August 5th.

There are still three days left before the opening match of the 2015~16 Premier League season.

The Blue Foxes coaching staff led by Claudio Ranieri once again came to the conference room to formulate game tactics and targeted arrangements for the upcoming Premier League opening game.

The past month has been marked by scandals, a change of manager and the arrival of several new signings, and it will certainly take time to settle in and then bring together the old and new players.

Although in the pre-season warm-up games, the team's offensive firepower is still ferocious, and they have won all of them.

However, the opponents are all teams in League One and the Championship, so there is not much reference value.

Fortunately, the Blue Foxes' main squad structure and tactical formation are basically no different from last season's.

In the first month of his tenure, in addition to trying to understand each player, Ranieri has done the most to improve and transform the team's defense in training and games.

One of the most important changes is the defensive position!

He demanded that when the opponent was in possession of the ball, he gave up pressing high and chose to recycle the formation.

With the exception of Jamie Vardy at the front, the rest of the frontcourt players retreated to close the distance between each other and compress the space.

The whole formation changed from 4231 to 451!

Then after the opponent's attack came to the area near the center circle line, Ling Feng, who was in the center, as the commander, beckoned his teammates on both sides to form a small group of twos and quickly pinched the players with the ball.

The purpose of this is to press the opponent to the side with relatively narrow space and achieve the effect of stealing the ball.

Even if you can't grab it, you can force the opponent to attack from both wings, so you can choose the attacking tactics of wide crosses.

And such a cross tactic is not much of a threat to the two central defenders with excellent air defense capabilities in the Blue Foxes formation.

In this way, the opponent can reduce the number of attacks on the front break or pass the ball behind him, so as to avoid the shortcomings of the two tall central defenders Morgan and Hut, who turn slowly, and amplify their frontal and air defense capabilities!

Once the ball is broken, you can pass the ball to Ling Feng or Mahrez for advancement as soon as possible, or directly take a long pass to Vardy in front.

In short, Ranieri's tactical thinking is to base on a solid defense, and then take advantage of the huge space left behind the opponent after pressing the attack, so as to play a more concise and efficient quick counterattack!

The change in tactics can be said to affect the whole body.

A change in defensive thinking and position will also lead to a change in the way the offense is played.

The coaching staff also has different opinions on this.

"Giving up our high press will inevitably increase the amount of time the opponent has on the ball, will it reduce the number of attacking rounds and the number of times the goal is threatened?"

Against assistant coach Shakespeare, Ranieri is clearly confident:

'We don't need a lot of possession at all. On the contrary, in this way, it can reduce the pressing consumption of the frontcourt players, so that they have more energy when counterattacking, and thus improve the quality of the attacking round! ”

Obviously, Ranieri is more important than the quantity of counter-attacks.

At first, the Foxes players were a little uncomfortable with the change.

Especially the water drinker.

As the team's midfield and backfield, his main task last season, in addition to receiving the ball from the backcourt, was to hand the ball to Ling Feng in front of him when the offense and defense transitioned.

As for the next attack, it's basically none of his business.

Now, Ranieri has asked him to give the ball to Ling Feng, but also to play a long pass directly to Vardy in front of him, so that the latter can directly impact the opponent's backline.

In this way, one link to Ling Feng is reduced, and the pass directly to Vardy can make the whole counterattack faster.

It can also share Ling Feng's organization to a certain extent, so that he can use his speed to cut forward at high speed and quickly echo Vardy in the frontcourt.

However, this detail did not make the team's counterattack sharp.

Because, compared to Ling Feng, Brother Shui's passing ability can only be said to be average.

As the distance of the pass increases, so does the number of misguided passes.

In the pre-season warm-up games, he made a number of mistakes with his long passes, either not accurate enough, or was intercepted directly by the opponent.

At the time of the transition between offense and defense, once there is a mistake in the pass, it is almost a return to the opponent of the ball that he has finally grabbed.

The whole counterattack will come to an abrupt end because of this.

Therefore, after seeing that the effect of this arrangement was not good, Ranieri also gave up the idea of letting the drinking brother directly make a long pass to Vardy.

Instead, let him give priority to handing over the ball to Ling Feng to deal with when the offense and defense were switching.

