Legendary Godfather

Seeing Sevilla's starting lineup, Tong Yi was a little emotional.

Because compared to last season, Sevilla's starting lineup this season can be said to be completely different.

Especially the defense, this is a complete change of the defense.

Rico, their starting goalkeeper today, is only 21 years old this year and will not turn 22 until September 1st, which is very young.

He came to Sevilla's youth training in 2009 and only entered Sevilla's second team in 2011. He was promoted to the first team last year and became Sevilla's main goalkeeper Beto's substitute last season.

This season Sevilla's main goalkeeper Beto was injured. He seized the opportunity and has secured his position as Sevilla's starting goalkeeper. Today he is still in the starting lineup.

It can be seen that Emery still trusts him.

Because Beto has been recovering from injury for some time, but Rico has always been the starter during this period.

The left back of the defense Tremolinas was introduced from French Ligue 1 Saint-Etienne last summer, Kolodejchak was also introduced from French Ligue 1 Nice, and Carriso was bought out from Reading. Dahl was also introduced from Almeria last summer.

You see, these four are all re-introduced players. This is a completely new defensive line.

But his performance is still very good, which shows that Emery has something good.

Emery is great.

There is also Koli Showjak, who partners with Mbia in the back line of the midfield. He is also a Polish player that Emery brought from Reims, France, last summer, and he is very capable.

To be honest, Tong Yi still has some impression of this guy in his memory.

He performed really well in Sevilla and is a very good defensive midfielder.

Especially his long-range shots are eye-catching.

There is also Banega on the forward line, who was also a player introduced by the team last summer. He was introduced by Emery to replace Rakitic who left. To be honest, this guy performed very well and met Emery's requirements.

However, this Banega also became famous at a young age, and he was also very ridiculous when he was young.

His private life is very corrupt and he is a famous problem boy.

In 2008, when he was 20 years old, he transferred from Argentina to Valencia in La Liga for a sky-high fee of 18 million euros. He was once a super genius and had high hopes. Unexpectedly, on the second day after he joined Valencia, a pornographic video of him naked and rewarding himself was exposed on a video website in Argentina, which caused an uproar in public opinion.

What followed was overwhelming news about his past corrupt life, sex scandals and so on.

These things cast a shadow on his prospects in Valencia. He himself was also greatly affected. His form was sluggish and he was silent for half the game in Valencia.

He was loaned to Atletico Madrid for the first time in 2016, and did not perform well at Atletico Madrid. After returning to Valencia, he had a brief highlight performance, but then he struggled very much and never lived up to the expectations that everyone had for him. The height of expectations.

This is a typical case of hurting Zhongyong.

Banega is the player whose own eccentric character and chaotic private life ruined it.

Even in January last year, he could no longer stay in European football and was directly rented back to Argentina's Newell's Old Boys. Played 18 games here and had a substandard performance with one goal and one assist.

Emery brought the former Argentine genius to Sevilla last summer.

It was Rakitic's departure that gave Banega a chance for a new life.

Otherwise, he is very likely to stay in Argentina, fade out of the public eye, waste his life, and retire sadly.

Emery gave him a chance!

Tong Yi seems to have heard that before introducing Banega, Emery had private conversations with Banega three or four times and sent people to find out about his private life after returning to Argentina before finally deciding to introduce Banega. of.

Because Emery understood that as he grew older, Banega gradually matured, changed his previous absurd and decadent living habits, and gradually began to make progress and struggle.

Perhaps, it was because being sent to Argentina made him truly see the dark and hopeless life, Banega decided to change.

Although Nega's statistics so far this season are not particularly impressive, he has only scored 3 goals and provided 3 assists for Sevilla. However, Emery is very satisfied with Banega's performance, because Banega's role in the team cannot be fully reflected by these data. He organizes the team's offense and defense, and changes the rhythm of offense and defense. It has played a very critical and even irreplaceable role.

Therefore, Banega has been Sevilla's main player this season.

And Tong Yi's memory is also very clear. It was after coming to Savilla that this guy Banega achieved the most brilliant performance and statistics of his career. Next season he will score 9 goals and 5 assists. results, and then he will join Inter Milan for one season, scoring 6 goals and 6 assists, and then return to Sevilla to achieve the most glorious performance of his career here. He did not leave European football until 2020 to go to a West Asian team. Dig for gold and live your retirement life.

To be honest, Nega was saved after coming to Seville.

Therefore, Tong Yi did not dare to underestimate this guy when he saw him.

Sevi

Banega is indispensable to Leah's success this season.

