Before this game, the Football Association announced the Premier League Coach of the Month for November in the 2017-2018 season.
Crystal Palace's Tong Yi won the award.
Although both Manchester City and Crystal Palace achieved four consecutive victories in November, Crystal Palace's results were significantly better, ranking first in the league, and having a higher goal difference. Tong Yi truly deserves this award.
To be honest, at this time, Crystal Palace fans are still worried about the Coach of the Month award in October.
It stands to reason that October's Best Coach of the Month award should also belong to Tong Yi. The FA gave it to Guardiola, which means that Tong Yi cannot win all the Coach of the Month awards. The FA is really not a human being.
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Crystal Palace fans are actually very angry.
However, Tong Yi didn't particularly care about this.
Anyway, he cannot monopolize the best award this month, and this will not affect Crystal Palace's defense of the Premier League championship.
Indeed, there is really no way for Tong Yi to monopolize the Premier League Coach of the Month award this season.
Because no matter what, Tong Yi cannot win the Coach of the Month award for December.
After all, in December, Crystal Palace will play two fewer Premier League games. How can it compare with those teams that are fully present in December? Besides, Manchester City is in such good shape now that the Coach of the Month award in December was almost lost to Manchester City.
The team's Guardiola locked it in advance.
Therefore, Tong Yizhen didn't particularly care.
Compared with this, Tong Yi is more concerned about whether he can win the English League Cup quarter-finals with Manchester United?
Therefore, Tong Yi's thoughts are now focused on this game.
In this game, the starting lineups of both sides are as follows:
Home team Crystal Palace, head coach Tong Yi, formation 4213
goalkeeper Maignan
The back four from left to right is Cancelo, Upamecano, Van Dijk and Carvajal
Double midfielder Llorente and Kante
Single attacking midfielder De Bruyne
The front three from left to right Salah, Giroud and Mbappe
Visiting team Manchester United, head coach Mourinho, formation 433
goalkeeper Romero
Back four from left to right Luke Shaw, Ginter, Lindelof and Darmian
Midfield three from left to right Pogba, Blind and McTominay
Three forwards from left to right Martial, Morata and Rashford
Seeing the starting lineups of the two teams, media reporters all felt that Manchester United had a great chance in this game. Because Crystal Palace did not play with all the main players, Ronaldo and Casemiro really did.
He was slightly injured and did not appear in the starting lineup for this game, and he was not even included in the squad.
Rudiger also did not start the game, which has a huge impact on Crystal Palace.
On the Manchester United side, all the main players played, except for De Gea, who did not start.
Because at this time, De Gea started to act like a monster again. At this time, he was connected with Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain and Atletico Madrid. De Gea hoped that this winter or after the end of the season
Leave Manchester United.
Yes, De Gea still doesn't want to stay at Manchester United.
Now he is still bitter about the fact that Manchester United forced him to keep him, causing him to miss the golden opportunity to return to Real Madrid.
And if he stays at Manchester United, he still has no hope of Manchester United returning to the top, so he really doesn't want to waste his youth at Manchester United. He wants to seek a transfer and get more wages.
We can also compete for the UEFA Champions League title.
However, Real Madrid has previously introduced Alisson from Crystal Palace, and Barcelona has a young lion. These two traditional La Liga giants do not need goalkeepers at all, so De Gea has no chance to go to these two teams. De Gea's heart
In fact, he hates Manchester United, because if Manchester United hadn't stopped him, he would have been a Real Madrid player.
Without these two teams, De Gea is now in contact with Atletico Madrid, Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain.
These teams still need goalkeepers, especially Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain.
It is said that the offers from both teams are now on Mourinho's desk.
Therefore, Mourinho will directly exclude De Gea from the squad for this game.
Mourinho is knocking De Gea.
However, De Gea did not play in this game, which is a good thing for Crystal Palace.
However, except for the goalkeeper position, Manchester United has main players in other positions. Manchester United is full of confidence in this game, especially after seeing the starting lineup of Crystal Palace.
Toot, referee Taylor blew the whistle to start the game.
The first to kick off is the visiting team Manchester United.
Manchester United's team still has a defensive and counterattack tone from the beginning, but his current tactics are very different from those when Chelsea dominated the Premier League and won the Triple Crown at Inter Milan. He has also been absorbing nutrients and enriching
his tactical system.
The overall tactical style has not changed, and it still has the foundation of the bus.
However, he followed the trend of history. He strengthened the number of players in the technical midfield and frontcourt, emphasized the ball on the ground, and also strengthened the ball-playing ability in the midfield and backcourt, striving to quickly tear apart the opponent's defense at the moment of transition between offense and defense.
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In this current game, their tactics are more like Mourinho's tactics before.
It is still mainly about setting up buses.
After all, Crystal Palace is very strong, and more importantly, Crystal Palace is good at high-position pressing. In this case, Crystal Palace's backcourt will have the space for quick counterattacks that Manchester United needs. So he made tactical adjustments to Crystal Palace, which is a bit tempting to Crystal Palace.
It means to press heavily.
Therefore, after the game started, Crystal Palace, who played at home, took the initiative and took the initiative.
This was not beyond everyone's expectations.
In Mourinho's words - everything is under control!
Mourinho also believes that as the game progresses, Crystal Palace's backcourt will become increasingly empty. This is their opportunity for Manchester United. Of course, the former
The key is that they have to hold on to the goal and prevent the Crystal Palace people from breaking through their Manchester United goal during this period.
