bayedsolid 481: Leicester City's championship dream is about to collapse
481: Leicester City's championship dream is about to collapse
Today's starters are as follows:
Home team: Crystal Palace, head coach: Tong Yi, formation: 4-2-1-3
Goalkeeper: Alisson
Back four [from left to right]: Robertson, Rudiger, Van Dijk and Cancelo
Double midfielders: Casemiro and Kanter
Single midfielder: De Bruyne
Three strikers [from left to right]: Salah, Balotelli and Mane
Away team: Leicester City, coach: Ranieri, formation: 4-4-2
Goalkeeper: Kasper Schmeichel
Back four [from left to right]: Fox, Huth, Wes Morgan and Simpson
Four midfielders [from left to right]: Albrighton, Drinkwater, Gay and Mahrez
Double forwards: Vardy and Shinji Okazaki
Compared with the first round, the starting lineup of both sides today has changed. On the Crystal Palace side, there are some changes in the front line and the back line.Laporte and Carvajal on the back line are taking turns, and the rest are basically unchanged.
Leicester City has changed a lot, and the formation has changed.
The formation of Leicester City has changed from 4-4-1-1 to 4-4-2. Although this does not seem to have changed much, it is actually a big change. The style of play has undergone relatively large changes , especially on the front line.
Leicester City is obviously here for victory today.
Shinji Okazaki can become the main striker of Leicester City not because of how strong his offensive ability is and how many goals he can score.Mainly because of his enthusiasm and running ability, this guy's enthusiasm on the front line is even far more than that of Cavani, he is simply a mad dog on the front line!
Ranieri is optimistic about his attributes, so that Shinji Okazaki played the main force.
This guy's defensive ability on the front line is very strong, and the coverage area is also very large, and he is more like a shit stick, which is bound to mess up the opponent's defense line, so that Vardy will have more opportunities.
Originally, Vardy was also the kind of forward who was very active and had an excellent ability to grab the front line.
With the partners of Vardy and Okazaki Shinji, the coverage area of the two on the front line is very large, and the mad dog-style high-position pressure is very high, which will bring enough pressure to the opponent's defense.
And despite the fact that these two people are not particularly strong, nor are they particularly tall, their impact is still very strong.Leicester City's ability to achieve such results throughout the season is also inseparable from these two men.
Of course, Mahrez, Drinkwater, Gay and others in the midfield are all inseparable.
To be honest, the staffing of this Leicester City team is still very good and reasonable.
The only thing is the back line.
Especially the central defender combination of Huth and Morgan. These two are the central defenders with explosive frontal defensive ability, but their bodies are too strong and tall, which leads to their physical flexibility, turning speed and chasing ability. of.The more important thing is that Mogan sometimes looks very similar. Although Mogan seems to have performed very well this season, which is simply his best season, there are also such problems.
If it weren't for Guy and others helping to wipe their butts behind, Leicester City would not have achieved such results.
But overall, Leicester City's defense is still very good.
This is also the reason for their good results this season.
At the beginning of this game, the people here in Leicester City seemed to have been injected with chicken blood. They were very active and desperate, and they were running all over the field, and he was everywhere.Especially the two guys Vardy and Okazaki Shinji, they are there in both offense and defense.
When attacking, they go forward very deep, and when defending, they retreat very deep.
These two guys really can't run to death!
To be honest, this caused a lot of trouble for the Crystal Palace people, especially the two guys Vardy and Okazaki Shinji. Their rushing ability is really excellent, disrupting the defense line given by the Crystal Palace.
If it weren't for the good abilities of Van Dijk and Rudiger, Crystal Palace's goal would have been blocked long ago.
Just now, Leicester City's royal cabinet minister Mahrez sent a precise pass, which was directly passed to the feet of Vardy who went forward.If it weren't for Van Dijk's concentrated energy and just the right way to grab and stretch his legs, this guy Vardy would have passed by directly, and he was going to be single-handed.
Van Dijk poked the football away with precision, and the football rolled quickly to Kante's feet.
Kanter escaped Shinji Okazaki's mad dog with a turning and smashing the ball.
He felt that this was a good opportunity to counterattack, and was thinking of throwing the ball quickly, when with a bang, he was tripped to the ground by Shinji Okazaki who was rushing up.
This is the role of Shinji Okazaki!
His task is to go up to prevent the opponent from playing a quick counterattack at the first time, prevent the opponent from easily controlling the ball, and then pass the ball quickly.He is on the first line of defense and has to pinch the opponent's counterattack. Even if he is shaken off, he will foul the first time without hesitation.
That's a hit, well done.
clap clap clap!
Ranieri on the sidelines kept applauding to Shinji Okazaki, and signaled the players of Leicester City to concentrate on defense.
On the other hand, Shinji Okazaki did not get a yellow card and was not warned. This is an ordinary foul.
What a value!
Shhhhhh!
The fans of Crystal Palace all booed the referee, this should be a warning, it is not an exaggeration to give a yellow card.This damn guy ruined their Crystal Palace's excellent counterattack opportunity, how can you tolerate this damn Japanese so much?
The Crystal Palace fans were dissatisfied.
