Legendary Godfather

In the 16th round of the 2014-2015 Premier League season, Crystal Palace faced Stoke City at their home court.

Currently, Stoke City is ranked 14th in the Premier League.

They currently have only 18 points.

To be honest, they are still far away from the Crystal Palace. Crystal Palace currently has 29 points in the Premier League, 11 points ahead of Stoke City. What can you, Stoke City, do to compete with our Crystal Palace?

Before the game, media reporters also believed that Crystal Palace could easily win this game.

After all, Crystal Palace had just suffered a defeat in the UEFA Champions League group stage, and Tong Yi had just returned. They would definitely avenge their disgrace with a big victory.

Crystal Palace must win this game.

When Tong Yi was interviewed by media reporters, he said, "The defeat in the Champions League is not a big deal for us. This was actually within our expectations. Our start to the season was too poor. As a result, we must pay more attention to the league. Therefore, it is acceptable to be eliminated from the Champions League. But if we lose again in the league, it is unacceptable. Therefore, this game against Stoke City We at Crystal Palace must win the game!”

The media reporters nodded one after another, understandably.

Tong Yi also said, "To be honest, Stoke City is not very strong. Their lineup still has big problems, especially the defense. As long as we at Crystal Palace don't have any problems, this game will be a success." , we will definitely win! And now I have to make sure that there are no accidents in Crystal Palace." ??

Media reporters all feel that Tong Yi has this ability.

Before the game, 80% of the media reporters believed that Crystal Palace should win this game.

Of course, many media reporters were observing a moment of silence for Stoke City.

They felt that the people of Stoke City were really unlucky.

They met Crystal Palace when they were eliminated from the UEFA Champions League. Isn't this a shot in the arm? Crystal Palace is looking for someone to vent their anger on!

Didn’t the Stoke City people hit it now?

Stoke City head coach Mark Hughes was interviewed by media reporters before the game. He said, "Don't laugh at us at Stoke City. Our team is still very capable. Of course, Crystal Palace is indeed Very strong, but can they really beat us at Stoke City easily? I don’t think so!"

Hughes is called one of the "Four Kings of Wales" by many fans and even many media.

The four kings are Hughes, Dean Saunders, Ian Rush and Ryan Giggs.

Hughes did well as a player and was a very good forward. He has played for Manchester United, Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich and Chelsea and other giants, and won two European Cup Winners' Cup championships and two Premier League titles. Championships and other honors.

After retiring, he coached Wales

The home team was even poached by the Manchester City team, which was just taken over by the Petroleum Group, in 2008 with an annual salary of 5 million pounds to coach the Manchester City team.

Unfortunately, his coaching performance at Manchester City was not particularly satisfactory, and he was fired after a year and a half.

He then went to Fulham and Queens Park Rangers before arriving at Stoke City in May 2013, where he has been coaching for more than a year.

Stoke City performed well last season, ranking 10th in the Premier League.

Stoke City's senior management are very satisfied with this result, so they have given greater rights to rest this season.

They are currently ranked 14th in the league. Stoke City's top management is not too worried. They still support Hughes. They believe that Hughes will lead Stoke City to achieve good results this season.

No wonder Hughes is so confident now.

The media reporters shook their heads one after another. They all felt that the rest was a bit too confident.

You have to know that you are facing Crystal Palace, currently ranked third in the Premier League.

Moreover, Crystal Palace is in very good shape now. What can Stoke City do to fight against Crystal Palace?

And Hughes continued, "It's good that Crystal Palace's strength is allowed, but they can only hit hard when they face strong teams, but they don't know what to do when they face weaker teams." Kicked? Aren't they famous for robbing the rich and giving to the poor? What did they do to defeat us, Stoke City, in this game?"

hiss!

The media reporters were all confused. Are you admitting that Stoke City is a weak team?

Hughes said directly, "In terms of strength, our Stoke City is indeed weaker than Crystal Palace. But if we are weaker, we may not necessarily lose. In this game, we are tactically restrained by Crystal Palace, and we can defeat it." They won this game!"

The media reporters all turned their heads and looked at each other. They all felt that Hughes was taking things for granted.

Adriana felt that Hughes was a little overconfident at this time.

And in Adriana's view, Hughes' coaching ability is not particularly outstanding. After all, there are so many young people in the industry and they have never won a decent championship. Not to mention the Premier League champion, but his opponent Tong Yi is different.

Tong Yi, a young man, wins a championship almost every year, and there is more than one championship every year.

What are you going to fight with Tong Yi?

To be honest, you are still far behind Tong Yi.

More importantly, you said that Stoke City's tactics restrained Crystal Palace, why didn't we see it?

last game

Ji, you are coaching Stoke City, right?

