Fox in the Penalty Area

"Xiao Shi..."

When the Chinese team's players left the conference room and returned to their respective rooms to rest, the national team leader Hong Renjie also knocked on the door of Shi Wuyin's room and stopped talking.

"Lao Hong, just say what you have to say, do we still need to be so polite?" Shi Wuyin smiled.

"In fact, it’s nothing...I’m just thinking, is the coaching staff’s approach to let the players watch the game together and learn? Isn’t it questionable? After watching the game between South Korea and the United States this time, I feel a little bit I'm out of mind..." Hong Renjie said his thoughts.

Because of Shi Wuyin's series of contributions to Chinese football, and also because of the personal relationships between the two, Hong Renjie said very tactfully.

The term "controversial" is used instead of "nonsense."

It can be said to be very polite.

"They seem to be even more nervous after watching that game. You know, after Gao Chen and Jiang Wanqing finished the game, the atmosphere in the team was quite tense, but now it is completely adding fuel to the fire... or else it should be cancelled. Is this arrangement right? Don't watch the live broadcast of the game in the future..."

Shi Wuyin smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Old Hong, canceling this event does not mean telling the players that we know they have been hit and frightened, so we simply blindfolded their eyes and blocked their ears to prevent them from being frightened again. …What do you think the players will think when the time comes? They will be less nervous? Will they feel underestimated and thus become more frustrated and less confident?"

"Uh..." Hong Renjie also felt that it was improper to do so.

"That's how I look at this, Lao Hong. Nervousness is bound to be nervous, after all, this is our first World Cup. Do you think the South Korean team is also nervous today? Or they can concede a goal at the start? So regardless of whether we show the game to our players, they will be equally nervous... Besides, if you don’t gather them to watch the game, wouldn’t they watch it in private? They will learn the information differently. So Should we be nervous or we will be nervous, no matter what we do, we can't change it." Shi Wuyin said, "Tension is not necessarily a bad thing, or if it can't be avoided, then don't treat it as trouble."

After listening to Shi Wuyin's explanation, Hong Renjie was silent, but at least he didn't object anymore.

Shi Wuyin continued: "And this is the first game after all. Watching a few more games may not be nervous? I feel it is a pity now that we are divided into Group B, and tomorrow will be our game against Algeria. So before tomorrow’s game, we can only watch this one..."

"You said that, we still see less?" Hong Renjie was amused by Shi Wuyin's words.

He actually felt that what Shi Wuyin said was reasonable, at least he was persuaded. Just take advantage of this joking opportunity to give everyone a step down, haha, this matter is over.

Unexpectedly, Shi Wuyin didn't answer him, but frowned and fell silent. After thinking about it for a while, he said to Hong Renjie: "There is one thing about Lao Hong that you are right. I shouldn't let them watch before the first World Cup game, because there is no other game in between...only this one. There is no way to relieve their tension... If you wait for the first game to watch other teams' games, the tension will be relieved a lot..."

Hong Renjie didn't expect Shi Wuyin to reflect on himself suddenly.

Shi Wuyin shook his head and sighed: "Miscalculation and miscalculation...Oh! But it can only be so!"

"Are you okay, Xiao Shi?" Hong Renjie asked with concern.

Shi Wuyin came back to his senses, shook his head and said, "Fortunately, Lao Hong. This time I didn't think about it well."

Hong Renjie hurriedly waved his hand: "It's not... I just said it casually. You are right, no matter whether we do this or not, those who should be nervous will still be nervous. After all, this is the first World Cup in our history. , It would be weird if you weren't nervous..."

He spoke for Shi Wuyin again.

Shi Wuyin just shook his head: "You're right, Lao Hong. It's weird not to be nervous... I was also nervous, too much thinking and too much arrangement, but the result was... self-defeating."

Hearing what Shi Wuyin said, Hong Renjie was a little dumbfounded: Are you really thinking here?

He thought that Shi Wuyin was just talking about scenes and expressing humility...

So he could only pat Shi Wuyin and persuade him: "You don't need to blame yourself, all of us have no experience. The first World Cup trip was originally a process of discovering and solving problems..."

After coming out of Shi Wuyin's room, Hong Renjie looked back at the closed door, still thinking about the conversation he had just with Shi Wuyin.

Shi Wuyin, who performed well in the top 12, also made a mistake.

It can only be said that it is worthy of the World Cup!

Just when Hong Renjie was about to leave, the door behind him suddenly opened again, and Shi Wuyin poked his head out from inside: "Old Hong, don't ask the players to get up on time tomorrow morning, just let them sleep and let them wake up naturally. ."

"Huh?" Hong Renjie was a little surprised by this. "why?"

"It occurred to me just now that some people might not sleep well tonight."

Hong Renjie also understood: "Yes."

"So let them sleep a little longer, so as not to lose energy during the game."

"Good." Hong Renjie nodded and agreed. Shi Wuyin's suggestion does not meet the requirements, but it is in line with reality.

