Chapter 16 Busy
Crystal Palace may not be unfamiliar to some domestic football fans. Fan Zhiyi was awarded the title of Asian Footballer of the Year for his performance in Crystal Palace.
Of course, Crystal Palace back then would not be as bad as it is this year. It was obvious just when Mr. Ranieri said it.
"We were lucky this time. Midfielder Jedinaq was out due to injury. He is currently the team's top scorer with 5 goals."
When I said this, Eggsy's first reaction was: "Wow! This midfielder can actually shoot, unlike me, who is still learning how to shoot from Vardy and Shinji Okazaki."
Maybe Eggsy really put all his skills into technical moves, agility, dribbling and understanding of football, otherwise how come he still can't learn it after studying for so long?
Vardy was also quite emotional about this sentence. When he heard that the opponent had scored 5 goals, he felt like a giant lemon with sour smell everywhere.
Leicester City's performance in the first half of the year was as bad as it could be. If Vardy, as a striker, hadn't offended many agents because of his bad temper, he wouldn't have been stranded in Leicester City with nowhere to go.
But even so, Vardy still scored 8 goals in the first half of the year!
But as far as the current situation is concerned, Vardy hasn't opened yet, so it's normal for him to feel sour.
But while he was looking sour, he also stared at Eggsy, looking a little resentful.
However, all of this was seen by Mr. Ranieri. He coughed, suddenly used the tactical board in his hand to block Vardy's gaze, and turned to give instructions to Eggsy.
"Eggsy, the last time we played against Queens Park Rangers, they underestimated us."
Mr. Ranieri's tactical board successfully blocked Vardy's attention, and then attracted all of Eggsy's attention to himself.
"So, they will definitely keep an eye on you the whole time and try to stop you from passing the ball and making tactical retreats."
Ranieri raised the tactical board in his hand, pointed to Eggsy's position in the center, and then moved Morgan and Kante closer to Eggsy's position.
"Although with the two of them by your side, it shouldn't be a big problem, but..." Ranieri looked at Eggsy and said, "You still have to be careful. Crystal Palace is currently the team with the fewest passes and average ball possession in the Premier League. Do you know what this means?"
Eggsy was now fully alert, and it was obvious that he realized the danger of this game to himself.
"It means that his midfield will use fast break tactics to fight with me for possession of the ball."
Mr. Ranieri said nothing but just looked at Eggsy, because he knew that this was definitely a challenge in Eggsy's just starting career.
But Eggsy's shining black eyes told him that he was full of confidence!
After Eggsy ate to his heart’s content for the first time in the last match against Queen’s Park, he has been relying on that happy feeling of fullness to sustain himself until now.
Moreover, these days Eggsy still didn't dare to go to the team's showroom, because he would still get excited when he saw the trophy. Once he got excited, he would feel the corners of his eyes getting hot, and he would know that his eyes had turned golden without even looking.
If only it would turn golden, he would want glory, excitement, happiness, and the cheers of the fans more and more. He desperately wanted to score goals, to assist, and to play in the game.
But the more anxious Eggsy was, the less likely it was to succeed. During this period, Eggsy worked very hard to practice shooting and dribbling faster.
But in the end, Eggsy's shot either hit the post or his dribbling speed was not fast enough and he tripped himself. He fell so hard that he now has a Band-Aid on his forehead and the scratches on his knees are very obvious.
At that time, Eggsy almost fell down in the air and rolled over. His teammates in the team competition were scared and rushed over to see Eggsy, only to find that the child was in such a state.
Eggsy, with scars like this, went out with his teammates again afterwards. Although Eggsy had scratches on his face, he had a different kind of handsomeness that made the older sister and mother fans who were waiting at the door scream on the spot!
"Eggsy baby! Mommy loves you!"
"Sister, look at sister here!"
"Baby, what happened to your face? I feel sorry for you, baby!"
All the team members looked at Eggsy's fans in surprise. Normally, shouldn't these people call him girlfriend or wife?
Why did everything change when it came to Eggsy?
But what about Eggsy? He didn't even look at these enthusiastic mothers and sisters. He borrowed Vardy's headphones to listen to the class!
The fans obviously noticed that the white headphones with cat ears and flashing lights were not Vardy's before? Why are they on my kid's head now?
And then look at Zizi, he didn’t even look at the fans here, and he was so close to Vardy…
The fans immediately thought they knew the truth and their eyes were burning with anger as they looked at Vardy!
"Valdi! Stay away from our cubs!"
"Damn it! Doesn't Valdimo want to keep the cub for himself?"
Eggsy didn't hear what the fans were saying, but Vardy, who was walking in front of him, definitely heard it. He glared at those fans, and then seeing that they kept talking about Eggsy, he immediately became malicious.
