On March 6, Leicester City departed for Hertfordshire, England, to play away against Watford Club in the 29th round of the Premier League.
Watford is the newly promoted team in the Premier League this season and currently ranks 12th in the Premier League standings with 38 points.
Judging from the current situation in the Premier League, there is a high probability that they will break through history this season and successfully avoid relegation in the Premier League for the first time in team history.
The media and fans are generally optimistic that Leicester City can easily win this game, but Ranieri does not think so.
Although Watford has a record of 10 wins, 8 draws and 10 losses in the 28 rounds of the Premier League this season, their home record is extremely good. They are the team with the fourth highest home winning rate in the Premier League. The losses in those home games are all due to
Lost against a wealthy team.
Therefore, Ranieri believes that Watford is actually a tough nut to crack, and his teeth will break if he is not careful.
However, what is ridiculous is that Watford was injured during the warm-up before the game.
Bristol, the main center back who is the cornerstone of the team's defense, strained a muscle during the warm-up.
So much so that Watford head coach Flores had to temporarily let the young Dutchman Ake, who was on loan from Chelsea, play the role, and then was forced to make adjustments in other positions.
This pre-match episode made countless fans who followed the game exclaim that God was already on Leicester City's side.
Even Chinese fans lamented that it was God who helped Ranieri help Leicester City win the championship this season.
Because Ake has never played as a central defender since he came to Watford on loan, and has always played as a full-back.
This temporary position change is actually equivalent to placing a bottle of extremely unstable nitroglycerine on the back line.
Once Ake performs poorly and self-destructs, it may cause a chain reaction and blow up Watford's defense to the bone.
There is now a consensus among the Premier League media and fans on how strong Leicester City's counterattack is.
However, after the game started, the direction of the game was a little different from what everyone expected.
In the first minute of the game, Watford launched an attack through a long pass from the backcourt and won a throw-in outside the penalty area. Then Watford forward Dini, left back Hollebas and then inserted in.
Continuous one-two passes between the three wing forwards Capoue directly hit the upper left corner of the small penalty area, and finally Dini completed the first shot of the game.
If Morgan hadn't reacted quickly and fell to the ground to block the ball with his calf, then picked up the ball and slowly dropped it towards the goal, Schmeichel might not have been able to easily catch Deeney's explosive shot from close range.
Just a few minutes later, Chu Zheng responded with a powerful long-range shot from outside the penalty area.
However, the ball was saved by the Watford goalkeeper who fell to the ground. Shinji Okazaki followed up with a follow-up shot from the center and missed the ball due to interference from the defender.
As time goes by, the competition becomes more and more intense.
Leicester City's tactical strategy in this game was mainly defensive, but defense does not mean being conservative. They played quite well in counterattack.
Especially with Chu Zheng in the midfield, every counterattack can basically hit Watford's key points.
However, it is a pity that Dutch defender Ake, who played as a temporary central defender today, performed very well and defused Leicester City's counterattacks in time many times.
But until the final whistle sounded, there was still no goal, and the game ended in a 0-0 draw.
Chu Zheng was as speechless as the Leicester City fans.
Watford adopted a foul restriction strategy against him in this game.
But Chu Zheng's strong body and foot skills were not afraid of Watford's foul tactics, and he played quite smoothly.
But Vardy and Mahrez really failed to live up to expectations and wasted his through balls many times.
In the first and second half, Chu Zheng even created an excellent opportunity for Vardy and Mahrez to score a one-on-one goal. However, one of the two players' kicks hit the target of the Watford goalkeeper, and the other sent the ball out of the baseline, leaving Chu Zheng completely
I don't know what to scold.
As soon as the game ended, fans of Arsenal, Tottenham, and Manchester City received the news and were immediately overjoyed.
"It seems like God hasn't decided who to help yet!"
After the game, some media even used this headline to ridicule Leicester City.
As a result, four hours later, Arsenal and Tottenham fans also shut themselves up and experienced what it means to be extremely happy and sad!
The focus of this round is the North London derby between Arsenal and Tottenham, rivals in the same city. It is also a battle between second and third place in the Premier League.
Counting the 2-0 loss at home to Barcelona in the Champions League quarter-finals, Arsenal has lost three games in a row recently.
The gunmen also suffered a heavy blow in terms of personnel.
The main goalkeeper Cech was injured in the last round of the game against Swansea and is expected to miss 4-6 weeks.
In addition, defense stalwart Koscielny, as well as Cazorla, Wilshere, Rosicky and others are all on the injured list.
Tottenham, who played at home, played with all their main players.
The game was extremely intense and lived up to its reputation as a North London derby. It could be said that it ended in a fiery and fierce confrontation.
But the score was 2-2, ending in a draw!
Arsenal fans are okay, even grateful!
And Tottenham fans felt uncomfortable.
It was clear that there was one more player, and the team went back to lead 2-1. They played like chicken throughout the game and took advantage of it. However, they were equalized at the last moment by Arsenal, who played with ten men.
When Leicester City fans learned that the game was a draw, they immediately gathered an army on the Internet and headed to the official websites of Tottenham and Arsenal, flooding the message areas of their official websites and rubbing salt into their wounds.
Compared with the fans, the media is relatively calm.
Many media reporters said they did not understand the championship situation this season.
It was clear that a major turning point was about to occur, but within a few hours the situation returned to its original track.
After Chu Zheng learned that Tottenham and Arsenal ended in a draw, he immediately became happy, then took out his mobile phone and posted a picture on INS.
The picture shows Ranieri with a smile on his face. The smile looks a bit silly. The most important thing is that Chu Zheng added text to the photo.
[They are even! Hahahahahaha...]
As soon as Chu Zheng's news came out, countless fans on Leicester City's side burst into laughter.
The most ridiculous thing is that Ranieri actually came over to like it and left a string of smiling faces. Obviously, this picture of Chu Zheng perfectly reflects Ranieri's mood at this moment.
Both the senior and young coaches in the team came out to have fun, so how could they be missing other Leicester City players.
So Vardy, Mahrez, Morgan, Kante and others forwarded pictures like Chu Zheng's, which made Tottenham and Arsenal fans so angry!
However, the fans of Arsenal and Tottenham were also quite emotional.
Leicester City had just received a draw, but then they also drew a draw. This was really good luck.
They feel as if there is a pair of invisible hands operating everything to prevent them from threatening Leicester City.
Perhaps the happiest people at this time are the Manchester City fans.
In this round, Manchester City played the last place, with 4 wins, 6 draws and 18 losses, and booked a relegation spot in advance, Aston Villa.
Manchester City, playing at home, easily won 4-0, narrowing the point difference with Leicester City to 7 points, and still have hope of winning the championship.
But in the next few rounds of the Premier League, the situation did not develop as Manchester City fans hoped.
In other words, Leicester City did not give Manchester City a chance to continue chasing points.
In the following rounds of the 30th, 31st, 32nd and 33rd rounds of the Premier League, Leicester City defeated Newcastle United, Crystal Palace, Southampton and Sunderland with a classic Italian score of 1-0.
Team.
Arsenal and Tottenham, which followed closely behind Leicester City, did not fall behind, and each ushered in a four-game winning streak.
But Manchester City has fallen behind, and their hopes of winning the championship are already somewhat slim.
They drew with Norwich in the 30th round, and were defeated by Manchester United at home in the 31st round. After the 33rd round of the Premier League, Manchester City was already 12 points behind Leicester City.