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Looking at the Leicester City coach celebrating the goal, the Chelsea players were silent.

Especially Ramirez, who was stunned and didn't move for a long time.

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

"Even if there is no other contribution in this game, as long as you defend Xia, you will succeed!"

Although Ramirez did his best to implement Mourinho's requirements, 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, do I need to defend him?

Joke.

The moment Xia Xing received the ball just now, Ramirez went close to him, and he thought it was foolproof.

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

It was as if he mistook the linesman for the goalkeeper!

And when he reacted, Xia Xing had turned around and sprinted forward.

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

Just a moment of distraction caused the loss of the ball.

Although the assist for this goal was from Ulloa and the goal was scored by James,

the initiator of the attack was Xia Xing.

And he was also the biggest contributor.

At this time, Ramirez felt a little regretful.

But what can regret do?

What can we do now is to score as soon as possible!

Try to beat Leicester City as soon as possible!

Ramirez is quite confident!

Not only him, but others as well.

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

The same is true for the coaching staff.

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

But at another coaching stand, Leicester City has already started to change its formation.

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

Chris Wood and Andy King on the striker were substituted.

Schlupp and Hammond were substituted.

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

Except for James who occasionally inserted forward to assist in the attack, all the remaining players defended with all their strength.

Even Xia Xing was no exception.

This is Pearson's firm request!

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

Seeing Leicester City change its formation, Mourinho also began to make substitutions.

He replaced Remy and Salah with Fabregas and Schurrle.

The team's formation became 4-3-3.

Filipe and Ivanovic's forward assists were very large, and their formation was once 2-5-3.

Bombarding Leicester City's half.

But even so, it was difficult to break through the completely shrinking Leicester City.

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

Mourinho on the sidelines was furious and cursed.

"These turtles, after scoring a goal, they admitted that they dared not attack? What an ugly football!"

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

Isn't this the way you play best...

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

Now Xia Xing completely sank into the midfield and backcourt, not considering the problem of attacking at all.

Occasionally, when the ball came to his feet, he did not rush forward, but kicked the ball to Ulloa on the front line.

Then James would join the attack, and the two would cooperate.

But the effect was not good.

Especially at this stage, James' physical strength had seriously declined and he could not press forward.

Just leave Ulloa to run around occasionally.

Time passed by, and Chelsea still had difficulty scoring.

Fabregas, who came on as a substitute, was facing Xia Xing.

After not seeing him 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 he thought Xia Xing was good that time, he was not to this extent.

Now, as long as he controls the ball, facing Xia Xing, he has a feeling.

He can't get past him at all.

This young man has a top-notch body, strong enough and fast enough.

And his defensive ability seems to have improved a lot.

Especially in predicting his own passing.

Not to mention passing him, there was no chance to pass a good ball in front of him.

This made Fabregas very depressed.

This speed of ball growth was too exaggerated...

In the 85th minute of the game, Schurrle, who came on as a substitute, 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 away fans in the stands applauded.

This was the nth time he had made a wonderful save 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 shot.

Although he gave the opponent a corner kick, he also punched out the corner kick again.

Xia Xing was guarding the ball outside the penalty area.

Facing Fabregas's steal, Xia Xing was very smart to see Chelsea players on both sides.

He cleverly guarded the ball and just knocked down Fabregas' leg that was intercepting the ball.

At this time, he had already dribbled the ball one step further, and Fabregas did not touch the ball.

The referee blew the whistle, foul!

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

Fabregas kicked the grass in anger.

This guy is so cunning!

But Xia Xing was laughing.

Schmeichel behind him also gave him a thumbs up.

Good job!

Make full use of the rules to buy yourself time!

At this time, it was already three minutes of stoppage time, and Xia Xing handed the ball to the 31-year-old veteran Hammond.

Hammond was very experienced, and his slow free throw directly delayed nearly half a minute.

James, who received the ball in the frontcourt, also used his last physical strength to sprint.

He was knocked down again, and the whistle sounded again.

It was still a set piece for Leicester City.

Ramirez, who committed the foul, was very aggrieved. Not only did he fail to steal the ball, he also received a yellow card.

It was really Fxxk!

Almost two minutes of injury time had passed, and James passed the ball to Ulloa in front.

Ulloa received the ball and started running around in the frontcourt.

Another round of consumption.

Finally, after the Chelsea player committed a third foul due to impatience, the referee did not give Leicester City a free kick this time.

He blew the whistle to end the game!

In the live broadcast room, Alan Shearer applauded!

"A game that didn't look that exciting,

"Leicester City had the last laugh!

"They used a sharp counterattack to score the only goal of the game!

"And the full-strength defense afterwards made Chelsea helpless!

"The Blues met the Foxes, and finally let the Foxes bite!

"Leicester City didn't play well in this game,

"but it was effective enough!

"They used a wonderful defensive counterattack tactic,

"Effectively curbed the powerful Chelsea!

"They used the Blues' way to deal with the Blues!

"The tactics were quite successful!

"Let us congratulate Leicester City,

"Successfully advanced to the quarterfinals of this season's League Cup!"