Vardy actually reached out and held Eggsy's hand, pretending to be carrying the baby casually, for fear that the baby who was listening to the headphones would fall behind.
In fact, it’s so fun to see those fans who are jealous and can’t help themselves!
Come on! Your baby is in my hands! I can pinch his face, touch his hair, and even put my arm around his shoulders!
I'm so mad at you!
The fans are indeed jealous but there is nothing they can do!
And what about Eggsy? Who lets kids take Spanish and Latin as electives?
In order to obtain credits and graduate, Eggsy doesn't have much time to waste, so he seizes every moment to listen to language recordings and learn.
After all, he had too much to learn. His daytime was filled with technical and physical training, and as soon as the afternoon was over, he had cultural classes.
In the evening, there was also a tactical explanation from Mr. Ranieri.
Although Eggsy didn't understand why he had to take a tactics class, which was very comprehensive and profound, he still took it seriously and even did his homework.
He is busy all day long, how can he care about his fans?
Forget about fans, this kid doesn’t even have a Twitter account or Facebook. His fans can only see the raw photos of him when the Leicester City fan club was involved in the scandal, and then they also found out that this kid’s life is also a straight line.
Until the day came when Leicester City played away against Crystal Palace.
Everyone gathered downstairs early this morning and wore uniform sportswear.
Eggsy was not late today. He was standing among his teammates carrying his sports bag, waiting to queue up to get on the bus. Suddenly, someone hugged him from behind and held him in his arms.
Vardy not only hugged Eggsy now, he even rubbed him hard!
"Kid! You must pass the ball to me!"
"I know, I know!"
Eggsy pushed Vardy's face away impatiently. This guy had been bothering him these past few days and he almost put up a banner at the door of his dormitory.
Although it is annoying, Eggsy will still subconsciously look for Vardy's location in the group, waiting for the right moment to feed him the ball.
Crystal Palace's home ground is Selhurst Park, which can accommodate more than 26,000 people at the same time.
The only downside is that this is also an old stadium.
Before entering the Crystal Palace, Eggsy felt the excitement coming from the fans outside the stadium, which lifted his spirits.
However, Mr. Ranieri did not say too much about their new tactics in this away game. He quickly asked all the players to rest in the locker room and wait for the notice to play.
Because there were not many opportunities, Eggsy put on his contact lenses carefully and quickly threw the box of contact lenses into his sports backpack.
When he arrived at the player tunnel, Eggsy watched the opposing players carefully, especially forward Ameobi, Sanogo, Lille and others.
Especially the three midfielders of Crystal Palace. Danny in the middle is not famous, but he can combine with the other two left and right midfielders to form a strong dribbling attack trend and ball control ability, which made Eggsy look at him twice more.
The players of Crystal Palace were more or less targeting No. 17 Eggsy, and it was obvious that Eggsy was the one they focused on.
But Eggsy didn't care at all. The players from both sides soon came on the court and then it was a serve draw.
Morgan lived up to everyone's expectations and took the first attack. When he came back, he patted Eggsy on the shoulder.
Eggsy nodded understandingly, and then started serving with Kante.
The moment Leicester City attacked the earth, Crystal Palace automatically arranged their 2, 4, 4 formation.
Compared to Leicester City, their 2,2,3,3 lineup is more lethal and offensive.
However, this serve put Crystal Palace under a lot of pressure, because Eggsy made an extremely long pass with his first kick after receiving the opening pass!
The host suddenly shouted at this time: "Vardy was already running at the kick-off!"
"Is this Leicester's new tactic? Run first? But Vardy can get it...
The next second, the host immediately changed his attitude, and shouted as if he wanted to jump up: "Beautiful, it's not just Vardy running, it's the entire Leicester City forward line pressing forward!"
Just as the host said, after Eggsy passed the ball to Kante immediately, the entire Leicester City attacked forward, and they were soon defended by Crystal Palace.
Eggsy looked at Danny in front of him and without saying a word, he used his small sprint to shake him off.
And this Danny stared at Eggsy without blinking. He didn't forget his mission today, which was to keep a close eye on Eggsy!
But unexpectedly, in just one second, Eggsy used a simple fake move to trick Danny into shaking his body, and Eggsy went around Danny's back.
"Beautiful! Eggsy catches the ball now!"
Just as Eggsy got around Danny's back, before he even retracted one of his feet, he received a direct pass from Kante's feet. It was as if the character had conjured the ball out of thin air!
The Crystal Palace defenders were even looking at Kante, wondering why the ball was gone?
But at this time, Eggsy had already run towards the Crystal Palace goal with the ball, posing a maximum threat to Crystal Palace!
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