At 23:00 BJ time, with the whistle of referee Moss, this round of the Premier League's focus match officially started.
On the field, Leicester City attacks from left to right.
But after the game started, Everton turned the away team and their formation immediately pressed forward, engaging Leicester City in the midfield and frontcourt.
Although Everton is playing away from home, the morale of the players is very high.
Once he gets the ball, he doesn't pass it in the backcourt at all. He just looks for his teammates to pass it forward quickly, trying to threaten Leicester City's goal as quickly as possible.
On the sidelines, Raniera saw Everton pressing in Leicester City's half with a high press, and he always had a faint smile on his face.
Everton's tactical strategy played right into his heart.
Due to Huth's suspension, Ranieri is very worried about the team's defense in this game.
In the Premier League, although the Everton team has lost its glory as the top five in the Premier League, they are still the touchstone of the Premier League today.
If you want to win the Premier League championship, you must pass the touchstone Everton, otherwise you should just go to sleep, you will have everything in your dreams.
Therefore, Ranieri's tactical strategy in this game is still defensive counterattack. He needs to stabilize the defense without Huth.
In fact, at the beginning of the season, Ranieri had been considering whether to use Chu Zheng as the core of the offense, abandon the conservative defensive counterattack tactics, and play more proactively and radically, so that Chu Zheng could fully utilize his talents on the offensive end.
But as he took over Leicester City for longer and longer, and after he had a full understanding of the strength of each player in the team, his idea gradually faded away, and he finally chose defensive counterattack as the main tactical strategy.
He once promised to build Chu Zheng into a new free agent in modern football.
However, he had to bow his head in the face of reality and was forced to break his promise because Leicester City did not have such soil to provide Ranieri.
In the eyes of Ranieri, Leicester City is now a sports car that he has assembled and modified.
But Chu Zheng’s 1,008-cylinder super engine is really brutal.
If Chu Zheng is allowed to run at full capacity, the result will inevitably be that other parts cannot keep up, eventually causing the vehicle to completely fall apart.
So Ranieri had no choice but to tearfully limit the horsepower output of Chu Zheng's super engine and try his best to knead the engine and other parts together.
The sixteenth round of the Premier League has now passed.
Facts have proved that his decision was right!
The supercar he assembled, which was put on the road and subjected to quality inspection at the same time, has quietly rushed to the front of the Premier League race track.
Sometimes Ranieri can't help but feel ashamed of Chu Zheng when he thinks about it.
In any case, he failed to fulfill the promises he made when he first met Chu Zheng.
Therefore, in order to make up for the debt to Chu Zheng, at certain specific times and within a limited time, Ranieri will take the initiative to release the restrictions on Chu Zheng, allowing Chu Zheng to operate at full capacity, to display his offensive talents and show his fans to the fans.
That exciting offensive style.
In fact, even if Chu Zheng knew what Ranieri was thinking, he wouldn't take it seriously.
What a big deal!
When he was at Wolfsburg, Chu Zheng actually knew that his aggressive offensive style would put a huge burden on his teammates.
Unless he goes to play for a top club, it will be the same for any civilian team.
Moreover, he has now adapted to Ranieri's tactical system.
Occasionally, he suddenly gets violent and gives the other person a blow in the back, and kills the other person in one go. He feels that the feeling of prodding is quite exciting and satisfying.
On the field, the game has passed for 6 minutes.
During this period, Everton continued to control the ball. If the offensive center could not get through, they quickly moved to the two wings. They either directly kicked the ball and passed it or penetrated the ribs, which caused dangers to break out from time to time inside and outside Leicester City's penalty area.
As for Leicester City, they also counterattacked twice in the past 6 minutes, but the results were not very good.
Seeing this scene, the more than 30,000 Leicester City fans in the stands of the King Power Stadium were not in a hurry.
Although Huter is missing on the defensive end, Morgan and Kanter are still there.
On the offensive end, Vardy, Mahrez, and Chu Zheng, the super midfield commander, are also there. It is only a matter of time before scoring a goal.
In these sixteen league rounds, the performances of Chu Zheng, Vardy, Mahrez and others have completely conquered all Leicester City fans.
Leicester City's confidence in Chu Zheng and others has been slowly built up one game at a time. So far, Chu Zheng and the others have not let these fans down.
Even though Manchester United and Chelsea have been killed by them, are they still afraid of a declining Everton?
On the court, Chu Zheng was also looking for ways to slow down Everton's offensive pace. Otherwise, if Everton continued to charge like this, they would make more and more mistakes and the goal would become more and more dangerous.
Chu Zheng does not doubt the offensive ability of Lukaku, who has scored 12 Premier League goals this season.
So soon Leicester City's formation began to press forward under Chu Zheng's command.
Ranieri was not dissatisfied when he saw it on the court, because this was the right he gave Chu Zheng to make temporary decisions on the court.
In a 90-minute game, the situation often changes rapidly, so the team's tactical strategy cannot be guaranteed to remain unchanged.
Chu Zheng was able to quickly figure out a response strategy on the court and command the team to make changes, which made Ranieri happy before it was too late.
