Sunderland didn't want to give up the ball in midfield, but his side was repeatedly threatened by Crystal Palace. Lee, Mertens and Boateng all got good chances.

This has led Bruce to wonder if it would be a good deal to play with Crystal Palace in a midfield that is at a disadvantage, given that most of his players had played for United two days earlier.

Sunderland are not a big team, they are just a relegation team, and the bench substitutes are not as good as the prescient Crystal Palace.

Crystal Palace at least have practical youngsters such as Nemanja Matic and Stroman on the bench, but Sunderland does not.

So Sunderland started to recover after more than ten minutes, and the pressure in the midfield was not ferocious.

In the face of the opponent's dense defense, Crystal Palace really struggled to find any breakthroughs. Li was normally surrounded by the other party and did nothing.

Wen Sheng feels that the current problem of the forward line is much more serious than the period when Vardy did not score.

It is no secret that many teams in the league have studied Crystal Palace's style of play, with Mertens breaking through to grab points, De Bruyne playing and breaking through wide midfield, and Boatenze should cut in to grab points.

In those early days of the league, Vardy didn't score, and many teams failed to understand Wensheng's tactical arrangements in depth, and the first three were very effective and did a lot of work for Vardy up front.

Now Bruce is not so weak and knows how to defend.

It would have been different if Vardy had been in the situation, his longitudinal run combined with the other three to form a quartet, which was not easy to defend, but now it was Allen. Lee, he stubbornly defended the opponent's penalty area like Crystal Palace had one less person to attack, and it was not as powerful as before.

"If only I had scored!" Wen Sheng sighed.

Just now Bruce didn't want to give up the midfield, Crystal Palace can create some chances, and now people put iron passes, shrink the defensive area, and it is difficult for Crystal Palace to create opportunities.

But in any case, we have to work hard to win this game, with two games less and the ranking is slipping, and the team needs such a shot in the arm.

At the end of the first half, the two sides played 0-0, Crystal Palace did not have too much possession, only 57 per cent, and Bruce largely adopted the tactics of Wensheng against Bolton.

There is a good opportunity to go forward without hesitation and play a quick counterattack, relying on Darren. Bent's ability to attack, if he didn't have a chance, he simply reversed the ball in the backfield, controlled the pace of the game, and waited for Crystal Palace to force it before making a long pass.

Bruce's strategy is very correct, they don't get as many chances as Crystal Palace, but better than Crystal Palace, today Wensheng used Van Dijk and Morgan's partner, Morgan is okay, Van Dijk has suffered a loss of experience, a few times to handle the ball is not very reasonable, facing the small fast Darren. Bent, his single defense is not very good.

After the start of the second half, Wen Sheng decisively adjusted his strategy, since Bruce is not out, it is better to play another possession battle, put a little more in the number of attackers, Kante and Derry need to press forward.

Sometimes it takes a bit of luck and Palace were really lucky, less than five minutes into the second half, they were awarded a set-piece from the left side of the opposition half, with Kevin De Bruyne assisting from a free-kick and centre-back Morgan heading home to give Palace the lead on the road.

Wen Sheng happily said to Lawrence: "Bruce thought that he could just set up an iron bucket formation, where would he think that he would be defeated by our weakest header!" ”

Headers have always been a favourite part of the media for Crystal Palace, they tend to play poorly from set-pieces, they are not good at heading, and Palace are generally a technical team that doesn't like long balls in the air and prefers to let the ball run on grass.

Bruce was also dumbfounded, he was hoping that Palace would press a little more, so that his team would have more opportunities to counter-attack, and who knew that his team would be beaten in the weakest way.

He is also a person who came over with strong winds and waves, although he wanted to turn the tables, but he was very calm, and he did not let his players flock out because he lost a goal, but temporarily stabilized his position.

The game has reached a stalemate again, and there will always be voices in the media to criticize Wen Shengren for being young but conservative, and such criticism is right.

When the team took a one-goal lead, Wensheng's conservative side began to show, requiring his players to stand in defensive positions and control the ball.

It was a really boring game, the attack was not smooth, Sunderland defended well, Crystal Palace struggled to find a breakthrough, and mainly relied on individual means to solve the problem.

As for Sunderland, Bruce may be a defender, and his tuning on defense is not bad, but he really doesn't have any bright spots on offense, and if there are bright spots, it is Darren. Bent.

Last season, Bruce took over as Sunderland's head coach and brought in Darren Brown. Bent, it's hard to say that he's sure of Darren. Bent definitely does, but Darren. Bent really earned him face, quite powerful, to put it simply, Sunderland's offense is not by Bruce but by Darren. Bent, they wouldn't be able to do without Bent.

Of course, this is true, the weak teams are supported by a strong striker.

Van Dijk was defending Darren today. Bent had a mistake when he was able to do so. Bent himself can't do it either, he got two single knives and flew away, and his state is really worrying.

Both teams are like this, and the game is certainly not spectacular.

Later, everyone changed one after another, Bruce planned to fight, Crystal Palace had a period of crisis situation, but they survived, Sunderland's offensive did not last too long, after more than 80 minutes, their physical overdraft was too great, and gradually lost momentum, Crystal Palace finally kept the fruit of the victory away, 1:0.

Wen Sheng also breathed a sigh of relief at the end, it was so difficult!

He was right.

The previous coach had to think much less than the current coach, the previous Premier League technical and tactical content was not as strong as it is now, the main work done by the old-school coach is to do the management and integration of personnel, put different players together, let them play the maximum effect, in fact, the difference between everyone is not particularly big in tactics, everyone likes to use 442 in that era, and it is the ability of the players to fight and the ability of the coach to match.

It's not a good match, okay, just wait for the end of class.

And now the Super League is much more difficult, and the weak teams are not easy to bite, because everyone has more technical and tactical content, and it is feasible and effective to use tactics to make up for the disadvantage in personnel.

There have been a lot of draws in the league this season, and the reason is that part of the reason why the strong teams overturned is also related to this.

Roberto Mancini's Manchester City and Carlo Ancelotti's Chelsea have basically had a particularly outstanding season, a special force, and after a year, it will be difficult for them to maintain their dominance if they do not bring in new players.

The atmosphere of rigid tactics in Premier League football is changing, Wenger is the pioneer, Mourinho is the promoter, and then opened the era of a large number of foreign coaches entering the Premier League, the Italians who are more tactical in the Premier League are Ancelotti, Mancini, Di Matteo, etc., plus Martinez, Wenger, Wensheng and so on, the technical and tactical content of the Premier League is getting higher and higher.

"I'm happy with the game, I'm happy with the score! We created a couple of good chances on the pitch and it was a shame not to score more goals, but the win is the most important thing, Wess has been working hard and today it was a goal he deserved! ”

Given Sunderland's strong home performance, Wen Sheng really has nothing to dislike with these three points, the game may not be the ideal situation, but the three points are the most important.

Boateng was also pleased in his post-match interview, "We got a win in the first game after the holiday, there is no better moment! ”

There was nothing wrong with the answer to the part of his interview about the game, the problem was that the reporter later talked about the Italian media's rumours that Milan were interested in him, and his answer made Wensheng and the Crystal Palace hierarchy very unhappy.

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