MM Racing Chapter 202
Chapter 202
The new situation is not good.
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Pellegrini’s words puzzled the assistant coach beside him.
“Consume? Are you saying that the No. 7 is consuming Toure’s energy?”
Pellegrini nodded with a serious expression.
However, this answer made the assistant coach even more confused.
“If that’s the case, then the kid made a wrong calculation!”
You know, Yaya Toure has reached the age of 30 when professional players start to go downhill.
Although Yaya Toure has gained weight in the Premier League compared to Barcelona, his speed and flexibility have obviously declined.
However, his physical fitness did not change because of this.
The league styles of La Liga and the Premier League are completely different.
Playing in La Liga, more emphasis is placed on passing and footwork, and there are fewer physical confrontations than in the Premier League.
Moreover, the club that Yaya Toure plays for is Barcelona, the league overlord that focuses on ball control.
Beside him are Xavi and Iniesta, two midfield masters with their own characteristics. Yaya Toure does not need to consider offense at all. He only needs to be responsible for the defense of the midfield, and then after grabbing the ball, give the ball to them.
After leaving Spain, where the four seasons are like spring, and landing in the gloomy and humid England, after the high-intensity game rhythm of the Premier League and the baptism of fierce confrontation, Yaya Toure’s physical fitness and confrontation ability have been improved!
Moreover, after coming to Manchester City, he has gained greater freedom in the midfield.
He is no longer limited to acting as a steel barrier in front of the back line. He has become the midfield engine of the team at the time of offense and defense transition.
Whether it is dribbling forward or dispatching and distributing the ball, it is easy to do!
Especially under Pellegrini’s training and the arrival of Fernandinho, Yaya Toure’s forward attacking ability was fully released!
Last season, Yaya Toure played the peak season of his career.
In addition to helping the Blue Moon win the Premier League championship, he also became the second midfielder after Lampard to score 20 goals in the Premier League in a single season!
It was also in this year that he was recognized by fans as the world’s No. 1 B2B midfielder!
And this season, even if Aguero attacked the front and took up the team’s offensive banner.
But he, who was guarding the midfield, still used his all-round performance to contribute an irreplaceable role on both offense and defense.
This is why Pellegrini gave him the task of marking Ling Feng!
From another perspective, this is also the importance of Ling Feng!
The other 19 Premier League teams know that Ling Feng is the barometer of Leicester City.
Leicester City’s performance depends largely on the performance of this 19-year-old young man.
So far this season, Leicester City has scored 30 goals in the league.
Among them, Ling Feng personally contributed eight goals and fifteen assists, and created 23 goals alone!
Accounting for 70% of Leicester City’s team goal data!
It is no exaggeration to say that as long as other teams defend Ling Feng, they can reduce Leicester City’s offensive threat by 70%!
Although Yaya Toure played the whole game against Everton in the last league.
However, in the Champions League match against Roma in the middle of the week, Yaya Toure took a rest.
In terms of physical fitness, Yaya Toure has no problem at all!
Judging from the current situation on the field, Yaya Toure almost completely suppressed Ling Feng in a one-on-one game, which made Manchester City’s coaching staff and fans feel very relieved.
This is why the assistant coach felt that Ling Feng’s idea of consuming Yaya Toure was very unreliable and unrealistic.
However, Pellegrini, who was staring at the black-haired youth No. 7 who was running non-stop on the field, had a different opinion:
“Having said that, the physical fitness of this No. 7 kid should not be underestimated.”
When studying Ling Feng’s game videos and highlights, Manchester City’s coaching staff found that Ling Feng, who played almost the entire game, was able to run at full speed several times at the last moment of the game!
The most important thing is that when everyone’s physical fitness is about to reach the limit, his speed advantage becomes more obvious!
It is worth mentioning that according to post-match statistics, in the 88th minute of the away game against Crystal Palace, before scoring the lore goal, Ling Feng’s maximum speed under full sprint reached an astonishing 36.7 kilometers per hour!
This is the fastest running speed record of all Premier League players so far this season.
