After the FA Cup semi-finals, the final will not be played until two months later, on November 4th, and it will all be league games.

The Twinkles could turn their full attention back to the league and use nine league games over the past two months to establish their dominance.

Because the next round of the league was two days after the FA semi-finals, the whole team of the shining stars flew back to Jincheng on the night of the game.

Then on Saturday, Zhao Kangming rotated all the players who played in the FA Cup semi-finals, bringing on those substitutes who did not play and those who did not go to the road at all.

Against Youjiang Honglian, who is not strong.

The shining star, who rotated a large number of players, was not able to beat Youjiang Honglian at home, but he did not lose either.

They drew 0-0 at home.

Considering that the Twinkle Star did his best in the FA Cup semi-finals, many players cramped, and even if he won Poseidon, it could be said to be a "miserable victory". Then in the league you haven't lost yet, the result is already completely acceptable.

What follows is a crucial battle for the shining star:

In the twenty-third round of the league, they will challenge Ningtian Yongan away. The latter is currently third in the league, one point less than the shining stars with a game in hand.

If Shining Star loses to Ning Tian Yongan away from home, the opponent will temporarily surpass Shining Star by two points in points.

Although the flashing star will make up for the league game that they played less before, if they can win, they can continue to rank second with a one-point advantage, squeezing Ning Tianyongan down.

But isn't the gap between the two sides completely narrowed to one point?

Everyone thought that this game would be a very tight battle.

But when the game started, they realized that it wasn't the case at all.

In this game, the shining stars, who sent all the main players, played very aggressively despite being away.

After ten minutes, they had the upper hand.

In the 23rd minute of the game, Zhang Qinghuan grabbed a goal in the penalty area to break the deadlock.

Five minutes later, Hulai doubled the lead with a follow-up shot in front of goal.

At the end of the first half, the visiting Shining Star led the home team Ning Tian Yongan, a team relegated from the Chinese Super League, with a score of 2:0.

The commentator of Ningtian Satellite TV exclaimed: "This flash star and the flash star in the first half of the season are like two teams!" ”

He made a bit of a fuss.

After all, this shining star is at the home of the sixth place in the Chinese Super League, Poseidon, and can eliminate the opponent's team 2:1.

That's a real Chinese Super League team, and Ning Tian Yongan is just a team relegated from the Chinese Super League......

When Zhao Kangming decided not to give up the FA Cup so soon, he just wanted to use the Chinese Super League team to test the quality of this shining star.

He had no idea that it would help the team in the league.

Because the shining star players who have seen the world in the FA Cup suddenly feel that those "strong teams" in the Chinese League are just bluffs......

Ning Tian Yongan finished fifteenth and second from bottom in the Chinese Super League last season. And the Poseidon that Shining Star previously defeated away from home ranked sixth in the Super League.

From this point of view, what is Ning Tian Yongan afraid of?

In the first half of the season, the Shining Stars were forced to draw 0-0 at home by this team, and now that I think about it, their performance was really not very good......

The Flicker's reach for the FA Cup final has gained confidence that is difficult for other teams in the Chinese League to have, which will be a huge benefit for them in the next league.

And this benefit was unexpected by those who previously accused the Twinks of not doing their best in the FA Cup and should have given up the FA Cup to play in the league.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again, and Qin Lin and Chen Xingyi scored separately on the side of the shining star.

In the end, they defeated Ning Tian Yongan 4-0 away.

To tell the truth, Shining Star defeated the third place in the league Ning Tian Yongan 4:0 away, and the shock caused by this game to the other teams in the Chinese League was no less than the shock caused by the Shining Star 4:2 home defeat of the then league leader Nanhai Team, and no less than the Shining Star eliminated the Chinese Super League team Poseidon 2:1 away in the FA Cup semifinals.

After all, in the game against Nanhai, Shining Star still conceded two goals, and judging from the game process, Shining Star did not win easily, and he did his best to win this game.

Not to mention playing Poseidon, they use very creative set-piece tactics, which is a bit of a trick. After that game, the set-piece tactics of the shining star also became the object of heated discussion. Many analysts believe that the off-the-beaten-path set-piece tactics were the key to the two goals that the stars were able to score against Poseidon.

These analyses speak well. In fact, if it weren't for Hulai's set-piece tactics, the only winning strategy Zhao Kangming could think of was to drag the game into a penalty shootout, and then leave everything to luck.

In both games, the shining stars won, but it was not easy to win, and it was a trick to win.

However, in the game with Ning Tian Yongan, the away game Shining Star played as if it was a home game, scoring two goals in each half, and defeated the opponent bloodlessly.

After the game, Ning Tian Yongan's players have not yet reacted, and some players said in an interview after the game that when they played against the shining stars, they felt as if they played in the Chinese Super League last season......

What does this mean?

It is said that the performance of the shining star is already at the level of the Super League.

This may be the result of the flashing stars knocking out Chinese Super League teams in two consecutive rounds in the FA Cup.