However, the media reporters felt that the people of Crystal Palace were making a fuss. This defensive action did not constitute a warning or a yellow card at all. It was just an ordinary foul.
Leicester City's defense really made it difficult for the Crystal Palace players, and the Crystal Palace players couldn't even hit a quick counterattack.The main reason is that there are too many people in the frontcourt that Leicester City can grab. They can block your ball player in the first place, making him unable to play the ball, or not so comfortable to play the ball.
At this time, the players of Crystal Palace were playing very uncomfortable.
However, Tong Yi was not in a hurry.
Tong Yi believes that it will be difficult for the Leicester City players to maintain this rhythm if they continue to play like this, and there will definitely be problems with their physical fitness.Now as long as the situation is stabilized and the people of Crystal Palace are not in a hurry and are not provoked, then Crystal Palace will have a chance, a chance in the second half of the game.
Tong Yi has been making gestures on the sidelines to make the Crystal Palace players calm down and stabilize their mentality.
The players of Crystal Palace were a little anxious and flustered. After seeing Tong Yi, they all slowly adjusted their emotions and rhythm.
Seeing this, Ranieri frowned!
He thought that this method could irritate the players of Crystal Palace, even if it didn't irritate the opponent, it would be able to disrupt the opponent's rhythm.Knowing that it was not successful, Ranieri was also a little worried.
Ranieri turned his head to look at Tong Yi and then turned his head to look at the stadium. This game was a bit bad.
However, at this moment, Leicester City created a good opportunity.
Riyadh Mahrez caught the ball past Kante in midfield, and then suddenly sent the ball to Vardy's feet with a through ball.Vardy relied on his speed to hold the ball to the front of the penalty area in an instant. Suddenly, Vardy shot angrily, and the football whizzed out and flew straight to the upper right corner of the goal.Vardy's long-range shots are full of threats!
Seeing that the football was about to fly into the goal, the football was saved from the bottom line by Alisson who rose into the air.
Alisson staged a magic attack and tried to keep the goal clean!
The fans of Leicester City are very sorry, this opportunity is very good, this should be a goal.Blame the damn Brazilian goalkeeper, blame him.
Corner kick, Leicester City won the corner kick.
Mahrez in the corner kicked the football directly out of the arc, and the football flew into the penalty area of Crystal Palace.
Morgan, who was at the previous point, looked back at the moon, and the football was slightly higher than the crossbar and the bottom line.
During this period of time, Leicester City unknowingly took the initiative on the pitch and began to frequently threaten the goals of Crystal Palace.This surprised and worried the fans of Crystal Palace.
Very dangerous.
However, the Leicester City people did not break the goal of Crystal Palace before half-time.The score between the two sides is still maintained at zero to zero. Seeing this, Ranieri is very anxious.
Grabbing merit in the early stage is a tactic formulated by Ranieri. He wants to advance one and then retreat to defend across the board, and then seize the opportunity to counterattack.But at the end of the half-time game, they had the advantage and failed to score a goal, which made Ranieri very anxious.
Because they fought too hard in the first half of the game, this is a big problem in terms of physical fitness.
Too much consumption!
Therefore, at the beginning of the second half of the game, Ranieri slowed down the Leicester City people and put on a defensive posture.They want to accumulate strength, and prepare to save the last physical energy for the last 10 minutes or so, and then go for a wave of shock.
But what Ranieri didn't expect was that the second half of the game had just started, and Crystal Palace, which had been silent for half the game, instantly picked up the rhythm of the game.The people of Crystal Palace have exerted their strength and launched a fierce attack!
hiss!
This is beyond Ranieri's expectations!
Ranieri thought that the Crystal Palace people would grind with them for a while, and then hit their goal hard in the 10th minute of six or seven.Unexpectedly, just after the start of the second half of the game, Crystal Palace made a big move!
This caught the players of Leicester City a little off guard.
However, Leicester City put up a defensive posture from the beginning of the second half of the game.To be honest, they are still not afraid of the Crystal Palace's high position to press and attack. They are just defending and waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.
Therefore, after the initial panic, the Leicester City people returned to normal, played step by step, and waited for the last ten or twenty minutes of onslaught.
But soon they discovered something was wrong.
Because the offensive rhythm of the Crystal Palace people is very fast, their defensive rhythm of Leicester City was also brought up by the Crystal Palace. .
Ranieri frowned.
And at this moment, the sky of Leicester City fell!
On the wing, Crystal Palace played a relatively simple and clear overlap on the wing. Salah stuffed the football to Robertson at the bottom of the wing. Robertson directly kicked the ball and passed it.
In the middle of the penalty area, Balotelli took Huth and Morgan and jumped up to compete for the top.
It's a pity that none of them touched the football. The football quickly slid over the heads of the people at the front point and flew to the back point.
Mane, who rushed up from the back point, directly hit the ball with a header and smashed the football into Leicester City's goal.
One to zero, the Crystal Palace at home broke the goal of Leicester City, and it was Mane who scored the goal!
Taking the lead, Crystal Palace, who are playing at home, finally stood up after being aggrieved for half the game, feeling elated.
Ranieri's heart sank to the bottom.
Leicester City are in danger!