MM Racing Chapter 325
Chapter 325
The first time was a good opportunity.
Chapter 325: Unsolvable free kick, conquering Westfalen!
It is of great significance for the entire Leicester City team and Leicester City fans to win the “Champions League powerhouse” Dortmund at home.
Even if they have been killing many Premier League giants in the Premier League this season.
However, when facing a Champions League powerhouse like Dortmund, they are still a little scared.
And this victory gave them greater confidence.
You know, Dortmund has won the top two Bundesliga giants and has also reached the Champions League final.
Well, they beat Dortmund, who had reached the Champions League final. Rounding up, they can be considered a team at the level of the Champions League final!
Of course, such a joke is just a joke between fans.
The Dortmund that reached the Champions League final is no longer the same team as the current Dortmund.
Not only the head coach on the bench, but also the player lineup has changed dramatically.
In any case, Dortmund is definitely a strong team that ranks among the best in Europe!
Of course, Dortmund is an exception at the critical moment of the championship.
After all, Dortmund is one of the two teams in football that will always lose the chain in the championship.
As for who the other team is?
Those who understand will understand.
Although Dortmund got an away goal.
But the two-goal advantage still gave the team an advantage in the two-round match.
In the second round, they go to the Westfalen Stadium. As long as they don’t lose two games, they can advance with their heads held high!
Ling Feng, who completed two shots and one assist in this game, is the well-deserved best player of the game.
However, the famous professional football rating website whoscored also gave the Blue Fox midfielder Kante, who sent his first assist of the season, a post-match rating second only to Ling Feng!
The comment is:
“In addition to his huge contribution on the defensive end, this little French giant also showed his talent for holding the ball and advancing. He is moving towards a world-class all-around midfielder!”
Indeed.
Anyone who knows football can see that Kante’s sudden holding the ball and advancing is definitely the key to Leicester City’s comeback in the second half of this game!
As Kante shared part of the offensive and defensive transition tasks with Ling Feng, the midfield had an extra booster, and the Blue Fox’s already sharp and fast counterattack became even more difficult to defend.
Originally, in the other Blue Fox without Ling Feng, Kante was the booster for the team’s transition from defense to offense.
Whenever the offense and defense change, Kante will advance the ball by holding the ball and pass it to Mahrez or Vardy in the frontcourt.
Then these two superstars will complete the finishing task.
After Ling Feng, the team’s counterattack is basically completed by Ling Feng.
Now, in addition to Ling Feng, Kante has also demonstrated the ability to counterattack.
This means that the team has two boosters who can hold the ball and advance during the counterattack.
From this moment on, this Leicester City may have surpassed the Leicester City that created the Blue Fox miracle.
. . .
After the big battle with Dortmund, the team went straight to Sunderland for the league game before they had time to rest.
Due to the huge lead and the opponent being the relegation team Sunderland, Ranieri was very unceremonious in the full rotation.
All the eleven starters were replaced!
In the Stadium of Light on the banks of the River Wear, the Blue Fox surprisingly drew with the “Black Cats” Sunderland and only got one point.
Later, Tottenham beat Manchester United 3-0 at home.
Even so, Leicester City still leads the second-placed Tottenham by as many as 15 points, with one game less!
Tottenham still has five games left to play.
In theory, if Tottenham wins all the last five games, it is possible to tie with Leicester City and then overtake the Blue Foxes through the advantage of goal difference.
Of course, in theory, this possibility is very small.
Because, in everyone’s opinion, Leicester City cannot lose the remaining six games!
So, after this game, Leicester City’s championship is basically stable.
The only suspense is whether Leicester City can get points in the next round of the league against West Ham United, so as to win the 2015-16 Premier League championship five rounds in advance!
You know, as a newly promoted team that was promoted from the Championship last season, it is about to win the Premier League championship in the second season.
Army.
Even if Shakespeare climbed out of his coffin, he couldn’t write such a script!
Before the start of the season, no one would have thought that Leicester City, which had experienced scandals and coaching changes, could make it into the top eight.
In the season predictions of major media and bookmakers, Leicester City’s highest ranking was only seventh in the league!
