Fox in the Penalty Area

With a 4:2 victory over the Nanhai team at home, they became the league's first momentum. On Thursday, August 3rd, four days later, Shining Star went north to challenge Capital Athletic.

Although it was an away game, even though it was a double game in a week, and despite Zhao Kangming's rotation of the lineup, the flashing star who had just played the "China First Game of the Year" (media language) defeated Capital Athletic 2-0 in the away game. .

Three days later, on Sunday, Shining Star returned to the home court to usher in the 16th ranked Tang Capital Jiulong. This team was also the second division team last season. After being promoted to the first division, the results were fluctuating. It is currently ranked sixteenth and the goal is to relegation.

Speaking of this team is still Chen Xingyi's hometown team-Chen Xingyi is from Tangdu, Nanhe Province.

I don’t know if it’s because the villagers met the villagers. Chen Xingyi was very active in this game.

He completed his first double scoring since joining Flashstar, and also the first double scoring in his career.

The narrators of Nanhe TV were very helpless: "No wonder they all said,'The villager sees the villager, my eyes are full of tears." It turns out that the villager beat me..."

Hu Lai also scored a goal in this game. He has scored fourteen goals in the league this season and still leads the league goalscorer.

Currently ranked second in the scorer list is Ning Tian Yongan's foreign striker, Ivar Moses. French, twenty-eight years old. Last season, he played in the Super League in Yong'an. Although his performance was mediocre, he was also a striker with experience in the Super League.

Moses, who had a mediocre performance in the Chinese Super League, came to the Chinese League. He originally had a mentality of reducing dimensionality. In fact, he really feels better in front of the Chinese Premier League than in the Chinese Super League. Before Hu Lai started his efforts, he had always been the top scorer in the league.

But this good feeling disappeared with Hu Lai's continuous goals in the league.

Hu Lai staged a hat-trick in the game against the South China Sea, directly surpassing Moses, who scored ten goals at the time, and became the top scorer in the league, and suddenly extended his lead to three goals.

Now he is leading by as many as four goals.

The striker of the Chinese Super League who has reduced dimensionality has come to the Chinese League. He is not Hu Lai's opponent.

This performance has to make people place more expectations on Hu Lai's future-if the flashing star succeeds in surpassing this season, what performance can Hu Lai show in the Super League next season?

Will it continue to set off a youth storm in the Super League, or will it encounter the belated "rookie wall" in the Super League?

Everyone is looking forward to it, but also anxious.

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When Chen Mo came to Zhao Kangming's office, he found him looking at the schedule on the tablet in a daze.

"Why are you in a daze?" He leaned forward and took a look. "The next game against Nan'an Jinpeng is also a relegation from the Super League. Their performance with Ning Tian Yongan is far worse, and normal kicks are not over?"

"No, I'm watching the next game." Zhao Kangming shook his head.

"The next game?" Chen Mo shifted his gaze down one step, "Oh, the Football Association Cup... Do you have any ideas, Lao Zhao?"

Generally speaking, with the thickness of the lineup of the Stars, if you want to succeed in the Super League, you should decisively give up the Football Association Cup.

However, the luck of the Stars this season is a little bit good. In the first few rounds of the FA Cup, the strength they encountered was obviously weaker than their opponents. For example, in the third round they met the second-tier team, and the fourth round was the same. In the second round, most of the first teams will be eliminated one after another until the fifth round. As a result, Shining Star encountered the biggest dark horse in the FA Cup this season, Dongtai Juxingcheng, an amateur team!

How do you give up? Is it necessary to let Flash Star be eliminated by the amateur team? Then this is too fake.

So just like that, Flash Star made it into the quarterfinals smoothly in the FA Cup.

Then wait for them to come back to their senses. In the FA Cup quarter-finals, they are the only Chinese A team, and the other seven teams are all in the Super League...

In the fifth round of the Football Association Cup, when they face an amateur team, they have a dual advantage of psychological and strength.

Now it's their turn to experience how Dongtai Juxing City felt at that time.

"What do you think should be done?" Zhao Kangming did not answer Chen Mo, but instead asked back.

Chen Mo opened his hands: "What is there to think about? We can't win the Football Association Cup. We are already the only seed in the top eight. If we don't give up at this time, when will we wait? Lost to the Super League. The team is not injustice. Then we can focus on playing in the league and try to secure the two places for the Super League as early as possible."

Zhao Kangming nodded after listening, "It makes sense."

Chen Mo smiled: "Isn't this a choice most people would make, what's the matter?"

"But I have another bolder idea. Would you like to listen to Old Chen?"

Chen Mo pulled a chair and sat down: "Listen with respect."

