Legend of Fengshen

Chapter 917 Encountering the Crystal Palace

Hyypia was sitting in his coach's office, frowning. It was the morning of November 11th. He just received bad news. The club informed him that Zhang Yuan was injured on the national team match day, and his thigh muscle was strained!

This news was like a bolt from the blue to him. Zhang Yuan is now the backbone of Liverpool's striker line. His role is getting bigger and bigger, and it is becoming more and more obvious. Sturridge has not recovered from his injury for a long time, and he can rely on Zhang Yuan That's all, now he has to worry about who to use. Liverpool's striker is left with Lambert, Balotelli and Borini.

Borini has only played in the League Cup so far this season. His performance is not good and he has not scored a goal. Lambert has the experience of coming off the bench in the league, but he has not scored a goal. Barlow Terry had the most chances to play, but he also spent most of his time as a substitute, and only scored one goal!
None of them can be trusted, but now Hyypia has to choose one of the three as his first choice for the striker.

Zhang Yuan was injured in the friendly match against Honduras. As for the cause of the injury, who can say clearly, maybe it was because of fatigue.

On the 20th, Zhang Yuan returned to Liverpool by plane from China. The club asked him to return to the club for treatment. He did not refuse. He also hoped to get better as soon as possible. After all, Liverpool is now at a turning point, yes, the turning point of the season, Team morale is high as they beat a strong leader.

Zhang Yuan is very confident in his influence. His absence may affect the morale of the players. Everyone may have become accustomed to his performance at critical moments!
In fact, his guess was not wrong. When he returned to Liverpool, team captain Steven Gerrard called him.

"Zhang Yuan, how is your injury?!" Gerald's first sentence was concerned about his injury, and the second sentence was, "Everyone is very concerned!"

This is enough to show the situation of the team!Not only the coach, but even the players are also very concerned about Zhang Yuan's injury.

"Steve, I don't think the problem will be too big! Maybe a week will be enough!" Zhang Yuan said with a little relief.

Gerrard relaxed a little, "You know the situation of the team! Now our momentum is just right. If we can't continue that momentum when you are absent, maybe we will have a hard time making great achievements this season!"

"Steve, believe in everyone! We have the potential to do something big! Coutinho and Sterling are great players, Balotelli is good too, they can do a lot! The key is to see How does Mr. Hypia use it!" Zhang Yuan reassured Gerald.

Hypia? !Somehow in Gerrard's mind, he felt that this sense of trust was limited. Although Hypia was his good friend and old teammate, how can I say this? Since Hyypia took office, the team has changed. But it is not particularly obvious, the team is still very embarrassed, and Hypia has not been able to solve the biggest defensive problem.

Gerrard felt that there was nothing wrong with Hyypia's direction. He clarified the division of labor in the midfield, increased the role of the striker, and provided more support for the defense. But why did he still concede a goal? De couldn't figure it out, at least he couldn't figure it out now.

Not to mention him or even Zhang Yuan can’t figure it out. It can only be attributed to the fact that Liverpool bought all parallel defenders. The defense made mistakes one after another. This is not a mistake in coordination, but a personal one. It is a question of the ability of the players.

This is also the reason why Zhang Yuan's mentality is more relaxed than before. The problem of poor performance cannot be solved by him. He can only hope to use more goals to help the team's performance.

It stands to reason that now is the best time for Balotelli to take the lead. In the game against Chelsea, he scored the third goal and completely helped Liverpool seal the victory. Unfortunately, the day before the game against Crystal Palace, he Injured on the training ground, Hyypia's options are even more stretched. In the press conference before the game, he had already said that Balotelli might start in the press conference before the game, and now he can only make a temporary substitution. up.

For Liverpool, now is actually a very good time to face Crystal Palace, which is an out-and-out underdog.

Crystal Palace is also a club with a century-old history, but their history is very different from that of Liverpool. They are called elevators. They were very likely to be relegated last season, at least from the first half of the season. Yes, they had already ranked first from the bottom at that time, and at this moment they invited a key person, Tony Pulis.

Tony Pulis is very good. He actually led the Crystal Palace to continue his life. From the danger of relegation to No.11 in the league, he only spent half a season. Because of this result, he overwhelmed Manuel Pellegri. Ni and other famous coaches became the best head coach in the Premier League last season.

But just after the first round of the new season, Tony Pulis ran away. Why did he run? !Because Crystal Palace is very bad in the transfer market, and the total investment is only 1000 million pounds. How can this allow the team to improve its strength? Pulis resigned in anger, I can't do your job!

After he left, Crystal Palace had to invite Neil Warnock to take the stage. As a result, Warnock's results were not satisfactory. After 11 rounds, they only accumulated 9 points, ranked second from the bottom, and fell into the relegation circle. , before the match with Liverpool, Warnock has been criticized by the major media, as if he did not dismiss get out of class, it is unreasonable, so this game with Liverpool can be said to be Warnock's life-saving straw, and this game is the home of Crystal Palace , when not to fight at this time? !
To deal with such a team, there are two situations, either the head coach Warnock has completely lost the morale of the army, even if Crystal Palace sits at home, it is difficult to play momentum, or Warnock still has prestige among the players, this game is that The bayonet saw red.

Liverpool up and down hope it's the former.

Zhang Yuan's sister and brother-in-law have already come to Liverpool, and just settled down, the team will visit Crystal Palace soon.

Zhang Yuan and Li Jun went to the away game to watch the game together. Of course they would not sit in the fans' stands of the away team. Zhang Yuan asked the club for box tickets.

Before the game, the beautiful cheerleading squad of Crystal Palace worked hard to perform on the sidelines.

"Football games also have this?!" Li Jun sat on the seat and wrapped his clothes around his body. It was raining and cold at the game site today. Li Jun felt that he was wearing less clothes.

"Haha, they are a special case!" Zhang Yuan laughed.

Of course Li Jun was curious. Cheerleaders were rarely seen in football matches. It is understandable that he hadn't paid attention to the Premier League before.

The Crystal Palace team is very special. Not only did they have a vulture as their mascot, but they also had an eye-catching cheerleader. Hehe, the fans at the scene can also see a lot of beauties while watching the game, which feels very good.

"Did you use this method to lure the opponent's players to make mistakes?! Or stimulate their players' hormones!" Li Jun couldn't help laughing.

"Haha, maybe that's the case! But I think it's hard for them to achieve their goals! You see, they are still in the relegation zone!" Zhang Yuan also teased.

He believes that this game will not cause a lot of trouble for Liverpool, because Crystal Palace is really weak, the offense is not strong, and they conceded a lot of goals.

Shortly after the start of the game, in the 3rd minute, Liverpool made a fantastic start. Lallana made a long pass from the backcourt, and the starting striker Lambert got a single chance, which directly helped Liverpool take the lead.

Zhang Yuan stood up and applauded his teammates vigorously. This is a wonderful start!

Since then, the game has fallen into Liverpool's control. They have an absolute advantage, but Crystal Palace's defense is very tenacious, and they use more foul tactics, so that Liverpool rarely create excellent opportunities. Their counterattacks are good. Looks good, but the striker's level is really not high, and several excellent opportunities were wasted.

Zhang Yuan's face became serious. The result of this game is really hard to say. Seeing that Liverpool has the initiative, but the players' ability to break through is not strong, and who can say clearly, Crystal Palace's Will the three axes go crazy once and cut Liverpool? !

(End of this chapter)