Green Journey

Chapter 276 A focus battle related to the ownership of the championship!

After a week of truce, the Premier League battle was rekindled. The first game of the 26th round of the Premier League was the match between Sunderland and Manchester United.

But the focus of the European media is not on this game.

Compared with Manchester City, Manchester United has also been a mess recently.

In the last round of the red-blue battle, Manchester United was tied by Chelsea at the last moment, which made the three-pointer in hand vanish in an instant.

After the game against Chelsea, Manchester United has fallen behind the Champions League by as much as 8 points.

Therefore, the topic of Manchester United's coaching change is raging. Not only the media, but even the Red Devils fans are criticizing Van Gaal's on-the-spot command and coaching philosophy.

Faced with the attacks from the media and the Red Devils fans, the irritable Van Gaal directly and publicly denounced Tong.

As a result, he was tragic.

This round of facing Sunderland, which is deep in the relegation zone, is an excellent opportunity for Manchester United to grab points. However, Manchester City lost at the Stadium of Light and were defeated by Sunderland at home 2-1.

This upset instantly made Van Gaal's position shaky, and the media and fans who had been reprimanded by Van Gaal even chased him and scolded him.

The match between Leicester City and Arsenal ranks in the penultimate game of this round.

For this game, the European media and fans are paying special attention.

Up to now, Leicester City led by Ranieri has become a unique and beautiful landscape in the five major leagues.

Both the media and fans want to know how many surprises Leicester City under Ranieri can create, and whether the miracles Leicester City has created can continue.

In addition, this game may play a decisive role in the Premier League championship this season.

Because after the match against Arsenal, Leicester City will be in the next three months of the Premier League schedule from the 27th round to the 35th round. Their opponents are all teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League standings.

With the attack power that Leicester City is showing now that is not weaker than the giants, it is not too difficult for them to win these teams.

Therefore, as long as Leicester City wins Arsenal in this game and expands or stabilizes the score, they may be able to win the championship early.

But the premise of all this is that Leicester City can take away three points at the Emirates Stadium today.

Otherwise let Manchester City recover 3 points, then this season's Premier League championship will be full of suspense again.

On February 2th, at 14:19 p.m. BJ time, the live broadcast signal was connected to the LeTV live broadcast room on time.

In addition to the partners Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu, LeTV Sports live broadcast today also invited Sun Jihai and Fan Zhiyi who played for Manchester City in the Premier League.

It's the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, and the Chinese New Year's atmosphere has not yet passed, so the four of them are all dressed up tonight.

Especially Zhang Lu, in a red suit and red tie, is extraordinarily coquettish.

At 19:55, the starting lineups of Leicester City and Arsenal appeared one after another.

Arsenal: (4231)

Goalkeeper: Petr Cech

Defenders: Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal
Defenders: Coquelin, Ramsey
Attacking midfielder: Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ozil, Sanchez
Forward: Giroud

"After defeating Bournemouth 2-0 away in the last round, the Gunners finally ended their embarrassing record of four rounds without a win."

"Arsenal has 48 points with Tottenham in the Premier League standings. Because the goal difference is not as good as Tottenham, they rank fourth in the league."

"But Arsenal are still seven points behind Leicester City."

"Today is the 109th confrontation between the two clubs. Prior to this, Arsenal had 50 wins, 39 draws and 19 losses, scoring 207 goals and conceding 133 goals. Judging from the historical data of the confrontation between the two sides, the Gunners have the upper hand."

"But this season's Leicester City has been reborn. The two sides fought a goal battle in the first round, and finally shook hands 4-4!"

After Zhan Jun finished speaking, Leicester City's starting lineup appeared.

Leicester City: (442)

Forwards: Vardy, Shinji Okazaki

Midfielders: Albrighton, Kante, Chu Zheng, Mahrez

Defenders: Fox, Huth, Morgan, Simpson
Goalkeeper: Schmeichel

"How many surprises Leicester City can bring, whether they can create miracles, they let everyone look forward to it!"

"The last round of Leicester City's 3-1 victory over Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium is not just as simple as 3 points!"

"The leader of Leicester City is no longer the dark horse at the beginning of the season. After 25 rounds of Premier League matches, they have become a team of kings!"

"Since losing to Aston Villa in the 21st round, Leicester City has been unbeaten for three consecutive rounds, and has defeated Liverpool and Manchester City's two giants."

