Chapter 518 Injuries and Illnesses Are Contagious?

"Next, I would like to introduce you to the starting line-up of the home team, Crystal Palace.

Goalkeeper: Diego López.

2 midfielders: Luka Modric + Yaya Toure.

3 midfielders: Gareth Bale, Sneijder, Nasri

At the top, needless to say, it's definitely LEE!

Well, the configuration of the midfield above, Crystal Palace has not changed too much, after all, most of the new season has been played at this time, and the run-in lineup has already been run-in, what players are okay, what players are not, Friedman must have a ruler in his heart!

It's just that, in view of Vincent Kompany's injury, today at the backline, Friedman had to change even if he didn't want to!

Left-back: Zabaleta, right-back: Danny Alves.

2 centre-backs: Barzaretti on the left, Lescott on the right!

As we all know, fans who follow the Crystal Palace game should know that this season, although Friedman has been making various attempts for the position of central defender!

However, no matter how you debug it, Vincent Kompany is the one who will definitely be able to occupy a starting position!

And today, due to objective factors, Friedman had to discharge the starting combination of central defenders that has never been arranged since the new season, these two people took it out alone, and their ability has nothing to say, but the two of them play together, whether they can play chemistry, we have to rely on time to slowly verify!

Okay, without further ado, the game has already begun, so let's follow the camera lens and get into the game! ”――

Chelsea, currently third in the standings, Crystal Palace, after winning Manchester United, leads the standings by 6 points!

The competition between these two teams, no matter how you analyze it, can be regarded as a strong confrontation.

Since it is a strong confrontation, at the beginning of the game, the two sides will start a fight, you come and go, every inch of land will be contested, and you will play offensive football?

NO,NO,NO！ Although Mourinho has left Chelsea by this time in '08, let's not forget, who is the current Chelsea manager? Scolari!

The Brazilian national team, which dares to synonymous with attacking all over the world, can be brought into a defensive counterattack team.

With him as Chelsea manager, do you dare to expect him to bring Chelsea the kind of team that opens and closes, no matter who the opponent is, and comes up with the opponent to attack like crazy?

This is a clear joke!

Therefore, after the game started, Crystal Palace had a certain advantage on the field, and it was not a matter of running at all!

In this game, the main force was played, but the configuration was adjusted in the position of central defender, which did not have any impact on the team's attack! Chelsea, as an opponent, took the initiative to recycle, which can be said to be in the hands of Crystal Palace.

There was nothing polite, and after the game began, they opened up a stance, surrounding Chelsea in their own half, all kinds of sieges, and under a fat beating, in less than ten minutes, Crystal Palace created at least three must-score chances on the field.

It's a pity that in addition to Li Yi on the Crystal Palace side, the two wingers Bale and Naris are still inexperienced, and secondly, because they are used to passing the ball for Li Yi, they ignore their own offensive firepower problems, resulting in poor archery.

What's more, the reason why a strong team can be called a strong team is that he must always have something that he can handle!

For example, Crystal Palace's opponent today - Chelsea!

Is Chelsea a giant? Barely half of it!

Is it considered a strong team? Must be considered a strong team!

So, they are all playing defensive counterattacks, why are those weak teams recognized as weak teams, and Chelsea, a team that specializes in defensive counterattacks, can be regarded as a strong team?

2 Reasons!

The first reason: the key to defending the counterattack - defense!

With John Terry, Carvalho, Ashley Cole, Bosingwa and Petr Cech on the defensive axis, Chelsea can be said to have taken the defensive stuff to the top! Saying that his defense is the first in Europe, there may be some teams who are not very convinced, but when they are not convinced, they also have to give a thumbs up and praise Chelsea's defense is really good!

Wait, if Chelsea defend well, why would they give Crystal Palace so many chances in 10 minutes?

The reason is very simple, because, who called the crystal palace array with a big killer like Li Yi? In the face of a centre-forward like Li Yi, do Chelsea dare to send only one man in defence? Obviously not!

Then, after some trade-offs, several defenders paid attention to Li Yi continuously, and their defense occasionally leaked people, which is not incomprehensible!

Besides, compared to Li Yi, Bale and Nasri's shots? Ahem! Don't say it, don't say it!

After talking about defense, the next step is to the core part of the defensive counterattack - counterattack!

In the later generations of Chelsea, there is almost no change in the personnel on the defensive line, but why any expert says that their offensive ability has dropped by at least 3 percent, which can be called weak?

The reason is very simple, it is because there is a big killer like the monster Drogba in the current Chelsea team!

Warcraft Drogba, if he is simply brought forward, and compares his ability to score goals with Li Yi, it is not that he looks down on Drogba, he was blown away by Li Yi for a few streets, it is all something to say!

However, if you want Li Yi to compare the impact with Drogba, and compare the help to the team when defending and counterattacking, then Drogba is really not much weaker than Li Yi!

As the saying goes, there is no right one, only the right one!

For the current Chelsea, Drogba is the most suitable striker for them, there is no one! Even Li Yi can't perfectly replicate Drogba's role for Chelsea!

This is also the fundamental reason why all the European giants have thrown their olive branches for Li Yi, and Chelsea has not been very enthusiastic!

Well, the topic is far away, let's go back to this game!

After withstanding the 3-board axe on the side of Crystal Palace in the first 10 minutes, Chelsea, as a strong team, soon began to threaten the door of Crystal Palace in its own way!

If, in peacetime, as the team that has conceded the fewest goals in the Premier League, Crystal Palace is not too afraid of Chelsea's counterattack, today, after the lack of defender Kompany, Crystal Palace has to weigh it!

In football, the balance between attack and defense has always been an irreconcilable contradiction!

If you want to attack, you have to sacrifice part of your defense, and vice versa!

Now, Crystal Palace is afraid of Chelsea's counter-attack and has strengthened its defense, so it is not too surprising that the intensity of the attack has dropped!

And when attacking with all their might before, Crystal Palace still didn't have much to do with Chelsea's reinforced concrete defense, and after the strong team weakened, the effect was even worse!

However, just when the Crystal Palace fans who came to the stadium today thought that the first half of the game was about to reach the end in this boring performance between the two sides, there was once again a bad news on the pitch that made Crystal Palace fans want to cry!

The team conceded a ball pull?

No, if it is a goal conceded, then Crystal Palace fans are not at all comparable to this, just kidding, Crystal Palace has not lost in the league, except for Arsenal in the past few years, no other Premier League team has tried to go unbeaten for a season!

It's not a goal conceded, so what?

Injury! This is 10,000 times more terrifying than losing a ball!

In the process of fighting with each other! As the new season continues to grow, it has slowly become an indispensable part of the Crystal Palace team, and it is also the most important part of Friedman's retro scavenger tactics.

Watching Yaya Toure make a substitution gesture directly after competing with Ballack for the header to the end, this game has been relatively decided, and Friedman, who was sitting in the coach's seat to direct the game, directly covered his head with his clothes in depression!

Originally, there was not much time left in the first half of the game, and at this time the Crystal Palace players also had major injuries, and the referee on duty looked at his watch and simply blew the whistle at the end of the first half of the game!

In this way, at the end of the half, although Crystal Palace played a 0-0 score that they could accept, they paid the price of Yaya Toure's injury!