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495: London derby, unexpected start

This season Arsenal is really empty of the big four, and now they can only show their strength and cohesion by defeating Crystal Palace.

In this game, Arsenal will definitely go all out.

Arsenal must win!

The Emirates Stadium was full today. They came here under the banner of overthrowing the Crystal Palace. They just wanted to add obstacles to the Crystal Palace people, and they wanted to prevent the Crystal Palace from winning the Premier League championship.

Today, Arsenal must win this game!

On April 2016, 4, the Emirates Stadium in London, England, the weather was cloudy.

Today's starting rosters for both teams are as follows:

Home Team: Arsenal, Manager: Arsene Wenger, Formation: 4-2-3-1

Goalkeeper: Petr Cech

Back four [from left to right]: Monreal, Koscielny, Gabriel and Bellerin

Double midfielders: Coquelin and Elneny

Three forwards [from left to right]: Iwobi, Goldfish and Sanchez

Solo striker: Welbeck

Visiting team: Crystal Palace, head coach: Tong Yi, formation: 4-2-1-3

Goalkeeper: Alisson

Back four [from left to right]: Alonso, Laporte, Van Dijk and Cancelo

Double midfielders: Witsel and Kanter

Single midfielder: Milinkovic

Three strikers [from left to right]: Perisic, Jimenez and Mane

Yes, in this game, Arsenal started with all the main players. It can be seen that they vowed to win a victory against Crystal Palace.And the Crystal Palace is in rotation, because Crystal Palace has other important games in a few days, which is the 30th round of the Premier League this season. Crystal Palace will face Manchester United away.

The game will be played on April 4, which is 21 days later.

Originally, Crystal Palace also had a league game since April 4. In the 23th round of the Premier League this season, Crystal Palace played against Everton at home.However, on April 35, Crystal Palace will usher in the semi-finals of the FA Cup this season, so the dates of the games are too close.

Therefore, Crystal Palace's 35th round of the Premier League this season will be postponed again, directly postponed to May 5.

Therefore, three days after the end of the game between Crystal Palace and Arsenal, there will be a 3th round of make-up matches, and then two days later, Crystal Palace will usher in the semi-finals of the FA Cup.

During these 7 days, Crystal Palace will play 3 games, which can be seen from the intensive schedule.

And there will be the finals of the Champions League and the FA Cup, etc., and there will be almost one game every three or four days. This schedule really does not give the Crystal Palace people a chance to breathe.Of course, the premise is that Crystal Palace can defeat their opponents in the next FA Cup semi-finals and advance to the final.

If they are eliminated, there will really be a rare rest time behind the Crystal Palace.

However, Crystal Palace should not give up the FA Cup.

After all, since Tong Yi came to England, he has never won the FA Cup. This is the closest they are to the FA Cup. He will definitely go all out.

More importantly, Crystal Palace's opponent in the FA Cup semi-final is Watford. Their strength is not very strong, and it should be difficult to stop the advance of the Crystal Palace team.

Therefore, Crystal Palace still has to continue the rhythm of one game for three or four days, almost double games every week.

No wonder, at this moment, even though they are so far behind Crystal Palace, the Leicester City people still think they still have a chance.

It is because the Crystal Palace schedule is too dense and error-prone.

The Leicester City people currently only have the league, which is almost once a week. They can devote all their energy to the league. All they have to do is to ensure that every game is won, and then wait for the Crystal Palace. Mistakes are fine.As long as the Crystal Palace makes a mistake for the first time, the pressure on the Crystal Palace will increase geometrically. At that time, the chances of the Crystal Palace making consecutive mistakes will be very high.

So, this is the opportunity for Leicester City people.

However, Tong Yi was already prepared for such a dense schedule.

Their Crystal Palace has a deep bench. Although it is a bit difficult to face such a dense schedule, Tong Yi believes that he can still handle it.

Therefore, in this round of competition, Crystal Palace has carried out a rotation.

After seeing the starting lineup of Crystal Palace, Arsenal fans were instantly relieved. They thought that their Arsenal team would win this game.With Crystal Palace's semi-main lineup, how could it be possible to win their Arsenal's main lineup?

In this game, Crystal Palace must lose!

Arsenal fans are full of confidence!

However, Arsenal's head coach Wenger is not so confident. Even in the face of the semi-main substitute Crystal Palace, he is very cautious.At the same time, he is also telling the Arsenal players not to underestimate the Crystal Palace team in front of them. The strength of these Crystal Palace players is also good.

Wenger said this question many times in the dressing room before the game.

I wonder if the Arsenal players have listened to all of this?

At this time, the referee of the game blew the whistle to start the game.

At the beginning of the game, Arsenal started to attack with the advantage of the home field.Although the Arsenal players also attach great importance to the Crystal Palace team, but seeing these starters, they inevitably have some fluctuations in their hearts.Even you substitute players can compare with us?Arsenal must win this game!

Just 5 minutes into the game, Arsenal created a very good chance.

Arsenal's goldfish eye midfielder sent a very precise and exquisite through ball, directly sending the football to the rib of Crystal Palace's penalty area. Laporte's turn was a little slow, and Welbeck seized the opportunity.

