Chapter 178: Sixty New Stars, the Next Midfield Master!

With the whistle blowing for the end of the game, Leicester put an end to the bloody slaughter.

The post-match stats showed that the pace of the game was in the control of the home team almost the entire time:

Twenty-three to three shots on goal!

Seven to three in possession!

The score is 5 to 0!

It's just three words, press and kick!

It is worth mentioning that in the last two meetings between the two teams, Burnley conceded a horrific nine goals, but only scored a pitiful goal!

Burnley's manager and players were all dazed and helpless.

There is only one thought in my heart:

Blue lean shiitake mushrooms.

Why is it always me who gets hurt?!

Jamie Vardy, who scored twice in the game, was voted Man of the Match for the first time.

However, everyone can see that if it were not for Ling Feng's organization and threatening passing in the midfield, Leicester City would not have pressed Burnley to the ground and rubbed wildly.

And Jamie Vardy won't have an easy brace either!

Even if they didn't win the best game in this game.

However, in this game, Ling Feng contributed two assists again, becoming the first player in the Premier League to reach ten assists this season!

And it took him only seven games to achieve this feat!

This achievement, in addition to allowing Ling Feng to complete the achievement of [Premier League Assist Double] and obtain a reward of two free attribute points.

It also made him the fastest player to deliver 10 assists since the inception of the Premier League!

After the race, major media and newspapers rushed to report the process and results of this promotion horse battle.

Because, after this game, Burnley is still at the bottom of the league.

Leicester City, which was promoted to the Premier League with them, temporarily surpassed Chelsea, which had not yet kicked off, with a goal difference, and temporarily topped the league table!

The same promoted horses, one end and one end of the league standings

Such a strong contrast has surprised many fans and football experts.

"Leicester City, what kind of medicine did these people take, and why are they so fierce?!"

"This Nima is a promotion horse?!"

"Could it be that they are still planning to replicate the myth of Kaiserslautern?!"

The myth of Kaiserslautern is a miracle of world football.

In the 1996~97 season, the German second division team Kaiserslautern team won the German football second division championship under the leadership of head coach "Otto the Great" Otto Rehhagel.

and promoted to the German Football Bundesliga as champions.

Then, in their first season in the Bundesliga, Kaiserslautern won the Bundesliga in a shocking way, becoming the second team in the world to win the second tier and then the following season!

At this point, the achievement of a team winning the second and top league titles for two consecutive seasons has been called the "Kaiserslautern myth"

However, there are still many people who believe that Leicester City can reach the top of the league after seven rounds of matches is due to many factors.

At the moment, they have shown very strong form against last season's mid-table and relegated teams.

But against the top of the rankings, such as Chelsea and Arsenal, they failed to win.

This shows that their hard power is still far behind the giants.

The reason why he defeated Everton, Manchester United and other top-ranked teams one after another was mainly due to the team's tactics of attacking instead of defending, so that the core of the team, Ling Feng, was able to give full play to his offensive talent and raise the attack of the entire team to a higher level!

However, Leicester City have to play on two fronts this season and lack depth in the squad, so there will definitely be problems in the latter part of the season.

When the time comes, once the core players are injured or rotated, the Blue Foxes will show their original form and slowly return to their own position.

However, with the attacking firepower shown by Leicester City, relegation this season is certainly worry-free.

Unlike most newspaper articles analysing Leicester's future prospects, The Times focuses on individual performances.

They posted an online poll directly on their official website, and the content of the poll was:

"Will Ling Feng be able to beat Thierry Henry's league assist record this season?"

"Yes or no?"

In the 2002~03 season, Thierry Henry, the "Emperor", set a single-season league assist record for Premier League players with 20 assists in the league!

What's more, in addition to 20 assists in the league, Henry also scored 24 goals in the league!

The big double-double data of goals and assists is enough to prove that Henry at his peak is definitely the first person in the Premier League!

And now, in his first Premier League debut season, Ling Feng's assist ability has been compared by the media to the Premier League legend "The Great" Henry.

This is definitely a great recognition of his individual ability and his performance on the field!

Of course, the British media is not embarrassed.

You must know that the terrifying efficiency of delivering eleven assists in seven games, with an average of 1.6 assists per game, is worth bragging about on any player.

What's more, this player is the household registration book of his country!

According to this assist efficiency, if the number of appearances is the same as Henry's, at the end of the season, Ling Feng's single-season assists will reach a terrifying sixty!

Of course, this is only theoretical.

Assists don't mean that if you want to assist, you can assist.

Compared to a goal that can be completed by one person, the assists that need to be matched are more difficult.

Because assists, half of it depends on the passer, and half of it depends on the receiver!

No matter how good a player's ability to feed cakes is, there is no guarantee that every hot cake sent will be sent into the mouths of his teammates.

And what the bread feeder is most afraid of is that he has already brought all the cakes to his mouth, and even stuffed them into his mouth, and his teammates don't want to eat them, so they have to spit them out!

You know, eating bread is also a skill!

And this online voting immediately aroused the interest of fans and they ran to vote.

On top of that, the results of this online poll are announced at the end of the season.

Ten lucky viewers will then be selected to give away a free membership to The Times for one year, plus £1,000 each!

A year's worth of newspapers is nothing.

The point is a thousand pounds, which is not a small amount.

All they have to do is go to the website, fill in their personal information after voting, and have a chance to get a thousand pounds.

As a result, in just two days, more than tens of thousands of people took part in the ballot.

And 70% of those voters believe that Ling Feng can break Thierry Henry's league assist record this season!

The heart of Leicester's midfield has provided a staggering eleven assists in the first seven Premier League games.

In other words, in the next 31 league games, he only needs to provide nine more assists to tie Henry's league assist record.