In the 8th minute of the game, Vardy and Shinji Okazaki performed high pressure in the middle of Everton's backcourt.
Everton's left midfielder Barry, who retreated to take the ball between the two central defenders, saw Okazaki Shinji rushing towards him. He quickly spiked the ball, turned to the left, and knocked the ball across Everton's path on the left.
Left center back Funes Mori.
After Mori got the ball, he saw Shinji Okazaki turning around and chasing him, so he quickly dribbled the ball forward.
But when he reached the rib area in front of the midline, he was blocked.
Mahris cut off the connection between Mori and the advancing Everton left back Baines on the wing, and Chu Zheng watched Everton midfielder Ross Barkley on the center line.
Together with Shinji Okazaki who was chasing behind Mori, the three quickly formed a triangle of defense in the rib area.
At this time, Chu Zheng was like a nail on the midline, while Mahrez and Shinji Okazaki worked together to compress Morey's ball-holding space.
Mori was forced to directly play a half-high ball, and made a long pass to find Everton midfielder Koné near the arc in the middle.
This time Leicester City's defense was very high.
Vasilevskiy is right behind Cone.
When he saw the ball coming, he quickly broke away from the defense line, fell to the ground on the right side of Cone and stretched out his foot to destroy the ball.
Vasilevskiy's original intention was to shovel the ball to Kanter in the center circle, but as a result, he, a long-term substitute, did not form a tacit understanding with Kanter.
As soon as Kanter ran out of the center circle, the ball rolled from behind him towards Ross Barkley at the penalty spot.
Seeing Kanter turning around and approaching, Barkley was a little scared of Kanter, who had recently become famous. He stopped the ball and quickly moved it to the right frontcourt.
On the right side of the penalty area in the right half, Everton Koeman faced Barkley's hurried pass. He rubbed it twice before stopping the ball at his feet.
It only took two or three seconds for Fox to press in front of him.
Behind Fox, Albrighton also quickly came back and stood next to the upper right corner of the penalty area to build a layered defense line.
One-on-one, Coleman didn't show any fear and started riding the bicycle directly.
But the speed of the car was too slow and the intention was too obvious. Fox didn't take much of a chance and lifted up his foot to block Coleman's pass accurately.
The ball was blocked toward the baseline. Albrighton quickly followed up to get the ball and passed it to Fox, who moved to the sideline to meet him.
Kanter also came to the upper right corner of the penalty area to fill in, and the three responded to each other.
At this time, Everton's resolute offensive tactics in this game were well demonstrated. After losing the ball, Everton did not immediately retreat to build a defense line, but launched a high-position press on the spot.
Lukaku, Barkley, Coleman and Deulofeu quickly and clearly divided their duties to counterattack.
Fox was blocked by Coleman and could only pass Kanter to the right.
Kanter took the ball and immediately turned around and handed the ball to Chu Zheng at the top of the arc in the middle.
As a result, as soon as he turned around, Barrick had already rushed to him.
Kanter also reacted very quickly. He moved his right foot outward to pass the ball, but Barkley was faster and blocked the ball back with his foot.
The ball rolled from behind Kent back to the right side of the penalty area.
Deulofeu took the ball and cut inside directly, relying on his speed to throw the oncoming Albrighton behind him.
Crossing the right sideline of the penalty area, Deulofeu bumped into Morgan.
Deulofeu was able to play for Barcelona because he is a comprehensive winger with extremely fast speed and excellent foot skills. His ability to break through and tear up space is extremely strong.
Facing Morgan, Deulofeu accelerated to open up the passing space, and then passed with his right foot to the front of the small penalty area.
Meanwhile, Lukaku is in position.
This guy relied on his 89kg tonnage to force his way between Wasilevskiy and Simpson in an unreasonable way, leading by half a body.
Seeing that the ball was about to come, Lukaku, like an elephant, fell to the ground and shot.
However, after he fell down, he saw that the ball rolling towards the right was suddenly scooped out of the baseline by a gliding figure from behind.
Lukaku suddenly looked helpless on his face.
After Chu Zheng shoveled the ball out, he saw the depressed expression on Lukaku's face. He raised his eyebrows at Lukaku and smiled back.
Because Lukaku was so angry that a green talent bead popped out of his bald head!
"Thanks to Chu Zheng for following the ball all the way back!"
"Vasilewski has been a long-term substitute. He can't keep up with the rhythm. This time the defense was half a beat slow!"
"Everton did a very good job in pressing up front today!"
"Although they rush and fight fiercely, the players are very close to each other and have a tacit understanding. Once a player loses his position due to an attack, there will always be a player next to him to fill the position in time!" Zhang Lu commented.
"It seems that Huth's absence has an impact on Leicester City, and Ranieri's tactical strategy today may also be affected!" He Wei answered with a smile.
At the scene, after the Leicester City fans were frightened, they quickly gave Chu Zheng a wonderful interception and gave him warm applause.
Chu Zheng's interception just now was too timely.
Otherwise, Schmeichel would not have had time to react when Lukaku shot from such a close range.