On August 3, all members of Leicester City had their first team training match after gathering this season.
It just so happens that this day is also an open day for fans and media.
Therefore, Leicester City's training base welcomed a large number of fans and English media early in the morning.
"I wonder if Chu Zheng can adapt to the Premier League!"
"Hey, some time ago, I always thought that Chu Zheng would join a powerful club, at least Tottenham and a powerful club like Atletico Madrid. But I didn't expect to go to Leicester City. I really don't know what this kid was thinking!"
"Who says it's not the case! If you ask me, I blame Wolfsburg's insistence on money, which delayed Chu Zheng! I will never buy a Volkswagen again!"
Among the reporters on the sidelines, a group of Chinese media reporters watched Chu Zheng warming up on the court and talked a lot.
Lin Fan held up his camera and took pictures wildly at Chu Zheng, turning a deaf ear to the words of the compatriots around him.
Chu Zheng's transfer to Leicester City has become a reality. What's the use of complaining so much nonsense? What he is most concerned about now is Chu Zheng's status in Leicester City.
As for whether Chu Zheng will be unable to adapt to the Premier League, he personally thinks the possibility is very low.
Don't forget that Chu Zheng came out of Chelsea's youth training, and he has the blood of the Premier League in his bones.
Players trained by Premier League giants will not be able to adapt to the Premier League. What a joke.
Leicester City fans are also quietly waiting for the start of the training match.
Leicester City spent a lot of money in the summer transfer window this season.
Guang Chuzheng alone occupies half of the transfer budget.
In addition to Chu Zheng, French midfielder N'Golo Kante from French Ligue 1 Caen is worth 9 million, Japanese forward Shinji Okazaki from Bundesliga Mainz is worth 10 million, Serie A Napoli's Inler is worth 7 million, and Atlanta's John Benalou
An 6 million was spent, and Robert Huth, who was poached from Stoke City, also cost 5 million.
Coupled with Chu Zheng's 40 million and 20 million clauses, the club spent more than 80 million euros in Serie A.
With so much fresh blood being injected into the team at once, they were curious to see if the team's strength would be strengthened.
Especially what kind of performance the Chinese player Chu Zheng will have.
But these Leicester City fans have been silently prepared. If Chu Zheng performs poorly, they will boo him to death.
At 9 o'clock sharp, Leicester City players wearing blue and yellow vests and divided into two teams officially started the game.
Chu Zheng was assigned to the blue team, along with Kanter, Vardy, Fox, Schmeichel and others.
The blue team followed Ranieri's request and played a double midfielder 4-4-2, an unfamiliar formation that Chu Zheng had never been exposed to in Wolfsburg.
The yellow team is in a 433 attack formation.
After the game started, the new partners Chu Zheng and Kanter had a clear division of labor.
Chu Zheng is responsible for organizing the offense, while Kanter is responsible for protecting and sweeping the midfield and backcourt when Chu Zheng goes up.
In the 4th minute of the game, the blue team's left wing-back Albrighton held the ball from the wing and was defended by the yellow team's Mahrez and Drinkwater.
"Mark! Send back!!"
Seeing Albrighton being entangled by Mahrez, Drinkwater made a detour towards him to grab the ball. Chu Zheng quickly pulled to the wing to respond.
During this period of training, Albrighton had a somewhat bad impression of Chu Zheng.
He didn't trust Chu Zheng and hesitated briefly.
As a result, in the moment he hesitated, Drinkwater had already circled in front of him from his right rear blind spot.
Albrighton was immediately shocked, but it was too late to send a message back to Chu Zheng.
When Chu Zheng saw this, he didn't care to get angry. He immediately fulfilled his duties as a defensive midfielder, quickly attacked and forced Drinkwater to pass back.
Seeing that Drinkwater successfully grabbed the ball, Mahrez quickly moved to the ribs, widened the distance between Drinkwater, and prepared to play a one-two with Chu Zheng who was grabbing the ball.
Hearing Mahrez's call, Drinkwater quickly half-turned and passed the ball over.
However, as soon as the ball left his feet, Chu Zheng's figure slid across the ground and scooped the ball away while it was being transferred laterally.
At this moment, Drinkwater and Mahrez had a look of astonishment on their faces. They didn't expect Chu Zheng to directly see through their intentions.
"Wow!!!!!!"
"Oh my god! This Chinese guy is so fast!"
"What a powerful explosive power!"
"Amazing short-distance acceleration!"
Chu Zheng's wonderful interception immediately caused hundreds of Leicester City fans on the sidelines to burst into uproar.
On the court, Chu Zheng quickly got up using the inertia of his sliding and dribbled the ball along his ribs into the yellow team's penalty area.
The yellow team's defensive midfielder Andy King quickly moved laterally to Chu Zheng's side and joined forces with his own right back Simpson to form a defensive line in the rib area.
At this time, if Chu Zheng continues to advance with the ball and waits for Drinkwater behind him to come back, he will be surrounded by three people on the wing.
And once you fall into this situation, even if you are as strong as Messi, the probability of taking the ball out is not high.
However, Andy Jin had a beautiful idea, but Chu Zheng was not fooled.
In other words, Chu Zheng took advantage of Andy King and others' joint defense thinking.
