Green Journey

Chapter 299 Chaos Premier League!

On March 3, Leicester City set off for Hertfordshire, England, to play away against Watford in the 6th round of the Premier League.

Watford are newly promoted in the Premier League this season. They currently rank 38th in the Premier League standings with 12 points.

Judging from the current situation in the Premier League, they have a high probability of breaking through history this season and achieving the first successful relegation in the Premier League in team history.

The media and fans of this game are generally optimistic that Leicester City can easily win, but Ranieri does not think so.

Although Watford has 28 wins, 10 draws and 8 losses in the 10 rounds of the Premier League this season, their home record is extremely good. They are the team with the fourth highest home win rate in the Premier League. Lost against the giants.

Therefore, Ranieri believes that Watford is actually a hard nut to crack, and his teeth will be broken if he is not careful.

However, what is ironic and speechless is that Watford was injured during the warm-up before the game.

The cornerstone of the team's defense, the main central defender Bristol, pulled a muscle during the warm-up.

So much so that Watford coach Flores had to temporarily put Ake, a young Dutch teenager on loan from Chelsea, on top, and then was forced to make adjustments in other positions.

This pre-match episode caused countless fans who followed the game to exclaim that God is already on Leicester City's side.

Even the Chinese fans lamented that God helped Ranieri to help Leicester City win the championship this season.

Because Ake has never played a central defender since he came to Watford on loan, and has always played a full-back.

This temporary position change is actually equivalent to placing a bottle of extremely unstable nitroglycerin on the back line.

Once Ake does not perform well and blew himself up, it may cause a chain reaction, blowing Watford's defense to the bone.

How strong Leicester City's counterattack is now has formed a consensus among the Premier League media and fans.

However, after the game started, the direction of the game was a bit different from what everyone thought.

In the first minute of the opening, Watford launched an attack through a long pass from the backcourt and won a throw-in from outside the penalty area. Then Watford forward Deeney, the left back Hollebas and The continuous two-to-one pass between the winger Capoue and the three directly hit the upper left corner of the small penalty area, and finally Dini completed the first shot of the game.

If it weren't for Morgan's quick reaction, he fell to the ground and blocked it with his calf, rubbed the ball up and slowly fell towards the goal, Schmeichel might not have been able to easily catch Deeney's short-range shot.

Just a few minutes later, Chu Zheng responded with a strong long-range shot from outside the restricted area.

But the ball was saved by the Watford goalkeeper, and Shinji Okazaki made a follow-up shot from the middle and missed it under the interference of the defender.

As time passed, the competition became more and more intense.

Leicester City's tactical strategy for this game in the away game is defense-oriented, but defense does not mean conservative, and they played quite well in counterattack.

Especially with Chu Zheng in the midfield, every counterattack can basically hit Watford's vital points.

But it's a pity that the Dutch defender Ake, who played temporarily as a central defender, performed very well today, and resolved Leicester City's counterattacks in time many times.

But until the final whistle sounded, there was still no goal, and it was a 0-0 handshake.

Chu Zheng was as speechless as the fans of Leicester City.

In this game, Watford adopted a foul-limiting tactical strategy against him.

But Chu Zheng's strong body and foot skills are not at all afraid of Watford's foul tactics, and he played quite smoothly.

But Vardy and Mahrez are really disappointing enough, wasting his through balls many times.

In the first half and the second half, Chu Zheng even created an excellent chance for Vardy and Mahrez to score a one-handed goal respectively, but the two guys hit the goal with one kick in the arms of the Watford goalkeeper, and the other sent the ball out of the baseline. I don't know what to scold.

As soon as the game ended, fans of Arsenal, Tottenham, and Manchester City received the news, and they were all overjoyed.

"It seems that God, the old man, hasn't figured out who to help for the time being! "

After the game, some media even used this headline to satirize Leicester City.

As a result, four hours later, the fans of Arsenal and Tottenham also shut themselves up, and realized what it means to be extremely happy and sad!

The focus of this round is the North London derby between Arsenal and Tottenham, rivals in the same city.

Counting the 0-2 loss at home to Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, Arsenal have lost three games in a row recently.

In terms of personnel, the gunman also suffered a major blow.

The main goalkeeper Petr Cech was injured in the last round against Swansea and is expected to miss 4-6 weeks.

In addition, Koscielny, the backbone of the defense, as well as Cazorla, Wilshere, Rosicky and others have all entered the injury list.

Tottenham, who are playing at home, are playing with all the main players.

The competition process was extremely intense, living up to the name of the North London Derby, it can be said that the curtain came to an end in a fiery and fierce confrontation.

But the score was 2-2, and it ended in a draw!

Arsenal fans are okay, even rejoicing!

And Tottenham fans are uncomfortable.

Obviously playing one more player, the team overtook the score and led 2-1. The whole game played like chicken blood and took advantage, but in the end, it was equalized by the ten-man Arsenal at the last minute.

And when Leicester City fans learned that the game was tied, they immediately assembled an army on the Internet, drove to the official websites of Tottenham and Arsenal, swiped the screen in the message area of ​​their official websites, and sprinkled salt on their wounds.

Compared with the fans, the media side is relatively calm.

Many media reporters expressed that they did not understand the championship situation this season.

Obviously, a major turning point was about to occur, but the situation returned to the original track after a few hours.

After Chu Zheng learned that Tottenham and Arsenal ended in a draw, he immediately burst into laughter, then took out his phone and posted a picture on his Instagram.

The picture shows Ranieri smiling all over his face. That smile looks a little silly. The most important thing is that Chu Zheng added text to the picture.

[They are flat!Hahahahahahaha...]

As soon as Chu Zheng's news came out, countless Leicester City fans burst into laughter.

The most dumbfounding thing is that Ranieri even ran over to give a like, and left a series of smiling faces. Obviously, this picture of Chu Zheng perfectly reflected Ranieri's mood at this moment.

Both the old coach and the young coach in the team came out to play, how could there be no other Leicester City players.

So Vardy, Mahrez, Morgan, Kanter and others reposted pictures like Chu Zheng one after another, making Tottenham and Arsenal fans so angry!
But the anger returns to the air, and the fans of Arsenal and Tottenham are also quite emotional.

Leicester City had just won a draw, but they turned their faces and they also drew. This is really good luck.

They felt as if a pair of invisible hands were manipulating everything in the dark, preventing them from threatening Leicester City.

Perhaps the happiest people at this time are the fans of Manchester City.

In this round, Manchester City played the bottom one, with 4 wins, 6 draws and 18 losses. Aston Villa, who booked a relegation spot in advance.

Manchester City, who played at home, won easily 4-0, narrowing the point difference with Leicester City to 7 points, and there is still hope of winning the championship.

But in the next few rounds of the Premier League, the situation did not develop as Manchester City fans hoped.

In other words, Leicester City did not give Manchester City a chance to continue chasing points.

在接下来的英超第30、31、32、33轮的比赛中，莱斯特城以意大利经典式的1-0比分相继击败了纽卡斯尔联、水晶宫、南安普顿和桑德兰这四支球队。

And Arsenal and Tottenham, who followed Leicester City, did not fall behind, and each ushered in a four-game winning streak.

But Manchester City has fallen behind, and the hope of winning the championship is already a little slim.

They drew with Norwich in the 30th round, and then they were defeated by Manchester United at home in the 31st round. After the 33rd round of the Premier League, Manchester City has fallen behind Leicester City by 12 points.

(End of this chapter)