517: Away at St. James’ Park

October 21, 2017, St. James' Park, Newcastle, England.

What is happening here today is a match in the 9th round of the 2017-2018 Premier League season. The two sides are Newcastle United and Crystal Palace.

This is not the highlight of this round of the league. The highlight of this round is Everton playing against Arsenal at home and Tottenham Hotspur playing against Liverpool at home. However, the results of these two games really do not have much impact on Crystal Palace at present, because the current results of these teams are not very good and they are too far away from the Crystal Palace team.

What Crystal Palace cares about is the game between the Manchester duo. ??

Because these two teams are currently the closest to them, if these two teams continue to win, they can still put a lot of pressure on Crystal Palace.

Of course, if Crystal Palace does their job well and gets the victory they deserve, they won't care about the performance of the Manchester duo.

After all, for now, Crystal Palace is the only one in the Premier League this season.

After all, Crystal Palace is still the only team in the Premier League to maintain a complete victory this season.

Of course, Tong Yi naturally hopes to continue to do so.

Who can hate too much victory?

This away game against Newcastle United is in Crystal Palace's must-win plan. This is a game that must be won.

Therefore, Crystal Palace will definitely go all out in this game.

Even, in this game, Crystal Palace fielded its entire main lineup.

After all, the main players have also rested for several days, and it is time to go out and make gestures.

Of course, the eyes of the media reporters and fans at the scene were all focused on Ronaldo. They wanted to see how the condition of Ronaldo, who had been working day and night, was maintained? Has Park Ji-ran's arrival affected his condition?

Therefore, at this time, many media reporters were looking at Ronaldo with magnifying glasses to watch his performance.

The game just started, Ronaldo didn't look very active and didn't run much.

This made the media reporters at the scene laugh. Isn’t this guy Ronaldo’s legs weak?

However, during this period, Crystal Palace still had the upper hand.

Tong Yi's high-position pressing tactics were still very successful, especially the siege in the frontcourt which made Newcastle United people scrambled. They even made many passing errors during the press, which caused Bennett on the sidelines to panic. Si was very anxious.

He also did not expect that the main players of Crystal Palace would play so proactively in this game, and they were in very good condition. Their team was suppressed from the beginning.

This is very bad for Newcastle United.

Benitez stood on the sidelines early and refused to listen to instructions. He really couldn't sit down for a moment.

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He couldn't help but turn his head to look at Tong Yi from time to time, his eyes full of horror.

He really didn't expect that young man Tong Yi could be so powerful. They were probably going to be beaten to death on the beach by this guy Tong Yi.

Especially in the past few years, he has gradually felt a little out of his depth, as if their approach is really outdated.

Not just him, but people like Mourinho, Wenger and Mancini.

Those 4231 formations that they were keen on at the time are gradually becoming a thing of the past. On the contrary, the current high-position pressing, three-center-back system, etc. created by Tong Yi and others have become the new mainstream in football.

To be honest, after seeing this, Benitez felt like giving up!

Sure enough, the world belongs to young people!

People cannot be young forever, but some people will always be young!

At this moment, Crystal Palace stole the ball again with high pressure in the frontcourt. Salah on the wing intercepted the football from the feet of the opponent's players, and immediately cut inside with the ball, heading towards Newcastle United's penalty area. The defensive players in the penalty area were a little unresponsive, and the defense in the penalty area was a bit chaotic.

This was a good opportunity, and the Newcastle United fans at the scene were frightened and jumped.

Danger!

Fortunately, the England goalkeeper Robert Elliott in front of the goal was concentrated. When he saw Salah's shot, he quickly jumped out and slapped the football out of the baseline with one palm.

If it weren't for him, Newcastle United would have conceded the goal.

Although this game lasted less than ten minutes, Benitez could already see the gap in strength between the two sides. So he immediately waved his hand to signal the Newcastle United players to retreat and defend with all their strength.

At this time, you absolutely cannot lose the ball first.

Even at this time, Benitez had already developed the idea that a draw equals victory.

Of course, counterattacks still have to be grasped. What if they are lucky enough to defeat Crystal Palace with counterattacks?

Therefore, you still have to have dreams, just in case they come true.

Corner kick, Crystal Palace won a corner kick.

Tong Yi immediately stood up and came to the sidelines to give pointers. Benitez and the Newcastle United players became nervous. They all knew the power of Crystal Palace's corner kick tactics. Now that this guy Tong Yi personally stands up to arrange the corner kick tactics, the corner kick tactics will become even more dangerous.

Benitez loudly reminded the Newcastle United players to pay attention to defense, follow up on their own people, don't miss anyone, and defend carefully.

Benitez was really nervous inside.

At this moment, Cancelo in the corner gently pushed the football out, and the football came

Salah in the corner of the penalty area. Newcastle United's defenders immediately rushed out and rushed towards Salah who was holding the ball.

Just as these players rushed out, Salah suddenly took off his foot and passed the ball diagonally.

