Chapter 276: A Focused Battle Concerning the Belonging of the Champion!
Chapter 276 The focus of the battle regarding the ownership of the championship!
Author: Thief Cao
Chapter 276 The focus of the battle regarding the ownership of the championship!
After a week of truce, the Premier League war resumed. The first game of the 26th round of the Premier League was Sunderland and Manchester United.
But the European media's focus is not on this game.
Compared with Manchester City, Manchester United has also been in a mess recently.
In the last round of the red-blue battle, Manchester United was tied by Chelsea at the last moment, and the three-pointer in hand was instantly wiped out.
After the game against Chelsea, Manchester United was already 8 points behind the Champions League.
Therefore, the topic of Manchester United's coaching change and selection is very popular. Not only the media, but also the Red Devils fans are criticizing Van Gaal's on-the-spot command and coaching philosophy.
Faced with the criticism from the media and Red Devils fans, the irritable Van Gaal directly and publicly denounced Tong.
The result was tragic for him.
Facing Sunderland, who were stuck in the relegation zone, this round was a great opportunity for Manchester United to grab points. However, Manchester City was defeated at the Stadium of Light and was defeated 2-1 by Sunderland at home.
This upset moment made Van Gaal's status shaky, and the media and fans who had been criticized by Van Gaal even chased after him to scold him.
The game between Leicester City and Arsenal is ranked third to last in this round.
European media and fans paid special attention to this game.
Today, Leicester City led by Ranieri has become a unique and beautiful scenery in the five major leagues.
Both the media and fans want to know how many more surprises Leicester City under Ranieri can create, and whether the miracles Leicester City has already created can continue.
In addition, this game may play a decisive role in the Premier League championship this season.
Because after the game against Arsenal, Leicester City's opponents in the next three months of the Premier League schedule from the 27th round to the 35th round are all teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League standings.
With the attacking power that Leicester City has shown is no weaker than that of the giants, it is not too difficult for them to win these teams.
Therefore, as long as Leicester City defeats Arsenal in this game and expands or stabilizes the score, they may be able to win the championship in advance.
But the premise of all this is that Leicester City can take away three points at the Emirates Stadium today.
Otherwise, if Manchester City recovers 3 points, this season's Premier League championship will be full of suspense again.
On February 14, at 19:45 BJ time, the live broadcast signal was connected to the LeTV live broadcast room on time.
Today, in addition to the pairing of Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu, LeTV Sports Live Room also invited Sun Jihai and Fan Zhiyi, who played for Manchester City in the Premier League.
It's the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, and the Chinese New Year atmosphere has not yet passed, so all four of them dressed particularly festively tonight.
Especially Zhang Lu, wearing a red suit and red tie, is particularly coquettish.
At 19:55, the starting lineups of Leicester City and Arsenal appeared one after another.
"After defeating Bournemouth 2-0 in the last round of away games, the Gunners finally ended their embarrassing record of four games without a win."
"Arsenal is tied with Tottenham on 48 points in the Premier League standings. Because their goal difference is not as good as Tottenham's, they are ranked fourth in the league."
"But Arsenal are still a full 7 points behind Leicester City."
"Today is the 109th meeting between the two clubs. Previously, Arsenal had 50 wins, 39 draws and 19 losses, scoring 207 goals and conceding 133 goals. Judging from the historical data of the confrontation between the two sides, the Gunners have the upper hand."
"But Leicester City has completely changed this season. The two sides fought a goal battle in the first round and ended up with a 4-4 draw!"
Zhan Jun finished his words and Leicester City's starting lineup appeared.
Leicester City:(442)
Forwards: Vardy, Shinji Okazaki
Midfielder: Albrighton, Kante, Chu Zheng, Mahrez
Defenders: Fox, Huth, Morgan, Simpson
Goalkeeper: Schmeichel
"How many more surprises can Leicester City bring and whether they can create miracles? They have everyone looking forward to it!"
"Leicester City defeated Manchester City 3-1 at the Etihad Stadium in the last round. It was more than just 3 points!"
"Leicester City, the leader, is no longer the dark horse at the beginning of the season. After 25 rounds of Premier League matches, they have become a team of kings!"
"Since losing to Villa in the 21st round, Leicester City has been unbeaten for three consecutive rounds, beating the two giant teams of Liverpool and Manchester City."
