Green Journey

Chapter 269 Another successful long-distance raid!
On the sidelines, Pellegrini, who was sitting on the coach's bench, saw the team conceding a goal shortly after the start. The Chilean engineer was full of astonishment.

Looking at the figure who was running and celebrating on the court, Pellegrini's face was full of helplessness.

In this free kick defense, all 10 players on the field returned to the penalty area, but the four Leicester City players ran without the ball in a tacit understanding and ran out of a passing line abruptly.

There were also Demichelis and Yaya Toure, both of whom could not look down on Chu Zheng, which made Pellegrini a little dissatisfied.

After sitting for a minute, Pellegrini appeared in the coaching area, gesticulating and shouting at the players on the field, signaling that the team formation should continue to press forward.

In the LeTV live broadcast room, Zhan Jun saw Pellegrini's actions in the camera and said with a smile: "A team like Manchester City will never give up the main offensive tactics easily at home, so in terms of the connection between offense and defense, today It will definitely be a huge test for City."

"Compared with Manchester City, Leicester City is much more relaxed here." Zhang Lu smiled, "Defensive counterattack is their housekeeping skill, and they want Manchester City to attack fiercely in away games, so that they can catch Manchester City behind and play sharply. counterattack."

"With Chu Zheng in the midfield of Leicester City, even if Manchester City chooses to retreat, they are capable of attacking." Fan Zhiyi also said, "I have carefully analyzed the current Leicester City, and I found that this team The team doesn’t seem to have any major weaknesses.”

While the three were talking, Manchester City had already kicked the ball again.

As Zhan Jun said, the lagging Manchester City launched a fierce attack on Leicester City's goal.

On the other hand, Leicester City took advantage of the trend to shrink their formation, ready to go, and waited for the opportunity to counterattack.

In the 5 minutes of the game, Manchester City pressed across the board.

Demichelis took the ball to the center circle arc to the right.

Otamendi took the ball on the right side of the center circle. Seeing Vardy approaching slowly, he quickly sent the ball to the front right.

As Silva gets the ball, Zabaleta runs behind him.

But Albrighton and Fox, who were also on the wing, also settled very quickly in defense and had a clear division of labor.

Albrighton went straight to Silva, while Fox settled on the defensive line and watched Sabalite, who continued to advance from the wing.

Silva held the ball on the spot and saw that none of the nearby teammates ran out of position, so he made a decisive pass back.

In the middle circle of Manchester City's half, Demichelis took the ball again. Seeing that there was no one around Kolarov and Delph on the wing, he quickly drew the ball over.

When Delph gets the ball, Leicester City has completed the shift of defensive focus.

Kanter watched Sterling in the ribs, and Simpson was also waiting for Delph to drive forward with the ball.

Seeing that there was still no chance to send a threatening ball, Delph waited for a while.

Kolarov had just pushed forward from behind him, and with a flick of his feet, he suddenly picked up the speed and dribbled the ball horizontally to the ribs.

Mahrez also reacted quickly, quickly turning around to follow up the defense.

Delph didn't run very far before he saw Kanter coming up from the ribs, waiting for him to pass in the direction he was going.

Seeing this scene, Delph was overjoyed. He immediately crossed Toure in the middle, then turned around and pushed forward in the space behind Kanter, preparing to have a two-on-one with Toure to attack directly from the ribs.

However, in the next second, as soon as Toure stopped the ball, Chu Zheng quickly pushed in front of him, cutting off the connection between Toure and Delph who entered the left rib area.

No way, Toure had to smash the ball to the left and take it to the side.

At this moment, Shinji Okazaki withdrew and pressed Toure personally.

Judging from the broadcast footage at this time, Toure obviously dribbled the ball into a rib encirclement formed by Chu Zheng, Kanter, Shinji Okazaki and Mahrez.

Soon Toure also realized that he had hit a dead end.

But for this world-class offensive and defensive midfielder, it is not a big problem.

He squeezed Shinji Okazaki out of the way, and then suddenly kicked forward to the right.

After passing the ball, Toure immediately moved forward, ready to have a two-on-one with Delph.

But Delph missed the ball.

At the moment of passing the ball, Kanter saw through Toure's intentions, and successfully intercepted the ball with a lunge forward.

Chu Zheng was right in front of Kanter, and the two faced each other.

Seeing the ball intercepted by Kanter rolling towards his feet, he quickly turned the ball around, followed up and immediately pulled up the speed with a strong step under his feet.

"Nice interception!!" Zhan Jun exclaimed, "Leicester City, a chance to counterattack!!"

"Chu Zheng is charging up!" Fan Zhiyi also shouted beside him, staring at the big TV screen with wide eyes.

On the field, Chu Zheng quickly advanced along the middle lane.

