After playing Sunderland, with only three days of rest, Crystal Palace sat at home and faced the challenge of Ipswich, a team in the middle and lower reaches of the standings.
With a tidy lineup and high morale, Crystal Palace didn't have to spend much effort to win against the mediocre Ipswich.
A 2-0 score, not a big one but absolutely affordable, gave Crystal Palace their 4th consecutive victory since Li Yi joined.
In this game, Li Yi did not score a goal or assist, but his performance was pretty good.
A week later, the league continued. Crystal Palace visited Leeds United and defeated Leeds United, which had gone bankrupt and was managed by the FA, with the same score of 2-0!
So far, Crystal Palace has won 5 games in a row.
It is worth mentioning that in this round of the league, the teams at the top of the standings, while winning most of their opponents, suffered a very big upset.
As for this unpopular participant, unfortunately, it is Li Yi's old club-Queens Park Rangers!
Shortly after the start of the first half, after one player was sent off, they lost an exaggerated 0-5 away game at the foot of the league's deputy squad leader, Shawson United, in a 10-on-11 qpr.
QPR's consecutive losses directly benefited Crystal Palace. After this round, Crystal Palace quietly climbed to the second place in the standings without the outside world noticing.
First they will play Ipswich, who are ranked 20th in the league, and then Leeds United, who are at the bottom of the league. After another wave of sweet schedules, Crystal Palace's good days have finally come to an end.
Currently, after 32 rounds of league games, Crystal Palace has 19 wins, 6 draws and 7 losses, ranking second in the standings with 63 points. Their opponent in the next round has 19 wins, 7 draws and 6 losses, only one point more than them. Birmingham City, which occupies the top spot, has 19 wins, 7 draws and 6 losses.
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Well, it’s Birmingham again! By the way, Li Yi has not forgotten why he was brought to the Crystal Palace by QPR, and the outside media have also not forgotten.
Therefore, it is a matter of course that before this game, various media in London had speculated once and twice about the story that had to be told between Li Yi and Birmingham, and they kept breaking the news every day.
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"Lee, how about it? How many do you plan to score in the next game? You see what the media said, scoring three is a guarantee! Haha!"
"..." Speechlessly glanced at Qiaobi, who was obviously teasing him with today's newspaper, but the actual purpose was to get rid of him. Li Yi touched his head and said, "I want to score 3, but after that game,
The Birmingham players looked at me as if they were looking at the man who killed his father. I'm afraid it would be more likely that I would be kicked off three times by them."
"Haha!" Amused by Li Yi's expression, he laughed loudly for a while, and then Qiaobi said seriously, "Lee, no matter what the outside world says, you must not feel pressure. Don't always think about who your opponent is.
So and so. Our morale is at its peak now, and we can beat anyone the same!
Taking a step back, even if you can't score in this game, it doesn't matter if we draw with Birmingham. Anyway, we are now 7 points ahead of West Brom, who is third in the standings, and Crystal Palace, who is sixth, by 10 points. Upgrade.
After a day of training, he returned to his home, completed this week's routine low-level dungeon, and got a level 1 bicycle lv1 from it. Li Yi exited the dungeon skillfully.
With nothing to do, and with a feeling of triumph, I took a look at my personal attributes that had completely passed the test. When Li Yi turned his attention to the stunt column, a bold idea appeared in Li Yi's mind.
By the way, I don't know if it's a coincidence or not, but Li Yi only triggered the final word twice during the game, once when he just learned the stunt, and once after the stunt was upgraded.
After accidentally thinking of this, Li Yi made a bold hypothesis! - "Can I think that after learning or upgrading a stunt, the system will give you a gift that is guaranteed to succeed once?"
The more he thought about it, the more sense it made. Li Yi couldn't help but call out Xiao 7.
However, after Li Yi finished asking this question, Xiao 7 did not respond directly to Li Yi's question.
Slightly disappointed, he despised Xiao 7 for a while and exited the system space. Li Yi decided to try it himself during the game tomorrow!
What? Li Yi can't upgrade his stunts now, how can he try?
Don't forget, Li Yi currently has a total of 4 stunts, not just the final one!
I won’t talk about Li Yi’s 4 special effects once and for all. I definitely can’t try this one.
I have even tried it briefly, but nothing can come out of it. However, the other two, one on a bicycle and the other on an ox's tail, have not been tried by Li Yi since he learned it.
Therefore, as long as Li Yi goes to the game against Birmingham tomorrow and uses these two stunts to see if they can succeed, then his conjecture should be verified.
As for Li Yi, he has learned these two stunts for more than a month, why haven't he used them yet? Don't forget, whether it's riding a bicycle or riding a cow's tail, they are all active skills. In the competition, Li Yi has never done it
Unconsciously, the game time came to February 17th, the day of Crystal Palace vs Birmingham City.
"Okay, dear viewers, today's first-place battle in the English Championship will be narrated by your old friend Jack. As the players from both sides have not entered the venue yet, I will introduce to you today.
The starting lineups of both sides of the game.
