Green Journey

Chapter 212 Selected as the European Golden Boy and Puskas!

On October 10, after the game against Crystal Palace, Leicester City ushered in the fourth round of the League Cup.

Leicester City was lucky in this round of the League Cup. They did not draw their opponents in the Premier League, but Hull City in the English Championship.

I thought that with the current attack power of Leicester City, it would be easy to win Hull City, the Championship team.

It turned out that Leicester City fans and some media who made predictions were collectively slapped in the face after the game started.

This time the English League Cup was played quite fiercely, and both sides had several good opportunities.

But it is a pity that neither Leicester City nor Hull City converted the opportunity into a goal, but dragged the game into overtime.

In this game, Chu Zheng appeared in the 70th minute of the second half.

After Chu Zheng came on the field, Leicester City's offensive ability went up to a new level.

But it's a pity that Vardy, Mahrez, Shinji Okazaki and others shot very badly today, and they kept wasting the opportunities created by Chu Zheng.

In the end, the game was dragged into a penalty shootout.

Encountering a penalty shootout again reminded Chu Zheng of his miserable experience in Wolfsburg.

But what Chu Zheng was worried about did not happen.

To be exact, it happened, but this time the bad luck did not come to Leicester City, but went to Hull City.

点球大战中，舒梅切尔状态神勇，竟然连续扑出赫尔城的三粒点球，帮助莱斯特城以3-1的比分晋级2015-16赛季英联杯1/4决赛。

After qualifying for the League Cup finals, Leicester City's schedule suddenly became denser.

On October 10, the fourth day after returning from Yorkshire, Leicester City, who did not have much time to rest, embarked on the Premier League journey again, heading to West Midlands, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, West Brom, England. Mickey Hawthorn challenged their opponents West Bromwich Albion in the 31th round.

West Bromwich Albion defeated Norwich City 1-0 in the last round, and won two consecutive victories, which was also their third victory this season.

Moreover, West Bromwich Albion did not play in the League Cup in the middle of the week, and the whole team got enough rest, so they are completely waiting for work in this game.

In this game Ranieri did not underestimate West Bromwich Albion, who are in the lower reaches of the Premier League standings.

Ranieri, who has coaching experience in the Premier League, knows very well that if you dare to underestimate any team in the Premier League, the result is likely to be miserable.

Although a 120-minute fierce battle consumes a lot of physical energy for Leicester City's main players, it is not to the point where a large-scale rotation is required.

Leicester City has no shortage of physical monsters.

Needless to say, Kanter, Chu Zheng felt that this guy ran around the earth and could continue to play for 90 minutes when he came back.

Vardy's physical reserves are also sufficient.

Chu Zheng's physical fitness value is 86, and one game is not enough to completely drain him, not to mention that he did not play the whole game in the English League Cup, and he had a four-day rest when he came back.

Therefore, Leicester City is almost full of main players.

After the start of the game, Leicester City's performance exceeded the expectations of the media and fans, and there was no weakness at all.

The game was played pretty open.

In the first half, West Bromwich Albion relied on a corner kick, and forward Rondon scored a beautiful header in the penalty area to lead 1-0.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. Chu Zheng accelerated the rhythm of offensive and defensive transitions at the beginning of the game, once again showing his aggressive offensive style to Premier League fans.

So the goal came naturally.

In the 57th minute of the game, Chu Zheng and Kanter teamed up to continue sweeping the midfield.

After breaking the ball, Chu Zheng quickly made a long pass from the side.

Albrighton took advantage of West Bromwich Albion's defensive line and made a quick cross, and Mahrez scored in the middle of the penalty area.

1-1!

After equalizing the score, Leicester City continued to attack West Bromwich Albion's goal under Chu Zheng's offensive organization.

In the 61st minute of the game, Chu Zheng dribbled the ball into the left rib area, attracted the defenders and suddenly split the sides.

Schlupp from the wing followed up and made a cross, but Vardy volleyed the goal with his left foot and sent the ball into the stands.

In the 69th minute, after receiving the ball from Kanter in the backcourt, Chu Zheng suddenly sent a deadly scimitar through.

