Chapter 306 The Pressure of Gambling

After two national team games, Hou Lai returned to the club.

When he returned to the club, he immediately ushered in the first "Madrid derby" of the season.

However, due to the influence of the national team's match day, neither the Madrid Pirates nor the Madrid King were in a good state in this game, but the Madrid Pirates' state was even worse.

So the first contract city derby of this season ended with the failure of the Madrid Pirates - they lost 1:2 to the King of Madrid in the away game.

Hou Lai started the game and played the whole game. But he also failed to lead an overall underwhelming team to win games.

To the relief of Hou Lai fans, he scored a goal in the game, which helped the Madrid Pirates save a little bit of face.

It was also his ninth goal in the Madrid derby.

And this is only his fifth Madrid derby. According to this momentum, it shouldn't take long for him to surpass the "King of Madrid Derby" Serrados, who scored 16 goals in the same city derby.

After losing the game, coach Parotti said at the post-match press conference that he was also very helpless: "The players have just finished participating in the national team game, and they have to return from all over the world to participate in the 'Madrid Derby'. I hope they can still It's hard to play well in this game...

Hu? Hu was fine, he had no problems. Even if he flew tens of thousands of kilometers and played two national team games, his physical fitness is fine. So I started him and played the whole game. And as you can see, he's scoring goals, which is pretty good considering what he's been through the past week. But alas, we were out of luck"

The Chinese team's away game against Thailand was on September 5th, while the Madrid derby was on September 9th, with only three days between them. Since there was no flight from Bangkok to Madrid on the night of September 5th, Hu Lai departed from Bangkok on the next day, September 6th.

By the time he got home, it was already the evening of September 6, local time in Madrid—the whole day was spent on the road.

He returned to the team for recovery training on September 7th, trained before the game on September 8th, and played on September 9th.

Not even the jet lag is fully reversed yet.

Under such circumstances, Hu Lai can still start the game and score a goal. This performance is really nothing to criticize.

It can only be said that this city derby came at a bad time. After all, the football game is not up to Hu Lai alone. He performed well, but if his teammates are not at their best, facing an opponent at the level of the King of Madrid , It's okay to lose away.

No one wants to lose, but the objective situation is here, and Hu Lai is definitely not responsible for the loss.

It's just that Hu Lai is famous now. As the team's number one star, winning or losing depends on him. It's impossible to say that winning the game is due to you Hu Lai,

It doesn't matter to you if you lose.

And it must be said that losing is the responsibility of every player. As a member of the team, how could Hu Lai have no responsibility?

Although you scored a goal, if you can score another goal, the Pirates don't have to lose? If they can score two more goals, wouldn't the Pirates win?

So after the failure, there will definitely be criticisms against Hu Lai.

Parotti's remarks belonged to the post-match press conference, defending Hu Lai in advance, and giving him support and affirmation.

This may not change the public opinion environment that Hu Lai is in, but it can show goodwill to Hu Lai and avoid some false rumors such as "the pirates and generals are at odds" after the game.

※M※Meli fans were elated after the game, because in this game, Meli was the biggest contributor to helping the king win at home—he scored one goal and assisted, helping the king beat the pirates 2:1.

Because Meli also participated in the Argentine national team game, and he can still be in such a state after returning, Meli fans almost blew him up.

This is also Meli's first club game of the season. The "Marca" newspaper simply typed the headline "The Return of the King" after the game, and combined with the photo of him showing the European Golden Globe trophy before the game, it explained what "" king".

"After Kabanka moved to Cathay United, he performed very well, making people exclaim 'Wolf is coming'; Hu scored with the first touch of the ball after coming off the bench in the last round of the league, which fully proves how good his state is. Well... the excellent performance of the two of them seems to make people forget about Meli. Because of participating in the Olympics, Meli missed the first two rounds of the league, but this Madrid derby let people know who is the best among young players leader!

"Melly was very active throughout the game, as if there was a perpetual motion machine in his body, dribbling, passing, breaking through, shooting... he could do everything, and he was completely tireless! He reminded those who sang the praises of Kabanka and Hu The best person in the world - me, Melibanega is the winner of the European Ballon d'Or!"

Immediately after the midweek UEFA Champions League group stage also proved that Meli's recent state is so good that in the match between the King of Madrid and the Swiss giants Basson, Meli scored twice and assisted a goal to help the team beat the team 5:1. The opponent, who won the Champions League in the new season, has also taken the first step of defending the title, a solid step.

In contrast, the bad luck of the Madrid Pirates continues:

They were tied 3:3 by the Greek team Piraeus in the away game...

Although Piraeus is a Greek giant, the strength of the Greek giants is also weaker than that of the Spanish giants.

Pirates scored two goals in this game, one of which was scored by Hou Lai, and the other was scored by central defender Riva Moreno with a corner kick.

The remaining goal was an own goal scored by a Piraeus player.

After the game, the Greek local media was still a little unconvinced, claiming that Piraeus scored four goals in the game, but could not win the game, and felt sorry for not being able to beat the Madrid Pirates at home.

