Legendary Godfather

January 4, 2017, The Valley Stadium, London, England.

Yes, time has advanced to 2017, and New Year’s Day has just passed.

It's a pity that neither Tong Yi nor the Crystal Palace people had a good New Year. During this period, there were really too many things going on in the Crystal Palace, and it was too complicated to stop. Tong Yi originally planned to go to Italy to spend New Year's Eve with Martina and little Tong Tong, but unfortunately, there was no time or opportunity.

Now the time has come to January 4th, and the 20th round of the Premier League at Crystal Palace in the 2016-2017 season is here.

However, Tong Yi is not sitting on the sidelines now, but in the stands.

In this game, Tong Yi was suspended.

And sitting in the Crystal Palace acting head coach's seat is - Yuan Zhen!

Another Chinese!

This is something no one at the scene expected, it’s unbelievable!

Even Crystal Palace fans didn't expect that it would be him.

This naturally surprised the media reporters and celebrities. What is this guy Tong Yi going to do?

Nepotism?

Everyone thinks that the position of interim acting head coach should belong to Vieri, or else it should belong to Kruger, or Ferdinand, or at the worst, it should belong to Beckham. How could it be possible to get hold of this young Chinese man?

Why should he?

Is it because he is Chinese like you, Tong Yi?

The media reporters were very unhappy!

Why, why should a Chinese who is a piece of shit be allowed to stand above us? Does he know football? What was he doing before coming to Crystal Palace? What's his resume? Has he played for giant clubs like Manchester United and Real Madrid?

Why should he?

The media reporters felt they were insulted!

They felt that it was inappropriate for Tong Yi to do this, and he looked down upon Vieri, Kruger, Ferdinand and Beckham too much. Why is this damn Chinese?

Journalists in England couldn't accept it.

Even many fans in the stands couldn't accept it.

Incomprehensible.

Why?

There are obviously better candidates, so why choose this young man who looks very young and knows nothing?

Even before this, many people didn't know that there was a Chinese in the Crystal Palace lineup.

Why should he?

This is the most common question in everyone's mind.

It’s hard to understand.

Webster and others even sneered. They all thought Tong Yi was crazy. It is impossible for the Crystal Palace not to collapse this season. Tong Yi, you are too pretentious.

You see, the collapse of Crystal Palace started from this game.

Anyway, these people are not optimistic about Yuan Zhen.

Of course, Swansea manager Paul Clement looked the other way

Yuan Zhen also had a contemptuous smile on his face, and his eyes were full of sarcasm.

He felt that Swansea would definitely win this game!

Clement took over Swansea in November last year. Before him, Guidolin's performance in leading the team was not very satisfactory and he was fired by the club. After Clement came to Swansea, the results he led the team were not very good, and could even be described as bad.

Currently, he has only won one of the six league games he led after taking over the team, and lost all other games.

Therefore, Clement's coaching position is actually very stable.

Swansea is currently ranked last in the Premier League and is the deputy squad leader of the league. If Clement does not seize the opportunity at this time, he is likely to lose his position as Swansea coach soon.

He originally thought that facing Crystal Palace would be very difficult, and it was likely to be his last game in charge of Swansea City.

Who knew God had eyes?

When he was about to lead the team to face Crystal Palace, Tong Yi had a problem and was suspended.

This is great news for Swansea.

Now that he sees another young Chinese man appearing as the coach of Crystal Palace, Clement feels that God is really helping him. He feels that Swansea will win this game!

Yes, Clement currently feels that Swansea will definitely win this game.

The Swansea fans screamed, claiming that Swansea had already won this game. This game will be the beginning of their Swansea's complete rise. In the second half of the season, their Swansea will make a strong comeback.

Clement glanced at Yuan Zhen contemptuously and thought to himself, you will be my stepping stone.

But Yuan Zhen didn't care about this at all.

He himself had long expected to suffer these criticisms. He was also prepared for this, and it didn't affect him at all. What he has to do now is to lead the team seriously and practice what he has learned these days.

To be honest, this game is very important to him.

This is also his first practice. He needs to draw a lot of things from it and make a lot of summaries to verify his ideas and improve himself.

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, and he doesn't want to miss such a good opportunity.

And he doesn't want to be sorry for Tong Yi's attention and training for him, nor the trust that Beckham, Vieri and others have in him. Not wanting to be looked down upon by these guys, he had to win this game.

He had already said what should be said to the Crystal Palace players before the game. He believed that the Crystal Palace players knew what to do in this game. This game is very important for Crystal Palace and cannot be missed!

Soon, under such complicated circumstances, the game began.

From the beginning of the game, Crystal Palace played very proactively.

The whole line pressed high and pressed Swansea directly into their own half. Swansea was instantly taken advantage of.

This made the fans and media reporters at the scene stunned. Crystal Palace seemed not to be affected by Tong Yi's suspension. It was still so strong and played very well!

