With a 4-2 home win over the South Sea team to become the first in the league, four days later, on Thursday, August 3, the shining stars traveled north to challenge Atletico Capital.

Despite being an away game, despite being a double match a week, and despite Zhao Kangming's rotation of the lineup, the shining star, who had just played a "best game of the year in the Chinese league" (media language), defeated Atletico Capital 2:0 away.

Three days later, on Sunday, the Twinkles returned home to 16th-ranked Tang Du Kowloon. The team, which was also last season's second division team, has had an up-and-down run after being promoted to the first division and is currently in 16th place with the goal of relegation.

Speaking of which, this team is still the team of Chen Xingyi's hometown - Chen Xingyi, he is a native of Tangdu, Nanhe Province.

I don't know if it's because of the fact that the fellow countryman sees the fellow countryman, Chen Xingyi was very active in this game.

He scored his first brace since joining the Sparkle and the first brace of his career.

The commentators of Nanhe Satellite TV were very helpless: "No wonder they all say, 'When the fellow sees the fellow, the tears are in his eyes', it turned out that he was beaten by the fellow ......"

Hulay also scored a goal in the game, bringing his tally to 14 league goals this season and still leading the league scorers' charts.

At present, the second top scorer is Ning Tian Yongan's foreign striker, Ivar Moses. French, twenty-eight years old. Last season, he played in the Chinese Super League in Yong'an, although his performance was mediocre, but he was also a striker with Chinese Super League experience.

Moses, who had a mediocre performance in the Chinese Super League, came to the Central League, and originally had a dimensionality reduction and attack mentality. In fact, he does feel better in front of the goal of the Chinese League than in the Chinese Super League, and he was always the top scorer in the league before Hulai's efforts.

However, that feeling disappeared with Hulai's constant scoring in the league.

Hulai scored a hat-trick against Nanhai to overtake Moses, who had scored 10 goals at the time, to become the top scorer in the league and extend the lead to three goals in one fell swoop.

Now it's up to four goals ahead.

The Chinese Super League scorer who has been hit by dimensionality reduction has come to the Chinese League, and he is not Hu Lai's opponent.

This performance has to make people have more expectations for Hulai's future - if the flash star succeeds in surpassing this season, what can Hulai perform in the Chinese Super League next season?

Will it continue to set off a youth storm in the Chinese Super League, or will it encounter a belated "rookie wall" in the Chinese Super League?

Everyone is looking forward to it, and they are also worried.

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When Chen Mo came to Zhao Kangming's office, he found that he was looking at the schedule on the tablet and was distracted.

"What are you doing?" He leaned in and took a look, "The next game against Nan'an Jinpeng will also be relegated from the Chinese Super League, and their performance is far from Ning Tian Yongan's, can't it be over if they play normally?" ”

"No, I'm watching the next game." Zhao Kangming shook his head.

"Next game?" Chen Mo's gaze shifted downward, "Oh, the FA Cup...... Do you have any ideas, Lao Zhao? ”

Generally speaking, with the thickness of the shining star's lineup, if you want to surpass success, you should decisively give up the FA Cup.

But this season's flash star luck is a little good, in the first few rounds of the FA Cup, they met their opponents who were significantly weaker than their opponents, for example, in the third round they met the second team, the fourth round was the same as the second team, and in the fifth round, most of the Chinese A teams will be eliminated one after another, and as a result, the flash star met the biggest dark horse in the FA Cup this season, Dongtai Juxing City, an amateur team!

How do you say you want to give up? Is it going to let the Twinkles be eliminated by the amateur team? That's too fake.

And just like that, the Twinkle Star made it all the way to the quarterfinals in the FA Cup.

Then when they came back to their senses, they were the only team in the FA Cup quarterfinals, and the other seven teams were all in the Super League......

In the fifth round of the FA Cup, when they faced amateur teams, they had a double advantage both mentally and in strength.

Now it was their turn to experience what Dongtai Juxing City felt at that time.

"What do you think should be done?" Zhao Kangming did not answer Chen Mo, but asked back.

Chen Mo spread out his hands: "What else is there to think about, we can't win the FA Cup, and being able to reach the quarterfinals is already the only seedling in the middle league, if you don't give up at this time, when will you wait?" Losing to a Chinese Super League team is not unjust. Then we can focus on playing the league and try to secure the two places that will be in the league early. ”

Zhao Kangming nodded after listening: "Makes sense." ”

Chen Mo smiled: "Isn't this a choice that ordinary people will make, what's there?" ”

"But I have another bold idea, Lao Chen, do you want to listen to it?"

