After falling behind, Palace had to opt for a break as they were aiming for the FA Cup title.

In fact, Crystal Palace's attacking ability is not bad, and at the end of the first half of this season's league season, they were still holding Manchester United in fifth place in the standings. They ended up in 15th place, dragged down by a poor defence.

Of course, if you really want to fight with a giant like Manchester United, then Crystal Palace will definitely not be an opponent. So in this game, Alain Pardu's original strategy was to set up an iron bucket formation and consume as much time as possible. Because of the multi-front battle, especially the more than 90 minutes of the fierce battle against Sevilla in Switzerland three days ago, the Manchester United players are certainly not as good as Crystal Palace in terms of fitness.

In the first 22 minutes, Alain Pardew's strategy was very successful, although Manchester United almost pressed Crystal Palace in the half-time offensive and defensive drills from the field, but the real threat ball, Crystal Palace is not inferior to Manchester United.

But Marcus Rashford's shocking lift kick past Crystal Palace broke down Alain Pardew's strategy. If they don't fight back and don't take the initiative to attack, Manchester United will be happy to slowly control the ball until they are old.

So, they have to equalise as soon as possible and then play slowly with Manchester United.

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When Alain Pardew gave the order to attack, Palace quickly showed their attacking prowess. And the lack of tacit understanding of Manchester United's patchwork team was also revealed.

In the 27th minute of the game, former Manchester United player Zaha stole Martial at the back, and seeing that Zaha was about to disappear, Martial had no choice but to push Zaha from behind.

Cabaye took the free-kick and shifted the ball to his left flank, which was met by Bolassi, who dodged the ball and fired a long-range shot from 35 yards out.

The shot was of very high quality, and the ball bounced off the ground and accelerated towards goal. Fortunately, Romero was very focused, flew sideways and pressed the ball under him.

However, as soon as United kicked the ball in goal, the ball was quickly lost. Romero tossed the ball to Schneiderlin, but when Schneiderlin passed the ball forward, Crystal Palace's Cabaye saw through his intentions and snatched the ball away one step ahead.

Palace then counter-attacked, with Cabaye dribbling up front and then passing to striker Wickham, who dodged a United defender in front of the penalty area and struck just wide.

Two good chances in a row made the Crystal Palace fans, who were half of their home game, very happy, and they let out loud cheers and applause. And the morale of the Crystal Palace players was also greatly boosted, and they once suppressed Manchester United on the field.

In the 31st minute, Palace had another good chance to score. Zaha sent a low cross after smashing Ashley Young down the right. Wickham once again snatched the ball in the box, but his shot was blocked by the slow Phil Jones, otherwise Palace would have equalised.

Perhaps trying to prove his ability to his old club, Zaha looked very excited today. He soon stole a pass from United in midfield, forced Ashley Young again and delivered a cross.

However, perhaps it was the excitement that caused Zaha to lose control of his power, and the ball went wide and almost flew straight off the left touchline.

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It wasn't until the 33rd minute that United had a chance to counter-attack.

At that time, United were pressed hard by Crystal Palace in the middle, but Mata saw the big picture and quickly distributed the ball to the right. Darmian received the ball and sent a through ball along the right-hand touchline to find Marcus Rashford, who was pulled forward to the wing.

After Rashford received the ball, he passed with a beautiful bull's tail, cleverly broke through Delaney on the right side, and when he reached the edge of the penalty area, because he faced the siege and interception of four players from Crystal Palace, Rashford chose to knock horizontally, and the ball passed through the blocking of two players in the Crystal Palace penalty area, and accurately found Anthony Martial at the back post.

Anthony Martial was unguarded when he received the ball and had plenty of time to make adjustments. He chose to shoot with great enthusiasm, but he couldn't open the angle of the shot and was blocked by Ward in front of the goal.

Wasting what was supposed to be a must-score, Anthony Martial also looked a little incredulous, he held his head in his hands, looking like he had seen a ghost.

United missed a big chance to extend their leads, much to Rashford's frustration. He thought to himself that if he and Anthony Martial switched places, I am afraid that the goal would be there.

Rashford still has a lot of trust in Anthony Martial's ability to dribble. Even if he now adds his dribbling to 89, he can't say how much better his dribbling is than Martial.

But there is one thing Rashford is very sure of, that is, his archery skills are definitely a few streets away from the little brother.

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It is said that if God does not take it, he will be blamed, and this sentence should be on Manchester United immediately.

In the 35th minute of the game, Juan Mata was forced by a high pressure in the midfield and had to choose to knock the ball back to Phil Jones. This was originally a return pass with no difficulty, but General Fei's reckless nature was revealed again at this moment. He only needed a big foot to clear the siege, but he chose to smash the ball and wanted to pass Zaha to force him.

As a result, General Fei smashed this time, his intention was seen through by Zaha, and he directly stepped down to steal General Fei's smash, and then dribbled the ball to the Manchester United penalty area.

Phil Jones was United's last defender and Zaha made a solo tackle on him. This shocked Romero in front of the goal, and when he was about to attack, he saw a white figure lightning into his own penalty area.

Romero looked at it and it turned out to be Rashford.

It turned out that Rashford had just returned to midfield to pick up Mata, only to find that he had opted to pass back. At this time, Manchester United's backfield is very empty, because the rest of the players are almost past the halfway line.

Marcus Rashford was well aware of Phil Jones' reckless nature, so he didn't turn around and run forward, but continued to slowly retreat towards his own half.

Sure enough, Rashford's caution worked, and the next moment he saw Phil Jones fail to pass, but was tackled by Zaha before slotting home the United goal.

Blackett was also chasing back, but his pace was too slow, and Rashford knew he couldn't count on him, so he desperately rushed towards his own goal.

Fortunately, Phil Jones did not give up on himself after being tackled by Zaha, but kept pestering Zaha and did not run towards Zaha.

Eventually, in the corner of the six-yard box, Rashford caught up with Zaha, who was tangling with Phil Jones, and stabbed the ball away to defuse the crisis. I want to talk about "The British Emperor" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~