Green Journey

Chapter 236 What an incredible player! !

On the sidelines, Ranieri looked at the field expressionlessly, but Everton coach Martinez has always been smiling.

Judging from the situation on the court during this period, his tactical strategy was considered a success.

Before the game, Martinez repeatedly watched the matches between Chelsea, Manchester United and Leicester City to observe how Van Gaal and Mourinho restricted Chu Zheng.

But unfortunately he did not find the answer.

After watching the game, Martinez came to the conclusion that Chu Zheng could not be completely restrained if he did not rely on numbers.

Chu Zheng's speed is extremely fast, his physical fitness is extremely strong, his feet are balanced, his dribbling skills are good, and his vision is as if he has God's perspective. These characteristics are now almost known to everyone in England.

So he found another way, using the overall offense to suppress Leicester City, making Chu Zheng fall into endless defensive quagmire.

To put it simply, Martinez expanded his defense from one point to another, and restricted Chu Zheng from the overall situation.

And Ranieri's defensive counterattack strategy of giving up possession of the ball can be said to have helped him.

As for whether such continuous pressure will lead to a complete collapse of the players' physical fitness in the second half, Martinez has long been prepared.

Once they scored first, he would switch from offense to defense, taking advantage of Leicester City's opportunity to overwhelm the offense and counterattack in turn.

At that time, not only can avoid the disadvantages of attacking too aggressively and grabbing too aggressively in the first half, but also turn passive into active.

Although Lukaku's weight has skyrocketed due to muscle gain, this guy's physical talent is really terrifying, his speed hasn't dropped much, and his impact is even more terrifying than before.

Once Lukaku rushed up in the defensive counterattack, the scene Martinez thought was very cool.

However, Martinez seems to have forgotten that the reason why stars are stars is because they have unlimited creative ability and can reverse the situation of both sides with one person.

And who is Ranieri?
Although this guy's reputation in the world is not obvious, in the football circle, his gorgeous resume is difficult for Guardiola, Klopp and Mourinho, who are now in full swing.

Although Ranieri has not won any top championships, he has been able to coach so many wealthy teams and achieved good results, which is enough to positively reflect his coaching ability.

Soon, the scene Martinez was looking forward to happened.

In the 16th minute of the game, Everton slightly restrained the rushing style of play, but the danger came suddenly at this time.

Seeing the team's formation over the center line, most of the teammates were in Leicester City's half. Morrie, who took the ball from the left rib at the top of the backcourt, dribbled the ball along the ribs to the center line.

But this time Morrie got it right.

Shinji Okazaki, Chu Zheng, and Mahris have not yet formed a triangle encirclement. Barry, who was blocked in the front, quickly smashed the ball and turned back, passing back to Barry on the right back.

Barry brought the ball into the middle circle area, and he was also happy to see that Vardy and Shinji Okazaki in front of him were not up for grabs.

Adjusting his pace, Barry turned to the right, raised his left foot and knocked the ball across the right rib of Everton's right center back Stones.

Stones took the ball, and before Vardy came up to press, he quickly passed forward to Coleman, who was more than ten meters away.

Fox moved to the wing to mark.

But before he got there, Coleman made a cross from about 37-[-] meters away from the penalty area.

In front of the end line of the penalty area on the right rib at the top of the arc, Kone and Coleman formed a perfect pass and run.

Chu Zheng didn't expect that Everton's attack would be so simple this time, and the pass was made from such a distance.

"N'Golo, follow him, don't let him turn around!" Chu Zheng, who was standing at the top of the arc, shouted to Kanter behind Kone.

Kanter followed closely, but faced with the 181cm tall Kone who rushed to the landing point ahead of time to seize a favorable position, Kanter had no chance of winning the ball.

So Kanter stuck behind Koney, otherwise Koney would turn around.

However, in the next second, there was a back blind pass from Kone's side.

Kone, with his back to the middle, took off in front of Kanter, and headed directly to the right front of Leicester City's small penalty area!
Kanter was caught off guard by this turn of events!

Chu Zheng was also taken aback!

"Riyad!!!!" Seeing Mahrez running towards the top of the arc following Cleverly, Chu Zheng pointed to his feet to signal Mahrez, then quickly turned around and rushed into the penalty area, heading straight for the place where Morgan and Vasile Lukaku, who was caught in the middle by Lukowski, went away.

However, Lukaku never gave Chu Zheng a chance.

Lukaku, with his back to the goal, saw the ball coming, he quickly took a step forward, temporarily got rid of Morgan's guards, then quickly raised his left foot, and pushed the ball into the arc top area with the inside of his foot.

At the same time, in the area of ​​the top of the arc, Cleverly on the right side of Mahris suddenly exploded, squeezing Mahris who was walking in front of him directly to the side to play.

Suddenly, there was chaos in the restricted area of ​​Leicester City!

Seeing Mahrez being broken through so easily, Chu Zheng was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood.

He knew that Mahrez's defense was poor, but at least he thought about it. Isn't it cheating to let people come over so easily?
On the left side of the penalty spot, Simpson is marking Barkley behind him.

Seeing that Cleverly was about to get the ball, he really panicked at this moment.