And if the Twinkles are already at the level of the Chinese Super League, does it mean that they will definitely be promoted this season?

As a result, there is probably only one promotion spot left for other teams that want to be promoted......

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Don't look at the flash star after winning this game, they are still in second place, but the first South China Sea team has already felt a lot of pressure.

Because next week, when the rest of the teams rest, the flashing stars will face Xinzhou Kunlun at home, this game is a make-up match for the 18th round of the league.

After this game, the Twinkle will play the same number of games as the other teams.

The Nanhai team, who have played one more game so far, are in first place with 52 points - they lost to Ning Tian Yongan in the last round of the game, missing the best chance to get rid of the shining star in the standings, because the shining star in that round of the league rotation was forced to draw at home by Youjiang Honglian.

As a result, they are now only two points ahead of the Twinks.

If the flashing stars beat the new island Kunlun in the midweek replay, the flashing stars will overtake the South China Sea team by one point and sit at the top of the league standings.

Judging from the form shown by the flash stars in the game against Ning Tian Yongan, the probability of them beating Xinzhou Kunlun at home is very high.

As expected, on Wednesday, September 20, the shining stars who returned to their home stadium adopted a semi-main and semi-rotating lineup and still won 2:0 against the new island Kunlun.

After this game, they sit in top of the league table with 53 points, the first time they have returned to this position after losing to Black Pole Star on August 27.

Although they are only one point ahead of the South Sea team.

But many people should have seen that the current state of the shining star is difficult to interrupt.

Sure enough, the following Sunday, they faced the 11th-ranked Banner Eagles at home, winning 3-1 and Hulai scoring twice.

While helping the Shining Star continue to lead the league standings, he also leads the scorers chart with eighteen goalscorers.

Second-placed Ivar Moses has thirteen goals.

Hulay's lead is still huge.

According to this momentum, many people feel that Hulai is more and more likely to win the Golden Boot.

In fact, even if he can't get the top scorer in the league, his performance this season can definitely be called a phenomenon, which is rare in the history of the Chinese League.

After all, although there were local goalscorers before him who had won the league's top scorer in the 2012 season of the Chinese League, Lin Gang was already twenty-six years old when he won the top scorer, and Hu Lai had just passed his twentieth birthday.

Not to mention that there are still a full ten league games to go until the end of the league, and Hulai has already scored eighteen goals.

It is only three goals short of the 21-goal single-season goal record set by Lin Gang a decade ago, and only four goals short of the 22-goal single-season goal record set by Brazilian striker Olivier Ferraire of Hexi Daqin last season.

Judging by his current form, he has a good chance of breaking both records, and maybe he could improve both records by a large margin, making them difficult for later generations to beat.

For a while, many people on the Internet began to pay attention to the scorer list of the Chinese League and Hu Lai's performance.

Under the attention of so many people, Hulai did not feel the huge pressure and behaved abnormally.

On the contrary, in the 25th round of the league three days later, in the match where Shinstar challenged the relegation team Yunshan Caiyun, he scored another goal in the game.

Help the Twinkling Stars get out of the home of the relegation team 2-0.

In the same round of the league, the Nanhai team lost the game, and the points stayed at 55 points, while the flashing stars accumulated 59 points with this victory, leaving the Nanhai team by four points and widening the points gap.

At the same time, Ning Tian Yongan won two consecutive victories after losing to Shining Star, accumulating fifty-two points, and was already close to the Nanhai team.

Considering that the Nanhai team will have to play the flashes at home in the penultimate round of the league, such a situation cannot but be reminiscent of their last season - the Nanhai team, which still has a glimmer of promotion hopes, lost to the flashes at their home stadium and finally lost the promotion opportunity completely.

Will we repeat the same mistakes this year?

Fortunately, in the next 26th round of the league, Luo Kai broke out, and he scored twice to help the Nanhai team defeat Tangdu Jiulong and stop the decline.

He has also scored nine league goals and is already the team's second-leading goalscorer in the South Seas.

It was already his best season in professional football.

Any 20-year-old player who has this kind of performance is really going to wake up laughing in his dreams.

You must know that Chen Xingyi, who was loaned to Shinstar from Golden Arrows, also scored nine league goals, the same as him.

But Luo Kai couldn't laugh at all.

Who let there be a youkai in front of him......

Although Hulai did not score in this round of the league, he still continued to lead the league scorer list with 19 league goals, which is 10 more than Luo Kai, who played the best season of his career!

The number of goals in his best career season is only a fraction of the number of goals scored by others, so what's there to be proud of?

Still happy?

It's a joke to say!

The only good news may be that after playing this round of the league, Luo Kai received a call-up from the national Olympic team to participate in three friendly matches of the national Olympic team on October 7, 12 and 15.

This will be his first time playing for his country and wearing the jersey of the national Olympic team.

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PS, the last hours of September, ask for tickets!