303: Crystal Palace reaches Europa League quarterfinals
Lost!
Crystal Palace did lose to Manchester City and was eliminated from the FA Cup.
However, the Crystal Palace fans were not angry at all, let alone angry.
There is nothing unacceptable about this. ??
This season, Crystal Palace won the League Cup and is currently ranked first in the Premier League. They successfully avoided relegation in the Premier League early. What else can they be dissatisfied with?
What's more, Crystal Palace also reached the top 16 of the Europa League.
Crystal Palace fans are already satisfied.
Crystal Palace has been very successful this season.
Crystal Palace fans are very satisfied, and they have no complaints or dissatisfaction with Tong Yi at all.
They even raised the banner of supporting Tong Yi.
Tong Yi is the greatest head coach in the history of their club, bar none.
Even if you are eliminated from the FA Cup, what can't you accept?
Tong Yi also said after the game, "In this game, the Manchester City people did perform better. It is reasonable for them to win this game. Congratulations to them and Mr. Pellegrini. I hope they can continue to work hard."
Win the FA Cup this season."
Tong Yi also said, "Yes, I think Manchester City has the potential to win the FA Cup, and only the champion can defeat our Crystal Palace team in the FA Cup!"
Webster and others were speechless, Tong Yi is really Ah Q!
But it's true. Manchester City's strength is indeed quite strong this season, and they may really win the FA Cup.
After this game, Tong Yi led the Crystal Palace players back to London without stopping.
Three days later, they will usher in the 29th round of the 2013-2014 Premier League season. Crystal Palace will face Southampton at home.
This is Crystal Palace's third game this week. Including last weekend's league games, there will be four games played in ten days. This schedule is quite intensive.
Originally, the game between Crystal Palace and Southampton this weekend was to be replayed on this day. After all, the games at Crystal Palace during this period were too intensive, and the Football Association and the English Professional Football League were also afraid of something going wrong. But for some unknown reason, there was no replay for this game.
It was postponed, but it will still be held as scheduled.
Therefore, the players of Crystal Palace are quite tired now.
Not to mention the Crystal Palace players, even Tong Yi was very tired.
Tong Yi really doesn't have enough confidence in the next league match.
Of course, Tong Yi will definitely have to rotate in this game.
With rotation, the Crystal Palace team will be in some danger.
Southampton still has strength, and they also have many outstanding players with good strength and potential. More importantly, their head coach Pochettino is a very good head coach. Pochettino will
Southampton has built up very well. It is currently ranked 9th in the Premier League and has the ability to go further.
Although Southampton is playing away from home in this game, it is relatively Crystal Palace is also waiting for work.
Therefore, Crystal Palace is still very uncertain in this game.
Before this game, Pochettino said directly, "Obviously, Southampton has an absolute advantage in this game. And I also believe that my players will not give the Crystal Palace people a chance.
We must win this game! No matter how powerful Tong Yi is, they can't win!"
However, before this game, Crystal Palace had already played Southampton twice this season.
The first time the two sides met was in the third round of the League Cup this season, Southampton lost 0-2 to Crystal Palace. Three days later, Southampton faced Crystal Palace at home in the sixth round of the Premier League, and the result was 1-2.
Lost.
So Southampton lost in the previous two games.
In this game, Southamptonians came to take revenge.
Moreover, Pochettino is full of confidence!
Southampton must win this game!
To be honest, even Tong Yi feels that Southampton has a great chance in this game. But Crystal Palace obviously will not give up and will fight to the end in this game.
In this game, Tong Yi made a rotation. The starting lineup is as follows
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The back four from left to right: Schultz, Delaney, Laporte, Aurier
Double defensive midfielder Weigl and Milinkovic-Savic
Single attacking midfielder Goretzka
Front three from left to right Bruno Alves, Ignacio and Sane
And Southampton’s starting lineup is like this
Goalkeeper Boruc
Back four from left to right Luke Shaw, Font, Lovren and Chambers
Midfield four from left to right Lallana, Schneiderlin, Jack Cork and Steven Davis
Dual forwards Jay Rodriguez and Lambert
It can be seen that Southampton played almost all their main players in this game. They are here for victory. They want to take advantage of your illness and kill you, and they want to completely win the Crystal Palace.
After the game started, the Crystal Palace players did show a hint of fatigue.
Although they were very active and worked hard in the competition, the results were not very satisfactory.
Goretzka's condition is particularly bad.
In the 77th minute of the game, Lallana on the wing suddenly pushed the baseline of the wing. Luke Shaw rushed up and passed the ball directly into the Crystal Palace penalty area.
Lambert overpowered veteran Delaney in the middle of the penalty area and smashed the football into the Crystal Palace goal.
Edward pounced on the football, but still couldn't stop it from flying into the goal.
1-0, Southampton defeated Crystal Palace away from home.
Crystal Palace finally lost in the league!