Welbeck caught up with the football without stopping, swung his legs and volleyed, and slammed the football towards the bottom corner of the near end.

The speed of the ball was very fast, like lightning, and Alisson in front of the goal rushed out quickly without any chance.

Alisson didn't touch football at all.

The football flew off the baseline against the near post.

The Arsenal fans roared in disbelief, didn't even score this goal?How can this ball not be scored?

Welbeck also put his head in his hands and exclaimed in disbelief.Then he immediately turned around and waved to Jinyuyan, saying that it was his own problem, and the ball was his responsibility!

To be honest, Jinyu's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe it. He couldn't grasp such an opportunity?

That is to say, Arsenal's striker's ability to seize opportunities is not very good, otherwise, his goldfish eye assists will definitely reach 30 this season!

So far, Jinyuyan has sent 17 assists in the Premier League!

I have to say that Jinyuyan's character is not good, but he still has abilities, especially in terms of self-love and assists.

The ball was fed directly to the mouth, Welbeck was able to waste the opportunity, there is really no one else.

Welbeck's shooting skills are indeed relatively faulty. If his shooting skills are improved by two levels, he will definitely be an indispensable striker for Arsenal and England.Of course, if he has such shooting skills, it will not be Arsenal's turn. Welbeck has already secured the starting striker position in Manchester United.

This season, Welbeck still wasted a lot of opportunities.

As soon as he came up today, he wasted an excellent opportunity.

However, it can be seen that Arsenal are in a very good state today, and Wenger is full of confidence in this game.

Arsenal must win this game!

However, in the next second, Crystal Palace's offense advanced directly to the front of Arsenal's penalty area.

Quick, quick!

Milinkovic directly received the header ferry from Jimenez, and directly turned sideways on the penalty area line to volley and shoot the big eagle.With a bang, the football shot out rapidly, hit the crossbar of Arsenal's goal fiercely, bounced off the baseline, and the crossbar trembled in the air!

Arsenal fans were scared silly!

It's too dangerous!

No one thought that Milinkovic was so reckless. He obviously had a better position in Mane, but he didn't pass the ball, and he just strafed with difficulty. It's really inexplicable!

Cech in front of the goal was taken aback. If the ball was within the goal range, they would have no chance at all!

Too dangerous!

Cech immediately roared frantically at Arsenal's midfielders, signaling them to concentrate and defend seriously!

Coquelin and Elneny immediately raised their hands to say that it was theirs, and that the ball was indeed their responsibility.Had they been in a defensive position, it would have been impossible for Milinkovic to shoot with such ease.

Wenger also frowned slightly. These two midfielders really did not satisfy him.

However, now it is true that no suitable midfielder can be found.People who see it look down on Arsenal, and those who want to come are not as good as the two in front of them.Therefore, now these two people are reluctant to stay in Arsenal.

Of course, before that, Wenger still had full expectations for these two people, but unfortunately the growth of these two people did not meet his expectations, especially Coquelin!

Wenger immediately came to the sidelines and yelled loudly, reminding the two to pay attention to defense. Why did you give up such an important position at the front of the penalty area so easily?You must weld me to this position, and you must never give up this position to the people of Crystal Palace!

This is the purpose of his double midfielder!

Erneny and Coquelin both nodded to express their understanding.

Tong Yi seemed very calm on the sidelines. Although he almost conceded the ball at the beginning, he was still as stable as Mount Tai.

Arsenal's offense is here again, almost all of their offenses are looking for the goldfish eyes in the midfield.Therefore, seeing Elneny passing the football to Jinyuyan, Kanter, who had been prepared, intercepted the football directly in the middle of the lane, and Jinyuyan couldn't catch the ball at all!

Seeing this, Wenger was speechless!

Elneny, can you not be so obvious in your shots?Even he can see it, do you think the top defensive midfielder Kanter can't see it?Isn't this equivalent to passing the ball to Kanter?

Wenger is really going to jump.

He really didn't expect that Arsenal would play so passively in this game, and the opponent was Crystal Palace's half-main and half-substitute lineup.If the full main lineup is on the opposite side, will our Arsenal be slaughtered by blood?What are you doing?Can you kick it well?

With a bang, Kanter passed the football to Milinkovic.

Coquelin posted it immediately, but Milinkovic didn't stop the ball, and when he opened his legs, he directly leaked the football to the side.

Perisic, who withdrew from the side to hold the ball, quickly turned and slanted the football, and directly slanted the football to Alonso, who quickly slid up the side.Alonso's speed is not particularly fast, but this pass is very tacit, and Arsenal's defense has made a little mistake. The full back did not expect the ball to pass so easily, so his reaction was half slow. shoot.

It was just this half-beat. Alonso caught up with the football on the wing without any adjustment.

After rushing in the middle, he inserted Jimenez who was rushing up, jumped up high, and smashed his head hard at the football.

Mount Taishan hits the top!

Jimenez hit the football firmly on the forehead and smashed the football into Arsenal's goal.