Chapter 255 The undefeated golden body is finally broken!
Chapter 255 The undefeated golden body is finally broken!
Author: Thief Cao
Chapter 255 The undefeated golden body is finally broken!
On January 2, 2016, the 20th round of the 2015-16 Premier League season began.
In the new year, all fans in England hope that the team will have a new atmosphere, a new state and a new mental outlook.
Especially the Premier League giants whose status this season has been affected by various factors and continues to be in a downturn.
Fans hope that the team can return to normal levels as soon as possible.
However, in the first Premier League match of the new year, West Ham United and Liverpool teamed up to give all British people an upset as a New Year's gift.
The opening game of this round is between West Ham United, which is ranked 7th in the standings, and Liverpool, which is ranked 10th.
The result was that West Ham defeated Liverpool 2-0 at the London Olympic Stadium, successfully beating Liverpool twice. This was also the first time in 52 years that Liverpool suffered a double defeat from West Ham United.
That afternoon, Leicester City also faced the challenge of Cherries Bournemouth at the King Power Stadium.
From the end of November to the end of December, the newly promoted Bournemouth were in extremely good condition and achieved an excellent record of 6 consecutive unbeaten games in the Premier League.
But in the last round, they lost 2-0 away from Arsenal, and their unbeaten momentum was ended by Arsenal.
Bournemouth currently has 20 points, ranking 15th in the standings. There is only a 3-point gap between them and Newcastle United, which is 18th in the relegation zone.
Therefore, the Cherries still need to continue to grab points to get rid of the threat of relegation.
In this game, due to injury, Chu Zheng was not included in Ranieri's squad.
However, Chu Zheng was invited by Vichai, the owner of Leicester City Club, and appeared in the club chairman's box with Zhao Dudu to watch the game.
"Chu, many media think that we will gradually fall behind from the championship competition starting from the new year. What do you think?" Vichai sat next to Chu Zheng in the balcony, smoking a cigar with his fingers and suddenly asked.
Chu Zheng glanced at the smiling Vichai and said with a smile: "Sir, I think it would be better for them to focus on reporting the gossip about the stars."
"Haha!!!" Wei Chai laughed loudly when he heard Chu Zheng's sarcasm.
Leicester City sporting director Steve Walsh also gave Chu Zheng a thumbs up.
Seeing Chu Zheng talking and laughing with Vichai, the smile on Steve Walsh's face became more obvious, and his eyes were filled with admiration.
On January 1st, the winter transfer window has opened.
From yesterday to today, in less than 48 hours, he has received 18 transfer offers.
Among these quotations were those from Kante, Vardy, Mahrez, and Chu Zheng, with a total of 12 clubs making offers for Chu Zheng.
Rich clubs such as Barcelona, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Juventus, Manchester City, Manchester United and Arsenal have all made offers for Chu Zheng.
Among these giant teams, the three clubs that worry Steve Walsh the most are Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester City.
There is nothing much to say about the Milan duo in Serie A. They have long since lost their former glory, and now they are only known as a giant.
But Barcelona and Real Madrid are different. Few players can refuse the recruitment of these two teams.
Once successfully joining, it means honor and high weekly salary, which is fatally attractive to players.
There was also Manchester City, who came up with an offer of 70 million pounds. Just by looking at the string of zeros on the offer sheet, he could feel how arrogant Manchester City was.
After receiving these offers, Steve Walsh reported Vichai immediately.
As Steve Walsh expected, Vichai asked him to directly reject the offers from these wealthy clubs, including the £70 million offered by Manchester City.
Chu Zheng's agent Mario also made it clear to him that Chu Zheng had no intention of leaving in the winter window.
But Steve Wall was not happy about this, but became worried.
Because Steve Walsh knows very well that Vichai is not not selling Chu Zheng, but may be waiting for the end of this season.
Mario's words also made it very clear that Chu Zheng has no intention of transferring and leaving now.
But what about next season?
That’s not necessarily the case!
Steve Walsh knows Chu Zheng very well.
He knew very well that the future of a super talent like Chu Zheng would definitely not be with Leicester City.
The destination of genius has always been a wealthy club.
Once Leicester City really creates a miracle and wins the Premier League championship this season, not only Chu Zheng's value will explode, but the value of all the players in the team will also skyrocket.
It's hard to say whether Chu Zheng is not for sale by Vichai at that time.
In the world of football, it is really rare to find an owner like Abramovich of Chelsea who is passionate about football.
At 15:00 sharp, the match between Leicester City and Bournemouth officially started.
In this game, Ranieri restored the lineup to a 442 formation.
Vardy and Ulloa are paired as forwards, Kante and Drinkwater are in the midfield, Albrighton and Mahrez are on both wings, Morgan and Huth are in the defense, and it goes without saying that the goalkeeper
, no one can threaten his position.
On the field, after the game started, Leicester City launched an aggressive high-position press in the frontcourt.
But on Bournemouth's side, their players' mental outlook and momentum today were very different.
Facing the pressing pressure from Vardy and others, Bournemouth's players did not panic too much.
Although their conduct in the backcourt seems to be strict, the players' thinking and cooperation are very clear and tacit, and they can often advance the offense into Leicester City's half with three passes and two leads.
