Chapter 201
Chapter 201
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Chapter 200 First match against Manchester City, versatile midfielder Yaya Toure!
Ling Feng, who was warming up in the stadium, of course had no idea that his fans already regarded Barbara as his girlfriend, and all of them took the initiative to take photos with her.
Once he steps onto the green field, he puts aside all distracting thoughts and just focuses on one goal.
That is:
How to defeat your opponents and win in this game!
This is the first time in his career that he faces Manchester City.
Although at this moment, Manchester City under the leadership of “Chilean Engineer” Pellegrini does not have the super dominance of Guardiola in the future.
However, since it was acquired by the Abu Dhabi consortium in the Middle East 6 years ago, Blue Moon, backed by its oil father, has made all the difference in the transfer market.
Whether it is club facilities, player lineup, or team record, they have all made great progress in just a few years.
Especially under the leadership of legendary coach Mancini, Manchester City has made rapid progress from a mid-table team in the Premier League.
First, it ended a thirty-five-year drought, won the FA Cup, qualified for the Champions League for the first time, and then further won the league championship and stood at the top of the Premier League!
Today’s Manchester City has transformed from the “noisy neighbor” in Ferguson’s words to a strong contender for the Premier League championship.
Last year, Pellegrini replaced Mancini, who had a poor record, as the new coach of Blue Moon.
After a year of silence, Manchester City’s top brass gave the polite Chilean great support in the transfer market.
Fernandinho, Navas, Jovetic, Negredo and other stars came to support them one after another.
Under the guidance of Pellegrini, the new players and the main players of the team performed well and played pleasing offensive football, which fascinated the fans.
It happened to coincide with Arsenal’s daily failure and Chelsea’s reconstruction period. The newly arrived engineer led the team to win the Premier League championship again after a year!
However, in this summer window, Manchester City seems to be
Perhaps they were satisfied with the lineup and depth, so they only made small-scale repairs to the lineup.
For example, midfielder Fernando and central defender Mangala were purchased from Porto to replace Barry and Lescott who left on transfer, and Arsenal full-back Sagna was exempted from signing to supplement the depth of full-backs.
There are two good news for Leicester City in this game.
First of all, Manchester City’s top scorer Aguero is unable to appear!
The former European golden boy and Atletico Madrid striker has become the core of Manchester City’s striker.
Aguero is on full fire this season.
So far, a total of 19 goals have been scored in all competitions, including 14 goals in the Premier League, overpowering the “famous and beautiful” Costa, and ranking first in the league’s scorer list!
However, Aguero accidentally had to retire injured in the last league game against Everton.
Judging from the post-match inspection, although the problem is not too big, he will definitely not be able to return until after the New Year.
Dzeko, the “Bosnia-Herzegovina Diamond” who originally replaced Aguero in the starting lineup, accidentally strained his calf during the warm-up before the game!
Coupled with the “Montenegro Messi” Jovetic who has been lying in bed for a long time, Manchester City’s three top forwards can only sit in the stands to watch this game.
Since the oil capital took over, Manchester City has never been in the embarrassing situation of being short of people!
There is news that in order to alleviate the urgent need to have no striker available, Manchester City has set its sights on the Ivorian striker Bony who has performed well at Swansea this season!
In the past 2014, Boni scored a total of 21 goals in the Premier League, the most goals among all Premier League forwards!
There are more goals than Robin van Persie, Rooney, Aguero and other famous shooters, and he can be called the top scorer of the Premier League in 2014!
However, even if Manchester City wins Bony in advance, they will have to wait until the winter transfer window opens in January before the Ivory Coast striker can join the team.
In desperation, for this game, Chilean engineer Pellegrini could only temporarily send in the 18-year-old Spanish teenager Pozo as the team’s starting center.
You know, Manchester City’s firepower this season is extremely fierce. After fifteen league games, they scored 32 goals!
Averaging more than two goals per game!
However, Aguero alone scored fourteen goals.
It can be seen that the team’s offense relies heavily on Aguero’s performance.
After Aguero, Dzeko and Jovetic retired from injury one after another,
After that, Manchester City’s offense will definitely be greatly reduced.
And Manchester City’s opponent in this game, the “Blue Fox” Leicester City, has scored a terrifying 40 goals in 15 league games!
