Completely unaware of Palace's technical superiority, Pulis tried to put pressure on the midfield line, but his 442 formation made him too poor in midfield control to contain Crystal Palace's grooming, although he wasn't particularly worried about his defence.

The 'Place style of play', as Pulis is well known, has two distinct elements in nature: when not in possession, Stoke retreats deep and remains sideways compact, thanks to unusually long periods of defensive positioning-based training sessions. Pulis sees his midfield quartet as a second line of defence, describing his two-row foursome as a "back eight". One of his favourite training techniques includes the overall lateral movement of the midfielders to prevent the opposition's through ball from penetrating the gaps between them, and forcing the opposition to move the ball to the wing, where Pulis has a tall, strong centre-back with a strong header to fight for the ball and defend the cross if the opponent crosses.

At the same time, Stoke City play in a straight line when holding the ball, Pulis likes to use tall strikers, they are not prolific goalscorers, but can compete for long balls, head balls to team-mates, and sometimes he has an extra striker on the wing, just to add more height to the team, while Stoke City have been excellent at set-pieces, and their style of play is fundamentally a lower-division game strategy that revolves around physical confrontation and dead-ball tactics.

Wen Sheng was very suspicious that Pulis was Charles. Victim of Hughes's POMO doctrine.

The game was boring, and Stoke City fans seemed to be used to it, their own team being besieged by technical teams, and their occasional boos seemed weak.

"Sure enough, it's a tough bone to gnaw, and they're even more difficult to deal with than Liverpool!" Parrish muttered, "If I were the boss, I would have fucking fired Priss!" ”

"It's their home stadium, it's so ugly!" Parrish saw that Stoke defended tightly, and was quite angry, and it was undoubtedly wonderful to fight for the fourth place and then go to the Champions League to be a gangster, and Parrish had this idea recently, but he didn't say it to the team.

Wen Sheng is not in a hurry at all, although it is said that three points are very important, but the strategy of the game must be correct, don't get a fucking point, then it will be boring.

We can't be too anxious about fighting for four, right?

In the 20th minute, Delap finally got a chance to play to his strengths, Stoke City counter-attacked, Shears broke the ball off the touchline, and Delap's powerful grenade was finally staged.

"Pay attention! Two o'clock! Wen Sheng reminded the players loudly from the sidelines.

Drape took a few steps back, ran a few steps, and threw the ball at Kenwny in one fell swoop. Jones, Jones stood in the penalty area and carried Benatia to death, his big body was indeed quite powerful, Benatia was blocked by him, and he couldn't stretch his feet.

Unfortunately, the ball was not a header, Jones's foot skills were not very good, as soon as the ball stopped, it was cut off by the returning Kante, and Stoke City did not even form a shot.

Wen Sheng slapped his palms with satisfaction to encourage him, this is fucking, no wonder Delap is a nightmare for Premier League central defenders, throwing it quite accurately, and far away.

"It's better to strain your dog's hand and see how you throw it!" Wen Sheng cursed secretly.

Hehe, after five minutes, Delap actually strained his hand, and he used too much force, and he had to be treated on the sidelines.

Seeing this scene, Wen Sheng couldn't help but laugh.

Damn, could it be that my curse is so good?!

"Look, look, Delap is hurt!" Lawrence ran from the coach's bench to Wensheng's side to report the good news.

"I cursed just now! True Spirit! Wen Sheng said with a twisted face.

Lawrence was still a little calmer and didn't smile, but when he returned to the coach's seat, he couldn't hold back his joy.

Delap did strain, but he could still play, and in the 31st minute, they got a throw-in in front of the field, Delap tried and found that he really couldn't throw the ball into the Crystal Palace penalty area like he had just done, so he had to make a substitution and throw a throw-in, and Wen Sheng was finally sure that the old guy was finally scrapped.

Well, Pulis has nothing to do, one of the offensive tactics has been scrapped.

Crystal Palace's control is still very good, but the attack follows Wen Sheng's instructions to mainly play penetration, but it does not go well, Stoke City's defensive strategy focuses on the middle, they are not afraid of Crystal Palace crosses, the main defense is the penetration of the opponent, and Pulis also has goods in his stomach.

Wen Sheng accused before the game that Stoke City was rough and defensive, but in fact they were okay today, Crystal Palace advanced slowly, giving them time to calmly deploy, which made them less rude, so Wen Sheng was right in terms of the correct response strategy.

Forty-five minutes passed quickly, and Clattenburg blew the whistle for the game and the game ended in a 0-0 draw.

Crystal Palace had just five shots on goal in the first half, while Stoke City had just three shots at home, which was a rare sight.

The backline of Benatia and Virgil van Dijk did not give the opposition too many chances.

Kenwinny. Jones spent 8 million pounds from Stoke City this season to transfer from Black Cat Sunderland, in Sunderland he was originally a tactical center, the goal efficiency is not very high, to Stoke City tactical role is more obvious, Pulis values his body, this season played so many rounds of league play, but he did not score a goal as a center forward.

But he was not attacked by the media at all, and there is no way that everyone knows that he is under Pulis, so whether the striker is a striker or not is another matter.

As for the other centre-forward, Fleur, who is similar to Jones, has been at Stoke City for the past few seasons, and the team's highest scoring record was in the 07-08 season, when he scored 15 goals in 42 games, which was during his Championship period, and his first season at Stoke City, and since then, he has gone from bad to worse every season, and only scored three goals in more than 30 games last season.

From these rules, it can be seen that there is a problem, Pulis has been criticized by public opinion for not being able to attack at all, and there is no reason, and the striker has a nightmare when he meets him.

As long as the tactical role of their center is strangled and the two points are protected, Stoke City is indeed not that much of a threat.

Palace have done a decent job of this, with Stoke City having only three shots on target, so there was nothing to make a fuss about.

But this alone is definitely not enough, it is right to reduce mistakes in the slow pace of attack, but it is really unfortunate not to create opportunities.

Wensheng was unwilling, and the players were not reconciled.

"In the second half, they must still have no control over us, unless they foul and Clattenburg should be blind!" Wen Sheng made up his mind about his guys when he set up his tactics in the middle of the field.

"Our rhythm is fine, we need patience! It's not okay not to cross, it's hard for us to penetrate them in the middle, so crosses should also be used as one of the auxiliary options! ”

"Don't cross high! Tintin, when you pass the ball, you have to pass it to their waist, so that it is difficult for them to clear the ball easily! ”

"Allen, Driss, you have to form a complete outflank in the middle and at the back point when you run, Prince, in the second half you reduce the ball support for Tintin, you need to go to the middle to grab the point, the inverted triangle, you know, the inverted triangle pass! I need you to shoot! ”

"After the formation is pressed, Sean should not have too much care, give support to the frontcourt, and liberate Prince, understand?!"

Overall, Crystal Palace played more cautiously in the first half, tactically leaving no chance for the opponent's two wings to counterattack, but at the same time, in order to cope with the requirements of control, Boateng had to retreat to get the ball in a position, make a simple transition, cooperate with De Bruyne to organize, and reduce the number of forward insertions, so that Allen. Li fought alone in the opponent's penalty area.

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