The opening game of this season's Premier League is between newly promoted Hull City and last season's Premier League runners-up Leicester City. This game is two and a half hours earlier than the game on the same day.
Two and a half hours after this game, last season's Premier League champion Crystal Palace will also make their appearance.
Crystal Palace host West Bromwich Albion at their rented home ground, The Valley Stadium.
To be honest, West Bromwich Albion is not very strong.
West Bromwich Albion was a relegation team in the Premier League last season, and even West Bromwich Albion was a relegation team last season.
West Bromwich Albion's performance in the first half of last season was very poor, and their head coach Alan Irwin was fired before the half-time period was over. Then, the current head coach Tony Prince was appointed in January 2015.
He officially took over the team on January 1st and helped the team avoid relegation, and has been doing so until now.
In Tong Yi's memory, Tony Pulis still has some connections with Crystal Palace.
In his previous life, Pulis should have taken over Crystal Palace in November 2013 and helped Crystal Palace avoid relegation in the Premier League, thus winning the best coach of the season award. Unfortunately, this season, Pulis did not come to Crystal Palace to coach.
Didn't win Premier League Coach of the Year.
However, he still has quite a reputation.
In the 2007-2008 season, he led Stoke City to win the English Championship, led the team to promotion to the Premier League, and was awarded the best coach of the English Championship that season. After the promotion, he also brought Stoke City to the mid-table level of the Premier League.
This is also a very capable head coach. He is especially good at leading a team with limited strength to achieve outstanding results. Moreover, after so many years in the industry, he has never led a team to be relegated.
This is a relegation master!
Therefore, Tong Yi really did not dare to underestimate this opponent.
At the regular press conference before the game, Tong Yi said this: "Although West Bromwich Albion is a relegation team, they still have their own characteristics, and their head coach Pulis is very capable.
In this game, our Crystal Palace is still a bit dangerous and must take it seriously!"
If Tong Yi remembers correctly, after the end of this season, Pulis was selected as a candidate for the best coach of the season. Therefore, Pulis's performance in leading the team this season is still good.
At this time, Crystal Palace naturally cannot underestimate their opponents.
Tong Yi also said, "Currently, our team is not in the best condition. I really don't know what the outcome of this game will be. What we have to do now is to go all out in this game. I hope it won't happen."
Lose."
Tong Yi is really worried.
Because at this time, the match between last season's Premier League runners-up Leicester City and newly promoted Hull City is still in progress. The current score is that the home team's newly promoted Hull City leads Leicester City 2-0.
Is this game going to be an upset?
Tong Yi doesn’t want to follow in the footsteps of Leicester City. He doesn’t want Crystal Palace to be What a surprise.
Tong Yi also said, "West Bromwich Albion is a really strong team. In this game, we will definitely be prepared. Don't worry, we will show the same attitude as against Manchester United and Sevilla."
Against West Bromwich Albion, they have the ability!"
It can be seen that Tong Yi attaches great importance to West Bromwich Albion.
However, media reporters and fans all felt that Tong Yi was praising West Bromwich Albion, just like he was praising Sevilla before playing against Sevilla.
West Bromwich Albion won't be fooled.
To be honest, Tong Yi really didn't mean to praise the team. He was just reminding his players not to underestimate West Bromwich Albion and not to be upset like Leicester City.
We can’t lose this game! The Crystal Palace players nodded one after another to show their understanding.
After Pulis heard Tong Yi's words, he chuckled.
Then Pulis also attended the pre-match press conference.
Pulis said, "Coach Tong Yi really thinks too highly of us at West Bromwich Albion. He really praises us a little too much. But it is also our West Bromwich Albion that we can get the attention of the godfather of the championship."
It's an honor. Since he thinks that we are very strong, we feel that we will not let Mr. Tong Yi down in this game."
Well, Pulis still has a bit of a nose in his face.
I don’t know if this guy is really confident or if he’s a little too confident.
However, when the West Bromwich Albion fans heard such words, they were still very excited.
What about Crystal Palace?
Can't we, Crystal Palace, West Bromwich Albion win? Our West Bromwich Albion are not bad at all. In this game, we, West Bromwich Albion, are indeed away from home, but your Crystal Palace is not at home either. This game is
, we at West Bromwich Albion have plenty of chances to win!
Well, West Bromwich Albion fans don't think the Valley Stadium is the home ground of Crystal Palace. In their opinion, Crystal Palace is the only team in the Premier League without a home game this season.
The rootless duckweed Crystal Palace wandering around the world is destined to have a failed season!
Let Crystal Palace's failed season begin with us at West Bromwich Albion!
We, West Bromwich Albion, will definitely win this game.
Pulis also said, "We at West Bromwich Albion have been preparing for this game for a long time. I am still very confident about this game! Crystal Palace has played two games in a row before this game.
It’s equivalent to them having a double match in a week. Now they play against me, even if they are tough, they will be tired. So, in this game, I think our West Bromwich Albion
The chances are great.”
