Sure enough, after this match, Paco was still being pursued the day before, and it was another Villa of Valencia.

But the back foot criticized Paco for his poor performance and missed a penalty.

It is said that the media is fickle, but one face a day is really a bit outrageous.

Poor Paco, where has he ever experienced such a thing!

The day before, he was still complacent about the media hype, and even overjoyed by the news that Barcelona would send scouts to investigate him and seemed to be interested in buying him during the winter break.

As a result, after a game the next day, the whole world's evaluation of him changed.

Paco is wronged!

How can a player not miss a penalty?

As strong as Messi and Ronaldo also have the experience of missing penalty kicks, although it is indeed a bit outrageous that he missed the first goal, but without prior preparation, it is understandable that he missed a penalty kick by temporarily catching up with the duck on the shelf.

It's just that the media's criteria for judging him are too strict.

If it were a player from another country, he might not have been so heavily criticized.

Unfortunately, the country where Paco is located is Spain.

Spain are two-time winners of the European Championship and two World Cups, and as the defending champions of two major international competitions and the world's number one team that dominated football for four years, the players of the Spanish national team naturally receive more attention than other teams.

The outside world's criteria for judging Spanish internationals are also much higher than those of other countries!

Paco is only 22 years old this year, which is still very young.

He is a newcomer to the national team, but he has had two seasons of fine performances at the club.

Back in 2010, at the age of 17, he had already played for Valencia's first team.

Paco spent the 2012-2013 season on loan at Getafe, where he made 24 appearances and scored four goals, a statistic that is not bad considering he was only 19 years old at the time and spent most of his time on the bench.

In the 2013-2014 season, Paco returned to Valencia and was given plenty of playing time, so his stats exploded.

Over the course of the season, Paco made 37 appearances for Valencia, scoring 14 goals.

Even regardless of his age, this statistic is definitely the leading scorer in the middle and lower reaches of the team, and what is even more commendable is that his form is still very stable, and he is not the kind of player who is short-lived.

In the 2014-2015 season, Paco continued his previous campaign, scoring 14 goals in 36 appearances for Valencia throughout the season.

For a young player who has just turned 20 years old, being able to get this data in the five major leagues is definitely a rising star in Spain.

But such a rising star is actually criticized by the media as worthless.

It's as if there are a lot of players in Spain who are better than Paco and can come up at any time.

Of course, if you look at the standards of Spain's championship squad in the past few years, there is indeed a gap between the strength and talent of Paco's generation and the veteran players.

But Spain can't always be rich in talent, the golden generation will eventually come to an end, and no matter what the strength of Paco's generation is, if they can't find a better candidate in the country, even if the manager and fans are unhappy, they have to continue to pinch their noses.

The problems on the front line may be a little better, at least with the likes of Lin Quan and Diego Costa and Alvaro Morata, the problems in midfield and at the back are serious.

Xavi and Alonso have both retired from the national team, and David Silva, Andres Iniesta and Cazorla on the bench are likely to retire after playing in the 18-year World Cup in Russia.

Juan Mata, Busquez and Cesc Fabregas are slightly younger and are expected to hold out until Euro 2020.

If there is really no successor, these two people may be able to hold out until the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

But after that, these people are all over 34 years old and will definitely retire from the national team.

Spain will definitely weaken in midfield, and among the newcomers, Atletico Madrid's Koke and Bayern's Thiago are still worth looking forward to.

Alsen'o, Rodri and several other young players should be able to grow up in a few years.

But there is a big gap between them and their predecessors, and it is difficult to have a midfield master like Andres Iniesta and Xavi among these people.

Without a strong midfielder, the passing and control tactics they are famous for may be greatly reduced.

However, the Spaniards seem to lack a sense of crisis, and the majority of fans and media are still immersed in the supreme glory of Spain's past, thinking that the Spanish dynasty can continue forever.

This matter had nothing to do with Lin Quan, but after the game on the national team's side, a reporter actually came to ask Lin Quan about it, which made Lin Quan speechless for a while.

"Lin, what do you think of Spain's striker Paco missing a penalty in the European Championship qualifiers?"

Lin Quan glanced at the reporter seriously, as if he wanted to remember which media reporter had come to find fault with, and stayed away from them in the future.

Although Paco is older than Lin Quan, in the national team, he is considered a junior of Lin Quan.

