Green Journey

Chapter 418 This score is enough to make people despair!

In the 19th minute of the game, Gundogan held the ball on the right side of the center circle, and was pressed by Slimani and quickly protected the ball with his back, and knocked back Sagna behind the center line.

Sagna passed the ball forward before seeing Keylor Navas return to the center line on the wing.

After Navas took the ball and turned around, he saw the four Leicester City players standing in a fan-shaped position on the flank, cutting off his ground connection with the center and the front side.

On the left side of the front of the penalty area, De Bruyne retreated to the sideline and took off, unloading the ball from his chest.

But Leicester City's defensive focus shifted quite quickly.

When De Bruyne stopped the ball at his feet, Leicester City's defense line had already retreated to the front of the penalty area line, and the midfield defense line also quickly retreated back, compressing the space between the two lines to form a closely linked two-line defense .

Seeing Chu Zheng running from the ribs, De Bruyne knocked the ball across.

Chu Zheng didn't take it either. He hit the ball back and then ran forward without the ball.

De Bruyne guessed Chu Zheng's intentions, and he didn't stop the ball. He faced the ball and continued to hit Yaya Toure from the center to the ribs, and then ran laterally towards the front of the arc top of the center like Chu Zheng.

He and Chu Zheng, who was in the left rib area at the top of the arc, ran horizontally, and directly brought Simpson, Mahrez, and Amatai into the ribs, and immediately emptied the side.

Kolarov saw that Chu Zheng and De Bruyne created the offensive space, and he quickly inserted along the sideline.

At the same time, Yaya Toure went straight from the side, and the ball went straight to the bottom line outside the penalty area.

Simpson, who has been paying attention to the wing, is not slow. He quickly starts from the upper left corner of the penalty area and goes straight to the ball along the inside.

Before the bottom line, Kolarov wanted to make a direct pass, but before the action was finished, he felt kicked on the ankle of his supporting foot, and then fell directly to the ground and slipped out of the bottom line.

"Beep!!!!!!!" The referee Oliver blew his whistle, then strode over and gave Simpson a yellow card.

"This position is not bad. Although you can't hit the goal directly, the cross is also very threatening."

Zhang Lu nodded and said: "De Bruyne's free kick is quite threatening, the ball is very fast, and it is accompanied by a strong spin!"

In the middle of the restricted area, Chu Zheng was surrounded by Huth and Morgan.

Huth and Morgan knew each other too well, so after they looked at each other, they both knew that Chu Zheng must not be allowed to jump up.

Otherwise, it is really possible to lose the ball. After working with Chu Zheng for a season, they know how strong Chu Zheng's header ability is.

Chu Zheng's ability to bounce and judge the ball's line once made them feel endless despair in defense.

"Robert, please, you can't treat me like this. Aren't we good friends?" Chu Zheng turned his head and looked behind him, and found that the jersey was secretly grabbed by Huth, and he immediately smiled wryly.

"Hey!" Hut let go of his jersey, then shrugged at Chu Zheng, winking with a look you know.

Morgan next to him also laughed and said, "Chu, don't even try to jump up later!"

"Who knows!" Chu Zheng smiled.

Not long after, with Oliver's whistle, Manchester City took a free kick.

Chu Zheng really had no chance to jump, because De Bruyne chose to hit the goal directly.

De Bruyne used his right foot and went straight to the far corner of the goal.

This free kick is powerful and heavy, accompanied by a strong rotation, and it flies into the penalty area and turns directly to the goal.

But it's a pity that the angle didn't come out completely, and he went straight to the goalkeeper Ziller in the middle of the goal.

As soon as Ziller pushed and blocked with both hands, the ball flew to Navas in the right rib area at the top of the arc.

Facing the ball falling high, Navas wanted to volley directly.

But this kind of shooting difficulty is obviously not something he, a winger who can only cross, can complete.

There was no accident, he kicked a flaw, the ball bounced off the ground, fell to the top of the arc, and was pushed to the right of the middle circle by Albrighton.

Vardy started from the right rib at the top of the arc, maximizing his speed.

But when he came to the ball before Navas and Stones, the ball had already appeared.

But this guy is a jerk, he saw the linesman was a little far away, he kicked the ball back, hit Stones and went out.

It's a pity that the linesman was sharp-eyed and awarded the ball to Manchester City.

Stones quickly bent down to pick up the ball and quickly sent it back to the backcourt through Zabaleta, turning the offensive line to the left of Manchester City.

Sagna, who was at the front of the arc, quickly made a diagonal pass to the left side of the center circle after receiving the ball.

Kolarov crossed the center line with the ball and saw that Chu Zheng was activated in the middle, ambushing between the two defensive lines in Leicester City's center and backcourt. He directly made a risky pass.

At this time, the distance between the two Leicester City is a bit wide, and the positions of the players have not yet formed a close connection.

