After defeating Switzerland in Basel, the Three Lions ended this period's national team mission with joy and laughter.
The generals took a special plane back to England and returned to their respective homes.
Ling Feng, who participated in the national team competition, got a rare day off.
Starting on August 16, in just four weeks, he participated in three league games and two national team games.
Although the schedule is not too tight, I don’t feel tired. However, proper relaxation is necessary
Just as Ling Feng was sitting on the sofa in his living room, scrolling through social media, Sophia, who looked paralyzed, put a simple tuna salad on the coffee table:
“Boss, your tuna salad”
As his life assistant, Sofia not only drives him to and from time to time, arranges his daily itinerary, and teaches him Spanish, but also makes him some simple salads.
"Thanks."
After picking up the plate, Ling Feng grabbed a fork, picked up a piece of boiled tuna, and put it into his mouth.
The tuna tastes pretty good with a little black peppercorns added.
While he was enjoying his lunch, the female assistant suddenly said:
"Boss, I have something to talk to you about."
"you say."
"I wish you could hire a personal chef instead of having me cook for you."
As soon as these words came out, Ling Feng was a little unexpected and showed a puzzled expression:
"Why do you say that suddenly?"
"First of all, I am your assistant, and I should help you arrange all the things in your daily life. However, I know nothing about nutrition, and I can't prepare a reasonable meal for you."
"I only hope to use my professional knowledge to help you. But in this regard, I can't help you."
As a professional player who engages in high-intensity sports, he consumes a lot of energy every day and requires a large amount of nutrition.
Moreover, you must not be casual when it comes to diet!
The role of the personal chef is to ensure that he is well fed and healthy in his daily life after leaving the team base.
In this way, you can maintain a healthy body and be able to give 100% to the game on the court!
Many strictly self-disciplined stars have their own personal chefs.
Ling Feng is now in the muscle-building period, and he must ensure adequate nutrition while slowly increasing his muscles.
It was precisely because her cooking skills could not help Ling Feng that Sophia made this proposal.
Otherwise, based on Ling Feng's understanding of her, he wouldn't care at all whether he was wearing multiple hats.
After hearing Sophia's explanation, Ling Feng understood why she suddenly brought up this matter.
In fact, he has also considered this issue.
In the team base, there are team chefs who can prepare reasonable meals for them.
However, when he returns home, he usually eats the food cooked by his mother, Julia.
Although Julia's cooking skills are very good, all the dishes she cooks are what he likes to eat.
However, for professional players who need to strictly control their weight and have balanced nutrition, there are too many things that they cannot eat.
What's more, if he has a girlfriend in the future and plans to move out, he can't let Julia come over to cook for him every day.
He is him, and his mother is his mother. Julia also has her own work and life, and is not a servant who revolves around him.
Thinking of this, Ling Feng put down the plate and nodded: "What you said makes sense. But I don't know any chefs."
"Don't worry, I will find several candidates for you, and then let them cook for you, and then you can see which one you like."
"Of course, you have to pay their salaries."
"That's for sure!"
"By the way, the bodyguard I told you about last time, would you like to help you select a few candidates for interviews?"
"That's fine."
A personal chef ensures that his diet is healthy. The bodyguards ensure his personal health.
Now he is an England international and a millionaire.
If someone is eyeing him, having a bodyguard with a round waist and thick arms can save unnecessary trouble.
Seeing Ling Feng nod, Sophia took out a notebook directly from her trouser pocket. While adding these two items to the small notebook, she did not forget to say:
"By the way, I bought a flight ticket from Warsaw to Milan on the morning of the 18th, and also arranged a hotel for you. I have sent it to your email. Please take a look and tell me if there is anything that needs to be changed. "
On September 17, Leicester City will travel to Warsaw, Poland to participate in the first round of the Europa League group stage.
Ling Feng had previously promised Kendall that he would go to Milan to watch her catwalk.
Therefore, he planned to use the day off after the competition to go to Milan, the "fashion capital", to experience the legendary Fashion Week!
The next day, when Ling Feng returned to the club to report, he received good news from the club staff:
The shortlist for the Premier League Coach and Player of the Month for August is out!
