Legendary Godfather

April 12, 2014, Selhurst Park, South London, England.

Today's match here is the 34th round of the 2013-2014 Premier League season. Crystal Palace plays Aston Villa at home.

Aston Villa is currently ranked 14th in the Premier League, with 9 wins, 7 draws and 17 losses, with 34 points.

They are now five points ahead of Sunderland, who are third from bottom.

This gap is actually not very big.

Now that the league has come to an end, relegation and other matters have reached the most critical moment. Aston Villa people are still very committed and active because they are also afraid of relegation.

With five rounds left in the league, Aston Villa might be relegated accidentally.

Therefore, Aston Villa must be fully committed now, even desperate.

However, Crystal Palace is now the second-ranked team in the league, and it is still difficult for Aston Villa to win, especially on the road. Therefore, Aston Villa's goal in this game is naturally to maintain a tie, and one point is also crucial to avoid relegation.

In this game, Aston Villa's goal is to maintain a tie and win.

Aston Villa head coach Paul Lambert said before the game, "Although Crystal Palace is a newly promoted team, they are very strong. We cannot underestimate our opponents, and now they are at a critical moment for the championship. This game will be very difficult, but everyone can rest assured that we will go all out in this game. Our only goal is to score points against Crystal Palace. We are full of confidence in this!"

See, Aston Villa people are still confident.

However, Aston Villa fans do not have high hopes for this.

The strength of Crystal Palace lies here.

Outside media reporters all agreed with Lambert's words, and they felt that Aston Villa really had a chance. Because Crystal Palace is almost finished, they are very tired and very bad. Pogba's serious injury will definitely affect Crystal Palace, which is about to collapse. As long as the Aston Villa people go all out, they can beat Crystal Palace!

Snapped!

Crystal Palace slapped these media reporters hard in the face!

Because, in this game, Pogba appeared on the starting list!

When they saw Pogba, the media reporters were dumbfounded!

Weren't you seriously injured and recovering in the hospital? Why is he on the starting list for today's game? What's happening here? Damn Crystal Palace people are so insidious.

The media reporters in England were very angry!

Lambert also took a breath, feeling that this guy Tong Yi was indeed sinister. Pogba had recovered from his injury. Why didn't you mention it at all? The media reporters were clamoring so fiercely before the game, but you didn't respond or refute the rumors. You are causing trouble!

Lambert's expression is very serious!

Damn this

The Chinese soft rice man is really too insidious. This game is not easy to play.

For today’s game, the starting lineups of both sides are as follows:

Home team Crystal Palace, head coach Tong Yi, formation 4213

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The back four from left to right Robertson, Carvalho, Van Dijk and Zhang Linpeng

Double defensive midfielder Paulinho and Kante

Single attacking midfielder Pogba

The front three from left to right Salah, Lukaku and Mane

Visiting team Aston Villa, head coach Lambert, formation 541

Goalkeeper Guzan

The back five from left to right is Bertrand, Backer, Vlaar, Ciarán Clark and Joe Bennett.

Midfield four from left to right Albrighton, Bacuna, Ashley Westwood and Andris Wieman

lone striker Holt

Obviously, Aston Villa is a defensive lineup, relying on long passes from the backcourt to directly find Holt, the high point in front. Let Holt take the first point and then hand the football to his teammate who comes after him.

As far as this game is concerned, the Aston Villa people played pure traditional British football!

It's not that Aston Villa can't play other styles of football, but not now. The most difficult task now is to avoid relegation!

On Aston Villa's bench, there are offensive players like Agbonlahor sitting on the bench. If they want to attack, Agbonlahor has already started, how can he sit on the bench?

Obviously, Lambert was telling the truth before the game.

In this game, Aston Villa came to maintain a tie and win. The most important thing is to keep peace!

Otherwise, there would be no lineup of five defenders.

Lambert is still very wary of Crystal Palace's offense and strength.

Aston Villa was hiding in defense, Tong Yi could tell at a glance. Naturally, with a wave of his hand, he signaled the Crystal Palace players to press forward and attack crazily.

After all, if you don't attack and fight your opponent, you will be punished by others.

Aston Villa people can accept a draw, but you are wasting time. This is what Aston Villa people want to see most.

How could Tong Yi let Lambert succeed?

Tong Yi immediately waved his hand, signaling the Crystal Palace players to attack and press high.

Then, Aston Villa's backcourt began to panic.

Because the Crystal Palace people's high-position pressing intensity is really too great, and each one runs very actively and is full of integrity. The Crystal Palace people were like pulling a net for the Aston Villa people. As time went by, the net was pulled tighter and tighter by the Crystal Palace people, and the Aston Villa people were almost suffocated.