At this time, Mahrez was sprinting in the right front rib area, and Vardy had already run into the middle circle on the left front.

At this time, Manchester City only had Otamendi, Demichelis and Fernandinho behind, and the three retreated in an inverted triangle position.

Facing Leicester City's three-on-three counterattack, the three of Otamendi cooperated very well.They will keep the distance between Chu Zheng, Okazaki Shinji, Vardy and Mahrez not far or close, which can be said to be extremely delicate.

Therefore, Chu Zheng, who was unable to stride the ball to speed up due to the compressed space in front of him, was soon overtaken by Yaya Toure behind him.

After Yaya Tourei chased to Chu Zheng's left side, he began to squeeze Chu Zheng with his body, trying to make Chu Zheng lose his balance.

But Chu Zheng always maintained his own speed and dribbling rhythm. No matter how Yaya Toure squeezed, Chu Zheng was always as stable as Mount Tai.

At this moment, Demicheli, who was in the middle of Manchester City's retreating three-person team, found that after Zabaleta had crossed the center line along his ribs, he suddenly stopped in the center circle of his own half. To and Yaya Tourei flanked Chu Zheng back and forth.

After Otamendi on the right side of Demichelis saw this scene, he quickly began to move to the center to fill Demichelli's position, and his position was filled by Zabaleta.

But in the next second, Demichelis almost cried stupidly because of the choice he made.

Chu Zheng rushed to the front and back of him, and with his right foot stepping forward, he suddenly kicked the ball forward to the left.

At the same time, Chu Zheng also picked up his speed all at once, constantly breaking through the defense of Demichelis in front of him, and even Yayatu who was behind him was pulled away by three body distances at once.

In the coaching area on the sidelines, seeing Demichelis who had been passed cleanly by Chu Zheng like a wooden stake, Pellegrini was so angry that he almost didn't come up.

"Chu!!!"

"goal!!!!"

"Chu!!"

"goal!!!!!!"

At this time, the thousands of Leicester City fans who came to the Etihad Stadium with the team have been completely excited by Chu Zheng.

Under the huge cheers of these fans, Chu Zheng soon faced Manchester City's second defensive player on the field.

On the court, after Chu Zheng made a small change to the left to catch up with the ball, he directly bumped into Otamendi who was making up for Demichelis.

Facing Chu Zheng, Otamendi, who was running, was ready to destroy the ball with a sliding tackle.

However, in the next second, Chu Zheng, who was the first to touch the ball, suddenly poked the ball forward with his right foot, and then he rushed over from the left.

In the face of Chu Zheng's kick, Otamendi once again became the background board.

The ball rolled past his feet, but he didn't react. Chu Zheng's choice really exceeded Otamendi's expectations.

But Otamendi was able to squeeze Chu Zheng from Manchester City's squad, and he also has his own advantages.

As a central defender, although his turning speed is a bit slow, his sprint speed is not slow.

So Otamendi quickly picked up the speed and chased back, trying to attack Chu Zheng twice with Sabaletta who had already leaned over from the left rib.

But this time Manchester City made a tacit mistake in coordination.

Fernandinho, who has been retreating along the middle to guard Mahrez who is advancing on the right rib, saw that Otamendi was broken by Chu Zheng. He quickly discarded Mahrez and went to the left area of ​​​​the top of the arc. He ran, trying to block Chu Zheng's advancing direction.

Just one second after he left, Chu Zheng suddenly pushed with his left foot before being pinched by Otamendi and Sabalite.

The ball rolled past the heels of Fernandinho in front of Chu Zheng, and went straight to Mahrez in front of the intersection of the free throw arc on the right and the penalty area line.

When Mahrez stopped the ball and crossed the penalty area line, Zabaleta rushed to him.

Facing Zabaleta, Mahrez swayed his legs sideways and made a fake shot, which tricked Zabaleta in front of him to quickly fall to the ground and block with his body.

After Zabaleta slid past, Mahrez immediately set the ball to the right with his right foot, and kicked it before Fernandinho and Otamendi got close.

"Oh yo!!!!!!!!!"

"Joe Hart!!!"

"World class saves!!!!!!!!!"

In the live broadcast room of LeTV Sports, Zhan Jun, Zhang Lu, and Fan Zhiyi exclaimed in unison when they saw Joe Hart block Mahrez's near-corner ball out of the baseline.

The Etihad Stadium was also shocked by this scene and let out a collective exclamation.

In the penalty area, Mahrez knelt down when he saw the ball missed.

Chu Zheng, who was crushed to the ground after passing the ball just now, also slapped the turf twice angrily, then turned over and looked at the light snowflakes in the sky, his chest heaved violently.

(End of this chapter)