Chapter 320 It doesn’t matter, the blind monk will take action
Crystal Palace coach Neil Warnock sat in his office, frowning.
He is thinking about the tactics for the next game.
It is the eighth round of the league, the home game against Chelsea.
In Warnock's view, although Crystal Palace's overall record was poor, it was mainly caused by the chaos caused by the departure of the original head coach in the early stages.
After losing the first four rounds and ranking first and second from the bottom, Warnock finally turned the situation around.
A narrow 3:2 win over Everton in the fifth round and a 2:0 win over Leicester City in the sixth round allowed Crystal Palace to jump out of the relegation zone.
But the good times didn't last long, and they lost to Hull City 0:2 in the seventh round.
In other words, the current state of Crystal Palace is very unstable.
But unlike Chelsea, Crystal Palace has a small number of international players, and the national team match day has little impact on them.
Therefore, this also gives Warnock ample time to train and adjust the team to prepare for the next game.
After these two weeks, Warnock has become more and more confident.
He has a strong desire to beat Chelsea!
He has countless reasons to do this.
First of all, Crystal Palace is playing at home this round. If they want to successfully avoid relegation this season, or even achieve better results, they must do their best to grab points at home.
Secondly, Chelsea is currently the team at the top of the rankings. If Crystal Palace can stop the opponent's progress, it will not only get important points for relegation, but also greatly boost the team's morale.
There is nothing more invigorating than defeating a strong team! The unstable Crystal Palace needs such a victory even more.
Thirdly, Crystal Palace and Chelsea are both London teams after all, although they are not as eye-catching as the North London Derby or the red-blue battle between Chelsea and Arsenal;
It's not as exciting as the m23 derby with Brighton, but it's still a London derby, and fans still value it.
If you can defeat Chelsea, you will undoubtedly gain support from the fan base and make your coaching position more stable.
After all, the news that Crystal Palace owner Parish has been looking for a new coach and has even contacted Crystal Palace legend Alan Pardew has already spread!
Who wants to be fired by the boss?
Once again, Chelsea and Pan Yi are now gaining momentum and have almost stolen all the limelight in the Premier League.
The Premier League has just selected the best in September, and Chelsea is a unique force.
In the eleven-man best lineup, Lukaku, Hazard, Marcos Alonso, David Luiz, Kante, and Courtois were selected one after another.
In other words, among the 11, there are 6 Chelsea players, accounting for more than half!
The best player was once again won by Hazard, and head coach Pan Yi also undisputedly won the best coach of the month in September.
Chelsea's victory is certainly admirable, but it also makes this team a lost cause.
Everyone knows that no matter which head coach can lead the team and stop Chelsea's winning streak, whoever can become famous!
Of course Warnock wants to be such a person.
If he can't be the Premier League champion, he should be someone who can defeat the Premier League champion!
With fame, your future coaching career will become broader.
This industry is like this, otherwise why would some well-known players become coaches immediately after retiring?
It is because everyone has heard of his name and believes that he can calm the locker room and quickly apply the coaching knowledge he learned as a player on the court.
This is also true for some coaches. As long as they get an upset victory in some focus battles, they will gain huge attention and become famous.
After you become famous, it will be much easier to find a job.
A simple example, after leading the team to defeat the champion Argentina in 2022, the head coach of the Saudi team will become much more famous than before, right? The same goes for the Moroccan coach.
Finally, it is also because Pan Yi was the target of Crystal Palace in the first place, which has been reported in the news for a long time.
It was only later that Parish chose Tony Pulis, who won the title of the best coach in the Premier League, and did not hire Pan Yi to come to Crystal Palace.
After Tony Pulis left Crystal Palace at the beginning of this season, Parish chose Warnock.
This is equivalent to saying that Warnock is just a spare tire, and the boss’s favorite is Pan Yi.
Can this be tolerated?
Therefore, Warnock can also prove to his boss that he is more suitable to sit in the coaching position of Crystal Palace by defeating Pan Yi!
Therefore, in the past two weeks, Warnock has led his Crystal Palace team to focus on practicing targeted tactics to restrain Chelsea.
The most important thing is to study the game in the third round when Everton lost 2:4 to Chelsea.
Although Everton still lost at the time, their tenacious and fierce playing style also allowed them to temporarily draw with Chelsea 2:2.
This also gave Warnock some very valuable lessons, and also allowed him to see the possibility of restraining Chelsea.
