Green Journey

Chapter 342 New Season Prologue!
On August 8, the opening game of the 16-2016 season came as scheduled.

The first game of the first round is between the newly promoted Hull City of this season and the creator of last season's miracle, the Premier League defending champion Leicester City.

This Premier League opening game has attracted the attention of European media and fans.

Many people want to see whether Leicester City, who won the Premier League title, will die after enjoying themselves.

Will the twin stars of Vardy and Mahrez still shine.

Fantastic coach Ranieri is still miraculous.

In this season's transfer window, Leicester City is not short of money at all.

Leicester City's income from Premier League broadcasting alone is more than 9000 million pounds.

Selling Chuzheng is another 2000 million pounds. Although [-] million euros will be allocated to Wolfsburg, the rest is still extremely impressive.

In order to prepare for the new season of the Champions League and make up for the holes left by the departure of midfielders Chu Zheng and Kanter, Leicester City introduced a number of strong players in the summer transfer window.

In total, more than £8000 million was spent.

The most notable of these is Leicester City spending 1300 million euros to introduce French midfielder Nampalys Mendy from the Ligue [-] club Nice.

After signing the French midfielder, Leicester City sports director Steve Walsh even joked to the media that they had found another Kanter who could make up for the departure of Chu Zheng and Kanter. The problem of the precipitous decline in midfield defensive ability.

Judging from the matchup between Leicester City and Manchester United in the England Community Shield last week, Ranieri's team's defensive counterattack is still quite sharp.

Although the media and fans believe that the miracle will not repeat itself this season, the strength of the Foxes led by Ranieri should not be underestimated.

Therefore, before the game, the media and fans are optimistic about Leicester City, which is playing away.

The result was a collective slap in the face.

The newly promoted Hull City relied on the advantage of the home court and finally gave the Premier League champion Leicester City their first defeat of the season with a score of 2-1.

After the game, countless England celebrities showed up to analyze the game.

Whether it is Ferdinand, Lineker, or Owen and Lampard, they all clearly pointed out that the departure of Kanter and Chu Zheng has dealt a huge blow to the Leicester City midfielder.

In particular, Chu Zheng's departure had a devastating impact on Leicester City's offense and defense.

In the match against Hull City, Leicester City could no longer see the extremely penetrating, fatal and highly entertaining pass sent by Chu Zheng last season.

And Drinkwater and Mendy, the new midfield partners of Leicester City, were also analyzed by the media and fans after the game.

Compared with Chu Zheng and Kanter, the two are more than one level behind.

Mendy is not as strong as Steve Walsh claims.

Although this player is the same size, skin color, and nationality as Kanter, and has a large running range, he does not have Kanter's magical stealing ability, which makes people feel a little disappointed.

And Drinkwater, who was used by Ranieri to replace Chu Zheng's role on both offensive and defensive ends of the team, was even more incomparable to Chu Zheng's performance.

Although Drinkwater performed well against Hull City and made contributions on both offense and defense, he couldn't send the ball like Chu Zheng, let alone Chu Zheng's ability to control the rhythm of the game.

Especially in the second half, after Drinkwater was restricted by Hull City's strict tactics, Drinkwater, who lacked excellent ability to get rid of and move forward, completely fought against the pair of Vardy and Mahrez in the midfield. Gemini lost contact.

The next day, August 8th, Manchester City ushered in the first game of the season, playing against the black cats Sunderland at home.

Sunderland ranked 17th in the Premier League last season, only 3 points away from Newcastle United in the relegation zone, which can be said to be a thrilling relegation.

In this summer's transfer window, Sunderland, which has a tight transfer budget, only spent 1900 million pounds to hastily announce the end of the new season's signings.

But their biggest signing was not in the transfer market, but the famous England coach David Moyes.

The player era of David Moyes is very similar to the experience of Ferguson and Wenger, neither of which was a very successful player.

But after retiring, they came to the position of head coach, and their unique talents made them an excellent coach.

The same goes for David Moyes, who, this time around, is back in the Premier League and Black Cats fans can hope he can once again build a new 'Toffees'.

The top management of the Sunderland club also hopes to save the team's fate of relegation by changing the head coach and bringing a new tactical system.

But it is a pity that the media broke the news before the start of the new season that Moyes had conflicts with Sunderland's top management.

Because the top management of the Sunderland club released Moyes pigeons.

It is said that after Moyes came to Sunderland, he did not receive the signing support promised by the senior management of the Sunderland club.

