Legendary godfather of green grass

Today's starters are as follows:

Home team: Crystal Palace, head coach: Tong Yi, formation: 4-2-1-3

Goalkeeper: Speroni

Back four [from left to right]: Ward, Van Dijk, Delaney and Zhang Linpeng

Double midfielders: Jedinak and Kanter

Single midfielder: Pogba

Three strikers [from left to right]: Zaha, Murray and Mane

Away Team: Watford, Manager: Zola, Formation: 4-5-1

Goalkeeper: Almunia

Back four [left to right]: Carl Dickinson, Lloyd Doyle, Martin Taylor and Naylen Northworthy

Midfield five [left to right]: Mark Yates, Eustace, Abdi, Jonathan Hogg and Sean Murray

Solo striker: Joseph Garner

"Wow, we saw the starting list of Crystal Palace. Seriously, the list is too young. Except for Speroni, Delaney, Yedinak and Murray, the other players are young. Players, and they are not very old, Ward and Zhang Linpeng are considered veterans, 23 years old."

There are actually two reasons why Zhang Linpeng was able to bring Crystal Palace to play in the English Championship this season. The first is that Zhang Linpeng is the main player of the Chinese national team. In the past two years, his appearances in the national team are almost Full attendance, although the world ranking of the Chinese men's football team is a bit low.

The second is that Zhang Linpeng was a rotation player for the Bundesliga champions last season, and he has already proved himself in the Bundesliga.Combining these two factors, the FA directly gave Zhang Linpeng a labor certificate.

In today's game, Zhang Linpeng appeared in the starting list.

Many people think that Tong Yi is really too arrogant and doesn't understand football too much.At this time, he is still nepotism and let a Chinese player start, which is really funny.

Do you think any Huaxia player is Huaxia Sun Sun, and Huaxia King of the Valley Zheng?

Anyway, the current fans are not optimistic about Zhang Linpeng!

After all, Zhang Linpeng was just a rotation player in the Bundesliga before, and he became the starter when he came to Crystal Palace. This must be Tong Yi's selfishness.

Even the Watford fans at the scene regarded Zhang Linpeng as a breakthrough for the Crystal Palace team.

Today, Watford will tear apart Crystal Palace's defense from Zhang Linpeng and open the door to victory.

Even Zola turned to look at his assistant Corradini, and asked, "How is the strength of this chapter? Will it be our breakthrough today?"

Corradini immediately said: "This boy is still very good, his physical fitness is very good, and his speed is not slow, his defensive and assist abilities are good, especially his crossing ability! Don't underestimate him, he is still Very good."

Yes, the current Zhang Linpeng is much stronger than Tong Yi's previous memory.

After all, Zhang Linpeng has experienced himself in the Bundesliga, and he has also been trained by many famous teachers.Klose taught Zhang Linpeng the cross and the timing of the cross, and Campbell taught Zhang Linpeng to defend.

And with the training of Nagelsmann, Kruger and others, Zhang Linpeng grew up very fast.Therefore, Tong Yi dared to start Zhang Linpeng now.

At this time, the referee of the game blew the whistle to start the game.

It was the visiting team Watford who kicked off first.

At the beginning of the game, Walford did not immediately rush forward to attack, but kept trying.Moreover, Watford's starting lineup is obviously defensive, they are a defensive counterattack lineup.

Obviously, Zola still learned a lot in the Italian U21 national team.

Moreover, Corradini had a great influence on him, and many of the team's defensive tactics were formulated by Corradini.Zola is a very new Corradini, after all, Corradini has also followed a lot of famous coaches.

And Crystal Palace's tactics are not too different from Tong Yi's tactics in Munich 1860.

High pressure defense!

The players of Crystal Palace pressed up in an instant, and they pressed past halftime.The Watford players were pushed back to the front of their own big penalty area in one fell swoop, which made the Watford players a little embarrassed.

It can even be said to be embarrassing!

Watford's players were a bit surprised by the intensity of the Crystal Palace team's pressure.

The intensity of the Crystal Palace's oppression obviously exceeded their expectations.

The Watford players were very flustered and often made mistakes at their feet.They had to be forced to pass back because they couldn't comfortably pass the ball forward under high pressure, and even had difficulty passing and receiving the ball comfortably.

The Wolfords were flustered.

hiss!

The fans at the scene and in front of the TV did not expect that this game would be like this.

Mortensen also exclaimed: "Hey! The progress of the game is a bit unexpected! The Watford people seem to be unprepared for Crystal Palace's high-position defense. They are too passive! They can hardly find too much A good chance to pass the ball forward, had to be forced to pass back, or directly open the big foot..."

Hiller was also surprised, took a deep breath, and said: "This! This is really unexpected, the oppression of the Crystal Palace people is really too strong. Their running speed is very fast, and the pressing is also very fierce. , The more important thing is that their pressing is very complete and integrated, which gives a strong sense of oppression to the ball holder, no wonder the Watford players are playing so uncomfortable! Hiss!"