In addition, Crystal Palace defeated Everton in the fifth round, which gave Warnock even more confidence.
The last favorable factor is that Crystal Palace is waiting for work at home, while Chelsea has gone through the "torture" of the international match day. It is said that there are also injuries in the team, and the attrition and consumption will definitely be relatively large.
Therefore, this is really a great opportunity for Warnock!
The right time, right place and right people are all on this side of the Crystal Palace!
Thinking of this, Warnock suddenly stood up and punched the desk:
"Pan Yi, it's time to increase your intensity!"
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On the evening of October 18, 2014, Selhurst Park Stadium, London.
The home game between Crystal Palace and Chelsea is ongoing.
On the court, the two sides were fighting in full swing, and the game was going very fiercely.
It is now the 55th minute of the second half, and the LCD screen above the stadium stands is showing the current score: 2 to 0.
It seems that Chelsea won easily again and are already two goals ahead. If some fans had just opened the elevator and saw this score, they might have had this idea first.
But this is not the case.
According to international practice, the scoreboard always displays the home team first and the away team last.
In other words, this 2:0 means that Crystal Palace leads by two goals!
And if these fans turn off the elevator and turn on the TV again to watch carefully, they will find that there are only 21 players on the field now.
There are only 10 people fighting on Chelsea's side!
Yes, Chelsea has indeed sent off someone.
In this game, Crystal Palace head coach Neil Warnock obviously told his disciples to treat the "guests" with a tough attitude, so today they played more rough, with many fouls and small tricks.
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This caused Chelsea's players to involuntarily increase their actions.
However, I don’t know if today’s referee Martin Atkinson came with a mission. When a Crystal Palace player committed a foul, his whistle was a bit soft, but when a Chelsea player committed a foul, he clearly understood the situation and blew the whistle decisively. p>
Before the first half was over, he had already shown five yellow cards to Chelsea players, while Crystal Palace only had one.
Under the care of such a "blind monk", Chelsea players became more and more angry, and their technical movements were inevitably a little deformed, and their offensive performance was a bit unsmooth.
Crystal Palace strictly implemented its defensive counterattack tactics, using rough fouls to break up the game while looking for opportunities to use the speed of its own forward Zaha to break through Chelsea's defense after stealing the ball.
In the 30th minute of the first half, Fraser Campbell, Crystal Palace's new player this season, made a through ball. Zaha found the opportunity to penetrate Chelsea's penalty area from the ribs.
Azpilicueta behind him seemed to make a slight movement with his hands. Zaha fell into the penalty area and the whistle sounded immediately!
Referee Martin Atkinson pointed to the penalty spot without hesitation and also showed Azpilicueta a yellow card.
That's okay, the problem is that Azpilicueta had already received a yellow card before, so the two yellow cards turned into a red card, and Azpilicueta was sent off immediately!
In other words, this is almost a red dot set meal!
This means that in the next hour, Chelsea will fight with 10 people.
Although Chelsea's coaches and players came forward to protest that Zaha was diving, Martin Atkinson still insisted on his penalty.
This penalty kick was taken by Zaha himself.
The ball-killing king, who was rolling on the ground in pain just now, quickly recovered and made a steady penalty kick!
1:0, Crystal Palace takes the lead.
After the goal was scored, Pan Yi also quickly made adjustments, replacing today's winger B seat with Yin Vanovic, and then adjusted the formation to a 342.
In this way, while keeping the number of people in the backcourt unchanged, only two forwards, Bamford and Schurrle, are left in front to maintain the offensive power.
But obviously, Chelsea's players on the field were greatly affected by this red dot package, and they have never recovered.
At the end of the first half, Crystal Palace once again took advantage of a counterattack opportunity and scored another goal by Fraser Campbell.
Falling behind by two goals and missing one player, this is the most severe test Chelsea has faced since the start of this season!
During the halftime break, Pan Yi poured a bucket of cold water on the hot-headed players to sober them up and adjust their tactics.
That is to not go out to attack for the time being, but to stabilize the defense first, adapt to the situation of ten-man combat, and then look for opportunities.
In this way, although Chelsea has one less player than their opponent, they can still stabilize their position by relying on their overall strength advantage, leaving no opportunity for Crystal Palace, who wants to take advantage of the opportunity to expand the score advantage.
But the problem is that Chelsea is now behind, and they are still two goals behind.
Time keeps passing. If there is no improvement in the situation, Chelsea will really suffer its first defeat of the season!
