Lola is always noisy. Nicholas thought that she was already a big girl, and still liked to pull him on and chatter.

"Javier is a jerk, he broke my heart, and I swear I will never ignore him again, no matter how much he begs me. He's dancing with other girls in a nightclub, Nick, you don't know, her ass is clinging to him! Julio said he was going to beat Javier, but I didn't let me. Julio is so skinny, I'm afraid he won't be beaten by Javier but by Javier. I don't like Julio's new girlfriend either, she never looks at me squarely. I really don't understand why Julio always likes bad girls who are not educated. And there's more...... Nick, are you listening?"

Nicholas turned his head to look at Lola and nodded reluctantly.

A football game is being played on TV. Blue and white jersey against red and white jersey.

Lola frowned, pushed her long hair behind her ears again, and let go of her brother's arm. She also set her sights on television.

The short-haired Asian woman standing on the sidelines on the TV was wearing a black knee-length down jacket, with one hand in her pocket and the other pointing at the court, still talking something in her mouth.

Lola glanced at the score again, 0:1. She was about to speak, but Nick fell back a bit. She hurriedly asked, "Isn't it a live broadcast?"

Nick stared at the TV, "Si. (um)"

Lola's mouth moved several times, but she never spoke again. Although Nick has always been gentle with her, the questions she wants to ask may make him lose his temper. She's not sure either. In short, Sophie told her not to mention it. But she has always been very curious.

Lola turned her gaze to the TV again, this time giving the Asian woman a close-up, as she walked back to the dugout and hurriedly took a sip of water. After drinking water, she didn't turn the bottle cap for a long time because her eyes were always on the field. Lola couldn't help but laugh out loud, and she glanced at Nick again, and there was a soft smile on the corner of Nick's mouth.

On TV, the Asian woman's teaching assistant couldn't stand it anymore and took the mineral water bottle and the lid in her hand. The narrator was also laughing at her series of actions. And the camera has cut back to the game.

"Clumsy." Lola finally couldn't hold back and spat out an English word. She immediately went to look at Nick's face. Nick didn't say anything, and he didn't answer.

Lola then continued: "She's so sexy, even in such a thick down jacket. She looked at Nick again.

Nick seemed to think of something, and the corners of his mouth moved. He looked at his watch again.

Lola then looked at her watch as well, it was almost 12 o'clock.

Nicholas turned off the TV and stood up, "I should go to sleep, Lola." ”

"Okay, Nick, I'll go to sleep right away. ”

He walked up the stairs and turned back to his sister and said, "Don't reconcile with Javier, if he always breaks your heart like this." ”

"Nick, so you really listened to me!"

The man on the stairs smiled and said, "Julio doesn't like uneducated girls, she likes sexy girls." Good night. He continued upstairs.

Lola shouted at him, "Nick!"

Nicholas stopped and looked at his sister.

"The woman...... I mean Christine, I want to meet her. ”

Nicholas was stunned for a moment, then whispered, "I want to too." ”

Lola was shocked, remembering Sophie's words.

“sheistheloveofhislife.” (She was the love of his life.) ）

And Nick was no longer on the stairs.

Nicholas closed the door and pulled out his phone. 12:01。

He dialed, thinking maybe he would be the first to wish her a happy birthday.

However, the line is busy. He didn't wait, he didn't have to think about it to know who was talking to her on the phone. He then sent a message:

【HappyBirthday,C】(Happy Birthday, Christine)

****

Patrick couldn't see her face for a moment, but could hear her gasp.

"How do you feel?" he asked.

After a second or two, she picked up her phone, and the light smile on her face was lazy and seductive.

"What do you think?" she asked.

"I think you like it, take a break and do it again. ”

She shook her head slightly, "I do like it, but I have to sleep." ”

"Are you sure?" Patrick smirked.

"I'm sure. ”

"Do you miss me?"

"Very. She spat out the word softly.

Patrick found that such a simple word could be so sweet and romantic, especially when she pronounced the last note, he was so excited.

