Green Journey

Chapter 163 The Miraculous Prologue Unveiled Quietly!
On August 8, with the sound of the match whistle between Manchester United and Tottenham, the 8-2015 Premier League season officially kicked off.

At 21:40 BJ time, Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu were sitting in the live broadcast room of LeTV Sports. Like many domestic fans, they were waiting for Chu Zheng's possible first Premier League game.

After many years, since Sun Jihai left Manchester City in 2008, they can no longer see Chinese players in the Premier League, the top competition.

Now the figure they have been waiting for for many years has reappeared again, and he has landed in the Premier League as a double Bundesliga champion and a supernova.

In recent years, Japanese and Korean football has become stronger and stronger, and it can be said that it is blooming everywhere in foreign leagues.

Many fans sometimes find it ridiculous when they think about it. They can continuously train a large number of excellent players in such a tiny place, but they are a huge country with 14 million people, but they can't make up 11 people.

"Audience fans!"

"Welcome everyone to watch the 2015-16 season, the first round of the Premier League, the game between Leicester City and Sunderland."

"This game will be commented by Zhan Jun and Zhang Luzhang!"

Zhan Jun's opening vernacular ended, and the TV screen showed the starting lineups of Leicester City and Sunderland.

Leicester City: (442)

Goalkeeper: Schmeichel

Defenders: De Laet, Huth, Morgan, Schroop

Midfielders: Albrighton, Drinkwater, Andy King, Mahrez

Forwards: Shinji Okazaki, Vardy

"It may disappoint everyone. Our country's player Chu Zheng did not start this game!"

"Before the game, Leicester City's new coach Ranieri said in an interview with the media that because Chu Zheng joined the team for too short a time, he still needs time to fully integrate into the team."

"But don't worry, everyone. Leicester City spent huge sums of money to bring in Chu Zheng. They definitely didn't want him to sit on the bench."

After the words were finished, Zhan Jun stopped talking and changed the topic: "At the end of last season, Leicester City won 9 victories in the last 7 rounds of the Premier League, successfully staged a victory escape, and avoided relegation in a thrilling manner."

"In this summer transfer window, Leicester City also introduced a number of players. They spent a total of nearly 8000 million euros in the transfer market, and invited the famous Italian coach Ranieri to serve as the head coach of the club."

"So they should also have dreams!" Zhang Lu suddenly answered next to him.

"Haha!" Suddenly Zhan Jun laughed and laughed, "Indeed, after spending so much money, if they don't want to make a difference in the Premier League, they can just do it like other clubs and just make up for it."

Sunderland: (4141)

Forward: Defoe

Midfielders: Jerryman Lens, Rodwell, Larsson, Adam Johnson

DM: Catmull

Guards: Van Aanholt, Kaboul, Coates, Billy Jones
Goalkeeper: Pantilimon

"Sunderland managed to retain a relegation hero this summer, the team's head coach Ed Vocarter, and then also introduced strong support such as Lens, Kabul, and M'Vila."

"Last season Sunderland and Leicester were 0-0 twice,..."

At the scene, on the left side of the player entrance and exit passage of the King Power Stadium is the coach's bench of Leicester City, and behind it is the fan stand.

Chu Zheng sat in the last row of the bench, separated from the fans behind him by a half-person-high wall, and could give them a high-five just by raising his hand.

This kind of close contact with fans has never been experienced by Chu Zheng in the Bundesliga.

Hearing the neat cheers of the fans in the stands behind him accompanied by drums, Chu Zheng felt the blood in his body rushing again after more than two months.

At 15: London time, with the whistle of the referee Mason, the game officially started.

As soon as the game started, Chu Zheng set his sights on the visiting team Sunderland.

Sunderland was established very early, established in 1879, and has won the English League One Championship six times, but the most recent one was in 1936.

Their most famous battle was in 1973 when they defeated Leeds United, which was in full swing as a second team, and successfully won the FA Cup again.

Since the 90s, Sunderland has had its ups and downs between the Championship and the Premier League.

But in the Premier League for so many years, their results have always been ranked lower in the Premier League standings, and they have been fighting for relegation almost every year.

Although the formation given by Sunderland before the game was 4141, in fact their formation changes very frequently.

When Leicester City has the ball, they will change their formation to 451 and pull up a five-man defensive line in the midfield to intercept and contain Leicester City's midfield transmission.

On the offensive end, Sunderland's players will become 442 with double midfielders, and the formation is very flexible and changeable.

But no matter how it changes, Sunderland's strength is on the bright side, they are not as good as Leicester City.

In addition, today is an away game, so Sunderland is actually playing a little conservatively, and the tactical strategy is obviously to focus on defense.

In the 5th minute of the game, a crisis broke out in the penalty area of ​​Leicester City.

The crisis originated from Drinkwater's missed position.

He robbed from outside the center circle on the left side of his side, forcing Sunderland right back Jones to retreat to the center line with his back and the ball.

As a result, Jones dribbled the ball directly into Johnson, who was standing in front of him.

When the two faced each other, they passed by each other, and the ball smoothly transitioned to the feet of Sunderland right wingback Johansen.

Without paying attention, Drinkwater let Johansen squeeze behind him, causing a large gap on the left side of Leicester City to be exposed under Sunderland's pawn peak.

After Johnson shook off Drinkwater, he directly kicked a long pass to the middle of Leicester City's penalty area from a position 40 meters away from the goal.

At the moment of passing the ball, Leicester City forward and Defoe and central midfielder Larsson started at the same time, leaving De Laet and Huth behind.

All three of Leicester City's defenses raised their hands towards the linesman to signal Sunderland to be offside.

Seeing that the lineman Korkup didn't show any sign, Draet and Huth instantly realized that the calf was over.

So the two quickly chased into the penalty area of ​​the penalty area.

Fortunately, Larson stopped the ball, and he stopped the ball directly behind Defoe's heel on the right side of his body.

When Huth saw the ball in front of him, he stretched out his foot quickly, but instead kicked the ball up, hit Defoe's ass and continued to fly to the right side of the small penalty area.

Defoe saw the ball flying behind him and he quickly realized that it was an opportunity.

So he quickly turned around and stuck the rushing Draet behind him.

In the upper right corner of the small penalty area, Defoe caught up with the ball, forcibly twisted his body and hit the near foot directly.

Schmeichel was right next to the goal post. He chose his position very accurately and saved Defoe's deep and low ball just in time to the right baseline.

"Damn!!!"

"What are you doing?"

"Damn!!!!!!!"

After saving the ball, Schmeichel quickly got up and yelled at Draet, Huth and Morgan, venting his dissatisfaction with his own defense.

On the sidelines, Ranieri had no expression on his face.

Players are still in the running-in period of the new tactical system, and some mistakes in coordination are inevitable.

On the bench, Chu Zheng also had a toothache.

Chu Zheng was in the position of central defender, and he never pinned his hopes on whether the linesman would raise the offside flag.

Chu Zheng felt that even if the line judges were replaced with high-tech machines, it would be difficult to guarantee that there would be no mistakes, let alone human beings.

So the safest move is to nip all dangers in their infancy.

(End of this chapter)