Among the candidates for the best coach are the "madman" Mourinho of Chelsea, the favorite to win the championship, Monk, the young coach who led Swansea to three consecutive victories, and Aston Villa coach Lambert, who won two games and drew one. , and coach Pearson who led newly promoted Leicester City to perform well.
The candidate list for the best player includes the popular striker Costa, who scored four goals in three rounds, the Blues' new offensive engine Cesc Fabregas, who scored two goals and one assist in three rounds, and the Liverpool wing killer Stellar, who scored two goals and one assist in three rounds. Lin and Swansea's "Iceland Sniper" Sigurdsson and other players.
Leicester City core Ling Feng, who contributed one goal and five assists in three rounds, also entered the candidate list with his outstanding performance.
In the opinion of many fans and football experts, the winner of August's Best Coach will be born from Chelsea's Mourinho and Swansea's Monk.
The former led Chelsea's luxurious lineup to three consecutive victories, which did not surprise anyone.
The latter led Swansea, a mid-table team, to achieve three consecutive victories in the opening game, which is even more commendable!
The August Player of the Year award is likely to be awarded to one of Costa, Fabregas and Ling Feng.
Chelsea's two new players are the absolute contributors to Chelsea's three consecutive victories.
However, the newly promoted team, which has a relatively weak lineup, has delivered an explosive record of one goal and five assists, which adds a lot of points to Ling Feng's performance.
Ling Feng took it very lightly when it came to his inclusion in the candidate list for the Premier League Player of the Month.
It's just Player of the Month, not a Ballon d'Or.
If you can’t get it this month, then keep working hard next month.
As long as he performs well every month, this award will be his own sooner or later!
Until the day before the fourth round of the Premier League, the Premier League officially announced the best coaches and players in August, as well as the candidates for the best team:
Blues striker Costa, who scored four goals and helped the team win three consecutive victories, defeated Ling Feng, Xiaofa, Sigurdsson and others to win the August Player of the Year award!
The 35-year-old Swansea coach Monk defeated Mourinho and won the best coach in August!
Although he missed his first Premier League Player of the Month award.
However, Ling Feng was still selected as the best team for August.
This also allowed him to complete the achievement of [Premier League Team of the Month] and receive a system reward of some free attribute points.
It can be regarded as some small comfort.
. . .
September 13th.
After more than eight months, Ling Feng once again accompanied the team to Stoke-on-Trent.
The Britannia Stadium can be regarded as the place where he made his debut.
Thinking back to the beginning, before he stepped onto the Britannia Stadium, he was just a youth team player who had just been promoted to the first team.
And now, he has become the absolute core and team leader of Leicester City!
At that time, it was with Ling Feng's two assists against the Premier League team Stoke City in the FA Cup that the team achieved a comeback and advanced to the next round.
It was precisely because of his emergence that Leicester City had the amazing feat of defeating Premier League teams all the way and finally winning the championship!
However, compared to the first meeting between the two sides, Lingfeng and Leicester City are no longer what they used to be.
Compared with last season, Stoke City has also made reinforcements in key positions.
Especially on the front line, they exempted Hannover 96 forward Diouf, bought La Masia prodigy Bojan from Barcelona, and loaned Nigerian winger Moses from Chelsea.
Coupled with Anautovic, Shawcross, Crouch and other famous players in the formation, Stoke City is definitely not an easy target.
In the last round of the game, they also relied on their excellent defense to defeat Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium.
This is at home again.
Therefore, many football commentators and reporters have predicted that Leicester City is likely to fail.
There is also bad news for Leicester City, which is playing away from home.
That is, after returning from the national team match day, the team's number one goalkeeper Schmeichel suffered from muscle fatigue.
For safety reasons, he did not follow the team to the away game, but stayed in Leicester City to rest.
In this game, Pearson used the 26-year-old second goalkeeper Ben Hamer as the starting goalkeeper.
In addition to being forced to make adjustments to the goalkeeper position, Pearson also made a major rotation of the starting lineup:
Konokat replaced Mahrez and Albrighton replaced Lingard as the starting winger on the left and right sides.
Vardy took a rest and Argentina center Ulloa got his first league start.
In the midfield, Andy King and Matty James also became the starters for this game.
The six players in the midfield and frontcourt, except for Ling Feng who is still starting, have all been changed!
