October 21, 2017, St. James Park Stadium, Newcastle, England.
What is happening here today is a match in the 9th round of the 2017-2018 Premier League season. The two sides are Newcastle United and Crystal Palace.
This is not the highlight of this round of the league. The highlight of this round is Everton playing against Arsenal at home and Tottenham Hotspur playing against Liverpool at home. However, the results of these two games really don’t matter much to Crystal Palace at the moment.
Impact, because the current results of these teams are not very good, and they are too far away from Crystal Palace.
What Crystal Palace cares about is the match between the Manchester duo. ??
Because these two teams are currently the closest to them, if these two teams continue to win, they can still put a lot of pressure on Crystal Palace.
Of course, if Crystal Palace does their job well and gets the victory they deserve, they won't care about the performance of the Manchester duo.
After all, currently, Crystal Palace is the only one in the Premier League this season.
After all, Crystal Palace is still the only team in the Premier League to maintain a complete victory this season.
Of course, Tong Yi naturally hopes to continue to do so.
Who would hate too much victory?
This away game against Newcastle United is in Crystal Palace's must-win plan. This is a game that must be won.
Therefore, Crystal Palace will definitely go all out in this game.
Even, in this game, Crystal Palace fielded its entire main lineup.
After all, the main players have also rested for several days, and it is time to go out and make gestures.
Of course, the eyes of the media reporters and fans at the scene were all focused on Ronaldo. They wanted to see how the condition of Ronaldo, who had been working day and night, was maintained? Is Park Ji-ran's arrival good for him?
status had an impact?
Therefore, at this time, many media reporters were looking at Ronaldo with magnifying glasses to watch his performance.
The game just started, Ronaldo didn't look very active and didn't run much.
This made the media reporters at the scene burst into laughter. Could it be that Ronaldo’s legs are weak?
However, during this period, Crystal Palace still had the advantage by turning against the visitors.
Tong Yi's high-position pressing tactics were very successful, especially the siege in the frontcourt, which made Newcastle United people scrambled. They even made many passing errors during the press, which caused Bennett on the sidelines to panic.
Si was very anxious.
He also didn't expect that the main players of Crystal Palace would play so proactively in this game, and they were in very good condition. Their team was suppressed right from the start.
This is very bad for Newcastle United.
Benitez stood on the sidelines early and refused to listen to instructions. He really couldn't sit down for a moment.
he He couldn't help but turn his head to look at Tong Yi from time to time, his eyes full of horror.
He really didn't expect that young man Tong Yi could be so powerful. They were probably going to be beaten to death on the beach by this guy Tong Yi.
Especially in the past few years, he has gradually felt a little out of his depth, as if their approach is really outdated.
Not just him, but people like Mourinho, Wenger and Mancini.
The 4-2-3-1 formation that they were keen on at the time is gradually becoming a thing of the past. However, the high-position pressing, three-center-back system, etc. that Tong Yi and the others created have become the new mainstream in football.
To be honest, after seeing this, Benitez felt like giving up!
Sure enough, the world belongs to young people!
People cannot be young forever, but some people will always be young!
At this moment, Crystal Palace intercepted the ball again with high pressure in the frontcourt. Salah on the wing intercepted the football from the feet of the opponent's players, and immediately cut inside with the ball, heading towards Newcastle United's penalty area. In the penalty area,
The defensive players were a bit unresponsive, and the defense in the penalty area was a bit chaotic.
This was a good opportunity, and the Newcastle United fans at the scene were so frightened that they jumped up.
Danger!
Fortunately, the England goalkeeper Robert Elliott in front of the goal was concentrated. When he saw Salah's shot, he quickly jumped out and slapped the football out of the baseline with one palm.
If it weren't for him, Newcastle United would have conceded the goal.
Although this game only lasted less than ten minutes, Benitez could already see the gap in strength between the two sides. So he immediately waved his hand to signal the Newcastle United players to retreat and defend with all their strength.
At this time, you absolutely cannot concede the ball first.
Even at this time, Benitez had the idea that a draw would be victory.
Of course, counterattacks still have to be grasped. What if they are lucky enough to defeat Crystal Palace with counterattacks?
Therefore, you still have to have dreams, just in case they come true.
Corner kick, Crystal Palace won a corner kick.
Tong Yi immediately stood up and came to the sidelines to give advice. Benitez and the Newcastle United players became nervous. They all knew the power of Crystal Palace's corner kick tactics. Now Tong Yi personally stood up to arrange the corner kick.
Tactics, then this corner kick tactic is even more dangerous.
Benitez loudly reminded the Newcastle United players to pay attention to defense, follow up on their own people, don't miss anyone, and defend carefully.
Benitez was really nervous inside.
At this moment, Cancelo in the corner corner gently pushed the football out, and the football came
Salah in the corner of the penalty area. Newcastle United's defensive players immediately rushed out and rushed towards Salah holding the ball.
Just as these players rushed out, Salah suddenly took off his foot and passed diagonally to the back post.
