Martin. O'Neill's side have been a bit against the odds this season, going head-to-head on all three fronts, not only reaching the fifth round of the FA Cup, but also reaching the final of the Carabao Cup against Manchester United, who are also seventh in the Premier League.

However, all of this is not enough for them to qualify for European competition, UEFA allocates seven European places to England, and the FA will redistribute them, and the new reform plan is that the fifth place in the Premier League and the FA Cup can directly participate in the Europa League, and the winner of the League Cup can only participate in the third round of the Europa League play-offs, and whether the sixth and seventh places in the Premier League can get a place in European competition depends on who wins the FA Cup and League Cup.

Martin. O'Neill's side should now have the highest priority chance of playing in the Carabao Cup final, with a win over Manchester United securing them a place in the Europa League play-offs, with the FA Cup and league waiting until May.

With the Carabao Cup final taking place on 28 February, Villa will have to fight hard for the league in the middle, and commentators from outside the FA Cup have long analysed how Villa could come off the bench in this game.

Of course, some people say that the FA Cup is also an opportunity for Villa, because at present, a strong team, such as Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and other giants are out of the competition, and Villa's chances of winning the FA Cup are also quite big.

"No matter what changes I make to the squad, I can find the right replacement. We have some players in the squad who have never experienced first-team football and I will probably play them. "At the pre-match press conference, Martin. O'Neill also acknowledged that there could be some degree of rotation.

Regardless of whether they make a rotation in this game or not, Wen Sheng will definitely not make a big adjustment, there are no injuries at the back, midfielder Ndiaye is a little injured, but he can persevere, and it is a little difficult to do it on the front line. Lee himself was injured and Scannell was unavailable, so Wen Sheng decided to use Ambrose.

Ambrose barely played throughout January, one because of a small injury, and the other because he was also on the list, and Wen Sheng couldn't use it, in fact, this player's characteristics are still relatively good, and he can play in the attacking position.

Ambrose is bent on leaving, he doesn't worry about going home, the problem is that the price Carlton has not been negotiated, he can't accept an offer of less than 2 million pounds, Ambrose played well in the first half of the season, and is only 25 years old, some teams are looking at the current situation of Crystal Palace and deliberately lowering the price, Carlton refuses to admit defeat.

So the player stayed like this, Wen Sheng talked to the sullen Ambrose after the transfer window closed, he told Ambrose to go now, he just stayed and worked hard for half a season, and it was not too late to go in the summer window, now you can win the attention of many Premier League teams by performing well, it is definitely not right to waste time, and it is not good for you to yourself.

Wen Sheng likes to be honest, he promised to let Ambrose leave in the summer window, which made Ambrose positive, and he got the opportunity to come off the bench in several games, but his state was really average, he didn't contribute much, or he didn't adapt to Wen Sheng's tactical concept.

Zaha is too young and should start slowly with a bench, Scannell is injured and the rest of Nash. Pinney had only come up from the youth team and Daynes lacked pace, so Wensheng discussed with the coaching staff and decided to let Ambrose play in the main team against Villa.

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William. Carlton has been a bit "excited" lately, although he has done a poor job in buying and selling players, and has not been able to fill too big a hole for the bankers, but he can't help but find a Wensheng to create a fantastic January, and his reputation in the eyes of Crystal Palace fans is also improving, so this gentleman now seems to have become "caring" about the team, and the number of visits to the stadium has increased once or twice.

Before the FA Cup game, Carlton didn't miss a chance to flaunt himself.

"Seeing the current state of the team, I feel that my hard work has not been in vain!" First of all, I have to show my own merits.

"The first time I saw Daniel, I knew he was going to lead the team out of this situation! Now we are in a good situation and I am sure we will be relegated! ”

Secondly, I have to praise Wen Sheng, after all, this is a great hero.

Of course, there is one more thing that makes him happy, and recently a businessman led by some politicians in Croydon has started to contact Carlton to talk about buying Crystal Palace, which means that he could curry favor with both the bankers and the Palace fans.

For the match against Villa, he specially invited Wayne. Collins watched the game with him.

Wayne doesn't actually have any connections in the football circle, but he has a lot of contacts in other aspects, and Carlton certainly can't imagine that the businessmen who came into contact with him are actually led by some lawmakers such as Wayne.

Wayne has a very bad impression of Carlton, he often communicates with his nephew and his son Joey, and he is clear about the situation at Crystal Palace.

Simon. Jordan wants to sell Crystal Palace is not a matter of one or two days, so he has not invested heavily in several transfer windows, but has been eating the foundation, Crystal Palace has long been described as a relegation team, there are really not many teams that can be sold, to paraphrase his nephew's words, Crystal Palace's real potential stocks are Vardy, Kante and their group of young people.

Carlton concocted a list by himself, which was really laughable, and wiped out all the middle-aged and elderly cadres, but left a lot of young people.

When they met, Carlton was so affectionate with Wayne that he praised Wensheng vigorously, which made Wayne satisfied.

Under the stands, the players of both sides have lined up and the game is about to begin.

When the names of the Villa players were announced, the Crystal Palace fans gave them the loudest boo.

Martin. O'Neill did make some changes in this game, and the FA Cup dream should indeed be there, but it can't be too much, after all, the league and League Cup finals are more important.

Soon the game began, with Villa playing in the English style and they were used to using a 442 formation, with a high-speed duo of two strikers in front of them, with Abang Lajo partnering Heskey up front.

In the pre-match tactical analysis and research, Wen Sheng felt that it was impossible to say that the Villa team played more than he appreciated, and the characteristic is that the forward combination is often invincible against weak teams, and not so powerful against strong teams.

However, knowing the characteristics of the opponent, the defensive strategy formulated by Crystal Palace may not be effective, and the key depends on the performance of the players.

Crystal Palace's centre-back duo McCarthy and Lawrence will struggle against Husky, who is still strong in his thirties at the age of 30.

The game started with a fast pace of Villa, who were planning to rush in a wave, with more long passes from the left and right directions, and Abang Lajo often playing on the wings.

Crystal Palace were very embarrassed, and Heskey frequently fought for the first point, but their follow-up on the second point was not very good, and the Crystal Palace midfield was always one step ahead.

In this way, it took more than ten minutes for Crystal Palace to barely gain a foothold.

Wen Sheng was sweating on the sidelines, very nervous, and kept shouting loudly to remind his players.

Then the game entered a stalemate, Crystal Palace basically adapted to the opponent's attacking rhythm, and there were fewer and fewer flaws in the defense, Wen Sheng wanted to praise Shears, this kid actually didn't seem to be very talented, but he has always had a spirit of not admitting defeat, and he was particularly willing to learn, Wen Sheng reluctantly fixed him as the main force of the left fullback, but he didn't expect this to give Shills great motivation.

This is just a month or two of lee. Shills can be described as making rapid progress, Wen Sheng had never heard this name in his previous life, but now he feels that Shills must have a good prospect relying on this effort, and Wen Sheng used to worry about the left side of the game until the start of today's game, but Shills performed very well, and teamed up with Kante to steadily limit the opponent.