Legendary Godfather

On September 22, 2016, the weather was sunny at St. Mary's Stadium in England.

Crystal Palace plays Southampton away.

In this game, Crystal Palace made extensive rotations, and Southamptonians felt that their opportunity had come. So, they pressed out and attacked like crazy. They not only want to be the first team to score against Crystal Palace this season, but they also want to be the first team to defeat Crystal Palace since the start of the Premier League this season.

Southamptonians fought tooth and nail.

Then they discovered the problem very quickly, they were so pressed that they couldn't get the ball out.

Crystal Palace's high-pressure was very suffocating. Southampton's players were very fast if they wanted to easily pass the half-court, and they could only pass the ball long.

Although the high center forward Austin in the frontcourt can still win some headers, but with the headers, it is difficult for his teammates to catch the ball easily and easily, and they can't even hold the ball. They can easily defeat the Crystal Palace people. The ball was stolen.

Southampton's formation was severely divided by the Crystal Palace people, and the frontcourt and backcourt were disconnected.

Even if Austin fights for the ball, it is difficult for the teammates who follow him to catch the ball. Under the fast and fierce pressing of the Crystal Palace people, it is difficult to find teammates to respond. They often have to hold the ball themselves and then get the ball intercepted.

Pierre on the sidelines was very serious, and he realized that he had underestimated the rotation players of Crystal Palace.

He was deceived by the nonsense of the media reporters.

Especially the opponent's young midfielder Llorente, his pressing defense is still very good, and he is very active. He runs without hesitation, and his defensive coverage is very large.

Their Southampton players Jay Rodriguez and Redmond have been intercepted by this guy many times. This guy is like a little Kante in defense.

But he is taller than Kanter, and more importantly, this guy's long passes are more accurate than Kanter's, and the timing and route selection of the long passes are also very reasonable and amazing.

Although he still looks very immature, he can be a little irritable sometimes. But we can already see the qualities of an excellent midfielder in him, even an excellent b2b midfielder.

Just now, Llorente cut off the football from Rodriguez's feet. He was really steady and ruthless. Rodriguez had just hastily stopped the football that Austin pushed down. Before he could fully control the football, the football was instantly cut off by Llorente who rushed up.

After the break, Llorente made a long diagonal pass and passed the football into the space in the frontcourt.

After Asensio easily caught the ball, he suddenly cut inside laterally and shot directly into the far upper corner from the corner of the penalty area. He blasted a fast ball with a full arc.

This kick fully demonstrates Asensio's beautiful footwork.

This kick even smells like Robben.

Seeing this, the Southampton fans widened their eyes and expressed disbelief!

Is this the young player Crystal Palace have in their rotation?

To be honest, Southampton fans are really envious, very envious. when i

Only Southampton can have such outstanding young people!

Southampton goalkeeper Fraser Forster quickly moved laterally and soared into the air.

It's a pity that even though he tried his best, he didn't touch the football. The football flew directly into the Southampton goal from the ten-point corner.

One to zero!

Asensio blasted a world wave and sent the football into Southampton's goal.

Asensio is really a world wave maker. He doesn't score goals that are not world wave. This season, Asensio has scored two world waves. The last world wave was the one that broke the deadlock against Sevilla in the European Super Cup.

The Southampton fans were dumbfounded!

This goal is really visually impactful. Even the opposing camps were impressed by the beauty of this goal. Even Southampton fans applauded this wonderful goal.

Asensio's goal conquered the Southampton fans!

Seeing this, Puel also helplessly spread his hands. In the face of such a world wave, there is simply no way.

Puel shook his head slightly, this game is very difficult!

This was more difficult than he thought. He immediately made adjustments and frantically changed his techniques and tactics in an attempt to reverse the situation. But obviously, the effect was not very satisfactory, mainly because they could not control the football in the frontcourt and were often intercepted and destroyed by Crystal Palace players.

Especially this guy Llorente!

Today, the game only lasted 60 minutes, and this guy has already completed 6 steals and 5 interceptions.

This guy is simply a barrier in front of the Crystal Palace penalty area, and Southamptonians simply can't get past it.

What's more important is that many of Crystal Palace's quick counterattacks after stealing the ball are also passed from Llorente, classic long balls. Of course, the Southampton striker behind stepped up his efforts to block his shots, and his long passes were reduced.

However, this guy took advantage of the opportunity again. Didn't you block my pass? Then I will fake a dunk and change the length of the pass to break through.

At this moment, Southampton's striker was teased crazily by Llorente.

Southampton fans can't stand it anymore.

This Llorente is really bullying.

Of course, he mostly passes the football to Witsel and midfielder Sabitzer. These two people are not familiar with their passing ability, so Southampton's goal is really in turmoil.

Southampton fans can't stand it anymore.

Because their Southampton team was either being attacked or on the way to being attacked.

60 minutes have passed, and Southampton has not had a decent shot so far. Some of the two shooting statistics are Austin's random long-range shots and headers passed back to the opponent's goalkeeper. There is really no threat.

No wonder Southampton fans can't stand it.

