Legendary Godfather

Corner kick, Bolton still got a corner kick.

Jedinak and Robertson looked at each other. Their coach was right. This Eagles' footwork is indeed very good. The arc of his kick just now bypassed all the defensive players and landed accurately on top of Knight's head.

With this guy and Nate here, the threat is huge!

Speroni shouted loudly, "Virgil, you go and guard that big black man, don't let him easily hit the football, you know?"

Van Dijk's height is 193cm, although it is still a bit shorter than Knight. But Van Dijk is the tallest in Crystal Palace, and his jumping ability is also good. He is better than the 32-year-old Knight, and he should be able to make up for the height gap.

Van Dijk immediately nodded, indicating that he understood.

He immediately turned around and walked to Nate's side, holding Nate tightly to prevent Nate from getting an easy opportunity.

However, Knight is also very powerful, and Van Dijk does not have any advantage.

At this moment, Eagles, who was going for a corner kick, suddenly arced the football directly to the front of the penalty area. Andrews, the defensive midfielder who was ambushing there, got ahead of Kanter and hit the ball with a kick. shoot.

With a bang, the football roared out and shot towards the Crystal Palace goal quickly.

Speroni's sight in front of the goal was directly blocked by Van Dijk and Knight in front of him, and he could not see the trajectory of the football at all. By the time he saw the football, it was already too late.

The football flew straight into the upper right corner of the goal!

One to zero!

Bolton Wanderers, playing at home, took the lead.

"Beautiful! Beautiful goal! Andrews' long-range shot was a world wave, and Eagles' pass was even more wonderful. Almost everyone in the stadium did not expect it. This gave Andrews such a Easy long-range shot opportunity, this guy Eagles is really a genius!" Mortensen immediately said excitedly.

On the sidelines, Tong Yi's eyes tightened. This Eagles is indeed a bit of a monster this season.

But after this season, this guy has declined too fast. He has declined at a rocket-like speed.

Tong Yi immediately came to the sidelines and shouted to Jedinak and Robertson, "Remember what I said!"

Both Jedinak immediately waved their hands to show that they knew.

"You see, Bolton's current strength is indeed at the level of the Premier League. Although Crystal Palace's strength is not bad, they still have no chance in front of Bolton. I think Bolton should be able to win this game. Bolton Will be a favorite for promotion to the Championship this season!" Shearer continued.

Mortensen nodded slightly and said, "Indeed, judging from the current state of performance, Bolton's strength is indeed higher than that of Crystal Palace. In this game, Bolton, playing at home, should be able to win, and win this game." If we win the game, Bolton should be able to break into the top six, right?"

Shearer nodded and said, "It should be okay! It depends on how much Bolton can get from this game."

Goal difference? "

Mortensen thinks Shearer makes sense.

However, he immediately said, "If Bolton wants to score more goals, I think he should actually replace Martin Petrov on the bench, because the Bulgarian international's offensive ability is very strong. , he can assist and score goals."

Petrov is indeed very strong. He has also played for Atletico Madrid and Manchester City.

Replacing Petrov at this time is a good choice.

At this time, Bolton's offense came again.

The first move came from Mark Davis in the middle. After continuously controlling the ball, he passed the football to Eagles on the wing again.

Obviously, Eagles is now the absolute core of Bolton.

Most of the ball has to be handed to his feet.

But as soon as Eagles received the football, his body was collided by the fierce Jedinak and staggered. The football at his feet was instantly out of control and was broken off by Jedinak.

The first thing Jedinak did was to push the football to Kanter next to him.

Originally, Jedinak wanted to pass forward immediately and launch a quick counterattack.

But the moment Eagles lost the ball, the Sanming Bolton players next to him reacted instantly and pressed towards his position, pressing high. Without giving Jedinak a chance to react quickly to the ball, their reaction was very fast, as if it was engraved in their bones.

This is Bolton's tactics.

It seems to be a high-position interception and high-intensity pressure.

This tactic seems to be the same as Crystal Palace's tactic, but in fact there is still a big gap.

After Bolton loses the ball in the frontcourt, they will surround the high post and press, but this is only limited to the players on the opponent's side who stole the ball. Players in other positions will not follow these pressing players to press together like Crystal Palace. Instead, they will quickly retreat, return to their own defense zone, and set up a defensive formation.

The purpose of Bolton's on-the-spot counterattack after losing the ball in the frontcourt was not to steal the football back.

The main purpose is to delay the opponent's quick counterattack, prevent the opponent from passing the ball forward at the first time, launch a quick counterattack, and buy time for his defensive teammates, and then they will slowly retreat to defend.

Of course, it would be better to counter-attack on the spot and break off the attack.

But they don’t force it!

The main purpose is to delay the opponent's quick counterattack.

Crystal Palace, on the other hand, pressed and defended from a high position and almost never retreated. The goal is to steal the football from you in the frontcourt and launch a quick counterattack on the spot.

Therefore, the tactics between the two teams are essentially very different.

