Crystal Palace is a South London team, because Monday also happened to be in London to attend the ball, so Lu Ying also followed Nan Xiao and them to Selhurst Park with the team, but You Lu and Shi Yao still had work to do, so they did not come along, but Nan Xiao left Lamborghini at home so that they could drive to London by themselves on Monday. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Sunderland's match against Crystal Palace kicks off at 7:30 p.m., and although the UK has a temperate maritime climate and is mild and rainy all year round, the weather is still a little cool on this night close to Christmas.

Fifteen minutes into the game, Sunderland's bus had arrived at Crystal Palace's home stadium, Selhurst Park, and Nan Xiao was the first to step off the bus, and the camera followed him all the way to the dressing room, where he seemed to be relatively relaxed.

After arriving at the locker room, Nan Xiao sorted out the tactical ideas of the first half for the players according to the usual practice, and emphasized several points that need to be paid attention to; Finally, Bracewell will make a final pre-match mobilization to boost the players' fighting spirit and desire to win.

In the tunnel of the players, because Catmore was on the bench, Defoe stood at the front of the team as the captain of the game, and in front of him was the referee team of the game, and under the leadership of the referee team, the players from both sides walked out of the tunnel and came to the center of the court.

"The first half was kicked off by Crystal Palace at home, attacking from the left side of the screen to the right in a red and blue shirt, while Sunderland attacking from right to left in a red and white sword stripe shirt in the away game, this game is brought to you by You Lu Live commentary......

Although the Crystal Palace team introduced the Belgian striker Benteke, their overall strength is still not very strong, especially in terms of midfield control, compared with Sunderland, they simply gave up the midfield and relied on the long pass of the defender to find Benteke or other attacking players at the front of the team, but the two central defenders discharged by Nan Xiao in this game are also tall and big, 189 cm Koné and 195 cm Kirchhoff do not fall behind in the face of high-altitude balls, This also makes it increasingly difficult for Crystal Palace to attack.

After fifteen minutes of indiscriminate bombardment, Sunderland finally got under control of the situation, and the cross-cutting combination between Dokal, Halilovic and Elviti left the Palace players helpless; Halilovic did a near-perfect job of sharing the ball in the midfield, his ability to interpret the game made up for his lack of physical confrontation, every time the opposing player wanted to play a physical confrontation with him, he could always transfer the ball out in the second before the opponent posted it, so before the first half was over, Crystal Palace had three players who received yellow cards on Halilovic.

The pace of the game has been developing according to Sunderland's model, Nan Xiao is also happy to see the strong control shown by the team, what the team lacks at the moment is only the explosive power on the wing, although Carlos has speed, but one-on-one breakthroughs are not his strength, so his ability is more to be able to come in handy when quickly counterattacking, the same is true of England's U21 international Josh Murphy; Therefore, Nan Xiao is looking forward to the arrival of Draxler, as a demoman with top strength, it will play a vital role in the system that Nan Xiao has always wanted to build.

In the 36th minute of the game, the ball came to the feet of Halilovich, Halilovic got the ball on the right side of the middle line, and was not in a hurry to move forward, facing the opponent's player's upper grab, leisurely returned to the back of the team Elviti, who was not dragging the ball, and directly transferred the ball to the feet of Dokal on the other side, Dokal got the ball enough to dribble horizontally, and at the same time observed the running position of his teammates, he himself has the attributes of the front waist, so he is more suitable for the position of the middle, At this time, Halilovich gradually approached him, ready to hit the wall at any time; Dokar dribbled the ball horizontally until the front of the penalty area, and the opponent's back forced up to defend, Dokal did not hurry to gently flick the ball to the left, and the long eyes behind his head were generally distributed to Halilovic who was inserted from behind, at this time a figure on the left side was telling to insert, Halilovic saw the opportunity, and a scalpel-like straight plug was inserted between the opponent's right back and the right central defender, at this time Van Aanholt slapped the horse and took the ball with his left foot at the right rib of Crystal Palace, looking for the position of teammate Defoe.

Defoe and Carlos were already ambushed in the Palace penalty area when Van Aanholt got up, but due to Van Aanholt's footwork, the ball not only went around the head of the Palace player, but also bypassed his team-mate in the box and flew towards the other sideline.

Sunderland's right wing-back Billy Jones got the ball on the other side and didn't let the ball fly off the sideline, at which time the left-back of Crystal Palace immediately posted up, Billy Jones faced the defender and was looking for a breakthrough to make a bottom cross, but he saw that his teammate was reaching for the ball, so he passed the ball to his teammate near the box with his right foot after doing half a pedal.

It was Dokar who reached out to Billy Jones for the ball, he had no defenders around him at this time, and after receiving the ball, he adjusted his pace, and he was about to shoot from a distance, when a defender of Crystal Palace hurriedly stepped forward to block Dokar's shot, but Dokar's kick was just a feint, and his right foot did not complete the shot, but collected the force and gently flicked the ball and adjusted it to the position of the left foot.

However, the opposing defender could not control the forward body at the moment, and due to strong inertia, he had to bring down Dokar with the ball, fortunately the collision did not cause injuries, but a yellow card was inevitable.

The referee showed a yellow card to the Palace defender and awarded Sunderland a well-placed set-piece; This set-piece is on the right side of the pitch, at the edge of the penalty area, about 25 metres from the goal, and is perfect for a left-footed player; Sunderland have three left-footed players, namely Halilovic, Elviti and Van Aanholt, all three of whom have excellent footwork, so it was also very difficult for Nan Xiao to arrange the penalty for set-pieces, and finally after some thought, fortunately the decision was put in the hands of the players, and the penalty players were determined according to the state of the players on the field at that time.

After some discussion, the three left-footed players were the first to withdraw from the group and walked into the wall, but it seemed that Halilovic and Van Aanholt were in charge, and the two of them stood next to the ball one after the other, while Dokar also stood in front of the ball, trying to disrupt the opponent's goalkeeper's judgment.

Crystal Palace goalkeeper Hennessey is also shouting loudly and constantly directing his own human wall, after the referee's whistle, Halilovic and Van Aanholt began to move slowly at the same time, closer to the ball is the Dutchman Van Aanholt, I saw him slowly running, eyes on Hennessey's left hand near the post, and then suddenly accelerated!

Van Aanholt got around the ball, he wasn't the penalty taker, and after Van Aanholt, Halilovic curled the ball straight towards the near post with an inside instep.

Due to Van Aanholt's cover, the wall in the box also appeared to loosen significantly when Halilovic took up, and Hennessey also seemed to be disturbed by the movement of the wall, but his concentration was still relatively focused, and after Halilovic took the ball, he kicked hard with his right foot on the turf, and the whole person flew to the left.

"Van Aanholt's swaying, Halilovic followed up with a direct shot, did you have this goal?!"