After the 20th round of the Premier League, Leicester City only had three days of rest before entering the EFL Cup semi-finals.
This time, no matter how lucky Leicester City is, they won't be able to draw the top lottery because there are only three teams left in the lottery pool: Liverpool, Everton and Manchester City.
Leicester City were finally drawn against Liverpool.
At 20:00 on the evening of January 5, the game officially started at the King Power Stadium.
Because only three days had passed since the last round of the league, Ranieri adopted a rotation in this game.
Chu Zheng is still excluded from the game roster due to injury.
In addition to Chu Zheng, Vardy, Mahrez, Albrighton and others were also collectively rotated by Ranie.
Chu Zheng could see that Ranieri was a little bit reluctant to give up the cup competition. Although he was a little reluctant to give up, he had to admit that this was a very wise choice.
Leicester City's bench is too thin. For the second half of the Premier League, which is intensive, Ranieri must walk on thin ice. Otherwise, even if one of the main players is injured, it will be a huge blow to the team's combat effectiveness.
loss.
Liverpool, which is full of injured players, also entered the rotation in this game.
But the foundation of the giants is not comparable to that of ordinary teams. Even with rotation, Liverpool is still better than Leicester City.
In the end, the result of the game was no surprise. Liverpool, who played away from home, won 1-0 and won the first round.
But the price is that Liverpool has two more players in the injured camp. The team's absolute main players Coutinho and Lovren strained their muscles and left the field in the first half.
Five days later, on January 10, all Premier League teams will usher in this season's FA Cup matches.
According to the regulations of the English Football Association, teams from the Premier League and the English Championship join the competition for the FA Cup in the third round.
A total of 64 teams participated in the draw in the third round of the FA Cup, including a large number of amateur, League One, League Two and other teams.
But Leicester City was unlucky this time and directly won the lottery for Tottenham.
But when the game started, fans from both teams discovered that neither team seemed to pay much attention to the game, and each had rotated most of their substitutes.
The game was quite open and ended in a 2-2 draw.
However, according to the rules of the FA Cup, Leicester City and Tottenham need to rematch. If they are still tied, overtime and penalty kicks will be required to determine the winner.
In fact, neither the media nor the fans paid much attention to these two games.
Because the annual FIFA awards ceremony is approaching, the attention of the media and fans has been attracted to who will win this year's Ballon d'Or.
The same goes for Chinese media and fans.
But this year they are not participating in this football festival as bystanders, because Chu Zheng, the golden boy of Europe, has been shortlisted for the final top three selections of the Puskas Award and is very hopeful of winning this award.
At 17:00 pm local time on January 12, 2016, the award ceremony was held at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich.
Although there is still an hour before the awards ceremony begins, the grand red carpet entrance ceremony has already begun, and major football stars have already begun to enter.
At 18:01, a black Rolls-Royce parked at the entrance.
Immediately afterwards, Chu Zheng, who was dressed in a black suit and black tie and had his hair tilted back, and Mario in the passenger seat got out of the car.
After a while, the door on the other side of the back seat was also pushed open, and Zhao Dudu also walked out, walked around from the back of the car, took Chu Zheng's arm, and walked onto the red carpet together.
Today, Zhao Dudu is wearing a long white dress, her hair is half-tied and half-undressed, and she also has a suitable amount of makeup on her face. She looks extremely beautiful.
Although the bald Mario is also wearing a suit, he looks like a gangster leader.
"Chu Zheng arrived at the award ceremony!"
"Today he was selected into the final three-person shortlist for the 2015 Puskas Award, and he hopes to win the Puskas Award!"
"Next to Chu Zheng are his girlfriend Zhao Dudu and manager Mario!" Sports channel He Wei said with a smile.
At the same time, countless domestic fans also watched Chu Zheng and Zhao Dudu through the live broadcast of the Fifth Sports Channel.
Although it was already 1 o'clock in the morning at Chu Zheng's house, there were many people in the main room including Su Ping, Chu Dong, Chu Ling, Lin Guo and Lin Mengmeng, who was already sleeping in her mother's arms.
"The more I watch these two kids, the more I think they are a perfect match!" Su Ping said with a smile when she saw the handsome Chu Zheng and the stunning Zhao Dudu in the TV camera.
At Zhao Dudu's house, Zhao Jie immediately smiled when he saw his little cotton-padded jacket.
But as soon as Zhao Dudu held Chu Zheng's arm intimately, the smile on the guy's face immediately disappeared, and Gu Jie next to him looked speechless.
On the red carpet, Chu Zheng would stop every few steps to sign the jersey and paper handed to him by the fans on the left side of the red carpet.
The reporters on the right side of the red carpet also raised their guns and cannons and kept taking pictures of Chu Zheng and the others.
Mario looked at Chu Zheng who kept signing autographs for the fans with a faint smile, feeling very satisfied.
This is a reflection of Chu Zheng's popularity in Europe, and it means that his work this year was not in vain.
"Hola!"
"Hola!!!"
As soon as Chu Zheng signed for a fan and handed the pen back, he felt his pants being pulled down several times, and then heard a childish Spanish sentence.
When he looked down, he saw a very cute little boy about 4 or 5 years old, wearing a children's suit, looking at him eagerly with his head held high.
