Full-level pass, please call me the speaker of the Three Lions

Chapter 508: Just one game without scoring a goal, and already we are in a goal drought? !
At the press conference after the victory over Brazil, England coach Hodgson praised his beloved player generously in front of the media:

"Ling is an excellent leader!"

“He brings the rest of his teammates and the entire team to another level!”

"If there is a player in this world who is worth 200 million pounds, that person is definitely Ling Feng!"

Such high praise immediately caused the sound of shutter clicks in the media room.

This is obviously a response to Brazil coach Tite's claim before the game that "Neymar is worth 200 million pounds."

It is worth mentioning that the friendly match that just ended was, in a sense, the first head-to-head confrontation between the two young captains of England and Brazil.

Neymar also served as the captain of the national team at the age of 22. He replaced Thiago Silva and became the new leader of Brazil in September 2014.

However, in the past two years, Neymar's performance has always given people a feeling of immaturity, and his team's performance can only be described as average.

In the 15 America's Cup, Neymar failed to lead the team to win the championship and only stopped in the quarterfinals!
Although he led the National Olympic Team to win the Olympic gold medal in 16, filling the honor gap of the Samba Army in the Olympics.

However, he was never able to take on the responsibility of being a leader in the adult national team.

On the contrary, the older brothers such as Thiago Silva and Alves, who do not have the captain's armband, are more like leaders than leaders.

Therefore, after Tite took office last year, Neymar took the initiative to resign from the position of captain on the grounds that he was "not mature enough".

Since then, Brazil has begun to implement a captain rotation system.

In contrast, Ling Feng's performance after becoming the captain made people sigh:
"He is a natural leader! Captain!"

Whether it is uniting teammates or leading the team's performance, it is eye-catching.

Of course, Ling Feng has only been the captain for a short time, so we can’t draw a conclusion so quickly.

England has had many great captains in its history.

For example, Bobby Moore, who led the Three Lions to win the World Cup for the only time, Robson, who was the most reliable player for Manchester United and the national team, Hilton, who was the background of the Hand of God, Beckham, who helped England gain more foreign fans, and Djokovic and Rooney, who were regarded as the symbols of the golden generation.
However, at least from the current point of view, Ling Feng, who is highly expected by the British people to become the new generation leader of the Three Lions, has done an excellent job in leading the team!

Compared to the golden generation when there were many factions within the team and no one was willing to submit to anyone else, the harmony within the Three Lions team today is almost too much.

There is no other reason, it’s just because of the unique existence of Ling Feng!
In the Three Lions, Ling Feng is like an invincible martial arts master. With his unique strength and personal charm, he defeated and conquered the British stars from major Premier League clubs in the team.

Whether fighting alongside Ling Feng or competing on the same field, almost all the international players of the Three Lions have witnessed Ling Feng's strength.

As the saying goes, the strong are respected!
What's more, Ling Feng is a football ceiling who can be compared with Messi and Ronaldo? !

Unique strength, generous and steady leadership, plus the unreserved support of the head coach.
A group of Three Lions internationals, including Kane, Sterling, Alli and others, surrounded Ling Feng without complaint and regarded him as the leader of the team.

It is no exaggeration to say that today's Three Lions is Ling Feng's Three Lions!

Of course, if Ling Feng wants to truly stand on equal footing with his famous predecessors, next year's World Cup in Russia will be the best stage for him to prove himself!
However, for Ling Feng, what he is focusing on is not next year's World Cup, but the upcoming Golden Ball Award!

Having scored his 75th and 76th goals in all competitions this year against Brazil, he is getting closer and closer to Messi's annual record of 91 goals.

Amid the hype and promotion by major media outlets, the attention of the football world was attracted by the topic "Can Ling Feng break Messi's annual goal record this year?"

The Guardian also immediately seized this wave of traffic and conducted an online survey as soon as possible.

They first listed how many official games Ling Feng had left to participate in this year, and then asked whether Ling Feng could surpass Messi within these games.

Yes or no?

In just three days, the survey attracted more than 100,000 votes.

Among them, 70% of the voters chose Ling Feng to break Messi's annual goal record!
You know, Ling Feng can still participate in nine Premier League games, two Champions League group matches and one Club World Cup semi-final in 2017.