Chen Mo pulled a chair and sat down: "Listen up." ”

Seeing him like this, Zhao Kangming smiled: "Lao Chen, what do you think are the chances of us surpassing this season?" ”

Chen Mo didn't expect Zhao Kangming to ask him questions first, he frowned and thought about it: "I don't dare to say it one hundred percent, but I think it's more than sixty percent." As long as we don't make mistakes ourselves, as long as we don't have a lot of injuries in the second half of the season...... Especially with those lads staying healthy and in shape, I think the odds are still very high. ”

The current league points situation is like this, after playing 16 rounds of the league, Shining Star has 11 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss, accumulating 37 points, ranking first in the league standings.

After losing away to Shining Stars, Lingnan Nanhai lost at home to Chongshan of South Sichuan, suffering two consecutive league defeats and currently sitting in second place with 34 points.

The third place in South Sichuan Chongshan accumulated 32 points, followed closely.

Fourth place is Ning Tian Yongan, who was relegated from the Chinese Super League last season, and their only goal this season is to return to the Chinese Super League, and they currently have 30 points.

Xiaojiang Green Forest ranked fifth with 29 points, and the sixth was the Meiling Ranger with 28 points.

This is the case for the top six teams in the league and the six teams that are most likely to overtake.

The top two in the Chinese League can be directly promoted, and there is no need to play relegation play-offs with any Chinese Super League relegation team, which is a bit like a hammer deal.

So as long as they can make sure that the third place does not overtake them, the shining star will be able to get a promotion spot.

Looking at it now, Shining Star is five points ahead of the third-place Kawanan Chongshan in points, and this point difference cannot be considered small.

However, given the long second half of the season, it's too early to say whether to upgrade or not.

Just like last season.

The Twinkles are still 14th in the league after 17 rounds of league play, with little hope of promotion.

As a result, the ranking went all the way up, and the highest came to ninth place. Just when everyone thought that the team would continue to jump up like this, and then wrestle with the top four teams to see if they could hit the Super League places.

Qin Lin's injury changed everything, and the team's performance began to decline again.

At the end of the season, the Flints finished in 13th place, one place higher than they had at the end of the first half of the league.

A lot happened in that half season.

So who can guarantee that there will be no more colorful twists and turns in the remaining eighteen rounds of the season?

Therefore, Chen Mo added a lot of words to say that he felt that the team's promotion prospects were quite optimistic.

After listening to Chen Mo's analysis, Zhao Kangming still nodded, feeling that Chen Mo was right.

"Then Lao Chen, have you ever thought about what we will do if we are successfully upgraded?"

"How could I have thought about this, what did I want to do so far?" Chen Mo stretched out his hand.

"I've thought about it." Zhao Kangming said, "Especially after seeing the performance of the two teams of Hexi Daqin and Capital Xiangyun after they were promoted...... Hexi Daqin is still struggling on the brink of relegation, but I feel like they have booked a place in the Central League for next season in advance. Do you think that if we succeed in being promoted, we will decide to roll back to the Chinese Super League early next year? ”

Chen Mo didn't answer this question because he didn't know how to answer.

Zhao Kangming didn't need his answer, he continued, shaking his head: "I don't really want to be like this, I finally got promoted, of course, I want to stay in the Super League all the time, use a few years to gain a firm foothold, and then seek something bigger...... That's what I thought. We didn't go to the Super League to take a look, come back after a long experience, and come to the middle league to brag. said that we have seen the Super League, what else can't we deal with in the games of the Chinese Super League? But I really can't handle it...... Look at Nan'an Jinpeng, what kind of dog will our opponent play in the next round? Once some teams are relegated, they have all lost their morale and can't go back......"

Zhao Kangming chattered, and Chen Mo listened quietly, because he knew that what Lao Zhao wanted to say to him was in these chatters.

"The stars are a good team, and the club's management is rarely tolerant, if you just go to play in the Super League for a year, you will fall, I feel sorry for the club's honing in the second division and the first division for so many years. Now that you've gone up, stand firm. Zhao Kangming made a splitting move, "So I think, with the current situation of our team, let's give it a try, and try to see if we have the capital to gain a foothold in the Chinese Super League." ”

Old partner Chen Mo had already guessed Zhao Kangming's thoughts, and he asked bluntly: "Are you going to try it with the FA Cup?" ”

Zhao Kangming nodded: "That's right." This is the only chance we can play against a Super League team. Nan'an Jinpeng and Ning Tian Yongan are not Super League teams, and the hairless Phoenix is not as good as a chicken. The real Chinese Super League team is our opponent in the FA Cup quarter-finals, Haihe Shuanggang. They are currently in the middle of the Super League rankings and are a suitable opponent as an established Super League team. If we lose, we can also know where we lost, so that we can make targeted training and adjustments in the future, and we can be more purposeful in the recruitment after the end of the season. ”

"What if we win? Did you make it to the semi-finals? Chen Mo asked.