The more than 20,000 Crystal Palace fans in the stands of Selhurst Park seemed to have seen the victory and began to celebrate in advance with singing and dancing.
Some fans even took out banners prepared in advance, which clearly read:
"Who needs Pan Yi?"
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Pan Yi looked at the field with a solemn expression.
Of course he won't blame Azpilicueta for this red card.
His positive defensive attitude is worthy of recognition.
This penalty kick was unwarranted. After Azpilicueta came down, he even said that he had not touched Zaha at all!
But it’s useless to say this now.
What he has to do is to find a way to reverse the current situation on the court.
It’s just that it’s very difficult now.
Due to the impact of the international match day, Pan Yi put Lukaku, Hazard and others on the bench today. While traveling around South America and the European continent, the four most tired Brazilian national team players did not even enter the game.
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Regardless of the fact that Belgium's two forward stars are not available, for today's Chelsea, the biggest impact is actually on the defense.
David Luiz is absent and Gary Cahill is injured, so today Pan Yi sent a combination of Terry, Ake, and Zouma.
Of course, this combination is actually not a big problem defensively. After all, it has been used in previous games.
But now when the score is behind and we need to strengthen our offense, David Luiz's ability to advance with the ball, including his ability to score from set pieces, is particularly important.
So Pan Yi must think about it seriously.
He has to come up with a plan B in a short period of time to face the current situation of being two goals behind and one player less!
"What now?" Steve Holland asked.
Scaloni did not speak, but the eager look he looked at Pan Yi clearly represented his current mood.
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Obviously, Pan Yi still has no way to deal with it, and the two assistant coaches sitting on both sides of him are a little anxious.
"I'll think about it again." Pan Yi smiled to prevent this anxious mood from spreading to the coaching bench and the bench, "Don't be anxious, let the bullets fly for a while."
Holland, Scaloni: "???"
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"Haha, we are finally going to win!"
Unlike the dead silence in the visiting team's coaching area, on the home team's side, Crystal Palace head coach Neil Warnock couldn't stop smiling and was chatting happily with the assistant coaches.
"I knew that if they were able to win consecutively until today, it must be because other teams were too gentle to them! Haha!"
"In the past two weeks, I have been asking the players to strengthen physical confrontation, and I have shown no reservations in training. I even injured Ward and Bolasie..."
"But now it seems that it was all worth it! Our preparations in the past two weeks have not been wasted!"
"The media has been asking, who will be the first person to defeat Pan Yi in the Premier League? You didn't expect it, right? It's me! Hahahaha!"
Warnock seems to have a guaranteed victory. That's because Crystal Palace now has two goals in hand, and the game time has begun to enter the second half of the second half. Chelsea has one less person to fight, and Pan Yi seems to have no more moves.
It can be said that Crystal Palace almost grabbed three points with one hand.
"However, if Chelsea hadn't already sent off one player, I'm really not sure we could beat them, even if they are already two goals ahead."
Neil Warnock suddenly sighed and said: "This Pan Yi really has two brushes."
"Even though they have one less player now, they are still in balance with us on the scene. It doesn't look like they are ten against eleven at all."
"Even in terms of local ball control and coordination, they still have a certain advantage."
"From this we can see how successful Pan Yi has been in transforming this team, and we can also understand why they can maintain a winning record."
The teaching assistants on the side also kept nodding.
They are also a little lucky.
Due to a controversial penalty, Crystal Palace got a penalty kick to take the lead. More importantly, Azpilicueta, who was running on the wing, was sent off.
This not only makes Chelsea lose one person, but also reduces the pressure on Crystal Palace on the wing. Only then can Crystal Palace have a chance to score another goal and maintain a 50-50 tie with Chelsea.
And now that it is almost seventy minutes into the game, the ten Chelsea players are still actively fighting against Crystal Palace, which shows how strong their physical fitness, willpower, and team fighting capabilities are.
It is precisely because of this that Crystal Palace has no longer thought about strengthening its offense and striving to score one or two more goals.
After all, the current score is enough!
If we press hard and Chelsea counterattack and score a goal, it will be a waste of money.
Look, even if they are 11 against 10 and lead by two goals, they will still be afraid of Chelsea's counterattack.
It’s really hard to imagine what it would be like now without that penalty kick and red card.
Maybe it’s Chelsea who are leading by two goals now? That’s the normal script.
But the current script is that Crystal Palace leads by two goals! They will become the first team to kill Chelsea and Pan Yi!