Swansea fell into passivity as soon as they came up. They were really passive.

Swansea wanted to struggle, but it seemed a bit difficult. They were completely suppressed.

Seeing this, Clement frowned and secretly said, "It shouldn't be!"

Webster in the stands raised his eyebrows when he saw this. The progress of the game was a bit beyond everyone's expectations. What's going on? Is this Chinese so powerful?

impossible!

At this moment, Crystal Palace's offense advanced directly to the front of Swansea's penalty area.

De Bruyne, who started the game, directly swung his legs and pretended to take a long shot, quickly stuffed the football into the ribs of Swansea's penalty area.

Salah, who came up diagonally, blasted the football towards the Swansea goal.

The Swansea fans and players were all shocked, it was very dangerous.

Fortunately, the football missed the goal slightly, otherwise, Swansea would have lost the ball.

However, everyone can see from this goal that Crystal Palace is still very strong in this game, and it does not seem to be affected too much. Therefore, it is really difficult for Swansea to create a miracle in this game.

But Clement believed in himself, his team, and even more so that Yuan Zhen was a parallel import.

Swansea must win this game!

However, within a few minutes, the Crystal Palace frontcourt stole the ball again.

Han in the midfield. The ball passed by the Chinese Ji Chengyong made a mistake and passed directly to the feet of Llorente.

Of course, Ki Sung-yong also made a passing error under high-position pressing. The Crystal Palace people's crazy pressing really made it more difficult for them to get the ball out. The Swansea midfielder couldn't control the football.

Seeing this, Webster's face was very ugly.

How bad are you at Swansea? You can't even beat Crystal Palace like this? If you can't even beat Crystal Palace like this, you deserve to be relegated.

Webster was very dissatisfied.

But the fans of Crystal Palace are very happy. They feel that if they continue to play like this, their Crystal Palace will win sooner or later.

After stealing the ball, Llorente immediately passed the football to De Bruyne in front.

De Bruyne observed for a moment, then swung his leg and fired a heavy volley. The football roared out, hit the crossbar of the goal hard, and then bounced directly off the baseline.

The Crystal Palace fans kept shaking their heads. Crystal Palace must have been very unlucky today.

Crystal Palace is very fast here

He took control of the game and frequently threatened Swansea's goal, seeing that they were able to score goals very quickly. Who knows, they always seem to be a little bit behind. This is really bad luck.

Seeing this, Swansea's confidence gradually increased, and they were occasionally able to create some opportunities to counterattack.

Although these opportunities did not threaten Crystal Palace's goal in an absolute sense, they also gave Swansea people hope.

Clement feels their Swansea opportunity has come.

However, at this time, Swansea did not attack rashly. He signaled the Swansea players to be patient for a while, waiting to paralyze the Crystal Palace players for a while, allowing them to focus all their attention on the offense. Then find the right opportunity to give the opponent a fatal blow.

Yes, Clement is not a fool, he also has something.

Although it's not much, sometimes it can really work wonders.

Crystal Palace is still attacking here, and their attacks are getting closer to Swansea's goal every time. They felt that if they worked harder, they could put the football into Swansea's goal. At this time, they attacked with all their strength and expected to score.

Just now, Ibrahimovic and De Bruyne had a wonderful cooperation, and then Ibrahimovic suddenly passed the football to the wing with a diagonal pass.

Mbappe, who came up from the wing, unexpectedly passed the ball to the back post. Salah, who was at the back post, jumped over the top and slammed the football into the Swansea goal.

The ball was very fast and almost missed Swansea's goal.

Swansea goalkeeper Fabianski reacted very quickly, made a sideways save, and saved the football from the bottom line with one palm.

The Crystal Palace fans were very sorry to see the goal. The goal was really close at hand, but it was just a little bit short. What a pity.

The Swansea fans were stunned.

The Crystal Palace players saw hope and continued to put pressure on Swansea's goal.

Corner kick, Crystal Palace got a corner kick opportunity.

Carvajal went directly to the corner kick area, took a look at Swansea's penalty area, and then he quickly rushed to the football with a quick run and kicked the football into the Swansea penalty area with a very arc.

There was chaos in Swansea's penalty area, and almost all the defensive players pounced on Ibrahimovic and Van Dijk.

But the ball flew directly to the back point. Ruben Dias jumped high at the back point, but unfortunately he did not hit the football.

The football missed and flew to the side.

Cancelo on the wing did not stop the ball, but directly met the ball and swept it in an inverted triangle, directly sweeping the football towards the front of the penalty area.

Llorente, who rushed up from the front of the penalty area, drew his bow and arrow, and hit the football hard with one kick.

The football shot towards the Swansea goal with great speed.

The speed of the ball was very fast, and all the Crystal Palace fans stood up. This ball will definitely be scored!