Chapter 30: Lock in the Europa League!
After a win over relegation side Watford, Sunderland will travel to another away game to take on another relegation team, Bournemouth; However, unlike Watford, who are mired in relegation, Bournemouth are only teetering on the brink of relegation, and the team's theoretical relegation may be very low, with the probability of Sunderland not qualifying for next season's Europa League; So from this point of view, Sunderland will be much less under pressure in this game than in the previous game. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
Bournemouth is a small town located in Dorset, southwest England, about 40 kilometers northeast of Southampton, bordering the English Channel; Bournemouth FC were promoted to the Premier League in the 2015-2016 season, marking the first time Bournemouth have played in the Premier League in 116 years since their founding in 1899. Bournemouth's home stadium is Dean Court Stadium, which was also previously known as the 'No. 1 Fitness Pitch'. ”
In the first leg of the league, Sunderland won 3-0 against Bournemouth thanks to Dokar's goal in the first game after returning from injury, as well as Defoe and Carlos's succession, so Nan Xiao is still very confident that this opponent can win.
The players on both sides played very well in this game, there was no very fierce scramble, and there were no major mistakes, and in the end Sunderland relied on a corner kick opportunity to head in the away game by substitute centre-back Koné, and helped the team to take away three points away from home in the last minute of normal time!
Sunderland's game started three hours before Everton's game, so it was just in time to watch their rivals take on Crystal Palace at home as they returned to the hotel. Sunderland are 11 points ahead of Everton in the league for the time being, and if Everton can't win this game, then Nan Shaw's side can celebrate their qualification for next season's Europa League three rounds in advance!
"Bang bang."
Nan Xiao had just turned on the live broadcast of the game and was about to go to bed and sit when he suddenly heard a knock on the door, and he was wondering who would come to him in the middle of the night when he heard Chen Mingshuo's voice.
"Dizi, are you sleeping?"
"Haven't slept yet? What's wrong, what's wrong? Nan Xiao asked as he walked towards the door.
"Shen Chao and I came to watch Everton's game with you." Chen Mingshuo replied outside the door.
"Superman is also here, hey, it's really the sun hitting the west, but there is no sun in the middle of the night, Mingshuo, this kid is not playing tricks on me, right?" Nan Xiao was thinking in his heart as he walked towards the door, but when he opened the door, he really found that Shen Chao was standing behind Chen Mingshuo, but his gaze was a little evasive, and he didn't dare to look at Nan Xiao's face.
"Yo, that's a rarity, Clark. Why did Kent remember to visit my little ruined temple today? Although Nan Xiao had a weird yin and yang in his mouth, after opening the door, he still turned to one side and let the two of them walk in.
During the day, when Shen Chao was on the court, after Chen Mingshuo's persuasion, he also realized that his attitude and approach had indeed gone too far in the recent period, so he finally decided to pull down his "old face" after making N determinations to come to the door to ask for guilt; However, he didn't carry the thorn on his back, and he didn't apologize, but the relationship between him and Nan Xiao for so many years really didn't need this, and when he stepped into this room, the relationship between the two of them returned to the same as before in an instant, this is a brother!
There are two big highlights of this game between Everton and Crystal Palace, one is whether Everton can beat the visiting Crystal Palace team and continue to retain the hope of hitting the top seven, and the other is that Lukaku and Benteke, the two super strikers from the Belgian national team, have a lot of debate about who the first center forward of the Belgian team should be in recent years, Lukaku and Benteke have their own characteristics, and they are also very powerful, So this game may be the most intuitive opportunity to directly compare the abilities of the two.
Everton, with home advantage and midfielder Ross Barkley's return from injury, launched a tidal wave of attacks at the start of the game; In just 15 minutes of the game, the majestic Everton team had completed more than 7 high-quality shots on goal, of which Ross Barkley's shot on the edge of the box and Lukaku's multiple shots in the box completed a great threat to the door of Crystal Palace!
"The Crystal Palace looks like this, it can't hold it!" Shen Chao stared at Nan Xiao's laptop with two eyes, and said while clenching his fists.
Perhaps it was Shen Chao's crow's beak that played an effect, and Goodison Park also seemed to sense a mysterious force from the East, with the home team Everton winning the game in the 28th minute. Ross Barkley's long-range shot from outside the box knocked on the door of Crystal Palace once again!
"Damn, can this let him in?!" Shen Chao angrily slapped the bed and shouted after seeing Everton's goal.
Ross Barkley also celebrated with his right hand on his chest after the goal, and his team-mates also surrounded him for the first time to celebrate the precious goal.
However, the good times were short-lived, and in the third minute after Everton scored, Crystal Palace equalized, and it was the Belgian centre-forward "King Kong" Benteke, who transferred from Liverpool at the beginning of the season, and he beat Argentine central defender Mori near the penalty spot to send a corner kick from his team-mate into the Everton team's goal! The score on the field soon became a 1-1 draw again!
"Benteke is a beautiful ball!! This time it's finally CTMD Benteke, hahaha......" Shen Chao began to grin the corners of his mouth after the equalizer at Crystal Palace, Nan Xiao and Chen Mingshuo couldn't cry or laugh when they looked at him like this, and they didn't dare to imagine what it would be like when he really became Sunderland's manager!
Everton were also noticeably impatient after Crystal Palace's equaliser, but the away side were becoming more solid, recovering their formation and starting to tighten the fence and defend solidly.
In the final stage of the game, the Everton players were completely out of control emotionally, and Barkley, who had contributed to the team, deliberately elbowed the opposing midfielder Cabaye in a normal scramble, and the referee on duty decisively showed him a red card! This red card not only caused Barkley to miss the remaining three Premier League games, but also made Everton completely miss next season's Europa League games!