Full-Level Pass, Please Call Me The Boss Of The Three Lions

The first time, the second time.

Chapter 152: The Blue Fox’s true core showed its strength for the first time, but the little monster’s goal could not save the team!

As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning.

Under the witness of tens of thousands of Blue Fox fans at the King Power Stadium, Leicester City took the most solid first step!

The upset victory over Everton in the first game made many people who were not optimistic about Leicester City feel unbelievable.

In their view, even with the advantage of home court, Leicester City, whose team strength is a little behind Everton, will lose to Everton.

But they didn’t expect that Leicester City won and scored such a big score? !

Winning the Premier League’s first victory also gave Leicester City great confidence.

Everton, which ranked fifth in the Premier League last season, conceded four goals.

Does this mean that other Premier League teams ranked lower than Everton are weaker than Everton?

Of course, football cannot be calculated in this way.

League rankings can largely reflect the strength and stability of a team.

However, it is not so absolute.

This real-life confrontation with Everton made the Leicester City players realize the so-called “Premier League difficulty” and even had a little self-satisfaction illusion:

The Premier League does not seem to be as difficult as the legend says.

However, for head coach Pearson, the process and results of this game made him more determined to focus on offensive football this season.

He certainly does not think that he can relax after winning a game.

On the contrary, in the post-match tactical review, he and the entire coaching staff agreed that if they took a defensive counterattack in this game, they would not be able to withstand the offensive firepower of Everton’s upper Premier League!

If the frontcourt attack had not suppressed Everton’s offensive, their back line would definitely have been sieved by Everton’s wingers with outstanding footwork!

Therefore, after this trial, the Leicester City coaching staff headed by Pearson all believe that the current tactics are on the right track!

Of course, attacking instead of defending does not mean not defending.

As the saying goes, offense wins victory, defense wins championship.

The balance of a strong team on both offense and defense is very important.

Whether it is strong offense and weak defense, or weak offense and strong defense, it means there are obvious weaknesses.

And what they have to do is to maintain the current offensive firepower and improve the hardness of defense as much as possible.

Although the first Premier League game was won.

However, there are also many problems exposed in the game.

Visible to the naked eye, such as the midfield stranglehold and frequent violations suffered by the team’s core Ling Feng;

For example, the speed of right-back Konchesky’s pursuit;

Another example is the personal ability shown by Matty James in this level of competition.

The former does not need to be solved at all.

Because of Ling Feng’s top football IQ, even without the coach’s instructions, he can read the game and respond by himself.

The latter two are easier to solve.

As long as Konchesky and Matty James are benched and Schlupp and Cambiasso start, the problem will be solved!

Konchesky is older and his physical function has declined greatly, especially his speed, which ranks at the bottom of the team, only a little faster than Morgan, a tall central defender.

Under Leicester City’s offensive tactics, the back-insertion of the full-back is very important.

However, Konchesky’s physical fitness and speed are destined to make him only a squatting full-back, and he can’t go up and down like De Wright, the right back.

And the team’s youth player Schlupp has explosive physical fitness, both strong and fast.

In the second half of last season, he has replaced Konchesky’s position and became the team’s regular starting left back.

In the first Premier League game, considering the team’s lack of experience, Pearson chose veteran Konchesky to start.

But it turns out that he can no longer keep up with the impact and breakthrough of Premier League-level wingers.

In short, Matty James’ problem is that he lacks ability.

Although he has excellent physical fitness, covers a wide area, and has good frontal defense and stealing abilities.

However, under the high-intensity and fast-paced Premier League, his slow reaction and hesitation in passing the ball are exposed.

He is not calm enough in the face of repeated pressure and can only be regarded as a barely qualified engineer.

It’s okay to be a substitute in the Premier League, but it’s difficult to be a starter.

Fortunately, Leicester City will participate in four events this season, including the Premier League, Europa League, FA Cup and League Cup, and there are plenty of events to rotate.

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The next day, all major media newspapers put the goal battle between Leicester City and Everton on the cover of the sports page.