This is indeed the case. Crystal Palace has already played against two strong teams, Manchester United and Sevilla. Moreover, in these two games, Crystal Palace played almost all the main players, with only a few rotations. Therefore, in this game
If Crystal Palace does not rotate, they will have physical problems.
Wouldn't it be easier for West Bromwich Albion if they have physical problems?
Therefore, in this game, their West Bromwich Albion chances are very high!
It can be seen that Pulis is really very confident. .??.
After answering this question, Pulis stood up and left directly without accepting any more interviews.
The media reporters were left looking at each other.
They really didn't expect Pulis to be so confident and not take Crystal Palace seriously at all.
Adriana glanced at Webster and asked, "Do you also think West Bromwich Albion have a good chance?"
Adriana has worked with Webster for many years, and is still very familiar with Webster. She just saw Webster's reaction to Pulis' words, and she felt that Webster should approve of Pulis.
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Webster said calmly, "What Pulis said makes some sense. In the first two games, Crystal Palace almost used all the main players. If they don't rotate in this game, their physical fitness will be a big problem and they are likely to lose."
If they rotate, to be honest, I am not optimistic about this young substitute player in Crystal Palace. These players are not Kimmich, Milinkovic, Sane and Laporte who have grown up slowly in Crystal Palace for many years.
Top substitutes. Their strength... I'm not optimistic about them!"
Adriana nodded slightly, as she guessed.
Webster is still not optimistic about Crystal Palace's bench players. He feels that these bench players are really too different from Milinkovic-Savic.
However, you have to say that Webster's concerns are justified. Therefore, Adriana is also a little worried about the Crystal Palace.
However, Adriana still believes in Tong Yi's vision. Tong Yi must know that without the main substitutes like Milinkovic, if they do not introduce some capable substitute players, the Crystal Palace will be very dangerous this season.
Therefore, these young players introduced by Tong Yi should have their own strengths and characteristics.
This game is likely to reveal the mystery of these young players.
To be honest, Adriana is also looking forward to this game.
Media reporters and fans are looking forward to this game.
At this time, there were a lot of Crystal Palace fans gathered at the Valley Stadium. Although it was still far away from Selhurst Park, these fans still worked tirelessly to come to this stadium.
Come and support the Crystal Palace team.
This is Crystal Palace's first home game at The Valley. , Crystal Palace fans naturally take it very seriously.
Whether they can hit the ground running and get off to a good start depends on today, so they certainly can't miss it.
Many of the Crystal Palace Football Club’s fan club bosses organized fans from their fan clubs to come to the Valley Stadium to support their home team. They all wore Crystal Palace’s new home jerseys for the new season and came to the scene to give Crystal Palace
Come on and cheer.
Yes, Crystal Palace's home jersey for the new season is brand new.
Although the color of the main body has not changed much, there have been a lot of adjustments in details, such as adding some gold thread borders, and the jersey number has also changed color, and the bright gold body has bordered words. More
The main thing is that the jersey sponsor of Crystal Palace has changed and became Adidas!
The advertisement on the chest has also changed!
Even the advertising sponsorship on the cuffs has changed!
Not long ago, Crystal Palace signed a three-year cuff advertising sponsorship contract with Carlsberg, worth 10 million pounds a year. Now Carlsberg's advertising logo is inlaid on the cuffs of the Crystal Palace jersey, which is a sight for Crystal Palace fans.
They were very excited.
Their Crystal Palace is really packed this year!
Crystal Palace fans flocked to the Valley Stadium in large numbers, and the Valley Stadium was now full.
There were so many fans who came to the scene today, it was almost full. There were not only fans from Crystal Palace and West Bromwich Albion, but also some fans from the surrounding residents. There were also some Charlemagne fans.
Fans of Tottenham Athletic and Millwall.
After all, their home team has been away from the Premier League for a long time, and they have not seen the Premier League live for a long time. Now that they have such an opportunity, they will naturally go to watch the game live.
Even at this time, some Charlton Thorns and Millwall fans had the idea of changing their clubs and wanted to support Crystal Palace and become Crystal Palace fans.
Firstly, the game played by Crystal Palace was very good. Secondly, Crystal Palace has many stars. Thirdly, Crystal Palace’s recent results are really great...
Therefore, these people gradually like to watch Crystal Palace games, and slowly and subtly become Crystal Palace fans.
Yes, in the past few years, Crystal Palace has attracted a lot of fans.
Many of these fans in South London go to support Crystal Palace. No wonder many media claim that Crystal Palace is about to become the King of London. This is not only their performance, but also their fan base has grown very significantly.
Fast, it seems to be the most popular team in London in recent years.
Even giants such as Arsenal and Chelsea have been affected.
Crystal Palace is really a rising powerhouse.
It was really crowded today. The atmosphere was really no worse than at Selhurst Park!