Chapter 71

"Did you notice that Leicester City made some tactical changes today?"

"The most obvious is that Harry Kane is placed at the top of the front line, replacing the previous striker Vardy."

"This shows that the coach intends to use Harry Kane's comprehensive coverage ability to play the core role of attack, and they abandoned the familiar 433 formation and changed to 4231. This change is still a big one."

"This change still surprised me. 433 has been the standard system played by Leicester City throughout the season."

"I wonder if this change will have an unexpected effect? Or will it give Cardiff City an opportunity to take advantage of it??"

""On the other hand, Cardiff City's formation was more stable, still using their usual 433 formation, with a heavy presence in the midfield."

"In this game, we can focus on the midfield. It seems that both teams want to compete for the control of the midfield.

Lingard kicked off from the center circle, and Leicester City took the lead.

The ball flew to the right wing at a very fast speed, and Li Lei immediately rushed forward. Although the position was later than usual, it could well cover Lingard while preparing for a breakthrough.

With the cheers of the fans, other Leicester City players quickly followed, obviously wanting to put pressure on the opponent first.

While Cardiff City was surprised, Lingard had already dribbled into the half, and Li Lei took the opportunity to join the substitutes. The two cooperated very smoothly.

"Cardiff City obviously failed to adapt to the momentum of Leicester City's fierce attack. They could only retreat to their own half, and their formation became too shrunk."

"Leicester City pushed deeper and deeper, and began to bombard Cardiff City's penalty area."

The game was one-sided, and the ball was always controlled by Leicester City players.

The shouts of the players on the field have not stopped since the game started.

"Spread it!"

"Here, pass it over quickly"

"Lingard, catch it!"

The shouts on the field stopped abruptly, and all eyes were fixed on the figure on the sideline.

Li Lei came in alone, found an opportunity at the edge of the penalty area, and kicked the ball towards the goal with a world wave!

87,000 spectators gasped at the same time. The shot was too sudden and too fast. No one could react in time. Fortunately, Cardiff City's goalkeeper Dave Richards was highly focused and kept his eyes on the threatening players on the field.

He jumped high and lifted the ball with his palm.

The audience was stunned on the spot, and then burst into deafening cheers.

As Richards made a thrilling save, the whole stadium was still in the excitement of that moment and could not recover.

The first to react were the Cardiff City players. Several people looked at each other with incredible expressions on their faces.

Li Lei himself was so annoyed that he smiled bitterly and knelt on the ground with his hands on his head, repeating"What a pity!"

In the audience, Leicester City fans also knocked their heads in frustration for Li Lei's mistake.

Only Richards, after a long breath, was still stomping his feet and punching in celebration.

On the south stand, old White said with a face full of annoyance:"Ah! It almost went in."

"Yes! What a pity!"

"But it doesn't matter, the game has just started, and this has already put enough pressure on Cardiff City."

"I was stunned by Li Lei's shot just now!"

"Look at the expressions of Cardiff City fans, they seem to be constipated, haha!"

Leicester City got a corner kick opportunity, and all the fans were looking at Li Lei in the center of the court.

He was seen holding the ball and coming to the corner of the flag. At the same time, he nodded to Kane in the center of the penalty area, indicating that he was ready to compete for the header, and called on more teammates to compete for the header.

This caused chaos in the penalty area, and everyone crowded and pushed each other.

As Li Lei kicked the ball to the back point, Harry Kane took advantage of his height advantage to occupy the back point position.

Kane took a deep breath, and when he was about to jump up and head the ball, a strong force suddenly pulled his jersey from behind.

Barnett behind him used all his strength to prevent him from leaving, holding the cloth tightly with both hands.

Kane, who was disturbed, barely jumped up and completed the attack.

He pushed hard, but the ball flew lightly to the goalkeeper and was confiscated by Richards.

Kane, who was disturbed, immediately quarreled with Barnett behind him.

"Foul! You son of a bitch, you know it's a foul?"

"Shit, I'll beat the shit out of you."

Teammates from both sides came over and pushed each other.

The referee came and ended the farce.

"Referee, you saw it too, he pulled me in the penalty area, it should be a penalty."Kane began to put pressure on the referee when he saw this.

Seeing that the referee was about to take out a card, Kane gave up pestering him.

He did this for his own purpose. Everyone saw Cardiff City's foul, which put pressure on the referee.

At the very least, it would allow the referee to be more lenient with them in the next game to make up for their losses.

In the end, the referee awarded a goal kick.

When the goalkeeper wanted to send a quick attack, the Leicester City players had already fallen back to their own half, so he had to throw the ball to defender Matthew Connolly who came to meet them.

"After Richards' long pass, Cardiff City began to pass the ball in the backcourt and control the ball."

"We saw Harry Kane trying his best to press and disrupt their passing rhythm, and Li Lei on the wing also got involved."

"Cardiff City's defenders had to change their strategy and pass the ball from the back to the midfield."

"Ben Nugent passed the ball to their central midfielder Josef Varga.