209: Europa League quarter-final first leg

Before the first leg of the Europa League quarter-finals against Fiorentina, Tong Yi received an award.

That is the Premier League's Coach of the Month for March in the 2014-2015 season.

This is also the third time this season that Tong Yi has been elected as the best coach of the month.

Crystal Palace's results in the past March were amazing, with a complete victory in the league. Other teams have more or less problems with their results. Even if there are teams that have won all this month, their current results cannot be compared with Crystal Palace.

Therefore, this month’s Coach of the Month belongs to Tong Yi.

This is an affirmation for Tong Yi.

It is also an affirmation of Crystal Palace’s performance in March. .??.

Crystal Palace has finally reached the top of the Premier League, and now it depends on whether Crystal Palace can hold on.

There is only more than a month left in the Premier League this season.

After all, it's already mid-April, and the league will end around May 20th. Isn't there only about a month left?

Every game is crucial now!

It's okay for Crystal Palace right now, though.

They are currently ranked first in the Premier League, and if they pay more attention, they can defend the Premier League championship this season. Even if they cannot defend the Premier League championship, their second position in the league is relatively stable. With six or seven games left in the Premier League, they are almost ten points ahead of third place, which is almost safe.

Moreover, they are 12 points ahead of fifth-placed Manchester City with one game in hand. Basically, Crystal Palace must have locked in the top four in the Premier League and will securely qualify for next season's Champions League.

Therefore, the only pressure on Crystal Palace currently comes from Chelsea.

Chelsea's goal at this time is the league championship!

Mourinho has publicly stated many times that Crystal Palace still has to spend a lot of effort to win the Premier League championship this season.

Of course, Tong Yi is now leading the team waiting for the arrival of Florence.

The quarter-final first legs of the 2014-2015 Europa League are about to begin.

April 17, 2015, Selhurst Park, South London, England.

Today, here, Crystal Palace will face the challenge of Fiorentina.

There were a lot of fans at the Crystal Palace, and many of them wanted to take photos with the bronze statue of Tong Yi at the gate. It has even become a must-visit place for tourists, attracting many Chinese and Asian tourists to come for pilgrimage.

Many Asians traveling to the UK regard Selhurst Park as a tourist attraction that must be visited.

It has to be said that this makes the people of Crystal Palace very proud.

Today, Selhurst Park is packed with people.

Yes, this is beyond the expectations of many people. After all, this is just a Europa League game, and it is also a mid-week game. It is full. This shows that the football market of Crystal Palace is very good. It is the envy of many teams.

Moreover, Selhurst Park welcomes a large number of tourists almost every day, most of whom are Chinese and Asian fans, which is the envy of many Premier League powers.

The Crystal Palace has opened up the Chinese and Asian markets!

It is said that many Chinese companies are now discussing cooperation with Crystal Palace, and there are also many city governments and clubs in China who want to cooperate with Crystal Palace in the cultivation of some youths, etc.

Now the Crystal Palace has a huge influence in China and even in Asia.

Even this far surpasses the existence of traditional powers such as Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal.

This naturally makes many people jealous.

After Crystal Palace is Real Madrid from La Liga!

In fact, in the past, Manchester United's fans and influence in China and Asia were very high, even slightly surpassing Real Madrid. Later, Ronaldo improved slightly after he went to Real Madrid, but it was Zhang Linpeng who joined Real Madrid that made Real Madrid secure the second spot.

Zhang Linpeng is also performing well in Real Madrid and has attracted a lot of fans in China and even Asia.

Real Madrid has also launched detailed cooperation with many Chinese companies, and Florentino's own business has also made great progress in China.

This makes Florentino very happy, and it is also the envy of many other wealthy club owners.

Of course, why didn't they think of taking Zhang Linpeng?

such a pity!

Of course, these currently have nothing to do with Tong Yi.

Business operations are not his responsibility, and he doesn't have the energy to take care of them. Louisa is now in charge of these things.

Tong Yi's current task is to lead the team well and ensure Crystal Palace's competitive performance.

And now, Tong Yi leads Crystal Palace into the game against Fiorentina.

Tong Yi attaches great importance to this game.

Now that the Europa League has reached this point, he naturally wants to go one step further. Tong Yi wants to lead Crystal Palace to defend the Europa League championship.

Therefore, this game for the home team Fiorentina is very important and must be won.

certainly

, Florence's strength cannot be underestimated, so Tong Yi will naturally go all out.

However, they still have to make some reservations, because two days after this game, Crystal Palace will usher in the English FA Cup semi-finals.

