Hu Lai thought that after persuading Guo Junfu, he asked him to adjust his mentality and the game could continue as normal.

But he soon discovered that he was really too naive.

Because whether this game can continue normally does not actually depend on how the Chinese team does.

And it depends on Qatar, it depends on the referee.

For example, just two minutes after Guo Junfu received a yellow card, Qatar launched an attack in front of the Chinese team's penalty area.

They passed the football to a teammate with half their body in the offside position, the main center No. 19, Almoez Ali.

Although the players on the back line of the Chinese team collectively raised their hands to signal that the opponent was offside, neither the referee nor the linesman made any indication.

So the Chinese team players could only hastily organize a defense line to deal with this sudden offensive.

Fortunately, Ali, the Qatari player who took the ball, faced Wang Guangwei who was in front of him. He repeatedly spiked the ball but failed to clear the space. In the end, when more Chinese players surrounded him, he could only choose to shoot hastily.

It also missed.

The football went straight to the bottom line and went to the referee.

At the same time, Qatar's No. 20 player Salem Al-Hairi came out from behind and chased the football.

It's just that he was destined to be unable to catch the football... At this moment, his foot collided with the line referee standing on the baseline.

Almost as a reflex, Haili fell to the ground and raised his arms to signal to the referee.

It was only after he raised his head that he realized that the person who had just collided with him was the bottom line referee...

This is so fucking embarrassing.

He looked at the bottom line referee, and the bottom line referee looked at him.

In the end, it was the bottom line referee who reached out his hand first and pulled him up.

At the same time, there were boos and laughter in the stands, all attributed to Haili's poor performance.

"This..." He Feng didn't know what to say. It was the first time he saw Pengci touch the referee.

Yan Kang couldn't hold it back anymore and said from the side: "He may have thought that the person who bumped into him was our goalkeeper Lin Zhiyuan..."

At this time, Lin Zhiyuan was standing on the bottom line, spreading his hands towards this scene, with a sarcastic smile on his face: "You are your mother!"

Hu Lai from a distance couldn't help but roll his eyes when he saw this scene. He felt that sometimes he worked very hard to win penalty kicks, even if he was knocked around by the opponent and risked injury.

Who would have thought that this guy would work even harder for a penalty kick and throw himself into the penalty area without any shame.

If the referee Farhani really dared to call a penalty kick, then he would really doubt whether the referee took money from the Qataris. The Qataris have a history in this regard. In the time and space he is familiar with, when Qatar applied for the World Cup

Wasn't it the case that a vote-buying scandal was exposed, which implicated many senior FIFA officials, resulting in their resignation and tarnished reputation?

He always feels that this kind of national thing will not be affected no matter whether time and space are changed or not. This has been fully reflected in the Korean team.

Therefore, he suspects that the Qataris are giving money to referees and even making small moves within the AFC in order to get a quota for the Olympics. This is all logical and completely reasonable reasoning.

It's definitely not a smear campaign or a frame-up.

As if to provide evidence for Hulay's reasonable reasoning, the TV broadcast was replaying the slow motion of Almoez Ali receiving the ball in front of the Chinese team's penalty area. Judging from the freeze-frame, it was clear that in Qatar

Before the team player passed the ball, Ali was indeed in an obvious offside position.

But the linesman, who had a very good vision, did not raise his hand, and the referee Farhani naturally had no expression.

"This goal was offside! Fortunately, the goal didn't go in, otherwise..." He Feng sighed with fear after seeing it.

"Wang Guangwei once again made a contribution in this defense. When other teammates were busy raising their hands to signal that the opponent was offside, he was the first to appear in front of Ali in time, blocking his shooting space...

"Yan Kang didn't want to talk about the referee, but instead praised Wang Guangwei's performance.

Wang Guangwei indeed deserves such praise, because he has withstood the test in these emergencies.

It gives people the feeling that no matter how the world changes, Wang Guangwei will always be the trustworthy one. He is simply the anchor of the Chinese team's back line.

While other players in the Chinese team were becoming more and more angry due to Iranian referee Farhani's penalty, Wang Guangwei was indeed relatively calm. He neither rushed to discuss or argue with the referee, nor did he yell at the Qatari players.

Yell.

His focus is always on football and the game itself.

This may have something to do with an experience he had in high school, which gave him a vague temperament of "the mountain collapses but his appearance remains unchanged".

But it is a pity that not everyone can be as calm and rational as him. After all, we are all young players, and it is easy to get upset. There are not many people who can stay calm and rational when being treated like this by the referee and Qatari players.

If Chinese players had Wang Guangwei's self-control, then the level of Chinese football would not have been wandering in the dark trough for so many years.

