Fox in the Penalty Area

Sitting in the visiting team's locker room at the Red Roof Stadium, Hu Lai couldn't help feeling in his heart. It is indeed a UEFA five-star certified football stadium, and even the visiting team's locker room is much more luxurious.

In some stadiums, the visiting team locker room is very simple, except for the basic cabinets and stools, there are no extra facilities. To be exaggerated, there is not even hot water, only cold water is used for showering. Even the stool is very uncomfortable, and it makes you feel stubborn after sitting for a while.

Of course, these little tricks are to do everything possible to add trouble to the visiting team, interfere with their game, so as to help the home team to win the game more easily.

There is no such problem at the home stadium of the veteran Premier League giant Tramed. Their visiting team's locker room is not much better than the home team's locker room of some small clubs.

At the very least, compared with the Flanders home team's locker room in Leeds, it is only slightly inferior.

Of course, the Leeds City Club will rebuild the home team's locker room after the end of this season to upgrade the grade. For example, the addition of facilities such as jacuzzis to help the players recover-it is said that this is the request of the head coach Tony Clark.

Therefore, the premise of this project is that Leeds City must ensure that they can succeed in relegation. Otherwise, after relegation, Tony Clarke can coach in Leeds City, not to mention the package of changes he proposed to the club.

Tony Clark was standing in the center of the visiting team's locker room on the Red Roof at this moment, speaking loudly to his players:

"Everyone thinks that we can't beat Tramed on the road. They say something. In terms of strength, we are indeed far inferior to Tramed. This is their home court and in their'red house'. , They are almost invincible. But let me say, if football always depends on these paper strengths to determine the victory or defeat, what is the meaning of the game? The most fascinating part of the football game is that we fight hard and blow at the final whistle Before the ring, no one knows who will win and who will win!"

Having said that, he paused and looked around his players.

He still remembers how most players looked at him when he came to this team on the first day.

With doubt, disgust, and disdain.

And now, through more than half a season of cooperation, those eyes have basically disappeared.

Especially after the three-game winning streak, even if the next away game simply loses to Warship Harbor, the players don't seem to doubt his authority as a head coach.

Selling disobedient and disobedient players that obviously don’t meet the team’s tactical requirements, and introducing players that he likes, through a series of disciplinary requirements including forcing the players to take a nap... The seeds he planted on this team is paying After so much effort, there are finally signs of breaking through.

He raised the volume and continued: "So put aside the strength gap between us and our opponents, and forget how the **** media outside predicted this game! Do your best! Show our courage to the rich! And at home Compared with Tramed in combat, we have nothing to lose. After all, everyone thinks we will lose, so isn't the worst result a loss?"

Hu Lai listened to the words of the head coach, thinking that he has a wealth of relegation experience, but he has never seen such a relegation team head coach. It’s completely different from Zhao Kangming’s Zhao’s guidance. He doesn’t care about every penny, but clamors, "I just want to kill you, or be killed by you"...

Is this going to be relegated? This Nima is a madman who got sick, right?

Run away, the madman is beating! If you were beaten, it was all for nothing!

But let's not say that after being so completely by the head coach, Hu Lai's heart even has a wave of pride-the head coach doesn't care about the result. What do we want to do so much? That's it!

Not only him, but the other players in Leeds City can't wait to scream.

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The veteran football club in England and the traditional strong team Tramed's home stadium is named after the red roof when it was originally built. Except for the roof, the overall outer wall of the stadium is divided into upper and lower parts. The upper part and the roof are all red, and the lower part is white-exactly the same color as their home jersey.

Because of the isosceles triangle appearance of the main stand roof, from a distance, it looks like a huge red spire house, so Tramed fans gave this stadium a nickname called "Red House".

The nickname sounds very warm, just like the little girl's home in a fairy tale.

But in fact, this was once the famous "Home of the Devil" in European football. In Tramed's most brilliant period, this stadium made any visiting team daunting.

So there are rumors that the red of the "red house" is not paint, but the blood of the opponent. The "Red House" is not a warm place full of fairy tales, but a lair where some evil exists. Because of this, Tramed has a nickname called "Red Witch", which is as fearsome as the cannibal witch in medieval legends.

In the last ten years, the "Red Witch" has lost its dominance over the Premier League, and the stadium's "notoriety" is not as prominent as before.

But even so, playing in this stadium is not an easy task for any team.

Tramed fans do not have to deliberately target the visiting team, they only need to cheer for the home team, which is enough to make many visiting team players feel breathless...After all, the capacity of 60,000 stands is for the current Premier League. Indeed, it can be counted as a very large number. Correspondingly, the Flanders Stadium, the home stadium of Leeds City, can accommodate 30,000 people.

But today there was a little accident in the "Red House".

Tramed fans found that the Leeds City players who came to visit did not seem to be affected by the noise they made.

From the beginning of the game, they played proactively, not like playing away games at all, but more like playing at their own home court...

If the performance of the players may still be an illusion of the fans, it is beyond count.

