Green Journey

Chapter 221 It's not easy to be named Ma!
On December 12, the Leicester City team set off to the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, northern England, to challenge the opponents Sheffield Wednesday Club in the quarter-finals of the League Cup.

The team was established in 1867 by a cricket club.

Because cricketers had time to play football only on Wednesdays at that time, it was so named.

Although Sheffield Wednesday has a long history, due to some political reasons at the time, Sheffield Wednesday refused to become one of the founding clubs of the English Professional League.

The draw of this Championship team can be said to be the top lottery for Leicester City.

Because of the eight teams in the quarter-finals of the League Cup, there are only two Championship clubs, Middlesbrough and Sheffield Wednesday.

The remaining five teams are Liverpool, Manchester City, Everton, Stoke City, Southampton.

So Leicester City was really lucky and won the first prize in the prize pool. If nothing else, Leicester was guaranteed to enter the semi-finals.

In this game, Chu Zheng did not enter the squad.

Ranieri was terrified the next day when he learned that his midfielder's brain had been admitted to the hospital at night.

Therefore, to be on the safe side, Ranieri kicked Chu Zheng, who was supposed to start, out of the squad and asked him to rest at home.

Although without Chu Zheng, Leicester City still played at a high level in this game.

Vardy was expelled by this team back then, so when he met his old club this time, Vardy was as excited as if he had eaten Yin and Yang.

Before the first half was over, Vardy scored two goals for Sheffield Wednesday and scored twice.

At home, Chu Zheng saw that Kanter, who was starting with Andy King, was uncharacteristically in this game. After taking the ball, he frequently dribbled forward, or sent the ball to Vardy and Mahrez. The football chemist is experimenting again.

Ranieri wanted to see if Kanter was as talented on the offensive end as on the defensive end!

But Chu Zheng felt that Ranieri might be disappointed!

Kanter's defense in the midfield is good, but in Chu Zheng's eyes, the offense is really not satisfactory.

Through the TV's third-person perspective, Chu Zheng can see more gaps.

But most of the time Kanter on the court simply didn't see the gaps that could tear Sheffield's defense on Wednesday.

Passing is also at his early Wolfsburg level.

On December 12th, after a 5-3 easy victory over Sheffield Wednesday to advance to the semi-finals of the League Cup, Leicester City, who played twice a week, hurried to Wales.

In the 15th round of the Premier League, Leicester City's opponent is Swansea, who is 15th in the Premier League standings.

Last season, after the 14th round of the league, Swansea had 6 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses, accumulating 22 points and ranking 7th in the Premier League standings.

And this season, their 14-round league record is 3 wins, 5 draws and 6 losses, accumulating 14 points, ranking 16th in the Premier League standings, only a few points away from Newcastle and Bournemouth in the relegation zone .

In the 14th round of the Premier League, Swansea has lost to the Premier League giants Liverpool.

If they continue to lose to Leicester City in this round, there is a high probability that Swansea will fall into the relegation zone after this round of the league.

Once stuck in the quagmire of the relegation zone, it is difficult to get out.

Therefore, in this game, it is almost foreseeable that Swansea will do their best to keep the tie and win!

In this game, Chu Zheng returned to Ranieri's roster for the game and started together with Kanter's partner.

Although Swansea is playing at home and occupies a favorable location, it is a pity that they are no match for Leicester City, which has the right time and harmony.

In this game, Chu Zheng, who returned to the starting lineup, was extremely excited.

Because Ranieri did not play defensive counterattacks, but let the players of Leicester City display their talents on the field and play offensive football, in order to counter the ridicule of the English media saying that he can only play defensive counterattacks.

Therefore, Swansea is unlucky!

In the 4th minute of the game, Leicester City, wearing a black away jersey, won the first corner kick in the left half.

Vardy and Mahrez in the wicket in front of the near post.

Chu Zheng and Ulloa, who replaced Shinji Okazaki in the game, were kicked at the penalty spot.

A total of four players entered the penalty area on Leicester City's side, but Swansea's side was on the verge of a formidable enemy, with a total of 9 players participating in the defense.

Especially around Chu Zheng, he was surrounded by three tall Swansea players.

Obviously, Swansea knew that Chu Zheng's bounce was abnormal, and they planned to guard against Chu Zheng.

However, after Albrighton took a corner kick, the players in the Swansea penalty area found themselves being tricked.

The ball went straight to the near post.

All of a sudden, everyone rushed to this area.

In the scramble for the landing point, the Swansea goalkeeper was blocked by his own players, and soon he was stuck behind by Mahrez. He could only watch Mahrez standing next to the goal post. The ball was thrown into the goal.

1-0!

After scoring a goal, Chu Zheng took advantage of the surge in morale and launched a fierce attack.

His aggressive style of playing the ball stunned the more than [-] Swansea fans watching the scene.

Countless Swansea fans were ashamed to see their team being held in the middle of the court by the offense organized by Chu Zheng and could only defend passively.

Chu Zheng's ability to organize terrorist attacks made them see no hope of winning.

In the 15th minute of the game, Swansea sent a sideline kick from the left side of the Leicester City goal more than 30 meters away.

Leicester City's defense line and midfielder are right at the top of the arc, and the distance between the two defense lines is very tight, which continuously compresses the space for Swansea players to hold the ball at the top of the arc.

Therefore, not long after the ball was sent, Ulloa and Mahrez on the wing teamed up to grab the ball by blocking the front and grabbing the ball.

After Ulloa took the ball, he wanted to advance quickly along the wing.

But the Swansea players stuck to him like a piece of brown sugar, pulling and pulling!

So after he ran one meter, he had to suddenly pass to the left rib.

After Chu Zheng followed up, he kicked the ball straight away, and the ball turned from the right side of the middle circle to the middle, and came in front of Vardy who had already started speeding up.

At this time, Swansea's defense on the center line had no time to retreat, and it directly penetrated Chu Zheng's arc pass.

Chu Zheng passed the ball extremely delicately, as if he had measured it with a ruler in advance.

So what happened next happened logically.

Facing the suicidal attack of the last center back in Swansea, Vardy stretched out his right foot and stabbed the ball forward to the right in the sprint, and a wonderful goal came directly.

However, after entering the penalty area from the top of the arc, Vardy shot the ball on the right thigh of the Swansea goalkeeper.

The ball didn't go in!
Chu Zheng was so angry that his liver hurt!

Vardy also had a smirk on his face!I was so guilty that I never dared to look at Chu Zheng!

During the next game, Chu Zheng continued to deliver shells to Vardy.

But hell, Vardy just can't get in, wasting Chu Zheng's second pass time and time again!

So in the second half, Chu Zheng kicked the unlucky Vardy and turned his head to look for the opening goal. Obviously, the unlucky Mahrez went.

In the history of world football, most people surnamed Ma are not ordinary people.

Sure enough, Mahrez did not disappoint Chu Zheng. He never wasted the second pass sent by Chu Zheng.

After the game, in the words of the English media, it was a game with extremely different strengths.

In this game, Mahrez scored 10 points for a hat-trick and won the best player of the game.

Chu Zheng scored 9.1 points, and Kanter also scored 8.5 points with several wonderful interceptions and tackles.

In fact, Chu Zheng felt that Swansea was not as weak as the English media said.

They are capable of threatening Leicester City's goal.

It's a pity that they met Kanter, who was getting better and better, and his performance became more and more demonic.

But Chu Zheng didn't know that the Swansea fans hated Kanter the most, but him!
(End of this chapter)