Because at this time Cleverley has two choices, hit the goal directly, or distribute the ball to the left side of the penalty area where there is no one, and give it to Barkley behind him.

After 0.5 seconds, he hesitated after seeing Cleverley stop the ball, so Simpson made a third choice, and he went directly to grab it.

But this is what Cleverly was waiting for!
In the next second, Cleverley stabbed the ball with the toe of his right foot in front of Simpson to Barkley on the left front of the small penalty area.

After Barkley received the ball, he raised his left foot and swung it.

This realistic shooting action directly deceived the follow-up, and Vasilewski, who made up for Simpson, fell to the ground and blocked it with a sliding shovel.

Immediately afterwards, Barkley made a false shot and made a real dunk. After Vasilewski slid past him, he quickly switched to his right foot and swung his leg to shoot.

At this time, Simpson also came over, and he fell to the ground and stretched his feet to block.

But Barkley shot the ball very stealthily, and the ball went straight to Schmeichel from the bend of Simpson's right leg against the turf.

Seeing Barkley shoot, Schmeichel sat down on the spot and blocked the ball back with his left heel.

Barkley hit again with his left foot and the ball went straight to the middle of the goal.

At this time, Chu Zheng had already appeared on the goal line.

Facing the oncoming ball, a turtle probed directly, and the ball was blocked again.

On the sidelines, Martinez held his head in his hands, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

The Leicester City fans and Everton fans on the four sides of the stands were also exclaimed one after another by the continuous shots.

However, before the Leicester City fans could rejoice at the consecutive clearances, the ball blocked by Chu Zheng flew directly to Lukaku on the right front of the small penalty area.

Facing the incoming ball, Lukaku swung his left foot in place and hit it.

Kanter in front of him raised his foot and blocked it a step slower.

Seeing this scene, everyone's hearts suddenly raised their throats again!

On the goal line, Chu Zheng has turned into a goalkeeper.

Seeing the ball come back, Chu Zheng, who was standing in the middle of the goal, quickly jumped out to the right.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Chu Zheng rejected Lukaku's shot with his face this time.

However, what made all the Leicester City fans vomit blood was that after the ball was blocked by Chu Zheng with his face, it just hit the knee of Schmeichel, who turned around and rushed back, and then bounced directly into the Leicester City goal .

"Goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!" In the commentary booth, the Everton commentator raised his arms and cheered!
"Oh!!!!"

"Own goals!!!!!!!!!!!"

In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, Zhang Lu and He Wei exclaimed immediately!Both of them had a dumbfounding look on their faces!

In the stands on all sides, the Leicester City fans who were stimulated by this scene and almost died suddenly applauded spontaneously after being annoyed!

The warm applause was obviously dedicated to Chu Zheng who made two rescues on the goal line!
Everyone could see that Chu Zheng had tried his best!
Therefore, they don't blame anyone for this conceded goal, if they want to blame, they can only blame themselves!
"Chu, are you okay?" In front of the goal, Schmeichel pulled Chu Zheng up, seeing Chu Zheng's blushing yin and yang face, he immediately burst into laughter.

Chu Zheng rolled his eyes, patted his buttocks and left.

On the sidelines, Martinez's heart is still beating!It's too exciting!
He looked at Chu Zheng on the field with an extremely incredible gaze!

He saw clearly just now.

As soon as Lukaku made a shot, Chu Zheng, who was standing on the goal line, quickly moved to the right. This is obviously a pre-judgment that Lukaku will hit the left side of the goal.

This is really incredible!This defensive sense surprised Martinez!

"What an incredible player!" After a long time, Martinez sighed!
In fact, when Chuzheng was in the Bundesliga Wolfsburg, he left a very deep impression on Martinez.

Martinez really didn't expect that after just one season, the young central defender with obvious advantages and disadvantages would grow to this point quickly.

Not only did he play well at the central defender position, but he played even better after being transformed into a midfielder.

Based on Chu Zheng's reaction in such a short period of time just now, Martinez realized that Chu Zheng could do it if he played the goalkeeper position.

"Mr. Zhang, as a goalkeeper who has retired for many years, how do you feel about Chu Zheng's two wonderful goal line rescues?" In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, the cheerful He Wei turned to look at Zhang Lu.

Zhang Lu chuckled, pointed at Chu Zheng on the TV, and said with a smile, "Chu Zheng can actually consider the position of goalkeeper!"

"He can!"

"Hahaha!!!" He Wei laughed loudly!
After the joke, Zhang Lu said again: "Leicester City can't continue to fight like this. Now they only have defense and no counterattack!"

"Yes!" He Wei nodded, "Leicester City played too passively today!"

"I don't know if Mr. Zhang has noticed. Although the Everton players did not guard against Chu Zheng today, in fact, once Leicester City gets the ball, some players will cut off the direct connection between Chu Zheng and the ball holder!"

"If Chu Zheng wants to get the ball, it often takes several passes before the ball reaches Chu Zheng's feet!"

"This is Martinez's brilliant move. Football is a team sport, so Martinez starts from this aspect. He doesn't play man-to-man like Manchester United and Chelsea. He uses the whole to limit Chu Zheng's performance!"

(End of this chapter)