495: London Derby, an unexpected start

Arsenal really have lost all four of them this season. Now they can only defeat Crystal Palace to show their strength and cohesion.

Arsenal will definitely go all out in this game.

Arsenal must win!

The Emirates Stadium was full today. They came here under the guise of overthrowing Crystal Palace. They wanted to create obstacles for the Crystal Palace people and prevent Crystal Palace from winning the Premier League championship.

Today, Arsenal must win this game!

On April 17, 2016, the weather was cloudy at the Emirates Stadium in London, England.

Today’s starting lineups for both teams are as follows:

Home team Arsenal, head coach Wenger, formation 4231

Cech

The back four from left to right is Monreal, Koscielny, Gabriel and Bellerin.

Double defensive midfielder Coquelin and Elneny

The three midfielders from left to right are Iwobi, Goldfish Eyes and Sanchez.

lone striker Welbeck

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

Alisson

The back four from left to right is Alonso, Laporte, Van Dijk and Cancelo

Double defensive midfielder Witsel and Kante

Single attacking midfielder Milinkovic-Savic

Three forwards from left to right Perisic, Jimenez and Mane

Yes, Arsenal started this game with all their main players. It can be seen that they are determined to win against Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace side is rotating, because the Crystal Palace will have other important games in a few days, which is the 30th round of the Premier League this season. The Crystal Palace will face Manchester United away from home.

This game will be played on April 21, which is three days later.

Originally, Crystal Palace has had a league match since April 23. In the 35th round of the Premier League this season, Crystal Palace played Everton at home. However, on April 24, Crystal Palace will usher in the semi-finals of this season's FA Cup, so the match dates are too close.

Therefore, Crystal Palace's 35th round of the Premier League this season will be postponed again, directly to May 12.

Therefore, three days after the game between Crystal Palace and Arsenal ends, the 30th round of make-up games will usher in, and then two days later, Crystal Palace will usher in the FA Cup semi-finals.

In these seven days, Crystal Palace will play three games, which is evident from the intensive schedule.

Moreover, there are the Champions League and FA Cup finals, etc., and there are almost always games 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 its opponents in the next FA Cup semi-finals and advance to the final.

If they are eliminated, Crystal Palace will really have a rare rest time.

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

After all, Tong Yi has never won the FA Cup since he came to England. This is the closest they have come to winning the FA Cup.

He will definitely give it his all.

More importantly, Crystal Palace's opponent in the FA Cup semi-finals is Watford. They are not very strong and it should be difficult to stop the Crystal Palace team from advancing.

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

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

It's because Crystal Palace's schedule is too dense and it's easy to make mistakes.

The Leicester City people currently only have the league, which is almost one game a week. They can put all their energy into the league. What they have to do is to ensure that they win every game, and then wait for the Crystal Palace people. Mistakes are OK. As long as the Crystal Palace people make the first mistake, the pressure on the Crystal Palace will increase exponentially. At that time, the probability of the Crystal Palace people making consecutive mistakes will be very high.

So, this is the Leicester City man's chance.

However, Tong Yi was well prepared for such an intensive schedule.

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

Therefore, in this round of games, Crystal Palace made a rotation.

After seeing the starting lineup of Crystal Palace, Arsenal fans were instantly relieved. They believed that Arsenal would definitely win this game. How could Crystal Palace, with its semi-main version of the substitute lineup, win over their Arsenal main lineup?

Crystal Palace must lose this game!

Arsenal fans are full of confidence!

However, Arsenal's head coach Wenger is not so confident. Even when facing Crystal Palace, who is a semi-main substitute, he is very cautious. At the same time, he was also telling Arsenal's players not to underestimate the Crystal Palace team in front of them. The players in Crystal Palace are also very capable.

Wenger mentioned this issue many times in the locker room before the game.

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

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

At the beginning of the game, Arsenal took advantage of their home court to start a fierce attack. Although the Arsenal players also attach great importance to the Crystal Palace team, seeing these starting players, they will inevitably have some fluctuations in their hearts. Can you, the substitute players, compete with us? Arsenal must win this game!

Just five minutes into the game, Arsenal created a very good opportunity.

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

Welbeck caught up with the football and didn't stop. He directly swung his leg and volleyed the football towards the near end corner.

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

Alisson didn't touch the football at all.

