Fox in the Penalty Area

Before the game between Leeds City and Liverpool United, Hulay won the second Premier League Player of the Month trophy in his career.

He also became the player with the fewest appearances to win this honor.

After winning the prize, he did not continue his scoring momentum. In the game against Liverpool United, he only played for 66 minutes before being replaced. He failed to score before being replaced.

But he doesn't care about this very much, because even if he didn't score, he still leads the Premier League scorer list.

This is actually a "tacit understanding" between him and Clark.

Whether it was before the game or during the game, he did not take the initiative to ask to leave early. But Clark knew that there would be two very important games next for Hu Lai, and the flying distance alone would be enough to circle the earth.

It is a very severe test for his physical fitness.

So Clark's "self-assertion" did not allow Hu Lai to play the whole game, hoping to let Hu Lai rest and rest.

Although when Hulay went off the field, Leeds only tied with Liverpool 1:1. Clark is still willing to take the risk that he may not be able to win the game, so that Hu Lai can face the two most critical national team games in a better state.

This move gave Clark a lot of goodwill in China. Chinese fans are naturally the most concerned about the national team games and the physical condition of Hu Lai. They also know that Clark replaced Hu Lai so early in order to allow him to better prepare for the World Cup qualifiers play-offs.

After Hulai was replaced, with Camara's goal in the 81st minute, Leeds defeated Liverpool United 2-1 and took all three points.

In response to this, Chinese fans have said that good people are rewarded.

Then in a focus of this round, the Stan Park Rangers defeated Manchester Athletic 3:1 at home. This victory allowed them to continue to lead the league standings with 34 points.

Athletic Manchester, who lost the game, plummeted from second place in the league to fourth place.

Not only was he overtaken by Leeds, who had 25 points, but he was even crushed by London Bridge-Manchester Athletic and London Bridge have the same points, but in terms of goal difference, London Bridge is slightly better. With this goal difference advantage, London Bridge overpowered Manchester Athletic and became third in the league.

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After the end of the match with Liverpool United, Hu Lai did not fly back to China this time, but took a plane to the west, diagonally across the entire Atlantic Ocean, and went directly to Paraguay to join the national team.

In this play-off, the Chinese team was drawn to the schedule of the first visitor and then the host.

In the eyes of many people, this is much better than being the host and then the guest.

But in fact it is not the case. Because it means that the Chinese team spends more time on the road than their opponents.

The first round of China and Paraguay was on November 14th. After the game, they will return to China to prepare for the second round on November 19.

The two matches were only four days apart. For the Chinese team who wants to conduct long-distance intercontinental flights, it must be more tiring than Paraguay, because they had to fly from China to Paraguay in the first round, and then fly back from Paraguay. The impact on the team is greater than ordinary people think.

If it is home and away, the team will not have the task of the game after flying to the away game and playing the second round. Of course, there is no need to worry about the impact of the long-distance flight and jet lag on the return trip...

In order to prepare for these two important games, China has also specially adjusted the league schedule.

Although the professional league and the football association are now separated and managed by the professional league, the football association can no longer give orders to the league as before, and change it whatever it wants. However, before such an important goal as the World Cup, the Football Association and the professional league quickly reached a consensus after simple negotiations.

After the twenty-seventh round of the league, the Chinese Super League was completely suspended, and the remaining three rounds of the league waited until the World Cup qualifier play-offs were played before playing.

Beginning on November 3, the national team will gather for a week-long training session to prepare for the game against Paraguay in advance.

In order to avoid the situation that the team loses the game state due to only training without games, a warm-up match with the South China Tigers was specially arranged at the national team training site.

After the game, the Chinese team boarded the plane directly from Lingnan and flew to Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, where they will meet with Hulai, and for the last two days of training, they will face their powerful enemy Paraguay.

From this timeline alone, we can see the difficulty of this game.

As the team's main shooter, Hu Lai can always only practice together for a short period of time as the whole team grinds the gun. This is a very helpless reality, but it is also an opportunity for Paraguay.

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"I don't think this is our opportunity." Paraguay coach David Arturo said to the others in the coaching team, looking at the information in his hand.

