Chapter 208 Your Gerrard’s plan can be heard in Leicester!
After spending an unforgettable Christmas, Ling Feng ushered in the first Christmas Devil schedule of his career!
The first Christmas game is against Tottenham at home!
Tottenham Hotspur at this time is in the post-Bale era.
In the summer window of 2013, Bell, who grew up to be the best player in the Premier League at Tottenham, moved to La Liga giant Real Madrid for a sky-high transfer fee that broke the football record in pursuit of championship honors.
That is, in that summer window, Tottenham used the huge transfer fee brought by Bell to bring seven new players to the team at once.
They are Eriksen, Paulinho, Lamela, Soldado, Chadli, Capoue and Ziriches!
With Bale gone, Tottenham has been strengthened by as many as seven players in the front, middle and back!
At that time, many Tottenham fans believed that Bale should not leave.
But this wave of "one for seven" is indeed a good deal.
Even Tottenham's old general Cocos made such a statement:
"Tottenham sold Elvis and bought the Beatles."
However, in the later generation of Ling Feng, From the fans' perspective, the level of these new players is uneven.
There are very unsuccessful ones, such as Soldado;
There are also very successful ones, such as Eriksson.
However, these seven people definitely cannot reach the level of the "Beatles"!
Of course, Tottenham fans at the time were full of expectations and hopes for these transfer signings.
However, the reality is cruel.
With Villas dismissed from get out of class, among the seven, only Eriksen, Shazli and Lamela can still play the main role in the formation.
The remaining four people were reduced to rotations and substitutes due to various factors.
However, scratching a lottery ticket depends on luck.
If a player bought for millions of pounds can't play well, he won't lose too much.
On the other hand, Soldado’s deal, which set the club’s transfer record, was basically a huge loss.
Soldado, who was killing everyone in La Liga, scored four goals in the first three games after coming to the Premier League.
However, this was the crowning moment of his Tottenham career.
In the next dozen games, he gained nothing.
For the forward position, he not only cannot compete with Adebayor, but is now squeezed into the third forward substitute by the team's youth training star Harry Kane.
In the eyes of many Tottenham fans, Soldado's 30 million euro signing is basically wasted.
It has even been included in the top ten list of the worst signings in Tottenham history by many fans!
This season, after Southampton hired young coach Pochettino, Tottenham are still adapting to the new coach's tactics and style of play, and lack some stability.
Fortunately, with Adebayor's condition declining significantly and Soldado unable to be used, Harry Kane has slowly become Tottenham's main striker this season with his outstanding performance!
In the last two league games, Kane has scored goals.
Therefore, before the game against Leicester City, many people were optimistic that Tottenham could win Leicester City in the away game.
Without him, Tottenham's recent form is indeed good.
In the last six league games, apart from losing to the top team Chelsea, Tottenham have achieved an excellent record of four wins and one draw in the remaining five games;
On the contrary, Leicester City is in a sluggish state.
Since the bloodbath of Queens Park Rangers in the 13th round, the Blue Fox's record in the past four league rounds has been two draws and two losses.
Never won a game!
More importantly, as the core of Leicester City's offense, Ling Feng has not scored or assisted in three consecutive league rounds!
This has also allowed many football experts and commentators to see how to gain attention and traffic
They all stated on their personal social media or columns that Ling Feng's playing style and habits have been thoroughly studied by other Premier League teams.
Performance in the second half of the season will definitely decline sharply.
What's more, they directly claimed that "Ling Feng's good days are over!"
However, Ling Feng's fans and fans have refuted the doubts from the outside world!
Lineker, who has a good personal relationship with Ling Feng and regards him as his little brother in football, is on the front line of the charge:
"Some bullshit media are going too far!"
In the view of this Leicester City legend and football senior, the media's requirements for Ling Feng are a bit too harsh.
You know, Ling Feng is only nineteen years old now.
This talented young man still has a lot of room for improvement, but there is no data recorded for a short time.
But in the eyes of these claptrap clowns, he became a meteor that was "flash in the pan" and "destined to fall."
In terms of performance on the field, he is still the best in Leicester City!
As long as he maintains confidence and patience, he will definitely be able to regain his all-powerful state at the beginning of the season.