Therefore, as long as the ball can reach Chu Zheng's feet smoothly, then Chu Zheng can face Leicester City's defense.

With Chu Zheng's personal skills, Kolarov believes that Leicester City's defense can definitely be messed up.

It's a pity that the idea was good, but the ball was not passed.

The ball passed under the crotch of Amatey, who was grabbing from Kolarov, but hit the inside of the right foot of the referee Oliver behind Amatey.

Another crotch wear.

But the ball turned right to the right rib area at the top of the arc.

After taking the ball, Fox quickly advanced two or three meters along the ribs, and then directly kicked a long pass to the right rib of the frontcourt.

Fox's long pass over 60 meters is quite accurate.

The landing point was just at the front of Manchester City's left rib at the top of the arc, almost staring at Mahrez's foot pass.

At this time, at the front of Manchester City's penalty area, only the delayed Stones returned to the defense, and he was on the left side of Mahris.

The two old men, Kolarov and Sania, have been left behind by Vardy in the middle.

Stones' defensive positioning is very accurate. He cut off the passing lines of Mahrez and Vardy.

However, Mahrez who passed the ball.

In the next second, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Mahrez made another kick without stopping the ball.

No, or it can be said that his continuous stop and pass.

The moment Mahrez hit the ground with his right foot, he accurately kicked the upper part of the ball with his right foot. He immediately lost the force of the ball bouncing off the ground, and leaned against the turf towards the penalty area. Click right to scroll.

Mahrez's handling of this kick caused an uproar at the King Power Stadium.This kind of ball feel is definitely S-level.

In the next second, Vardy ran into the attacking Bravo head-on in Manchester City's penalty area.

Facing Bravo, Vardy stepped forward to the right at the right time, and Bravo, who fell to the ground and pounced, became the background board.

Coming to the upper right corner of the small penalty area, Vardy easily pushed the empty goal and succeeded.

3-0!

Scoring again, Vardy was very excited this time. He walked around the bottom line and came back to the front of the penalty area, hugging Mahrez.

He should be most grateful for this ball to Mahrez.

It was Mahrez's god-level handling that made it easy.

"Valdy, scored twice!!!"

"If you don't enter, you are done, once you enter, you will be two!!!"

Next to Zhan Jun shouted again and again, Zhang Lu shook her head and laughed straight: "Manchester City is blown up! It's completely blown up!! Manchester City's weak defense can be said to be blown out by Leicester City today."

"Kolarov and Sania can't keep up with Vardy at all!"

"Stones didn't pay attention to the space behind him at all!"

"Stones! His value is 4750 million pounds, but his worth is 470 million pounds!" Zhang Lu's tone was a little ironic.

This scene was not too unexpected for Zhang Lu, because he had already had a premonition since he discovered that Guardiola was playing 3 central defenders.

On the sidelines, Ranieri didn't expect that they had a 20-goal lead just after 3 minutes of the game.

Ranieri was very excited, he kept waving his fists, turning around in circles.

Next to it, Guardiola had a rare blank look on his face.

On the field, the frustrated faces of the Manchester City players were in stark contrast to the elated Leicester City players.

In the stands, the silence of the Manchester City fans who came to watch the game in the rain today also formed a clear contrast with the ecstatic Leicester City fans around.

Before the game, no one could have imagined that this time period would be this score.

3-0, this score is enough to make people desperate.

"So far this season, Vardy has only scored two goals in the Premier League, and at this time last season he had scored a terrifying 18 goals."

"There are many possibilities for the striker not to score. For example, like Cavani of Paris Saint-Germain, his teammates created opportunities for him, and he also ran in place, but the final kick lacked enough aim."

"It's not too bad a situation."

"But Vardy obviously doesn't belong in this category, because he didn't get a decent chance at all in this season's game."

"Compared with the same period last season, not only did he have a cliff-like decline in the number of goals, in fact his regression is comprehensive."

"At this time last year, Vardy averaged 4.09, 2.16, and 0.89 shots, shots on target, and goal-breaking chances per game."

“但本赛季至今，他的这三项数据只有1.15、0.31和0.15。而他的场均威胁传球次数也从同期的1.59下降到了0.59。”

"Vardy played almost 70 minutes against Middlesbrough at Leicester, but he only had nine touches."

"What's even more unbelievable is that all nine of those touches happened in his own half."

"Last week, the famous England star Owen publicly commented on Vardy, saying that although Vardy can bring a lot of contributions to the team through his running, it can be seen from his scoring data that he is not an outstanding finisher. "

"I also said that the reason why Vardy scored so many goals last season was the blessing of the goddess of luck."

"But today, Jamie Vardy, who has been sinking for 14 rounds, bottomed out and rebounded. He scored twice in just 20 minutes!"

"Valdy refuted Irving's remarks with practical actions, and he has to rely on actions to speak on the court!"