With such offensive firepower, it is the team with the most goals in the entire Premier League!
What’s more, Leicester City’s three musketeers have been rested and their state and physical fitness are in the best condition.
Therefore, before the game, many fans and football experts believed that Leicester City had a good chance of scoring points at home!
“Let’s take a look at the starting eleven of both teams.”
“The home team Leicester City still adopts their usual 4231 tactical formation. After a large-scale rest in the last Europa League game, Pearson can be said to have sent all the main players in this league game.”
“The goalkeeper is Ben Hammer, who replaced the injured number one goalkeeper Schmeichel and became the starter. The back line is Schlupp, Upson, Morgan, and Simpson.”
“The two midfielders are Cambiasso and Drinkwater. The left and right sides are Lingard and Mahrez.”
“Lurking behind Vardy is still the team’s most trustworthy core, Ling Feng, who is in excellent form! ”
“Manchester City also adopted the 4231 formation”
“The goalkeeper is still Joe Hart.”
“On the defensive line, there are Zabaleta, Mangala, captain Kompany, and Clichy.”
“The two defensive midfielders are Yaya Toure and Fernando. The two wingers are Nasri and David Silva.”
“In the center is Lampard, who is on loan from New York FC in the Major League Soccer.”
“In front of them is young player Pozzo, who made his second start this season.”
As the passionate Foxes team song sounded in the stadium, the players of both sides stood in the warm player tunnel, preparing for the game.
At this time, the players of both sides were polite before fighting.
After tidying up his gloves, Ling Feng took the initiative to find Lampard:
“Hey, long time no see, Frank.”
“Yeah”
In order to maintain his form and continue to chase the Premier League goal record, Lampard, who left Chelsea, reached a loan agreement with Manchester City and was loaned from New York FC to Manchester City for half a season.
However, for many Chelsea fans, Lampard’s decision is still difficult to accept.
Moreover, he scored his first goal for Manchester City in the game against Chelsea in September!
Even if he did not celebrate.
But many Chelsea fans held their heads in their hands, and showed incredible or complicated expressions.
They never thought that after 13 years of Blues career, the Blues genie would actually join another Premier League team;
Even more unexpectedly, Lampard would actually penetrate Chelsea’s goal as an opponent player!
The two hugged each other and then started to greet each other:
“How is the weather in Manchester?”
“Not bad, not as bad as you imagined. Next time you come, I’ll take you around.”
“Haha, sounds good.”
Just as Ling Feng and Lampard were chatting and laughing, Lingard, who was standing in the Leicester City team, had envy in his eyes.
In fact, he also wanted to go up and say hello to Lampard.
You know, the young English players of his generation grew up watching the golden generation of Lampard, Gerrard, Beckham, etc.
Lampard can be called his childhood idol!
When he was at the Carrington base, he remembered that many of his teammates had learned the long-range shooting skills by repeatedly watching Lampard’s long-range shooting highlights.
Among them, the tall black guy named “Paul” was the smartest one.
Often, they can quickly master the skills and movements without watching them a few times.
Indeed, compared to Ling Feng, who joined the national team at the age of 18, emerged in the World Cup, and now has become the core of the Three Lions midfield, and Paul Pogba, who won the European Golden Boy Award at the age of 20, helped Juventus achieve consecutive Serie A titles, and reached the Champions League semi-finals.
As a peer, I am already far behind.
However, Lingard is very open-minded.
Although his talent is not as good as Ling Feng and Pogba, he has not been as eye-catching and brilliant as those super geniuses and prodigies since his debut.
However, he firmly believes that hard work pays off.
Hard work will pay off!
This truth was told to him by his idol Cristiano Ronaldo himself.
At present, the beginning of his career, although not amazing, is also stable.
First, he gained a foothold in the English Championship, and now he plays in the Premier League and helps the newly promoted Leicester City achieve a good result.
The next step is to take the experience he learned in Leicester City,
Return to Manchester United and become a starter for the Red Devils!
At that time, he may be able to enter the vision of the Three Lions coach and be called up to wear the white jersey that represents the glory of the country!
Thinking of this, Lingard’s eyes condensed, and his expression suddenly became much firmer.