Crystal Palace, playing at home, still uses their accustomed 5-3-2 formation.
Goalkeeper: No. 1: Scott Flinders
5 defenders: Darren Ward, Mark Hudson, Danny Butterfield, Carl Fletcher, Danny Glanville
3 central midfielders: Mark Kennedy, Joby McAnuff, Tom Soares
As for those at the front, they are Shaifaqi Kuchi and Lee.
Let’s take a look at Birmingham again.
Goalkeeper: Matt Sadler,
4 defenders: Frans Amoo, Damien Johnson, Richard Jiadi, Gary McSheffray.
4 midfielders: Anthony Doyle, Cameron Jerome, Clemson, Bruno Goth,
The two forwards are: Nicholas Bendtner and Martin Taylor.
Well, okay, the game has begun, let us turn our attention to the field."
The game, just as the commentator Jack said, has already begun.
Li Yi, who went to the competition field today to test whether his stunts were a sure success for the first time, was not in a hurry to do "flower work" after the start.
Stunts are definitely better used at critical moments. Regardless of whether they are useful or not, Li Yi will not mess around when it is completely unnecessary.
After receiving a short pass from his teammate from the midfield, he turned around with the ball and glanced at the opponent's prepared defense. Seeing that there was really no good opportunity, Li Yi did not force the ball. He turned around and passed the ball back to his side.
halftime.
Li Yi didn't know that his unintentional pass back at the beginning could coincidentally set up a squeeze for this game.
Speaking of which, there was an episode just after the game started. And the protagonists of this episode were the two sides of the match.
On the Crystal Palace side, they had tasted the benefits of pretending to be pigs and eating tigers. At the beginning of the game, they wanted to repeat the same trick, continue to pretend to be weak, stay in the backcourt, set up their formation, and wait for Birmingham to attack wildly.
Unexpectedly, after Crystal Palace fell behind in the backcourt for 1 or 2 minutes, the press they were looking forward to still did not come.
When sporadic boos broke out from the audience on the sidelines, and when they raised their heads, the Crystal Palace first-team players realized that they were not alone in this game. Birmingham, who were playing away from home, seemed to have responded with an acceptable gesture of a draw. You pass it on as you wish.
Chuan, I don’t care about you at all.
After all, it is their home court, and the fans are already beginning to be dissatisfied. Furthermore, although Crystal Palace can accept a draw in this game, it does not mean that they do not want to win at all. Seeing Birmingham's unwillingness to make progress, they hesitated a little.
A moment later, following Friedman's gesture from the sidelines, Crystal Palace slowly forced out.
However, when forced out, the five defenders in Crystal Palace's 5-3-2 in their own midfield and backcourt did not move at all. They stayed at their posts and waited for the opponent to counterattack.
The frontcourt was 6-9, and the pressure was not deep. The effectiveness of Crystal Palace's offense was obvious. Crystal Palace did not take the initiative, and Birmingham was even more stagnant. The first half of the game was based on the "tacit understanding" of the two sides.
Next, unconsciously, more than half of it has passed.
As the game time approached 30 minutes, the two sides had not yet scored 5 times in total. Not to mention the fans on the sidelines, Li Yi on the court could not sit still for the first time.
Once again receiving a pass from his teammate, Li Yi turned around and took a look at the front formation just like he did n times before. Then, the players on both sides thought that Li Yi would definitely transfer the ball when faced with a double defense.
, but Li Yi unexpectedly moved the ball forward and rushed towards the two defensive players who were focusing on him today. Birmingham arranged to specially mark him.
"Scared!" Seeing Li Yi suddenly start and rush towards himself and his teammates, Mike Shefley kicked his eyes, greeted his teammates, and rushed towards Li Yi.
Mudd, Mike Sheffrey still remembers the humiliation Li Yi brought him last time. If Li Yi plays the same game as the first 30 minutes, honestly, Mike Sheffrey will forget it. This time
Li Yi actually dared to provoke him again without good reason. Mike Shefley swore that he would never mind and teach Li Yi a profound lesson.
Seeing that the distance between the three people was getting closer and closer, Li Yi knew that no matter how good his skills were, there was no hope of a forceful attack. Li Yi used the "secret weapon" that he had hidden for most of the game and finally had a use for.
When the distance between the two defensive players and himself was reduced to less than one meter, he saw that Mike Shefley made a starting move to lead the ball and put him down. Li Yi's right instep was very abrupt, heading towards
The inside of the ball is just like that!
"Want to break through?" How are Li Yi's skills with his feet? Mike Sheff, like his teammates, studied it more than a hundred times before the game and knew that Li Yi would basically not make any fake moves. Moreover, Li Yi had already used the outside of his instep to deflect the ball.
Now, if you want to make a move, you have to wait for him to catch up with the ball. Why would the two of them hesitate?
"I'll do it!" He yelled, calling his teammates to stop to avoid accidental injuries. Mike Shefley slid to the ground and shoveled the ball that was "drove out" by Li Yi.
