Fox in the Penalty Area

When Tony Clark saw Hu Lai at the training base, a happy smile appeared on his face. He also took the initiative to hug his player: "It's nice to see you coming back from the national team in good health. "

Hu Lai was shocked: "Do you even know the boss about Koreans and West Asians playing dirty football?"

Clark looked confused: "What are you talking about?"

"Isn't it? Why else, boss, why are you suddenly feeling that I can come back healthy?"

Clark couldn't laugh or cry: "What...Have you never heard of the'FIFA virus'? It means that when players go to a national team game, they are prone to fatigue and increase the chance of injury. You are the flight time in our team. The longest and farthest national footballer, of course I am worried that you are injured!"

"Ah? Really? Ha... Ha!" Hu Lai, who added a lot to Korean and Qatari dramas, used laughter to resolve the embarrassment.

"Our coaching staff watched your game in the national team. I noticed your long shot against South Korea. This is the first time you used a long shot to score a goal in a game, right?" Clark didn't care. Koreans and Qatars play football dirty or not, he only cares about football itself.

"Well, the Korean tactics at the time were indeed very suitable for me to try long shots, so I took a kick. I didn't expect to get in the first kick. I was lucky."

"This is not luck. This is the result of your unremitting efforts over the past few months." Clark is very happy. In Hu Lai, he always sees rapid progress after hard training.

At first he learned about Hulai from Matt, thinking that his greatest talent was excellent off-the-ball running ability.

But when Hu Lai became his player and got along with him day and night, Tony Clark felt that Hu Lai had the ability to be ignored by people.

That is his outstanding learning ability.

Whether it is core strength training or long-range shooting, he can always come up with high-quality training results at a faster speed.

Of course, he does not have such learning ability in everything.

For example, if you ask him to practice dribbling, then he will definitely have no such effect.

Clark also realized that Hu Lai is not the kind of all-around player in the frontcourt, he has his own good and bad.

In fact, such players are the most. For many players throughout their entire careers, it is already very remarkable to be able to do one or two things to the extreme.

Those players who seem to be comprehensive, in fact, all abilities are relatively mediocre, the overall level is not low, but in a certain ability, it is difficult to achieve the world's top.

Now that Hu Lai has done a very good job of running off the ball and shooting, Clark naturally does not need to let him spend more energy to make up for the shortcomings that he is not good at.

Cultivating professional players is not about making mobile phones, and there is no need to make a bucket machine without shortcomings.

"And this goal is very meaningful to you, Hu, not because it is your first long-range goal in your career. It reminds you that you don't have to squeeze into the penalty area to score every time. You may be habitual, or psychological reasons, and you were repelled from shooting outside the penalty area. I think you can try more long shots afterwards." Clark reminded Hu Lai.

After hearing what the head coach said, Hu Lai frowned and asked, "But boss, will this... Uh, expose my secret weapon?"

Hearing what Hu Lai said, Clark was taken aback for a moment, and then he laughed: "You really are a fox, Hu! You are thinking about how yin people are... Then you think so, if you fully show that you are The threat ability outside the penalty area will confuse the opponent in defending your hand, I don’t know whether to put you into the penalty area or prevent you from entering the penalty area... In this way, when the opponent is defending, you need to keep guessing that you are receiving What will you do next, will your opportunities increase?"

Hu Lai suddenly realized: "I see, boss! I will try to shoot as many long shots as possible in the future."

"Well, very good." Clark nodded in satisfaction and let Hu Lai go to training.

When Hu Lai left, Matt Dawn came to Clark and asked: "How do you suggest that he change his original playing habits? I was very happy when I saw him go..."

After seeing Hu Lai’s long-range goal against the South Korean team, the club’s coaching staff discussed in the coffee break how to convince Hu Lai to properly adjust his playing habits. Otherwise, what's the point of using long-range shots?

As the team's head coach, he can of course directly order Hu Lai to change his habits.

However, the coaching staff has repeatedly discussed it and does not recommend this.

For players like Hu Lai, this tough approach will not yield good results. On the contrary, it may cause him to rebound-through nearly a year of contact, everyone can see that Hu Lai is the kind of person who can seem humble on the surface, but is actually very tough on the inside.

He has his own perseverance. If he can't be convinced, he just insists that he must do so. He may not oppose it face to face, but if it is really implemented, it must be all kinds of violations. After all, this kid is full of bad ideas, it's too easy to make something bad.

Therefore, only by allowing Hu Lai to change willingly can he achieve his goal.

But how can he be willing to change his accustomed playing style?

If a person's habits can be changed so easily, then it is not called a "habit".

So when Matt Dawn saw Hu Lai chatting with Tony a few words, he left with a smile on his face, and was surprised how his friend convinced Hu Lai.

