Chapter 261 Stealing from the Rich and Giving to the Poor Fox City!
Chapter 261 Robbery from the rich and give to the poor in Fox City!
Author: Thief Cao
Chapter 261 Robbery from the rich and give to the poor in Fox City!
Although they defeated Tottenham in this round, Leicester City failed to continue to expand the points gap with second-place Arsenal and third-place Manchester City as they wished.
Manchester City occupied the home court in this round. Although it was difficult, they finally defeated Everton 1-0 with De Bruyne's assist.
The last game of this round is Liverpool vs. Arsenal at home.
Before the game, the media predicted that Arsenal, playing away from home, could defeat Liverpool, which has been in ups and downs recently. As a result, a goal battle broke out between the two sides. In the end, Arsenal relied on Giroud's header in injury time to beat 4
-3 beat Liverpool.
Three days later, the 22nd round of the Premier League begins.
Leicester City's opponent in this round is Aston Villa, who is last in the Premier League standings this season.
Aston Villa's performance this season is really bad, and their results are beyond everyone's imagination.
After 21 rounds of the league, Aston Villa's record is 2 wins, 5 draws and 14 losses.
Their second victory this season was a 1-0 victory over Crystal Palace at home in the 21st round of the Premier League. The league points finally exceeded single digits.
But still ranked last.
Now in the eyes of English fans and media, Aston Villa can be said to be one of the three teams that are definitely destined to be relegated.
At 17:30 pm on January 16, London time, the game officially started at Villa Park.
In this game, Ranieri rotated the team's starting lineup in order to cope with the increasingly dense double-match schedule.
For Ranieri now, the most important thing is not how to widen the point difference and get rid of Arsenal and Manchester City who are chasing behind him, but how to prevent Leicester City players from being too tired in such a dense schedule.
scale injuries.
Therefore, Chu Zheng, who was still injured, and Vardy, who had a slight strain on his groin muscle, were put on the bench by Ranieri.
As a result, after the game started, Aston Villa, who was playing at home, came up and gave Leicester City a big gift.
Although Aston Villa has been at the bottom for half the season and is regarded by fans and media as a favorite for relegation, their players do not seem to think so and still have hope of relegation.
What's more, there are still 16 rounds of the Premier League, maybe they can successfully stage a victory escape at the last minute like Leicester City.
Therefore, Aston Villa took the initiative to attack from the beginning of the game.
In the 12th minute of the game, Aston Villa played a very beautiful and fast defensive counterattack.
Gueye took the ball along the left wing and ran long distance.
After going down the wing, he cut inside along the baseline, causing chaos in Leicester City's defense. Then he suddenly sent an inverted triangle pass back to the back post.
Karls Gill was outflanked from behind and fired furiously at the ball from the right side of the penalty area.
Although Huth blocked the ball in time, he had no time to tighten his arms and let the ball hit his right arm, allowing referee East to directly award a penalty kick to Aston Villa.
One minute later, Gueye took the penalty himself and rewritten the score to 1-0.
After falling behind, Leicester City continued to launch rapid offensives, but Shinji Okazaki, Mahrez and others were always a bit unlucky from scoring.
In the 60th minute of the second half, seeing that the team was unable to score, Ranieri replaced Vardy and Chu Zheng.
But after Vardy and Chu Zheng came on the field, Aston Villa said I would not play anymore.
Aston Villa set up a bus in their own half at their home stadium in front of tens of thousands of their fans.
So starting from the 65th minute of the game, Leicester City took over the game.
In just 25 minutes, Chu Zheng planned 8 attacks, but 6 of them were blocked by Aston Villa's intensive defense.
The only two shots on target were saved by Aston Villa goalkeeper Mark Bunn.
In the end, Leicester City lost 0-1 in an away game due to Aston Villa's wretched bus tactics.
After the game, the upset Leicester City was immediately made headlines by the European media.
As the unexpected leader of the Premier League in the first half, Leicester City's bench thickness and the team's true level have been questioned by fans and the media.
Especially after entering the winter devil schedule, whether Leicester City can continue to maintain its lead without being caught up by the Premier League giants has attracted much attention from fans and the media.
After the Christmas celebrations, Leicester City's performance indeed began to be a bit ups and downs, and it seemed that the pace of progress had obviously slowed down.
Just a few days ago, they defeated Tottenham, the fourth-placed team in the Premier League. Today, they turned around and lost to the bottom-placed Aston Villa. This is simply speechless. Isn't this just robbing the rich to give to the poor?
But fortunately for Leicester City, Arsenal, who were playing away from home, were tied 0-0 by Stoke City.
Therefore, Leicester City still occupies the top spot in the Premier League.
However, Manchester City, which defeated Crystal Palace 4-0 at home in this round, has reached the second position with 45 league points. Therefore, Leicester City's position is already in jeopardy. Perhaps only a draw is needed, and Leicester City will be defeated by Manchester City.
Drag down with Arsenal.
At the end of this round of league games, many Premier League teams can finally take a breath and usher in a week-long truce period.
But not Leicester City.
Because they tied with Tottenham 2-2 in the third round of the FA Cup, Leicester City will have to rematch with Tottenham.
If the tie continues during regular time, overtime and penalty kicks will be required.
In this game, Ranieri once again rotated 9 players, which was equivalent to clearly telling the outside world that Leicester City gave up the FA Cup.
In the end, Leicester City, playing at home, was beaten 2-0 by Tottenham, ending their FA Cup journey this season.
On January 23, the 23rd round of the Premier League kicked off.
Leicester City, whose main players got enough time to rest, showed up in full force for the match against Stoke City. All the main players came out to welcome Stoke City who came from afar.
This game also attracted a lot of attention from the media and fans of other clubs.
It is well known that Leicester City's state has been ups and downs recently, and many people hope that Leicester City will continue to lose.
But unfortunately these people were quickly disappointed.
Less than 5 minutes into the game, Chu Zheng helped the team score a goal.
Albrighton took a corner kick from the right and directly found Chu Zheng in the back post.
Although Chu Zheng had no chance to directly attack the goal after being double-teamed by two Stoke City defenders, he had an idea and headed the ball to the top of the arc.
Kanter followed up, drew his bow, and fired an arrow straight into the air.
The ball clung to the turf and stumbled through the gap in the penalty area, grazing the inside of the left post and into Stoke City's goal.
In the 15th minute of the game, Mahrez picked up the ball on the right center line of the center circle. Facing two Stoke players rushing in front of him, he quickly passed the ball to Shinji Okazaki on the left front arc of the center circle.
Shinji Okazaki kept hitting the ball back to Chu Zheng on the center line of the penalty area.
Chu Zheng also didn't stop the ball and directly passed the ball with a long pass.
Vardy successfully received the pass from Chu Zheng on the right side of the top area of the arc. After entering the Stoke City penalty area, Vardy dunked forward with his left foot to the right, directly passed the goalkeeper, and easily pushed into the empty goal.
Rewrite the score to 2-0.
But this is far from the end.
Just four minutes later, Chu Zheng once again used his sticky-foot dribbling to break through continuously from the center, and then sent the ball to the feet of Mahrez in the right rib area at the top of the arc.
Mahrez danced after entering Stoke City's penalty area, broke through Stoke City's double defense and crossed the middle. Shinji Okazaki followed up and shot in the middle, rewriting the score to 3-0.
In the injury time of the first half, Chu Zheng competed for a corner kick, hit a header, and the ball hit the net again. The first half made the game lose suspense.