If Ling Feng happens to be closely guarded, then hand it over to Mahrez.

As for whether to advance with the ball or pass the ball directly after taking the ball, it depends on Ling Feng's decision-making ability.

Ranieri has only one requirement for Ling Feng, and that is to be fast!

Burn the flames of battle to your opponent's half as fast as you can, and then finish shooting!

In addition to the point of drinking water, Ranieri's requirement for another midfielder is to be responsible for interception and sweeping in the midfield.

However, with N'Golo Kante and Inle both joining in August, they missed out on a couple of pre-season games in July.

Ranieri has not yet understood the performance of the two in the game.

Therefore, he still has some concerns about who will partner with the "Water Brother" in the back.

Although Walsh highly recommends Kante, and Kante's performance in all training sessions has been excellent.

The midfielder, who is less than 1.7 meters tall, shows his running ability, defensive coverage area and sweeping and stealing ability, all of which are eye-catching.

Definitely the sweeper that the team needs most in midfield!

However, in Ranieri's view, N'Golo Kante's excellent performance in a league like Ligue 1 does not mean that he can adapt to the pace and intensity of the Premier League.

In the midfield, physical confrontation and experience are very important.

Therefore, after thinking twice, Ranieri still made the stronger and more experienced Swiss captain Inle partner in the back in training to prepare for the upcoming first round of the Premier League.

He plans to look at the level and form of several midfielders in the early stages of the season before deciding who will play in the main team

On the same day, after finishing the team's training, Ling Feng finally remembered that he still had the [system].

After taking a shower and changing clothes, he sat down on a bench in the lounge and summoned the [Character Panel]

【Player Name: Ling Feng】

[Age: 20]

[Height: 183]

[Weight: 76]

[Dominant foot: right]

[Club: Leicester City]

[Talents: God Vision, God of War Heavy Artillery]

[Skills: Pull the ball back, putter master, horse stepping meteor]

[Attributes: Ball Control C, Shot C, Pass S, Defense D, Body B, Spirit B]

[Total:85]

[Available Attribute Points: 5]

After returning to the team, Ling Feng followed the team for pre-season preparation, and at the same time resumed his daily training.

For now, his extra training is dribbling and long-range shooting.

He plans to improve his dribbling skills and long-range shooting accuracy as much as possible in the coming season.

This season, with the arrival of Claudio Ranieri, the team's tactics have changed, from pressing high to counter-attacking.

As the core of the frontcourt organization, the number of dribbling advancements at the time of offensive and defensive transitions will definitely increase greatly this season.

Therefore, he must improve his dribbling ability and then make the most of his speed on the counter-attack to create a situation where he can play more and play less.

And long-range shooting can diversify his offensive means.

Although with the change of tactics, they may not play against BIG6 teams such as Manchester City, Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea and so on as they did last season, but will allow their opponents to possess the ball and seize opportunities on the counter-attack.

However, when playing some mid and lower weak teams, the opponent will definitely not take the initiative to attack, allowing them to gain space to counterattack.

Therefore, if they want to get the three points, they have to take the initiative, they have to face dense defense, they have to get into positional battles.

And the three most effective conventional means against dense defense, in addition to the single point explosion of the star, there are also set-pieces and long-range shots!

With the talent of [God of War Heavy Artillery], he didn't have to worry about his shooting being weak at all.

He just has to worry about whether his shot is within range or not.

Therefore, the higher the accuracy of his long-range shot, the more he can threaten the opponent's goal from long distance.

Once he is 30 meters away from the goal, the opposing defender will fall into passivity.

If you guard against his passes, you will let him shoot from distance; If you defend against his long-range shots, you will empty his teammates.

At that time, whether he shoots or passes, he can't prevent it!

Considering that most of the attributes such as [Dribbling], [Ball Protection], [Long Shot], [Shooting Power], etc., can be slowly improved through acquired training, Ling Feng still decided to add valuable free attribute points to some attributes that cannot be improved in a short period of time.

For example, [constitution]

Considering that in order to stop himself in the new season, the opponent will definitely be more strict and more brutal against himself, Ling Feng did not hesitate to directly add the five free attribute points obtained in the European Youth Championship to the [Constitution], making it change from ninety to ninety-five!

