Legendary Godfather

September 21, 2014, sunny weather, Goodison Park, Liverpool.

What is being played here today is the last game of the 5th round of the 2014-2015 Premier League season. The two sides are the home team Everton and the visiting team Crystal Palace. The starting lineups of both sides today are as follows

Home team Everton, head coach Roberto Martinez, formation 4231

goalkeeper howard

Back four from left to right: Baynes, Distin, Jagielka and Stones

Double midfielder Gareth Barry and James McCarthy

The three forwards from left to right Atsu, Osman and Miralas

Lone striker Eto'o

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

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Four defenders from left to right: Alonso, Ferdinand, Van Dijk and Zhang Linpeng

Double defensive midfielder Paulinho and Kante

Single attacking midfielder De Bruyne

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

Everton's strength is not bad. They ranked sixth in the Premier League last season and qualified for the Europa League this season.

Martinez, the head coach they changed just last season, deserves a lot of credit!

This is Spaniard Martinez's second season coaching Everton. Before coming to Everton, he coached Wigan Athletic. Although he led Wigan Athletic to be relegated from the Premier League, he led Wigan Athletic to win the FA Cup in the season of relegation.

That's why Everton took a fancy to Martinez!

Martinez is also very young, only 41 years old this year, and he is also a famous young coach in the Premier League.

Before the game, he said to reporters: "Our current situation at Everton is still very good. Our players are in very good condition, and we are currently very well prepared. This Facing Crystal Palace in a game, I think we can definitely win, after all, this is our home court!"

Martinez is really confident.

Because he knows that the current state of the Crystal Palace is very bad. This is the time when you are sick and can kill you. Naturally, he will not hold back!

Kill Crystal Palace and Everton will have one less competitor this season!

Therefore, Martinez obviously wants to kill Crystal Palace.

Martinez said before the game, "We will definitely go all out in this game. We must ensure that we can win this game. The outcome of this game is likely to depend on who can win." To qualify for the European competition next season, we must win this game!"

Yes, even though Crystal Palace is in very bad shape now, its results are also very bad. However, Martinez still regards Crystal Palace as a direct competitor for European competition qualifications. It can be seen that Martinez still attaches great importance to and recognizes Tong Yi.

\u003e Otherwise, he would not view Crystal Palace this way.

Before the game, media reporters also interviewed Martinez about Ignacio and Lukaku.

Martinez responded this way: "Ignacio does have some talent, but he is too young now and too inexperienced. He doesn't even have any Premier League experience. I think he is obviously not as good as Rome. Romelu’s, and it’s far, far away! To be honest, if I had to choose, I would choose Romelu’s without hesitation.”

The media reporters nodded one after another. It was indeed the case.

Martinez also said, "To be honest, for us Everton, Ignacio is no threat. You see, in this game, under the defense of our Everton defensive players, Ignacio Nassio didn't even score a goal, he didn't even get a few chances to shoot. But Romelu is different. Facing Romelu, our defensive players will be under a lot of pressure, and our goal will also be under pressure. It will be very dangerous, because Romelu is really too strong, and I firmly believe that Romelu will definitely grow into the world's top center in the future!"

hiss!

The media reporters all gasped. They didn't expect that Martinez turned out to be Lukaku's licking dog!

This also praised Lukaku too highly, pushing him directly to the sky.

Martinez said bluntly, "Look, Ignacio can't perform in this game, let alone score!"

At this time, Adriana asked directly, "Mr. Martinez, if you value Lukaku so much, are the rumors that Everton is chasing Lukaku true?"

All the media reporters turned to look at Martinez, their eyes full of expectation.

Martinez said bluntly, "Yes, I am very optimistic about Romelu! I have wanted Romelu since I first accepted Everton. Unfortunately, Romelu was snatched away by Crystal Palace last season. Romelu performed very well at Crystal Palace, which proved that my vision was right. We wanted to introduce Romelu this summer, but unfortunately we were still a step late, and Romelu was preempted by Manchester United! Seriously , so many wealthy clubs are interested in Romelu, which once again proves that my vision is right."

The media reporters were all surprised and did not expect Martinez to admit it.

Adriana also asked, "So before the transfer door closed in the summer, Everton did send an offer to Manchester United to bring in Lukaku, right?"

Martinez said directly, "Yes, that is indeed the case! I am very optimistic about Romelu, and I will not let it go as long as there is a chance! To be honest, we were very close to Romelu. It's a pity that time was too late, and we finally failed to win Romelu this summer. But don't worry, everyone will be able to switch to Romelu in winter.

Yes, Everton will definitely bring Romelu to our Everton! "

It can be seen that Martinez really likes Lukaku. No wonder this guy would madly step on Ignacio and praise Lukaku in previous interviews.

