After the game restarted, because it was a training match, every Leicester City player knew that this game was Ranieri's test of their status and their integration with the new tactical system.
It concerns everyone's interests, so the players of the blue and yellow teams played quite openly on the court, and everyone wanted to show off their abilities as much as possible.
But many people on the sidelines could tell at a glance that the strength of the blue team with Chu Zheng and Vardy was obviously a level higher.
As time went by, not only did Chu Zheng perform well on both the offensive and defensive ends, but Kanter also began to emerge.
Leicester City fans also received a surprise from the diminutive French midfielder.
Although Kanter, who partnered with Chu Zheng, did not contribute much on the offensive end, he was almost flawless on the defensive end.
Midfield interceptions, sweeps, steals and other defensive actions have a high success rate.
As long as he is entangled with players, he will intercept most of the balls.
Kante's ability to cover a wide area surprised countless Leicester City fans on the sidelines.
Although this is not an official game, the players on the field are all professionals, so Kanter's excellent performance is enough to prove his excellence.
In the previous Leicester City, it was difficult for them to see such wide sweeps and precise tackles in the midfield.
In the 21st minute of the game, midfielder Drinkwater of the yellow team received a cross pass from left center midfielder Inle.
He advanced with the ball along the center.
Chu Zheng quickly moved over.
He was standing in the direction of Drinkwater's advance.
Unsurprisingly, Drinkwater, who had already been successfully intercepted twice by Chu Zheng, became intimidated and chose to dribble the ball towards the left rib area.
As a result, as soon as Drinkwater entered the rib area, Kanter rushed forward.
Seeing Schlupp on the left side running along the left wing to connect, Drinkwater wanted to split the ball.
As a result, as soon as he was about to take off, Kanter rushed to him and poked the ball away.
Kanter's choice of timing to steal this time made the crowd on the sidelines into an uproar again.
On the court, after Kanter intercepted the ball, he quickly passed it across to Chu Zheng who came in the middle.
After Chu Zheng got the ball in the center circle of his own half, he went forward and rushed straight away.
In front of Chu Zheng, Andy Jin, the yellow team's deep-lying midfielder, saw that Vasilewski and Huth were already defensively positioned behind him, so he slowed down his retreat, hoping to slow down the blue team's counterattack.
However, Chu Zheng used practical actions to tell him that he was overthinking.
The next second, Chu Zheng not only did not slow down, but accelerated again, and vigorously pushed the ball out from the left front.
Andy Jin saw the ball rolling to his right front, so he retreated with his back and quickly turned around to chase the ball. He wanted to directly block Chu Zheng behind him.
However, in less than a second, Chu Zheng caught up to Andy Jin's left side, and the two engaged in a fierce physical confrontation.
In the sight of everyone on the sidelines, as soon as the two bodies came into contact, Andy Jin, who was 184cm tall and weighed 79kg, was like a decayed sculpture. He fell to the ground when Chu Zheng hit him.
This scene made countless Leicester City fans widen their eyes.
They know Andy King's physical strength very well.
He never expected that he would be knocked over as soon as he came into contact with Chu Zheng.
None of these Leicester City fans expected that Chu Zheng's seemingly not strong body actually contained such powerful power.
On the sidelines, Ranieri saw Chu Zheng winning the confrontation, and the smile on his face became even brighter.
Ranieri was really shocked when he saw Chu Zheng's physical examination report a few days ago.
In his nearly 30 years of coaching, he has never seen such a perfect physical examination report.
Especially the distribution ratio of red and white muscles that was rated as SSS level by the physical examination center. Ranieri knew exactly what this meant.
That means Chu Zheng's physical talent is terrifying.
On the field, Chu Zheng took the lead in rushing to the ball in front of Vasilewski on the left rib.
The moment he touched the ball, Chu Zheng dunked the rolling ball to the right with his left foot.
Then he quickly turned to the right and got the ball again at the top of the center arc.
I saw Vardy in the penalty area making a clever diagonal pass to the right side of the small penalty area, restraining Huth.
When Chu Zheng saw the yellow team's goal was wide open in the middle, he raised his foot and shot without any hesitation.
On the right side of the penalty area, Vardy was preparing to appreciate Chu Zheng's shooting skills.
