"Qu Lu threw the foul ball to Zhou Zijing, and Zhou Zijing... missed it! Chen Xingyi! Good ball! Opportunity! Cross! Luo Kai hits the goal!!"

When they saw Chen Xingyi pass the football to Luo Kai, countless fans couldn't wait to cheer in front of domestic TV sets.

But then they saw the football blocked by Brazilian center back Amorim who was standing on the goal line.

 In an instant, many people were still wondering whether the goal had been scored? Did Amorim fish the football out of the goal?

 They also hope that goal-line technology can intervene.

But the pace of the game was too fast, the football had not gone out of bounds, and the game was not over yet, so their doubts could only flash through their minds. Before they had time to think about it, they saw Zhang Qinghuan kicking the football!

 “Zhang Qinghuan! Fight again!! Oops!!”

 This is the loud sigh of the two commentators in the commentary box.

 In front of the TV, the Chinese fans had the same reaction, exactly the same as the commentators.

They put their heads in their hands and shouted through gritted teeth.

 I don’t know how many occasions at this moment in China this kind of collective sigh appeared.

Anyway, everyone in the subway car where Zhong Shihao was sitting exclaimed in surprise.

 After exclaiming, everyone was still staring at their mobile phone screens nervously.

Thanks to the developed communication infrastructure and the popular 5G network, so many people are crowded in the subway car and watching the live game on the mobile network at the same time, and there is no lag at all.

So they saw a scene that they would never forget:

  Players from both the Brazilian and Chinese teams competed for the spot of the football.

 But none of them has the most accurate judgment of football placement than Hu Lai.

 When they made the move to grab the spot... Hu Lai was already in the air and flying towards the football!

 “Hulai!!”

Zhong Shihao couldn't help but shout out. Countless people around him were shouting the names of his high school classmates.

Even in many places he didn’t know, people he didn’t know were shouting like this.

They saw Hu Lai sprinting from the penalty area, and then leaping into the air...

 A standard can no longer reach the top with a standard dive!

 When they saw this scene, everyone's mouths were wide open. They thought they had made a cheering sound, but in fact not a single sound came out of their throats.

Everyone just stared at the leaping figure on the screen with their mouths open.

 Until he rammed the football into the goal.

 Their voices were heard:

 “Holy shit!!!!”

 “Awesome!!!”

 “Hu Lai is awesome!!!”

 “I’m so fucking awesome at Hu Lai!!!!”

 In the swaying subway car, Zhong Shihao, like the people around him, stopped watching the game and cheered with his arms raised high.

The passengers who were originally sitting on the chairs also jumped up from their seats and raised their arms and shouted.

The entire subway car was filled with cheers, as if there was a carnival party going on on this train traveling underground in the city.

 But not only in the underground of this city, but also in all places in China that were watching the live broadcast of this game, they were all caught up in the carnival at this moment.

 No one can remain calm at this time, unless he hates Chinese football!

 After Zhong Shihao yelled, he hugged the person next to him, even though he didn't know the other person at all.

 But they became comrades-in-arms under the extreme excitement.

They witnessed the highlight moment of Chinese football in the same trench, when they scored three goals against the world champion Brazil team in the World Cup!

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 “...Ah ha ha ha ha ha!” He Feng’s loud laughter came from the TV speakers.

As a commentator, he laughed so hard that he even lost his composure. But he did not want to deliberately control his emotions. He just wanted to show his truest mood at this moment in front of the TV audience, and permanently

Stay in China's history.

A few years later, when people look back on the history of Chinese football’s World Cup campaign, his laughter will surely become a witness to this history.

Li Qingqing stood in front of the sofa, waving her fists vigorously and shouting: "Beautiful! Beautiful!!"

Li Ziqiang didn't care about his daughter's attitude. He stood up very excitedly, clenching his fists hard and trembling slightly.

Hu Lixin and Xie Lan were no better than their father and daughter. Xie Lan even cried excitedly: "Great!! Hat trick! Great!!"

As for what He Feng said at this historical moment, they, the audience, didn’t hear a word, or they didn’t care at all...

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 “What? The Chinese team scored again?!”

When Russia head coach Alkom Mashaninov heard the news from his assistant coach, his eyes widened.

 The assistant coach nodded to him: "Yes, it was Hu Lai who scored the goal again..."

“Hat-trick...He completed a hat-trick against Brazil?!” Mashaninov muttered to himself, with a hint of disbelief in his tone.

“Alkom, should we strengthen our offense now and try to get first place in the group?” The assistant coach obviously didn’t care about what Hulay did, he was more concerned about what the Russian team could benefit from.

 If the Brazilian team and the Chinese team end up tied, then Russia will share five points with Brazil.

 Just because of the disadvantage in goal difference, Russia ranks second.

Now if Russia can score more goals and surpass Brazil on goal difference, it can jump to the top of the group and avoid the first place in Group A, France.

He looked at the 2:0 score on the live scoreboard, his eyes burning a little.

But Mashaninov shook his head: "It's too late. If this news had come twenty minutes earlier, we might really have a chance... But I just replaced Romanov, and the players' mentality was completely relaxed.

It’s very difficult to make them nervous again.”

 The assistant coach knew that Mashaninov was right, and he sighed helplessly.

Hearing this sigh, Mashaninov smiled and comforted his assistant: "Let's be open. At least we didn't let Hulay score. You must know that the game against us was the only game in which he did not score. Think about it this way.

, I’m not that pessimistic about our next game against France… Ha!”

The assistant coach was amused. He knew that the head coach was comforting himself: "Then when people look back on Hulay's performance in the World Cup, will they say: 'Russia is the only team where Hulay did not score a goal'?"

 “Ha, that’s what it means!” Mashaninov clapped his hands and laughed.

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"Hu Lai! Hu Lai! Hu Lai! Hu Lai!!! Oh oh oh! Unbelievable! The Chinese team evened the score again!"

 The commentator shouted excitedly from the speakers.

 In front of the projection screen, the England players stared blankly in the same direction, unable to believe their eyes.

Only Pete Williams and Jay Adams made any move. They both looked at each other, and they both saw shock on each other's faces.

Hulai actually scored a hat-trick in his first World Cup!

 Even if they were Hu Lai’s teammates at the club and knew how good Hu Lai was, they never dared to think of such a thing...

 This is a hat trick in the World Cup!

 Throughout the ages, how many people have been able to score three goals in a single game in the World Cup?

In the history of the 23rd World Cup, there have been a total of fifty-three hat tricks, most of which were created in ancient times. With the development of modern football, more and more attention is paid to defense and overall balance.

After the style of play, hat tricks appear less and less frequently in the World Cup.

 In the fifty-six years since the first televised World Cup in 1970, there have been a total of fifteen World Cups, and twenty-seven hat tricks have been performed, completed by a total of twenty-six people.

Hu Lai became one of the twenty-sixth.

 Their club teammates, with such an almost perfect performance and manner, etched their names in history.

 They could only sit in the hotel garden at night and witness this moment through the projection screen.

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Compared with the English players who were too frightened to make a sound, the Japanese players who were also paying attention to the game all exclaimed:

 “The country is here! The country is here!”

Morikawa Junpei's voice was particularly prominent here. He laughed loudly: "I said it! I said it! The Chinese team will not give up easily!"

 Everyone turned around to look at this crazy teammate, but no one could laugh at him.

 The facts were before them, and the Chinese team's tenacious performance left them in awe.

Even Junpei Morikawa, who has always believed in the Chinese team, seems to be worthy of respect...

　　Sugiyama Tatsuya has a feeling of seeing a ghost.
To be continued...