Lin Quan had nothing to do with him in the past, and he has no enmity today, so there is no reason to stand on the reporter's side and accuse him for no reason.

So Lin Quan said some justice for him: "It's not particularly unusual for a player to miss a penalty, and I don't think you can deny a player's performance for the whole game because of this." ”

The reporter was unrelenting: "But according to the media's post-match ratings, Paco's rating for this game is also the lowest, only 5.9 points!" ”

Lin Quan glanced at the reporter deeply again, and said:

"Paco's performance in the previous game was very good, the players are also people, it is normal to have ups and downs in form, and there are many factors that limit the player's performance, his own form, the team's tactics, the opponent's tactics, etc., as well as other factors off the field, I don't think you can draw conclusions about one person through one or two games."

The reporter came in a hurry, but returned disappointed.

originally planned to use Lin Quan's fame and influence to make a big news, but he thought of the title, but Lin Quan didn't give him this opportunity.

Although the goal was not achieved, Lin Quan's interview still has to be reported, after all, with the word Lin Quan, it can effectively attract the attention of fans, and then increase the sales of their newspaper.

After this report was published, with Lin Quan's influence, it did cause some fans to discuss, and many fans came back to their senses.

"Indeed, Lin is right, even players like Messi and Ronaldo are not in good shape, and when they can't score, we can't be too harsh on a young player, we should give him enough tolerance and room to grow."

"Yes, after all, not every player is like Lin, who is at the peak of his debut, and he can reach new heights repeatedly."

"The appearance of Lin has nourished the appetite of all of us, making us think that Spain has a continuous source of energy to produce such top-notch talents, but this is not in line with the objective facts.

Even La Masia, which has emerged with countless top stars, has not had much sound in recent years, which shows that the output of talented players is very difficult, and not only Barcelona will not be able to return to the peak in the future, but the Spanish team may not be able to return to the peak either! ”

Spain's peak, in fact, has a lot of overlap with Barcelona's peak.

After all, the Spanish national team was built with the foundation of Barcelona, and it should have declined with the decline of Barcelona after 2013, but because of Lin Quan's birth, it forcibly continued a wave for Spain.

But no matter how strong Lin Quan's personal ability is, he can't reverse the reality that the whole team is going down.

After all, the players are getting older and their condition is getting worse, which is an objective law, and it does not change by human will.

Although the Spanish team is still strong, there are few opponents in the entire football world.

But this does not mean that this form can continue, and Spanish fans need to do a good job of psychological construction, in the future, their strength will gradually decline, and one day in the future they may be squeezed out of the world number one by other countries.

By then, the Spanish dynasty might have come to an end.

……

"Brother Lin, thank you for helping me speak out!"

During this time, Paco, who felt that the whole world was criticizing him, was greatly moved after seeing this report, and personally called Lin Quan to express his gratitude.

The media criticism hit him hard and affected his self-confidence.

Lin Quan's righteous voice at this time was equivalent to lighting a candle for him in the dark, illuminating the light for him and generating some warmth in his heart.

"You're welcome, the media just eats this bowl of rice, creating all kinds of gimmicks, chasing the wind and making all kinds of exaggerated news is their common method, don't take their reports too seriously, just train hard and play games well!"

Paco is actually a bit similar to Villa, both of them are the kind of point-grabbing strikers who are not tall, fast, flexible in their movements, and have a keen sense of smell in front of goal.

But his basic skills are much worse than Villa's, especially in the area of archery, I'm afraid he doesn't even have Villa's seven successes.

If he can practice his archery skills hard, then his ability to eat bread will definitely be greatly improved.

This can be learned from Benzema, who has improved his shooting skills in the past two seasons.

Although his popularity and status at Real Madrid are far inferior to the two big names in the team, the statistics are not bad at all, especially in the area of goals, in the past two seasons, he has scored more than 25+ goals in Real Madrid's season.

This season's performance is even more amazing, in the first 8 rounds of La Liga, Benzema has scored 8 goals, an average of one goal per game, and the efficiency is extremely high!

It is precisely because Benzema's progress in recent seasons is very obvious that Real Madrid's president Florentino has the confidence to sell Ronaldo.

He feels that with Benzema, Bale, Rodriguez and Isco and others, even if Ronaldo is not in the team, Real Madrid's attack power will not drop too much.

