Green Journey

Chapter 261 Stealing from the Rich and Giving to the Poor Fox City!
Although they won Tottenham this round, Leicester City did not continue to expand the gap with the second Arsenal and the third Manchester City as they wished.

Manchester City occupied the home court this round. Although they played very hard, they finally defeated Everton 1-0 with De Bruyne's assist.

The last game of this round is Liverpool vs. Arsenal.

Before the game, the media predicted that Arsenal, who played in the away game, could beat Liverpool, which has been in a state of ups and downs recently. As a result, a goal battle broke out between the two sides. In the end, Arsenal relied on a header scored by Giroud in stoppage time, 4 -3 lore Liverpool.

Three days later, the 22nd round of the Premier League kicked off.

Leicester City's opponent in this round is Aston Villa, who ranks last in the Premier League this season.

Aston Villa's performance this season is really bad enough, and the results are beyond everyone's imagination.

After 21 league rounds, Aston Villa's record is 2 wins, 5 draws and 14 losses.

Their second victory of the season was a 21-1 victory over Crystal Palace at home in the 0st round of the Premier League, and the league points finally broke through single digits.

But still last.

Now in the eyes of England fans and the media, Aston Villa can be said to be one of the three teams that are definitely relegated.

At 1:16 pm on January 17th, London time, the game officially started at Villa Park.

In this game, Ranieri rotated the team's starting lineup in order to cope with the increasingly intensive one-week double-match schedule.

Now for Ranieri, the most important thing is not how to expand the point difference and get rid of the chasing Arsenal and Manchester City, but how to prevent Leicester City players from being too exhausted in this intensive schedule. scale injuries.

Therefore, Chu Zheng, who has not fully recovered from his injury, and Vardy, who has a slight strain on his groin muscles, were pushed on the bench by Ranieri.

As a result, after the game started, Aston Villa, who was playing at home, came up and gave Leicester City a big gift.

Although Aston Villa has been at the bottom of the season for half a season and is regarded as a favorite for relegation by fans and the media, their players don't seem to think so, and they still have hope of relegation.

What's more, there are still 16 rounds in the Premier League. Maybe they can successfully stage a victory escape at the last minute like Leicester City.

Therefore, Aston Villa took the initiative to attack at the beginning of the game.

In the 12th minute of the game, Aston Villa played a very beautiful and fast defensive counterattack.

Gueye dribbled the ball long distance down the left flank.

After hitting the bottom of the wing, he forced an inward cut along the bottom line, which caused chaos in Leicester City's defense line, and then suddenly they kicked an inverted triangle back to the back point.

Karls Gill outflanked the point at the back and shot angrily at the ball from the right side of the penalty area.

Although Huth blocked it in time, he had no time to tighten his arms and let the ball hit his right arm. The referee East directly awarded a penalty to Aston Villa.

After 1 minute, Gaye personally made a penalty and rewritten the score to 1-0.

After the score fell behind, Leicester City also played a continuous and fierce offensive, but Shinji Okazaki, Mahrez and others were still a little bit lucky from scoring goals.

In the 60th minute of the second half, seeing that the team was unable to score, Ranieri replaced Vardy and Chu Zheng.

But after Vardy and Chu Zheng played, Aston Villa said that I would not play.

Aston Villa set up a bus in their own half at their home court in front of tens of thousands of their fans.

So starting from the 65th minute of the game, Leicester City took over the game in an all-round way.

In just 25 minutes, Chu Zheng planned 8 attacks, but 6 of them were blocked by Aston Villa's intensive defense.

The only two shots on target were also saved by Aston Villa goalkeeper Mark Bunn.

In the end, Leicester City lost 0-1 in the away game to Aston Villa's wretched bus tactics.

After the game, Leicester City, which was upset, was immediately given the headlines by the European media.

As the unexpected leader of the Premier League in the first half, Leicester City's bench thickness and the true level of the team have been questioned by fans and the media.

Especially after entering the winter devil's schedule, whether Leicester City can continue to maintain its lead and not be caught up by the Premier League giants has attracted the attention of fans and the media.

After the Christmas ceremony, Leicester City's performance did start to fluctuate a bit, and it seemed that the pace of progress had slowed down significantly.

A few days ago, they just defeated Tottenham, which was fourth in the Premier League, and today they turned around and lost to the bottom one Aston Villa.

But for Leicester City, fortunately, Arsenal in this away game were tied 0-0 by Stoke City.

Therefore, Leicester City still occupies the top position of the Premier League.

However, Manchester City, which defeated Crystal Palace 4-0 at home in this round, came to the second position with 45 league points, so Leicester City's position is already in jeopardy. Perhaps only a draw is needed, and Leicester City will be defeated by Manchester City. And Arsenal yanked it down.

At the end of this round of the league, all the Premier League teams can finally take a breather, and ushered in a week-long truce.

But Leicester City can't.

Because of the 2-2 draw with Tottenham in the third round of the FA Cup, Leicester City will have a rematch with Tottenham.

If the tie continues within regular time, extra time and penalties will be required.

In this game, Ranieri once again rotated 9 players, which is tantamount to telling the outside world clearly that Leicester City has given up the FA Cup.

In the end, Leicester City, who played at home, was beaten 2-0 by Tottenham, ending the FA Cup trip this season.

On January 1, the 23rd round of the Premier League kicked off.

Leicester City, whose main players have had enough time to rest, played against Stoke City in full force, and all the main players went out to welcome Stoke City, who came from afar.

The media and other club fans also paid close attention to this game.

Leicester City's recent ups and downs are well known, and many people hope that Leicester City will continue to lose.

Unfortunately, these people were quickly disappointed.

Less than 5 minutes into the game, Chu Zheng helped the team score a goal.

Albrighton took a corner kick from the right and directly found Chu Zheng who was in the back.

Although Chu Zheng had no chance to attack the goal directly after he forced to take off in the double-team of two Stoke City defenders, he had an idea and flew the header to the top of the arc.

After Kanter followed up, he opened his bow and set an arrow, and directly came with a low volley shot.

The ball stuck to the turf and stumbled through the cracks in the penalty area, rubbed the inside of the left post and entered Stoke City's goal.

In the 15th minute of the game, Mahrez took the ball on the center line on the right side of the center circle. Facing the two Stoke players rushing in front of him, he quickly stuffed the ball to Shinji Okazaki on the arc of the left front center circle.

Shinji Okazaki hits Chu Zheng on the center line in the penalty area without stopping the ball.

Chu Zheng also didn't stop the ball, and directly threw a long pass.

Vardy successfully received a pass from Chu Zheng on the right side of the arc top area. After entering the Stoke City penalty area, Vardy kicked his left foot forward to the right, directly past the goalkeeper, and easily pushed the empty goal. Rewrite the score to 2-0.

But this is far from over.

Just 4 minutes later, Chu Zheng once again used his sticky feet to dribble to continuously break through the middle, and then sent the ball to the feet of Mahrez in the right rib area at the top of the arc.

Mahrez danced after entering the Stoke City penalty area, broke through Stoke City's double defense and then crossed the middle. Shinji Okazaki followed up and fell to the ground with a shovel shot, rewriting the score to 3-0.

During stoppage time in the first half, Chu Zheng competed for a corner kick. After a header, the ball went into the net again. In the first half, the game lost its suspense.

(End of this chapter)