Coupled with Eagles who lost the ball, the defense of these four people still put a lot of pressure on Kanter.

However, Bolton people still underestimate Kante and Pogba.

Especially when he looked at Kanter with a smile.

Although Kanter is a defensive engineer who specializes in interception and sweeping, he is also good at his feet. He even has a certain ability in offensive organization, and more importantly, he also has the ability to escape in a small area.

The people of Bolton have suffered from inertial thinking.

They think that a black defensive midfielder like Kanter who intercepts and sweeps away is a typical rough guy, with horrifyingly poor foot skills and zero ability to escape from a small-scale encirclement. Therefore, they despise Kanter a bit.

Kanter immediately seized the opportunity, made two consecutive turns, penetrated the crotch one after another, and easily got rid of the encirclement of these people.

"Danger! Bolton is in danger!" Shearer exclaimed when he saw this.

All the Bolton fans at the scene were frightened!

None of them expected that Kanter could get out of the encirclement so quickly.

At this time, Bolton's backcourt was in chaos.

Because these surrounding players did not buy enough replay time for their retreating defensive players. Now they are in the middle of the replay and have not yet returned to their positions. The position of this formation is It seems very loose and messy.

Chance!

This is an excellent opportunity for the Crystal Palace people to counterattack.

Kanter directly saw Zaha in the open space on the wing. He passed Pogba directly and made a diagonal pass of his own, accurately passing the football to Zaha's feet.

When Zaha received the ball, there was a clear path in front of him, with no defensive players to intercept him.

Zaha immediately dribbled the ball diagonally towards Bolton's penalty area.

hiss!

All the Bolton fans at the scene burst out into wild exclamations, "It's dangerous."

At this time, Bolton's two full-backs, Tyrone Mills and Ricketts, returned to the penalty area exhausted, but they were not in position yet. As for the two central defenders, they had not yet entered their penalty area, and they were left behind by Murray and Mane who were advancing forward.

Even Pogba is about to catch up with them.

Three on two in the frontcourt!

Bolton is very dangerous.

Tyrone Mills had no choice but to go up and block Zaha who was cutting inside. He tried his best to block and give his defensive players as much time as possible to return to defense.

However, Zaha will not give it to Mills at all.

Zaha saw Murray advancing forward, and he immediately took off and passed the ball in an arc to the center of Bolton's penalty area.

The football quickly bypassed Tyrone Mills who rushed out!

Murray in the middle rushed forward quickly and rushed towards the front of the small penalty area.

Ricketts, who was guarding Murray, saw Zaha passing the ball. He was so frightened that he rushed out immediately, followed closely by Murray, and went to intercept Murray desperately.

But he ran out several steps and realized that Zaha had not passed the football to the front of the small penalty area at all.

This guy Murray is just a guise, deliberately luring himself into the trap.

The football was passed behind him and Murray by Zaha and flew directly to the penalty spot.

Without looking back, Ricketts knew that Mane must be in that position.

He turned around and looked over, and sure enough!

Sure enough, Mane appeared in that position, and Mane was unguarded.

Knight and Matt Mills had just returned to the penalty area line, and it was too late.

Mane saw the ball coming and didn't stop the ball at all. He just took advantage of the situation and fired.

With a bang, the football immediately flew towards the lower corner of the goal.

The ball is very fast!

In front of the goal, Hungary national goalkeeper Bogdan immediately fell to the ground and threw himself on his side, reaching out to intercept.

Unfortunately, the ball was too fast. Bogdan did not touch the football at all, and the football rolled quickly into Bolton's goal.

In the 35th minute of the first half, the away team Crystal Palace equalized the score.

It was Mane who scored the goal!

"Beautiful! Beautiful counterattack! This set is really smooth. These young people in Crystal Palace are really outstanding. Especially Kanter, who knew that this guy who has always done rough work can have such delicate moments. Although his small-scale escape was unexpected and looked down upon by the opponent, it is enough to illustrate his ability and talent. Kanter is really a treasure boy. Tong Yi, this guy, has a great vision for discovering young players. It's amazing!" When he said this, Hiller's eyes were actually full of envy.

It would be great if these talented players were discovered by their Newcastle United team.

"Hiss! Crystal Palace's counterattack speed is really too fast! Bolton's defensive players didn't even react, and the opponent scored. This... Tong Yi is really amazing! I believe, Mourinho Austria should be very interested in him, right?" Mortensen said.

Friedman on the sidelines saw this and his pupils trembled.

Crystal Palace's performance really exceeded his expectations.

He couldn't help but turn his head and look at Tong Yi on the other side, thinking to himself, "This little guy really has two brushes!"

However, Friedman has not lost confidence in this game. He still firmly believes that Bolton will win. Because the goal conceded was somewhat unexpected, if the players they were guarding and pressing didn't despise Kanter, Crystal Palace would not have been able to counterattack this time.

This goal conceded was not so much that they lost to the Crystal Palace people, but that they lost to themselves.

As long as they pay attention in the following games, the Crystal Palace people will never get another chance.

Bolton will definitely win this game.