"Hola!!" Chu Zheng put his hands on his knees, bent over, and asked with a smile in Spanish: "Are you my fan too?"
The little boy nodded repeatedly, with an innocent smile on his face, and even stretched out his hands towards Chu Zheng to hug him.
Chu Zheng immediately picked up the little boy.
Zhao Dudu saw how cute the child was, so he came over and stroked the little boy's chubby cheeks with his fingers.
As soon as Chu Zheng turned around to look for the child's parents, he saw Messi and his wife Antonella trotting towards them at the entrance.
"Sorry, this child has caused trouble to you!" Messi came up and shook hands with Chu Zheng first, "Chu, I know you!"
"It's my honor, Mr. Messi!" Chu Zheng smiled politely.
Messi seemed a little surprised to hear that Chu Zheng could actually speak Spanish. He smiled and hugged the little boy over, and introduced with a smile: "This is my son Thiago, he is really a fan of You!"
This time it was Chu Zheng's turn to be stunned. He didn't expect that this little boy was really his fan. Could it be that the boss of Messi's family was also rebellious?
Because they were still on the red carpet, the Chu Zheng trio and the Messi family quickly separated after getting to know each other.
Entering the award ceremony venue, Chu Zheng and Zhao Dudu came to the second row in the middle area and sat down in the seats next to the aisle.
"When did you learn Spanish?" Zhao Dudu asked as soon as he sat down.
"While you are busy eating chicken and playing games every day!" Chu Zheng said with a smile, which made Zhao Dudu roll his eyes.
At exactly 18:30, accompanied by a burst of exciting violin music, the 2015 FIFA Awards Ceremony officially began.
The first to be awarded was the 2014-15 World Player of the Year.
Eleven players including Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Pogba, Thiago Silva, Ramos and Iniesta took the stage to receive the award.
By the time the four awards of Best Team, Best Coach of Men's and Women's Football, and Fair Play were awarded, an hour had passed and the awards ceremony was coming to an end, and the highlight of the day was about to begin.
But before the 2015 Men's and Women's Football Ballon d'Or is announced, the Puskas Award must first be awarded.
【FIFA Puskás award 2015】
Seeing the names of the Puskas Awards in golden fonts appearing on the giant screen behind the two hosts, Chu Zheng's spirit was immediately lifted.
Next to her, Zhao Dudu saw that Chu Zheng's back was straightened, and she knew that Chu Zheng was nervous.
So she stretched out her right hand and interlocked her fingers with Chu Zheng.
"Alessandro Florenzi!" Abdo, the female host on the stage, had just read out the name of Florenzi of the Roma club, and the big screen played by Florenzi last season appeared on the big screen behind her.
A long-range kick from the wing and a lob from Tianwai Feixian scored the goal.
"Lio Messi!"
Then came last season's Copa del Rey final between Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao. Messi broke away from four people on the wing and broke into the penalty area to score a goal.
"zheng chu!" The third candidate goal is Chu Zheng.
The playback of Messi's goal highlights ended. The camera showed Chu Zheng, wearing Wolfsburg's home jersey, standing on the left side of the top of the arc, using his left foot as a supporting foot. He tilted his body to the left and raised his right hand high.
With his legs, he directly swung the ball flying in front of him.
“Wow!!!!!!!”
Seeing Chu Zheng's wonderful sideways volley shot, the ball's erratic and special trajectory, and Manuel Neuer who was reduced to a background, the scene immediately burst into a moderate uproar and applause.
Mario was sitting in the ring stand on the second floor, and when he heard the sudden uproar and applause from the scene, he burst out laughing.
Compared with the goals of Florenzi and Messi, Chu Zheng's goal is obviously more entertaining.
Although Messi's continuous breakthroughs are also very entertaining, they are still inferior to Chu Zheng.
And Messi didn’t come here for this award.
The answer will be revealed later. If Chu Zheng wins, then the Ballon d'Or will most likely go to Messi.
And if Messi wins the Puskas Award, he will probably miss the Ballon d'Or. This is a potential balancing rule.
After the three candidate goals were played, the host invited the guest Eto'o to reveal the suspense.
Eto'o came to the podium, picked up the white envelope on the wooden table and opened the seal.
At the same time, Chu Zheng, Florenzi and Messi also appeared on the live broadcast screen.
【so FIFA Puskás for……】
【Chu Zheng!】
Eto'o's voice was very long, but he finally read Chu Zheng's name, then picked up the card with Chu Zheng's name in the envelope and showed it to the scene and the camera across his chest.
"Pah, pah, pah, pah..." Warm applause rang out.
In the audience, upon hearing Chu Zheng's name, Zhao Dudu was so shocked that he covered his mouth with his hands, his big watery eyes full of excitement and joy.
Chu Zheng also let out a long breath, stood up with a smile, fastened the buttons of his suit, and walked to the award podium with his head held high.
Mario on the second floor looked calm and as expected, applauding along with the crowd around him!
"Congratulations to Chu Zheng, he defeated Messi and Florenzi and won the 2015 Puskas Award!"
"Following the European Golden Boy, Chu Zheng has won another major personal award!" He Wei's voice was sonorous and powerful.
“I have to get it!!!”
At the same time, the four people from Chu Ling and Chu Ling in the main room of Chu Zheng's home also burst into cheers, making the little man in Chu Ling's arms cry.
