MM Racing Chapter 203
Chapter 203
The first time, the goalkeeper of the British team was defeated.
Chapter 202 Appeared! The traditional skills of the British goalkeeper
In the home team’s locker room.
The first sentence coach Pearson said when he returned to the locker room was:
“Guys, you played well in the first half!”
This is encouragement and fact.
In the first half, Manchester City had a slight advantage in the ball possession rate of both sides, reaching 60%.
The number of shots was six to four, which was also more for Manchester City.
Being able to play back and forth with the last Premier League champion at home is enough to prove that their tactics and playing style are effective.
Judging from the current record and league ranking, their newly promoted team that returned to the Premier League after a decade is definitely on the right track!
“In this game, we did a good job on the defensive end and didn’t give the opponent too many absolute opportunities.”
“In the second half, we need to continue to stay focused and seize opportunities”
“Jesse (Lingard), you can move forward more and help Jamie (Vardy) pull away from the defensive players”
“Ling, you played well in this game and restricted Yaya Toure’s performance very well!”
Hearing this, Ling Feng, who was chewing a banana silently, suddenly raised his head, but his face was confused and puzzled.
Ah?
I restricted Yaya Toure?
Shouldn’t he restrict me?
Ling Feng thought Pearson would say that he was praised instead?
However, after thinking about it carefully, Ling Feng understood what Pearson meant.
Indeed, in the first half, Ling Feng was completely suppressed by Yaya Toure, and had almost no chance to get the ball, nor did he create too many opportunities for other teammates.
But isn’t this a kind of containment? !
It is precisely because of Ling Feng’s presence and erratic running that Yaya Toure can only focus on defense and has no time to move forward to participate in the attack.
Even if he wants to take the ball and advance, the faster Ling Feng will block him in front of him at the first time, becoming the first barrier to hinder Manchester City’s advancement!
This also caused Manchester City’s midfield to lack a very important advancement point.
And the other midfielder Fernando is basically a defensive midfielder who has no ability to advance forward at all.
It is precisely because Yaya Toure did not advance forward like a bulldozer at the time of the transition from offense to defense that Manchester City’s advancement speed from defense to offense could not be achieved!
And Nasri, David Silva and Lampard in the front court are not players with good speed.
Once the counterattack speed cannot be achieved, Leicester City’s defensive players will quickly retreat and fall into position, and a good counterattack will become a positional battle.
This is also the reason why Manchester City did not really threaten Leicester City’s goal in the first half when they had an advantage in ball possession and shots!
In this way, he did limit the performance of Yaya Toure, the core of Manchester City’s midfield!
This game is equivalent to Manchester City using Yaya Toure, a top-grade horse, to exchange for Leicester City’s top-grade horse Ling Feng!
However, in this way, the key to the victory or defeat of the game depends on the performance of other teammates.
In terms of the individual strength of the players, Manchester City is definitely a level higher than Leicester City as a whole!
Except for the forward, Manchester City basically won in almost every position!
Therefore, how to liberate Ling Feng in the second half has become a problem for Pearson to think about.
He also considered whether to let Ling Feng and Mahrez or Lingard switch positions.
However, this idea was rejected by him as soon as it came up!
Once Ling Feng left the center and moved to the wing, the wing could certainly play some cooperation and attack.
However, neither Lingard nor Mahrez had such a strong deterrent power to make Yaya Toure stay in the midfield and not attack forward.
Once Yaya Toure is in, Manchester City’s offense will definitely become more threatening!
Therefore, after thinking again and again, Pearson decided to keep the status quo!
After all, from the current situation, Leicester City is not losing at all.
Both offense and defense are doing well, and there is no need to make changes for the time being.
There is no need to take the huge risk of liberating the opponent’s midfield core to break the current balance on the field.
Because he is not sure whether doing so will allow Manchester City to score or his team to score.
Even if both sides end up with a goalless draw and a draw, both he and Leicester City can accept it.
On the other hand, if Manchester City cannot get three points from the newly promoted Leicester City, then their good winning streak will be ended.
And chasing Chelsea’s footsteps will be slightly slower.
A pause.
So, it is not them who should be anxious, but the opponent!
Besides, this head-on game with the world’s top midfielder Yaya Toure will definitely help Ling Feng’s growth.
Only by playing against a midfielder of Yaya Toure’s level can Ling Feng recognize his current strength and how big the gap is with the real world’s top midfielder.