However, from the first round of the league until the 33rd round, Leicester City has been at the top of the league and has never come down.
While topping the league, it is also leading the second place by as much as 15 points!
Winning the championship is a foregone conclusion!
Although the odds of winning the championship of 1 to 500 before the season are not as good as the odds of “Justin Bieber was elected president of the United States” and “Elvis is not dead yet”, it is enough to show how unexpected it is for Leicester City to win the championship.
A newly promoted team in the Premier League, which returned to the Premier League after a lapse of ten years, won the first championship in the history of the team despite being unpopular with anyone. This is absolutely a miracle!
Realizing this, all the media newspapers and magazines in the UK began to report and warm up for it.
“The Foxes are about to be crowned! One hundred and thirty-two years of waiting!”
“A draw means winning the championship!”
“Leicester City’s great journey!”
The Internet and social media have become a carnival stage for the Foxes fans.
The die-hard fan group “Fox Club” also decided to call on fans to cheer for the team’s first championship in the next round of home games against West Ham United.
For this reason, Big William and Bob began to contact the factory, intending to rush out tens of thousands of “We are the champions” Foxes flags as much as possible before the next round of games.
At that time, all the home team fans will hold high the flags to witness the team’s coronation!
. . .
Two days after the game, Vichai, the team chairman and owner who had always been elusive, also came to the team base and met with all the team members.
The Thai owner immediately put his hands together and bowed deeply to the team coaching staff and players, expressing his inner gratitude and excitement.
He certainly would not have thought that his team would shockingly win the Premier League championship in the second season of promotion to the Premier League!
You know, even Manchester City, which was acquired by the Abu Dhabi consortium, did not win the first Premier League championship in team history until four seasons later after continuous spending.
And how much did Leicester City spend?
The transfer fee for two seasons combined is less than 70 million pounds, right? !
Such an investment and such a return can be regarded as the greatest deal in Vichai’s investment career!
It is worth mentioning that according to the Daily Mail, Leicester City’s championship will bring head coach Ranieri up to 5 million pounds in championship bonuses.
When signing the coaching contract with Leicester City at the beginning of the season, Ranieri specifically found Vichai and asked him to include a championship clause in the contract.
At that time, in the eyes of the media and Vichai himself, this was just a manifestation of Ranieri’s sense of humor.
However, no one would have thought that this 64-year-old coach who had never won the league championship actually did it!
In addition to Ranieri, Ling Feng is also about to receive a championship bonus.
Because as early as the beginning of the season when he renewed his contract with the team, he signaled Mendes to include a championship clause in the contract.
If he helps the team win the championship, he will receive a bonus of 3 million pounds!
At that time, Leicester City would not have thought that the team could win the championship, but just thought that this was just a small clause for Ling Feng to motivate himself, so he accepted it very happily.
Now, the team has really won the championship.
The club will spend 8 million pounds in championship bonuses for head coach Ranieri and star player Ling Feng alone.
However, Vichai is not that kind of stingy boss.
Although it was a bit painful, he immediately ordered the team’s finance department to deposit the championship bonus into the two people’s accounts.
Except for Ranieri and Ling Feng, the bonus clauses in the contracts of other players are all based on the ranking in the standings.
Last season, the team’s final league ranking was fifth.
Therefore, this season, the contract terms of most players are divided into two levels.
If you win the tenth place or above, you can get a bonus of 6.5 million pounds;
If you win the fifth place or above, you can get a bonus of 8.5 million pounds!
In other words, just for the championship bonus, the coaches and players of the whole team will share the bonus of 8.5 million pounds!
In addition, Vichai also announced publicly that all the team members will be rewarded with a Mercedes-Benz car and a luxury tour opportunity to Las Vegas.
Of course,
Compared to the huge profits brought to the club by the team’s championship, this championship bonus is simply not worth mentioning!
However, after the team owner left, Ranieri said to his disciples with a serious face:
“Although the league championship is basically in hand. But now is not the time to celebrate! Because we have a more ambitious goal this season.”