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With the US team defeating the South Korean team 2-0 as a sign, the 2026 US-Canada World Cup officially kicked off.

In China, many fans are gloating for the South Korean team's failure, but in Atlanta, the Chinese players will inevitably be a little tossed and turned this evening.

It is not the first time that they know the strength gap between Asian football and world football.

But the United States is not considered the world's top strong team, but the top Asian team South Korea is still beaten helpless.

Moreover, the Chinese players didn’t have any empathy before. After all, the South Korean team was beaten into a dog in the World Cup, and it has nothing to do with them, because even those teams would have no chance to beat the Chinese team into a dog...

It's different now. The thought that I will appear in the World Cup tomorrow, my own tension coupled with the impact of this game, the eve of the World Cup first game, has more torment.

"Hu Lai?" Wang Guangwei's voice suddenly sounded in the dark room.

No one answered him.

"Are you asleep?" Wang Guangwei muttered.

"If you don't call me, I fell asleep." Hu Lai's voice sounded on the bed next door.

"Sorry... oh no, you can still fall asleep?"

"Or else, open your eyes until dawn?"

"I can't sleep. When I close my eyes, it will be the game between the South Korean team and the U.S. team, and our game tomorrow..."

"Pharaoh, are you nervous or excited?"

Wang Guangwei thought for a while and then said, "All of them, both nervous and excited..."

"Hey!" Hu Lai smiled, "I didn't expect that Pharaoh, you with thick eyebrows and big eyes would have today!"

"Damn, Hu Lai! What's wrong with me? Isn't it normal to be nervous and excited?"

"It's nothing, just thinking of your high school days, it feels like an over-age player, more mature than ordinary high school students. So I think you seem to be more mature than us..."

"High school?" Wang Guangwei suddenly thought of his style in high school. He used hair spray to treat his hair style. He also carefully created and maintained a "hairstyle will not be messy" personality... He laughed dumbly: "Where is it mature? It is obviously naive."

Hu Lai sighed quietly: "Oh, I'm really a little bit emotional. When we two played against each other in high school, we didn't expect to be able to participate in the World Cup one day...Have you thought about the World Cup, Pharaoh?"

"I thought about it, but I just thought about it."

"I used to be too."

Before hanging up, Hu Lai added silently in his heart.

"Then Hulai, are you nervous?"

"I'm nervous, of course I'm nervous. I'm not an emotional machine, how can I not be nervous?"

Wang Guangwei suddenly got up from the bed when he heard the words, and turned to look at the bed where Hu Lai was: "Really?"

Hu Lai turned over and said, "What am I doing when I sit up with you?"

"I just want to see if you are telling the truth, or are you talking about me."

"What's the point of being nervous when I lie to you? I want to say not to be nervous, you think it's normal for me to lie to you..." Hu Lai couldn't laugh or cry. "I'm really nervous."

"You will be nervous too, it's really surprising..." Wang Guangwei muttered and lay down again, making a sound that was sobering. "I never saw you nervous during the Olympics..."

"On the eve of the Olympics, didn't you have trouble sleeping like this and drag me to chat?"

Wang Guangwei was silent for a while, because he recalled that it was also the eve of the first battle, and he slept well at the Olympics. Although she was a little excited and nervous, she fell asleep smoothly after changing positions on the bed several times.

Unlike today, as long as you close your eyes, you will be filled with the images of the Korean team and the US team, and then you can't help but substitute these images into tomorrow's game... and then you can't sleep anyway.

He sighed: "I suddenly remembered that before the first game of the Olympic Games, Shi Zhi also asked us to gather to watch the football, but not to watch other teams' matches, but to watch the women's football matches. I don't know if it was because of that time. The women's football won the ball, which gave us psychological hints and confidence, so before the game against Nigeria, I was not very nervous. This time I watched the game where the South Korean team lost..."

"So they are so weird!" Hu Lai cursed.

Wang Guangwei was amused.

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Xia Xiaoyu repeatedly changed several positions and couldn't fall asleep. He finally couldn't help but open his eyes, and then whispered, "Zhou Zijing?"

No one answered him.

"Zhou Zijing, are you asleep?" Xia Xiaoyu asked again in a low voice.

This time there was a snoring from the bed next door.

Xia Xiaoyu sighed softly when he heard the snoring sound.

Everyone is participating in the World Cup for the first time. Why can Zhou Zijing fall asleep? But he is so nervous to toss and turn?

Sure enough, he is too bad, right?

He thought of Brother Hu again, the man who was born for the big scene, he must have fallen asleep long ago... He felt that he was still far away...

Zhou Zijing wanted to turn over, but he didn't want Xia Xiaoyu to find that he was not asleep, so he could only keep the current posture.

But just lying on the bed motionlessly, for a long time and uncomfortable... After all, deliberately pretending to be asleep is actually a very tiring thing.

In the end, Zhou Zijing couldn't bear it anymore, so he could only use the snoring cover to turn his body a little bit, and use the snoring sound to cover up the movement of his body angle and the friction of the quilt sheet.