Both Mortensen and Shearer looked at each other, and both of them saw the shock in each other's eyes.

This Crystal Palace really has some strength.

This Tong Yi is also of a certain level.

They all know that Tong Yi's good tactics are high-position pressure defense.But it is clear that Crystal Palace's high pressure intensity has clearly exceeded their expectations.This intensity is more than one level stronger than the oppression that Crystal Palace faced Exeter City a few days ago!

It seems that they still had some reservations in the last game!

hiss!

Shearer and Mortensen were surprised again. The oppression shown by Crystal Palace in the last game was actually very strong, but it was still with some reservations.

If it is not reserved, how strong can the oppression of Crystal Palace be?

Seeing the high-intensity oppression of the Crystal Palace players on the court, Shearer and Mortensen suddenly felt that they could understand that 1860 Munich had won the Bundesliga and Europa League titles.

This is also high-intensity oppression, which is really not something ordinary teams can adapt to.

In this game, Watford is in danger.

On the sidelines, Watford coach Zola was also taken aback when he saw this.

He also did not expect that the oppression shown by Crystal Palace in this game was stronger than that in the previous game, and it was much stronger.This was beyond his expectation and design, which was very dangerous for Watford.

Zola immediately turned to look at Corradini, and Corradini's face was also full of shock.

Obviously, Corradini did not expect that the intensity of high-level oppression of Crystal Palace would be so great.

Dangerous!

Watford people are in danger!

The fans in front of the TV and at the scene were also stunned. They did not expect that Crystal Palace would take the initiative from the beginning and directly suppressed Watford.

Now the Watford people can only rely on long passes from the waiting field!

Fortunately, their Championship team is good at playing such tactics.

But soon, they discovered something was wrong!

The current Watford is different from the Championship team they are familiar with. Their tactics are completely incompatible with long passes!Zola took over the team to transform Watford. Now Watford's tactics are obviously more Italian, playing defensive counterattacks.

In this game, Watford did not have a high center in the frontcourt.

The team's 191cm tall high center forward Ivelumo sat on the bench today. Today their starting forward is Joseph Garner, a fast horse with a height of only 178cm, and behind him are some fast horses who are not tall.

It seems that Zola relies more on forwards of his size.

Even Vedla, the young favorite he brought over from Udinese, is only 180cm tall, more inclined to a fast horse.

Sean Murray, Hogg, and Yates who are behind Garner today are all about 1.7 meters tall. They are all fast and capable.

But obviously, the current blind big-foot tactics are of no use to these guys.

Ganayest and the others had no chance. Instead, Delaney, Jedinak and Van Dijk played hard in the backcourt. All kinds of high-altitude balls were completely controlled by them. Wolford had a little chance to attack. nothing.

"Dangerous! Walford is dangerous! If you continue to play like this and don't change, Walford's game will be over!" After saying this, Mortensen couldn't help but glanced at Shearer.

Hiller was also very surprised.

Shearer said: "I really didn't expect these young people from Crystal Palace to burst out with such strength. It was really beyond my expectations. However, there are hidden dangers in Crystal Palace's way of playing. They kept the whole game. With this intensity, they will lose their stamina in the second half of the game, and it will be Watford's chance to overtake!"

Mortensen also thinks so. He doesn't think Crystal Palace can maintain such intensity until the end of the game, because the physical fitness of the Crystal Palace people can't support it.

"Chance! Crystal Palace chance!" Mortensen roared suddenly excitedly.

Under the high pressure, Watford had to play a long pass, but unfortunately the football was pushed out by Van Dijk.The football flew to the feet of Pogba in the frontcourt. Pogba just got the ball, and there was a lot of space around him.Because the Watford people were oppressed very badly, they were all compressed near the front of the penalty area.

Seeing Pogba get the ball, the Watford players immediately rushed out in a swarm and rushed towards Pogba.

They also have to give Pogba enough oppression!

Pogba calculated the pace of these guys, and when they got close to his body, he immediately pushed the football to the side.

Zhang Linpeng, who came up from the side, easily received the football, and he even had a very calm time and space to handle the ball.Immediately after receiving the ball, he glanced up into Watford's penalty area.

Some emptiness.

Watford's players just spread out, putting defensive pressure on Crystal Palace's players.Therefore, there is a bit of emptiness in the restricted area.

Without further ado, Zhang Linpeng kicked his foot at a 45-degree angle and passed the football directly into Watford's penalty area.

Watford fans were shocked, it was dangerous!

Martin Taylor, who is 193cm tall in the penalty area, rushed out immediately, trying to clear the high-altitude ball.

He knew that his body was directly blocked by Mane, which slowed down the speed of Taylor's pounce.Murray in the middle rushed up, headed back directly, and the football quickly flew to the back point.

Zaha, who rushed forward at the end of the point, stretched his legs and shot without defense, and directly put the football into Watford's goal.

One to zero!