Green Journey

Chapter 289 Ranieri's Small Abacus!
On the field, after the start of the game, both Leicester City and Manchester City played very cautiously in the first 5 minutes. They would rather pass back to reorganize the offense than take the risk of passing forward to let the opponent get the ball.

This fits the tone of a major cup final.

No one wants to lose, or lag behind, and everyone wants to win the championship.

Therefore, both the head coach's tactical strategy and the performance of the players will be conservative, and they would rather give up some opportunities than take risks.

For Leicester City, although Chu Zheng was shifted to the left today, the midfielder combination of Kanter and Drinkwater is still extremely strong.

Needless to say, Kanter now firmly occupies the top of the Premier League's defensive statistics, and is already recognized by the media and fans as a super midfielder.

Although Drinkwater is not as famous as Kanter, he is also a little famous. Not only is he defensive, but he can also send very good passes. He has a certain ability to attack and organize.

In the 7th minute of the game, Kanter and Drinkwater relied on tacit understanding to snatch the ball from the Manchester City players in midfield, and then quickly developed to the wing.

On the right side of the 30-meter area of ​​the front court, Shinji Okazaki retreated to get the ball.

On the right sideline, Simpson also came up to respond, and in front of him were Manchester City midfielder Fernando and Sterling, who actively retreated to participate in the defense.

Fernando is a defensive midfielder that Manchester City spent 2014 million euros from Porto in 1500. He has the title of big tip in Manchester City and Fernandinho.

The two are both Brazilian players, with similar looks and skin colors, which often make fans confused and can only be distinguished by their height and number.

It's a pity that Fernando has not performed well since he came to Manchester City, and the fans are not satisfied with him.

Fernandinho, who just finished a fierce Champions League quarter-final today, was put on the bench by Pellegrino.

But Manchester City fans are skeptical about Fernando's appearance, and they are more willing to believe in Fernandinho.

Fernando saw Shinji Okazaki taking the ball sideways. He moved quickly and had rich experience, so he pressed up immediately, compressing the space for Shinji Okazaki to turn around with the ball.

He hit a header and it worked so well that Shinji Okazaki couldn't turn to face the goal and had to push the ball across to Simpson on the touchline.

Simpson retreated half a meter to take the ball. Seeing that Sterling was also pushing up along the sideline, he was about to rush forward. He didn't stop the ball and directly made a light pass.

Suddenly the ball flew from Sterling's head to Mahrez standing in the upper right corner of the penalty area.

When Mahrez saw the ball flying suddenly, he immediately sank down and got off his horse, stretched his hands back, and pressed his back and hands against Otamendi who was about to move behind him.

Waiting for the ball to get close, Mahrez with his back unloaded the ball perfectly with his lower abdomen, and at the same time turned to the right, facing the top of the arc.

Otamendi behind Mahrez was a little anxious, but he didn't dare to use too much force.

Otamendi, who has rich experience in the game, knows the characteristics of Mahrez's type of players. As long as you dare to rush, he can immediately throw it to you in a logical manner, and by the way, he can get a free kick in an excellent position.

So, after a moment of hesitation, Otamendi let Mahrez slip past him.

Seeing Mahrez dribbling the ball horizontally to the top of the arc, the players in the vicinity of Manchester City reacted quickly and immediately surrounded Mahrez.

After Mahrez entered the rib area at the top of the arc, the old Manchester City captain Kompany was on the front right, the monster Yaya Toure was on the front left, and Fernando was approaching on the back left.

At this moment, the Polo King danced lightly, and Jin Jin flicked his left foot to the left, bending over and abruptly coming out of the encirclement.

His nimble dodge made the old Yaya Toure helpless, he could only watch Mahrez slip away from him.

After a successful breakthrough, Mahrez immediately found that the other side of the penalty area was completely empty.

So he raised his left foot and swung it, and made a half-high long pass, and the ball was transferred to Manchester City's weak defensive side.

In the area at the top of the arc, Manchester City left back Sagna, who was marking Vardy behind him, saw the ball bounce from his side to the left side of the penalty area. He was so frightened that he immediately turned back and went straight to the left side of the penalty area.

