boyutpedia Chapter 268
Chapter 268
The new season is coming.
Chapter 268 Kante is everywhere, a 1.68-meter-tall little giant!
August 22.
Afternoon.
The King Power Stadium ushered in the second league game of the season.
And the stands were still full.
With the amazing competitiveness and outstanding performance in the Premier League last season, the number of Leicester fans has soared rapidly like a rocket.
In addition to the surge in the number of followers on official social media, the official fan membership club, the number of people who bought season tickets, and the sales of team peripherals have also risen.
According to estimates by professional accounting institutions, if Leicester City can continue to maintain its competitiveness in the Premier League this season, its revenue can at least increase by 30%!
Of course, for fans, they don’t care much whether the team’s income rises or falls.
They buy season tickets, jerseys and scarves to support the team and watch the players contribute wonderful games on the field.
And this season, after the new coach took office, the football played by the team on the field made them all shine!
If the offense last season was described as aggressive like fire.
Then the offense this season is like lightning!
This season, the team reduced the high-pressure pressing in the frontcourt, chose to shrink the defense, and focused on defensive counterattacks.
At the beginning, football experts and commentators believed that such a conservative tactic would seriously limit the offensive talent of the frontcourt players.
In particular, Ling Feng’s freedom in the frontcourt would be greatly weakened.
However, the process and results of the past two games slapped them hard.
Such tactics did not limit Ling Feng’s creativity, but instead magnified his core role infinitely!
Reducing the pressing in the frontcourt does not mean that Ling Feng’s personal ball possession has decreased.
On the contrary, he reduced the frequency of pressing and reserved more energy for attacking.
In addition to positional warfare, Ling Feng is also the team’s first starting point and absolute decision maker in the counterattack phase of the transition from offense to defense.
Once the ball is passed to his feet, whether to pass it directly or move forward is up to him!
He is still the most indispensable core of the Blue Foxes!
Compared with the tactical strategy of last season, which forced the opponent to pass the ball long in the backcourt through pressing in the frontcourt, resulting in mistakes, this season, the opponent will definitely press the formation to attack in order to score goals if the ball is given up.
In doing so, they will enter the extremely densely populated midfield area, and in addition to being pinched, more space will be exposed behind them.
In short, as the team’s defensive position retreats, “luring the enemy deep” has changed from an occasional trick to a fixed routine of the team.
In order to score goals and win, the opponent cannot help but attack!
Even if the opponent is a weaker team, they are here to draw with Leicester City, that is, to control the ball without attacking.
At that time, the team can also take the initiative to attack, press the front court, force the opponent to transfer the ball to the wing, and thus cut off the ball or be forced to attack the wing.
What makes the fans very happy is that Ranieri’s change in tactics allows the team to maintain a strong offensive firepower while looking much more stable on the defensive end.
Even facing the young team with the youngest average age in the Premier League, the Blue Fox fans feel that with the team’s current defensive level, they are not panicking at all!
With the introduction of the stadium DJ and the cheers of the fans, the players of both sides lined up and entered the stadium.
“Welcome to watch the third round of the 15-16 Premier League brought to you by Sky Sports, Leicester City will face Tottenham Hotspur at home”
“In this game, the starting lineups of both sides.”
This season, Tottenham, led by Pochettino, has set off a youth storm.
Kane, 22, Eriksson and Lamela, 20, Dier, 21, Ali and Winks, 19, on the bench
Although the team lost to Manchester United in the first two rounds and then drew with Stoke City without a win.
However, many Tottenham fans are very optimistic that the team is still in the running-in period.
And this game will be the beginning of the team’s strong rebound.
Even if they are facing the Foxes who were in full force in the first two rounds!
In this game, Pochettino’s starting lineup did not change much compared to the previous round.
Goalkeeper is French national goalie Lori, two Belgians Vertonghen and Alderweireld are partners in the double central defenders, and the two full-backs are still the English double wingers,
Walker and Ross.
Two defensive midfielders, Dell who was transformed from a central defender to a defensive midfielder, and Algerian international Bentaleb.
The front four is still Eriksson in the middle, Chadli on the left, Lamela on the right, and Kane rushes forward!
With a long whistle from the referee, Kane, who changed to the number 10 this season, passed the ball back and officially started the focus of the third round of the league!