Then in the opening twenty-six minutes, it was the away team Leeds City who advanced the goal. Perhaps everyone can be sure of this fact-Leeds City today is not the same as the one they have seen in this season and a half. .

"Pete Williams——!!!" Matthew Cox cried out in a long voice. "After receiving Lorenzo's header, he stopped the ball with his chest and swiftly avoided Kirk! Then he shot! Walker failed to touch the ball! Leeds took the lead in the away game! Unexpectedly, it was Leeds City who got the first goal!"

Watching Pete Williams, who was rushing to celebrate the goal in the TV broadcast, the fans in the "White Rose" bar opened their arms and beat rhythmically, and then sang loudly to the beat:

"Pete! Pete! Pete! Pete! He is our genius Pete! Pete! Pete! Pete! Pete! He is Pete who loves Liz forever! Ah-Pete Williams! Ah-Pete Williams! "

This is a cheering song created by Leeds City fans for their favorite players. Whenever a player performs well, they will sing a role song.

Today Leeds City is playing away games. Many of them have no way to go away, so they can only sing in front of the TV to cheer for the players.

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The fans of Leeds City were not happy for long.

Before the end of the first half, Tramed’s French forward Pap Bonnet shot vigorously from the corner of the penalty area to help Tramed equalized the score.

Immediately after the start of the second half, Tramed's Dutch midfielder Nick Van Delft used a low shot from outside the penalty area to open the Leeds goal again.

"Van Delft!!! Pretty! His shot completely suppressed the height, and the football ran forward against the turf, making it more difficult for the goalkeeper to save! Facing his Dutch compatriot, Van Delft But there is no meaning to be merciful at all!"

With the score overtaking, Tramed's fans came alive. They sang and danced in the stands, cheering for their team for a while, and mocking the little brother of Leeds with singing:

"Go where you should go! Champions League! Go where you should go! Champions League! You know which one we are talking about!"

Then there was a huge roar of laughter.

Leeds is not well-known in the history of English football, and can be regarded as an out-and-out unknown.

It stands to reason that they and Tramed in Manchester should also have no hatred-in the long history, they and Tramed seldom have a mobile phone meeting.

But Tramed fans ridiculed them, still ruthless.

This has nothing to do with football, mainly regional hatred-from the historical grievances between Manchester and Leeds.

Britain is a traditional sheep-raising country and an important wool producing area in Europe. Their wool has been supplied to all of Europe.

Later, after the failure of the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, it decided not to simply export wool, but to vigorously develop the wool textile industry. The woolen industry has become the "national industry" of Britain. As the enclosure movement expanded sheep farms and increased wool production in the 16th century, British woolen wool exports accounted for 78% of all exports.

At that time, Leeds was the well-known wool spinning industry center in Britain, where a large number of wool spinning industry workers gathered.

The name of the home stadium of Leeds City Club is "Flanders Stadium", which also shows the development of Leeds wool spinning industry at that time. Flanders is not a place name in the UK now, nor is it Leeds, but a historical place name in Western Europe. It is roughly equivalent to Zeeland in the Netherlands, East Flanders and West Flanders in Belgium, and Pas-de-Calais and Nord in France.

This place had the best woolen workers in Europe at that time. British wool raw materials were also shipped here, and then exported to all of Europe.

The rise of the British woolen industry is also due to the recruitment of a large number of Flemish workers.

In order to commemorate this history, the stadium of the Leeds City Club, which represents the city of Leeds, is called "Flanders".

The rise of Manchester is inseparable from the British cotton textile industry. The cotton textile industry grabs the market for the wool textile industry.

As Manchester's Lancashire County began to imitate Indian cotton with cotton from the East and West Indies and Brazil, the British cotton textile industry gradually got on track. Coupled with the invention of the Jenny textile machine, an important symbol of the first industrial revolution, cotton spinning developed rapidly.

The cotton textile industry is Manchester’s mainstay industry, and the popularity of cotton fabrics hit the woolen cloth market, causing wool spinning factories to close down one after another. A large number of wool spinning workers lost their jobs and had to run from Leeds to neighboring Manchester to seek a living.

The competition between wool spinning and cotton spinning contributed to the success of the first industrial revolution in Britain, and it also made the people of these two cities forge animosity.

So even if there is no conflict in football, the teams in these two cities will not show each other good looks after they meet. (Note 1)

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Hu Lai heard the singing in the stands and understood.

After all, he has been in the Premier League for two months and has played five games. He has some understanding of the doorways in the Premier League.

Knowing that English fans like to use singing to express their emotions, they sing when they are happy, they sing when they are angry, even when the game is too boring, they also use singing to express their dissatisfaction with the game, or simply entertain themselves fun.

For example, they would toss an inflatable **** in the game until the inflatable **** fell under the stands and was picked up by the police and confiscated, and then the fans would start to sing a song over and over again, and the song would have one line: " Return our big dick!"

It's the first time that Hu Lai has seen such boring fans after playing for so many years...

In many cases, what they sing can also be described as "unbearable".