Originally, Crystal Palace was supposed to usher in the 33rd round of the Premier League this weekend, but this match date collided with the semi-finals of the English FA Cup. Therefore, the Crystal Palace match in the 33rd round of the Premier League will be rescheduled again, and this league will be rescheduled to May 21.

This weekend, Crystal Palace's game is the semi-finals of the English FA Cup.

The FA Cup semi-finals are also very important!

After the semi-finals, it's the finals, and you can see the champion. Therefore, the FA Cup has reached this point, and Crystal Palace will naturally not give up. Crystal Palace will definitely still fight its opponents in the next game.

This season, Crystal Palace still has a chance to win three championships. Naturally, Tong Yi, the Crystal Palace players and even the fans will not give up. Therefore, in this round of the game against Florence, Crystal Palace will naturally have to rotate and prepare for the next game.

To be honest, in comparison, the FA Cup game on the weekend is more important.

After all, the Europa League is a two-legged game. Even if they lose this round, Crystal Palace still has a chance in the next round. But if we lose in the next FA Cup semi-final, we won't have any chance. One game will determine the outcome.

Therefore, it stands to reason that Crystal Palace should actually pay more attention to the FA Cup semi-finals on the weekend.

Media reporters also think so. They all feel that in this game, Crystal Palace will definitely have reservations. Moreover, Crystal Palace should be relatively conservative in this game. They will even use the substitute lineup to defend from the beginning, trying to ensure that Zhejiang does not concede a goal or concedes fewer goals in a game, and then go to the second round to fight Fiorentina and win. , advanced to the semi-finals of the Europa League.

People on the Florence side also speculated in this way, so in this round of games, Florence will have to play with all their main players and prepare to win the Crystal Palace. And they want to score more goals, and are ready to kill Crystal Palace directly at this time, turning the second round of the game into garbage time.

Therefore, the starting lineups of both sides for this game are as follows

Home team Crystal Palace, head coach Tong Yi, formation 4213

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The back four from left to right is Alonso, Laporte, Ferdinand and Aurier.

Double defensive midfielder Paulinho and Kimmich

Single attacking midfielder Goretzka

Single forward from left to right Salah, Torres and Sane

Visiting team Fiorentina, head coach Montella Vincenzo, formation 4321

inside the goalkeeper

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Back four from left to right Nenad Tomovic, Jose Basanta, Gonzalo Rodriguez and Richards

Three defensive midfielders from left to right Milan Badelli, Borja Valero and Aquilani

Double midfielder from left to right Joaquin and Diamanti

Lone forward Mario Gomez

Seeing Florence's lineup, Tong Yi was actually very emotional. Because without him, there should be two people in Florence's lineup, and that is Alonso and Salah at Crystal Palace.

With these two men Florence is complete.

However, Tong Yi cannot underestimate Florence's current lineup. The opponent is still very capable. If they are not careful, Crystal Palace will probably lose this game.

Therefore, Tong Yi reminded the Crystal Palace players that they must not take it lightly.

Before the game, media reporters and fans believed that Crystal Palace would definitely focus on defense in this game. After all, Crystal Palace's focus should be on the FA Cup semi-finals two days later. Their mission in this game is to concede fewer goals. Even the Florentines thought so, and so did Montella.

But they were wrong. As soon as the game started, the Crystal Palace people pressed like crazy, directly pressing the Florentine people in their own half. Even if they wanted to rush out and attack, it was a bit difficult. Because in Serie A, they have rarely seen such a powerful high-pressing tactic like Crystal Palace's.

Although they had expected it before the game, this still made them somewhat unable to react.

Florence's formation was very compressed, and their passing was also greatly affected. Fiorentina looked very passive at this time, and Montella's brows were frowning. This was completely different from what he had guessed before the game.

Danger, Florence is very dangerous at this time!

Montella immediately came to the sidelines to remind the players in the stadium.

But at this moment, Paulinho, who was pressing forward, cut off the football from Valero's feet.

Then he saw Torres advancing, but he did not give the football to Torres. Because Florence's focus was on Torres at this time, he immediately gave the football to Salah, who was cutting in from the wing.

Salah was very fast and rushed in ahead of Richards, and then the football rolled in front of him.

Salah didn't stop the ball at all, but volleyed the ball quickly towards the far corner of the goal.

The Brazilian goalkeeper Neto in front of the goal reacted quickly, but did not touch the football at all. The football flew straight into the far corner of the goal.

One to zero, Crystal Palace unexpectedly took the lead!