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"Team Yao..." Lin Zhiyuan murmured while lying on the bed, staring at the ceiling with wide eyes.

After about two seconds, Yao Huasheng's voice sounded from the bed next door: "Your kid is not asleep yet?"

"Sleep how to do?"

"If you can't sleep, you have to sleep!" Yao Huasheng said solemnly. "You will probably start tomorrow. If you don't have a good rest, how will you play tomorrow? You are our last line of defense. Don't lose the chain this time!"

After sternly reprimanding Lin Zhiyuan, Yao Huasheng seemed to feel that he was too harsh again, so he changed his tone and calmed down a little: "Close your eyes and force yourself to sleep."

After speaking, he turned over and pulled the quilt up to cover his head, forcing himself to fall asleep.

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"Sleep, Lao Wang," Hu Lai said.

"Well, I fell asleep." When Wang Guangwei responded to him, he had already changed his posture, from facing him to facing away from him.

The room was quiet again, and I don't know how long it had been before, and there was a sound of gentle and steady breathing.

It was late at night, and the nervous and excited Chinese team players finally fell asleep.

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Li Qingqing is lying on her side on the bed, holding a mobile phone in her hand, setting the alarm clock.

She set it at 3:50 tomorrow morning, but after thinking about it, she changed it to 3:40 tomorrow morning.

Get up twenty minutes in advance to change clothes, wash your face, and then go to Hu Lai's home to watch the game, a little more time.

After setting the alarm clock, she lay down again.

Dad knocked at the door: "What are you doing?"

"Just fell asleep." Li Qingqing replied through the door.

"Sleep so early?"

"It depends on the Chinese team."

"Ok……"

"Dad, go to bed earlier! Good night!"

After Li Qingqing finished speaking, she pulled the quilt up to cover her body and closed her eyes.

Outside the door sounded the sound of father's stepping away, and the light in the living room that passed through the crack of the door also went out.

Outside the window came the sound of children playing in the community. I don’t know who is hosting guests. The sound of drinking and punching can be faintly heard...

Li Qingqing suddenly found that she couldn't sleep.

Originally, when did she go to bed at 8:30 in the evening...

In order to have the energy to watch the game at four o'clock tomorrow morning, she went to bed early this morning, but sadly found that she couldn't sleep...

She stood up again, picked up her phone again, and looked at the homepage. Next to Jincheng's local time, there was an Atlanta time that she had set specifically.

It was also half past eight, but it was half past eight in the morning.

I don’t know who was doing with Hu Lai yesterday, is he already up...

Li Qingqing thought so in her heart, hesitated, or sent a message over: "Have you gotten up?"

Then she waited with her mobile phone.

One minute passed, three minutes passed, and ten minutes passed.

no reply.

So Li Qingqing determined that Hu Lai shouldn't get up yet.

If you haven't gotten up at this time...Did you go to bed late last night?

Why do you sleep late?

nervous?

Ok……

Although Li Qingqing felt that Hu Lai would also be nervous, she was a little surprised, but she soon realized that nervousness is normal. After all, this is the first World Cup match in the history of Chinese men's football.

Hu Lai is also a human...

She knocked her head, feeling so stupid.

Since Hu Lai didn't return to her, she put down her phone, lay flat on the bed again, closed her eyes again, and tried to make herself fall asleep earlier.

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Chu Yifan pushed open the box door and saw Yan Yan holding the microphone in his hand, sing in a false voice while holding his throat: "...She has a blue cloud window, just waiting for someone to share it with..."

He laughed blankly: "Good guys, you don't plan to go to bed anymore, just do it all night?"

As soon as Yan Yan turned to see Team Chu, he said into the microphone: "Fat, get up! Team Chu!"

"Are you not going to work tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow the company will be off for a long time, and the boss knows that he will definitely stay up late to watch the game." Yan Yan said.

Others also babbled: "Our company just took a day off. It is estimated that the boss also knows that even if we let us go, he doesn't have the mind to go to work..."

"Our company too!"

"If anyone doesn't take a holiday now, they are probably being scolded on the Internet..."

"So just sing and sing to one point and start watching football, and go home to sleep after watching the Chinese team game!" Yan Yan finished speaking and followed the music ~www.novelmt.com~ to Chu Yifan, holding out a flower, and screaming : "Come on-happy! Anyway, there is a lot of time -" (Note 1)

There was a burst of laughter from everyone in the box.

Amidst the roar of laughter, Chu Yifan picked up a bottle of beer from the coffee table, then walked to the front of the song station and started to order songs for himself.

On the dance floor in the box behind him, someone was twisting his hips to accompany Yan Yan.

The funny dance poses arouse everyone's laughter from time to time, but both the singers and the dancers are just like no one else, and they are very engaged.

On the night before the first World Cup match of the Chinese team, some people couldn't sleep, and some didn't want to sleep.

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Note 1: The song is from Huang Ling "Itch"

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