As the game time passed, Chu Zheng quickly realized that something was not right about the situation.
Because it was Bournemouth who were playing away from home who had the advantage and initiative on the field, and their frontcourt press was also very effective.
In the 13th minute of the game, Leicester City retreated completely inside and outside the penalty area, leaving Vardy alone in the center arc area.
Bournemouth continued to control the ball, but they could not break through the two lines of defense deployed by Kante, Morgan and others.
Bournemouth's right center back Simon Francis stepped in, got the ball in the rib area about 40 meters away from the goal, and suddenly made a cross.
The kick was high and fast, like a cannonball hitting the Leicester City penalty area.
The ball landed at the intersection of the left sideline and the bottom line of the small penalty area.
In Chu Zheng's eyes, the ball was passed so far that it was so outrageous that he opened the door for him. It was so outrageous that there was no accuracy at all.
However, in the next second, Bournemouth's left wing-back Stanislas, who started to advance from the left rib area at the top of the arc, rushed to the landing point, grabbed the ball before it went out of bounds, and used his left foot to pad the ball into the small penalty area.
Middle road.
The next second, the ball came to the player. Bournemouth forward Joshua King followed up in the middle, crossed the end line of the small penalty area and scored with a header.
Seeing the birth of this goal, Chu Zheng and Zhao Dudu were both dumbfounded.
"Is this okay?" Zhao Dudu looked incredulous.
"This ball is amazing!" Chu Zheng had a helpless smile on his face.
Chu Zheng could see that this ball was completely unintentional.
But it is precisely this accidental cooperation that is even more deadly.
At the same time, this also reflects the Bournemouth players' spirit of never giving up until the last moment.
If Stanislas hadn't chased it, there would have been no goal.
For this goal, Schmeichel who was extremely close to the goal post, Simpson who was behind Stanislas, and Morgan and Huth who failed to watch Joshua King, these four people were all responsible.
Not to mention the four Simpsons, even Chu Zheng subconsciously thought that the ball would go out of bounds. Who would have thought that it could be saved.
"I believe we will tie the score and take the lead!" Vichai said with a smile.
"Of course!" Chu Zheng gave Vichai a natural smile.
However, as the game progressed, Vichai and Chu Zheng were dumbfounded, as were countless Leicester City fans.
Falling behind, Leicester City also let go.
This release allowed the team's overall strength to come into play and gain advantages in all aspects.
In the 18th minute of the game, Drinkwater broke through with the ball, and with three tails, he inserted diagonally from the right rib to the top of the arc, and successfully sent the ball from the right rib of the top of the arc to Ulloa's feet.
As long as Ulloa, who resists offside, successfully stops the ball, it will be a one-shot ball facing the goalkeeper.
As a result, Ulloa stopped the ball directly out of the baseline with his right foot.
This is just the beginning of bad luck.
At 24 minutes and 34 seconds of the game, Ulloa made a meritorious deed. He stopped the ball with his thigh in front of Bournemouth's penalty arc, and then faked a shot and passed the ball.
The ball passed through the dense crowd of Bournemouth players in the top area of the arc and found Vardy in front of the penalty spot in the penalty area.
Vardy, who was facing the goal, faced the ball. He moved his right foot to the left, quickly turned around and got rid of Bournemouth's left center back Steve Cook, and it was a one-way goal.
But the next second Vardy shot the ball on the goal post and bounced out of the baseline.
In the 58th minute of the second half, Drinkwater with Kanter reasonably completed a successful robbery in the middle of the backcourt.
After getting the ball, Drinkwater sent an extremely exquisite through ball.
Vardy got the ball from between the two Bournemouth centre-backs.
But after entering the penalty area, Simon Francis shoveled directly behind Vardy, giving Leicester City a red dot package.
Chu Zheng thought it would be okay to equalize the score, but then reality slapped him hard.
Mahrez took the penalty, and his action was beautiful and crisp, but Bournemouth goalkeeper Boruc judged the right direction and flew out to the left.
In the next game, Leicester City, with one extra player, took full advantage.
The offense is also in full bloom.
However, Bournemouth goalkeeper Boruc blocked Leicester City's shots again and again in the next 40 minutes.
In the end, Leicester City lost 0-1 at home to 10-man Bournemouth.
Leicester City's 19-match unbeaten streak in the Premier League has also come to an end.
After the game, the English media was so excited by this upset that they directly put the losing Leicester City on the front page of the next day, and threatened that this was the first time Leicester City had ever lost.
The beginning of falling behind in the championship race.
There are also countless fans analyzing the reasons for Leicester City's defeat in this game.
They pointed the finger at Chu Zheng, saying that Leicester City suffered from Chu Zheng's dependence syndrome and that without Chu Zheng, other players would not be able to play football.
There are all kinds of weird remarks that come out one after another, which makes Chu Zheng marvel at them.
But in Chu Zheng's opinion, the reason why he lost this game was purely unlucky!
There were 22 shots in the game, 9 of which were on target, but 3 of them hit the post and were saved 6 times. Isn't this unlucky? What the hell.