And Ling Feng’s domineering celebration after scoring the goal once again appeared on the cover of major media magazines and newspapers!

This game was even more unexpected than the upset of the “Red Devils” Manchester United losing to the “Swans” Swansea at home.

“The Foxes’ true core showed its prowess for the first time, but the little monster’s goal could not save the team!” – The Times

“Leicester City: Premier League, we are back!” – The Independent

“The Prince of Leicester City? ! 》——Mirror

The Daily Mail even described Ling Feng’s performance on the field as “master-level”

“Three assists, three different ways of passing.”

“This young man, with his usual dominant performance, slapped a loud slap in the face of all those who doubted that he could not adapt to the Premier League!”

The most noteworthy thing is that with Leicester City’s 4-2 victory over Everton in the first round, it actually topped the real-time standings!

In the first round of the Premier League, there were only three teams that won and had a goal difference of two.

In addition to Leicester City, they were Manchester City, which won 0-2 away, and Chelsea, which won Burnley 1-3 away.

According to the Premier League system, when the points are the same and the goal difference is the same, it depends on which team has more total goals.

The team with more goals ranks higher.

Therefore, Leicester City, which scored four goals, actually surpassed the Premier League champion and third place last season and temporarily ranked first!

Seeing their team actually ranked first in the league, the Foxes fans were smiling and imaginative, taking screenshots and tweeting:

“I declare that this season’s Premier League is over!”

“We are ranked higher than last season’s champion, so we are the hard-powered champion!”

“Premier League, that’s it?”

Since the team got off to a good start in the Premier League, head coach Pearson specially invited the chef from the Chinese restaurant that Ling Feng took everyone to last time to come to the base to make a sumptuous meal for the players.

Chinese seafood fried noodles, braised pork, dumplings, pot-fried pork

Sitting by the window, Ling Feng was enjoying the fans’ posts on his mobile phone.

What impressed him most was that a fan photoshopped his head onto Manchester United King Cantona, and then wrote:

“Come and meet Leicester Ling Feng the First!”

It has to be said that this generation of fans is good at playing memes!

Just as Ling Feng was secretly laughing, Mahrez sat down next to him with a plate in one hand.

“What are you looking at?”

Ling Feng glanced at Mahrez’s full plate and raised his eyebrows:

“By the way, can you eat so much?”

Pick up a seafood dumpling with a fork and put it in his mouth. Mahrez chewed it and explained:

“Just now the fitness coach told me that I have to gain a few kilograms to better adapt to the intensity of the Premier League.”

Mahrez is slightly shorter than Ling Feng and is thinner.

As a winger, flexibility and speed are very important.

However, in the fierce Premier League, core strength is also very important.

Therefore, how to increase your core strength while maintaining the existing flexibility and speed is a compulsory course for every Premier League winger!

And Mahrez’s words reminded Ling Feng.

In the last game against Everton, he clearly felt the intensity of the Premier League.

He was repeatedly hit by Barkley, McCarthy, and Barry in turn, and he couldn’t calmly keep his body balance and handle the ball well.

Although he had expected that his confrontation ability could not cope with the fierce confrontation in the Premier League, and he had also come up with a way to deal with it.

However, this is only a temporary solution that only treats the symptoms but not the root cause.

Even Barkley, McCarthy and others couldn’t handle it, how could he ensure that he could protect the ball under his feet in the confrontation with top midfielders such as Matic and Yaya Toure? !

Besides, he can’t always avoid confrontation!

Fortunately, the biggest difference between him and technical players such as Mahrez, David Silva, and Cazorla is that he has better physical fitness!

1.8 meters tall, 69 kilograms.

For normal people, it is normal.

But for a Premier League professional player, it is still thin.

Therefore, he must increase his muscle content and improve his core strength, so that he will not be so passive in the confrontation!

As he was thinking, the team captain Morgan suddenly came over and said:

“Ling, the coach wants to see you.”

“Oh, OK.”

