggressiveness. He froze for a moment, then shook his head with an embarrassed expression: "No, no. I just... er, hell, Hu has scored thirty-one goals... …”

He still has nothing to say:

Did Hu Lai not score a single goal in the remaining five rounds?

Obviously not possible.

Merry said seriously: "Of course I know it's hard. But anything is worth doing just because it's hard."

After that, he stopped chatting with Fonseca, but turned and walked towards the goal, ready to start his own shooting training.

The conversation between Fonseca and Melli just now suddenly cooled the originally happy atmosphere on the training ground.

Everyone didn't know what to say and could only leave.

They will definitely have their own opinions on the fact that Meli wants to compete with Hu Lai for the top scorer, but there is no need to say it.

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Cerrados was in his daughter's bedroom telling her a bedtime story when the phone in his pocket rang.

He looked at it and saw that it was the call from his agent, Joseva Olmer, so he refused the call, and then sent a message back: "Wait a minute, I'll call you later."

Then he continued to tell stories to his daughter.

After telling the story, he kissed his daughter's forehead: "Good night, little baby."

"Good night, Dad." The daughter lay on the bed and pulled the quilt up, revealing only a pair of bright eyes and a clean forehead, and replied in a stern voice.

Therados got up and turned off the lamp, then went out and closed the bedroom door gently.

Then he went straight downstairs, walked into the yard, reclined on a reclining chair and sat down, then took out his mobile phone and called his agent.

"José, what's the matter?"

"I just heard something, Francis is going to Dortmund this week."

"Francis? What's wrong?"

"Don't you realize the problem, Alexandra? Don't you think your club's ambassador's trip to Dortmund is just a personal trip? Ruhrlein is in Dortmund. Let me remind you one more thing - on Francis also visited Leeds City Club in a private capacity this season..."

Hearing what the agent said, Therados fell silent.

No matter how sluggish he was, he could figure it out.

After Francis went to Leeds City last season, the Kings Club of Madrid began to pursue Hulay enthusiastically.

So this time Francis went to Dortmund to visit the Ruhrlein Club again.

What is he doing on the Ruhrlein?

The answer is already obvious.

Of course, for the young center Janus Edmann, who has been making a name for himself in the Ruhrlein in the last two years.

While the rules prohibit clubs from privately contacting players with contracts, there are always ways to circumvent the rules. Everyone does this, and he naturally doesn't think his club will be so "law-abiding".

In the silence, Olmer continued: "You are willing to take a pay cut and the club to renew, but I don't think the club wants to renew your contract, Alexandra. Your contract expires next year, and you should probably think about it seriously. future."

At the end of June next year, Alexandra Cerrados will be thirty-five years old.

For former professional players, 35 years old can completely retire - 20 years ago, 30 years old was considered a decline.

But now with the development of sports science, the physical condition of the thirty-four-year-old can still be maintained, and there are many people who meet the requirements of professional football. Professional players after the age of 30 are the golden age of their careers. They are physically conscious, have rich experience, and have a more calm personality.

Many players can play until the age of thirty-six or seven, and some even play until the age of forty.

Age is no longer an important factor in whether a player retires, but the motivation to continue playing.

For Cerrados, that's it.

If he does not have the motivation to continue playing, then it is not unreasonable to retire in the King of Madrid after the contract expires. He can even become an extremely rare player to retire in the King of Madrid and become a legend of the King.

But if he doesn't want to retire, he should consider leaving the Kings and move elsewhere, to a team that is not that strong, not that high, or not even a giant. But this team can give Cerrados a more important tactical role, allowing him to return to the role of scorer, not to help others.

This is also what Olmer has been persuading Therados to do.

He is very dissatisfied with the tactical adjustment of the King of Madrid this season.

Just in order to support Merry, the main scorer who still scored 20 goals and assisted seven times in the league last season suddenly handed over the "right to fire" and gave Merry a green leaf.

In Olmer's view, this is an insult to Cerrados, one of the "Four Heavenly Kings".

This should not be the way a giant club treats its legendary exploits.

But Cerrados didn't say anything, accepted the club's arrangement, and didn't even let his agent express any opinion on the club's practices in public.

Since Therados decided to compromise, Olmer naturally did not. But this season, he has been urging Cerrados to move away from the Kings and re-prove himself with a new team.

During this period, Therados was indeed moved by Olmer.

It was a great improvement to go from "no consideration at all" at the beginning to "my bottom line is not to go to Spanish teams".

Now he has specifically disclosed the information he has inquired from the inside to Therados, hoping to hit the last blow. Let Cerrados know that the club has completely abandoned him, aroused his dissatisfaction with the club's practices, and made up his mind to leave the team and start a new life.

After being silent for a while, Cerrados said: "I was willing to take a pay cut and renew my contract before because I thought I could still be helpful to the team. But I now realize that I may really be of little value to the team. . So I plan to retire directly after fulfilling my contract with the club."

Olmer was surprised by this answer, and his voice rose: "What? Retire? Are you crazy, Alexandra? Don't let your performance this season blow you away, I always think switch balls. Team, you will not only be the main force, but even the core! Your performance in the Madrid derby proves that it is not that your strength has declined, but that you are not the core of the team's attack! But the reason why you It's not the king's offensive core, it has nothing to do with your strength! It's the result of human intervention by the club's top management..."

After Cerrados quietly waited for his agent to finish speaking, he talked about another thing:

"Did you know, Jose? I saw Melli on the training ground today shooting extra shots, and Fonseca asked him if he still wanted to compete for the top scorer, and he answered 'yes', and many people said Shocked by his answer..."

"He's going crazy, he's six goals behind Hu!" Olmer hummed, disliking the Argentine, even though everyone was impressed by the talent shown by Meli, he just didn't.

In Olmer's view, Merry's performance this season has only been so good because Cerrados gave him way.

If Cerrados was given a fair chance, Merry would never have achieved the results he has now.

At least he can't score twenty-five goals in the league.

The Merry fans acted as if the twenty-five **** were all due to Merry, which made Olmer sick.

But Cerrados didn't care about the strong emotions Olmer showed, and continued to say in a calm tone:

"Yeah, look, Jose. We're 'old men' when we hear this and the first thought is 'six **** difference' and Merry's thought is 'Can't I do it' The youngsters these days are terrible... Hu is the same. This is his first La Liga season and he has already scored 31 goals. And that Edman, he is not yet 18 years old , has already scored twenty goals in the Ruhrlein..."

"Hu let's not talk about it~www.readwn.com~ But Edman's 20 goals counted all his games in the Ruhrhine first team. Two seasons of the league, the German Cup and the Champions League... "The agent Olmer interrupted Cerrados's emotion.

He also doesn't like Edman because the Kings want to sign him to squeeze out Cerrados. He sees Edman as a threat to Therados.

"That's amazing, at least better than when I was eighteen. Every time I see a young man like this, I think... when did I realize it was time for me to quit? This is the time - look When a young man like Merry stubbornly competes with the world for a goal that seems impossible, I feel like..."

Speaking of which, Therados suddenly fell silent.

And Olmer, who had been irritable when he heard that Cerrados was about to retire, opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything.

He also quieted down.

Until I heard Therados on the other end of the phone say:

"...whether we like it or not, whether we admit it or not... our time is over, Jose."