"I hate to say repetitive things, but I wish I was there for you right now. ”

Lu Ling felt that her whole body was still soft, she didn't think much about it, and said casually: "You are the one who is leaving." ”

This sentence briefly plunged the atmosphere into an eerie dreary dreary that no one expected.

After a while, Patrick suddenly said, "That wasn't easy for me. He actually felt a little angry, certainly not at her.

"I know, Pat. Can we talk about something else before I go to bed?"

He frowned and didn't speak. After a while, he said, "Peake asked me why I had a bitch tattoo on my arm, and I almost punched him." ”

She was laughing over there, and when he saw her, he finally laughed too.

His expression gradually became serious again, and he asked, "That day, you said, 'If one day our relationship is really going to be public'...... What does that mean?"

She smiled and said slowly, "Like you said, we can't keep doing this. I would also like to go with you to eat at my favorite restaurant and go on vacation to my favorite place...... I'm not saying I'm going to have a press conference and tell everybody that Patrick is my boyfriend......"

"Patrick is my boyfriend. He repeated her words.

"What's wrong?"

"Your boyfriend is glad to hear that. ”

In the camera, she glared at him with a smile, "Can I continue?"

"Tina, it doesn't matter. If you don't go to your favorite restaurant to eat, can you go on vacation together? It really doesn't matter. ”

She was silent.

He continued, "Last week, Ross mentioned something on the phone that made me think a lot ......"

"What did he say?" she asked.

He said that when gay rights have long been fully protected, one of our teammates on the national team would not dare to come out of the closet. He sighed weakly, "There is still a different set of rules in men's professional football than in other places. I thought it would have been easier if I wasn't your player, but now I can't imagine what everyone is going to talk about you when they know about it......"

"Do you think I don't know that? Patrick, when did you become so ......?"

"What?" he asked, blankly.

"I don't know. I do not know. Her smile was long gone, and her voice grew louder, "Your mind is always changing." The last time we had a fight, you said I didn't think about our future, and now I'm thinking about it, and you're so negative......"

"Tina!" he interrupted her abruptly, "we can't quarrel, we're in two cities, it's your birthday, it's your first day of twenty-nine, if I say something wrong, I apologize, we can't quarrel." ”

She pursed her lips.

"Didn't you say you're going to sleep, and we'll talk about that when I get back to London in March?"

She nodded.

"Laughs. Pretty girl. ”

She pulled the corners of her mouth reluctantly.

"Oh, look what I've done to make such a pretty girl laugh like cry......"

"Alright, alright, Pat. She smiled solemnly at the camera.

"Much better. He put two fingers to his lips and then to the camera, "Good night." I love you. ”

****

The phone vibrated for a moment, lit up, and soon dimmed again.

Nicholas put down the book and took it and looked at it.

【thankyou.】

It was already one o'clock, and he put down his phone, closed the book, and turned off the light.

There's a game tomorrow.

****

In the fifth round of the FA Cup on 18 February, there were many upsets. Nicolas's Everton 0:1 away to West Bromwich Albion were knocked out of Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham. With the QPR out in the third round, five of the Premier League's top eight teams have now been knocked out of the FA Cup.

And on February 21, that is, on Wednesday, in the first leg of the Champions League 1/8 finals, Everton drew 2:2 with Paris Saint-Germain at home after a hard-fought battle. Everton twice trailed and twice equalised, with Dembele and Ross Barkley scoring goals. Everton lost Romelu Lukaku and Donny van der Bergh in the first half due to injury, but were able to salvage the situation at Goodison Park, but were conceded two away goals to cast a shadow over the Toffees' progression.

On Thursday, at the home of the new Queen's Park, the QPR rotated in the second leg of the Europa League 1/16 final and beat Ajax 1-0, with young Joey Freeman making an eye-catching start and scoring the only goal. QPR successfully advanced to the round of 16 of the Europa League with an aggregate score of 3:0.

And the next day, in the Europa League knockout draw, QPR drew an extremely strong opponent: Serie A giants Juventus.

