Chapter 221 Anyone with the surname Ma is not simple!
Author: Thief Cao
Chapter 221 Anyone with the surname Ma is not simple!
On December 1, the entire Leicester City team set off to Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, northern England, to challenge their EFL Cup quarter-final opponent Sheffield Wednesday.
The team was founded as a cricket club in 1867.
It got its name because cricketers only had time to play football on Wednesdays.
Although Sheffield Wednesday has a long history, due to certain political reasons at the time, Sheffield Wednesday refused to become one of the founding clubs of the English Professional League.
Winning this English Championship team can be said to be a good draw for Leicester City.
Because of the eight teams in the EFL Cup quarter-finals, the only two English Championship clubs left are Middlesbrough and Sheffield Wednesday.
The remaining five teams are Liverpool, Manchester City, Everton, Stoke City, and Southampton.
So Leicester City was really lucky and won the first prize in the prize pool. As expected, Leicester was sent to the semi-finals.
In this game, Chu Zheng was not included in the squad.
Ranieri learned the next day that his midfielder had been admitted to the hospital during the night, but he was horrified.
Therefore, to be on the safe side, Ranieri kicked Chu Zheng out of the squad and asked him to rest at home.
Although Chu Zheng was missing, Leicester City still performed at a high level in this game.
Vardy was expelled from this team back then, so when he met his old club this time, Vardy was as excited as if he had taken a yin and yang pill.
Before the first half was over, Vardy scored two goals against Sheffield Wednesday and scored twice.
Chu Zheng, who was at home, saw that Kante, who was starting with Andy King, was uncharacteristically uncharacteristic in this game. After getting the ball, he frequently dribbled forward or passed the ball to Vardy and Mahrez. Chu Zheng knew that Ranieri
The football chemist is experimenting again.
Ranieri wants to see if Kanter is as amazing on the offensive end as he is on the defensive end!
But Chu Zheng feels that Ranieri may be disappointed!
Kanter's defense in the midfield and frontcourt was good, but in Chu Zheng's eyes, the offense was really unsatisfactory.
Through the third-person perspective of the TV, Chu Zheng can see more gaps.
But most of the time Kante on the field did not see these gaps that could open up Sheffield Wednesday's defense.
Passing is also at his early level at Wolfsburg.
On December 5, after easily defeating Sheffield Wednesday 3-0 to advance to the EFL Cup semi-finals, Leicester City rushed to Wales for a double match in a week.
In the 15th round of the Premier League, Leicester City's opponent is Swansea, which is ranked 15th in the Premier League standings.
Last season, after the 14th round of the league, Swansea had 6 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses, with 22 points, ranking 7th in the Premier League standings.
This season, their record in 14 league rounds is 3 wins, 5 draws and 6 losses, with 14 points, ranking 16th in the Premier League standings. They are only a few points away from Newcastle and Bournemouth in the relegation zone.
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In the 14th round of the Premier League, Swansea has lost to the Premier League giants Liverpool.
If they continue to lose to Leicester City in this round, there is a high probability that Swansea will fall into the relegation zone after this round of league.
Once you fall into the quagmire of the relegation zone, it will be difficult to escape.
Therefore, in this game, it is almost foreseeable that Swansea will try their best to maintain a draw and win!
In this game, Chu Zheng returned to Ranieri's squad and started with Kante.
Although Swansea played at home and occupied a favorable location, unfortunately they could not defeat Leicester City, who had the right time and people.
In this game, Chu Zheng was particularly excited to return to the starting lineup.
Because Ranieri did not play defensive counterattack, but allowed Leicester City players to display their talents on the field and play offensive football, in order to counter the ridicule of the English media that he only played defensive counterattack.
Therefore, Swansea is out of luck!
In the 4th minute of the game, Leicester City, wearing a black away jersey, got the first corner kick in the left half.
Vardy and Mahrez are in the small penalty area in front of the near post.