Ten assists would break Thierry Henry's record for the most assists in a single season in the Premier League!

It seems that Ling Feng has enough games to break Henry's league assist record.

However, the problem is that Ling Feng may be injured, or he may take turns resting, and he may not be able to play the remaining thirty-one rounds of the league.

Even if he plays the remaining 31 league rounds, he may not be able to have assists in every game.

What the future holds, no one knows.

However, the public believes that with Ling Feng's assist ability, it is completely possible to send ten assists in the rest of the league!

The possibilities are still very high!

And Ling Feng, who was in the Belvo base, also learned about this online vote through social media.

So, he also specially took a small video and uploaded it to his major social media accounts.

The content of the small video is that he took his laptop, entered the official website of the Times, and also participated in the process of online voting.

Of course, he voted "yes"

Immediately afterwards, he also started a challenge on his social media account:

If he can beat Thierry Henry's record at the end of the season, ten lucky winners will be drawn from the comments to give away their own autographed jersey and a prize of £5,000!

If he can't break the record, he will also draw 10 lucky winners in the comment section and give away 5,000 pounds each!

This reward is five times higher than that of The Times!

And in just a few minutes of his post, the number of comments, likes, and retweets of this post has risen at an alarming rate!

Ten minutes later, the agent Mendes called him, thinking that he was not doing it well and was too public.

Obviously, doing so will only make the other 19 Premier League teams more focused on him and prevent him from breaking the assists record.

After all, no one wants to be the backdrop for Ling Feng to break the assist record

However, in Ling Feng's opinion, it didn't matter at all.

Originally, as the core of Leicester City's team, even if there were no such things, the other nineteen Premier League teams would have focused on him!

The reason why I do this is a kind of self-confidence in my own strength, and it is also an internal spur.

Of course, Ling Feng hopes to break Henry's assist record and become the man who can feed the most cakes in a single season!

He also believes that he is capable of doing it, so why not generously admit that he is strong?

As a professional footballer, self-confidence is very important.

If you don't have confidence in yourself, how can you beat your opponent on the field and win and win the championship?!

After listening to Ling Feng's explanation, Mendes also felt that it made sense.

Since coming into contact with this young man, he had long found that Ling Feng was the kind of person with mature thinking and assertiveness.

He is willing to follow the advice of others.

However, when it comes to what you think is right, you will stand firm and not waver easily.

What surprised this brokerage predator the most was that from Ling Feng's words, he once again thought of another Portuguese young man who had signed with him at the age of eighteen.

Like Cristiano Ronaldo in his youth, this young man is also full of confidence!

Mendez suddenly had a hunch that this young man, if he continued at the current terrifying growth rate, might one day become another trump card under his hands.

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Seeing that "The Times" has engaged in such a wave of operations to attract attention and traffic, the "Guardian", which is known as the three major newspapers in the UK together with "The Times" and "The Daily Telegraph", has finally engaged in a wave of operations full of dry goods:

On 8 October, The Guardian launched a new feature called "The Next Generation"

Starting this year, the newspaper will invite 10 football experts in October each year, and then ask them to select 20 rising stars in the Premier League and 40 hopefuls from around the world through rigorous analysis of data and match performance.

There are a total of sixty people, and they are called the Sixty New Stars!

Most of the top 60 rising stars in this list are new stars who have risen to prominence this year, or who have shown amazing potential before that.

Among them, there are also many names familiar to Ling Feng, a hardcore fan.

The 40 world's most promising stars are divided into three regions: Asia, the Americas and Europe.

Asia is not worth mentioning.

Among the rising stars of the Americas, the young player Malcolm of the Brazilian Corinthians is the most famous.

Among the rising stars in Europe, it is the region with the highest success rate in later generations.

Led by Rennes teenager Ousmane Dembele, Belgian prodigy and FM super demon Tielemans, Porto's youngest captain Ruben Neves, Eintracht Frankfurt striker Jovic, etc., are all players who will perform well in the five major leagues in the future!

The top 20 rising stars selected from every team in the Premier League are many potential rookies worth paying attention to.

Dominic Solanke, who led Chelsea to FA Youth Cup glory, and Marcus Rashford, who captained Manchester United's Under-19s before the age of 17, are among them.

As for Leicester City's hopeful star, it is naturally Ling Feng, who is nineteen years old this year and has already shined in the Premier League!

He is also the only player among the top 20 Premier League stars to start in the Premier League.

If you rank these sixty new stars, Ling Feng is the absolute first!

The Guardian's football experts also wrote relevant information and scouting reports for each of the rising stars, plus a brief commentary.

For example, Rashford's comment is that he is "a rising star on the wing who is good at breaking through"

And Ling Feng's comment was:

"The next midfield maestro!"

It can be seen how optimistic the Guardian is about his future and development prospects!

The British media has seen Michael Owen, the "boy chasing the wind", and Wayne Rooney, the "little tank of violence";

I have also seen "Little Beck" David Beckham shoot in the half, and "Little Threat" Jack Wilshere singled out Habaib.

However, they have never seen a super genius who is only 19 years old and can control the situation in the midfield position and has a mature style of play!

Maybe Cesc Fabregas is one.

However, in terms of performance and data on the field, the current Ling Feng is no less than Fabregas back then!

Especially at the national team level, the nineteen-year-old Ling Feng is already the heart of the Three Lions' midfield.

And the nineteen-year-old Xiaofa is nothing more than a substitute for the Spanish "Habaibu".

Of course, the situation and lineup of the national teams of the two are not the same, and there is not much comparison.

However, in the eyes of the "Guardian" and many British media, Ling Feng's future achievements will definitely surpass Fabregas!

(End of chapter)