"Then keep trying, try our limits. The Chinese Super League teams encountered in the semi-finals are basically the top teams. Even if you are eliminated from the competition at that time, it doesn't matter. How about it, Lao Chen, what do you think of my bold idea? ”

Chen Mo shook his head: "I think you already have the answer, even if I don't say it well, you probably will still do it." ”

"That's not good, we're partners, we always have to unify our minds."

"I don't have a problem with the question of trying and making mistakes with a Super League team in the FA Cup. I just think, aren't you afraid to affect the league? ”

"No, the FA Cup is a one-game elimination system unless we can reach the final...... But to be honest, I think there's little hope. And I looked at the fixtures, and the FA Cup quarter-finals and semi-finals were played in August, so it was at most a matter of one more game. It doesn't have much impact on the league......"

Chen Mo shook his head: "No, I'm not talking about the schedule. I mean, if we had decided to go all out in the FA Cup against the Super League teams, we would probably have given up a couple of league games. Let's take the next game with Nanan Jinpeng as an example, do you want to give up? Will the waiver affect our position in the league? In addition, after playing the match with Haihe Shuanggang, will the team's physical fitness and state be affected? Will this influence carry over to the next round of the league against Kunyang City? ”

"You're right, Lao Chen, that's why I have to consult with you, because you will consider this matter from your point of view, and different angles can ensure that we don't make mistakes when making decisions." Zhao Kangming was not unhappy because of Chen Mo's objections, but not only praised Chen Mo, but also patiently explained to him.

"But I did the math just now. Even if it affects some games, we can afford to pay such a price. is also taking the FA Cup with Haihe Shuanggang as an example. I've studied how Nanan Jinpeng has performed at home and I think that even if we use a rotational lineup, we can at least guarantee that we won't lose on the road. In this way, our main lineup can be used to deal with Haihe Shuanggang. Moreover, the match against Haihe Shuanggang was our home stadium, and we didn't have to move anymore after flying back from Nan'an, and our physical strength was guaranteed. After playing the FA Cup, although we played Kunyang City away in the league, the strength of Kunyang City was also very weak, and we could still use a rotating lineup to play, even if we couldn't win it, we wouldn't lose.

"Even if we get two draws in a row in the league and drop from first to second, we can still stay ahead of Takayama Kawanan in third place. If we are eliminated from the FA Cup, then we can focus all on the league. With the remaining dozen rounds of the league, I believe that with our ability, it is difficult to say that the league will be crowned, but it should be certain to keep the top two in the league. ”

After listening to all of Zhao Kangming's analysis, Chen Mo raised his hands: "You have considered all aspects, I have no opinion, you can give it a try according to your ideas." ”

Zhao Kangming asked him with a smile: "Then ...... it? ”

Chen Mo nodded: "Engage!" ”

Zhao Kangming sighed: "Playing Jinpeng away, let Chen Xingyi, Qin Lin, and Li Tielin rest." In the back position, Shi Junde started, played with Marven in a double back, and only one Hulai on the front, playing a single arrow tactic, focusing on controlling the midfield. As long as we can control the midfield, even if we can't win, we shouldn't lose. ”

Chen Mo wrote down all these personnel adjustments, nodded and said, "Okay." ”

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Three days later, there were boos in Nan'an City Stadium, the home stadium of Nan'an Jinpeng.

Amid the boos, a figure fell from the sky in the corner flag area where the Fortune Wings team was located, standing firmly on the turf with his legs steady, showing the jersey number and name behind him to the camera lens.

The commentator of Anton TV was shouting hoarsely: "Hulai!! In the 72nd minute, he helped Shinxing lead Nanan Jinpeng 1:0 away from home! Zhao Kangming arranged Hu Lai to start in this game, and did not let him rotate to rest, which seems to be expecting him...... And now Hu Lai has repaid Zhao Kangming's trust and support for him with this goal!! ”

In front of the away team's coach's seat, Zhao Kangming shook his head at Chen Mo and said, "I really didn't expect him to score...... There aren't many chances in this game......"

Chen Mo smiled: "Isn't this good, Lao Zhao?" We were there for a long time, thinking about this and that...... The result? Hulay's ball made us all count in vain! If we can get three points away from home, we don't have to think about the impact of the FA Cup on the league......

Zhao Kangming nodded: "That's right." Hulay helped us get ahead. Now we need to think about how to hold on to that lead. ”