More importantly, crystal

Palace's high-position pressing was like a raging wave. As soon as one wave stopped, another wave hit them again, giving the Aston Villars no chance to breathe.

At the beginning, the Aston Villars were able to organize some decent defense, but with the waves of pressing and oppression, the Aston Villars really couldn't resist it.

Wave after wave of waves will hit you, and no matter how thick your city wall is, it will be smashed to pieces.

Lambert on the sidelines was very anxious and couldn't sit still at all. He jumped up and down on the sidelines and roared loudly from time to time to remind his players.

It’s a pity that the effect is very little!

It's a source of nervousness and worry that has fueled both Lambert's and Aston Villa's fans. ??

In this game, they played very high stakes, and felt that their goal would not be able to stand it at the next moment.

The Crystal Palace people's wave of high-position oppression is really too fierce.

In the 17th minute of the first half, Aston Villa couldn't hold on anymore.

Westwood in the midfielder had been pushed to the edge of his penalty area. At this time, Bennett on the wing, under the pressure of Crystal Palace forwards Salah and Robertson, panicked and crossed the ball to the center. Gave it to Westwood.

However, the ball was not passed accurately.

Westwood simply didn’t catch the football.

The football came directly to the feet of Pogba who rushed up. Pogba used his body to jam Westwood next to him, easily stopped the football, and drove the ball directly into the penalty area.

Pogba stepped into Aston Villa's penalty area in one step.

Westwood instantly became honest and did not dare to reach out to foul.

If the defensive action here is a little bigger, the referee will dare to award a penalty kick. Westwood is really a bit defensive and doesn't dare to make any moves. He just hopes that the defenders in the penalty area can save and intercept Pogba.

However, Vlaar in the middle was directly carried behind Lukaku's huge body and had no chance.

It will take some time for other central defenders to pounce.

It's dangerous!

Aston Villa is in danger!

Boom!

Pogba used his body to carry Westwood, and then hit the football hard with a heavy kick.

The football shot out quickly, like a bolt of lightning!

Guzan's vision in front of the goal was completely blocked by the huge bodies of Vlaar and Lukaku, and he could not clearly see the trajectory of the football.

By the time Guzan saw the football, it had already flown into Aston Villa's goal.

One to zero!

Crystal Palace, playing at home, took the lead.

Seeing this, Lambert was speechless. He kept shaking his head. He really didn't expect that they only defended for 17 minutes despite their strongest defense. Such a setback.

The feeling of defeat is still very strong. But Lambert did not admit defeat. He immediately made adjustments and replaced Bakker in the backcourt with Agbonlahor's!

Yes, Aston Villa are coming.

Lambert is really a very courageous head coach. Just twenty minutes into the game, he made a substitution. This is almost a denial of my pre-game arrangements. This still requires courage.

It can be seen that Lambert's words only refer to the victory or defeat of the team, not personal glory and face, etc.

not bad!

It's a pity that Aston Villa is really far behind Crystal Palace in terms of strength.

At this time, it was very difficult for the Aston Villa people to attack. They were completely suppressed by Crystal Palace's high-position press, and it was very difficult to get the ball out of the backcourt.

It wasn't until the 30th minute of the game that Aston Villa completed their first shot of the game.

This shot was a low-quality long-range shot completed by Agbonlahor when he had no choice. It almost did not threaten the Crystal Palace goal.

Aston Villa fans are very disappointed!

Originally, they had some expectations for this game, but when they saw this, they were speechless and disappointed!

They have no chance at all in this game!

Is Crystal Palace really that powerful and invincible?

Very speechless!

At this moment, the Crystal Palace frontcourt stole the ball again. Kanter directly pushed the football to the wing, and Zhang Linpeng, who was advancing from the wing, directly made a pass. Lukaku feinted a shot from the front in the penalty area, confusing Aston Villa's defenders. Salah rushed up from the back and succeeded with an easy push shot.

Two to zero!

Crystal Palace took a two-goal lead at halftime!

Crystal Palace had no problem winning this game, and the pressure suddenly came to Liverpool.

If, in this round of games, Liverpool loses to Manchester City, then Crystal Palace will be able to surpass Liverpool to the top of the Premier League with this victory.

Suddenly, Alexander, a Liverpudlian, was in front of the TV!

Tomorrow's game against Manchester City becomes particularly important. If they cannot win at their home court, it is very likely that their efforts this season will be in vain! The league championship is right in front of them, and Liverpool people obviously will not give up easily, so at this time, they are all holding back their energy to fight Manchester City to the death. You absolutely cannot take advantage of the Crystal Palace people!

At this time, Liverpool's head coach Rodgers was ready to face Manchester City.

We at Liverpool will definitely win this game.

Now Rogers and the Liverpool players are waiting for tomorrow's game against Manchester City. They are confident of winning and getting three points.