Moreover, if he moves Ling Feng to the wing, it may send a wrong message to Ling Feng, that is, the head coach thinks he is not Yaya Toure’s opponent!
And this message is likely to hit the self-confidence of this amazing young man, so that he will have even a little shaken.
Winning or losing a game is really not important.
Even if they lose to Manchester City, they can still stay in the top four.
However, if Ling Feng’s confidence is affected by a game, it will be too unprofitable!
Therefore, during the halftime break, he did not let Ling Feng make any changes, but asked the players to maintain the performance of the first half.
After a short halftime break, the players of both sides returned to the court again.
“Welcome back, let’s continue to watch the second half of the 16th round of the Premier League, Leicester City vs. Manchester City at home.”
“In the first half, both sides threatened the goal. Especially Manchester City, which created a lot of opportunities. But it was still a little short of scoring.”
“Obviously, the absence of the team’s top scorer Aguero has a huge impact on Manchester City.”
After the start of the second half, Ling Feng continued to act as a “space reader” in the frontcourt, appearing in various gaps to assist his teammates.
And Manchester City continued to adopt a steady tactic, playing a small range of passing and receiving cooperation on the wing without rushing.
Until the 60th minute of the game, seeing that there was still no good chance to score, Manchester City finally couldn’t bear it and took the lead in making changes:
Pellegrini replaced the 78th young player Pozo with the 15th Jesus Navas!
The Spanish teenager Pozo, who played for an hour, seemed very out of place on the field.
He simply couldn’t form a tacit understanding with other teammates, and could only keep running and supporting his teammates.
Compared with Ling Feng, he was more like a headless fly running aimlessly on the field.
So, Pellegrini finally understood a truth:
Not every 18-year-old young player is the Ling Feng who suddenly appeared!
After replacing the right winger Navas, “Pellegrini” directly pushed Lampard to the front line, and then moved David Silva, who was originally playing on the right, to the middle.
Silva has a broad vision, accurate passing, and footwork, especially in a small range of dodges, which can better deliver shells to teammates.
And this change soon paid off!
In the 67th minute of the game, Navas got the ball on the right side of the frontcourt.
Under Schlupp’s defense, he stepped on a bicycle and then resolutely made soup from the outside.
However, what he didn’t expect was that Schlupp’s speed was not slow either.
Seeing that he couldn’t break through, he suddenly stopped and passed the ball to the middle!
David Silva, who was responding in the middle, came to the passing route like a slippery earthworm.
He stretched out his left foot and stopped the ball steadily. Just as he was about to handle the ball, he was tackled to the ground by Cambiasso who followed closely behind!
A sharp whistle sounded.
The referee showed the Argentine a yellow sapphire war card without hesitation.
Cambiasso did not argue, but patted Silva on the shoulder and stood in front of the ball to prevent the opponent from taking a quick free kick.
At this moment, the former Argentine superstar who won three consecutive Serie A titles and the Champions League was just muttering in his heart:
If he were three years younger, he would definitely be able to shovel the ball away from Silva’s feet without fouling!
Unfortunately, time not only took away his hair, but also his speed and reaction.
It was also thanks to Cambiasso’s timely foul that Silva was not allowed to dribble into the penalty area or shoot directly.
However, the foul was committed at the front of the penalty area, about 22 meters away from the goal, and the position was very good.
As for Manchester City, Yaya Toure took the free kick at the front of the penalty area.
Four Leicester City players formed a human wall.
As the whistle sounded, Yaya Toure took two steps, then swung his right leg violently and kicked a beautiful arc ball!
And Yaya Toure’s free kick bypassed the human wall and flew straight into the upper right corner of the goal.
Leicester City goalkeeper Ben Hammer was stunned and had no time to react.
The next second, thousands of away fans at the King Power Stadium
, and suddenly there was an amazing cheer:
“What a wonderful free kick!”
“Yaya~~Toure!”
“This super midfielder who has won the African Footballer of the Year four times has once again opened the door for Manchester City with his own goal!”
“The deadlock on the field has finally been broken. Let’s see how Leicester City will respond next.”
At the same time, Ling Feng, who was standing not far away, had a solemn expression, but a touch of reverence appeared in his eyes.
He is worthy of being the world’s No. 1 B2B midfielder!
In addition to being able to build a solid barrier in the midfield and complete the defensive tasks of stealing and intercepting, he can also participate in the offense, or dribbling in the midfield, or inserting a long shot from behind to score.