This is the core of Sevilla's offense. Crystal Palace must focus on marking this game, otherwise, there will be problems.

The remaining four people are all old people from Sevilla. They were also on the team last season and are also key players.

Therefore, this Sevilla team has almost changed half of the team.

Tong Yi also asked Schwartz and the others to re-collect information about Sevilla. Schwartz had been tracking and investigating Sevilla for a long time. Therefore, Tong Yi still knows this Sevilla team very well, even though this team is so unfamiliar.

Therefore, Tong Yi is still very confident against Sevilla.

After all, Schwartz's efforts were not in vain.

Of course, when Emery looked at the Crystal Palace starting lineup in front of him, he felt very familiar, although there were some changes in Crystal Palace. But the main thing has not changed, and there is no longer Lukaku in the Crystal Palace lineup. Emery feels that Sevilla will win this game.

In Emery's view, Crystal Palace's strength has dropped a lot this season, and the Crystal Palace people's recent form is also very poor. Sevilla and the others are more confident.

No wonder Emery dared to say loudly before the game, "We in Sevilla will win this game!"

beep!

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

At the beginning of the game, Sevilla played very proactively. They knew that the Crystal Palace people's tactics were to press high, but they still launched an attack and put pressure on Crystal Palace's goal.

Sevilla performed very well. Under Crystal Palace's high-position press, they were still able to organize an effective attack. This is why Banega is sorting out in the midfield. Of course, this is also related to the fact that he has Mbia and Koryshowyak around him to protect him in rotation.

With these two bodyguards by his side, Banega can play more easily. He can put more energy into organizing offense and even passing threatening balls.

During this time, Banega was very active.

Even sometimes, when Kolishowyak and Mbia are not around, he himself is able to get rid of success like a fish in water, and then organize the attack.

Seeing this, Tong Yi frowned.

Banega, whom he mentioned before the game, performed very well in this game. His players should focus on taking care of this guy.

Milinkovic seems to be a bit at odds with Banega.

Therefore, Banega was relatively active during this period. Until Tong Yi asked Kanter and Milinkovic to change positions.

Finally, Banega calmed down a bit.

Kanter's restriction on Banega was quite successful.

However, even if he is restricted by Kanter, Banega is still able to organize the offense. He came to the midfielder line and used precise long passes to organize the offense. After continuous long diagonal passes, Sevilla's wing players all got good opportunities.

Reyes has also matured a lot. Under the fierce defense and actions of the Crystal Palace people, he no longer has the timidity he had when he was young. Instead, he is still high-spirited and performs very well.

Reyes is so mature.

Reyes is also a typical example of someone who hurt Zhongyong. To be honest, he was also a super genius back then. It's a pity that his mental quality is not strong enough. After coming to the Premier League, he faced a lot of fierce defenses that broke his weak mind. He was scrapped by the Neville brothers.

This is really a pity.

However, although he no longer has the grace and agility of his youth, he is now much more mature and steady, and is no longer the boy he was back then.

Facing the excellent right back Carvajal in front of him, after receiving Banega's long diagonal pass, he made an unexpected pass and passed Carvajal directly.

Carvajal immediately reached out to pull, but Reyes took the initiative to fight, made a reasonable collision and knocked Carvajal away, and then quickly chased the football and cut inside into the Crystal Palace penalty area.

The Crystal Palace defenders were a little shocked because they didn't expect Reyes to blast Carvajal so easily and then directly into the Crystal Palace penalty area. The defensive player Van Dijk immediately stepped forward. Van Dijk's defense was very smart and not reckless at all. Moreover, he is stuck in a very uncomfortable position for Reyes. The angle of shooting is very small, and goalkeeper Alisson is behind, so the chance is not great; if the ball is passed to the team's top scorer Bacca, Van Dijk's position is just stuck. At the critical moment, you feel that although he is not standing on this passing line, he can easily control this line.

Therefore, this made Reyes very entangled and difficult to deal with.

As for Reyes to break through directly with the ball, he is even less confident.

In the two matches last season, he had seen how powerful the Dutchman was. Moreover, this guy's body is very strong and his model is huge, making it difficult to break through head-on.

Reyes had no intention of challenging Van Dijk one-on-one.

Seeing Van Dijk getting closer and closer, Reyes became a little anxious. And at this moment, Banega and Kolishowyak were spotted rushing up. Banega used his body to resist Kanter behind him, creating an opportunity for Kolishowyak.

Reyes immediately swung his leg and pretended to swing his leg to volley, but in fact, he passed the football to the front of the penalty area in an inverted triangle.