274. Grinding Tottenham
Wen Sheng is very depressed, some teams use Tottenham's move on Crystal Palace, but Tottenham Hotspur is a little clever with this trick today, their side speed is also very fast, and the frontcourt pressing is crazy, it seems that this group of boys is also not convinced that they lost in the last round.
The hard running made it difficult for the Crystal Palace players to adapt.
In this case, Tottenham's time to attack the 30-meter area of Crystal Palace has increased greatly, but at this stage, Crystal Palace's two central defenders are quite powerful, and they have cleared the siege several times.
"Watch the location!"
"Look at him! Follow him! ”
"Marking!"
In the 3rd minute, the 4th minute, the 5th minute, for three consecutive minutes, Tottenham formed a passing opportunity, and Bale also had a big assist today, regardless of his head, but Crystal Palace could not launch a counterattack, and the pass was not very reliable.
After about ten minutes of playing, Crystal Palace slowly stood on its feet!
Wen Sheng also breathed a sigh of relief, after all, he did not concede a goal, and with the joint efforts of everyone, the team still held on to Tottenham's opening onslaught.
Of course, Crystal Palace did not play any decent off-attack, the midfield and backfield gave too little support to the front, the long pass in the backfield was very blind, and De Bruyne was also followed very hard, once he got the ball, the opponent immediately went up, and De Bruyne turned around, otherwise the opponent would foul.
Tottenham Hotspur gradually couldn't continue after the onslaught at the beginning, kept pressing all the time, and couldn't score, which could easily cause the players' mentality to be tired and gradually slow down a little offensive.
Crystal Palace were also gradually able to control the ball at the back, and the passive situation was eased, and the two sides entered a stalemate.
If I want to say, Crystal Palace's control ability itself is not bad, but it was a little confused by Tottenham at the beginning, and now the pressure from Tottenham has subsided, and they have also recovered a lot of self-confidence, and it is not a problem to slow down the game.
Lao Lei stood on the sidelines and looked at it, this thing is not good, if it goes on like this, how can Tottenham score goals, there is no high school striker today, and the rhythm of the whole game is to be fast, but at this time, the opponent's state is picking up, controlling the ball, and letting Tottenham press down a bit of a failure.
At this time, the competition is patience to see who can seize the opportunity.
Who is in really good shape.
It's a pity that at the end of the half, no one could help anyone, Crystal Palace started passively, and then gradually occupied the advantage of possession, but they are obscene and flow of play, and do not like to attack the hinterland of Tottenham Hotspur very much, but often control and control to play long passes, behind them, anyway, Tottenham always likes to put up the formation to force the control of Crystal Palace.
Tottenham, on the other hand, did a better start in the use of high pressing and on-the-spot counter-attacks, and the rest of the time was relatively average, and there were not many opportunities.
In the first half, everyone had almost the same shots on goal, each completing 7 shots on goal, and the shooting rate was low, and the goalkeepers on both sides were not tested much.
Wen Sheng is generally satisfied with the situation in the first half, that is, it is troublesome to find a breakthrough in the attack, but he does not dare to invest too much in the input of troops, and there is a great risk in moving the formation forward and increasing the pressure on the back waist.
Tottenham is an opponent that is fundamentally different from Benfica.
The game against Benfica itself is an away game, and Benfica's strength is not as good as Tottenham in the eyes of Wensheng, and the forward line that takes risks is smaller, and Tottenham is stronger and the risk of taking risks is higher.
Different opponents have different views on Wen Sheng, and have different thoughts on the change of tactics and the adjustment of details, which is not static.
Tottenham Hotspur is playing small and fast in the front today, the defense line is too far forward, it is easy to be threatened, and Benfica is good at positional warfare, and the two are different.
In the second half, Tottenham attacked again as if they had taken medicine, but this time they were unlucky.
Lao Lei, the old fox, can't bear it, he's in a hurry, the team needs to win too much.
