Legendary Godfather

November 1, 2017, Tongyi Stadium, South London, England.

What is happening here today is a match in the fourth round of Group E of the 2017-2018 UEFA Champions League group stage. The two sides are Crystal Palace and Maribor. In the first round of the match between the two sides, Crystal Palace defeated their opponent 7-0 away from home. This time back at home, Crystal Palace naturally wants to easily defeat Maribor.

In this game, Tong Yi still had a lineup with rotation and substitutes. The only difference was that Ronaldo appeared in the starting lineup. The reason for the agreement was to give him more game time and let him find himself. In this state, this is also the only main player of Crystal Palace in this game.

Maribor has obviously made targeted arrangements for this game. ??

In the first round of the match between the two sides, Maribor's formation was still 4231. Today's game directly changed to 541. People piled up in circles in front of their own goal in order to protect the goal. Don't lose, get a point.

See, this is Milanic's confidence.

Breaking dense defenses is still a worldwide problem in this world.

He feels that no matter how strong Crystal Palace is and how many goals it can score, there will definitely be nothing you can do against their intensive defense. Moreover, as long as their Maribor side defends desperately, they may even get one or two excellent counterattack opportunities. It is possible that Maribor will be able to defeat Crystal Palace in the away game.

No wonder, before the game, many people said that Maribor was coming for revenge.

They really have ideas.

At the scene, the Crystal Palace fans were very nervous and worried when they saw this. This game won't really allow the people of Maribor to get their way, will it?

After all, it is indeed very difficult to break through dense defense.

Crystal Palace fans are in a heavy mood.

However, the unity on the sidelines is still very easy. Others have no way to break the dense defense, but we at Crystal Palace have it.

In our Crystal Palace formation, we have players like Ronaldo and Giroud who are good at fighting for high aerial balls, and their header ability is super good. And there are also players like Llorente, Gnabry and Sabitzer who have long-range shooting ability, especially Llorente's long-range shooting is very sharp. Aren't these good ways to break dense defenses?

There is also the breakthrough ability of Salah and Mbappe on the bench. To be honest, Tong Yi is really not afraid.

What's more important is that this is the home court of Crystal Palace, so there shouldn't be much problem for Crystal Palace to win.

Tong Yi is not worried at all.

Tong Yi didn't pay attention to the outcome of this game at all. He focused on whether Ronaldo could find his form in this game. After all, the London Derby was coming later. It was a difficult game. It’s all here, if Ronaldo doesn’t adjust well, won’t it affect our Crystal Palace’s performance?

Therefore, in this game, Tong Yi focused on Ronaldo's performance.

At this time, the referee

The referee blew the whistle to start the game.

The first one to kick off was the home team Crystal Palace. Naturally, they attacked directly without any delay.

After all, they had played against each other before. The Crystal Palace players knew Maribor's strength and tactics, so they went directly to attack without any testing.

There were originally a lot of people near the Maribor penalty area, but now the players from Crystal Palace pressed past, making it even more overcrowded. Since they are all human, it is actually a bit difficult to perform this action. Originally, the Crystal Palace wanted to walk around on the ground to cooperate, but they didn't know that there were too many people at this time and they couldn't get in at all.

Therefore, before receiving the notice from Tong Yi on the sidelines, the players in the stadium changed their playing style and directly took the route of passing from the two wings, directly looking for Ronaldo in the penalty area. Even at this time, many fans in the stands felt that Tong Yi should make tactical changes at this time and directly let Giroud play and form a double center with Ronaldo. This would be a greater threat.

Of course, at this time, Maribor, who had the numerical advantage, strengthened the defense of the two wings to prevent the Crystal Palace people from easily passing the ball, so that the threat of Ronaldo in the penalty area was reduced to a minimum.

At present, Crystal Palace's crosses are a bit difficult to hit, but they are taking the absolute initiative, and their entire team almost made it through half the game. Maribor was just tired of defending. Even the lone forward Jasmin Mesanovic retreated to his own half to participate in defense.

Seeing this, Webster and others nodded one after another. They felt that Milanic had done a good job. By setting up the bus like this, it was impossible to say that they would really be able to get a draw in the end. Even if you are lucky enough to seize the opportunity to counterattack, it is really possible for Maribor to complete its revenge.

After all, they also saw that at this time, the Crystal Palace people were pressing hard, and the defense was almost over halfway. As the game progresses, the Crystal Palace people will definitely press higher and higher, so there will definitely be loopholes in Crystal Palace's defense, which gives Maribor the opportunity to create miracles.

Webster and the others were waiting and looking forward to it.

Webster really wants to see Crystal Palace have an accident and lose directly.

In his opinion, Crystal Palace has won so many games this season, and it's time to lose.

Come on, Maribor!

At this moment, Achraf and Gnabry on the wing played one-on-one one after another, and then Achraf passed the football back to Gnabry who was standing there. This was a feint. Looking at Maribor's defensive players, it was too late for them to turn around and pounce on Gnabry to intercept.

