After withstanding Crystal Palace's attack, Real Madrid, which had a better performance on the court, continued to strengthen its attack.
In the 19th minute, Guti split the ball from the left, and Robben cut in and shot a low shot with his right foot that went slightly wide. In the 26th minute, Van der Vaart passed the ball, and Raul shot a cold arrow in front of the penalty area. The ball missed the far post and flew out of the baseline. In the 27th minute,
Guti passed the ball to the left, Robben knocked back, and Van der Vaart's shot from the upper left corner of the penalty area missed.
Unknowingly, the game reached the 35th minute of the first half. After watching almost half of the game, JK, who was about to explode from holding back his nerves, introduced the offensive and defensive data of both sides so far, "Hey, the game is here, I believe you all.
We have also seen that although our Premier League teams have performed very strongly in the Champions League in recent years, unfortunately, Crystal Palace is only Crystal Palace after all. They are just a new team in the Champions League. In a competition like the Champions League, where the rich and powerful are competing for their heritage, they are still slightly behind.
It seems a little childish.
The game has been going on for almost 35 minutes now.
Real Madrid's not only the ball possession rate, which is 65% to 35%, is much higher than that of Crystal Palace, but the actual offensive threat is far better than that of Crystal Palace.
As a British person, I really don’t hate Crystal Palace, but objectively speaking, in the 35 minutes of the first half, Crystal Palace played shit. Except for Lee’s header, I rarely saw Crystal Palace successfully score a goal.
When the ball crosses half-court, let alone anything else.
However, no one expected that Real Madrid, which had been playing smoothly in this game, would receive bad news 35 minutes into the first half.
This bad news is really not a loss. After all, everyone knows how Crystal Palace played today. Even if it is unexpectedly equalized by Crystal Palace, Schuster's team will not be too anxious. The bad news from Real Madrid is -
They just introduced Robben this season and has gradually established himself as the main right winger. He has played less than 10 games and he is so injured!
Moreover, the Crystal Palace players are really not to blame for Robben's injury this time, because through slow motion, it is not difficult for fans around the world to see that Robben inflicted the injury on himself during the confrontation.
At that time, it was Robben who advanced along the right wing. After being intercepted by Bell, Robben performed a very fancy emergency stop.
Who would have thought that after three rapid changes in a row, Robben not only failed to get past Bale, who was defending well, but suddenly hugged his right leg and fell to the ground.
During the confrontation, he fell to the ground. Anyone who is familiar with football knows that this kind of injury is sometimes even more serious than those whose legs are broken by tackles. Therefore, there is no need for the Real Madrid players to remind the referee.
The game was suspended.
Looking at Robben who rolled on the ground several times and finally faced the lawn with his hands constantly slapping the lawn, Li Yi somewhat understood why Real Madrid still chose Robben after the end of the season even though they knew that Robben was very strong.
The former was sold off.
Schuster was dismissed from get out of class, and the Dutch gang was purged as a whole. This was one aspect, but the more critical thing was not this, but that in the early days of his debut, Robben was too weak physically and could be called a glass man.
Although I didn't like Robben very much as a player in my previous life and didn't pay much attention to Robben's trend, Li Yi vaguely remembered that it seemed that Robben played less than 10 games for Real Madrid in the 2008-09 season.
I was injured all the time.
…
Looking back at the field, Real Madrid's team doctor only made a preliminary diagnosis of Robben after he came on the court. He quickly looked towards Schuster on the sidelines and said, Robben is not going to work and must be replaced.
As a last resort, Higuain had to step in and appeared on the field to replace Robben, who was injured and could not hold on.
The fans at the scene, originally watching Robben, the most active player on Real Madrid's side, go off in the first half, thought they had a chance! Who knew, as the game progressed, they discovered that after seemingly falling for Higuain, Real Madrid's
There is not much difference in strength.
In the 40th minute, Gago made a direct pass from the middle of the penalty area. Guti and Raul cooperated like hitting the wall and then shot hard with his left foot from the edge of the penalty area. The ball unfortunately hit the goal post.
One minute later, Crystal Palace finally launched a threatening attack again. It was Bell who broke through from the wing and passed in. It was still Li Yi who grabbed the first point. The only difference from the last time was that this time, Li Yi saw
Sneijder followed up in the back row.[
Pressuring the opponent's defender, he comfortably moved the ball to where Sneijder could shoot directly. Unfortunately, Sneijder's final volley shot fired an anti-aircraft gun, and Crystal Palace missed the best chance to equalize the score in the first half.
The first half of the game ended quickly after Crystal Palace's threatening attack. In the last 5 minutes, neither side found any decent opportunities.
During the halftime break, perhaps he was really pushed into a hurry and temporarily forgot about his job problem. As soon as the second half came, Friedman was very courageous and replaced Sissoko, who had a mediocre performance in the first half.
Like Yaya Toure.
And the effect of Friedman's substitution when applied on the court is not immediate.
With the appearance of Sissoko, the troublemaker in the midfield, Real Madrid players soon discovered that they wanted to cooperate comfortably in the midfield like they did in the first half, and then grabbed Crystal Palace and wanted to beat them.
It’s not realistic to just beat him up!
On the contrary, Crystal Palace, after withstanding Real Madrid's two attacks in the second half, finally showed its home momentum.
In the 47th minute, Sneijder passed the ball to the right rib of the penalty area. Li Yi stopped the ball and volleyed from a small angle, directly driving the ball into the near corner of the goal.
Unfortunately, just when Li Yi was about to run wildly to celebrate, the linesman at the far end of the stadium came out and acted as a spoiler, gently shaking two small flags in his hands. Li Yi's very beautiful goal was just like that.
Hacked!
It didn't matter that the goal was disallowed. 4 minutes later, Crystal Palace made a comeback. Bell broke through and passed from the left. Li Yi once again succeeded in grabbing the point in the middle of the penalty area and completed the shot!
Unexpectedly, Li Yi's shot was blocked by Cannavaro with his body and hands.
Faced with Cannavaro's suspected penalty kick, the referee on duty did not give Crystal Palace the penalty kick it wanted, but only gave it a corner kick.
In the 60th minute, Higuain broke through from the left and Van Nistelrooy's long-range shot from outside the penalty area was blocked by the defender. Van der Vaart took a left corner kick, and Ramos volleyed from the edge of the penalty area but was blocked by the defender again. Van der Vaart opened the ball.
Taking a corner kick on the right, Ramos nodded and missed the goal.
After that, the two sides played back and forth on the court, which was very lively. Unfortunately, in the end, both sides failed to seize the numerous opportunities. The score of 1-0 remained like this until the end.
At this point, Real Madrid, who have won the title of 16 Wolves of the Champions League in the past two years, immediately received a 1-0 away game at Crystal Palace, ushering in a good start for them in the Champions League this season.
After the game, Friedman didn't seem too anxious about the team's second consecutive defeat. He even told reporters jokingly that this was a necessary stage for a team to go through.
But he didn't know that Mansour, who was sitting in the team's luxurious private room during this game, had actually made the decision to replace him after losing the game!
Of course, although Mansour has confirmed that he will change coaches, it cannot be just recently. After all, as the team's meritorious coach, Mansour has to be more generous to the former in order to win the hearts of Crystal Palace. Besides, at this time,
Even if Mansour wants to be replaced, someone has to be replaced! He has not yet contacted who will take over Crystal Palace.