What's more, goals and assists are not the only criteria to measure a player's role on the field!
After posting a lot of text, he did not forget to post Ling Feng’s personal statistics in less than half a season:
First in the league in assists!
Seventh in the league among scorers!
No. 1 in chances created in the league!
Leading the league in key passes per game!
The average post-game rating is 7.45, ranking fifth in the league and first in the same position!
Even if we only look at the statistics, Ling Feng is definitely the midfielder with the best statistics in the entire Premier League!
Not one of them!
In addition to Lineker coming out to slap Ling Feng in the face, some familiar national team stars and big brothers also expressed their support for Ling Feng on social media.
Beckham, Ferdinand, Lampard
Among them, Red Army captain Gerrard also expressed his support for his hand-picked midfield successor during an interview.
“Thinking back to my first Premier League season that year, I had twelve precious appearances but not a single goal or assist.”
"In comparison, Ling Feng's first season in the Premier League was already amazing!"
"Even if he never scored a goal or assist in all the following games, he is also the most talented and talented player in the Premier League. "One of the most talented young players"
After that, he did not forget to help Liverpool recruit this young core of Leicester City and the Three Lions:
"If Ling is in Liverpool, we will Maybe we are already on the road to winning the championship."
Of course, many Leicester City fans said that Gerrard's calculations can be heard in Leicester.
In addition to supporting and echoing Gerrard's interview, Leicester City fans expressed:
"Thank you Steven. But Ling Feng will always belong to Leicester City!"
“Thank you Gerrard, but Ling Feng is not for sale!”
“Love from Leicester! However, Ling Feng will not join Liverpool, thank you!”
As for Ling Feng himself, he didn't take these remarks from some media to heart at all.
After all, this is the true face of some unscrupulous media!
Chasing topics and traffic, entertaining the public, regardless of the life or death of those involved in the report!
Unconsciously, as his fame grew, almost every move he made was put under the spotlight and microscope by the media.
He just didn't expect that he would start to question his performance after not scoring a goal or assisting in three games.
This is what surprised him!
Who do these media think he is? Messi or Ronaldo? !
Although he is satisfied with his performance so far in his first Premier League season.
However, he does not think that he has reached Melo's level.
Even the qualifications to touch Mero are still a little short of that.
Even though he is the new European golden boy.
However, Ling Feng felt relieved when he thought of the British media's usual virtue.
If he was really just a 19-year-old genius, he might be worried about gains and losses due to the pressure from the media, which would lead to a decline in his performance and condition on the field.
The key is that he is not!
In this young body of nineteen years old, there is a soul of the next generation that is nearly thirty years old!
In his eyes, everything the media said was bullshit!
Just listen to those who praise themselves.
If you question or scold yourself, just ignore it!
Don’t you know your own performance clearly?
If you had Melo's ability and didn't score or assist in every game, let alone the media, you would be dissatisfied with your performance.
However, sometimes caring too much about data can be counterproductive.
As long as you run relentlessly on the court, score goals and assists, it will come naturally!
Just when Ling Feng threw all these distracting thoughts away, he suddenly felt someone tap him on the shoulder.
Looking around, what caught my eye was Mahrez’s slightly concerned eyes:
“Hey, what are you thinking about? He’s about to appear!”
Accompanied by Mahrez's words, loud and neat singing in the stadium suddenly entered the home team's locker room and echoed in my ears.
Smiling slightly, Ling Feng shook his head, "Nothing. Let's go."
Watching Ling Feng get up, Mahrez thought Ling Feng was still thinking about the media's doubts.
So, as they walked out of the locker room and headed to the players' tunnel, he did not forget to get close to Ling Feng and comfort him in a low voice:
"Hey, man, don't take what the media said Keep it in mind.”
"They don't know how important you are to us." "There is nothing wrong with your performance!"
Maheres said these words seriously, which made Ling Feng feel warm in his heart.
"Thank you, Riyad! Your support is very important to me."
Shaking hands and bumping shoulders with Mahrez, Ling Feng suddenly felt that the bond between the two had deepened. a bit.
Football is a team sport.
