fat man who can't play football

Chapter 180 The Defending Champion
On November 2016, 11, it was cloudy with light rain for a while.In the No. 26 round of the Premier League, Leeds United wanted to break their wrists with the defending champion Leicester City in their own place.

Before the start of this season, Leicester's Thai boss desperately kept the championship team, but the most critical core of the team was still taken away.

Kanter, who can cover 70.00% of the earth's area, joined the "Blue Army" Chelsea for 3580 million pounds, which is tantamount to cutting the defending champion in half.

You must know that in the season before Leicester won the championship, Kanter averaged 3 steals and 2 interceptions per game on the defensive end.

In addition to helping the defending champion stabilize the defense, he still tried his best in the offense. After one season, he also scored one goal and four assists in the league.

In order to make up for the hole that Kanter was dug out, Leicester City spent 1550 million pounds to bring his little fellow Mendy from Nisla.

But since the start of this season, Mendy has not been able to gain a firm foothold in Ranieri's team. Instead, Daniel Amartey, who Leicester City poached from Copenhagen a year ago, has gained more Opportunity.

But neither of these two players could fill Kanter's vacancy, which also made it difficult for the defending champion to harden his waist.

This has caused Leicester City's league performance in the new season to decline precipitously. In twelve games, they only achieved three wins, three draws and six losses, and they are about to fall in love with the British Championship.

Part of the reason for this is that the team's management still introduced German goalkeeper Ziller even though they already had a main goalkeeper Schmeichel (the good son of the Red Devils' Danish goalkeeper).

After all, the goalkeeper position cannot be rotated, and the players bought by the club's top management cannot be used.

Coach Ranieri can only try to use the opportunity of Schmeichel's injury to help Ziller in the league.

It's a pity that the German goalkeeper failed to deliver a satisfactory answer. He swallowed two bombs in the games against West Brom and Watford, giving the team a two-game losing streak.

Such a poor performance directly aroused the dissatisfaction of some veterans of Leicester City who won the championship.

In the match against Leeds United, Ranieri could only bite the bullet and continue to use Ziller due to Schmeichel's injury.

It stands to reason that with such poor results in the league, Ranieri's coaching position should have been on the red light long ago. Fortunately, Leicester's soldiers are strong enough in the Champions League and have already secured the first place in the group with a record of four wins and one tie.

This allowed Ranieri to continue to breathe.

In this game, the Italian coach sent Slimani, who was introduced with a lot of money this summer (3000 million pounds from Sporting Portugal), to partner with "inspirational fighter" Vardy on the front line.

In the midfield, Welsh internationals Andy King and Amatey are used as the double defensive midfielders, while Mahrez, who can pass and shoot, and Albrighton, who has a good crossing ability, are sent on the wings.

The defense still uses the team that won the championship last season, with Simpson, Morgan, Huth, and Fuchs lined up from right to left.

Steve, who is playing at home, seems to be able to do a job with ease. He doesn't need to think about the starting lineup at all, and he doesn't need to change the fixed combination that has won consecutive victories recently.

The frontcourt is the fiery trident Belotti, Traore, and Sun Xingmin, and the midfield trio is the increasingly skilled Joe Allen, Phillips and Cook.

At the center back, De Vrij, who seems to have fully adapted to English football, led his partner Maguire, and the right back was still played by the youth training "cute" Byram.

The left back is Fatty's favorite "undead"-Robertson.

There is basically no suspense about the goalkeeper position. Except for the dispensable League Cup, Hart stood in front of Leeds' goal in all games.

Leeds United's home performance this season is good, which also makes today's Elland Road Stadium in a full state.

Granny Newton secretly thanked herself for having the habit of buying season tickets, otherwise it would have been difficult to grab tickets.

Before the start of the game, Steve brought the guidance of Gao Hongbo into the coaching bench and sat next to the chief assistant Yevez. This seat also shows the importance of high guidance.

Due to the joining of Director Gao, Leeds United has also attracted the attention of many Chinese media. CCTV5 temporarily decided to broadcast the game live.