It is no exaggeration to say that Ling Feng is the fastest man in the Premier League today!
At some point, when Yaya Toure’s physical fitness declines, it will be extremely difficult to keep up with the extremely fast Ling Feng.
However, even if Pellegrini knew the real intention of Ling Feng’s continuous running into empty space, he could not respond.
First of all, Yaya Toure is the only one in Manchester City who can really defend Ling Feng!
Other midfielders, such as Fernando, Milner, or Fernandinho, can only limit Ling Feng at most.
Secondly, Yaya Toure is now in the upper hand, and they can respond to changes with the same.
It will not be too late to make changes when Yaya Toure’s physical fitness really declines.
What they have to do now is to take advantage of Yaya Toure’s suppression of Ling Feng and try to score goals away from home as much as possible.
As long as they are ahead, they can be more at ease!
However, the coaching staff of Leicester City was also confused by Ling Feng’s “random running”.
“Nigel, is it your arrangement for Ling to move like this?”
Hearing the slightly curious voice of assistant coach Walsh beside him, Pearson shook his head, “I have never arranged it like this”
As the core of Leicester City’s frontcourt organization, Ling Feng was given great freedom.
Especially the movement!
Whether in training or in the game, Pearson would not instruct him on how to move.
Because he discovered very early that Ling Feng had a terrible intuition, which could capture the empty space on the court anytime and anywhere, and then appear there!
Pearson felt that Ling Feng, like Muller of Bayern Munich, had a natural sensitivity to the space on the court, and could always appear in the place where he should appear, completing the last pass or the fatal blow.
And this kind of player is an extremely rare type in football, called – space reader!
Pearson certainly didn’t know that the reason why Ling Feng could always appear in the empty space was not because he had an intuition about space that other players could not match.
It was because there was a virtual holographic two-dimensional court in his mind.
Everyone from both teams is in his “field of vision”.
This is why he can find any empty space anytime and anywhere!
At this time, Walsh said:
“Could it be that he is afraid of confronting Yaya Toure, so he chooses to keep running to the empty space and kick the ball out, and dares not take the ball near him?”
Hearing this, Pearson frowned and denied this possibility without hesitation:
“I don’t think so.”
“You know, although the boy is young, he is already a mature man!
“Whether in the club or the national team, he has shown his strong ability to withstand pressure. He is definitely not the kind of person who will escape when encountering difficulties!”
“Although I don’t know why he did this for the time being. However, I believe that he must have his own ideas for doing this!”
Pearson’s words were decisive and full of trust in his proud disciple.
Walsh on the side was also infected by his speech. He touched his gray hair and laughed at himself:
“Yes, you are right. I underestimated him. ”
“I was always confused by his too young face, but I didn’t know that he has grown into the most reliable one in Leicester City!”
While talking, the two of them locked their eyes on the black-haired young man wearing the dark blue No. 7 jersey on the field.
Ling, let the Manchester people see what you can do!
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At the same time, on the field.
Looking at Ling Feng who kept running in front of him, Yaya Toure exhaled a breath of hot air from his mouth, and did not forget to curse in his heart:
Fak, this kid is like a fly!
Even though he has been in the British Isles for more than four years.
However, he still finds it difficult to adapt to the damn weather in this country from hot Africa.
Every winter, he has to add a warm sports long-sleeved shirt inside his jersey, and then wear winter gloves, Only then could he resist the attack of the biting cold wind.
In his opinion, the small body of this black-haired boy could be knocked unconscious with just a slight collision.
In the first ten minutes or so, he still fought against him.
After that, he didn’t dare to get close to him at all, but used his speed to run into the empty space and try to connect with his teammates.
And Yaya Toure would certainly not let him succeed.
Want to get the ball?
No way!
Due to Yaya Toure’s defense, Ling Feng was forced to be unable to calmly take the ball and organize, and could only keep inserting the empty space to connect with his teammates.
As a result, Leicester City’s offense showed obvious
Without Ling Feng’s threatening pass penetration, Leicester City
Special City’s attack could only be constantly transferred and pulled outside Manchester City’s formation, and there was no substantial progress.