Hearing what Martinez said, Tong Yi was not surprised at all!

This guy likes Lukaku so much!

What Tong Yi also knows is that in the future, this guy will even directly pursue the Belgian national team and coach the Belgian national team because he likes Lukaku. Moreover, he also led the Belgian national team to third place in the World Cup, creating the best result in Belgium's team history.

This is simply a Lukaku fan!

After the media reporters told Tong Yi what Martinez said, Tong Yi chuckled and said, "It's normal for him to think Lukaku is very powerful, and it's normal for me to think Jose has more promise. As for who is more promising between the two?" It’s great, of course Lukaku is more powerful now, but I can’t say who will be more powerful in the future!”

Tong Yi is more pragmatic!

At present, Lukaku is indeed more powerful!

However, even if Lukaku is more powerful now, he has no chance to play!

Yes, in this round of competition, when Manchester United challenged newly promoted Leicester City away from home, Lukaku did not appear in Manchester United's squad again. It seems that the rumors circulating outside are true. The conflict between Lukaku and Van Gaal is true. Lukaku has been completely relegated to the sidelines by Van Gaal.

In this game, Falcao, who replaced Lukaku, performed well, scoring one goal and providing one assist.

However, it is a pity that Manchester United lost to Leicester City 3-5 away from home.

Leicester City forward Vardy scored a hat-trick!

Yes, Vardy moved to Leicester City and performed well here.

After the game, Lukaku rarely stood up and accepted interviews with media reporters.

Facing reporters, he said this: "I am not surprised at all that the team achieved such a result. Without me, Lukaku, it would be difficult for Manchester United to win!"

Yes, Lukaku is putting pressure on Manchester United!

But it is clear that Manchester United fans are not on his side. After coming to Manchester United, Lukaku put more energy into the war of words with Tong Yi, thereby neglecting his own preparations, which affected Manchester United's results. This made Manchester United fans very He hates Lukaku and is very dissatisfied with Lukaku.

Now, regarding the conflict between Lukaku and Van Gaal, Manchester United fans are unconditionally on Van Gaal's side.

Therefore, at this time, Lukaku stepped forward to put pressure, but there were no fans to support him at all.

This makes Lu

Kaku was a little embarrassed.

So much so that Lukaku now doesn't even have a verbal spat with Tong Yi, let alone pay attention to Ignacio.

It's a pity that this guy woke up a little late!

If this thing hadn't happened, it's hard to say that Manchester United fans would still be on Lukaku's side.

However, at this time, Everton fans were complaining about Lukaku.

Even Everton's head coach Martinez also complained about Lukaku's injustice. He believes that Manchester United is too harsh on Lukaku. If Manchester United sells Lukaku to Everton, their Everton will let people all over the world see Lukaku's true strength!

Martinez said, "If we have Romelu in this game, we will easily beat Crystal Palace! Of course, even if we don't have Romelu in this game, we Everton will be able to beat Crystal Palace and win." of."

Martinez is full of confidence!

As soon as the game started, Martinez waved his hand to signal Everton's players to attack.

Everton must win this game!

Not to mention, Everton's offense is indeed very good. Their midfielder controlled the game very well. At the beginning of the game, they actually threatened the Crystal Palace goal.

Osman in the middle shook off Paulinho who rushed towards him, and then quickly pushed the football to the side and crossed it diagonally.

What a risk, if he had been a little later, the football under his feet would have been hooked by Paulinho!

It turns out that Paulinho deliberately let Osman easily shake off for the sake of the next move. It's a pity that Osman didn't stick to the ball and passed the ball out immediately. Paulinho was a little slow.

The football quickly rolled to the feet of Christian Atsu on the wing.

Although the young Ghana international is short in stature, he is very flexible and fast, and his feet are also very flexible. After he continuously pedaled his bicycle to change direction, he suddenly made a pass. Zhang Linpeng's attention was all on Atsu's breakthrough. He did not expect that the opponent would suddenly make a pass. His reaction was a bit slow.

Zhang Linpeng stretched his legs quickly, but still could not stop the football from flying into the Crystal Palace penalty area.

In the penalty area, Eto'o, who was advancing at high speed, rushed his legs to the ground without slowing down, and ejected his entire body forward - diving to the top!

Ferdinand didn't expect it, so he slowed down a beat. It was already very difficult for him to intercept. He could only watch as Eto'o hit the football hard with his head.

With a bang, the football flew towards the Crystal Palace goal like lightning.

Danger!

All the Everton fans in the audience were instantly ejected, staring excitedly at the stadium and roaring excitedly, "This ball is here!"