As a result, Moyes had to recruit old players such as Pienaar and Anichebe through his own connections.

Although Moyes and the Sunderland club did not admit this report, the authenticity of this news can actually be confirmed from the side from the transfer market.

Therefore, Black Cat fans are very upset!
As for Manchester City, the tactical system that Guardiola brought to Manchester City after taking office has already achieved initial results, and everything is developing in a better direction.

As the current fleet commander of Manchester City, Chu Zheng once again demonstrated his phenomenal strength in the last 8-0 match against Steaua Bucharest, and the media praised Chu Zheng again.

Manchester City fans couldn't be more satisfied with Chu Zheng.

Manchester City fans are not blind either, they all see the changes that Chu Zheng's joining has brought to Manchester City's midfield.

At around 5 pm London time, the Etihad Stadium next to the center of Manchester was already overcrowded.

In the Manchester City locker room, the Manchester City players were laughing and playing in a relaxed atmosphere, as if they were not worried about the upcoming game at all.

Chu Zheng leaned on his locker and seemed to close his eyes, but he was actually looking at his personal attribute panel.

Overall Rating: 86
Speed: 94
Shots: 82 (+)

Passing: 88 (+)

Ball Handling: 91 (+)

Defense: 84 (+)

Ball feel: 92 (+)

Response: 90 (+)

Bounce: 91
Free kicks: 62 (+)

Physical fitness: 82 (-)

Field of view: 99
Power: 90
Explosive power: 90
Left foot: ★★★★★
Right foot: ★★★★

天赋：【独具慧眼（100%）】【极限警觉（100%）】【钢筋铁骨（73%）】【绿茵精灵（70%）】【？？？（87颗）】

For more than a month, Chu Zheng had worked hard to train his physical fitness reserve, and he managed to bring his physical fitness, which had dropped to 78, back to above 80.

It will take a long time to restore the peak value of last season.

The only thing that gave Chu Zheng a headache was the free kick.

Chu Zheng practices free kicks every day, but his progress is very limited.

"Papa!! Guys, it's time!!" After a while, Arteta appeared at the door of the locker room, clapping his hands to greet everyone to come on stage!
At 0:50 BJ time, the signal was connected to the LeTV Sports live broadcast room.

As soon as the screen appeared, the starting lineups of Manchester City and Sunderland appeared.

Manchester City: (4231)

Goalkeeper: Caballero

Defenders: Sagna, Stones, Kolarov, Clichy

Defenders: Fernandinho, David Silva

Front midfielder: Sterling, De Bruyne, Chu Zheng
Forward: Aguero
"Manchester City's starting lineup is basically the same as the starting lineup announced on the Premier League official website before the game!"

"Chu Zheng played the position of the front midfielder in this game. Guardiola should still hope that Chu Zheng can give full play to his offensive talent, and David Silva will be in charge of the offensive organization in the midfield. Chu Zheng is in charge of the second offensive organization in the frontcourt, and De Bruyne is still a free man in the frontcourt!"

Hearing Zhan Jun's words, Zhang Lu shook her head and smiled, she had a different opinion, and said: "Not necessarily, you have to wait until the battle to see Guardiola's formation clearly, of course, you may not see it at all Understand!"

"Haha!" Hearing Zhang Lupi's words, Zhan Jun laughed loudly, "That's right, Guardiola is a master of tricks, no one can guess what he is thinking."

"It's like Kolarov played as a central defender today. I can't understand it now!"

"Some head coaches, he chooses the central defender for defense, but Guardiola is different. He first considers how well you play." Zhang Lu is also happy, "This is the world famous player like Guardiola. Handsome and confident, he firmly believes that the ball will be in his hands most of the time!"

Sunderland: (4231)

Forward: Defoe

Attacking midfielder: Lyndon Gooch, Borrini, Watermore
Defenders: O'Shea, Rodwell
Defenders: Van Aanholt, Kabul, Lamine Kone, Donald Love

Goalkeeper: Mannone
"The English black cats have always liked to lose the chain in the first half of the season, and then frantically grab points to avoid relegation in the second half of the season. This strange phenomenon has even become the team's culture."

"Although Sunderland has invited Moyes this season, they are weak in the transfer market. It is estimated that their Premier League situation in the new season is still not optimistic."

"It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice!" Zhang Lu summed it up perfectly.

　The time of the next UEFA Champions League play-off has been revised.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)