As a result, in the 54th minute, Crystal Palace seized a counterattack opportunity.
Vardy successfully countered offside, went to the meeting alone, and scored a goal with a light pick!
Tottenham decided that Vardy was offside, and Lao Lei was quite emotional about it, but the linesman was unmoved, the referee was unmoved, and they could not erase Vardy's goal.
Wen Sheng was very happy, he knew that this kind of opportunity would always appear, no in the first half does not mean that there is no scene, Tottenham is still in a hurry.
In a hurry, in a hurry! Wen Sheng praised Tottenham in his heart.
Of course, he also knows that Tottenham is in a hurry, and there is nothing he can do.
Suddenly, Wen Sheng felt like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and he was actually more patient than Lao Lei.
But the joy didn't last long, and in the 59th minute, Tottenham equalised.
In the 59th minute, Tottenham launched an attack, Modric dribbled the ball in the middle, Kante grabbed it, and when he stabbed the ball, he did not fully control it, but stabbed the ball at the feet of Van der Vaart, Van der Vaart went straight to the side, Defoe also learned to be offside, directly hit the goal, the ball went from Speroni's armpit into the net, and they equalized.
Tottenham were a bit of luck with the goal, Kante and Luka Modric each had a one-in-a-half chance to touch the ball, who knew the ball would bounce to Van der Vaart?!
It was too late for Nemanja Matic to reach out his long legs to intercept.
Wen Sheng had a headache and regretted it, but unfortunately there was nothing he could do.
"God, give me a few more chances!" Wen Sheng silently prayed to God.
Glancing at the bench, Wen Sheng felt that the reliable ones were all on the court, and the rest of the Scannell, Daenes, Smith, etc., who could be reliable, felt that they were not reliable.
Wen Sheng thinks that he is a good hand at training young people, but unfortunately these three don't seem to have made much progress under him, Scannell is said to have a rich life off the field, Wen Sheng has advised him twice, and now he doesn't bother to pay attention to it, and he must be disposed of in the summer.
The opportunity has finally arrived.
In the 67th minute, Palace were awarded a set-piece opportunity, with Kevin De Bruyne assisting, and it was Benatia who leaped high into the crowd and sent the ball into the Tottenham net despite Ledley's interference.
Palace have scored a lot from set-pieces lately, and they have scored from set-pieces three times in their last three games.
Wen Sheng thanked God over and over again, he must be thanked, if it goes on like this, the physical fitness of the Crystal Palace is a big problem, and there is no way to attack.
Lao Lei was so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood, Crystal Palace's set-pieces have always been criticized, but he just listened too much to the data, and the data did confirm that Crystal Palace's set-piece scoring rate was poor, and he was not good at using set-pieces, but people seemed to be quite good recently.
Before the game, he didn't practice specifically for this part, Wen Sheng also practiced the set-piece defense in a targeted manner, he thought that Tottenham wanted to sacrifice a tall center forward like Pavlyuchenko or Crouch, and he had to defend it.
In the time that followed, Lao Lei immediately replaced him with a high school striker Crouch.
It's still early, but Tottenham's offensive characteristics have not reached the effect of Lao Lei, so it is natural to make substitutions, and high school strikers are the core of the attack.
Crouch is not in very good shape, Tottenham has a lot of long passes in the next time, but Crouch is quite unreliable, he is tall, but Benatiat will use small movements to interfere with him, Crystal Palace is also very good at two points of protection, and his role is naturally difficult to play.
It's just that when Tottenham won the set-piece, Wen Sheng was particularly nervous, and the opponent had a few brushes.
After three minutes of stoppage time, Tottenham was busy and still couldn't equalize, so they had to drink at home, basically announcing that the fight for four was over.
Despite the victory, and the fact that Palace had completed a double against neighbouring Tottenham this season, it was a much tougher game than the first, with their first leg of high pressing not at all successful, and this Tottenham high press generally worked, causing a lot of problems for Crystal Palace, but fortunately the players were in good shape.
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