"Wow!"
"I saw something!"
"This is an iconic Beckham cross that has been missing from the Premier League for a long time!!"
"I heard that Ling Feng went to the United States this summer and participated in Beckham's charity match."
"It seems he learned a lot from Beckham"
Seeing that he scored in his first game in the Premier League, a bright smile suddenly appeared on Lingard's face.
The next second, he was about to rush to the corner flag area, but as if he suddenly thought of something, his steps stopped.
Then he turned around and ran all the way, rushing towards Ling Feng who passed a beautiful cross to him.
Ling Feng opened his arms to greet him, but unexpectedly Lin Huang directly put his arms around his waist and lifted him high.
Then he put him down and Lin Huangcai said to Ling Feng excitedly:
"Man! Your passing is so accurate!"
"I told you, as long as you run into the open space, I will pass the ball to you!"
Twenty-five minutes into the game, Leicester City relied on Ling Feng's "Ling's Curve" pass from the right side of the frontcourt at home to help Lingard score a header and once again expand their advantage.
The score on the field came to two to zero!
Seeing Lingard score in his debut, Pearson in the stands pumped his fist again in celebration!
It is worth mentioning that every time he plays at home, Pearson does not like other head coaches to stand on the sidelines to direct, or sit on the coaching bench to watch the game.
Instead, he prefers to sit in the home stands, take an overview of the situation, and then check the players' execution of tactics and what areas need improvement on both ends of the team's offense and defense.
This was true in the English Championship, and it is also true after promotion to the Premier League.
To this end, the King Power Stadium also specially set up a special "coaching seat" for him in the stands with the best view, so that he and his coaching staff can observe the direction of the game from a high position.
Of course, once there is a substitution, he will also communicate with the assistant coach Shakespeare on the sidelines through the earphone, allowing him to make substitutions and tactical arrangements.
Looking at Lingard hugging other teammates, Pearson was satisfied with the speed with which the loaned Manchester United star integrated into the team.
This is also the effect they want to achieve by renting Lingard!
Turning his head, he looked at his old buddy Walsh beside him and smiled slightly:
"Steve, I regret it."
"Why?"
"I regret that we didn't include a buyout clause in this kid's rental contract."
In fact, Pearson was just joking.
As a well-established Red Devils youth training ground, Manchester United had no intention of letting Lingard leave from the beginning of the negotiations.
You can rent it out for leveling up, and you can negotiate for a transfer or buyout!
The better Lingard performs during his loan spell, the harder it will be for him to stay at the Foxes.
However, those are things for the future.
At least this season, this young man belongs to their Leicester City!
. . .
Less than thirty minutes into the first half, the home team took a two-goal lead.
Things are looking great for Leicester City.
The Everton players were a little stunned.
They never expected before the game that the newly promoted team's attacking coordination would be so smooth and sharp.
Except for Jagielka and Baines, who had already learned Lingfeng's skills, the other Everton players all set their sights on the black-haired young man who dominated the game.
Although I have heard of Ling Feng's reputation for a long time.
However, after actually competing with him, they discovered that the praise and praise given to him by all the media in England was not exaggerated at all!
This Blue Fox No. 7 really has the personal ability to change the situation on the field in an instant!
At the same time, Ross Barkley's mind was still replaying the extremely curved cross just now.
In the end, he realized with dismay that if it were him, he would not be able to pass such an accurate arc pass!
Lukaku’s inner thoughts are very simple and simple:
"Nangu. It would be great if he was my teammate."
While the Leicester City players were celebrating, Everton coach Robert Martinez, who was looking serious on the sidelines, called the nearby left back Baines to the sidelines for a face-to-face instruction:
"Tell James (McCarthy) to give him a fight before No. 7 gets the ball!"
"Also, so are the others. As long as Ling Feng changes his position to whichever side he is, and goes straight to the body, it doesn't matter if he commits a foul!"
"We must not give him a chance to play!"
"Also, the ball was played from the backcourt to the two wings. Romelu (Lukaku) contained their center back in the middle, and there was room for a breakthrough on the wings!"
"I understand, coach."
Soon, the coach's instructions reached the ears of other Everton players.
As the man who almost led Everton to the Champions League last season, Spanish coach Martinez is not a fool. On the contrary, his coaching level has been widely recognized by English football.