However, he only heard a bang and saw a white shadow rushing towards the door in his sight.
At this moment, Vardy was a little confused. He couldn't tell whether Zheng passed the ball to him or shot a flaw.
0.5 seconds later, before Vardy could react, the ball hit his face directly, then bounced towards the far post.
In front of the goal line of the small penalty area, the yellow team goalkeeper Schwarzer, who was moving to the left, was caught off guard by the sudden deflection of the ball.
Schwarzer, who was out of reach, could only turn his head and watch helplessly as the ball flew into the goal from the lower edge of the right crossbar.
"puff!!!!!"
"puff!!!!!"
"puff!!!!!"
"puff!!!!!"
"..."
On the sidelines, Lin Fan was drinking water. When he saw Vardy score a passive header goal, he squirted out the water he had not swallowed.
At the same time, there were countless people on the sidelines who were doing the same thing as him.
After the sound of spraying water, there were bursts of laughter from the crowd.
Ranieri, who had a kind face, also showed a dumbfounded expression after seeing this scene.
Next to him, Steve Walsh and assistant coach Paul Benetti were laughing so hard.
They were pretty sure Chu Zheng wasn't passing the ball.
No player passes the ball with such force.
It was obvious that Chu Zheng missed the right spot to touch the ball and missed the ball.
In the penalty area, Vardy's head was buzzing and his face was burning.
"Jamie I'm so sorry!"
"How are you?"
Seeing that he accidentally hit the passenger car, Chu Zheng looked embarrassed, and he swore that it was not intentional.
At the moment of shooting, his supporting foot slipped a little, causing his shooting movement to be deformed.
After a while, Vardy stood up with a yin and yang face. He looked at Chu Zheng with a speechless expression and gave a thumbs up. "Chu, you have made my career break another record!
"
"That's passively pushing the ball in with your head!"
"Pfft!"
"Pfft!!"
"..."
Hearing Vardy's ridicule to Chu Zheng, Huth, Drinkwater, Mahrez and others in the penalty area immediately burst into laughter.
"Guys, if I said I did it on purpose, would you believe it?" Chu Zheng shouted loudly with a bright smile on his face.
“bull shit!!!”
“bull shit!!!”
"Hey, Chu, I think you are the worst shot on our team!"
"No! No! No! No!" Hearing Vardy's words, Morgan immediately shook his head, "The worst shot in the team is Casper!"
So everyone turned collectively to look at Schmeichel, who was standing in front of the goal on the other side. After a second, everyone burst into laughter.
Lin Fan and other Chinese reporters were completely relieved when they saw Chu Zheng talking and laughing with his teammates on the sidelines.
Now it seems that Chu Zheng has basically integrated into Leicester City and has established good friendships with most of his teammates.
What they feared most was that Chu Zheng would be ostracized.
In European football, although anti-racial discrimination is fought every year, in fact, racial discrimination is still everywhere.
If Chu Zheng can establish good interpersonal relationships in Leicester City, that is already half the battle.
In the second half, Ranieri made personnel exchanges and adjustments to the blue and yellow teams.
Chu Zheng changed into a yellow vest and partnered with Huth as a central defender.
Therefore, the Leicester City fans on the sidelines soon discovered that the Yellow Team's precarious defense quickly stabilized in the first half.
Chu Zheng's precise and extremely subtle positioning in the central defender position once again shocked the Leicester City fans on the sidelines.
The Leicester City players on the field were also impressed by Chu Zheng's performance as a central defender.
Especially blue team forward Vardy, he felt the most directly and strongly.
Chu Zheng's position as a central defender made him very uncomfortable. It felt like Chu Zheng could always guess where he would move and where he would catch the ball.
Not long after, after Chu Zheng contributed three wonderful steals and an interception, today's 60-minute match in the first half and second half officially came to an end.
This game made the Leicester City fans who came to the scene extremely satisfied.
After they returned, they quickly went online to communicate with other Leicester City fans who were unable to attend. They bluntly said on the Internet that Leicester City seems to be a different team now.
In addition, Chu Zheng and Kanter are names frequently mentioned by this group of fans.
Therefore, the unanimous comments of these fans made many fans who did not watch this training game very curious and wished that the new season would start immediately so that they could see the changes in their team.