Ling Feng went directly to the head coach’s office and knocked on the door.

Pushing the door open:

“Coach, you’re looking for me?”

“Well, sit down.”

“Ling, you performed very well in the last game! However, I hope you can focus on improving yourself and not be satisfied with the status quo. Because, in my opinion, your limit is far more than that!”

“Thank you for your trust in me, coach. Don’t worry, this is just an ordinary Premier League game.”

Nodding with satisfaction at Ling Feng’s answer, Pearson immediately got to the point:

“I called you here mainly to tell you something. After the coaching staff’s research, we think your confrontation ability on the field is still a little weak. It’s time to start muscle gain!”

As soon as these words came out, Ling Feng nodded without any surprise:

“I think so too. I think the confrontation in the Premier League is more intense. I must become stronger to better handle the ball.”

“Yeah. So starting tomorrow, after the team training session, you will follow Andrew (physical coach) ) for half an hour of strength training.

“Only half an hour?”

“Let’s take it slow. Don’t do it too hard at the beginning. Your body is not fully developed yet.”

“You only need to gain another five or six pounds and increase your muscle content. You can significantly improve your confrontation ability while ensuring that your flexibility and speed are not affected!”

“I see. But coach, I still have to practice stopping the ball and long shots with Riad. Can I finish the extra practice before going to the gym?”

After saying this, Pearson lowered his head and pondered for a moment before answering:

“Yes, but you have to grasp the measure and don’t hurt your body!”

“I understand.”

Looking at Ling Feng leaving the office, Pearson suddenly shook his head and laughed at himself:

“I am such a fool, I actually doubted his ambition”

So, starting from August 18, Ling Feng would practice stopping the ball and long shots for half an hour after the team training session.

After the extra practice, he would go to the gym.

Then, under the guidance of the physical trainer, he carried out strength training.

In order to make his muscle-building plan more effective, Ling Feng also used the [Training Acceleration Card] that can last for three months on the major attribute of [Body].

In this way, within three months, when he trains the major attribute of [Body], the related minor attributes can all rise!

The major attribute of [Body] includes eight minor attributes: [Explosion], [Speed], [Strength], [Balance], [Reaction], [Bounce], [Endurance], and [Physique].

The attributes related to confrontation ability are [Strength] and [Balance].

His current [Strength] attribute is only 58, and [Balance] attribute is 68.

In Ling Feng’s view, if the [Strength] attribute is increased to 70 and [Balance] to 80, he can basically not fall behind in the confrontation with most Premier League players.

Ling Feng is looking forward to the day when he can carry top midfielders such as Yaya Toure and Matic, dribbling the ball all the way, and breaking into the penalty area and scoring a goal.

. . .

The curtain of the 14-15 Premier League season has been opened.

After the first round of games, some people are happy and some are sad.

After the unexpected upset in the first round, the coaching staff and players of Leicester City naturally turned their attention to the second round opponents:

Chelsea led by the “madman” Mourinho!

It is worth mentioning that Leicester City’s schedule is extremely unfriendly!

When the Premier League schedule was just released, Ling Feng heard Vardy complain to himself:

I don’t know which bastard arranged the schedule, Leicester City’s first five games are all tough battles!

First round, Everton!

Second round, Chelsea!

Third round, Arsenal!

Fourth round, Stoke City!

Fifth round, Manchester United!

Except for the relatively weak “defeater” Stoke City, the other four teams are not easy to chew.

The three opponents in the first three rounds are all strong teams ranked in the top five of the league last season!

Manchester United, which ranked only seventh last season, has made frequent moves in the transfer market this season with its new coach.

I don’t know if the team’s strength has increased, but there are stars in every position.

After losing to Swansea in the first round, Manchester United will definitely take the much-rumored “Angel” Di Maria in the remaining time of the transfer window.

At that time, they will face Manchester United, which has four stars, Falcao, Rooney, Di Maria and Van Persie, on the field at the same time!

I’ll post one chapter first, and then another chapter in the evening

(End of this chapter)