"Especially Chu Zheng. He scored the first hat trick of his career in the last round against Manchester City. Now his number of goals in the Premier League has reached the fourth place in the scorer list, with 16 Premier League goals, just behind Aguero in third scored two goals."
"It is worth noting that Chu Zheng has also reached 24 assists. He is very hopeful to break Henry's record of double 20 goals and assists this season and create his own record!..."
At exactly 12:00 noon London time and 20:00 BJ time, with the whistle of the referee Martin Atkinson, this focus match that has attracted much attention in Europe officially started.
On the field, as soon as the game started, Arsenal, who had the home field advantage and attacked from right to left, picked up the pace of the game, obviously trying to get a head start.
Perhaps because of the home game, Arsenal players seemed particularly excited today. Their first attack of the game threatened Leicester City's goal.
In the 50th second of the game, Arsenal received a foul ball from the right side of the penalty area in the backcourt.
Bellerin made a quick start and threw the ball vigorously towards forward Giroud near the center line on the right side of the center circle.
Facing the back and forth attacks from Huth and Kante, Giroud jumped up first, hammered the ball to the center line, and found Ozil on the wing.
On the center line of the wing, Ozil jumped and easily removed the ball. The entire wing in front of him was no man's land.
Just now, Leicester City had to implement a high-pressure frontcourt, so their formation was a little too forward.
At this time, only Morgan and Simpson in the center circle were defending in the middle of Ozil's left rib area.
But Arsenal didn't leave anyone in the frontcourt, so Ozil could only dribble the ball forward by himself.
Behind Ozil, Huth and Fox struggled to catch up.
As a midfielder, Ozil's ball control skills, vision, passing, shooting, creativity and other abilities are all at the top level, but this guy has a fatal weakness, which is his lack of speed.
Therefore, after taking the ball across the center line, Ozil turned left and directly entered the rib area.
Sure enough, as soon as he left the wing, Fox caught up with him.
After entering the rib area, he saw that Morgan had already taken his position in advance, and he knew very well that if he continued to lead, he would be surrounded by Rasto.
So Ozil raised his left foot and made a beautiful cross with the outside of his instep.
At the moment of passing the ball, Sanchez behind Simpson discovered Ozil's intention in the center circle area, and he braked quickly and stopped in the center circle.
The moment Sanchez stopped the ball, Chu Zheng just rushed in front of him.
However, just when Chu Zheng wanted to slow down Arsenal's attack by blocking his position, Sanchez passed the ball decisively.
The ball bypassed Chu Zheng's left side and flew straight to the right rib area at the top of Leicester City's arc.
Fox was brought too far in by Ozil who continued to advance after passing the ball.
When the ball flew past him, he realized that Arsenal's supercar Bellerin had already come up the wing. By the time he turned around and pursued it, it was already too late.
Bellerin strode the ball forward without stopping in front of the center line in the right rib area at the top of the arc. His speed surged again and he went directly into the right side of Leicester City's penalty area.
From the upper right corner of the small penalty area, Bellerin directly crossed the ball to the back post.
At this time, Morgan, Simpson, Huth and others had just rushed to the penalty spot and were completely unable to intercept Bellerin's cross.
Simpson threw himself forward and stretched his feet to slide, but still couldn't reach the ball.
At the back point, Arsenal left back Monreal was outflanked.
When he saw the ball rolling over, he was extremely excited, as if he had already seen the goal being scored.
However, at the next moment when the ball came back, a strong wind suddenly blew from his right, and then a black figure blew past like a strong wind, and with one kick, he robbed the ball that was about to come in front of him, directly
Lifted up to the stands.
"fool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Suddenly, the 60,000 fans at the Emirates Stadium in Noda let out an exclamation in unison!
"Chu Zheng, your defense speed is very fast!"
"Failed to intercept Sanchez's pass, Chu Zheng quickly retreated with a very clear purpose and went straight to the back point. He obviously guessed Arsenal's final intention of this attack!" Seeing Chu Zheng's excellent performance at the beginning
, Zhan Jun and all four of them had happy smiles on their faces.
On the sidelines, Professor Wenger saw the ball being cleared by Chu Zheng and was so angry that he spread his hands and turned away. Ranieri looked calm and calm.