Chu Zheng and Ulloa, who started in place of Shinji Okazaki in this game, scored at the penalty spot.
On Leicester City's side, a total of four players entered the penalty area, but on Swansea's side, they were faced with a formidable enemy, with a full 9 players participating in the defense.
Especially around Chu Zheng, he was surrounded by three tall Swansea players.
Obviously, Swansea knew that Chu Zheng's jumping was abnormal, and they planned to guard Chu Zheng tightly.
However, after Albrighton took the corner kick, the players in the Swansea penalty area realized that they had been tricked.
The ball went straight to the near post.
Suddenly everyone crowded into this area.
During the scramble for the spot, the Swansea goalkeeper was blocked by his own players, and soon he was blocked by Mahrez. He could only watch as Mahrez stood next to the goal post.
The ball was thrown into the goal.
1-0!
After scoring the goal, Chu Zheng took advantage of the surge in morale and launched a fierce attack.
His aggressive playing style had more than 20,000 Swansea fans watching in shock.
Countless Swansea fans were devastated when they saw that their team was forced to play in the half court by Chu Zheng's offense and could only defend passively.
The terrorist offensive organization ability displayed by Chu Zheng gave them no hope of victory.
In the 15th minute of the game, Swansea sent a sideline ball from the left wing more than 30 meters away from the Leicester City goal.
Leicester City's back line and midfielder are right at the top of the arc, and the distance between the two defense lines is very tight, constantly compressing the space for Swansea players to get the ball at the top of the arc.
Therefore, not long after the ball was released, Ulloa and Mahrez, who were on the wing, teamed up to steal the ball by blocking in front and grabbing back.
After Ulloa got the ball, he wanted to advance quickly along the wing.
But the Swansea players clung to him like a piece of candy, tugging and tugging!
So after running one meter, he had to suddenly pass the ball to the left side of the ribs.
After Chu Zheng followed up, he kicked the ball directly. The ball suddenly turned to the right side of the center circle and rolled towards the center, arriving in front of Vardy who had already started to speed up.
At this time, Swansea's defense in the center line had no time to retreat, and Chu Zheng's arc pass directly penetrated the ball.
Chu Zheng passed the ball extremely delicately, as if he had measured it with a ruler in advance.
So what happened next was a matter of course.
Faced with Swansea's last centre-back who was behind and made a suicidal move forward instead of retreating, Vardy, who was sprinting, stretched out his right foot and poked the ball forward to the right, and a wonderful pass came directly.
However, after entering the penalty area from the top of the arc, Vardy shot the ball on the Swansea goalkeeper's right thigh.
The ball didn't go in!
Chu Zheng was so angry that his liver hurt!
Vardy also had a sneer on his face! He was so guilty that he never dared to look at Chu Zheng!
In the following game time, Chu Zheng continued to deliver shells to Vardy.
But what the hell, Vardy just couldn't get in and kept wasting Chu Zheng's second pass!
So in the second half, Chu Zheng kicked away the unlucky Vardy, turned around and scored the goal from the beginning. It was obviously the lucky Mahrez who went to the goal.
In the history of world football, most people with the surname Ma are not ordinary people.
As expected, Mahrez did not disappoint Chu Zheng. He did not waste a second pass sent by Chu Zheng. He was directly fed by Chu Zheng and blocked, almost missing a big four!
After the game, in the words of the English media, it was a game with an extremely disparity in strength.
In this game, Mahrez, who scored a hat trick, scored 10 points and was awarded the best player of the game.
Chu Zheng scored 9.1, and Kanter also received a high score of 8.5 with several wonderful interceptions and tackles throughout the game.
In fact, Chu Zheng feels that Swansea is not as weak as the English media said.
They are capable of threatening Leicester City's goal.
It's a pity that they encountered Kanter, who was getting better and better and his performance became more and more amazing.
But Chu Zheng didn’t know that it wasn’t Kante that Swansea fans hated the most, but him!