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Chapter 172 Dealing with the Blue Army in the Way of the Blue Army
Looking at the Leicester City general celebrating the goal, the Chelsea players fell silent.

In particular, Ramirez froze in place and didn't move for a long time.

Before this game, Mourinho told him to stick to Xia Xing.

"Even if there is no other contribution in this game, as long as you defend Xia, you will be considered a success!"

Although Ramirez fully implemented Mourinho's request, he still didn't care too much about Xia Xing.

Especially in the first half, Xia Xing was completely a defensive midfielder.

Such a person needs me to man-to-man defense?

joke.

The moment Xia Xing received the ball just now, Ramirez leaned close to him, thinking that everything was safe.

But he didn't expect that Xia Xing would suddenly run horizontally with the ball in a large area!

It was as if he regarded the lineman as a goalkeeper!
And when he reacted, Xia Xing had already turned around and sprinted forward.

By the time he approached the defense, Xia Xing's pass had already flown towards Chelsea's penalty area.

Just a momentary absence caused the ball to be lost.

Although the assist of this goal was Ulloa and the goal was James,
But the initiator of the attack was Xia Xing.

And the biggest hero is also him.

At this point Ramirez felt a little regretful.

But what about regretting?

What can be done now is to score goals as soon as possible!

Strive to win Leicester City as soon as possible!
Ramirez is quite confident!
Not only him, but others as well.

Even now that the score is behind, most Chelsea players still think that winning this game is not a big problem.

The same goes for the coaching staff.

Mourinho on the sidelines is still encouraging the morale of the players.

But next to the coaching bench another time, Leicester City had already begun to change.

Pearson on the sidelines waved his hand and made a substitution!

Chris Wood on the front line is off, and Andy King is also off.

Replaced Schlupp and Hammond.

In this way, Leicester City's formation became 4-5-1.

Except for James who occasionally advances to assist the offense, all the remaining players go all out to defend.

Even Xia Xing is no exception.

This is Pearson's firm request!

Now that the team is leading by one goal, they must hold on to this advantage!

Seeing Leicester City change, Mourinho also began to make substitution adjustments.

He replaced Remy and Salah with Cesc Fabregas and Schurrle.

The formation of the team became 4-3-3.

Felipe and Ivanovic also made a lot of forward assists, and their formation was once 2-5-3.

Indiscriminately bombarded the halftime against Leicester City.

But even so, it is difficult to break through the completely shrunken Leicester City.

Until the 80th minute of the game, Chelsea did not score.

Mourinho on the sidelines cursed angrily.

"This group of tortoises, after scoring a goal, are they afraid to attack? What an ugly football!"

Although the team is currently behind, the assistant coach next to him still couldn't help laughing when he heard this...

Isn't this the way you are best at playing football...

Chelsea continued to attack, and Leicester City continued to defend.

Now Xia Xing has completely sunk into the midfield, without thinking about offense at all.

Occasionally, when the ball hits his feet, he doesn't rush forward, but looks for Ulloa on the front line.

Then James will attack and the two will cooperate.

It didn't work out well though.

Especially at this stage, James' physical fitness has declined severely, and he can't keep up.

Simply leave Ulloa to run amok occasionally.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and it was still difficult for Chelsea to score.

Fabregas, who came off the bench, was facing Xia Xing.

After not seeing each other for two months, he found that Xia Xing seemed to have improved again.

In the second round of the league, Fabregas played against Xia Xing for the first time.

Although I thought Xia Xing was good at that time, it has not reached the current level.

Now as long as he holds the ball and faces Xia Xing, there is a feeling.

I couldn't get past him at all.

This young man has a superb body, strong enough and fast enough.

And his defensive ability seems to have improved a lot.

Especially the prediction of his own ball.

Not to mention passing him, he didn't even have a chance to pass a good ball in front of him.

This made Cesc Fabregas very depressed.

This speed of rising the ball is too exaggerated...

In the 85th minute of the game, Schurrle, who came off the bench, stepped forward from the edge of the penalty area and shot into the far corner.

Schmeichel stretched his body and took the ball off neatly.

The visiting fans in the stands burst into applause.

This is already the first time he has made wonderful saves today.

The Danish goalkeeper performed superbly in this game.

In the 89th minute of the game, he once again punched out Diego Costa's forced burst shot.

Although he gave the opponent a corner kick, the corner kick was also punched by him again.

Xia Xing protects the ball outside the penalty area.

Facing Cesc Fabregas' attack and seeing Chelsea players on both sides attacking him, Xia Xing was very smart.

He deftly protects the ball and just hits the leg of Fabregas who steals the ball.

At this time he had already waded the ball a step, Fabregas did not touch the ball.

The referee's whistle sounded, foul!

Chelsea's chance to fight back on the spot was completely lost.

Fabregas kicked the turf angrily.

This guy is so crafty!

But Xia Xing was snickering.

Schmeichel behind him also gave him a thumbs up.

Good job!
Make the most of the rules and buy yourself time!

At this time, it has entered the 3-minute stoppage time, Xia Xing handed the ball to the 31-year-old veteran Hammond.

Hammond is very experienced, and his slow free throws directly delayed for nearly half a minute.

And James, who received the ball in the frontcourt, also used his final physical sprint.

It was brought down again, and the whistle sounded again.

Still Leicester City's set-piece.

Ramirez, who fouled, was very wronged. Not only did he fail to steal the ball, but he also received a yellow card.

What a Fxxk!
Almost 2 minutes into stoppage time, James passed the ball to Ulloa in front.

Ulloa catches the ball and starts running around the frontcourt.

Another burst of consumption.

In the end, after the Chelsea player fouled for the third time because of impatience, the referee did not give Leicester City another free kick this time.

He directly blew the whistle for the end of the game!
In the live broadcast room, Alan Shearer applauded!
"A game that didn't look so exciting,

"Leicester City had the last laugh!
"They used a sharp counterattack to score the only goal of the game!

"And then the full defense made Chelsea powerless!
"The blue army met the blue fox, and finally let the fox bite!
"Leicester City didn't play well in this game.
"But effective enough!
"They used wonderful counter-attack tactics,
"Effectively contained the mighty Chelsea!

"They deal with the Blues the way the Blues do!
"The tactics were quite successful!
"Let's congratulate Leicester City,

"Smoothly advanced to the quarter-finals of the League Cup this season!"

(End of this chapter)