A lot of reporters and broadcast teams also came from the ancient country of the East, and they slapped Steve and Director Gao in the face with long guns and short cannons.

This situation made team owner Radrizzani and director Orta very happy. They could only think of the words "stupid people, rich money, come quickly" in their minds.

Friends from the Chinese media can't know what's going on in their minds. What they're anxious about now is that they can't do the interview before the game.

But no one can stand that this group of media friends are thick-skinned enough. They are actively approaching Lisa, the beauty press officer of Leeds, asking if they can interview the head coach Steve or Gao Hongbo after the game.

It's been a long time since I saw so many familiar and kind faces appearing in front of my eyes, and the fat man found himself a little inexplicably excited.

Take the time to check if there are any beauties in the crowd, and let Lisa arrange it later.

Coach Gao who was beside Fatty failed to discover his dirty mind, and secretly admired Steve for taking every opportunity to think about tactics before the game. He was really dedicated.

After the coin guessing, the game was kicked off by Leeds United.

The FA arranged for Andre Marriner to serve as the referee for this game, a referee ranked among the top five in the Premier League.

Compared with the famous "Fantastic Four" in the Premier League, Marina has caused much less controversy, which reassures the fat man a lot.

With a whistle from Marina, the game officially started.

Since the two teams participated in the European war in the middle of the week, and there was no large-scale rotation in this game, the players looked a little tired on the field.

This made the opening stage a bit dull, and the two teams did not rush up and attack in order to save energy.

The first to break this stalemate was the "Blade Warrior" Traore. Unable to stay still, he quickly started to press the frontcourt, moving the whole body with one move, and his teammates who had developed a tacit understanding in training quickly cooperated with him. position for oppression.

This sudden increase in speed made the German central defender Huth a little flustered before the ball was played, and he passed the ball wide.

In the rolling route of the ball, Amatai was not able to get excited, so his reaction was half a beat slow, and he was intercepted by Cook who was behind him.

Fortunately, after the muscle collision, Amatai quickly regained his senses and used his black and hard tendons to compete with Cook for control of the football. Neither of them could hold the ball in the entanglement.

However, at this time, Leeds' frontcourt players put several good ball lines in front of Cook through active running without the ball.

The captain of Leeds was a little anxious, the chance on the court was fleeting, but the big black tower in front of him was really difficult to deal with.

During the fight, Cook felt that someone was approaching him, and became more and more impatient.

Phillips used a low presence on the field and a highly concealed move to appear ghostly beside Cook.

Cook glanced subconsciously and was taken aback. Did this guy come here at the right time and walk without making a sound?
If two people fight for one ball, it is hard to tell the winner; if three people fight for it, the ball belongs to Leeds, because Amatai found that the opponent did not speak martial arts, and thought it was a one-on-one fight, but suddenly found that there was another sneak attack on the opponent.

After Phillips took the football, he didn't dribble too much, and just swung the ball forward.

Cook's heart tightened again, is this guy so casual?

Fortunately, Phillips' long pass was fairly accurate, which saved him from punching and kicking.

The long pass came to Sun Xingmin's feet accurately, and after he controlled his feet, he kept swaying left and right, trying to test the defensive center of gravity of Simpson on Leicester's right.

One step, two steps, Sun Xingzhe has strode close to Leicester City's restricted area.

Simpson's speed was not slow, and Sun Xingzhe didn't lose his center of gravity. After aiming at the penalty area line, he was so proficient that he put his hands behind his back.

Seeing this series of operations on the opposite side, Sun Xingzhe, who kept making breakthrough feints, was also a little impatient, and made a real breakthrough.

But without the awkward Simpson's accurate kick, he kicked the ball directly out of the baseline.

Sun Xingzhe patted his thigh in frustration.

Fatty finally put away his eyes from constantly sizing up the beautiful women on the sidelines. After 15 minutes, the game started to become interesting.

(End of this chapter)