Although both sides adopted the 4231 tactical formation.
However, the tactics adopted by both sides are different.
In this young Tottenham team, the real core is not the English forward Kane who is at the forefront, nor the Danish genius midfielder Eriksson behind him, but the Belgian international Moussa Dembele who is standing in the defensive midfielder position.
He is the best player in the team in terms of ball control and ball protection, and is also the metronome of Tottenham’s midfield and backcourt.
He can play a great role on both offense and defense, and can break through and steal.
His biggest role on the field is to control the rhythm of the team.
Unfortunately, Dembele is slow, and his dribbling is a bit slow, and he is too obsessed with his footwork.
In positional warfare, his dribbling skills can help the team open up gaps.
But once the team wants to launch a quick counterattack after stealing the ball, his handling will be a little sloppy.
Therefore, Pochettino did not choose to start him in this game, but to partner Bentaleb with Dale.
This season, with Alderweireld’s transfer from Atletico Madrid, Tottenham has gathered the central defender partner of the Belgian national team.
Although they lost three goals in the first two rounds.
However, the state and tacit understanding shown by the two in training made Pochettino feel at ease.
So, Pochettino suddenly had an idea and directly moved Dale from the central defender position to the defensive midfielder position.
And this stroke of genius later proved to be his most correct decision this season.
Dale has excellent defensive ability and a long pass.
When he came to the defensive midfielder position, his main role was to squat. No matter how the defensive midfielder partner around him attacked, he would stay in the area in front of the back line to protect the back line.
Then he could also help the backcourt to a certain extent, using diagonal long passes to quickly transfer the ball to the two flanks.
Tottenham’s tactics have always been focused on flank attacks.
In particular, the two fast full-backs frequently set up assists, which is equivalent to adding wings to Tottenham’s offense.
Crossing from the flank is their main scoring opportunity.
When there is really no chance to cross from the flank, pass the ball to the middle, let Eriksen pass a very penetrating straight pass, find Kane in front, and then complete the finish.
However, against Leicester City, which is not afraid of crosses from the flank, Tottenham’s offense is a bit thunderous but little rain.
Since the start of the game, Tottenham has controlled 60% of the ball possession rate.
They were not polite either, directly according to the tactics, split the flanks, and constantly attacked the two full-backs of the Blue Foxes.
However, Tottenham’s attack looked very lively. The two wingers repeatedly attacked the Foxes’ backfield wing area, and then either crossed from the bottom or directly crossed at a 45-degree angle.
However, almost all high crosses were either blocked directly by the full-backs or easily cleared by Huth and Morgan.
Even Kane, who is 1.88 meters tall, could not get the first point under the double attack of Huth and Morgan.
Moreover, even if they wanted to launch an attack in the middle, Kante, who started the game, became the busiest person in the game.
The French Ligue 1 steal king, who is only 1.68 meters tall, ran all over the field.
Wherever there is danger, he will appear there.
Especially Eriksen, who was so defensive that he doubted his life.
The Danish genius’s dribbling and physical confrontation abilities are average. As long as Kante is close to him, he can’t easily get rid of or pass the ball.
Not to mention organizing an attack.
With the inaccurate passes from the wing and the middle being locked, Tottenham’s offensive did not pose any test to the Blue Fox’s defense.
After more than ten minutes of attack, although Tottenham made as many as six successful crosses, none of the crosses could reach Kane’s feet or head!
Seeing that the high crosses were useless, Tottenham coach Pogba shouted to his disciples on the sidelines:
“Inverted triangle!”
“Low ball!”
“More long shots in the middle!”
However, this decision made the team’s formation more pressing, giving
Seeing this scene, Ranieri, who was standing on the sidelines with his hands folded, frowned.
He knew that the opportunity to counterattack was coming!
In the 35th minute of the game, Tottenham once again pressed the Blue Fox in the half, and then Bentaleb passed the ball to the right side.
Walker.
Facing the Foxes left-back Fuchs, who was 1.9 meters tall, Walker didn’t say a word and just made soup!
Are you kidding? I’m the second fastest car in England!
It’s okay if he can’t outrun Ling Feng. That guy is a monster and can’t be compared with normal people.
But, isn’t it easy to beat an old guy like you? !