“So, don’t relax, we still have a championship to fight for!”
After Ranieri’s reminder, the delighted Blue Fox players realized that they still have the possibility of winning the treble this season.
And this possibility is very high!
The treble of the season, this is a great achievement that many top clubs cannot achieve.
And for many players in the team who have no chance to play for top teams, this may be the only chance for them to win the treble in their careers.
If they miss it, they will definitely regret why they did not seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity after retirement until the second before they die!
Even without the head coach to emphasize it again and again, this team of “disappointed” players also realized that they had ushered in the most wonderful journey of their careers.
Because they had been rejected by scouts, abandoned by the team, and looked down upon by the media.
Therefore, players including Vardy, Mahrez, Albrighton, Kante, Drinking Water Brother, Morgan, Huth, etc., all cherish every opportunity.
Maybe they are not the strongest and highest-paid stars.
However, they are definitely one of the most motivated and winning teams in the entire Premier League and even in the whole of Europe!
And such fighting spirit suddenly broke out in the second round of the Europa League quarter-finals!
Even though they were in the famous devil’s home stadium in Europe, even though they were constantly echoing in their ears with incomprehensible abuse and boos, the Leicester City players were united in going all out on the grass.
Because the Leicester City players had made up their minds from the moment they stepped onto the field.
Win the game!
Then win three more games, win the damn Europa League, and prove to everyone in the world that they are not losers, but winners!
However, the beginning of a great story is always not smooth
The Hornets returned to their home court and stung the Foxes with their stings!
In the 17th minute of the game, Dortmund played a wonderful match in the frontcourt. After Reus cut in horizontally, he completed a tricky low shot and first penetrated Schmeichel’s goal!
This goal narrowed the total score gap between the two sides to one goal!
However, the Leicester City players were not panicked at all.
Just ten minutes later, the Blue Foxes took advantage of the gap left behind by Dortmund’s attack, and Brother Drinking Water sent a wonderful over-the-top long pass.
Then Vardy, who burst out with amazing power, broke into the penalty area in the confrontation with Hummels.
Use a powerful shot to tie the score!
Leicester City’s goal made the real-time score on the field become 1:1, and the total score also came to 2:4.
This goal wiped out Dortmund’s away goal advantage and put the two sides back on the same starting line.
In other words, if Dortmund wants to advance to the Europa League semi-finals, they must score three more goals!
This is still under the premise that Leicester City will not score again!
In order to advance, Dortmund can only continue to press forward and strengthen the offense.
However, such a radical offensive strategy undoubtedly buried a huge hidden danger behind it.
And Leicester City’s counterattack is accurate!
When the game came to the 62nd minute, Dortmund played a wall-to-wall match on the wing, but was accurately intercepted by Kante and passed the ball to Ling Feng in the middle.
Ling Feng accelerated and changed direction, and passed Gundogan who was nearby.
Although in the end, he was hugged and knocked down by Dortmund’s midfielder Bender when he was 32 meters away from the goal.
However, the free kick at this position is a great opportunity for Leicester City!
Because they have a free kick master in their team!
“Hey, are you okay?”
“No problem.”
Mahrez stretched out his hands and pulled Ling Feng up.
Vardy, who was holding the ball, came to him and handed the ball to him with a smile:
“It’s up to you!”
“No problem”
After placing the ball and standing in front of it, Ling Feng stared at the Dortmund wall and goalkeeper Burki, who were facing a formidable enemy, and took a deep breath.
“Huh”
After a long sigh of relief, he suddenly started, and his muscular right leg hit the ball hard with a “bang”!
In an instant, the ball shot out like a precision-guided missile
Like a whirlwind, the ball broke through the sky above Westfalen, passed the human wall, and hit the upper right corner of the goal!
Dortmund goalkeeper Burki just stood on the goal line like a fool, powerless
In this way, the best product in the history of the Blue Fox Youth Training, the super genius who led the Blue Fox to be invincible, used an unstoppable and powerful free kick to break the goal of the devil’s home ground Westfalen!
It also completely shattered Dortmund’s dream of promotion!
(End of this chapter)