If you record a live watching video, and then translate the lyrics sung by these fans into Chinese subtitles and put them on the domestic Internet, you will get 404 in all likelihood.

The British football field has adopted a high-pressure policy against all kinds of racism and resolutely does not allow racial discrimination to emerge. But it doesn't matter for personal attacks.

In other words, hostile fans can call Hu Lai a stupid, but it cannot be said that Hu Lai is a "yellow monkey". The former is part of English football culture, the latter will be severely punished.

Fans will compose swear words to greet the players’ mothers and the whole family into songs, laugh at a player’s physical defects in the song, and will sprinkle salt on the most painful wounds of the rival team.

If you accidentally score an own goal in a final, the team loses the championship. So even after five years, when you play against the opposing team, you will surely hear the opposing fans singing in the stands to bring you back to this old dream...

Before coming to the Premier League, Hu Lai had seen domestic media criticizing those who abused opposing players in the stands with foul language with local characteristics, believing that this was discrediting the sport of football and was evidence of the low quality of Chinese fans.

After coming to the Premier League, he discovered that compared with the British fans, the Chinese fans are as polite as three good students...

When you scold you, the viciousness is really vicious.

But if you scold your opponent, cool is really cool...

For example, the current Tramed fans are uncomfortable, and their players continue to attack Leeds City's goal amidst the cheering of the fans.

Obviously, neither the fans nor the players are reconciled to lead Leeds by one goal.

After all, they are traditional giants. Although they haven't won a championship for several years, their heritage is still there.

How can you play inextricably with a team to be relegated in your home court?

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Tramed continued to press on the offense, trying to crush Leeds.

On the sidelines, Leeds City coach Tony Clark also once again demonstrated his gambler’s general approach, never accepting the result of “less lose, then win”, but also encouraged the team to fight back and smashed Tramed. .

Even if this is the opponent's home court, so what?

We are not even afraid of losing, what else are we afraid of?

In the 66th minute of the game, Leeds City intercepted Tramed midfielder Van Delft's ball in midfield and switched to a counterattack.

The football was passed to Charlie Porter by Pete Williams.

After Porter took the ball, he looked up at the front. Because Leeds broke the ball when Tramed attacked, Tramed's backcourt was relatively empty at this time.

He didn't hesitate to pass the football to the center with a long diagonal pass!

When Charlie Porter passed the ball, Hulai, who was in front of him, quickly moved forward. He accelerated and ran forward. Tramed’s central defender Scott Wilson noticed Hulai’s movement and immediately rushed towards him. , Keep Hu Lai behind him.

He could still feel that Hu Lai even used his hands in order to grab a position with him, trying to open himself, but with his physical strength, how easily he would be pulled away? Sure enough, there was no movement behind soon.

What Wilson didn't know was that Hu Lai, who was behind him, suddenly changed his posture to continue running forward, and then clicked back when he retreated!

"Hu Lai!!"

Accompanied by He Feng's shout, the football drew an arc in the air and passed over Wilson's head.

He looked back and saw that the Leeds City No. 14 player who had five goals in three games stopped the ball forward with his chest, and then went into the penalty area!

"Nice connection! Great opportunity for Leeds City! Are they going to tie the score?" Cox shouted, lifting the hearts of the Leeds City fans in front of the TV.

The bleachers of Tramed fans sounded like thunder in the stands of the Red Roof Stadium.

Hu Lai was completely immune to these disturbances. After he swung the football into the penalty area, he looked up and observed the situation. Tramed's goalkeeper Tom Walker has abandoned the goal!

So he chose to shoot, and when his right foot was pulled down, the toe was slightly tilted, and he changed from a volley to a point shot.

At the same time, Walker judged that Hu Lai was going to shoot low, so he fell to the ground, unable to do anything about the football flying over his head...

"Hu Lai-pick shot!! Good shot!! Beautiful!!!"

"What a wonderful blow! Hu's calm kick made people forget his age! Facing the attacking goalkeeper Walker, he calmly seemed to be an experienced veteran! Great! This is him in the Premier League. The sixth goal in China ~www.ltnovel.com~ also helped Leeds City equalize! At the Red Top Stadium, Leeds City stubbornly bit Tramed without letting go!"

Hu Lai did not stop after the goal, he turned and ran to the corner flag area, and then made his signature celebration.

Wearing a white away jersey, he was particularly eye-catching in front of the "red wall" composed of all Tramed fans in red jerseys.

"For Chinese fans and players, Tramed's Red Roof Stadium is like a dream stage, which is beyond reach! But now, our Chinese player Hu Lai has left his figure in this stadium. In his memory! He not only broke through the English gate of Tom Walker, he also opened the door of the'Red House'! This scene will definitely become a classic Chinese football scene in the future!"

In the picture, the other players in Leeds rushed towards Hulay, the white figures on the red "wall", like bullet holes, making the red high wall look less indestructible and intimidating Up...

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Note 1: This section of content and data comes from the article "The Rise and Decline of the UK-The Competition between Wool and Cotton Spinning Is a Battlefield Without Gunsmoke" by Textile Machinery Network