When Zhao Kangming saw him like this, he smiled: "Old Chen, how high do you think our chances of surpassing this season?"

Chen Mo didn’t expect Zhao Kangming to ask him the question first. He frowned and thought about it: “100% dare not say, but I think it’s more than 60%. As long as we don’t make mistakes ourselves, as long as there are no large injuries in the second half of the season. Illness...especially if the boys stay healthy and in good condition, I think the odds are still very high."

The current league points situation is like this. After sixteen rounds of the league, Flash Star has 11 wins, four draws and one loss, accumulating 37 points, ranking first in the league standings.

Lingnan Nanhai lost to Shanxing in the away game and lost to Chongshan of Southern Sichuan at home. He suffered two consecutive losses in the league and is currently ranked second with 34 points.

The third place was followed by Chongshan in southern Sichuan with 32 points.

The fourth place is Ning Tian Yongan, who was relegated from the Super League last season. Their only goal this season is to get back to the Super League. They currently have 30 points.

Xiaojiang Green Forest ranked fifth with a score of 29, and Meiling Ranger with a score of 28 was sixth.

This is the situation of the top six in the league and the six teams most likely to surpass.

The top two players in the Chinese Premier League can be promoted directly, without having to play a relegation playoff with any relegated team in the Super League, which is a bit like a deal.

So as long as you can ensure that the third place will not surpass them, the flashing stars will be able to get an upgrade place.

Looking at it now, Shining Star is five points ahead of the third place in Chongshan, Southern Sichuan. This difference cannot be considered small.

But considering the long second half of the season, it is too early to say whether to upgrade or not.

Just like last season.

When Flash Star played seventeen rounds in the league, he was still ranked fourteenth, and there was little hope of upgrading.

In the end, the ranking went all the way up, and the highest came to ninth. Just when everyone thought the team would continue to jump up like this, and then shook hands with the top four teams to see if they could hit the Super League quota.

Qin Lin's injury changed everything, and the team's performance began to decline again.

After a season is over, the final star ranking is 13th, which is one place higher than their ranking at the end of the first half of the league.

A lot of things happened during that half of the season.

So who can guarantee that there will be no more colorful and bizarre stories in the remaining 18 league rounds of this season?

Therefore, Chen Mo added a lot of attributives to say that he thinks the team's upgrade prospects are still quite optimistic.

After listening to Chen Mo's analysis, Zhao Kangming still nodded, feeling that Chen Mo was right.

"Then Old Chen, have you ever thought about what should we do if we successfully upgrade?"

"How did I think about it, what do I want to do so far?" Chen Mo spread his hand.

"I thought about it." Zhao Kangming said, "Especially after seeing the performance of the two teams of Hexi Daqin and Capital Xiangyun after being upgraded... Hexi Daqin is still struggling on the verge of relegation, but Capital Xiangyun I feel that they have booked in advance. The number of places in the Chinese Premier League this season. Do you think that if we succeed in being promoted, next year's Super League, will we be determined to roll back to Chinese Premier League early?"

Chen Mo did not answer this question because he did not know how to answer.

Zhao Kangming didn’t need his answer either. He continued talking and shook his head: “I don’t want to do this very much. I finally got promoted. Of course, I have to stay in the Super League without falling off and spend a few years on my feet. , And then seek something bigger... I think so. We don’t go to the Super League to see it, come back after a long experience, and come to the Super League to brag. Say that we have all seen it in the Super League, and the competition in the Super League is still What can’t be dealt with? But I can’t deal with it... Look at Nan'an Jinpeng, our opponents in the next round, what kind of dogs will we play? Once some teams are downgraded, their spirits are gone, and they can’t return. went……"

Zhao Kangming talked about it, Chen Mo listened quietly, because he knew what Zhao wanted to say to him was in these talks.

"Shanxing is a good team, and the club management is rarely tolerant. If you go to play in the Super League for one year, you will fall. I feel sorry for the club's so many years of tempering in the second division and first division. Since it has gone up, Then stand firm." Zhao Kangming made a slashing action, "So I think, first of all, based on the current situation of our team, let's try it, and try to see if we have the capital to gain a foothold in the Super League."

The old partner Chen Mo had already guessed what Zhao Kangming thought, and he asked bluntly: "Are you going to try with the Football Association Cup?"

Zhao Kangming nodded: "Yes. This is the only chance we can play against the Super League team. Nan'an Jinpeng and Ning Tian Yongan are not considered as Super League teams anymore, and the hairless Phoenix is ​​not as good as the chickens. The real Super League team is ours. The opponents in the quarter-finals of the Football Association Cup, Haihe Shuanggang. They are currently in the middle of the Chinese Super League rankings. As a veteran Chinese Super League team, they are a suitable opponent. If we lose, we can also know where we lost so that we can play Next, make targeted training and adjustments, which will be more purposeful in signing after the end of the season."