In the cafeteria, most of the players and members of the coaching staff pouted, and some even waved their arms directly. Even Lu Ling frowned. She had watched Juventus' two matches against Everton in the Champions League group stage and knew that the team had only fallen into a difficult group before falling into the Europa League. (Champions League group third will enter the Europa League knockout round)

In fact, in the end, Everton also relied on the slight advantage of the win-loss relationship to overtake Juventus and advance in danger. In both games, the Toffees only managed to draw and scored an extra goal on the road. Moreover, Juventus are currently well ahead of the Serie A table and will certainly be more committed in the Europa League, which is unmatched by the QPR - Lu Ling's priority now is definitely the league.

Two London derbys. First Tottenham, then Arsenal. Moreover, it is a double game a week.

In the first half of the season, QPR beat Tottenham. It also left Patrick Amber's much-talked-about goals and dribbles, and also sparked a social media craze led by Ronaldinho and Gabriel Jesus, and of course led to some unhappiness for Walker and Patrick in the national team. But the loss of QPR against Arsenal was also the beginning of a decline in the team's record at that time.

Especially considering that Arsenal's match against Everton and Liverpool's game against Manchester City will be postponed this week due to the Carabao Cup final, so QPR has a good time to reclaim the top spot - a home win over Tottenham Hotspur can temporarily overtake Everton on goal difference with one more game in hand and get rid of Manchester City.

Lu Ling is looking forward to seeing Pochettino again and is looking forward to beating him again.

She has played him four times before, winning all of them. Sunday will be the fifth.

****

Sunday afternoon, 1:30 p.m. New Queen's Park Stadium.

This game QPR returned to the recently used 4222 formation, starting with:

Hans;

Zixiang, Glenn, Mario, John;

Campbell, Ian, Mensa, Jacob;

Leon, Dzyuba

Tottenham, on the other hand, still use the 4231 formation. They currently sit eighth in the league and have only theoretical hope of fighting for a top-four finish. But in this game, the Argentine has made a lot of preparation, and the team has been relatively well rested recently.

Pochettino is wearing a long black trench coat today, which he always wears on the sidelines in the winter.

On the field, the home team launched a frantic attack from the start. She wants to steal the start, the Argentine does. Their attack almost paid off, as in the ninth minute, Lloris [Tottenham goalkeeper's] kick-off was cut off by a scrambled Dzyuba and the Russian passed it to León, who led it all the way into the box, but the one-on-one shot went just wide.

There was a loud sigh from across the pitch.

On the other side, the QPR boss turned around and shook his arm.

Pochettino glanced at her, who looked a little nervous today, perhaps desperate to win the match. When they shook hands, they didn't talk. That meeting at White Hart Lane a few months ago wasn't pleasant. However, at the press conference before the game, although some reporters deliberately asked questions with traps, they did not start the "scolding war".

Sometimes, it's not so easy for the media to get what they want, it's what every manager does. And this time, they thought the same.

Lu Ling turned around and said a few words to Tim, and wrote something in her notebook, and after she put down the notebook, she walked back to the sideline.

Tottenham's two flanks are full of energy, with Kyle Walker and Danny Rose being tough and fast. In recent games, the duo's forward insertion has been a sign of Tottenham's attack. But now, they are still focused on defense and do not move.

Clearly, Pochettino has learned from his previous multiple defeats.

If you get caught up in the attack, the QPR with more individual ability will have a better chance of scoring goals, especially since the QPR has been very experienced in grabbing the start recently.

The game gradually reached 25 minutes. The movements of the QPR players are starting to become less agile.

Maybe it's just a little bit of a change, maybe it's just a player who is a little slower to play a leg in a scramble, or a little bit sluggish when he is high ball.

But Pochettino received a signal to launch a counteroffensive.

A goal kick. Tottenham goalkeeper Lloris took another risk and launched an attack with a short pass from the back.

This time he succeeded, with Tottenham's two full-backs sprinting into the QPR half.

Tottenham pushed forward at breakneck speed, and the fatigue of the QPR was caught by them. After a couple of quick passes, the ball was already in the penalty area and Moussa Sissoko rushed towards the goal with great speed.

