To be honest, Maribor fans are really not afraid of Crystal Palace.
Your Crystal Palace is indeed very strong, but we in Maribor are not bad either.
I think that when Yugoslavia was not disbanded, Yugoslav football was at the top level in the world. Before the dissolution, Maribor was also one of the representatives of Yugoslav football. After the dissolution, they were also the representatives of Slovenian football and were the most successful in Slovenia.
football club.
Therefore, Maribor is really not afraid of the Crystal Palace.
Moreover, this time it is their home stadium in Maribor, so they are naturally not afraid.
In this game, Maribor came here to win.
And Maribor really needs to win at the moment.
Because two rounds of the UEFA Champions League group stage in the 2017-2018 season have passed, Maribor has only one point with one draw and one loss. For the time being, it seems to be ranked third in the group, with the same points as Spartak Moscow, which is ranked fourth in the group. Just relying on
The advantage in goal difference comes first.
If Maribor wants to advance from this group, it is obvious that they have to score as many points as possible.
Even if there is really no way to qualify from this group, they still hope to hit the third place in a group so that they still have a chance to play in the Europa League.
So, victory is what Maribor needs most now.
Their goal now is to win more victories.
Crystal Palace is indeed very strong, but Maribor is still very confident.
Tong Yi's words before the game also stimulated them. They are now fierce and want to slap Tong Yi and the Crystal Palace people in the face in this game and win this game.
Playing at home, the Maribor people are full of confidence.
Maribor head coach Darko Milanic said this in an interview with media reporters before the game, "Of course I know the strength of Crystal Palace. Their strength is very strong. After all, they were the first team in England last season.
Grand Slam winner and the most popular team in Europe. I have watched the videos of all their previous games this season. To be honest, their strength is far superior to ours!"
The media reporters nodded one after another, saying this was quite objective.
After all, Slovenian football is not the football of the former Yugoslavia, and the current level of Slovenian football is really not good. Even though Maribor is the most successful football club in Slovenia and the defending champion of the Slovenian League, its strength is indeed not good.
At least compared to the teams in the five major European leagues, their strength is still not good.
You can tell by looking at their first two rounds of the UEFA Champions League this season. In the first round, they drew with Spartak Moscow one to one with the help of home advantage. In the second round, they were directly defeated by Sevilla three times.
A big victory over zero shows the strength of their team.
you need to know,
In the first round of the Champions League group stage this season, Sevilla lost to Crystal Palace 0-4.
Combining these two items, is Maribor far worse than Crystal Palace?
Therefore, what Milanic said is the truth.
Milanic also said, "However, this does not mean that we have no chance in Maribor. After all, this is our home court. We also drew with Spartak Moscow, and we lost to Seville
Asia is also away from home. So we are relatively confident when we return to home. Even if we face Crystal Palace, our team still has a chance. Moreover, I think our chance is still very good."
At this time, some media reporters asked why?
Why do you think so? Why do you have such an illusion? Can you just go back to the home court?
Anyway, media reporters are not optimistic about Maribor.
Of course, European gambling companies are not optimistic about Maribor either.
Milanic said, "Because the Crystal Palace underestimated us and didn't even take Maribor seriously. They have never looked directly at Maribor, so naturally they don't know about Maribor."
Strength. This is our chance! More importantly, the arrogant Crystal Palace has left all its main players in London. Do you think the Crystal Palace people can defeat us in Maribor with a group of substitutes?"
At first glance, everyone seems to think that what Milanic said makes sense. Crystal Palace is really overconfident. All the substitutes played in this game, which is a bit underestimated by Maribor. But after thinking about it carefully, everyone still thinks
I feel that Maribor has no chance, even with a full substitute Crystal Palace is very strong.
You haven't seen Crystal Palace's previous rotations in the Premier League. After replacing the substitute rotation players, Crystal Palace's results are still good and they still maintain a complete victory.
That was a Premier League team we faced.
So, even if Crystal Palace plays with all substitutes, it will still be easy to beat Maribor, right?
Milanic continued, "I know a Chinese saying, know yourself and the enemy, and you will win every battle! Now the Crystal Palace is so arrogant. They don't even know the true level of our Maribor. How can they defeat us in Maribor? So, this
I am quite confident about a game, and we in Maribor have a great chance of winning this game."
After hearing Milanic's words, the Maribor fans were very excited and excited.
They all believe in their head coach.
Their head coach is a famous coach of their club, and the Slovenian media even called Milanic the Tong Yi of Maribor.
Therefore, the fans in Maribor are now in high spirits, and they all feel that they have a great chance in this game.