If we can beat our opponent in the Club World Cup semi-finals, we can play one more game.

In other words, Ling Feng can participate in a maximum of thirteen games before the end of 2017!
To surpass Messi's annual record of 91 goals, he must score 13 goals in 16 games!
With Ling Feng's current goal efficiency, this number does not seem difficult!

You know, it only took him 11 games to score a terrifying 24 goals in the Premier League!
Some people even think that Ling Feng can break Messi's record ahead of time.

Even the usually savvy bookmakers lowered their odds.

From this we can see that most people believe that Ling Feng can break Messi's annual miracle of 91 goals!
Ling Feng also used practical actions to prove that he had Messi's annual goal record firmly in his grasp!

. . .

11 month 18 number.

After winning the Premier League Player of the Month for the third consecutive month, Ling Feng and Manchester United welcomed their next challenger at Old Trafford.

"Magpies" Newcastle!
Perhaps influenced by the hot topic, Newcastle does not want to become a stepping stone for Ling Feng's impact.

As a result, they adopted extremely strict and rough foul tactics.

The purpose is to prevent Ling Feng from scoring!

Even so, Ling Feng still used his unique personal strength in football to tear through Newcastle's defense from the wing, and then scored with a low shot with his left foot!

In the end, thanks to his assists and shots, as well as the outstanding performance of other teammates, Manchester United defeated Newcastle 4-1 at home.

Four days after defeating Newcastle, the Red Devils Manchester United also came to Basel, Switzerland to participate in the fifth round of the Champions League group stage.

As they have won four games in a row and have 12 points, they have basically secured the top spot in the group and advanced.

Therefore, in this game, Mourinho made large-scale rotations, fielding substitutes and young players.

However, in order to help Ling Feng break the annual goal record, Mourinho still let Ling Feng start and play for 60 minutes.

And in these sixty minutes, Ling Feng, just like in the previous game against Newcastle, was fouled extremely strictly and roughly by the opponent when he tried to break through with the ball.

Pass the ball? Sure.

Shoot? No way!
Under the bias of the home whistle, the opponent's offensive actions were very frequent, and Ling Feng was pulled and fouled many times, but no yellow card was shown.

Ling Feng did not fight to the death with his opponent, but chose to become a midfield commander, constantly delivering accurate and comfortable passes to his teammates. In the first half alone, he assisted Martial and Mata to score goals.

In the second half, with the help of Ling Feng, young player McTominay of the youth team also scored the first Champions League goal of his career!
Xiaomai was very excited after scoring the goal. After sliding on his knees, he took the initiative to run to Ling Feng and gave him a big hug.

"Captain, thank you!"

"You deserve this for your hard training and running. Enjoy this moment that belongs only to you!"

Along with this assist, Ling Feng also completed his first assist and hat trick of the season in less than sixty minutes!
When the game reached the 60th minute, Mourinho replaced Ling Feng on time.

Ling Feng first took off the captain's armband and handed it to Ashley Young, then walked off the field with a smile on his face amid the applause of the visiting fans.

However, the smile on his face formed a sharp contrast with the grass debris all over his body as he fell to the ground after being violated!

The live camera was focused on the Red Devils captain, and the commentator couldn't help but sigh:
He deserves to be hailed as the strongest player in England in the past twenty years!

The wind of the general!

In the end, Manchester United defeated Basel 3-0 away from home, continuing their winning streak in all competitions.

However, even though Ling Feng completed a hat trick of assists in this game, people's focus was still on his goals.

Because this is the first time in his 19 appearances in all competitions since the new season that he has not scored a goal!
Yes!

Since the start of the new season, Ling Feng has scored in every game he has participated in, including the Community Shield, European Super Cup, Premier League and Champions League!
The lack of any goal in this game ended the team’s scoring streak, and it also allowed many haters to finally find a way to attack them!
Could it be that, since the beginning of this game, Ling Feng has been thoroughly studied by his opponents and has begun to be unable to score goals?

Even falling into a goal drought? !
When they thought of this, the Fengheis became extremely excited!

Especially those fans who regard Messi as a god, they directly started to mock Ling Feng on the Internet.

In their eyes, Messi is the only god in the football world.

No one can compare to it.

It is even more unacceptable for Ling Feng to surpass Messi!

