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April 2014, 4, South London, England, Selhurst Park Stadium.

Here today is the 2013th round of the 2014-34 Premier League season, Crystal Palace vs. Aston Villa.

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They are now five points ahead of third-to-last Sunderland.

This gap is actually not that big.

Now the league has come to an end, and relegation has reached the most critical moment.The Aston Villa people are still very committed and active now, because they are also afraid of relegation.

With 5 rounds left in the league, Aston Villa may be relegated if they are not careful.

Therefore, Aston Villa must be fully committed now, even desperately.

However, Crystal Palace is now the second-ranked team in the league. It is still difficult for Aston Villa to win, especially this is still an away game.So Aston Villa's goal in this game is naturally to keep the tie, and one point is also crucial for relegation.

In this game, Aston Villa's goal is to keep the tie and win.

Aston Villa's head coach Paul Lambert said before the game: "Although Crystal Palace is a newly promoted team, their strength is very strong. We cannot underestimate our opponents, and now they are at a critical moment for the championship. This game will be very difficult, but everyone can rest assured that we will go all out in this game, and our only goal is to score points against Crystal Palace. We are full of confidence in this!"

See if you don't, the Aston Villa people are still confident.

However, Aston Villa fans do not have much hope for this.

The strength of Crystal Palace lies here.

The outside media reporters all agreed with Lambert's words, and they felt that Aston Villa really had a chance.Because Crystal Palace is almost finished, they are very tired and very bad.Pogba's serious injury will definitely affect the Crystal Palace, and the Crystal Palace will collapse soon.As long as the Aston Villa people go all out, they can beat Crystal Palace!

Snapped!

Crystal Palace slapped these media reporters hard in the face!

Because, in this game, Pogba appeared in the starting list!

When seeing Pogba, the media reporters were dumbfounded!

Aren't you seriously injured and recuperating in the hospital?How did it appear on the starting list for today's game?What's happening here?Damn Crystal Palace people are too insidious.

The media reporters in England are very angry!

Lambert also gasped, thinking that Tong Yi is really insidious, Pogba has recovered from his injury, why didn't you say a word about it?Before the game, the media reporters were so loud, but you didn't respond or refute the rumors. You are making trouble!

Lambert looked very serious!

This damn Huaxia Ruanfan guy is really too insidious, this game is not easy to play.

Today's game, the starting list of both sides is as follows:

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

Goalkeeper: Edward

Back four [from left to right]: Robertson, Carvalho, Van Dijk and Zhang Linpeng

Double midfielders: Paulinho and Kanter

Single midfielder: Pogba

Three strikers [from left to right]: Salah, Lukaku and Mane

Away Team: Aston Villa, Manager: Lambert, Formation: 5-4-1

Goalkeeper: Guzan

Five at the back [left to right]: Bertrand, Buckle, Vlaar, Ciron Clarke and Joe Bennett

The midfield four [left to right]: Albrighton, Bacuna, Ashley Westwood and Andris Wieman

Solo striker: Holt

Obviously, Aston Villa is a defensive lineup, relying on long passes from the backcourt to directly find Holt, the high point in front.Let Holt take the first point, and then hand the football to his teammate who plugged in after him.

As far as this game is concerned, the Aston Villa people are playing pure traditional English football!

It's not that Aston Villa can't play other styles of football, but not now. The most difficult task now is to avoid relegation!

Aston Villa's bench in Shanghai is full of offensive players like Abang Lahor. If they want to attack, Abang Lahor has already started. How can they sit on the bench?

Obviously, what Lambert said before the game was the truth.

In this game, Aston Villa came to secure a tie and win.The most important thing is, Baoping!

Otherwise, there would not be a lineup of five defenders.

Lambert is still very afraid of Crystal Palace's offense and strength.

Tong Yi saw Aston Villa's defense at a glance.Naturally, with a wave of his hand, he signaled the Crystal Palace players to press up and attack frantically.

After all, if you don't go up and make an inkblot with your opponent, you will be caught by others.

The Aston Villars can accept a draw, and you are wasting time. This is what Aston Villars want to see most.

How could Tong Yi let Lambert succeed?

Tong Yi immediately waved his hand, signaling the players of Crystal Palace to attack and press high.

Then, Aston Villa's backcourt began to panic.

Because the intensity of the high-position press of the Crystal Palace people is really too great, and they run very aggressively and are full of integrity.The people of Crystal Palace seemed to have pulled a net for Aston Villa. As time went on, the net was stretched tighter and tighter by the people of Crystal Palace, and Aston Villa was about to suffocate.

What's more important is that the high position oppression of the Crystal Palace people is like a raging wave. As soon as a wave stops, another wave hits the eyes again, giving Aston Villa people no chance to breathe.