Led Wigan Athletic to avoid relegation for three consecutive seasons, and defeated Manchester City last year to win the first FA Cup championship in team history.
After Wigan Athletic was relegated, in his first season at Everton, he led the Toffees to a record high in the Premier League and successfully qualified for the European Cup.
Although he will coach the Belgian national team in the future, his results in international competitions are unsatisfactory and he is considered by fans to have wasted the talent of Belgium's golden generation.
However, Martinez's ability to train the team's offense is still very good.
And he obviously saw the problem of the team's offensive disadvantage and made tactical changes immediately!
After kick-off, Everton's players also began to implement the coach's tactical instructions:
Since Lukaku involves the defense of two central defenders in the middle, there will be more space on the wings.
Under the instructions of the coach, facing Leicester City's pressing frontcourt, Everton's midfielder and backfielder directly made long passes to find the two wingers.
Everton's two wingers, South African international Pienaar and Belgian international Miralas, are both breakthrough players with delicate skills at their feet and excellent dribbling.
Moreover, they are fast enough!
In the 30th minute of the game, Everton left back Baines made a direct pass and found Pienaar on the left.
Under the defense of Leicester City right back De Wright, Pienaar knocked his heel, turned around, and passed the latter.
Immediately afterwards, he advanced with the ball, reached the left side of the frontcourt, and passed directly with his left foot.
Under Morgan's close guarding, Kaku accelerated in the middle, grabbed the front point, aimed his left foot at the mid-height ball, and volleyed hard!
There was only a "bang" sound, and the ball turned into a shell and hit the upper right corner of the goal.
Fortunately, Schmeichel reacted quickly enough, moved to the near corner in advance, raised his hand to block, and caused the ball to change direction and slide out slightly.
This powerful shot made the Blue Fox fans break out in a cold sweat, and they immediately gave their goalkeeper a warm round of applause.
In the next ten minutes, Everton rediscovered their offensive feeling and repeatedly created threats on the wing.
Facing Pienaar and Miralas one-on-one on the wing, Leicester City's two full-backs looked very embarrassed.
Even with the help of the midfielder, it can't contain the opponent's explosion and can only foul.
In the 40th minute of the game, Everton once again created a scoring opportunity.
And this time, it's Miralas' turn on the right to show off!
Returning to the area on the right side of the midfield, after receiving a large-scale long pass from Baines in the backcourt, the small Belgian attacker drove the ball along the side and initiated a one-on-one with the Blue Fox right back Konchesky. pick.
The thirty-three-year-old Konchesky, although his defensive strength is guaranteed, his physical flexibility and speed are completely unable to keep up with Miralas.
Miralas only had a small bicycle at his feet, so he lured him to take action.
However, the moment he made the steal, he made a change in rhythm and passed Konchesky cleanly.
Then, he cut inside with the ball and reached the penalty area line.
At the same time, Lukaku in the center moved to the left, opening up space for him and forcing Morgan to leave his defense zone.
Facing another Blue Fox center back Moore, who came up, Miralas dunked his left foot to the right and followed the trend with his right foot.
Since he was already in the penalty area, Moore, who had been passed, did not dare to take action, so he could only let him move away from the shooting angle.
"Excellent beauty! Miralas!"
"Single sword!"
Facing Schmeichel with his arms outstretched to block the near corner, Miralas swings his right leg without hesitation, aiming for the far corner and volleying hard!
The distance was too close, and the ball was extremely fast, coming close to the turf.
Schmeichel was a little slow when he got off the ground and could only watch the ball fly past his feet.
Immediately afterwards, the ball banged, hit the inside of the far post, and bounced straight into the goal behind him!
The next second, there was only a "wow", and the silent away fans suddenly burst into amazing cheers!
"Wow!"
"A personal performance!"
"Kevin~~ Miralas!"
"The Belgium international helped Everton regain a win away from home!"
As the goal was pulled back, the Leicester City generals, who were originally relaxed and even a little proud, couldn't help but feel solemn.
At this moment, they have realized something very important:
They are no longer in the Championship, but in the Premier League!
If it's in the Championship and they lead by two goals, they basically win the game.
But in the Premier League, even if they lead by two goals at home, they cannot relax.
Because every Premier League team has the ability to change the situation on the field in an instant and send the ball into their own goal!
And they are just a newly promoted team!
. . .
After improving on the offensive end and getting a goal back, Everton players also stepped up their efforts on the defensive end.