"Especially Chu Zheng, he scored his first career hat-trick against Manchester City in the last round, and now his Premier League goals have come to the fourth place in the scorer list, with 16 Premier League goals, only behind Third Aguero with two goals."

"It is worth noting that Chu Zheng has also reached 24 assists. He is very hopeful to break Henry's double 20 assist record this season and create his own record!..."

At 12 o'clock noon in London time and 20 o'clock in the evening in BJ time, with the whistle of the referee Martin Atkinson, this focus game, which has attracted much attention in Europe, officially started.

On the field, at the start of the game, Arsenal, who had the home game advantage and attacked from right to left, raised the rhythm of the game, obviously wanting to grab a start.

Perhaps because of the home game, the Arsenal players were extremely excited today. Their first attack of the game threatened Leicester City's goal.

In the 50th second of the game, Arsenal got a throw-in from the right outside the penalty area in the backcourt.

Bellerin made a quick serve and threw the ball vigorously to forward Giroud near the center line on the right side of the center circle.

Faced with Huth and Kante's back and forth attacks, Giroud jumped up first, hammered the ball to the center line, and found Ozil on the wing.

On the center line of the wing, Ozil hopped and easily unloaded the ball, and the entire wing in front of him was no man's land.

Because Leicester City had to implement a high-pressure press in the frontcourt just now, the formation was a bit too forward.

At this time, only Morgan and Simpson in the middle circle area of ​​Ozil's left rib are returning to defense.

But Arsenal didn't keep anyone in the frontcourt, so Ozil could only dribble forward by himself.

Behind Ozil, Huth and Fox struggled to catch up.

As a midfielder, Ozil's ball-handling skills, vision, passing, shooting, creativity and other abilities are all at the top level, but this guy has a fatal weakness, that is, he is not fast.

Therefore, after taking the ball across the center line, Ozil turned to the left and directly entered the rib area.

Sure enough, as soon as he left the wing, Fox caught up.

After entering the rib area, he saw that Morgan had settled in advance, and he knew very well that he would be surrounded by Rust if he continued to take it down.

So Ozil lifted his left foot and made a beautiful cross from the outside instep.

At the moment of passing the ball, Sanchez behind Simpson found Ozil's intention in the middle circle area of ​​the middle road, and he hurriedly braked to stop in the middle circle.

Sanchez stopped the ball for an instant, and Chu Zheng just rushed in front of him.

However, just as Chu Zheng wanted to slow down Arsenal's offensive speed by blocking his position, Sanchez passed the ball decisively.

The ball bypassed Chu Zheng's left side and flew straight to the right rib area at the top of the arc of Leicester City.

Fox was taken too inward by Ozil who continued to advance after passing the ball.

When the ball flew by, he realized that Arsenal's supercar Bellerin had come up from the wing, and it was too late for him to turn around and pursue.

Bellerin strode the ball forward without stopping the ball in front of the center line in the right rib area at the top of the arc, and his speed skyrocketed again, directly hitting the right side of the Leicester City penalty area.

At the front of the upper right corner of the small penalty area, Bellerin made a direct cross and then clicked.

At this time, Morgan, Simpson, Huth and others had just rushed near the penalty spot, and they were completely unable to intercept and destroy Bellerin's cross.

Simpson flung himself forward for a slider, but still missed the ball.

After the point, Arsenal left back Monreal outflanked in place.

Seeing the ball rolling over, he was extremely excited, as if he had seen the birth of the goal.

However, at the moment when the ball was played again, a strong wind suddenly blew on his right side, and then a black figure blew past like a strong wind, and robbed the ball that was about to come in front of him with one kick, directly Put on the stands.

"fool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Immediately, the 60000 fans at the Emirates Stadium in Norda exclaimed in unison!
"Chu Zheng, the defense speed is very fast!"

"Failed to intercept Sanchez's pass, Chu Zheng retreated quickly, with a very clear purpose, and went straight to the back. He obviously guessed the ultimate intention of Arsenal's attack!" Seeing Chu Zheng's excellent performance at the beginning , Zhan Jun and the four of them had joyful smiles on their faces.

On the sidelines, Professor Wenger saw the ball being cleared by Chu Zheng, and was so angry that he spread his hands and turned his back. Ranieri looked calm and calm.

(End of this chapter)