After the first round of the UEFA Champions League group stage, home 1: The Turin Bulls who defeated Liebersburg temporarily ranked first in this group, and the Madrid Pirates and Piereves ranked second and third, and Liebersburg from Sweden the last one.

In the fourth round of the league the following weekend, the Madrid Pirates drew with Samir Sports 2:2 at home.

In this game, Carey opened the scoring for the team, and Kamara also scored his first goal after joining the Madrid Pirates.

But Samir Sports performed very well, they fell behind twice in the game and equalized twice. In the end, they forced a draw by all the members sticking to the bus.

In the four rounds of the league, they had one win, two draws and one loss, ranking ninth with five points.

The team's performance did not reflect everyone's expectations, especially the new players.

Among the several important signings, apart from Ismail Kamara's performance is quite normal, the remaining two are not very satisfactory.

Vukovic's problem is defensively.

After moving to the Madrid Pirates, he needs to take on more defensive tasks than he did when he played for Wieseldorf. This is where he doesn't quite get used to it.

He used to play in Weissedov and was the core of the team. His position was closer to the opponent's penalty area and he was responsible for the last pass. It was a typical attacking midfielder.

But when the Madrid Pirates came, the head coach asked him to move back and play in the midfield.

He hasn't quite adjusted to the new position and the transition to new responsibilities.

So the performance is a bit hip.

There is a problem with the position selection in defense, and the defensive attitude is not active enough, so that the Madrid Pirates' midfield defense has made many mistakes.

In addition to Vukovic, Drew's performance is not satisfactory.

After coming to the Madrid Pirates with a sky-high transfer fee of 98 million euros, this is a huge pressure and burden, and his performance in the game has not met people's expectations of him, or he has not reached his worth One by one everyone originally thought that after the "billion-dollar central defender" came to the team, he could immediately show his super ability and talent, and become the pinnacle of the Madrid Pirates' defense.

The Madrid Pirates' 1:2 away loss to the King of Madrid in the same city derby was Drew's first game on behalf of the Pirates, and it was also the first game in the starting lineup.

The central defender who had frozen Meli in the World Cup was highly expected by the Madrid Pirates fans, but when he met Meli again, he was very embarrassed. Meli's goals and assists in the game were all breakthroughs found from Danny Drew's side.

After the game, Danny Drew even got the team's lowest score, and there were a lot of criticisms against him.

The Dutch media argued for Drew that he still needs to adapt to the Spanish football style. For example, when defending, the frontcourt players will not be too involved in defense to help the defenders share the pressure, so the central defenders must bear more pressure. He has to solve a lot of problems on his own, and he can't count on his teammates to help.

The Spanish media directly criticized Drew's performance as not as expected. The Dutch top talent is like a primary school player in front of Argentina's top talent-this is very serious.

※※It wasn't until the fifth round of the league in the middle of the week that the Madrid Pirates won again.

They beat the Phoenicians 1-0 away.

Hou Lai scored the only goal for the team.

Although they won the ball, they still attracted a lot of people's ridicule: "The contest between the ninth and tenth leagues is so fierce, and the outcome depends on one goal!" As of the last round of the league, the Madrid Pirates ranked Ninth, the Phoenicians were tenth.

They are mocking the dignified defending champion of the league for fighting a Phoenician so hard. You must know that the Phoenician finally ranked 17th last season, which is worthy of relegation.

In stark contrast is the city rival King Madrid.

Their performance in the first two rounds of the league was also unstable, with one win and one loss, but since they beat the Madrid Pirates 2:1 at home in the third round of the league, the team has been on the fast track.

In the fourth round of the league, they defeated the newly promoted Athletic Corvette 8:2 away. In the fifth round of the league, the King of Madrid beat Aihl 5:1 at home. In addition, they swept Basson 5:1 at home in the Champions League group stage. They scored 20 goals in the last four games and won four consecutive victories in all competitions.

Meli has scored in all four games, scoring eight in total, six in the league and two in the Champions League. Although he missed the first two rounds of the league, he came from behind and ranked first in the scorer list.

This performance indeed corresponds to the headline in the "Marca" newspaper:

King's return.

There are two teams in Madrid, one is cooking with fire, and the flowers are blooming like a brocade. It seems that they are about to get rid of their shame and return to the top. The other seems to have not found the right direction, struggling to move forward in the quagmire.

Under such circumstances, the Madrid Pirates are about to usher in a "devil schedule":

On September 23rd, Saturday, the sixth round of the league, the home game against the Feud, the third-ranked Sevilla Navigator in the league.

On September 27, Wednesday, the second match of the UEFA Champions League group stage, the home game against the biggest competitor in the group, the Torino Bulls.

On September 30th, Saturday, the seventh round of the league, an away game against Valentia, currently ranked first in the league.

It seems that the future of the Madrid Pirates is not optimistic.

When a gambler played Stud at the gaming table back then, he had to bear the tremendous pressure now.

If you want to leave the table halfway, you can either go against the current and make a comeback, or kneel to the bottom and lose everything.

This is gambling.

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