He has a dominant performance on both offense and defense, and even has a good free kick!
It can be said that peak Yaya Toure is the ultimate goal he is working hard for!
For the Blue Foxes, this loss of the ball is helpless.
It can be said that after almost 70 minutes of the game, Manchester City has obtained such an absolutely excellent opportunity.
Moreover, Yaya Toure shot the ball into the dead corner of the goal in the first free kick opportunity of the whole game.
Such a goal could not be stopped at all.
However, facing the last Premier League champion at home, it was very good that they persisted until almost 70 minutes before the goal was penetrated.
After all, the huge gap in overall strength cannot be completely narrowed by active running or fighting spirit.
If Aguero and Dzeko had not been on the field, Manchester City might have taken the lead long ago.
After taking the lead, Manchester City did not pursue the victory, but continued to shrink the formation and let Leicester City attack.
However, without Ling Feng’s organization, Leicester City’s offense did not improve much.
They could only rely on the two wingers and Vardy’s frequent retreats to barely play some cooperation.
But they could not threaten Manchester City’s goal.
In the 80th minute of the game, after unremitting running, Yaya Toure’s physical fitness finally began to decline significantly.
In addition, the team was already ahead, and Yaya Toure’s defensive attitude became lazy.
As for Ling Feng?
He began to mutter in his heart:
Those Englishmen praised this No.7 kid so much, why didn’t I think he was that good?
Except that he was a little more energetic and a little faster than other players, there was nothing special about him.
Look, under his defense, he didn’t even dare to take the ball!
Ling Feng also noticed that the speed of this super beast waist defending him began to slow down.
After 80 minutes of “running around”, Yaya Toure finally let himself be careless!
And then, it was time for him to perform.
A few minutes later, Leicester City attacked with the ball.
Cambiasso passed the ball to Mahrez on the right, and Kolarov, the Manchester City left-back who replaced Clichy, immediately took his position.
Mahrez’s feet were full of flowers, and he tried to lower his shoulders several times.
However, Kolarov did not eat the dodge, but just stared at the ball under his feet.
Therefore, Mahrez, whose physical strength had obviously declined, did not choose to continue to break through, but passed the ball to Ling Feng who came to receive the ball.
Before Ling Feng received the ball, he had already noticed that Yaya Toure was not following so closely.
So, just when everyone thought he would pass the ball to his teammates again, he directly used a beautiful pull ball to pass back and completed the turn!
“Beautiful turn!”
Under the praise of the commentator, Yaya Toure finally reacted and rushed over like an angry black rhino!
However, in Ling Feng’s opinion, his speed had slowed down a lot.
He made a long diagonal pass under his feet and hit directly behind Manchester City’s right back Sabaletta!
At the same time, Lingard, who did not get much ball possession on the left throughout the game, resolutely moved forward!
Before Sabaletta turned around and chased back, Lingard unloaded the ball with his chest, and then dribbled into the penalty area.
Then he directly used his left foot to pass a half-high ball!
“Lingard has entered the penalty area!”
“Inverted triangle!”
Ling Feng, who immediately advanced after passing the ball, appeared in the direction where the ball came from at the right time.
A half-high ball at waist level is quite embarrassing for professional players.
Because it is very uncomfortable to stop or shoot.
However, for Ling Feng, whose [Volley] attribute is as high as 97, this is not a problem at all.
Seeing the ball in front of him, at that moment, in his mind, there were only various scenes of Van Persie’s non-stop shooting.
Seeing Joe Hart standing in front of the goal, Ling Feng made a prompt decision!
Damn, I saw Hart kick it!
Go in if you don’t want to
Go for it!
Without any hesitation, he aimed at the ball’s landing point, swung his right leg, and slammed it into the goal!
With a “bang”, the ball shot out and flew towards the middle of the goal.
Facing the sudden shot, Joe Hart reacted quickly and moved immediately.
However, the ball suddenly fell in the air, bounced up on the ground, and just got into Joe Hart’s arms.
Caught off guard, the British goalkeeper subconsciously scooped up the ball with both hands, trying to control it.
However, this scoop directly caused the ball, whose kinetic energy had not yet completely disappeared, to hit his chest, forming a rebound.
Then it bounced to the ground, passed between his legs, and jumped over the goal line impatiently!
(End of this chapter)