At this time, under Chu Zheng's sight, the defensive line of the yellow team's ribs in front of him had cracks due to the movements of Andy King and Simpson.
Therefore, Chu Zheng moved directly to the side without any hesitation.
When Chu Zheng made a move, Andy King and Simpson also had to move to the side.
“Now!!”
Seeing that Andy King and Simpson were following him, Chu Zheng, who had just arrived on the wing, sent a through ball with the inside of his left foot without hesitation.
Immediately, countless Leicester City fans were petrified on the sidelines, and their eyes widened in shock at Chu Zheng's pass.
On the court, the ball sent by Chu Zheng passed between Andy King and Simpson, and then turned an exaggerated arc from the side into the ribs.
At the same time, Vardy, who was a little late-minded, also discovered the gap in the Yellow Team's defense that Chu Zheng unknowingly tore out at the last moment. He immediately diagonally inserted from the top of the arc to the left, grabbing it before Morgan.
Reached Chu Zheng's pass.
Facing goalkeeper Schwarzer from the yellow team, Vardy stuck out his butt, carried Vasilevskiy, and completed the shot in an unconventional awkward posture.
The ball swished under Schwarzer's crotch and then crossed the goal line from the middle of the goal.
"Wow!!!!!!!!!"
Seeing that the ball had actually gone in, the crowd on the sidelines was in an uproar again.
In the area where the coaching staff was on the sidelines, Ranieri adjusted his glasses, stood up from the ground, and applauded the blue team players on the court.
"Claudio, our vision is correct. Chu's talent on the offensive end is more terrifying than on the defensive end!" Steve Walsh was full of amazement.
He watched the whole process of the goal being born.
Chu Zheng leaned from the ribs to the wing. He dared to say that it was definitely intentional, just to lure Andy and Simpson to the wing.
This way the gaps in the ribs will be exposed.
Due to the sudden movement of Andy and Simpson just now, the yellow team's right center back Vasilevskiy had to move to this side to protect the left side of the penalty area and the ribs in front of him.
But Vasilevskiy moved without saying hello, which instantly caused the distance between him and left center back Huth to be widened.
As a result, Chu Zheng took advantage of this fleeting opportunity and gap and passed the ball directly.
Of course, Vardy's movement during this ball was also very smart.
Seeing the first chemical reaction between Chu Zheng and Vardy, Steve Walsh was particularly excited at this moment.
During this period, as the sports director of Leicester City, he was not only questioned by the outside world because of the huge cost of Chu Zheng's transfer, but even a senior executive within Leicester City criticized him.
Fortunately, his boss Vichai supported him unswervingly, otherwise he would have been under great pressure.
Well now, Chu Zheng seems to have initially integrated into Leicester City.
Once Chu Zheng performs well in the future, it will prove that he is right, and then all those who have doubts about this transfer will shut up.
On the sidelines, Lin Fan and others also hung up their cameras and gave Chu Zheng sincere applause with comfortable smiles on their faces.
The opportunity to catch the ball amazed them, typical of Chu Zheng’s style!
But this is still not the real Chu Zheng!
"Chu! You really surprised me!"
"Are you surprised?" Chu Zheng looked like he deserved a beating, which made Vardy's smile grow wider.
"Chu! I like you more and more!"
"Out! I'm not gay!"
"Ha ha!"
On the court, Vardy and Chu Zheng were arm-in-arm, chatting and laughing, and walked towards their own half as if they were two good brothers.
At this moment, Vardy's inner ripples caused by Chu Zheng's pass have not yet dissipated.
Vardy had no idea that Chu Zheng's seemingly inaccurate passing ability in training would actually deliver such a fatal pass in the game that made him feel electric.
Vardy is 27 years old this year, and he has considerable experience in both professional and non-professional games.
But this was the first time he saw a through ball that could grasp the gap and the timing of the pass so accurately.
Chu Zheng's ability to create gaps and complete passes without even realizing it amazed him!
If it were Drinkwater, Andy King, Schlupp and the others, they wouldn't be able to pass the ball like this.
Chu Zheng's assist exposed so many things that Vardy found incredible.
"Hey!" The thought came to mind, and Vardy looked back at Drinkwater behind him.
He felt that one of these friends was going to be unlucky. It was really unfortunate to face such a midfield competitor!
At this time, both Drinkwater and Andy King were extremely shocked.
They also waited for Chu Zheng to pass the ball before they suddenly realized that they had been fooled.
Drinkwater stared at Chu Zheng's retreating back. He suddenly had the illusion that the Chu Zheng he saw a few days ago was a fake.
He didn't know if Chu Zheng was deliberately disguising himself. He only knew that if this was Chu Zheng's true strength, then midfielders like them would have a terrifying competitor that would greatly reduce their playing time.
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From the tactical lessons of the past few days, every player can see that the new head coach wants to play a double midfielder 442.
Coupled with Ranieri's unabashed love for Chu Zheng during this period, Chu Zheng will definitely occupy a starting position.
The club has spent so much money and will never buy it and put it on the bench.
The characteristics of Drinkwater and Andy King are that they cannot play as two wide midfielders.
So there is only one position left for them, and they need to compete for the position!