Crystal Palace won the league in February, and in the past Premier League, they have won an astonishing ten consecutive victories. The last time they lost in the Premier League dates back to this season.
The 18th round of the league was still in the first half of the season, and it was only December at that time.
Crystal Palace have not lost in the league for more than two months.
Now we finally lose!
Everyone in England breathed a sigh of relief, the magic of the Crystal Palace was finally over.
After the end of this round of Premier League, the Premier League standings have also changed.
After the 29 rounds of the 2013-2014 Premier League season, the rankings are as follows
Ranking first in the league is Chelsea, with 20 wins, 6 draws and 3 losses, with 66 points.
The second-ranked team is Crystal Palace, with a record of 21 wins and 8 losses and 63 points.
Ranked third is Liverpool, with 19 wins, 5 draws and 5 losses, with 62 points.
Ranked fourth is Manchester City, with 19 wins, 4 draws and 6 losses, with 61 points.
Ranked fifth is Arsenal, with 18 wins, 6 draws and 5 losses, with 60 points.
Yes, Crystal Palace has been surpassed by Chelsea. Crystal Palace ranks second in the Premier League, 3 points behind Chelsea. This is a little uncomfortable for Crystal Palace fans, but if you think about it carefully, the discrimination is still acceptable.
After all, Crystal Palace is a newly promoted team. It is already an amazing achievement to be ranked second in the Premier League at this time.
They just feel it's a bit of a pity.
After all, they were kicked off the throne!
However, when thinking about Crystal Palace's recent intensive schedule, Crystal Palace fans feel that it is understandable. They still support Tong Yi and support Tong Yi.
If you look at Arsenal's performance, it's very infuriating.
Arsenal has been at the top of the league for half a season. Now they have not only lost their top spot in the league, but have even directly moved to fifth place in the league. They are starting to compete for fourth place again.
Everyone should know how desperate Arsenal fans are!
Compared to Arsenal, Crystal Palace fans are very happy.
More importantly, their Crystal Palace also won the EFL Cup, while Arsenal had nothing!
Also, Arsenal invested nearly 100 million euros last summer. With such results, no wonder they are so angry and angry.
Understandable!
No wonder Arsenal fans hired planes to fly "Wenger, out" banners over the Emirates Stadium.
Therefore, Crystal Palace fans are very happy to see Arsenal.
And their Crystal Palace is not without a chance. There are still nine rounds of games to come. Crystal Palace still has a chance to return to the top of the Premier League. After all, there is still another one to come. It was a head-to-head clash with Chelsea. If they won that game, Crystal Palace would be able to return to the top of the league.
Crystal Palace fans are really not in a hurry right now.
And Tong Yi didn't care about this. He has now led the Crystal Palace players to Bulgaria, because the first leg of the top 16 knockout round of the 2013-2014 Europa League is about to start. Crystal Palace is going to challenge Ludogorets away from home.
Tong Yi's thoughts were all focused on this game.
To be honest, Tong Yi still attaches great importance to the Europa League competition.
Ludogorets is not very strong, but Tong Yi has the idea to go further and defeat his opponent to advance to the next round.
Therefore, although Crystal Palace rotated in this game, they still sent a lot of main players.
Today’s starting lineup for Crystal Palace looks like this
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The back four from left to right Robertson, Laporte, Van Dijk and Aurier
Double midfielder Paulinho and Milinkovic-Savic
Single attacking midfielder De Bruyne
The front three from left to right Salah, Lukaku and Sane
In this game, the Crystal Palace players were like tigers descending from the mountain, suppressing Ludogorets from the beginning of the game. And in the 11th minute of the game, Salah received a call from Lukaku.
The header flew over and broke Ludogorets' goal.
Then Lukaku broke out, scoring two goals in the 33rd and 55th minutes, scoring twice, helping the team defeat Ludogorets 3-0.
After this game, Crystal Palace actually has one foot in the Europa League quarterfinals.
Crystal Palace fans were very excited and happy.
After returning from Bulgaria, Tong Yi won the best coach of the month in the Premier League in February 2013 and 2014. This is the fourth time that Tong Yi has won the best coach of the month this season. This shows how outstanding and powerful Tong Yi is.
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However, just when they received this award, Crystal Palace ushered in a league game with not very good results.
In the weekend's away game against Sunderland, Crystal Palace actually drew 0-0 with their opponent. This was also the first draw Crystal Palace achieved in the 2013-2014 Premier League season.
After the draw ended, Crystal Palace welcomed Ludogorets at their home stadium, Selhurst Park.
In this game, the Crystal Palace people are much more relaxed. After all, they have already entered the top 8 of the Europa League.
The Crystal Palace players really played very relaxedly in this game, but they still won the game 1-0.
Pogba scored the only goal.
Crystal Palace defeated Ludogorets with a total score of 4-0 and successfully reached the top 8 of the 2013-2014 Europa League.
Crystal Palace fans jumped with excitement, their team seemed to be doing something extraordinary.