After adding points, Ling Feng suddenly felt that his body was even more full of strength and momentum.

In those gray eyes, there was a flame full of eager to try:

Premier League, I'm ready.

What about you?!

。。。

Since I made an appointment with my parents in the evening, I had to go home for dinner.

So today, Ling Feng didn't practice as usual, but after the training, he went straight to the parking lot.

However, not long after he drove out of the team's base, he spotted a familiar figure on the side of the road.

It was a short black man with a Nike backpack and a tracksuit.

And this black guy who is running is none other than his new teammate, N'Golo Kante!

Slowing down the car, rolling down the window, Ling Feng drove the Land Rover to follow Kante, and then shouted:

"Ngolo?!"

Hearing his name, Kante, who was running, suddenly paused, and then turned his head to look over.

"Ling?"

Not speaking English, the team provided N'Golo Kante with a translator.

However, in his daily communication with his teammates, the newcomer to the French midfielder basically expresses himself through gestures and a few very simple words.

"Why are you running?"

"Sauri."

Seeing Kante smiling, he just raised his hand and pointed to his ear, indicating that he didn't understand.

Ling Feng had an idea, then took out his mobile phone and clicked on the translation software he had just downloaded not long ago.

Through translation software, Ling Feng learned from Kante that the reason why he ran home was because his agent had been helping him find a house recently and was not available to pick him up.

So, he ran from the hotel to the base every day to train, and then after the training, he ran back to the hotel!

Looking at Kante, who was smiling and sweating at all, Ling Feng had only one thought in his heart:

Awesome!

It turns out that the physical fitness of the world's No. 1 back is trained like this?!

While complaining in his heart, Ling Feng did not forget to ask:

"Where's your hotel?"

Kante then announced the name of the hotel.

"The hotel you live in is not far from my home, I'll take you back by the way!"

Faced with this proposal, Kanter thought about it for a while, and then gladly accepted Ling Feng's kindness:

"Okay, thanks."

Listening to Kante's thanks, which were more like "Fack", Ling Feng just twitched the corners of his mouth, and then opened the co-pilot's door casually:

"Get in the car!"

Once in the car, Kante put his backpack at his feet and obediently fastened his seatbelt as soon as possible.

On the way, Ling Feng also asked Kante about things in his daily life, such as whether Xi is used to the food in the team's canteen, what he will do during the break,

Kante is not a talkative person though.

However, he answered Ling Feng's questions all the time.

A few days after joining Leicester City, he had already discovered that Ling Feng, a young man a few years younger than himself, had a very high status in the team.

After he joined, Ling Feng was the first teammate to take the initiative to talk to him.

Moreover, in the past few days, Ling Feng has also been very enthusiastic to help him integrate into the team and bring him to familiarize himself with the environment of the base.

Therefore, Kante has a good opinion of him.

It can also be said that Ling Feng was the first friend he met in Leicester City.

Otherwise, with his character, he would not easily trouble others.

Chatting and chatting, the two soon arrived at the hotel where Kante was staying.

"Thank you for sending me back, Ling."

"You're welcome, it's just a gesture."

Just as Kante was about to get out of the car, Ling Feng suddenly thought of something, and suddenly proposed:

"By the way, Ngolo, before your agent is busy, I will take you to the base every day, and go back to the hotel!"

Ling Feng's sudden proposal made Kante, who had never known how to refuse, difficult.

"It's not good, it's too troublesome."

"You're welcome, anyway, I'm bored driving to work every day, so I'm just chatting with you. And I'd like to learn some French from you. ”

"Besides, we get acquainted with each other, so we can have a better understanding on the field. Isn't it? ”

"Well, if you teach me a little French every day, it's the fare!"

Since Ling Feng said so, Kante also felt that if he refused, it seemed that he would be too faceless.

So, Kante nodded and showed a simple and honest smile:

"Then please!"

"Very well, tomorrow morning at 8:15 a.m., I'll come here on time to pick you up."

"Okay."

In the end, seeing Ling Feng's black Land Rover roar away, Baby Kanter's heart was warm.

Ling, what a good person!

(End of chapter)