Hearing Lin Quan's advice, Paco nodded heavily: "Okay Brother Lin, I'm going to watch your goal highlights, and strive to learn your one-and-a-half moves!" ”

On the other end of the phone, the corners of Lin Quan's mouth twitched slightly.

Is this a slap in the ass?

How can you shoot so bluntly!

After hanging up the phone, Lin Quan changed his clothes and prepared to go out for training.

As soon as I opened the door, I saw a middle-aged man and a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy outside the door.

"Who are you looking for?"

Seeing the other party raise his hand and prepare to ring the doorbell, Lin Quan asked curiously.

When he asked this, he glanced at the young man more, and always felt that this kid was a little familiar, but he would not recognize who he was for a while.

"Hehe, I wanted to ask if this is the residence of Coach Guardiola, but after seeing you, I think this question can be dispensed with!"

After the middle-aged man saw Lin Quan, he introduced himself with a smile:

"My name is Alf Inger Haaland, this is my son, Erling Haaland, and we have come to visit Coach Guardiola!"

Hearing the other party's self-introduction, Lin Quan suddenly realized.

No wonder I looked at this kid a little familiar before, and you are the demon Buu?

Thinking of Haaland's great reputation in the future and the rumors that he likes to eat children, Lin Quan couldn't help but glance at him a few more times.

Unexpectedly, Haaland was also staring at him curiously at this time, he saw that Lin Quan didn't seem to be much older than himself, why was he so powerful?

The two stared at each other for more than ten seconds, and finally Lin Quan withdrew his gaze.

Because he was worried that if he looked at it again, he would not be able to pop up a Northeast dialect:

What do you see?

Old Haaland saw his son staring at Lin Quan directly, worried that he would be rude, so he hurriedly scolded:

"Erling, be polite when you see your seniors, and say hello to your seniors soon!"

Haaland grinned, and although he smiled brightly, he looked a little oozing.

Haaland's appearance at this time was not as abstract as it was later, but when he laughed, he looked like a god.

If Lin Quanguang couldn't determine him based on his appearance before, then now that he is smiling, even if there is no introduction from old Haaland, Lin Quan can immediately determine his identity - that is, Haaland is not running!

"Hello, I'm Erling Haaland, I'm 15 years old, I'm also a striker, I'll definitely surpass you in the future!"

Hearing his son's domineering self-introduction, the elder Haaland felt proud and annoyed.

It's a good thing that this stinky boy has such ambitions, but shouldn't he say such things in front of the first person in the world, the other party doesn't want to lose face?

Do you kid want to go to Manchester City's training camp yet!

offended Lin Quan, this Manchester City's training camp will definitely not be able to enter!

Fortunately, Lin Quan didn't seem to be angry.

Instead, after hearing Haaland's words, he laughed out loud.

"What are you laughing at? Is it to laugh at me? ”

Haaland was a little angry, as if he felt that he had been ridiculed by the other party, and his face turned red for a while.

Although his words were the true ideals and aspirations in his heart, he still had a lot of courage to say them, and he did a lot of ideological work.

"Haha, no!"

Lin Quan thought of the scene of Haaland eating all kinds of defenders in the future, scoring incredible goals, and then being crooked by De Bruyne for community-level celebrations.

"I just thought of something happy about!"

"What's the joy of what?"

Haaland is relatively simple, since Lin Quan said that he didn't laugh at him, then he really believed it, and turned interested in things worthy of Lin Quan's happiness.

"Ahem, let's not talk about this, you're here to find my father, right? He's supposed to be at the club now, I'll take you there!" ”

Lin Quan didn't want to spoil in advance, so he diverted the topic.

"Don't bother you, I know the location of the club, I'll just go myself!"

How dare old Haaland trouble Lin Quan to show them the way, besides, he is also an old man of Manchester City, and he is not familiar with Manchester City's training camp?

After being kicked by Keane, he basically clocked in at Manchester City's training camp in the final years, used up the time of his contract before retiring.

"Hehe, you may not know, the club has changed its training base, and I'm afraid you won't find anyone if you go to the old base now, so come with me!"

The elder Haaland is not a famous Manchester City legend, he has come back less often after retiring, and his connection with Manchester City is not so close.

On the contrary, it is a player like Sun Jihai, because he has been in Manchester City for a long time, so he is a famous man of Manchester City, plus he is a Chinese player and backed by the Chinese market, so he has been valued by Manchester City and is often invited back to participate in various activities.

(End of chapter)