"Matt, we were all wrong." Clark turned his head and said to Matt.

"Ah? Wrong? What's wrong?" Matt was confused.

"We thought he didn't want to shoot from long range because he couldn't change his playing habits, didn't we?"

"Isn't it?" Matt spread his hand.

"But guess what he told me just now? He said that the reason why he was reluctant to shoot long distances was because he was worried that this would expose his secret weapon prematurely. He wanted to use long shots at the most critical time. Like in this national team game."

Matt was dumbfounded at what Clark said.

Seeing his friend like this, Clark laughed: "Listen, Matt, this is really what that kid can say! It's also his style of thinking about doing things!"

Matt mumbled unexpectedly: "I'm still too young..."

"So when I told him that if he can show long-range shooting ability, it can increase the difficulty for defenders to defend him, and he is more likely to get opportunities, he gladly accepted my suggestion. There is no compelling meaning at all. He will definitely shoot more long shots in the next games, maybe we will be able to see his long shots from the club soon, Matt."

Clark said very confidently, with a confident smile on his face.

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"Hu!! Beautiful! His clever move in front of the goal won him a golden opportunity for undefended shooting! As the current number one in the league's scorer list, he obviously won't miss such an opportunity! Just now! Hu, who finished the national team game, didn't look tired at all. He even brought back to Leeds City with his excellent state of scoring five goals in the two games of the national team!"

When Sky TV commentator Matthew Cox shouted so loudly, Hulay's goal has helped Leeds rewrite the score to 2:0.

With ten minutes left in the game, this score almost means that the home team Northumbria is difficult to comeback.

"Before the season, Leeds City and Northumbria had a warm-up match. At that time, Leeds City was so embarrassed by the newly promoted horse that they narrowly defeated their opponents. So before today's game, Northumbria's head coach Michael. Harris just said that he would use the same tactics as that warm-up match to let Leeds go down... Harris didn't lie, he did use the same tactics, but today this tactic is not so effective. ...Look at the current score, Hu and Williams scored a goal each and easily defeated Northumbria..."

"Camara, who did nothing in that game under the fierce defense of Northumbria, performed well today. Although there was no direct assist, the two goals of Leeds City were related to him. One of them was The free kick he created helped Pete Williams score...So far, Camara has given three people in Northumbria’s defense a yellow card. This may be the pressure after Hu came off the bench in the second half. It’s not one of the reasons..."

After scoring, Hulai hugged Kamara and celebrated the goal with him. At the same time, he happily praised: "Ismael, you finally learned to protect yourself!"

Kamara was also very happy: "I think I finally got a little trick, but I'm not very skilled yet..."

Williams heard the conversation between two people next to him, and said in a gloomy tone: "Hu, although I don't understand what you are talking to Ismail, I know that it is definitely not a good thing..."

Hu Lai was upset: "How can you wrong a good guy, Pete? I'm praising Kamara's progress!"

"Progress in diving?"

"Bah!" Hu Lai sipped, "You can see it too, it's completely different from flopping! If Ismail is really flopping, the referee will not let him off easily, especially now that there are video referees. , It is foolish to try to make a profit in the game by diving. Since he can get the three Northumbria defenders yellow cards, it must be because the Northumbria defenders really fouled Camara. Now, under my guidance, he managed to avoid injury, and made the opponent throw a rat-avoidance weapon, so he didn't dare to act rashly on Ismail again!"

Then he turned his head and said to Camara in French: "Remember, Ismail. Self-preservation is a very high-end technique. It can't be learned by anyone. Some people are just botched imitations. In the end, If it happens to be self-defeating, it becomes a flop. You must do more research and grasp the degree, and you must be impeccable in the rules!"

Seeing Hu Lai speaking so seriously, Camara reduced his smile and nodded very seriously: "Don't worry, Hu. I will practice more!"

Pete Williams covered his forehead with his hand, and sighed up to the sky. He felt that an ordinary kind-hearted child would be misled by Hu Lai...

No way!

I can no longer be excluded from them like this, I want to be able to instill my ideas into Ismail!

A very responsible Williams made up his mind to find himself a French tutor after this game.

Although Kamala is learning English, Williams still feels that after Kamala can use English to communicate with him, I am afraid that Kamala has been shaped by Hulai's influence, and it will be useless to say anything by himself...

So he plans to also come to learn French, which is equivalent to two people moving towards each other, and the time required to meet halfway must be faster than when he stays in place and waits for Camara to catch up.

Only in this way can he take the lead in the race against Hu Lai, and to some extent slow down the speed of Kamara's sliding to Hu Lai.

(End of this chapter)