When I think about the possibility of being on the headlines of all sports newspapers in the UK tomorrow, both Warnock and the assistant coaches are a little too excited to sit still.
Their excitement made them glance at their wrists from time to time, wishing they could move the hands on their watches faster so that the referee could blow the final whistle!
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"Wow hahaha, Chelsea is really going to lose!"
In the Sky Sports live broadcast room, Gary Neville stood up excitedly and waved the Crystal Palace towel in his hand.
Since the last time he finished the program with his shirtless body and restless state, Neville has been counting on Chelsea to lose every day.
Therefore, as long as any team is Chelsea's opponent, then he is a fan of that team!
Of course, although he didn't dare to bet with Zola, his greatest hope was still in the ninth round of Manchester United's home game against Chelsea.
His old club will definitely help him regain his face!
But what I didn't expect was that Crystal Palace defeated Chelsea today!
At the end of the first half, Neville didn't dare to celebrate. After all, even he knew that Pan Yi had made great adjustments in the midfield.
But now the game is about to enter the final 20 minutes, and Chelsea is still two goals behind.
With one player missing, and with the cheering of more than 20,000 fans at Crystal Palace’s home court, it’s really hard for Chelsea to make a comeback!
"Right? What kind of magic trick? That's because he didn't encounter real difficulties!"
"This time, he has no choice! He is not a god after all!"
"What did I say? What did I say? Chelsea is definitely not that strong! Look at today, they withered when they encountered hard problems!"
I heard that Gary Neville was so excited that he was so excited that he felt like he was being pumped. The other guests were relatively calm.
Carragher said: "To be fair, the penalty kick in the first half should not exist, so the change from two yellows to one red does not exist."
"We also watched the slow-motion replay just now. Azpilicueta's foot did not touch Zaha, but his hand gently leaned on Zaha's shoulder."
"If penalty kicks can be awarded on such a scale, we can see more than ten penalty kicks in every Premier League game. This kind of football will be meaningless."
Zola said angrily: "Crystal Palace players do much more than this!"
"There were so many tackles in the first half, and the most I got was a verbal warning. But Chelsea got a yellow card for some normal physical confrontation."
"This has invisibly affected the performance of Chelsea players' technical movements and also affected their game mood."
"Let me see, since Mr. Atkinson has vision problems, he should see a doctor instead of insisting on blowing the whistle!"
Leinker analyzed it from another angle: "Many people say that Best of the Month is a curse, but it seems to be really effective."
"After Pan Yi won the Best in August, the curse did not occur. He won the Best in September again. But now it seems that the curse has been delayed..."
"And this international match day seems to have accelerated the onset of this curse. Today Chelsea's 18-man match list is missing four Brazilian internationals, coupled with Cahill's absence due to illness, this also makes Pan Yi
The formation of troops is a bit stretched."
"Perhaps Pan Yi should consider giving up multi-line combat? Otherwise, in the later stages, there will be more and more games and the players will become more and more tired, and it may really collapse..."
Gary Neville looked at Zola at this time and smiled at him: "How about it, do you still think Chelsea will win?"
Zola was silent.
"Haha, where in this world is there an undefeated team? No matter how strong a team is, it will lose, let alone a team led by a young coach like Pan Yi?" Gary Neville seized the time to output. p>
In the past few weeks, he has been forced to defend for too long!
It’s true that Pan Yi slapped him in the face too much, and today it’s finally his turn to feel proud!
But Zola still didn't answer any questions.
At this moment, even the most die-hard "Pan Chui" can hardly believe that Chelsea can come back to life.
He just felt depressed. After all, the team had won seven games in a row at the start of the season and was full of morale. It was a time to work hard. Why did it suddenly fall at the feet of a weak team like Crystal Palace?
If it was a loss to a team like Arsenal or Manchester City, I would feel better to accept it...
However, Zola still had doubts.
That is, he always felt that Pan Yi was a person who would not give up so easily.
Whether in Milan or Hamburg, he also encountered difficult times, but he never gave up.
But now, why is there still no movement from Pan Yi?
There are no substitutions or adjustments to tactics to launch an offensive. Is this still the Pan Yi that everyone knows?
Zola's lips moved slightly, but he was not responding to Gary Neville.
He was talking to himself, saying words that no one could hear:
"Aren't there stars like Lukaku and Hazard on the Chelsea bench now?"
"They have the ability to change the game, why not replace them?"