696: Guardiola thinks their chance has come

February 20, 2018, Leicester City, England, King Power Stadium!

What is happening here today is the 18th round make-up match of the 2017-2018 Premier League season. Originally, this game was supposed to be played on December 16 last year. Because Crystal Palace was a club, it was postponed to today.

This is also the second make-up game for Crystal Palace this season due to postponement.

They defeated Watford 4-0 in the previous game.

Today they face the stronger Leicester City team here. Manchester City fans believe that Crystal Palace is likely to capsize and Crystal Palace is likely to lose!

Manchester City fans have very high expectations for Leicester City.

In the words of some people, whether Manchester City can win the championship this season depends on Leicester City.

Come on Leicester City!

However, it is actually more difficult for Leicester City to defeat Crystal Palace.

There is no doubt about the strength of Crystal Palace. More importantly, Crystal Palace is still in very good shape at this stage. They are still winning consecutively and almost no team can beat them.

Moreover, Crystal Palace head coach Tong Yi just won the 2017-2018 Premier League Coach of the Month award for January a few days ago. This shows that Crystal Palace has been in very good shape in the past month or so. It is really difficult for Leicester City to defeat Crystal Palace.

However, Leicester City's head coach Pierre was also full of confidence before the game, giving Manchester City fans hope.

Pierre said in an interview with media reporters, "This game is played at home for Leicester City, which is our advantage. And we are waiting for work and have a great opportunity. We Leches Leicester City's schedule is not as intensive as Crystal Palace. Now we have an absolute advantage in this aspect, a physical advantage. Therefore, in this game, our Leicester City chances of winning are quite high. "

Indeed, as Pierre said, Crystal Palace's recent schedule is very secretive. It is the league, the Champions League, the FA Cup and even the EFL Cup. There are too many games and there is almost no time to rest. But Leicester City is different. They only have the league and the FA Cup, so they should have an advantage in terms of physical fitness.

This is why Manchester City fans are so optimistic about Leicester City.

Come on Leicester City, beat Crystal Palace, don't let Crystal Palace score any more points!

Yes, the Manchester City team is anxious!

If Crystal Palace continues to score points like this, their work as a Manchester City team will be in vain.

Now the players from both sides have appeared in this game, and the Leicester City players also look very confident. It seems that the Leicester City people really have a chance in this game.

From the perspective of the Manchester City team who are paying attention to this game, this is a good thing and there is a chance.

Leicester City, come on!

Manchester City fans have become Leicester City fans at this time and support Leicester City.

Because this game is a make-up match, there is naturally no game on Manchester City's side. Therefore, almost all of them are paying attention to this game and looking forward to Leicester City winning. \u003c

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Even Guardiola and the others are paying attention to this game.

Before this game, Guardiola even accepted interviews with media reporters.

He said, "Needless to say, I definitely support Leicester City. And I believe that the entire Premier League should support Leicester City now. Because we cannot let Crystal Palace continue to win like this, let Crystal Palace continue If we win, it will be a shame for all other teams in our entire Premier League! I don’t think anyone wants to be the backdrop for Crystal Palace’s reputation to go down in history. Therefore, Crystal Palace must lose! And it must lose continuously! This After one game, I felt that Leicester City had a chance!"

Did you see that Guardiola is also waiting for Crystal Palace to lose?

Guardiola even pulled all the Premier League teams onto his chariot and fought Crystal Palace to the bitter end!

Now Guardiola and his coaching staff are sitting in front of the TV and watching this game. They are all looking forward to Crystal Palace losing!

At this time, the players from both sides had already entered the stadium, and everyone saw the starting lineups of both sides today.

The starting lineups for both sides are as follows

Home team Leicester City, head coach Pierre, formation 4231

goalkeeper Schmeichel

Back four from left to right Chilwell, Maguire, Mogan and Simpson

Double defensive midfielder Iborra and Ndidi

The front three from left to right Albrighton, Dimare Gray and Mahrez

lone striker Vardy

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

goalkeeper Maignan

Back four from left to right Cancelo, Rudiger, Van Dijk and Carvajal

Double defensive midfielder Casemiro and Kante

Single attacking midfielder De Bruyne

The three forwards from left to right Salah, Ronaldo and Mbappe

In terms of lineup, Leicester City's strength is still good, otherwise they would not be able to reach the ninth position in the Premier League. But to be honest, this lineup also has big problems, especially the defense.

Tong Yi has already reminded the Crystal Palace players that Leicester City's two central defenders have big problems.

The two of them have excellent front-facing and defensive control abilities, and can be considered at the forefront of the Premier League. But both of them are tall and strong defenders with a large frontal defensive area, but their turning flexibility is very poor, which can be called an aircraft carrier U-turn, and their pursuit speed is very slow, as slow as a snail!

Therefore, the offense in this game almost frequently found space behind the two central defenders.

In this case, this game should be easily won.

Moreover, the defense of the opponent's two full-backs is actually not very strong, and there is a lot that can be done about this.

Therefore, Tong Yi is quite confident about this game now.