There is really no hope in this game, and they have to watch their home team being crazily ravaged and besieged by the Crystal Palace team. Watching this game is simply looking for abuse!

Southampton only had 2 shooting opportunities, while Crystal Palace had already completed 17 shots, and 10 of them were within the goal range, which was full of threats.

The main reason is that Crystal Palace winger Mbappe did not perform very well in this game. He got many opportunities and completed 6 shots by himself. However, he only hit the target twice, and the threat was also low. Not very big.

If Mbappe hadn't been the starter for Crystal Palace in this game, it's hard to say that the number of goals scored by Crystal Palace would have gone up a long time ago.

It seems that what the outside media reporters said is somewhat reasonable.

At least Mbappe, a young man, doesn't look very strong. It seems like there is nothing but speed. As long as they pay attention to defending against this guy's speed, he poses almost no threat.

Therefore, Tong Yi's vision is not 100% correct.

This Mbappe is holding Crystal Palace back.

The media reporters in the stands also felt that Webster was right. Crystal Palace's bench depth is indeed not good this season, not even the main force. Look, Mbappe is really far behind Mane.

It can be seen that the rotation players of Crystal Palace are indeed not good. In the later stages of the league, Crystal Palace will definitely have a big problem. It seems that Crystal Palace really has no way to defend the Premier League championship this season.

At this time, the live cameras were also focused on Tong Yi and Mbappe many times. The language of the camera seemed to be saying, Mbappe has behaved like this, you still trust Tong Yi, why don’t you replace him? ?

Is this Mbappe Tong Yi's biological son?

Anyway, many media reporters and fans don't understand why this guy is allowed to continue playing when his condition is so bad today? If it had been anyone else, Crystal Palace would have expanded the score long ago.

However, Tong Yi never replaced Mbappe!

It seems that Tong Yi still has a soft spot for Mbappe, but in the eyes of many media reporters, Mbappe may be the beginning of Tong Yi's overturn. Tong Yi, a Chinese soft-boiled man, sometimes has wrong vision, but not Mbappe.

However, Southampton should have no chance in this game.

Because even at this time, Southampton has not created any good opportunities.

On the contrary, Crystal Palace is still attacking Southampton's goal frequently. If it were not for the outstanding performance of the opponent's goalkeeper Foster and central defender Fonte, Southampton would have conceded the second goal long ago.

At this time, Pierre was crazy to replace offensive players, he wanted to fight.

After all, this is just a cup match, and losing is not unacceptable.

After all, Southampton does not have any clear goal requirements for the cup this season. Their main competitiveness is still in the league. At this time, instead of sitting back and waiting for death, it is better to fight.

At this time, Southamptonians frequently replaced offensive players, preparing for the final wave.

However, Southampton fans soon discovered that after they replaced more defensive players, they seemed to be more aggressive and threatening in attack. But there are not many opportunities for them to actually threaten the Crystal Palace goal, let alone score a goal?

On the contrary, after they rushed forward crazily, they created a void in the defense.

Crystal Palace's counterattack is really accurate and very deadly.

In the 71st minute of the game, Upamecano successfully intercepted the ball and quickly passed the ball to Llorente in front. Llorente did not stop the ball at all. He knocked it horizontally at the first time and was not able to pounce on it. Chance for Southampton players. The football rolled towards Witsel, who didn't stop the ball at all and just passed it long.

Jimenez in the frontcourt hit the football on Fonte's head, flew the ball to Sabitzer with a header.

Sabitzer directly made a diagonal pass without stopping the ball, quickly stuffing the football into the ribs of Southampton's penalty area.

Perisic, who came on as a substitute, pushed forward and easily pushed the ball into the Southampton goal.

Two to zero!

Six minutes later, in the 77th minute of the game, Crystal Palace once again stole the ball in the backcourt, and full-back Theo quickly broke through with the ball. Two consecutive strides passed two people and directly destroyed Southampton's entire wing. The Southampton fans at the scene were dumbfounded. Is our team's current defense really that bad?

incredible!

I can't stand it anymore!

Pierre's face was livid when he saw this. This game really felt like a crushing defeat. He had no power to turn things around and could only watch the building collapse.

After blasting Southampton's entire wing, Theo immediately cut inside with the ball and entered Southampton's penalty area. Southampton's central defender immediately rushed out to intercept. Theo seized the opportunity and directly passed the ball back in an inverted triangle, passing the football to the penalty area of ​​the penalty area.

Jimenez followed closely and pushed the ball into the far lower corner of the goal.

The ball was very fast, rolling directly in front of the hands of Foster who fell to the ground, and then rolled straight into the far lower corner of the goal.

Three to zero!

Originally, Crystal Palace still had a chance to expand the score.

In the 88th minute of the game, Ashraf also made a good pass. Unfortunately, Mbappe, who was in the front, shook his head to attack the goal, and the football went slightly over the crossbar and flew out of the baseline.

In the end, Crystal Palace defeated Southampton 3-0 away from home and won the game.

The Southamptonians, who were extremely high-spirited before the game, did not break the Crystal Palace goal. So far, Crystal Palace still maintains a clean sheet record.