Green Journey

Chapter 180 Ranieri as a monster!
On August 8, at 29:15 London time, the match between Bournemouth and Leicester City in the fourth round of the Premier League officially started at the Dean Court Stadium.

After the game started, Chu Zheng, who was sitting on the bench, kept his eyes on Kanter, Drinkwater, and Andy King. He wanted to know the intention of Ranieri's sudden change of tactics and starting lineup.

But after watching for a while, Chu Zheng still had no clue.

On the field, after the team changed to a 4141 formation, the players moved very flexibly on the field.

Sometimes when attacking with the ball, the formation on the field will change to 433, and sometimes it will become 442 and 4231 when defending.

In short, Ranieri's tactics today are very elegant and very flexible.

Therefore, the positions of Kanter, Drinkwater, and Andy King are not fixed, and they will often rotate with each other.

Sometimes Kante even appeared in the opponent's penalty area.

Although the flexible formation and changing player positions will increase the difficulty for Bournemouth players to defend, Chu Zheng feels that there are advantages and disadvantages.

Through observation, Chu Zheng soon discovered that there was a problem with the operation of his own midfielder, that is, the authority was not clear enough.

In addition, there is another point that is fatal, and that is the problem of the midfielder sending the ball forward.

Based on Chu Zheng's understanding of the passing ability of Kanter, Drinkwater, and Andy King, he felt that these three were not as good as him.

Kanter's bias is more serious, and he is just a little bit better than when he first arrived in Wolfsburg.

On the sidelines, Ranieri frowned unconsciously.

As a head coach, how could he not see the problems that Chu Zheng could find.

Before deciding to do this experiment, he considered the consequences.

But compared to being able to liberate and fully stimulate Chu Zheng's offensive talent, he can afford to lose a game.

But judging from the situation of the game for more than ten minutes, he personally thinks that the tactical experiment of liberating Chu Zheng that he has devoted himself to research can already be declared a failure.

On the field, when Leicester City was attacking with the ball in Bournemouth, the three midfielders Kanter, Drinkwater, and Andy King occasionally had problems with unclear responsibilities, which led to occasional sudden surrenders. Bournemouth's attack burst through the middle.

Fortunately, Kanter is here, and this guy's super defensive ability has already begun to take shape.

Seeing it in his eyes, Ranieri was also amazed and delighted.

After getting to know Kanter during this period of time, Ranieri is more and more fond of this French midfielder.

Ghostly running position, precise steals, interception ability, and game reading ability are top-notch.

He looks short, but his body is really not bad, and he often makes the opponent fall on his back when defending.

Just when Ranieri was in a mess, the Leicester City crisis broke out on the field.

In the 24th minute of the game, Bournemouth got a throw-in kick on the left side of Leicester City's penalty area.

Bournemouth striker Wilson made a quick serve and threw the ball directly to Bournemouth midfielder Lee Tomlin who moved from the ribs.

At this time, Leicester City is in a 442 defensive formation. There are two defensive lines in the midfield, one retreats into the penalty area, and the other is at the front of the top of the arc. They are very closely connected with each other.

Drinkwater quickly followed up from the ribs after seeing it.

But without waiting for him to get close, Tomlin quickly turned to the right and knocked the ball back with the outside of his right foot to Bournemouth left central midfielder Andrew Suleman in the front rib area of ​​​​the attacking third area.

Andrew Suleman received the ball, looking for Leicester City's defensive line on the left side of the top of the arc, standing in front of Huth, who had turned around and drilled towards the left side of the penalty area.

But Andy King reacted quickly and quickly moved to the left, cutting off the connection between the two.

Andrew Suleman was forced to play a pass back through the middle.

After continuous passes tore through Leicester City's defense, the ball came to the middle of the top of the arc.

Kanter quickly turned around and retreated, directly biting Matt Ridge, who was dribbling the ball laterally, and then shoveled the ball cleanly.

The ball fell to the feet of Drinkwater who surrounded him.

At this time, the problems of Leicester City midfielder's lack of vision and unclear authority were exposed again.

Drinkwater, Andy King, and Albrighton pass to me at the top of the arc, and I pass to you, but they don't shoot the ball forward.

In the end, Kanter withdrew and split the side after getting the ball, pointing out the direction of attack for Leicester City.