Gnabry saw the football rolling back and kept passing the ball. He directly kicked the ball and passed it. The football flew up quickly and arced rapidly into Maribor's penalty area.

See

Here, Milanic screamed in horror.

In the middle of the penalty area, Ronaldo jumped up high, overwhelming the opponent's center back Lajecevic, and hit the football hard. The football shot quickly towards Maribor's goal.

The speed of the ball is very fast, like a bolt of lightning!

Just when everyone thought that the goal was bound to be scored, Jasmin Handanovic in front of the goal rose into the air and lifted the football over the baseline with one palm.

This ball was saved beautifully.

Webster in the stands was frightened to death when he saw the ball. He thought that the ball would definitely be missed. Unexpectedly, Handanovic's cousin from Inter Milan made a miraculous save to keep Maribor's goal clean. Well done, this is a save worth a thousand dollars!

Come on, keep playing like this, you Maribor have a chance.

You Maribor have a real chance of winning.

Corner kick, Crystal Palace got a corner kick opportunity. The people of Maribor were really facing a formidable enemy. Rajcevic even immediately came to Ronaldo's side and even stretched out his arms to hug Ronaldo. He was really afraid of giving Ronaldo such a chance again. ah.

This naturally made Ronaldo and Crystal Palace fans very unhappy, and they reported him one after another.

The referee also had a dark face and warned Rajcevic.

At this time, the psychological pressure on the Maribor people was really great. They were really afraid that something would go wrong and Crystal Palace would score a goal. They know that their tactic is basically useless as long as they lose the first ball. Therefore, at this time, they were all holding back their energy, just to prevent Crystal Palace from scoring, they were willing to do anything.

The people of Maribor played very devotedly and very hard.

However, Crystal Palace's offense is indeed fierce, and the strength gap between the two teams is really quite large.

In the eyes of Crystal Palace fans, Maribor is currently struggling to survive. It won't be long before Crystal Palace can score a goal and completely change the game.

Corner kicks are a very sharp weapon for the Crystal Palace people. This time the Maribor people are really very dangerous.

The Maribor people are closely guarding the Crystal Palace players. Ronaldo, Upamecano, Dias and others are all being stared at.

There shouldn't be many opportunities for Crystal Palace people.

At this moment, the referee blew a whistle, and Theo in the corner took a quick run-up and hit the football hard with one kick. The football quickly flew into Maribor's penalty area - in the middle!

The speed of the ball is really very fast, and the arc is very large. This puts Maribor's defensive players under tremendous pressure. This ball is difficult to defend.

At this moment, Ronaldo and Rajcevic in the middle jumped up again at the same time. Both of them shook their heads to meet the ball and smashed it hard against the football.

Boom, Ronaldo

He hit the flying football hard with one end!

Because Ronaldo jumped slightly higher than Ladacevic, he directly defeated Ladacevic. With a bang, the football shot quickly towards Maribor's goal!

All the Maribor fans at the scene suddenly exclaimed, "Danger!"

The speed of this ball was very fast, even faster than those volleyed footballs. The goalkeeper Jasmin in front of the goal didn't even react, and the football hit Maribor's goal hard.

In the 17th minute of the first half, Crystal Palace broke Maribor's goal.

Webster in the stands was stunned, with a look of disbelief on his face.

He thought that the Maribor people still had a chance, but he didn't know that they only lasted 17 minutes. This... this defense is too bad! Your iron barrel formation really leaves us speechless. If this is all an iron barrel formation, then other teams would call it a high-hardness alloy barrel formation. Your iron barrel formation looks like paper!

Webster was speechless!

The person on the sidelines was very satisfied, of course, he was not only satisfied because the team scored a goal. Instead, he was satisfied with the state shown by Ronaldo in this game. In this game, Ronaldo's performance was really good, and he got into the state quickly.

This made Tong Yi feel relieved, and there was nothing to worry about in the following games.

Of course, at this time, Tong Yi naturally had no intention of replacing anyone. He wanted to continue to observe Ronaldo's status and performance.

At this time, Maribor lost the ball, and their faith collapsed instantly.

The minds of the Maribor players are very confused now. At this time, should they continue to set up the iron barrel formation and continue to defend? But now they have conceded the ball, and setting up the iron barrel formation will not help the game. Now they need to score goals.

But how to attack with this 541 formation?

At this time, the players in Maribor had a lot of thoughts in their minds. They were all confused and didn't know what to do next. Should we continue to defend, or go straight out and fight Crystal Palace? There is no point in continuing to defend, and the ability to attack fiercely is not good.

What to do next?

The problem is that we have come to Maribor's head coach Milanic. Now everyone is staring at him to see what solutions he can come up with? Can it really create miracles?

Milanic was also thinking about it at this time, but Crystal Palace did not stop. He was still attacking fiercely. This allows the Maribor players in the stadium to defend passively. They are still squatting near the penalty area and defending tightly. It is obvious that they all know that whether they continue to defend or make changes to attack, they must Protect the goal and don't concede the ball again at this time.

Therefore, at this time, Maribor's players woke up quickly and defended closely.