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Pellegrini has been in a good mood recently.

Their team defeated the powerful Roma in the last round of the Champions League group stage, retained the second place in the group, and advanced to the next round.

This relieved his pressure all at once.

In the Premier League, although they are 7 points behind Chelsea, they have played one less game after all.

As long as they win this game, the gap is still only four points.

He is confident of defending the title.

Similar to Leicester City, they also rested in the last game, and this game fielded a full lineup.

However, the injuries of several players such as Aguero prevented Manchester City from reaching its strongest combat power.

Especially the striker.

Today Pellegrini sent out a single striker Jose Pozo.

This young player is a Spanish genius who was dug from Real Madrid's youth training camp by Manchester City a few years ago. He has outstanding personal skills. He was transferred to the first team by Pellegrini this season and is his key training target.

Although the striker lacks experience, Manchester City has strong forces in the midfield and backcourt today.

Lampard, David Silva, and Nasri play as attacking midfielders.

Fernando and Yaya Toure are in the defensive midfield.

These five midfielders alone are quite powerful.

Kompany, Sagna, Mangala and other players in the back line are also top defensive capabilities.

Facing such a strong enemy, Leicester City's tactics in this game are stable.

Although it is still the familiar 4-4-2 formation, the overall formation has shrunk to a large extent.

Ulloa is almost retreating to the front midfielder position.

Xia Xing and Mahrez on the left and right sides also retreated.

From the first minute of the game, Leicester City was in a defensive posture.

Facing such a strong opponent, if they attack, they will be overestimating their own strength.

Even if they are in good form recently, Pearson will never be arrogant.

Who is Manchester City?

They are the Premier League champions last season and are in the top five of the Champions League odds ranking this season.

In other words, they are recognized as the top five strong teams in Europe this season.

Facing such an opponent, Leicester City has only one way to defend.

To say the least, even if the game ended in a tie, Leicester City would not be wronged.

So they firmly defended and counterattacked in this game.

David Silva made a wonderful pass just after the game started.

The ball accurately found the young player Bozo on the front line.

Bozo turned and shot!

The ball went straight to the dead corner!

Quite accurate!

Schmeichel punched decisively with both fists!

Keep the goal intact!

This young man in his early 20s looks very energetic.

A few minutes later, Nasri also started his performance.

As a ball-control genius in Manchester City, although he is recognized as very independent, his dribbling ability is also unquestionable.

No opponent will underestimate him.

He suddenly accelerated while dribbling on the right!

Xia Xing stopped him!

Cross the middle and hand it to Lampard!

Xia Xing hesitated for a moment, but he decided to go to the middle to find Lampard.

After all, this English veteran is more threatening.

De Laet behind him pressed forward tacitly, followed closely by Nasri.

Lampard faced Xia Xing and tried to pass him, but to no avail.

He nodded secretly.

This young man is really amazing, his defense is watertight.

In the end, he passed the ball back to Nasri on the right.

Nasri received the ball and suddenly accelerated!

The instantaneous acceleration and rhythm change made De Laet confused!

He was passed!

Captain Morgan pressed forward quickly!

But Nasri did not try to break through the strong Morgan this time!

He kicked and shot on the penalty area line!

The ball went straight to the upper right corner of the goal!

It was Schmeichel's leaping save again!

The ball was hit out of the bottom line!

Schmeichel made another contribution!

But Manchester City's attack was not over yet.

David Silva's corner kick flew into the Leicester City penalty area.

Konchesky headed the ball away, and the ball fell at Lampard's feet outside the penalty area.

Lampard shot without hesitation!

The ball brushed the outside of the goal and flew out of the bottom line!

Just a little bit!

If it hit the goal post, it would definitely be a goal!

The continuous fierce attack made Leicester City a little breathless.

Is this the strength of a top team?

Before this game, the Leicester City players were full of momentum.

But now, they are under double the pressure.

They were very confident in their previous victories over Manchester City.

But looking back, each victory was extremely difficult, and there was indeed a lot of luck involved.

Whether it was the FA Cup knockout last season or the Community Shield before the start of this season, there was luck involved.

It is difficult to beat Manchester City.

However, the entire Leicester City team is still going all out!

Facing Manchester City's fierce attack, Leicester City's soldiers defended with one heart and tried their best to keep the goal.

Until the whistle sounded at the end of the first half, they still kept the goal intact.

The score of 0-0 is the best reward for them.

In the second half, they still endured Manchester City's fierce attack.

Even though Mahrez and Vardy occasionally made good counterattacks, they were all destroyed by Kompany and other players.

As the game continued, Manchester City replaced the veterans with declining physical strength and continued to replenish offensive forces.

Leicester City also continued to make substitutions.

Cambiasso, De Laet and Mahrez left the field, and Albrighton, Vasilevskiy and Hammond came on as substitutes.

They also constantly replaced players with declining physical strength and strengthened the defensive strength.

For Leicester City, it was too difficult to win this game.

Xia Xing also occasionally made several forward runs to help the attack, but in the end they all failed.

Knowing Xia Xing's strength, Manchester City focused on defending him. Xia Xing could not support himself in the midfield, and he did not dare to press too high, as he had to consider defense.

So Pearson replaced Mahrez, who was declining in physical strength, with Hammond.

This is also a manifestation of Leicester City's basic abandonment of the attack.

Until the 85th minute of the game.

Manchester City's attack was destroyed and the ball fell at Morgan's feet.

The captain of the Blue Foxes passed the ball forward and gave it to Xia Xing.

At this time, Xia Xing found that Manchester City's defense was not recovering very quickly!

At this stage, they were also exhausted!

It was a good opportunity!

Behind the center circle, Xia Xing suddenly accelerated after receiving the ball!

This speed increase made Manchester City feel like they were facing a formidable enemy in an instant!

But the formation's contraction speed is far slower than Xia Xing's sprinting speed with the ball!

With a change of direction, he passed the veteran Lampard!

Keep accelerating!

Yaya Toure squeezed with his strong body!

Xia Xing stopped suddenly!

Accelerate!

Used a change of direction to pass the Manchester City midfielder!

Fernandinho, who came on as a substitute, made a diagonal tackle!

Xia Xing tapped the ball forward!

Then he bypassed the tackle and continued to sprint!

He passed three Manchester City midfielders in a row!

Manchester City captain Kompany rushed up quickly!

He is one of the strongest central defenders in international football today!

Xia Xing also knew it very well, so he did not choose to pass again.

Instead, he kicked and shot!

25 meters away from the goal, Xia Xing's shot went straight into the dead corner!

Along with the crazy cheers of the King Power Stadium, Alan Shearer in the live broadcast room also praised loudly!

"The ball is in!!!

"Leicester City scored an extremely crucial goal!

"Another wonderful performance by xia!"

"Facing the former club's arch-rival Manchester City,

"xia's red blood awakened!"