Seven-time Champion

Chapter 712: League Cup champions

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With the Community Shield Cup decided, Leicester City won the championship. On August 8, the 2015/2016 Premier League season officially kicked off. Leicester City's first round match was at home against Sunderland.

This opponent was not strong. Leicester City, playing at home, won 5-1 as expected and led the standings with the advantage of goal difference.

In the second round, the Foxes played away against West Ham United, and Leicester City won again 4-1.

It was not until the third round that Leicester City faced its first strong rival of the new season: Tottenham Hotspur.

However, after pre-season training, the Community Shield and two Premier League games, the new teammates have basically integrated, and their cooperation has improved greatly compared to the Community Shield.

Although Tottenham scored two goals at the King Power Stadium, Leicester City scored five and eventually beat Tottenham 5-2 at home to continue to lead the standings.

Afterwards, the Premier League teams joined the second round of the English League Cup. Leicester City played away against the lower-level team Bury. The Foxes won 3-0 away and easily advanced to the next round.

Leicester City's schedule this season is quite favorable. In the first five rounds, except for Tottenham, the other teams are not strong teams, which gives Leicester City, which has changed its head coach and introduced a large number of new players, enough time to run in.

In the fourth and fifth rounds, the Foxes played against Bournemouth and Aston Villa respectively, and won both games with big scores.

In the first five rounds, the Foxes led the standings with an undefeated record and a huge goal difference advantage, leaving Manchester City, which also had an undefeated record, in second place.

After the fifth round of the league, Leicester City faced their first Champions League match of the season away to PSV Eindhoven.

Not only does Leicester City have a favorable league schedule, but it also has good luck in the Champions League grouping, avoiding a number of top teams and being in the same group as Wolfsburg, PSV Eindhoven and CSKA Moscow. This also gives the Foxes enough time to adjust their lineup and adapt to the rhythm of the Champions League games.

On September 15, in the first round of the Champions League group stage, Leicester City challenged the Dutch Eredivisie team PSV Eindhoven away.

After 90 minutes, the score on the big screen was 2-3, with the home team in front and the away team behind.

In another match, Wolfsburg beat CSKA Moscow 1-0 at home. Leicester City ranked first in the group with more goals despite the same points and goal difference.

Back to the domestic league, Leicester City's opponent in the sixth round is Stoke City, which is also not very strong. The Foxes naturally continued to win with a big score.

Surprisingly, Manchester City suffered a setback in this round and lost to West Ham United at their home ground, which fully demonstrated the difficulty of the Premier League.

The Foxes have opened up a three-point gap with second-placed Manchester City in the standings.

Afterwards, the Foxes faced West Ham United at home in the third round of the League Cup.

With the momentum of defeating Manchester City away, West Ham United showed extraordinary form in this League Cup match.

After 120 minutes of fierce battle, Leicester City finally defeated West Ham United 4-3 thanks to a free kick by Lu Wenbin in overtime and advanced to the next round.

The League Cup consumed too much of Leicester City's energy and condition, and after returning to the league they happened to meet Arsenal, which was in great form.

In addition, the next game is the Champions League, so Ranieri was reserved in the starting lineup.

Therefore, in the 7th round of the Premier League on September 26, Leicester City lost 2-3 to Arsenal at home and lost the first game of the new season.

But fortunately, Manchester City suffered two consecutive defeats and lost to Tottenham in this round, continuing to lag behind Leicester City by 3 points.

After the league match with Arsenal, Leicester City will face Wolfsburg in the second round of the group stage in their first home game of the Champions League this season.

Leicester City, who were reserved in the last round against Arsenal, won a resounding victory over the Foxes, presenting a classic game for the home Leicester City fans.

The Foxes finally defeated Wolfsburg 5-0, with Lu Wenbin scoring four goals alone, setting the King Power Stadium on fire.

Leicester City won the next two league games and continued to lead the standings.

After that, it will be the third round of the Champions League, with Leicester City playing away against CSKA Moscow.

Although the weather was a bit cold, fortunately it was not the snowy season in winter. Leicester City finally won a small victory of 2-1 away from home, and with 9 points in three games, they remained firmly in first place in the group.

As time went on, the tacit understanding between the entire Leicester City team deepened, and the Foxes made progress on all fronts, unstoppable.

In the league, Leicester City only lost one game and drew one game in half a season, and won the rest.

As for other teams, they consumed too much energy in the confrontations with strong teams, and the points gap with Leicester City is getting bigger and bigger.

After the 19th round of the league on December 29, Leicester City led second-placed Arsenal by 13 points to win the half-time championship, which is a greater advantage than the lead over Chelsea last season.

In the League Cup, the Foxes defeated Hull City and Manchester City successively to advance to the semi-finals, getting closer and closer to the final.

In the Champions League, Leicester City also achieved a record of five wins and one loss, qualifying as the first in the group and advancing to the round of 16.

The only reason we lost the game was because we deliberately rotated the lineup to advance to the next round.

As time entered 2016, Leicester City continued to advance rapidly under the leadership of Lu Wenbin.

In the league, the Foxes did not hold back because they wanted to win the title in advance and prepare to compete for the FA Cup, Champions League and other titles.

Few of the Premier League giants have had an easy time facing Leicester City led by Lu Wenbin.

Under the leadership of Lu Wenbin, Leicester City has maintained a very high winning rate and leading advantage in the standings.

In the FA Cup that started in January, Leicester City naturally won all the way and advanced to the quarterfinals.

As for the League Cup, Leicester City also defeated Everton in the semi-finals and advanced to the final, where they will compete with Liverpool for the championship.

On February 28, 2016, the English League Cup final was held at Wembley Stadium.

In the league, Liverpool is currently ranked seventh and cannot even qualify for the Europa League.

Therefore, Liverpool still attaches great importance to the League Cup championship which can qualify them for the Europa League, and they will fight with Leicester City with all their strength at Wembley Stadium.

But in order to complete the annual seven-crown task, Lu Wenbin naturally worked harder.

In the end, Liverpool was no match for Lu Wenbin who used cheats.

Lu Wenbin scored more goals than the entire Liverpool team.

At the end of the 90-minute game, the score on the big screen was 5-2. Lu Wenbin completed a hat-trick and had an assist, leading Leicester City to win the 2015/2016 English League Cup.

Although this has nothing to do with the club's main mission of winning the treble, it is the first of the annual seven-crown mission, which is a good start.