Fox in the Penalty Area

Chapter 1790 Year 2029

The Madrid Pirates, who won the Club World Cup, left China on the first plane back to Madrid on the second day of the final.

They rushed back to Spain non-stop, and naturally there was still a game to play.

On December 31, the last day of 2029, they will go to an away game against Valero.

Finishing this game doesn't mean they can rest.

Because the next game will be very intensive.

In theory, the Pirates of Madrid will play a maximum of eight games throughout January - if they win both the Spanish Super Cup and the Copa del Rey.

Last season, the Madrid Pirates team still had a short vacation around Christmas. It was at that time that Hu Lai took Li Qingqing and Xiao Xingxing to Madeira Island to relax, and then met Brother Huan and Mrs. Huan of.

And because the Madrid Pirates are going to participate in the Club World Cup this season, they naturally have no holidays.

When they returned to Madrid with another trophy, it also meant that they lost their only chance to rest this season.

After the intensive schedule in January, in mid-February, the knockout round of the Champions League will also rekindle the battle.

In addition, due to the World Cup this summer, the leagues of various countries will end earlier than in previous years.

As a result, the schedule of all games will be compressed.

The league that could have been played once a week may now be played twice a week.

Only in this way can one month be spared for the top 32 teams in the World Cup to prepare for the World Cup.

For example, the last round of La Liga last season was May 20th, while the 2025-2026 Premier League season ended on May 9th.

That World Cup started on June 15th.

From the end of the Premier League to the opening of the World Cup, there are thirty-five days in between, enough for each national team to prepare for the World Cup.

This year's World Cup will also start in mid-June, so if there is no accident, the European leagues will definitely end at least before Sunday, May 12th.

As for the UEFA Champions League final, it is relatively special. It will not be greatly advanced because of the World Cup. It is estimated that it will still be played at the end of May.

After all, there are only two teams that can participate in the Champions League final, and there are not many players from these two teams in the top 32 of the World Cup. Therefore, there is no need for the Champions League to completely disrupt their plans in order to make way for the World Cup.

Even for UEFA, the Champions League final is their trump card against the World Cup.

In order to grab the attention and popularity of the World Cup, it is even more impossible to "shelter away" in front of the World Cup.

For a giant team like the Madrid Pirates, multi-line combat is a must, so the fatigue of the players in the remaining half of the season can be imagined.

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After returning to Madrid, the Madrid Pirates began to prepare for the seventeenth round of the league with Valero, and they were an away game.

Fortunately, this away game is not far away—Valero is in the northeast of Madrid, and the Madrid Pirates didn't even play downtown Madrid.

If you go to other cities, it will be a huge burden on the physical fitness of the Madrid Pirates players.

Considering that the whole team has just flown back to Spain from distant China, Parotti did not send all the main players in this game.

Of course, no matter how the rotation is, Hu Lai must be in the starting lineup.

He has already scored 103 goals, and he still has the opportunity to continue to refresh his terrifying record.

In fact, this is not the treatment Hu Lai asked Parotti to ask for, but Parotti's initiative.

On the one hand, it is natural to want to fulfill Hu Lai, on the other hand, Hu Lai does not have much problem in terms of physical fitness - after a long flight, he is mentally exhausted, but his physical condition is still quite good.

With Hu Lai like this, what reason does Parotti not put him in the starting list?

But after the long-distance flight across the entire Eurasian continent, the state of the Madrid Pirates team is really not good.

Perhaps it was because after winning the Club World Cup, almost all the Madrid Pirates players breathed a sigh of relief, and they became the unprecedented "six crowns".

After working hard for a whole year, I finally got the most desired result. Shouldn't I take a good rest, relax and enjoy it?

Once you have such a mentality, it is not easy to regain tension in a short period of time.

So the Madrid Pirates drew 2:2 with Valero in the away game.

"Parotti should be thankful that he put Hu on the starting list for this game, otherwise the Madrid Pirates might not even be able to take away a single point!"

So said the commentator Alvarez Sanchez after the final whistle.

He was right, because without Hou Lai's double score in this game, it is really possible to lose in the state of other players of the Madrid Pirates.

"In fact, Hu's condition is not very good, but his ability to grasp opportunities is really outstanding... A penalty kick and a shot in front of the goal scored two goals..."

The penalty kick was actually created by Hou Lai himself-at that time, he grabbed the point in front of the goal, but was knocked to the ground by Valero's central defender. The referee decisively whistled and awarded the Madrid Pirates a penalty kick.

Hu Lai performed the knife himself and hit him.

In this way, he fixed his goal number in 2029 at one hundred and five.

One hundred and five goals!

I am afraid that no one will be able to break this record for a long time, and perhaps even Hu Lai himself will find it difficult to perform so supernaturally again.

Hu Lai's record is so dazzling that everyone doesn't care much about the fact that the Madrid Pirates were tied by Valero.

Anyway, they were already three points behind the Catalan United and five points ahead of the King of Madrid. Now even if they draw a game, they are still ranked second.

Hu Lai's record is even rarer.

He played a total of 69 games in various competitions in 2029 and scored 105 goals, with an average goal rate of 1.52 per game.

This kind of efficiency is the best in the world, and it can be called terrifying.

You know, this is the scoring rate for a whole year!

Not the kind of goal rate in certain games.

Which striker can maintain such a goal rate for a year in a row?

If Hu Lai's performance in the first half of last season is counted, he has maintained a goal rate of more than 1.5 in 97 games in the past year and a half.

Which player can maintain peak form for a year and a half?

Before Hu Lai, even Melly hadn't done it.

This is especially true in the era of the Four Heavenly Kings.

In fact, looking at Hu Lai's past performance, in his first season when he transferred to the Madrid Pirates, he has not yet shown such an exaggerated state.

Although he won the League Golden Boot with 36 league goals in the first season of joining the Madrid Pirates, and 16 Champions League goals became the Champions League Golden Boot.

However, he scored 36 goals in 37 league appearances, and his scoring rate could not even reach an average of one goal per game.

Not to mention from the actual performance point of view, at that time, Hu Lai often failed to score in two consecutive games.

This is still the performance of a normal top striker.

But since last season, Hu Lai seemed to be on the hook suddenly, and his state was so brave that it was unbelievable.

The legend about him has actually been circulated from 2028 to 2029.

No one knows how long he can last in this state~www.novelmt.com~ This season's league schedule has not yet passed halfway, and he has scored 25 league goals. This season's league golden boot is probably still his .

The same is true for the UEFA Champions League, scoring 11 goals in the group stage, setting a record for goals in the UEFA Champions League group stage. It should not be a problem to win the Champions League Golden Boot for three consecutive seasons.

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After playing against Valero, Hu Lai and Li Qingqing soon set off from Madrid to the headquarters of FIFA, Zurich, Switzerland, to participate in the FIFA year-end selection.

This time, one of them is the defending "Miss Football of the World", and the other is very likely to win the honor of World Footballer.

Before they set off, many media outlets had leaked out that Hu Lai would win the World Footballer of the Year award.

Whether it's Meli or Kabanka, or whoever else, they can't compare to Hou Lai in the past year.

Whether it is personal performance or collective honor, Hu Lai completely crushed Meli this year.

The biggest competitors have all been crushed, what else could be wrong with this award?

(end of this chapter)