Green Journey

Chapter 287 Premier League Championship!we are coming!
With the end of the 26th round of the Premier League, the major leagues have pressed the pause button, and everyone's eyes have turned to the upcoming first-stage knockout rounds of the Champions League and Europa League.

But the Premier League teams that don't have the UEFA Europa League mission are not idle, they have FA Cup matches to play.

Because the team has been eliminated by Tottenham in the third round of the FA Cup replay, Leicester City can be said to have nothing to do, so Ranieri gave all players a five-day ban holiday.

But Chu Zheng and Zhao Dudu, who had a new breakthrough in their relationship, didn't go anywhere for the past five days, and they just stayed at home and got bored.

The happy time is always short, and the time is like a fleeting moment in a blink of an eye.

On February 2th, the Premier League battle was rekindled, ushering in the 27th round of the Premier League.

This round of Leicester City's opponent is Norwich, who is third from the bottom in the Premier League standings and deep in the relegation zone.

In the last round of the Premier League, Norwich ranked sixth at home and in the Premier League. This season, West Ham United, which is quite powerful in attack, played a hearty game.

Although the two sides finally shook hands with a score of 2-2, Norwich also let countless fans and the media see their determination to break free from the relegation quagmire.

At 16: London time, the game between Leicester City and Norwich officially started at the King Power Stadium.

Because the players got enough rest during the two-week suspension period, Ranieri played the full main lineup in this game, and did not underestimate Norwich's relegation team at all.

As an experienced head coach, Ranieri is too aware of the difficulty of these relegation teams, and he doesn't want to capsize in the gutter.

So Ranieri is going to kill Norwich directly at the King Power Stadium.

The game also developed as Ranieri expected.

Less than 10 minutes into the game, Kanter made a successful steal in the midfield, and then quickly handed the ball to Chu Zheng.

After Chu Zheng took the ball, he quickly organized an attack.

In the face of Leicester City's quick and sharp counterattack, Norwich's fragile defense line, which has conceded 50 goals so far this season, is like paper, and it was sieved by Vardy and Chu Zheng.

In the end, Vardy broke into the penalty area and assisted Mahrez who outflanked him.

When the whistle sounded at the end of the first half, the score had reached 3-0, and it can be said that there was no suspense in this game.

In the second half, Ranieri, who was sure of winning, used up 3 substitutions early on.

Chu Zheng, Vardy and Mahrez were replaced shortly after the start of the second half, accumulating energy for the English League Cup final two days later.

It is worth mentioning that Arsenal lost this round of the Premier League.

After winning Leicester City, Arsene Wenger led a group of gunmen to prepare to kill Manchester United, which has recently suffered internal and external troubles, at Old Trafford, the Theater of Dreams.

Both Rooney and Martial were absent due to injuries for Manchester United in this game, and the striker was weak.

Therefore, even in an away game, Wenger is confident of winning Manchester United.

As a result, he was slapped in the face after the game. Manchester United narrowly beat Arsenal 3-2 at home.

The biggest highlight of this game is the crazy performance of Rashford, a super outstanding graduate trained by Manchester United's youth training.

This little guy almost dominated the game, and Arsenal's defense was overwhelmed by Rashford's speed and dribbling skills time and time again.

Rashford contributed two goals and one assist to the team on his Premier League debut.

After the game, Rashford, who was produced by England's local youth training, was collectively touted by the English media as the new king of the Premier League.

Wenger never expected that he would lose to a young player who had just turned 18 years old. Manchester United suddenly appeared a super little monster, giving him a scene of becoming famous with one goal.

In fact, the happiest thing about Arsenal's loss was not the fans of their rival Tottenham in the same city, but the fans of Leicester City 169 kilometers away.

With this win and one loss, the point difference between Leicester City and Arsenal once again widened to 7 points.

In addition, Manchester City, one of the Manchester City duo, was also tied 1-1 by Newcastle United at home in this round.

Manchester City lost this game, and the point difference with Leicester City has widened to 8 points.

Now the most threatening to Leicester City in the Premier League standings is only Tottenham.

This round of the Premier League Tottenham won Swansea, so the difference with Leicester City is still 4 points.

On the last runway of the championship, Leicester City, which has been leading for most of the season, can not be said to have no competitors, but for Leicester City fans, every point the team pulls is important to winning the championship. One more point of protection.

Knowing that Arsenal lost, Ranieri seemed to be in a good mood.

The old Italian coach fired at the media that day.

【We can start moving towards the next higher goal! ] This is a new update from Ranieri on Twitter.

As soon as this message came out, it immediately detonated the European football world.

Prior to this, in countless interviews with the media, when Ranieri was asked whether Leicester City's season goal was to compete for the Premier League title, he was vague and said in a joking tone that the team The goal is relegation.

But after winning Norwich City, Leicester City's Premier League points came to 58 points.

In terms of points, Leicester City has officially no possibility of relegation at all, which means that the goal of relegation for the season that Ranieri said earlier has been achieved ahead of schedule.

Therefore, it is self-evident that Ranieri is moving towards a higher goal in this sentence.

The next day, February 2, Ranieri finally changed his tune in an interview, directly mentioning that Leicester City's new goal is the Premier League champions.

The old coach has already spoken, how can the players not follow up immediately.

[Premier League champion!we are coming! 】

All Leicester City players including Chu Zheng, Vardy, Kanter, Schmeichel, Morgan, etc. also successively issued championship declarations on their personal social media platforms.

Up to now, the Leicester City team and outside the team have finally put this silently hidden goal in everyone's heart on the surface.

Leaving aside the influence of other aspects, let’s just talk about the encouragement of morale. When a team has a common goal to fight for, and more than half of this goal has been completed, and it is within reach, all those who strive for it will be An incalculable amount of energy burst out.

For Ranieri, Chu Zheng is absolutely convinced.

He has never seen such a suffocating head coach in two lifetimes. Obviously the team's performance is so good that everyone knows that Leicester City is heading for the Premier League championship this season, but their goal is to avoid relegation .

If Chu Zheng didn't know the old man well enough, he would think that the old man was pretending to be critical, just like the outside media and fans.

But in fact, Chu Zheng felt that what Ranieri said might be his truest thoughts, and maybe Ranieri himself had no confidence in Leicester City winning the championship.

If Chu Zheng didn't live a new life, he wouldn't believe it himself.

Leicester City, who just struggled to relegation last season, won the championship this season, what an international joke.

Thinking about it, Chu Zheng felt that the old man Ranieri was quite pitiful.

In his decades of coaching career, he has taken over countless wealthy teams, has had brilliance and troughs, but he has never won any league championship. Instead, he has been given various ugly nicknames by the media and fans.

Chu Zheng feels that as a head coach, perhaps no one in today's football world desires a top league championship more than Ranieri.

Without the coming of night, how can there be the splendor of fireworks, all this seems to be predestined.

After the son's sex scandal was exposed, Leicester City's meritorious coach Pearson resigned, and Ranieri started another period of tinkering in his life under the circumstances of looking down.

It is precisely this period of career that has become the most glorious moment in his life, and everything seems to have been predestined.

(End of this chapter)