At the same time, the player in the right rib area at the top of the arc had already started to speed up a step ahead of Sagna, and the speed visible to the naked eye made tens of thousands of Manchester City fans die.

Under the eyes of everyone, Chu Zheng was like a supercar. In the blink of an eye, he rushed to the area outside the upper left corner of the small penalty area one step ahead of Sania, raised his left foot and swung heavily on the ball that rolled just in front of him.

There was a dull bang!
In an instant, the ball was like a white lightning flashing through the air, heading straight to the lower left corner of Manchester City's goal.

In front of the left post, Joe Hart is already in place.

Although the media and fans will ridicule Joe Hart from time to time, this guy's goalkeeping skills are actually very good.

Facing Chu Zheng's powerful kick, Joe Hart quickly got down to the ground and blocked the flying ball with his calf in time.

The ball hit Joe Hart's calf and jumped up, continued to jump forward, and then hit the outside of the goalpost and bounced off the baseline.

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

Witnessing this thrilling scene, 90000 Wembley fans collectively let out a deafening exclamation.

In the Manchester City penalty area, seeing the ball being blocked, Chu Zheng looked regretful, but soon Chu Zheng grinned happily.

Because he saw that Joe Hart made a successful save, he quickly got up, rubbing his right calf frantically with both hands, grinning.

While rubbing his calf, Joe Hart looked at Chu Zheng with the eyes of a monster.

At the moment when his calf was hit just now, he felt as if his calf had been run over by a car, and even made him wonder if his leg was kicked off, which was really a bit scary.

"This is the role of Mahrez on the field!" Zhang Lu in the studio was full of admiration, "Look at Leicester City's attack, the purpose is very clear."

"The cooperation of Mahrez, Shinji Okazaki and Simpson immediately attracted Manchester City's defensive players to this side, and then quickly completed through Mahrez's ability to hold the ball in the frontcourt and make precise shots. Transfer to strike!"

"This is Ranieri's purpose!"

"Yes! Chu Zheng's shot is powerful and heavy, but it's a pity that he wanted a close corner, so Joe Hart could see through it in advance!" He Wei said with a smile.

At the scene, Pellegni was having a headache at this time.

He was planning to restrict Chu Zheng in the middle lane today, but now Chu Zheng went to the side lane, which made more than half of his arrangements go to waste.

Next to him, Ranieri enjoyed the team's attack with a smile on his lips.

In this game, Ranieri's switching Chu Zheng to the wing was not a whim to test some of his ideas.

In fact, he guessed before the game that Pellegrini would definitely impose restrictions on Chu Zheng, so he simply put Chu Zheng on the wing.

As for whether Chu Zheng can adapt to playing on the wing, the answer is yes.

In decades of coaching career, Ranieri has seen all-around players, but like Chu Zheng, he can not only play, but also play extremely well. never seen.

Ranieri has carefully recalled his past coaching career.

But no matter whether he was in a wealthy club or a civilian club, he had never seen a player with such a high football quotient as Chu Zheng, as if he was a natural football player.

That's why when he met Chu Zheng for the first time, he said that he wanted to make Chu Zheng a new generation of free people.

It's a pity that this season is coming to an end, and he has not fulfilled his promise so far. Leicester City really doesn't have that kind of soil.

But he was really trying his best to set Chu Zheng free.

In addition, he also wanted to liberate Chu Zheng today, so that Chu Zheng can fully display his offensive talent on the court.

In addition to these two points, Ranieri actually has a little more careful thought.

That's what he needs to prepare for next season.

Ranieri is very clear that Leicester City will not be able to keep Chu Zheng after this season.

He couldn't keep a player with super potential like Chu Zheng, and Chu Zheng was destined not to belong to the civilian club.

But Kanter may keep it.

In Ranieri's prediction, although Drinkwater and Kanter's partner is not as perfect as Chu Zheng's partner, it is also very good.

Of course, he will not deliberately reduce Chu Zheng's playing time, let alone deprive Chu Zheng of his starting position.

It's just that in some games where there is no more suspense, he will choose to replace Chu Zheng and let Drinkwater appear to partner with Kanter.

However, just when Ranieri was distracted, an accident happened suddenly, directly hitting everyone on the scene.

(End of this chapter)