At the beginning, the Aston Villas were able to organize some decent defenses, but with this wave of pressing and oppression, the Aston Villas really couldn't stand it.

If you shoot it wave after wave, no matter how thick your city wall is, it will be smashed to pieces.

Lambert on the sidelines was very anxious, couldn't sit still at all, jumped and jumped on the sidelines, roaring loudly from time to time, reminding his players.

It's a pity that the effect is minimal!

It's the tension and worry that has fueled both Lambert's and Aston Villa's fans.

In this game, they played very suspensefully, and felt that their goal would not be able to stand the next moment.

The wave of high-level oppression of the Crystal Palace people is really too fierce.

In the 17th minute of the first half, Aston Villa couldn't hold it anymore.

The midfielder Westwood has been pressed to the front of his own big penalty area. At this time, Bennett on the wing, under the pressure of Crystal Palace strikers Salah and Robertson, even crossed the center in a panic and passed the ball. to Westwood.

However, the pass was not accurate.

Westwood didn't catch the football at all.

The football came directly to the feet of Pogba who rushed up.Pogba used his body to block Westwood next to him, stopped the football with ease, and dribbled the ball directly into the penalty area.

Pogba stepped into Aston Villa's penalty area in one step.

Westwood became honest in an instant, and didn't dare to foul at all.

If the defensive action is a little bigger here, the referee dares to award a penalty kick.Westwood was really a little bit wary and didn't dare to make moves.He just hopes that the defenders in the penalty area can jump out and intercept Pogba.But Vlaar in the middle was directly carried behind Lukaku's huge body and had no chance.

It will take some time for the other central defenders to jump over.

Dangerous!

Aston Villa are in danger!

Boom!

Pogba carried Westwood with his body, and then hit the football with a heavy shot.

The football shot out rapidly, like a bolt of lightning!

Guzan's sight in front of the goal was completely blocked by the huge bodies of Vlaar and Lukaku, and he couldn't see the trajectory of the football flight at all.

By the time Guzan saw the football, it had already flown into Aston Villa's goal.

One to zero!

Crystal Palace, who played at home, took the lead.

Seeing this, Lambert was speechless.He kept shaking his head. He really didn't expect that they put on the strongest defense and only defended for 17 minutes. This kind of frustration is still very strong.But Lambert did not admit defeat, he immediately made an adjustment, replacing Baker in the backcourt with Abang Lahor's!

Yes, Aston Villa are coming out.

Lambert is really a very courageous head coach. Just 10 minutes into the game, he made a substitution.This is almost a negation of his pre-match arrangements, which still requires courage.

It can be seen that what Lambert said is only the team's victory or defeat, not personal glory and face and so on.

not bad!

It's a pity that Aston Villa really has some gaps with Crystal Palace in terms of strength.

At this time, it was very difficult for Aston Villa to attack. They were completely suppressed by the high pressure of Crystal Palace, and it was very difficult to play the ball in the backcourt.

It wasn't until the 30th minute of the game that Aston Villa completed their first shot of the game.

And this shot was a low-quality long-range shot completed by Abang Lahor when he had no choice, and it hardly threatened the goal of Crystal Palace.

Aston Villa fans are very disappointed!

Originally, they still had expectations for this game, but seeing this, they were speechless and disappointed!

They don't have any chance in this game!

Is Crystal Palace really so strong and invincible?

Very speechless!

And at this moment, Crystal Palace stole the ball again in the frontcourt.Kanter directly pushed the football to the side, and Zhang Linpeng who went forward from the side directly kicked the pass.Lukaku feinted a shot in the penalty area, confusing Aston Villa's defensive players, and Salah, who rushed up from the back, easily pushed and shot.

Two to zero!

Crystal Palace took a two-goal lead at halftime!

In this game, there is no problem for Crystal Palace to win, and the pressure came to Liverpool all at once.

If, in this round of the game, Liverpool loses to Manchester City, then Crystal Palace will be able to surpass Liverpool to the top of the Premier League by virtue of the victory in this game.

Suddenly, the Liverpool man Alexander in front of the TV!

Tomorrow's game against Manchester City will become particularly important. If they fail to win at home, it is very likely that this season's efforts will be in vain!The league championship is right in front of them, and the Liverpool people obviously won't give up easily, so at this time, they are all holding back their energy to fight against Manchester City.The people of Crystal Palace must not be cheap!

At this time, Liverpool coach Rodgers was ready to face Manchester City.

Liverpool will definitely win this game.

Now Rodgers and the Liverpool players are waiting for tomorrow's game against Manchester City. They are confident of winning and getting three points.