The football drew an arc and flew to the back point accurately. Rudiger, who rushed up from the back point, hit the football hard with his head, and the football shot quickly towards the Newcastle United goal.

The Newcastle United players were panicked and looked horrified.

Danger, the rear point is missing!

Because their main attention was on Ronaldo and Van Dijk, Rudiger, who was in the back position, was free at this time and completed this header very easily.

The ball shot towards Newcastle United's goal with great speed.

The expressions of the Newcastle United fans changed drastically, and they secretly expressed danger.

This is really dangerous.

Elliott in front of the goal was stunned when he saw it. He had no chance at all with this ball and could only watch the football fly into the goal.

There was a bang. Look at the full-back Yedlin on the goal line, jumping high and pushing the football out.

The Newcastle United fans at the scene applauded excitedly and gave their applause to Yedlin.

But the football flew directly to De Bruyne at the edge of the penalty area. De Bruyne met the ball and fired a shot. Unfortunately, due to the interference of the opponent's midfielder Shelvey, he shot the football high and fired the anti-aircraft cannon.

However, this offense was still very threatening, and Benitez on the sidelines kept wiping his sweat.

This ball is really dangerous.

Fortunately, this wave was also avoided. Newcastle United began to organize an attack, but the effect was very poor. His ball almost never gets past halftime before being intercepted. Later, Newcastle United's offense only relied on long passes and lobs, returning to traditional English football.

But, to be honest, it's not much of a threat.

On the contrary, the offensive threat from Crystal Palace is getting bigger and bigger, and Newcastle United is a little overwhelmed.

Benitez on the sidelines was also very nervous and worried.

Watching Crystal Palace's attacks one after another, Benitez really couldn't tell the pain.

At this time, Kanter stole the ball in midfield again.

After stealing the ball, he quickly sent the football to Casemiro's feet. Casemiro was about to give the football to De Bruyne in front, but he found that De Bruyne was stuck by the opponent's defensive players, so he canceled this plan and moved forward with the ball.

After attracting the defense, he immediately passed the football to Carvajal coming from the wing.

Carvajal didn't stop the ball, glanced at the frontcourt, and passed a long pass directly over the top to find Ronaldo who was penetrating forward.

c. Ronaldo used his speed to directly surpass Newcastle United’s entire defense line.

Chasing the football, one step inside the penalty area, facing the attacking goalkeeper Elliott, he stretched out his right leg in a flash while running quickly, and gently touched the falling football before Elliott. Jumping up quickly, over the head of Elliott who rushed out, and then quickly fell into Newcastle United's empty goal.

In the 22nd minute of the first half, the visiting team Crystal Palace finally broke through Newcastle United's goal and took the lead.

This is really a very good cooperation, and the Crystal Palace fans at the scene were very excited.

But the linesman raised his flag and the referee blew his whistle, signaling offside!

Newcastle United fans breathed a sigh of relief, while Crystal Palace fans were very dissatisfied and shouted black whistles.

c. Ronaldo was also very dissatisfied. He felt that he was not offside at all. He accelerated and then rushed out of Newcastle United's overall defense and surpassed these defensive players. This was regarded as his back-up, which was not offside.

But the referee was very determined and believed that this was an offside. Ronaldo and the Crystal Palace players had no choice. Tong Yi had no choice. The referee had already made this decision, so what else could he do?

Keep up the good work!

However, this goal is a reminder to Newcastle United that they must strengthen their defense. If this continues, Newcastle United may be doomed.

Newcastle United's free kick from the backcourt was passed directly to the frontcourt. Joselu jumped high in the frontcourt and headed the ball back. Ghanaian winger Artes quickly moved forward to catch up with the football. Before Rudiger pounced, he He fired furiously from a position thirty meters away from the goal, and the football whizzed past, grazing the crossbar and flying out of the baseline.

This was Newcastle United's first shot of the game, and it was quite threatening.

This made Newcastle United fans nervous. They felt that Newcastle United was good again and Newcastle United would definitely win this game. They immediately shouted in unison, cheering for their own team, hoping that they could seize the opportunity and score as soon as possible.

At this moment, De Bruyne successfully intercepted the ball in the frontcourt, and then quickly sent the football to Mbappe who was diagonally inserted into the ribs of the penalty area from the wing. Newcastle United's full-back Manquillo had defensive problems. He failed to follow people and marked the ball instead of people, which gave Mbappe a chance.

Mbappe's speed was so fast that Manquillo had no chance at all.

As he turned around and accelerated, he simply couldn't catch up with Mbappe. At this time, Mbappe was already holding the ball directly facing Newcastle United goalkeeper Elliott.

Mbappe almost didn't seem to need to adjust. He glanced at Elliott and shot directly with his legs!

With a bang, the French center back Lizuni hit the football hard before he stretched out his legs to intercept it. The football shot out quickly, as fast as a cannonball, directly from Elliott's face. The shot flew over and flew into the Newcastle United goal.

The ball was so fast that Elliott didn't even react when he was slapped in the face.