As the mouthpiece of Barcelona, ​​"Daily Sports" and "Mundo Deportivo" directly gave the cover headlines to Ling Feng, and claimed in the article that Ling Feng's playing style has been thoroughly studied by opponents, and they are certain that Ling Feng has fallen into a goal drought.

When Ling Feng, who was drinking juice, saw this news, he suddenly panicked and almost spit out all the juice in his mouth.

After just one game without scoring, we are already in a goal drought? !
This is too much of a compliment to me!
A goal drought refers to a player's inability to score a goal for a continuous period of time.

Generally speaking, the term "goal drought" is not used to describe players with average ability and fame.

Because players with average fame and ability always fail to score goals, and their goal drought lasts for a very long time.

Moreover, he is not famous enough and is not worth reporting.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, some strikers or superstars with high goal efficiency will be widely reported by the media as "so-and-so has been in a goal drought for X number of games" after they fail to score in several consecutive games.

Especially for the football duo Messi and Ronaldo, even if they fail to score in just a few games, they will be on the cover of news and become a hot topic on the Internet.

However, Ling Feng never expected that he would be labeled as a goal-scoring drought by the media just because he did not score a goal in one game.

This indirectly reflects how high the public's expectations of him are, and how terrible his current condition is!

It is indeed worthy of making headlines that a football superstar who has scored in 19 consecutive games suddenly stops scoring.

However, Ling Feng said:
Goal?

It's a piece of cake!
Just three days later, he scored a goal to slap all the haters in the face!
It was the 13th round of the Premier League, and Manchester United played against the newly promoted "Seagulls" Brighton at home.

This is the first time Brighton has returned to England's top league since 1983.

This is also the eighth year that team owner Tony Bloom, known as the "gambler", has taken over the team.

It is worth mentioning that Ling Feng’s former teammates are also in this team.

That is Konakat who once played for the Foxes!

Since leaving Leicester City in 15, Knokaite has briefly returned to the Belgian domestic league.

But half a season later, he was recruited by the ambitious Brighton.

Last season, the Belgian, who has become the core of the Seagulls, led the team to successful promotion to the Premier League and was also elected the MVP of the Championship season.

In this game, the former teammates met and exchanged a few words in the player tunnel.

When he took a look at the captain's armband on Ling Feng's arm, Konokate's expression changed slightly, and ripples appeared in his heart.

Back then, when Ling Feng was promoted to the first team, he knew that this kid was no ordinary person!

However, Ling Feng's rapid growth was beyond his expectations.

In just one and a half seasons, Ling Feng became the core of the team's midfield. Not only did he lead the Foxes to fame in the Premier League and the Europa League, he even created a Foxes miracle that shocked the football world!
After not seeing him for several years, Ling Feng, who is only 22 years old, has grown into a superstar in the Premier League, the dual captain of Manchester United and the Three Lions, and a strong contender for the best in the world!
However, Konokate, who had already witnessed Ling Feng's abnormal talent, was not surprised at all.

With the potential that Ling Feng showed at the time, it was only a matter of time before he became a superstar.
In this game, as a former teammate, Konakaite also witnessed with his own eyes how strong Ling Feng is now!

Less than five minutes into the game, Ling Feng took the ball in the middle and made a stunning and powerful shot!

The shot was as fast as lightning, flying straight over the goalkeeper's head and into the net!
After scoring the first goal for the team with an unstoppable shot, Ling Feng not only broke his own one-game goal drought, but also broke the Premier League consecutive goal record held by another former teammate Vardy!
He has scored in thirteen consecutive Premier League games!
And this is just the prelude to his personal goal performance in this game!

In the 16th minute of the game, Ling Feng received a cross pass from Rashford on the left, dribbled past the defense, and fooled Brighton's defenders all over. Finally, he made a low shot and sent the ball into the lower right corner of the goal!

Then, at the 25th minute of the first half, Ling Feng got the ball on the right and used extremely fast pace and speed change rhythm to pass three people. Then he cut inside horizontally and suddenly fired a curved shot at a very tricky angle!

As the ball drew a perfect arc in the air and flew into the net, in less than half an hour, Ling Feng scored his third goal of the game and performed his seventh hat trick in the Premier League this season!

And this goal was his 2017th goal in !

(End of this chapter)