After taking the ball at the top of the arc, Mahrez took advantage of the trend to break through diagonally forward to the left, and then fired with his left foot into the far corner, scored twice, and reversed the score 2-1.

In the 77th minute, a West Bromwich Albion player made a pass error at the top of the Leicester City arc.

Chu Zheng knocked the ball obliquely to Kanter on the right side of the top of the arc, then turned and advanced.

Kanter saw that Chu Zheng didn't ask for the ball, so he quickly understood Chu Zheng's intention and pushed the ball hard to the right of the middle circle.

Vardy retreated in time, knocked the ball across Chu Zheng's body non-stop, and then turned around and advanced.

Chu Zheng got the ball at the kick-off point. Seeing a defensive player in front of him, he stuffed the ball in the direction of Vardy without saying a word.

Next, Vardy used his speed to eat the West Bromwich Albion left center back Jonny Evans who was brought out by him just retreating to catch the ball.

Came to the right front of the small penalty area, hit the far corner directly and succeeded, rewriting the score to 3-1.

After the game, it was not Chu Zheng who scored two assists, nor Mahrez who scored twice, who became the darling of the media.

It's Vardy!
Although Vardy only scored one goal in this game!

But this is his 11th goal in his 15th Premier League game this season, and he has already left behind Aguero, Kane, Lukaku and others.

So Vardy was dubbed "England's new striker" by the English media.

Moreover, Vardy has scored goals in 8 consecutive league games, and he has tied Sturridge in the Premier League's consecutive scoring record list.

Now only Van Nistelrooy, who set a record of 2003 consecutive league goals in 10, is left in front of Vardy!
Media attention has always been superficial.

But the major clubs in the Premier League have a more detailed data. They saw the man standing behind Vardy!

Chu Zheng, the number of assists in the Premier League has reached a terrifying 13. In addition, Chu Zheng has 5 Premier League goals.

The season has just reached the 11th round, and Chu Zheng's statistics are really amazing, even shocking.

At this moment, the Premier League giants who were interested in Chu Zheng before but chose to give up in the end collectively regretted it.

As a result, scouts from the major clubs in the Premier League swarmed out again to follow up and investigate Chu Zheng.

But within a few days, as FIFA officially announced the list of candidates for this year's awards, the popularity of the striker Vardy quickly faded.

And Chu Zheng made headlines in England's major media.

Because Chu Zheng not only appeared in the 2015-man shortlist for the 40 European Golden Boy Award announced by the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, but also one of his goals entered the top 10 candidates for the Puskas Award.

As Chu Zheng's manager, how could Mario miss this opportunity to make Chu Zheng famous.

I don't know how this guy works, and in the next week, Chu Zheng's reputation in Europe ushered in a wave of explosion.

The most obvious manifestation is the surge in the number of followers on his INS and Twitter, and the number of fans has skyrocketed and exceeded 500 million.

After coming to the Premier League, Chu Zheng gained much more exposure than in the Bundesliga.

This is due to the Premier League's unique operating model and global exposure.

Coupled with Chu Zheng's eye-catching style of play and his handsome face, the three complement each other, which is why Chu Zheng's reputation has risen so significantly!
The Chinese media got the news later.

Knowing that Chu Zheng was selected for the European Golden Boy and Puskas Awards, they immediately put Chu Zheng on the trending searches.

"Chu Zheng, selected as the European Golden Boy!"Compared with other candidates, Chu Zheng, who has won a series of honors such as the Bundesliga champion, German Cup champion, and Europa League assist champion, is very likely to win the award! "

"Chu Zheng is about to win two important heavyweight individual awards in his personal career!" "

"2015 European Golden Boy!Chu Zheng! "

"..."

After Chu Zheng saw these extremely touting reports in the country, he rolled his eyes, saying that he seemed to have already won these two awards.

But Chu Zheng was extremely excited to be selected as the European Golden Boy and Puskas.

He never had too many awards!

Especially the European Golden Boy Award, which is the award that Chu Zheng cares about the most.

Because if he doesn't get it this year, then this award will be completely out of his reach.

Because the selection objects in Europe must be young players under the age of 21 playing for European clubs.

And he will be 21 next year!
(End of this chapter)