The football missed the near post and flew out of the baseline.

The Arsenal fans at the scene roared in disbelief. This goal was not even scored? How could this goal not be scored?

Welbeck also held his head in his hands and exclaimed in disbelief. Then he immediately turned around and waved to Goldfish Eyes to express that it was his problem and the ball was his responsibility!

To be honest, the goldfish's eyes widened and they couldn't believe it. They couldn't even seize such an opportunity?

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

So far, Goldfish Eyes has sent out 17 assists in the Premier League!

It has to be said that although Jinyuyan's character is not good, he still has some abilities, especially in terms of self-love assists.

The ball was put directly to his mouth. Welbeck was able to waste the opportunity, and there was really no one else.

Welbeck's shooting skills are indeed quite flawed. If his shooting skills are improved by two levels, he will definitely be an indispensable forward for Arsenal and England. Of course, if he had such shooting skills, it would not be Arsenal's turn. Welbeck would have already secured his position as the starting forward for Manchester United.

This season, Welbeck has still wasted a lot of opportunities.

As soon as he started today, he wasted an excellent opportunity.

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

Arsenal must win this game!

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

Quick, quick!

Milinkovic directly received the header from Jimenez, and directly volleyed sideways from the penalty area line and shot the big eagle. With a bang, the football shot out rapidly and hit the crossbar of Arsenal's goal hard. It bounced off the baseline and the crossbar trembled in the air!

Arsenal fans were shocked!

It's too dangerous!

No one expected Milinkovic to be so reckless. There was obviously Mane who was in a better position, but he didn't pass the ball and just shot with difficulty on his own. It's really inexplicable!

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

Too dangerous!

Cech immediately roared crazily at Arsenal's midfielders, telling 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. If they were in a defensive position, Milinkovic would not have been able to take the shot so calmly.

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

However, now it is really difficult to find a suitable midfielder. People who saw that they looked down on Arsenal thought they were worse than the two people in front of them. Therefore, these two people now reluctantly stay at Arsenal.

Of course, before this, Wenger was still full of expectations for these two people. Unfortunately, the growth of these two people did not meet his expectations, especially Coquelin!

Wenger immediately came to the sidelines and shouted loudly, reminding these two people to pay attention to defense. Why did you give up such an important position at the front of the penalty area so easily? I must be welded to death in this position, and I will never give up this position to the Crystal Palace people again!

This is the purpose of his double midfielder position!

Erneny and Coquelin nodded in agreement, expressing their understanding.

Tong Yi seemed very calm on the sidelines. Although he almost lost the ball at the beginning, he was still as steady as a rock.

Arsenal's offense is here again, and their offense is almost always looking for the goldfish eyes in the midfield. Therefore, seeing Elneny pass the football to Goldfish Eye, Kanter, who was well prepared, intercepted the football in the middle of the road, and Goldfish Eye couldn't catch the ball at all!

Seeing this, Wenger was speechless!

Elneny, can you not have such obvious intentions when playing the ball? Even he can see it, don't you think Kanter, the top defensive midfielder and sweeping midfielder, can't see it? Isn't this equivalent to passing the ball to Kanter?

Wenger is really going to jump on his feet.

He really didn't expect that Arsenal would play so passively in this game. The opponent was Crystal Palace's semi-main and semi-substitute lineup. If the opponent faces a full lineup, will our Arsenal be brutally slaughtered? What are you doing? Can you kick it hard?

With a bang, Kanter passed the football to Milinkovic-Savic.

Coquelin immediately stepped forward, but Milinkovic did not stop the ball and spread his legs to directly leak the football to the side.

Perisic, who retreated from the wing to hold the ball, quickly turned around and passed the ball directly to Alonso, who was rushing up from the wing. Alonso's speed is not particularly fast, but this time he passed and ran very well. In addition, Arsenal's defense made a mistake. The full-back did not expect the ball to be passed so easily, so his reaction was half slow. shoot.

It was in this half-shot that Alonso on the wing caught up with the football without any adjustment. He directly kicked the ball and passed the ball in an arc to the middle of Arsenal's two central defenders.

He quickly got in on the onrushing Jimenez in the middle, jumped up high, and smashed the football with his head.

Mount Tai is overwhelming!

Jimenez hit the football firmly on the head and slammed the football into the Arsenal goal.