Especially for Ling Feng, the core midfielder of Leicester City, he showed no mercy!
After another kick-off, Leicester passed the ball all the way back, drawing Everton out of their formation.
Immediately afterwards, Marty James took the ball in midfield and looked in the direction of Ling Feng.
Seeing Ling Feng retreat, he immediately passed the ball over.
Just as Ling Feng stepped forward to catch the ball, McCarthy, who was following closely behind, accelerated and stepped forward to secretly push his waist from behind.
Unprepared, Ling Feng fell forward and fell to the ground.
The next second, the referee's sharp whistle sounded suddenly!
McCarthy also spread his hands with an innocent face and defended the referee:
"I didn't even try hard, he fell down on his own!"
However, the referee ignored him and waved his hands with a very firm tone:
"This is a pushing foul!"
Seeing Ling Feng get up from the ground, the referee signaled that he could kick off.
After passing the ball to the nearby "drinking brother", Ling Feng patted the grass clippings on his shorts and continued running as if nothing had happened.
He has long been accustomed to the opponent's focus on marking.
Ling Feng thought this was just a very common foul in the game.
However, he soon discovered that he seemed to be targeted!
In the rest of the first half, no matter where Ling Feng ran, trying to receive a pass from his teammates, he would be knocked down by his opponent before he could catch the ball.
Not only McCarthy, who was guarding him like a piece of candy, but other Everton players were not polite to him at all.
Compared with the obvious rough moves in the British Championship, the fouls committed by Everton players were all in the form of personal confrontation to foul him.
The advantage of this foul method is that it is very ambiguous.
Confrontations in the Premier League are fierce, and referees are often ambiguous in their decisions about confrontations.
Therefore, in the next few confrontations, Ling Feng suffered the hidden disadvantage of having no experience in the Premier League.
Being knocked over by an Everton player with the shoulder or pushed away by the butt was considered by the referee as a reasonable confrontation and the ball was lost.
Ling Feng finally understood the penalty standards of the Premier League.
As long as they are not pushed down by overhands or dangerous actions such as flashing shoe spikes, all physical confrontation actions may fall within the scope of "reasonable confrontation".
The rough confrontation in the Premier League is definitely a disadvantage for a technical player like him who does not have outstanding physical fitness.
Therefore, before the Premier League starts, many media and football commentators believe that no matter how talented Ling Feng is, it will take some time to adapt to the rhythm and confrontation of the Premier League.
Under Everton's strangulation, Ling Feng's shortcomings of insufficient confrontation ability and average dribbling ability were also exposed.
If he has strong core strength, he can maintain his body balance under the interference and collision of opponents, and thus calmly handle the ball at his feet;
If he has excellent dribbling skills at his feet, he can pass his opponents over and over again in a flash.
However, these two abilities are his current shortcomings!
In the past, Ling Feng would have avoided this kind of physical confrontation that was detrimental to him by changing positions with Mahrez and reducing his contact with the ball.
But now, he has a new way to break the situation.
That is super explosive power!
Want to guard against me?
You guys can give it a try!
In the 43rd minute of the game, Ling Feng, whose white shorts were already stained with grass clippings, retreated in the midfield again.
"Danny!"
Faced with Ling Feng's initiative, "Brother Drinking Water" didn't hesitate at all and passed the ball directly.
When he stepped forward to catch the ball, Ling Feng suddenly accelerated, suddenly widening the distance between him and the defender behind him.
After receiving the ball, he did not turn around in a hurry, but directly knocked the ball to the right back De Wright who was inserted on the right side, and he turned around and ran forward.
De Wright then passed the ball to Mahrez in front. Mahrez flicked the ball and then handed the ball to Ling Feng who came to the center to receive the ball.
Just when McCarthy pounced, Ling Feng didn't stop the ball and sent a scalpel-like through ball!
The ball stuck to the turf and directly penetrated the space on the right side of Everton's ribs.
Vardy, who started early, made a diagonal pass and got the ball in front of Jagielka in the penalty area.
Facing a very narrow shooting angle and a defensive player on the left, Vardy fully demonstrated the instinct of a super shooter.
Immediately kick up and explode the rod vigorously!
The distance is too close and the ball speed is too fast.
The ball turned into an afterimage and flew over Everton goalkeeper Howard's bald head!
(End of chapter)