There was also a bit more murderous in his eyes when he looked at the Manchester City players.
As a legitimate Red Devils, he naturally did not have a good impression of Manchester City, the mortal enemy in the same city.
Very good, let’s start with this game against Manchester City!
Let Manchester United’s coaches and scouts see how much he has improved after three months in Leicester City!
. . .
With the introduction of the stadium DJ, the players of both sides slowly walked into the stadium.
In this game, both sides wore blue jerseys.
The only difference is that Manchester City’s is sky blue, while Leicester City’s is dark blue.
At the same time, Barbara in the stands also focused on the stadium.
Her sight quickly locked onto the black-haired young man at the end of the Foxes team.
Then she silently cheered in her heart:
“Come on, Ling!”
After the pre-match ceremony, Leicester City, who played at home, took the lead in kicking off.
Vardy kicked off from the center circle and passed the ball back.
When Ling Feng received the ball, he saw the opponent’s 18-year-old young player Pozzo rushing towards him!
Seeing this, Ling Feng couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows.
Wow, young man, so aggressive!
Thinking so in his heart, Ling Feng directly passed the ball to Mahrez on the right.
Then, he immediately ran to the empty space and found that Manchester City did not press high in the frontcourt, but chose to shrink the formation.
However, when Ling Feng moved forward, he saw Yaya Toure, who was like a black tower, blocking him!
Looking at the big black man in front of him, Ling Feng’s expression became serious.
Obviously, Pellegrini arranged Yaya Toure to specially guard him.
If he had to choose an opponent he feared the most among all the players in the Premier League, he would definitely choose Yaya Toure!
Yaya Toure, 31 years old, is over 30 years old, but his physical fitness and condition are still at the top of the world.
The natural physical flexibility of black players, coupled with their excellent footwork, can move forward like a tank, and have explosive long-range shooting ability.
He can attack and defend.
In the entire Premier League, he is the only one who is qualified to be called an all-around midfielder!
Within ten minutes after the opening, Leicester City firmly controlled the ball.
However, whenever his teammates wanted to pass the ball to Ling Feng for organization, Yaya Toure would not hesitate to step forward and defend closely, not letting him get the ball easily.
In front of the super beast waist Yaya Toure, Ling Feng’s ability to fight is like paper.
Every time the opponent hits him, his whole body will lose balance!
After being defeated several times in front of Yaya Toure, Ling Feng learned to be smart.
He knew that with his current confrontation ability, he could not take advantage of Yaya Toure.
So, he began to think about how to make Yaya Toure not follow him so closely?
Soon, Ling Feng thought of a way:
Yaya Toure, who is nearly 1.9 meters tall, is definitely not as fast and mobile as himself.
As long as he fully mobilizes it, the consumption of his huge body will definitely be greater than his own.
As long as Yaya Toure is tired, the defensive rate will definitely drop significantly.
That’s when he will gain the upper hand in this game!
So, Ling Feng began to run around Yaya Toure and kept running.
And Yaya Toure, who was specially instructed by the head coach, did not dare to neglect it. He would always leave his defense zone and follow him in place.
Because if he did not follow him in place, Ling Feng could easily get the ball in the frontcourt and then pass it.
And his pass is the source of Leicester City’s attack!
However, not everyone has such a high football IQ and can see Ling Feng’s intention.
Many Manchester City fans just think that the Blue Fox No. 7 is too good at running!
Moreover, he doesn’t hold the ball very often, but just keeps running to empty positions to support his teammates.
Then his teammates pass the ball to him, and he kicks the ball out without hesitation as if the ball is hot on his feet.
He didn’t dare to confront Yaya Toure, but just kept running around this super beast waist.
However, Pellegrini, the “Chilean engineer” sitting on the sidelines, frowned.
Ling Feng’s running ability has always been the focus of research.
And in this game, he ran more actively in the frontcourt.
“The running position of the No. 7 is too erratic, and there is no pattern to follow. However, he didn’t dare to hold the ball at all, he must have been scared by Toure!”
Hearing the words of the assistant coach beside him, Pellegrini suddenly realized:
“No!”
“He is not afraid of Toure, but he is wearing Toure down!”
(End of this chapter)
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