However, Manchester City’s coaching staff and fans were not happy for too long.
Because Leicester City’s attack soon had a new commander!
As Ling Feng reduced the number of times he took the ball, Leicester City’s offensive dominance was handed over to “Ma Dongmei” on the right side
As the saying goes, once the gloves are put on, it’s Messi in winter!
The colder the weather, the more elegant and graceful Mahrez, who turned into a winter limited edition Messi, danced on the court!
In the 15th minute of the game, Mahrez, who took the ball on the right side, received a pass from Cambiasso, and with his left foot, he passed the Manchester City left back Clichy who was grabbing the ball.
Then, he immediately sent forward a precise through ball.
Vardy successfully countered the offside and got the ball first by cutting in diagonally.
At the moment of shooting, the ball flew out of the baseline when the central defender Mangala stretched his legs to block it.
This wave of simple and efficient cooperation also caused applause in the stadium.
“Wow!”
“Through the crotch!”
“A beautiful through ball!”
“It’s a pity that Vardy’s shot was blocked by Mangala, otherwise it would definitely test Joe Hart’s attention”
“In this game, Leicester City’s top star Ling Feng seemed a little quiet under Yaya Toure’s defense. Fortunately, Mahrez stood up!”
The current Mahrez is definitely better than Mahrez in the same period of history!
Especially after learning the passing skills from Ling Feng, his passing has become more lethal.
When Ling Feng is closely guarded by the opponent, he can often stand up and take over the responsibility of organizing the attack.
This is also Leicester City’s frontcourt dual-core tactic under a forced situation!
Under Ling Feng’s continuous support, Mahrez completely dominated the duel with Clichy.
When he thought he was going to pass, he passed the ball to Ling Feng who came to meet him, and then played a wall pass;
When he thought he was going to pass the ball, he passed!
Anyway, Clichy couldn’t figure out what his next move would be.
In desperation, Clichy was forced to adopt a foul tactic to stop Mahrez’s advancement.
After seeing that Mahrez was very strong, Pellegrini stood up and came to the sidelines and immediately made tactical adjustments.
Then, Lampard would move closer to the left to assist Mahrez.
And Nasri on the left also frequently retreated to limit Leicester City’s midfielder Cambiasso.
With the addition of Lampard and Nasri, the space on the right side became narrow, and it was not so easy to play cooperation.
And with the change of formation, Manchester City slowly regained some possession of the ball and handed it over to David Silva to deal with.
There is a core central axis in Manchester City’s lineup.
That is the central defender and captain Kompany, midfielders Yaya Toure and David Silva, and striker Aguero!
These four are the most unshakable core of this Manchester City, and the reason why this Manchester City is so strong!
Kompany is the leader of the defense and the mainstay;
Yaya Toure is the all-around midfielder and offensive propeller;
David Silva is the frontcourt magician and opportunity creator;
Aguero is the terminator who completes the final blow!
In this game against Leicester City, except for Aguero, the other three started!
Most of Manchester City’s offense was organized by David Silva or Nasri.
The two have outstanding skills at their feet and can often play smooth passes in the frontcourt.
However, the impact of not having a good striker is also reflected.
Spanish teenager Pozo runs very actively.
However, perhaps because they don’t trust him very much, other Manchester City players rarely pass the ball to him.
It is precisely because of the lack of Aguero, the authentic terminator, that Manchester City’s final attack often ends in vain.
In addition, the second goalkeeper Ben Hamer, who replaced Schmeichel in the starting lineup, also performed very steadily and saved several threatening long shots.
In the end, the referee blew the whistle to end the first half.
Manchester City and Leicester City attacked and defended each other in the first half, and there were several opportunities to shoot, but none of them were seized.
The score is still zero to zero.
It is worth mentioning that in the first half of the game, Leicester City’s frontcourt core Ling Feng was completely suppressed by the opponent’s core midfielder Yaya Toure.
Only touched the ball 32 times in the first half!
This number is twice less than the previous game statistics!
(End of this chapter)