The four players in the defense remain unchanged.
Although half of the lineup has been rotated.
However, after the opening, it was the Blue Fox who took the initiative on the court!
As the core of the team's frontcourt, Pearson gave Ling Feng the greatest degree of freedom.
He is more like a free man in the frontcourt than an attacking midfielder who mainly attacks the center.
He can freely change positions at any time according to the situation on the field and the strength and position of the opponent's players.
Only ten minutes into the game, Ling Feng cruised to the right and penetrated the ribs between Stoke City's center back and fullback. After receiving a direct pass from Conoket, he directly sent a beautiful ball into the penalty area without stopping. Curved pass.
The ball just passed the forward point of Stoke City captain Shawcross, who was afraid to stretch his feet, and fell in front of Ulloa, who was sandwiched between two centre-backs.
The Argentine reacted very quickly in front of the goal. He just raised his leg and knocked the ball into the goal guarded by Begovic!
"The ball went in!!!"
"The scorer is No. 23, Leonardo~~~ Ulloa!"
"The Argentinian scored his first goal after joining Leicester City in his first league start!"
After scoring the goal, Ulloa rushed directly to the stands where the fans of the away team were, and raised his hand from bottom to top, like a stage performer greeting the audience.
This novel celebration also made the fans of the visiting team extremely excited and shouted Ulloa's name one after another.
After taking the lead, Leicester City did not slow down the pace of the attack, but continued to launch wave after wave of fierce attacks on Stoke City's defense!
Perhaps it's because the rotation players in the midfield and frontcourt are all starting in the league for the first time, and they are holding back a lot of energy and want to perform well to the head coach and fans.
Whether it is offense or defense, Albrighton, Conoket and others are working very hard on the court, and they can be seen flying everywhere.
Coupled with Ling Feng's shouts from time to time on the court, Leicester City successfully turned away and suppressed the home team at the Britannia Stadium!
Facing Leicester City's fierce offensive, Stoke City's players also looked at each other, a little confused.
what's the situation?
They were beaten like this when they played against Manchester City in the last game.
However, Manchester City is Manchester City, so what the hell is this Leicester City? !
However, they never imagined that the tactics of Leicester City this season and Leicester City last season have undergone earth-shaking changes!
Last season, facing Stoke City, Leicester City could only rely on defensive counterattacks and Ling Feng's superb passing to reverse the game.
But now, when Leicester City came to their home court, they directly pressed forward with full formation and put on a fierce attack posture? !
What shocked the Stoke City players the most was Ling Feng’s huge changes!
Eight months ago, Ling Feng was still a young rookie who only relied on passing and running to influence the game;
Eight months later, his passing is still sharp, and he passes wherever he points.
Even all aspects of speed, strength, golf intelligence, and even the ability to attack the goal have improved visibly!
Moreover, he seemed extremely excited to face Stoke City, his first opponent in his career!
In the 36th minute of the game, due to pressing out of the formation and attacking Leicester City, Stoke City's defense had more space.
Albrighton on the left received a pass from Andy King, strode forward along the wing, and then without hesitation crossed to find Ulloa in the center.
The Argentinian, who was firmly established in the penalty area, still maintained his balance under the tug of Shawcross, shook his head and pushed the ball back.
At the same time, Ling Feng got rid of the entanglement of the midfielder and accelerated to the top of the penalty area.
Looking at the ball that had not yet hit the ground, Ling Feng had an idea and subconsciously chose to push with his legs!
For fear of hitting the ball into the stands, he did not shoot with all his strength, but pushed the ball down as much as possible.
With an explosion of "bang", the ball turned into a cannonball and shot out.
With the double blessing of the [Volley] attribute and [Putter Master], this shot had both ball speed and angle, and hit the upper right corner of the goal.
Even if Begovic flew to make a save, he could not touch the ball at all.
Suddenly, the net shook, and the visiting team fans instantly burst into amazing cheers!
"Wow!"
"Ling Feng scored his second goal of the game and his second goal in the league!"
"This volley shot is definitely a strong contender for the best goal in this league!"
After scoring the goal, Ling Feng just raised his arms lightly and showed a bright smile of a winner.
(End of chapter)