However, Mahrez slammed the ball with his first kick after receiving the ball, allowing Andrew Suleman, who retreated along the middle, to fall to the ground and sweep the ball back to the left front of the top of the arc.

After Gradle got the ball, he quickly turned and split to the left.

Bournemouth left back Charlie Daniels stepped in and took the ball directly to the bottom, and then made a low pass without saying a word.

Draet fell into position very quickly. He rushed to the bottom line in time and raised his foot to touch the ball.

However, it was his touch that caused the ball to directly rise in height and fall straight to the middle of the front of the small penalty area.

Wilson was right on the spot, and when he saw the ball fall, the guy fell straight back and drew the ball directly into Leicester City's goal with a barb.

At the moment of the goal, countless fans in the stands surrounded by Dean Court raised their arms and stood up. This stadium, which can only accommodate more than 1 fans, ushered in waves of terrifying sound waves.

On the sidelines, Chu Zheng covered his face directly, the loss of the ball was really wronged enough.

Kanter intercepted the ball just now, and Drinkwater should have sent the ball forward as soon as he got the ball.

Chu Zheng could see clearly that there were three lines on the court when Drinkwater took the ball, but unfortunately this guy just didn't see one.

On the sidelines, Ranieri also smiled helplessly.

After the intermission and before the start of the second half, Ranieri decisively replaced Drinkwater and Andy King with Chu Zheng and Okazaki Shinji.

With the emergence of Leicester City's classic 442 formation, the horn of offense has officially sounded.

The changes that Chu Zheng brought to Leicester City after he played are gratifying.

Problems such as the blind forwarding of the ball in the first half and the lack of clear responsibilities all disappeared, and the Leicester City fans in the stands cheered up.

On the court, Kanter also felt extremely relaxed.

Kante felt like a headless fly in midfield in the first half, with no one to show him the way.

It's all right now, as soon as Chu Zheng came up, these problems disappeared without a trace in an instant. He only needed to do a good job of defending behind Chu Zheng.

In a word, there is a tall man in front of him, so he doesn't panic!

In the 49th minute of the game, Mahrez took the ball from the wing and saw that Vardy in front of him had pulled the side and was looking back at him, so he directly stuffed the ball.

But Bournemouth left-back Charlie Daniels saw through Mahrez's intentions and intercepted the ball in time.

But in a hurry, he stopped the ball big.

Chu Zheng was on the ribs, sprinting towards the ball quickly, and stabbed the ball to the side before Charlie Daniels, and then he turned a blind eye to Charlie Daniels who was hitting him head-on.

Then Charlie Daniels was knocked down by Chu Zheng.

After killing Charlie Daniels, Andrew Suleman behind Chu Zheng also came over.

On Chu Zheng's side, after catching up with the ball, he used a movement similar to the Marseille roundabout to successfully complete the turn, and stuck Andrew Suleman behind him.

Immediately afterwards, Chu Zheng sent out a very penetrating rib thrust.

At the moment of passing the ball, Vardy inserted from the sideline of the penalty area and shot directly to the far corner of the goal.

"Shh!"

The ball successfully bypassed the ten fingers of Bournemouth goalkeeper Boruc, hit the lower edge of the crossbar and bounced into the net.

"The ball has been scored!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Zhan Jun's voice was instantly raised, high-pitched and loud.

"This is Chu Zheng, the mighty Chu Zheng!!"

"As soon as I came up, I immediately sorted out the chaotic midfield of Leicester City in an orderly manner, and launched a fierce offensive!"

In the LeTV live broadcast room, Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu were overjoyed to see Chu Zheng's wonderful performance.

The Leicester City fans were also celebrating. They all believed that Leicester City would be able to overtake the score and win the game.

However, it was the last goal of the game.

After the equalizer, although Leicester City attacked fiercely, Bournemouth focused on defense and used a dense formation to deal with Leicester City.

So much so that the six shots Chu Zheng planned were either saved by the goalkeeper or blocked by the defender.

In the end, Leicester City had to regretfully shake hands with Bournemouth.

After the game, the Leicester City Evening News directly fired at Ranieri, who was a monster in this game, accusing Ranieri of not using the lineup that has already formed a combat capability, and insisting on conducting some messy tactical experiments.

Ranieri didn't say a word, but admitted his mistake very sincerely on his personal social media platform, and let the media punch cotton.

(End of this chapter)