The football drew an arc and flew to the back point accurately. Rudiger, who rushed up from the back point, hit the ball hard with his head, and the ball shot quickly towards the Newcastle United goal.
The Newcastle United players were panicked and looked horrified.
Danger, the last point is missing!
Because their main attention was on Ronaldo and Van Dijk, Rudiger, who was in the back position, was free at this time and completed this header very easily.
The football shot quickly towards Newcastle United's goal.
The expressions of the Newcastle United fans changed drastically and they secretly expressed danger.
This is really dangerous.
Elliott in front of the goal was stunned when he saw the ball. He had no chance at all and could only watch the football fly into the goal.
With a bang, Amei on the goal line, look at fullback Yedlin jumping high and pushing the football out.
The Newcastle United fans at the scene applauded excitedly and gave their applause to Yedlin.
However, the football flew directly to De Bruyne at the edge of the penalty area. De Bruyne met the ball and fired with a blast. Unfortunately, due to the interference of the opponent's midfielder Shelvey, the ball was shot high and the anti-aircraft cannon was fired.
However, this attack was still very threatening, and Benitez on the sidelines kept wiping his sweat.
This ball is really dangerous.
Fortunately, this wave was also avoided. Newcastle United started to organize an attack, but the effect was very bad. His ball was almost intercepted before half-time. Later, Newcastle United only had long passes to attack.
Go back to traditional English football.
But, to be honest, the threat is not great.
On the contrary, the offensive threat from Crystal Palace is getting bigger and bigger, and Newcastle United are a little unable to withstand it.
Benitez on the sidelines was also very nervous and worried.
Watching Crystal Palace's attacks one after another, Benitez really couldn't express his pain.
At this time, Kanter stole the ball in midfield again.
After stealing the ball, he quickly sent the football to Casemiro's feet. Casemiro was about to give the football to De Bruyne in front, but he found that De Bruyne was being blocked by the opponent's defensive players.
It stuck, so he canceled the plan and moved forward with the ball.
After attracting the defense, he immediately passed the football to Carvajal coming from the wing.
Carvajal didn't stop the ball, glanced at the frontcourt, and passed a long pass directly over the top to find Ronaldo who was penetrating forward.
c. Ronaldo used his speed to directly surpass Newcastle United's entire defense line. Chasing the football, one step inside the penalty area, facing the attacking goalkeeper Elliott, he stretched out his right leg in a flash while running quickly, and gently touched the falling football before Elliott.
He jumped up quickly, over the head of Elliott who was rushing out, and then quickly fell into Newcastle United's empty goal.
In the 22nd minute of the first half, the visiting team Crystal Palace finally broke through Newcastle United's goal and took the lead.
This is really a very good cooperation, and the Crystal Palace fans at the scene were very excited.
But the linesman raised his flag and the referee blew his whistle, signaling offside!
Newcastle United fans breathed a sigh of relief, while Crystal Palace fans were very dissatisfied and shouted black whistles.
c. Ronaldo is also very dissatisfied. He feels that he was not offside at all. He accelerated and then rushed out of Newcastle United's overall defense and surpassed these defensive players. This is considered as him stepping in from behind. This is not offside.
But the referee was very determined, thinking that this was an offside, and Ronaldo and the Crystal Palace players had no choice. Tong Yi also had no choice. The referee had already ruled like this, so what else could he do?
Keep up the good work!
However, this goal was a wake-up call to Newcastle United that they must strengthen their defense. If this continues, Newcastle United may be doomed.
Newcastle United's free kick from the backcourt was passed directly to the frontcourt. Joselu jumped high in the frontcourt and headed the ball. Ghanaian winger Artes quickly moved forward to catch up with the football. Before Rudiger pounced, he
He fired furiously from a position thirty meters away from the goal, and the football whizzed past, grazing the crossbar and flying out of the baseline.
This was Newcastle United's first shot of the game, and it was quite threatening.
This made the Newcastle United fans nervous. They felt that Newcastle United was good again and that Newcastle United would win this game. They immediately shouted in unison and cheered for their team, hoping that they could win.
Seize the opportunity and score goals as soon as possible.
At this moment, De Bruyne successfully intercepted the ball in the frontcourt, and then quickly sent the football to Mbappe who was diagonally inserted into the ribs of the penalty area. Newcastle United's full-back Manquillo had a defensive problem.
, following people but not scoring, keeping an eye on the ball but not people, giving Mbappe a chance.
Mbappe's speed was so fast that Manquillo had no chance at all.
He turned around and accelerated, unable to catch up with Mbappe. At this time, Mbappe was already holding the ball directly facing Newcastle United goalkeeper Elliott.
Mbappe almost didn't seem to need to adjust. He glanced at Elliott and shot directly with his legs!
With a bang, the French center back Lizuni hit the football hard before he stretched out his legs to intercept it. The football shot out quickly, as fast as a cannonball, directly from Elliott's face.
The shot flew over and into the Newcastle United goal.
The speed of the ball was so fast that Elliott didn't even react when he was slapped in the face.