You, Stoke City, played against Crystal Palace twice in the league last season, right? You lost both times. The away game was 0-3, and the home game was 1-2. How did your tactics restrain Crystal Palace?

Mark Hughes, you really take it for granted!

You, Stoke City, will lose this game!

Yes, Adriana is not optimistic about Mark Hughes and Stoke City at all. He believes that Stoke City must lose this game!

This is exactly the same as Tong Yi's view. Tong Yi also believes that Stoke City will lose!

December 13, 2014, Selhurst Park, South London, England.

What is happening here today is the 16th round of the Premier League this season, Crystal Palace plays Stoke City at home.

Today’s starting lineups for both sides are as follows:

Home team Crystal Palace, head coach Tong Yi, formation 4213

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The back four from left to right Robertson, Ferdinand, Van Dijk and Zhang Linpeng

Double defensive midfielder Paulinho and Kimmich

Single attacking midfielder Goretzka

The front three from left to right Salah, Jimenez and Mane

Away team Stoke City, head coach Hughes, formation 442

Goalkeeper Begovic

Back four from left to right: Eric Peters, Mark Wilson, Shawcross, Phillip Bardsley

Midfield four from left to right Bojan, Nzonzi, Geoff Cameron and Jonathan Walters

Double forward Crouch and Diouf

To be honest, at first glance, Stoke City's lineup is still good, especially the attacking line.

This offensive line can be considered very luxurious if pushed forward a few years. Crouch was once Liverpool's main center, Diouf also played for Manchester United, and Bojan was another talented striker for Barcelona after Messi. Others Nzonzi and Walters are also good players.

Shawcross and Bardsley on the back line are also very good. The former is a famous player in the Premier League and even a marginal international player in the England national team. The latter also came from the youth training of Manchester United like Shawcross.

Therefore, this team's paper strength is still very good.

Even in their pre-season predictions last season, many people felt that this team was capable of qualifying for the European competition. And this season is the same, with the ability to qualify for the European competition.

However, there is indeed a slight gap in performance now.

Especially this season, Stoke City's current results are not very ideal!

Moreover, in Adriana's view, it is impossible for Stoke City's striker combination of four, four, two, one, high and one fast to restrain Crystal Palace's tactics?

Where did you, Mark Hughes, get the confidence to say you can beat Crystal Palace?

Crystal Palace is very strong. Can Stoke City withstand the opponent's attack?

Crystal Palace also made a rotation in this game. Ferdinand, Kimmich, Jimenez and others all appeared in the starting list. It is obvious that Tong Yi has reservations. Xu Tongyi believed that they could easily defeat Stoke City without having to use all their main players.

So, where do you, Hughes, get the confidence that Shou can beat Crystal Palace?

beep!

At this time, the referee of this game blew the whistle to start the game. The first team to kick off was Stoke City. They still wanted to attack from the beginning and played very actively.

But, to be honest, Stoke City's forward line is really old and not as good as before.

Although Crouch can still exert some residual heat, he pales in comparison when facing the defense of Ferdinand and Van Dijk. Especially when Crouch faced Van Dijk, he was tightly guarded. Whether it was a high ball or a low ball, Crouch was guarded by Van Dijk and had no chance.

Yes, Crouch doesn't have many chances to hold the ball.

This surprised Crouch. Is the Dutch central defender in front of him so powerful?

When facing Van Dijk last season, Crouch didn't feel that it was so difficult. This season, he was completely exhausted. This is not to mention Diouf. As he gets older, he has lost the speed that he relied on to become famous. In this game, he struggled more and missed fewer opportunities!

On the contrary, there are many opportunities here at Crystal Palace!

In the 14th minute of the first half, Zhang Linpeng on the wing of Crystal Palace received a precise diagonal pass from midfielder Goretzka, and then directly took the ball and passed. Jimenez in the middle got ahead of the opponent's center back Wilson, hit the Palace goal with his head, and directly smashed the football into Stoke City's goal, opening the door to victory.

In the 27th minute of the first half, the Crystal Palace man stole the ball in the frontcourt and launched a quick counterattack. Goretzka made a direct pass into Mane in the penalty area. The latter smashed the ball directly horizontally, and then kicked the ball with his legs. The shot blasted away the goal guarded by Begovic, 2-0.

It's not over yet. Before the end of the first half, Mane received a cross from Salah and once again penetrated Begovic's fingers. Crystal Palace led 3-0.

In the first half of the game, Crystal Palace directly overturned Hughes's bottom line. pants!

The media reporters on the sidelines looked at Hughes with a bit of gloating, which made Mark Hughes look very ugly!

What made him even more ugly was that after the second half of the game started, in the 64th minute, De Bruyne, who came on as a substitute for Crystal Palace, hit a long shot through Begovic's goal, making it 4-0.

In the final game, Crystal Palace also defeated Stoke City 4-0 at home and won.