And Mourinho is very confident in his bus tactics.
Therefore, he firmly believes that Manchester United will win this game.
With a bang, Pogba suddenly took a long shot 35 meters away from the goal. The football roared out and went directly over the crossbar. This was Manchester United's first shot of the game, and it was not a big threat.
But this also relieved Manchester United's defensive pressure, and Mourinho still gave him applause.
However, he still reminded Pogba to release the ball as soon as possible at the moment of transition between offense and defense and not to delay.
Pogba waved his hands slightly to show that he understood.
In fact, this goal had a better chance from the wing, but Pogba chose to believe in himself, so he took a long shot, but unfortunately he did not score.
Pogba immediately turned his head and glanced at Llorente. This guy came up in time. If he hadn't interfered just now, Pogba would have been very confident to send the football into the Crystal Palace goal.
Boom, Maignan in front of the goal kicked the football away, and the football flew into the Manchester United half.
Gentle rushed out quickly, jumping high to compete with Giroud for the top position.
With a bang, Gentle pushed the football out.
Mourinho on the sidelines was very satisfied. This Ginter is really worth the money. It is indeed worthy of the introduction by Tong Yi. Ginter should be the best player on the Manchester United team's defense besides De Gea.
To Mourinho's satisfaction, the performance this time was also very good.
Unfortunately, Blind in the midfield could not control the ball, and the ball was instantly stabbed out by Kante who rushed up from behind him.
Kanter really came up too fast, and the area covered was too big, right?
Blind was unprepared, so he was intercepted instantly.
Mourinho's face is a little ugly. He allowed Blind to appear in the defensive midfielder position in the middle today because he trusts him. But what are you Blind doing?
Danger, Manchester United is in danger!
The Manchester United fans who came from afar became nervous.
Because the football was knocked away, it rolled directly to De Bruyne's feet. The moment De Bruyne stopped the ball, the talented man boldly pulled the ball and turned around, directly facing the Manchester United goal.
Blind didn't think about it, and McTominay didn't make up for it at this time.
To be honest, McTominay is still too young.
After all, Blind rushed forward and Pogba took the lead. McTominay should have immediately retreated to cover. It was obvious that he was too slow this time, too slow.
That's why De Bruyne can pull the ball and turn around so unscrupulously.
Once De Bruyne faces Manchester United's goal, Manchester United will be in danger.
Giroud immediately turned around and moved forward quickly.
Salah on the wing immediately pulled back and came up to meet De Bruyne. Mbappé, like Giroud, quickly moved forward, even covering Cancelo who came up from the wing.
In response to De Bruyne.
This Crystal Palace attack was very strong, and at the same time it put a lot of pressure on Manchester United's defensive players.
Because there is no defensive midfielder to clamp down, De Bruyne has many ball release points, and every ball release point is very dangerous. This makes Alexander, the Manchester United defensive player, a bit unable to let go.
Mourinho on the sidelines was also very speechless, mentally scolding Blind and McTominay.
The fact that Manchester United fell into a passive situation this time was entirely due to the fatal mistakes of these two guys.
Especially Blind!
At this moment, De Bruyne suddenly made a diagonal pass and passed the football directly to Salah who was pulling out to meet him!
Suddenly, Manchester United fans breathed a sigh of relief.
Because in their opinion, De Bruyne made the worst choice. After all, if you pass the ball to Salah who is pulled out to meet, then Salah is the only offensive player among the Crystal Palace offensive players with his back to the goal. Manchester United
The defensive players will definitely not let Salah turn around easily. So even if Salah catches the ball at this time, the threat will be minimal.
If De Bruyne passes the ball to Giroud or Mbappe who are facing the Manchester United goal head-on, then the threat will be very strong and Manchester United's defense will be more difficult.
Moreover, these two men also entered the penalty area. At that time, Manchester United's defensive players did not dare to make too many defensive moves.
In this way, Crystal Palace's offensive players will be able to gain more space.
Therefore, in their opinion, passing the ball to Salah is the worst choice!
However, Manchester United's full-back Damian didn't think about this. He rushed out immediately, followed Salah, and even wanted to stick to Salah from behind immediately.
Give Salah a chance to turn around.
Damian is still very confident in his defensive ability.
However, when he rushed out, he did not expect that Salah did not stop the ball at all, but directly missed the football. Damian did not react in time, and when he subconsciously moved his legs to block the football,
The football had rolled past his feet. At the same time, a red and blue shadow flashed past his outside wing!
Damian's heart thumped, it's over!
Damian immediately turned his head and looked over, and he saw Cancelo quickly making a diagonal move, catching up with the football, and quickly entered the ribs of Manchester United's penalty area.
Danger, the Manchester United fans screamed in horror.
Giroud, who was pushing forward in the middle, suddenly stopped and turned around, quickly rushing forward to meet Cancelo.
Lindelof immediately turned around and quickly pounced on Giroud, putting pressure on Giroud while preventing Giroud from grabbing a shot from the front.
With a bang, Cancelo, who entered the penalty area, directly swept the ball in an inverted triangle, and the football rolled towards Giroud. However, Giroud opened his legs and directly missed the football. Lindelof did not react and missed the football in an instant.
past.
Mbappe, who detoured towards the center, didn't stop the ball and directly swung his legs to shoot. He swept out a kick that hit the ground. The football quickly flew into the lower left corner of the goal. Romero reacted quickly, but did not touch the football!
This chapter has been completed!