If a football match is a war, then your teammates are the comrades you can rely on to support you in the war!
Thankfully, in Leicester City, he has the absolute support of Mahrez, Vardy, Morgan and other comrades behind him.
So, no matter whether there are stormy waves or thorns all over the place ahead, he has nothing to fear!
. . .
Arriving at the players' tunnel to line up, Ling Feng soon saw Tottenham players wearing yellow away jerseys filing out of the tunnel on the other side.
This is the first meeting between the two sides this season.
Therefore, they are not very familiar with each other.
However, for Ling Feng, there are too many familiar stars in this Tottenham team.
Eriksson, Vertonghen, Kyle Walker, Lamela, Shazli, Bentaleb, Lloris.
His gaze traveled from back to front, scanning the bodies of each Tottenham player.
Finally, it settled on the tall forward wearing the No. 18 jersey!
Harry Kane!
Many people just think that this Tottenham striker has a good scoring efficiency and seems to have some potential.
Kane's brilliance is not as bright as the Danish genius Eriksen who transferred from Ajax last year!
However, among everyone in world football, perhaps only Ling Feng knows how powerful this fledgling Tottenham striker will become in the future.
“Let’s take a look at both sides first. "The squad"
"The starting eleven of the home team Leicester City, except for the Argentinian Ulloa who replaced Vardy who was absent due to injury, and midfielder Andy King replaced Cambiaso. , basically there is not much change from the starting lineup against West Ham United in the last round."
"As for Tottenham, they have made several position changes"
"After Danny Rose replaced Ben Davis and got the starting opportunity to form a very fast full-back combination with Kyle Walker."
"Benjamin Stanbly replaced Mason as the starter, partnering with Bentaleb in the midfield."
"As for the forward, the one who replaced Adebayor as the starting center wore the No. 18 jersey , England’s local striker supernova who has scored consecutive goals recently!”
“Harry Kane!”
While the commentator was introducing the lineups of both sides to the fans in front of the TV with full enthusiasm! , players from both sides lined up from the player tunnel and entered the court.
In an instant, the King Power Stadium suddenly burst into overwhelming cheers!
Feeling the enthusiasm of the Blue Fox fans, Pochettino, who was sitting on the visiting team's coaching bench, couldn't help but cross his arms.
He vaguely felt that this game was definitely not easy to play.
In fact, his intuition was right!
As Tottenham took the lead in kicking off, Leicester City players in blue suddenly rushed across the center line and pressed towards Tottenham's half!
Although the head coach warned in advance, he also emphasized many times that the opponent's playing style is extremely aggressive.
However, the Tottenham players were still caught off guard by the high-position press of the Blue Fox players.
Taking the initiative, forcing the opponent to control the ball in their own half, and then making a mistake.
This is the core idea of Leicester City's high-position pressing tactics!
After learning that Stambouli will start as one of Tottenham's defensive midfielders, Pearson told the frontcourt players before the game, especially his opponent Ling Feng, to grab more Stambouli. This point!
This game is only the fourth game that the French midfielder has started in the Premier League.
Compared with Bentaleb, another talented Algerian midfielder with good foot skills, Stambouli's foot skills and ball-playing ability are average, and he is a defensive engineer midfielder.
His task is to sweep and intercept in the backfield and act as the last barrier in front of the defense.
His ability to pass the ball can only be said to be average, and judging from his performance in the previous games, the former Montpellier vice-captain has obviously not adapted to the rhythm of the Premier League game.
If you press him, with his foot skills, you may make mistakes!
Thinking of this, Ling Feng happened to see Tottenham defender Vertonghen holding the ball and observing the positions of the two defensive midfielders. He started without hesitation and accelerated!
The next second, Vertonghen passed the ball!
And the object of his pass was none other than Stanbly who was retreating to receive the ball!
Just as the ball rolled toward him, Stanbly, who was preparing to catch the ball, heard a loud reminder from his teammates:
"Benjamin, behind you!"
" Behind me?”
Before he could react, a blue afterimage flew past him.
Before him, he stretched out his foot to steal the ball!
“Wang Defa?!”
Astonished, Stambley only saw the big “7” printed on the back of the blue figure!
(End of this chapter)