After all, their Crystal Palace forwards are all fast and have good breakthrough abilities, and are good at attacking behind the opponent's center back. Coupled with De Bruyne's delivery in the midfield, this game should be quite stable.

Guardiola, who was in front of the TV, frowned slightly when he saw Leicester City's starting lineup.

Why did Mogan and Maguire start together in this game?

Don’t you have a central defender with speed and agility in your Leicester City team? Do we have to start these two central defenders with overlapping positional attributes? Isn't the Austrian center back Dragovic better on your bench?

Of course, Guardiola does not mean that Dragovich is better than the two starters. It is obvious that the two starters are better. But in terms of turning speed and pursuit speed, Dragovich should be a little stronger. In terms of complementarity, Dragovich would be better paired with either of the two, right?

Is it because Dragovich has not adapted to the rhythm of the Premier League? Or is it that his ability is not good enough?

Dragovich also performed well in the Bundesliga, right?

Anyway, Guardiola's expression was very solemn at this time. He felt that Leicester City was a bit unlucky in this game. Now that he has seen this problem, why can't Tong Yi see it? In this game, Leicester City's two central defenders will definitely receive heavy attention from Crystal Palace.

In this game, Leicester City is a bit on the line.

Could it be that Ndidi or Ibora on the defensive midfielder will withdraw and actually play as a five-back?

Not bad if that's the case.

But in this case, Leicester City may only have to defend and counterattack. The offense relies on the front four. No wonder there will be four faster players in the frontcourt in this game. Among them, Gray and Mahrez both have a certain ability to break through with the ball.

If this is the case, Leicester City may not have a chance in this game.

But to be honest, Guardiola is still a little worried.

At this time, Atkinson, the referee of this game, blew the whistle to start the game. The first to kick off was the visiting team Crystal Palace.

Crystal Palace launched an attack as soon as they came up. It was obvious that they had no intention of testing.

Leicester City did indeed adopt a defensive formation. Even at this time, Ndidi retreated behind the two central defenders. This is really five defenders. Ndidi is simply a free man on the back line. He has to frequently fill in for Maguire and Mogan and protect the two behind them.

And it also allowed these two people to intercept and defend head-on without any scruples.

To be honest, at the beginning of the game, Leicester City's defense was really good.

Crystal Palace frequently played behind the two central defenders without much success because Ndidi was wiping their butts behind them. On the contrary, Leicester City has had many counterattack opportunities during this period, because of Ndidi's successful defense, stealing the ball or making clearances.

Leicester City frequently uses the speed in the frontcourt to hit the crystal crazily.

Palace goal.

Don't tell me, it's really threatening.

At this moment, there was a good offensive opportunity for Crystal Palace. Cancelo, who was holding the ball on the wing, saw the huge space behind Maguire. He immediately kicked the ball through and quickly sent the football behind Maguire. Salah rushed forward quickly.

good chance!

But Ndidi on the opposite side took the lead and stole the football directly.

The football rolled quickly to the wing. Chilwell on the wing kept the ball and immediately took the ball and passed it long to find the forward player Vardy in front!

The Leicester City fans at the scene instantly became excited. What a great opportunity!

Even the Manchester City fans and Guardiola in front of the TV were brightened. This time is indeed a good opportunity.

Leicester City's counterattack is coming, Crystal Palace is in danger!

At this moment, Rudiger from the Crystal Palace defense quickly rushed out, jumped high, and pushed the football over Vardy's head, making a successful clearance. Leicester City fans were instantly disappointed and sighed. But the next second, they became happy again.

Because the pushed football flew directly towards Gray, who stopped the ball with his chest and hastily pushed the football to the side before Kanter stretched his legs. Albrighton on the wing immediately caught up with the football and headed towards the Crystal Palace penalty area with the ball very quickly.

Leicester City fans were excited again, screaming with excitement.

This is a good opportunity, an excellent opportunity!

It's a pity that Albrighton's shot was a little hasty. He directly took off and shot into the far corner. The ball drew an arc and slightly missed the far goal.

This goal was really a pity, and even Guardiola howled in pain in front of the TV.

What a great opportunity, why was it wasted?

There won't be too many opportunities like this for Leicester City. Once wasted, one will be lost. It's a pity, what a pity.

However, three minutes later, Leicester City once again got a chance to counterattack.

This time it was almost the same as last time. Ndidi wiped Maguire's butt successfully again, stole the ball, and then passed a long ball directly from the backcourt to Albrighton on the wing. Yes, this time he went directly to the wing. Albrighton on the wing immediately broke through with the ball. After instantly attracting the Crystal Palace defender, he quickly passed the football across.

The football rolled quickly towards Vardy's feet in the middle.

But Van Dijk had already pounced on him, and Vardy couldn't even force a shot, with no success rate.

Therefore, Vardy directly missed the football. This was something Van Dijk did not expect, so he could only watch the football roll past. Danger!

Van Dijk immediately turned around and pounced, but it was too late.

Gray rushed up and hit the ball with a low shot, whipping the football into the opposite lower corner.

Maignan, who was moving sideways in front of the goal, couldn't react in time. He fell sideways and fell to the ground without touching the football. The football accurately rolled into the blind spot of the Crystal Palace goal.