Even though the coach emphasized Walker’s speed before the game and Fuchs was mentally prepared, he was still eaten alive by Walker.
The key is that this beast is not only fast, but also very strong.
Even if the experienced Fuchs squeezed with half of his body and scratched with his hands, he couldn’t stop Walker from flying past him.
Is this the speed and confrontation of the Premier League? !
“Wow!”
“Walker looks unstoppable!”
After passing Fuchs, Walker dribbled the ball all the way to the bottom. He glanced at the top of the penalty area and found that Eriksson was already in place.
Without hesitation, he made a reverse triangle pass!
The ball stuck to the grass and flew straight to the top of the penalty area.
“Reverse triangle pass!”
However, just as Eriksson was about to shoot a long shot, a blue figure who had long been aware of the danger took the lead and appeared on the pass line!
It was Kante, who was wearing the No. 14 jersey!
Kante stretched his leg and poked the ball away, and then the whole person was like a small electric motor running at full power, advancing with the ball.
At the same time, Ling Feng in front, Albrighton and Mahrez on the left and right, and Vardy in the front, all rushed forward at the first time.
Four arrows were fired at the same time!
After advancing several meters, Kante passed the ball in time before Bentaleb was about to foul him.
And this ball was passed very well, just on Ling Feng’s forward route.
Seeing that Ling Feng was about to catch up with the ball, the defensive midfielder Dell who stayed behind made a decisive choice to rush forward.
Even if the ball passed, the person could not pass!
However, just as he went down to the ground to make a tackle, Ling Feng seemed to have expected it long ago. He just changed direction and accelerated, and easily avoided Dell’s sliding tackle.
Then, he immediately sent a silky outside instep pass forward!
The ball just slipped past the feet of Tottenham center back Alderweireld, and then with some turns, it came just in front of Vardy.
Facing this very comfortable pass, Vardy did not stop the ball, but observed the position of goalkeeper Lori, and then directly took advantage of the situation to shoot!
Alderweireld, who was half a beat slower, could only go down to make a tackle and stretched his legs as much as possible to block the shooting angle, but he was powerless.
With a “bang”, the ball turned into a black afterimage, flew over Lori’s head and hit the white net.
The distance was so close that Lori, who was standing on the goal line, didn’t even have time to make a save. He just subconsciously raised his hands and made a very standard Gallic salute!
The next second, the entire King Power Stadium suddenly erupted in deafening cheers.
“The ball went in!”
“This is the fifth league goal of the Blue Fox No. 9 this season!”
“What a great shooter!”
After scoring the goal, Vardy ran directly to the corner flag area, excitedly punched the air and celebrated, releasing his inner passion and excitement.
With the tempering of his first season in the Premier League, Vardy has become more and more outstanding in his second season in the Premier League!
After completing the celebration, he turned around, pointed at Ling Feng who was running towards him with a smile, and raised his hands to high-five him.
“Man, that pass was so comfortable!”
“Hehe.”
Ling Feng certainly didn’t forget the hero of this goal.
He pulled Kante to his side, put his arm around his shoulders, and praised loudly:
“N’Golo, great job!”
It can be said that without Kante’s steals and passes, there would be no goal!
Facing the praise from Ling Feng and other teammates, Kante just smiled shyly, revealing a row of white teeth.
Looking at the Foxes who gathered together to celebrate, the Tottenham youth team looked at each other in bewilderment.
If you can’t attack for a long time, you will be punished!
This is one of the laws of football.
However, what they can’t figure out is why the opponent only passed the ball a few times and penetrated their own goal.
What they can’t figure out even more is why this Fox team is so different from the Fox team last season.
Especially on the defensive end, the Foxes seem to have become the indestructible Blues last season!
After the second kick-off, the Tottenham players, who were behind in the score, pressed forward with even more determination.
However, every time their offensive pushed past the middle
If he goes beyond the circle line, he will be attacked by the Blue Foxes.
Especially the short black midfielder wearing the number 14, who is almost everywhere!
He runs tirelessly, always appears in the most needed place at the right time, and then cooperates with his teammates to intercept the ball!
In one round after another of Tottenham’s fierce attack, the most frequent name in the commentator’s mouth is “Kante”
No one would have thought that this short and thin black midfielder would have such great energy!
(End of this chapter)