The high-impact France international has posed a threat to the QPR in the past at Newcastle. He suffered a long-term injury midway through the season, which was a big reason why Tottenham were not in good form at the time and could not get close to the top four. Now, he's back.

Sissoko received a cross from Eriksen and fired a fierce shot less than 10 metres from goal. It's a little closer than a penalty.

But Hans-Bahmeier roared, spread his broad arms, and pounced on the ball as the ball hit the outside of his arm and bounced off the post.

Tottenham missed that opportunity.

The problem with QPR has been exposed.

In the next game, Lu Ling kept shouting loudly on the sidelines, and gradually turned the players into a slightly more conservative posture. But in this way, it is even more important to use the long pass to find the way Gyuba advances.

The tall Artem Dzyuba is now very heavy on his feet after a frantic run in the opening round. His efficiency in competing for the first point was noticeably reduced.

Tottenham were in control.

In the first half, Hans saved a header from Kane and a tricky free-kick from Christian Eriksen. The score remained 0:0.

In the second half, Lu Ling did not replace Jiuba, she chose to continue to believe in her own employment.

Dzyuba gradually began to recover his form. With him as the fulcrum, QPR has played another offensive combination that has been a lot of flowers in the league recently.

Campbell's shot went over the crossbar, but Leon seemed to have a bad foot today, with Lloris denied on both attempts.

In the 72nd minute, Lu Ling replaced the tired Mensah with Vargas, intending to continue the attack.

Tim whispered in her ear, "Maybe we should replace Leon, he looks a little tired and not quite right." Next up is Arsenal...... If we can get a point in this game, it's not too bad. ”

Lu Ling knows very well that he will play against Arsenal in three days. But she wants to win this fight. She wants to continue to win against the Argentine. Most importantly, she wants to get back to the top of the rankings, even if it's one less round. She didn't want to relax, she didn't want to give up the whole effort.

So she shook her head, "I don't think there's anything wrong with Leon's body." As long as he's on the pitch, he can score goals for us. ”

Tim didn't say anything more, he walked back to the dugout, holding his chin and praying for a little luck.

And the sky was overcast.

In the 85th minute, Lu Ling chose to replace the equally physically exhausted Campbell with a young Joey Freeman, and asked Joey to pay attention to cooperating with his teammates.

Joey, who is still a little bit of experience, scored in the Europa League against Ajax on Thursday. But he seemed to be too anxious when he came on the field.

Joey dribbled down the left flank to cut straight inside past Walker, and he succeeded, but then it was Wanyama who came up.

Tottenham's midfielder cleared the ball with a big foot and it landed right in front of Dilly Alli.

Ali had fewer options for the ball, and he almost luckily poked the ball forward past Mario Fernandez, who was on the move.

The ball reached the feet of Tottenham substitute striker Son Heung-min. The South Korean dribbled the ball at high speed towards the goal of the QPR. Hans has struck. Son Heung-min scrambled to his feet just outside the box and the ball was saved by Hans with great courage.

But at this time it was Ali who followed.

Ian also chased back into place.

Ali made a foul gesture and elbowed Ian away.

On the sidelines, Lu Ling's protest had not yet come out, and Ali directly completed the push.

The ball flew into the goal.

It was the 89th minute. Tottenham Hotspur leads QPR 1-0 away.

Pochettino clenched his fists hard and the Tottenham players rushed to the away fan zone to cheer – oh, can the fuck finally win a QPR?

Maybe that's what each of them thinks in their hearts.

In stoppage time, Lu Ling let the players quickly carry out a dense attack on one side, and let Hans rush up in a corner.

But miracles don't happen every time.

Referee Craig Pawson's final whistle blew.

It was QPR's second defeat in the league this season.

The blue and white team on their home turf failed to capitalise on a return to the top of the table.

Lu Ling hurriedly finished shaking hands with Pochettino, and then gave several members of Tottenham's coaching staff a look on the shoulder, before she turned and walked towards the players' tunnel.

It's just that she heard a strange singing, which was not loud, and there should have been only a few people singing.

But unusually clear and harsh.

she’yboy！she’yboy！

She's with pretty boys! she's with pretty boys!

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