"What if we win? Are we in the semifinals?" Chen Mo asked.

"Then continue to try and try our limit. The Super League teams encountered in the semi-finals are basically top-ranked teams. Even if they are eliminated by that time, it doesn't matter. How about, Lao Chen, What do you think of my bold idea?"

Chen Mo shook his head: "I think you already have the answer. Even if I don't say very well, you will still do it."

"That won't work, we are partners, we always have to unite our thinking."

"I have no opinion on the trial and error of finding a Chinese Super League team in the FA Cup. I just think, are you not afraid of affecting the league?"

"It doesn't matter, the FA Cup is a single elimination system, unless we can reach the final... But honestly I think the hope is pretty slim. And I looked at the schedule, the FA Cup quarter-finals and semi-finals are both in the eighth The month is over, and at best it will be one more game. It will have little impact on the league..."

Chen Mo shook his head: "No, I'm not talking about the schedule. I mean if we decide to go all out in the FA Cup against the Super League team, then we may give up a few league games. Let's take the next and Nan'an Jinpeng For the game, is it necessary to give up? Will it affect our ranking in the league after giving up? In addition, after the game against Haihe Shuanggang, will the team's physical fitness and state be affected? Will this influence continue to the next round of the league, our game against Kunyang City?"

"You are right, Old Chen, that's why I have to ask you to discuss it, because you will consider this matter from your perspective. Different perspectives can ensure that we don't make mistakes when making decisions." Zhao Kangming was not upset because of Chen Mo's large-scale objections. Instead, he not only praised Chen Mo, but also patiently explained to him.

"But I just calculated it carefully. Even if it affects certain matches, we can still afford the price. The same is true of the Haihe Shuanggang Football Association Cup. I have studied Nanan Jinpeng's role in myself. At home, I think even if we adopt a rotation lineup, at least we can guarantee that we will not lose the game away. This way our main lineup can be used against Haihe Shuanggang. And the game against Haihe Shuanggang is our home game. , After we fly back from Nan’an, we don’t have to move anymore and our physical strength is guaranteed. After playing the FA Cup, although we played away to Kunyang City in the league, the strength of Kunyang City is also very weak. We can still use rotation. The lineup will play, and even if it can't be won, it won't be lost.

"Even if we get two consecutive draws in the league and the ranking drops from first to second, we can continue to lead the third-placed Chongshan in southern Sichuan. If we are eliminated from the FA Cup, we can all Focus on the league. For the remaining dozen or so rounds of the league, I believe that with our ability, the league champion is hard to say, but it should be safe to keep the top two in the league."

After listening to all of Zhao Kangming's analysis, Chen Mo raised his hands: "You have considered all aspects. I don't have any comments. You can try it according to your ideas. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com"

Zhao Kangming asked him with a smile, "Then... do it?"

Chen Mo nodded: "Fuck!"

Zhao Kangming let out a sigh of relief: "To play Jinpeng away, let Chen Xingyi, Qin Lin, and Li Tielin rest. Let Shi Junde start in the midfielder position and play double midfielder with Mar Wen. There is only one Hu Lai on the front line. Single arrow tactics focus on controlling the midfield. As long as we can control the midfield, even if we cannot win, we should not lose."

Chen Mo wrote down all these personnel adjustments and nodded, "Okay."

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Three days later, there were boos in Nan'an City Stadium, the home stadium of Nan'an Jinpeng.

Amid the boos, a figure fell from the sky in the corner flag area where the Jinpeng team was located, with both legs standing firmly on the turf, showing the jersey number and name behind him to the camera lens.

Anton TV’s commentator yelled hoarsely: “Hu Lai!! With a goal in the 72nd minute, he helped Flash Star lead Nan’an Jinpeng 1-0 in the away game! Zhao Kangming directed Hu to arrange for Hu in this match Lai did not let him take turns to rest, and seemed to have some expectations for him... and now Hu Lai used this goal to return Zhao Kangming's trust and support for him!!"

In front of the visiting team coach, Zhao Kangming shook his head at Chen Mo and said: "I really didn't expect him to score a goal... There are not many opportunities for this game..."

Chen Mo smiled: "Isn't this good, Lao Zhao? Let's stay there for a long time, thinking about this and that...the result? Hu Lai's ball made us all for nothing! If we If you can score three points away, you don’t need to consider the impact of the FA Cup on the league..."

Zhao Kangming nodded: "Yes. Hu Lai helped us take the lead. Now we need to consider how to hold the lead."