Hearing what Zhan Jun said, Zhang Lu who was sitting next to him could only half agree.

Vardy's state today is indeed very good, but it is Guardiola who activated Vardy.

Ironic!
When the current Premier League teams play against Leicester City, they all know that they cannot raise the defense line too far, otherwise they will not be able to prevent Leicester City's high-speed counterattack.

However, for Guardiola, high-pressure defense and half-court offense and defense are his tactical necessities.

At the same time, Guardiola also likes to use a lot of strange formations, such as today's flat diamond-shaped 343, which is also a weird and unconventional formation.

It seems absurd, but so far in the game, although the offense is okay, the defensive end is useless at all.

It can be seen from the positions of the players in the midfield of Manchester City's 20-minute game that although the original meaning is 3 central defenders, Kolarov's position is very high.

So there is a lot of space between him and Stones.

And such a space happens to be conducive to Leicester City's counterattack.

In theory, this was Kolarov's positioning error, but Guardiola was the one who lined up. It's hard to say that Guardiola didn't do it on purpose.

There is such a large gap in Manchester City's left defense zone, and it happens that Leicester City's right is Mahrez.

So this scene is not surprising to Zhang Lu at all.

Originally, the defensive formation was in the hands of Leicester City's counterattack tactics, and the defenders continued to give gifts. It is difficult for Leicester City to lose!

Although Vardy is not a top striker, you continue to create space and opportunities for him. Now that you have broken the scoring shortage and your self-confidence has returned, even if Vardy scored a hat-trick in the next game, Zhang Lu is not surprised.

On the court, Chu Zheng kept exhaling white air from his mouth, feeling panicked in his heart.

At this moment, Chu Zheng couldn't help but have doubts in his heart. With such a tofu-level defense line, can they really make a difference in the Champions League?

Chu Zheng now only hopes that tomorrow's one-eighth draw for the UEFA Champions League will not draw those teams that like to play defensive counterattacks or have super assault capabilities.

It is best to be a second-tier European team like Benfica, so maybe they can go further.

Otherwise, their end is estimated to be very miserable, and he would not be surprised if Kolarov and others were suddenly turned into a hornet's nest.

As for Guardiola's tactics today, Chu Zheng didn't think he was wrong.

How long has Guardiola taken over Manchester City?

Now Manchester City can still stay in second place in the Premier League standings, which is inseparable from Guardiola's coaching ability.

Try another person. If you encounter such a tofu dregs line of defense, it's not bad if you don't come to the bottom.

Guardiola, who advocates offensive football, has actually been trying to use a strong offense to make up for the defense, so he is getting more and more crazy.

On this first point, Chu Zheng felt that Guardiola and Klopp had similar ideas.

This season Liverpool has very obvious signs of recovery.

why?
It is because Liverpool has found a head coach who is crazy enough to cut chicken thieves and ruthless enough.

Liverpool's defense is estimated to be comparable to their Manchester City, not to mention the eighties.

So this season Liverpool simply stopped defending and went forward crazily.

然后4-3，3-4，5-1，6-1，4-0，5-1等等超大比分就顺理成章的出现了。

Throughout the new season so far, Liverpool and their opponents have exploded in almost every game.

With good luck and high efficiency, they can directly defeat their opponents.

Bad luck, just like the last round of the Premier League, Liverpool played away and had a blowout with Bournemouth, but they didn't blow up and lost 4-3.

After all, in football, whoever scores more wins.

So Guardiola's tactics are right.

It's just that people are a bit inappropriate.

After Chu Zheng came to Manchester City, one of the clearest feelings about Guardiola's tactical system is that you must have the stamina to run to death and excellent foot skills, otherwise it will be a matter of time before Guardiola abandons him.

Just like Kolarov, Sania, and Sabaletta, Chu Zheng can almost foresee that the future situation of these big brothers will not be too optimistic.

Football is, after all, a young man's game.

But soon, Chu Zheng got rid of the messy thoughts in his head.

Today he is the captain, and now the others are probably even more confused than him, so he needs to do something.

Chu Zheng knew a lot about his teammates.

Although they are a little stunned now, these people don't give up so easily.

Maybe their defense is bad, but in terms of mental attributes and ability to withstand pressure, the current situation is far from breaking the mentality of these teammates.

Now Chu Zheng is not worried at all that he and De Bruyne will not be able to create opportunities to threaten the goal. The only thing that gives him a headache is the team's current finishing ability.

Aguero is still in a sluggish state today, and Navas' kid Temiao will only pass from the bottom.

Although Yaya Toure was a bit lazy in the first few minutes of the game, he quickly changed his attitude after being stared at by Guardiola's death. Oh better.

So Chu Zheng felt that the key to whether they could equalize the disadvantage was not Leicester City's defense, but their own finishing ability.

(End of this chapter)