"Although Hu and the national team did not practice for a long time each time, I noticed that his performance in the national team was very good. He did not show that he did not have a tacit understanding with his teammates. I think this may be with him. It’s related to the experience of playing in China. Many people in this national team used to be his teammates in the domestic club and the Olympic team, and some were opponents he played in the domestic league... all of them let them They are no strangers to each other."

Arturo talked freely.

"So if we think that they will have a situation where they don't cooperate with each other well, and they will underestimate the enemy, then we might...no, we will definitely pay for it!" After Arturo finished speaking, he looked around his coaching team to make sure There will be no nonchalant expressions on each of them.

"After missing the World Cup four consecutive times, this is the closest we have been to the World Cup. I don't want to lose this opportunity forever because of our own pride and underestimate the enemy at such a critical time. That will be something we can't forgive in this life. error!"

Old handsome Arturo said very hard, but no one thought he was wrong.

The two cores of this Paraguayan national team, one after the other, are over 30 years old. As professional players, they are still in their golden age. As long as you maintain scientific training and work and rest, it is normal to play until the age of thirty-six or seventeen in your career.

But career and the chance to participate in the World Cup are completely two concepts.

To hit the World Cup can not rely on a few old men who have gone downhill in their careers.

So four years later, Arsay and Sosa will not even make it to the Paraguayan national team, not to mention the impact of the World Cup.

Everyone should have such an idea now-take this as their last chance to prepare.

Only in this way can we go all out and leave no regrets.

After all, these coaches are not only responsible for their own work, but also the biggest dreams of the two legends in the future history of Paraguayan football.

This is sloppy.

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The Paraguayan media guarded outside the hotel where the Paraguayan national team stayed, and their guns were aimed at the revolving door.

The lights in the magnificent hall came out through the huge floor-to-ceiling glass, and you could clearly see people walking around in it, which was very lively.

"I saw Arce, he is with Arturo, who are they waiting for?"

The reporters waiting outside the hotel looked at the scene in front of them and started talking.

"Waiting for someone? Waiting for whom?"

"Who else can you wait for? Who else on this team deserves the captain and the coach to wait together? Uh..." The person who said this also realized the problem, and he looked at each other.

"Don't be kidding, how could Arsay wait for Sousa here?"

"Yes, just the relationship between the two of them..."

The relationship between Souza and Arsay is not a secret, which is not a secret.

Everyone knows it well, but now no one speaks publicly.

Sosa and Arsay are no longer openly confronting each other, but it does not mean that the two of them can shake hands and make peace. In fact, it is still the state of the king not seeing the king, and no one cares about each other. It can be said that the two parties involved in the "armband war" actually only signed a temporary armistice agreement, but did not completely end the war.

The reporters are naturally aware of this, so they feel that it is absolutely impossible for Arsay to be here waiting to meet Sosa.

But now this scene makes people can't help but speculate in that direction, because logically speaking, only this possibility makes sense.

"Don't think too much about it... Maybe Arsay just ran into Arturo in the lobby. How about two people chatting casually?"

Someone gave an explanation, but this explanation couldn't even convince him himself.

Because it's not like Arsay is like meeting Arturo and chatting in the lobby.

The two people looked towards the door and stood side by side—it was obvious that they were waiting for someone.

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A car stopped at the entrance of the hotel, and Sousa Espinola got out of the car.

Upon seeing this, both Arsay and Arturo greeted him at the same time.

Then Arturo deliberately fell behind by half a step, let Arsay walk in front of him, and stretched out his hand to Sosa.

"Hurry up!"

The reporters realized what would happen next and pressed the camera shutter one after another, or locked the lens firmly on two people.

In the continuous shutter sound, Souza also stretched out his hand.

After experiencing the "armband war", these two Paraguayan football leaders held hands together in front of the camera for the first time...

This night, on the Paraguayan network, countless Paraguayan fans rushed to tell each other, happily:

Brothers are united, and the profit breaks the gold! No one can stop the Paraguay national team this time! We are finally going to the World Cup!