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In the 25th minute, Qatar launched an attack from the backcourt. During the defensive process, Chen Xingyi reached out and pushed the back of the Qatari player who was holding the ball. The latter immediately fell to the ground cleanly.

A rapid whistle sounded.

This should have been an ordinary foul, but after hearing the sound of Farhani's whistle, the sudden acceleration of his running over, and the way the Qatar player who was pulled down lay curled up and rolling on the ground, I thought Chen Xingyi was taking advantage of it.

The powerful internal energy shattered the opposing player's heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys with one palm...

Fahani ran up to Chen Xingyi who looked confused, took out the yellow card and held it up high!

"I..." He Feng gritted his teeth and turned a corner, "Oh my God! A yellow card! It turned out to be a yellow card! This minor foul turned out to be a yellow card!"

He couldn't help it anymore and tactfully raised objections to the referee's penalty scale.

At the same time, he complained in his mind: Why don’t you just give him a red card?

It’s also a credit to Tengfei Video that they didn’t get the broadcasting rights for the U23 Asian Cup, otherwise Shen Lang would have been scolding everyone in the studio by this time...

After seeing the yellow card, Chen Xingyi's expression changed from confusion to shock. He kept asking in English: "Why? Why? Why?!"

Hu Lai came up again and pushed him away: "Don't ask, asking means the referee's authority cannot be violated."

After using the skill book in the world's lingua franca, he found that he could fully understand what the foreigners said on the court.

When he passed by Farhani once before, he heard him using a headset to communicate with the fourth official off the court, complaining that the Chinese players disrespected him too much.

Hu Lai knew that going up to the referee for a few words may be a normal approach in other games. As long as the attitude is not very angry, no referee will feel that his authority has been challenged.

But it is obvious that the Fahani in front of him has a glassy heart and he cares about this issue very much.

So he didn't go to the referee, even though he now has no problem communicating with foreigners at all. The situation of "you say yours and I say mine" between the East Asian Cup and the Japanese central defender will never happen again.

This has nothing to do with whether you speak fluent English. Even if you don’t say anything and just stand in front of the referee with your hands behind your back, you have seriously provoked the referee’s authority and become the person he wants to establish his authority.

Object.

But if you want to say that the Chinese players did not respect the referee, so the referee targeted the Chinese players, this argument is untenable.

Because just two minutes before Chen Xingyi's foul, Luo Kai was fouled by Qatar's midfielder Madibo in the frontcourt and was tackled to the ground.

After the referee Fahani called Madibo a foul, the defensive midfielder seemed very angry. After hearing the whistle, he got up and punched the referee. If according to Fahani, the referee values ​​his authority so much.

With such a temper, just this one action could earn Madibo a yellow card.

But he remained unharmed. After punching and swearing, he folded his arms and showed off his temper by flexing his muscles.

The expression on his face was also very unhappy.

So what did the Iranian referee Farhani do in this game?

He stepped forward and gave a... verbal warning to the Qatari player who was like an angry bull.

Yes, verbal warning.

Guo Junfu, as the captain, went up to communicate with him before, hoping that he would play cards against Qatari players, but he was shown a yellow card.

Nowadays, Qatari players throw their fists and curse after committing a foul, flex their muscles and puff out their nostrils at the referee, but they only receive verbal warnings.

It almost made Hu Lai laugh.

Qatari players fouled Guo Junfu twice in one minute without receiving a yellow card or verbal warning.

The same Qatari player kicked Baidi down with his hands and feet from behind twice in a row without receiving a yellow card or verbal warning.

And now Chen Xingyi pushed the opponent player while defending and was given a yellow card.

Hu Lai didn't know why the referee was so harsh on Chinese players at first. Later he remembered that this referee had officiated the East Asian Cup match between China and South Korea last year because some of the penalties in the game were biased towards South Korea.

The team was criticized by the Chinese media and fans after the game.

After all, Hu Lai was almost defeated by the opponent's Sun Haomin at that time. Although he was lucky (there was a mistake) and was fine, it still scared the Chinese media and fans into a cold sweat. Many people felt that if Fahani was in the game

If the players in the Korean team can strictly restrain the fouls committed by the Korean team players and play cards in a timely manner, instead of being like a stingy man and not playing cards, then maybe Sun Haomin will not dare to take advantage of Hu Lai.

Did these criticisms reach Farhani’s ears?

Did Hu Lai really not expect that this Iranian referee would come to China to surf the Internet when he had nothing to do?

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When the Chinese team took the lead in the first four minutes, the Chinese fans in the stands and in front of the TV thought that this would be a hearty victory. The Chinese team would defeat their opponents and successfully finish first in the group.

Qualify in Group A while avoiding the strong Japanese Olympic team.

Now it seems that that goal may be the only part of the game that looks like an official game.

After that, the game slipped into an unknown abyss...
To be continued...