The fans in Maribor are looking forward to this game.
After hearing Milanic's words, Tong Yi was slightly startled. He didn't expect that Milanic was so confident.
Tong Yi looked at the information collected by Schwartz in his hand and smiled slightly.
Milanic's confidence actually makes sense.
After all, Milanic has seen a lot of the world, and his coaching ability is also very good. At least coaching in Slovenia can be said to be very, very good and very, very successful.
The information in hand shows that Milanic was also a player and became a professional coach after retiring.
In the player era, Milanic's career was relatively successful. When he was only 17 years old, he joined the local giant Partizan Belgrade, where he won the Yugoslav First Division championship and two cup championships. He moved to Gela.
After the storm, he won two Austrian league championships and three cup championships, played nearly 200 games on behalf of the team, and was once the main player of the Yugoslavia and Slovenia national teams.
He was a very successful player in Yugoslavia and Slovenia.
Tong Yi looked at the information in his hand and couldn't help but sigh, "It turns out that he was born as a central defender. No wonder the team he coaches pays so much attention to defense. They are so professional!"
Schwartz immediately said, "This guy also has very rich coaching experience. He has been coaching in many countries, and his coaching results are quite good, especially in Slovenia."
When Tong Yi heard this, he said, "It's interesting!"
Then he looked at it carefully, and it contained a detailed record of Milanic's coaching experience.
Hey, it’s really quite rich.
According to the data, Milanic has coached in Slovenia, Austria and England, and even coached Austria's Sturm Graz twice and now Slovenia's Maribor. This time coaching Maribor is considered his second career.
In addition, he also coached the English Championship team Leeds United in the 2014-2015 season.
This coaching experience is really rich.
After coaching Leeds United for one season, he returned to Maribor for a second career.
This data also shows that Milanic's results in Maribor were very good twice before and after, which can be regarded as the most brilliant result in his coaching career. Because here, he has led the team to win 5 Slovenian titles.
Nigeria's top league champion and three domestic cup champions.
No wonder some Slovenian media would call Milanic "Tong Yi of Maribor". He is simply an honor-collecting machine!
You have to know that he has coached Maribor twice for only 7 complete games.
In the same season, he won 5 league championships and 3 cup championships, a total of 8 championships. This achievement is indeed very amazing. No wonder there is such a title. It is no wonder that Maribor fans are so fond of Milanic.
Such trust.
No wonder the Maribor fans became more confident after Milanic said those words.
Now the Maribor fans in the outside world think that Maribor will win.
Tong Yi was noncommittal about this and was too lazy to say anything. Everything will be clear after the game is over.
Tong Yi did not reply to Milanic's provocative words before the game. He didn't put too much thought on it now. After all, there is no use in talking before the game. If you don't believe it, you are now
Just ask Lukaku.
However, Tong Yi still attaches great importance to this game.
Tong Yi hopes to secure a qualifying spot in the UEFA Champions League as soon as possible, and then be able to focus more on the league. The competition in the Premier League this season is very fierce, and all the major clubs are investing heavily.
Those who have been reinforced are very strong. If they are not careful, they may be surpassed and lose the league championship.
It's really impossible not to pay attention to it.
Moreover, multi-front operations are indeed influential, and they also add a lot of uncertain factors. What Tong Yi is doing now is to minimize these uncertain factors. In this case, their chances of defending the Premier League title will be greater.
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Therefore, every current Champions League game is very important, and Tong Yi's goal is the same, which is to win.
Crystal Palace has won the first two rounds of this season, and it must win the third round today.
Moreover, in Tong Yi's view, Spartak Moscow and Sevilla are both stronger than Maribor, so it should be relatively easy for him to defeat Maribor.
This is not to look down on Maribor, nor is it to be arrogant, this is simply self-confidence.
If they don’t feel confident facing teams like Maribor like Crystal Palace and Tong Yi, then Crystal Palace really haven’t defended their Premier League and Champions League titles?
For a team like Maribor, you have to be confident.
And at this time, these substitutes and rotation players of Crystal Palace attach great importance to such opportunities. After all, these opportunities are really hard-won for them. Every opportunity is very important, and they have to give it all.
They must perform their best, and only by performing well can they get more opportunities.
In this game, the rotation and substitute players of Crystal Palace will even play more actively and devotedly than the main players.
Therefore, it is really not difficult for Crystal Palace to win this game.
In this way, the third round of the UEFA Champions League group stage between Maribor and Crystal Palace officially arrived.
This chapter has been completed!