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Xu Yan was unusually calm. She slowly looked Dong Xuebin over. "You want to go on?"
Dong Xuebin nodded. "Yes."
"Aren't you doing well as goalkeeper?" Li Qing frowned. "Forward and goalkeeper are worlds apart."
Xu Yan had long since given up on winning. She waved her hand listlessly. "Forget it. Forget it. There's only about a minute left anyway. No matter how we play, we have no hope of scoring. You just got out of the hospital. Didn't the doctor tell you not to exercise strenuously? Those Chengdong Team people play too rough. What if you get hurt again? There's no need to take the risk." Xu Yan let out a breath. "Director Li, tell the referee we're not making the substitution. We'll finish with ten players."
Dong Xuebin insisted, "Director Xu, please let me go."
Li Qing complained, "Little Dong is doing this for your sake."
Xu Yan glanced at him, but when she saw the determination in Dong Xuebin's eyes, she paused slightly. "...Be careful. Protect yourself."
"Yes." Dong Xuebin's gaze hardened. He turned and jogged onto the field.
The referee called out that there was one final minute of stoppage time, then blew his whistle to signal the free kick. When Chengxi Team's players saw Deputy Director Xu send Little Dong, the goalkeeper who had only just recovered from a serious illness, onto the field as a forward, they lost even more confidence. Tan Limei and Chang Juan's cheerleading squad stopped cheering as well. Some clenched their fists, others gritted their teeth. All of them stared miserably at the field, waiting for the burden of eight winless matches to fall upon them, yet there was nothing