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Crystal Palace drew the second round of the season against
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It was not just the game that started to attract the attention of the crowd, but also the fact that Crystal Palace defender Andersen continued to badger Darwin throughout the game, eventually causing him to lose control of the game and causing him to be red-carded for a malicious foul, and it was a game that saw Crystal Palace's toughness increase under the stewardship of Vieira, putting the
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It's been very hard to carry, and Crystal Palace's home and away matches last season with
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The team has won one game and drawn one, which means that
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Couldn't beat Crystal Palace last season and have come to the last four
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at the Etihad Stadium, Crystal Palace picked up seven points (two wins, one draw and one loss).
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With only 1 win in 4 home games, Crystal Palace are actually playing
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of experts.
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Luckily for Crystal Palace, their strongest striker Zaha was unable to play this game due to a leg injury. Honestly, this is absolutely crucial, if Zaha had played, I'm afraid this scoreline wouldn't have appeared, and Guardiola also made adjustments in this game, he sent Mahrez on the right side of the field, B.Silva went into the center of the field, and Gundogan was on the bench. Stones and Ruben Dias, Ake and Grealish, Laporte is recovering from injury.
This let Mahrez play right winger formation is sooner or later, Guardiola is very accustomed to carry out rotation, let the impact of strong Mahrez constantly raid the opposing side of the road, the last strike will be carried out by skilled players will be easier, last season in this premise, is allowed to let B.Silva and Gundogan to get a rest, that is to say, regardless of the newcomers with whom to cooperate well, at present it is It's important to be able to work with this rotation, even if Mahrez is starting.
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The skillful passing game isn't as strong as it was when both of those guys were out there, but it still has to be played that way or it will be difficult to get through the long season.
This was going to be a fight that was expected to have a fair amount of physical collisions and stalemate fighting, but
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Screwed up right from the start, only 4 minutes into the game Crystal Palace scored first when they caused a Stones oops from a corner, the ball should have been refracted twice between Walker and Stones, and it should have been deflected 3 times in fact as it had already hit De Bruyne earlier when Eze took the set piece, it really was
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Lintel.
Originally giving up a goal wasn't too much of a problem, but then
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Starting to be disrupted by Crystal Palace, who had the striker duo of Edouard and Schlupp standing all the way forward, directly on top of the
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Rodri and the center backs, and one of Eze and J. Ayew on either side would come up at the right time, like a chokehold on
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of the throat as much as not letting them get the ball out at the waist.
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Vieira, true to his backwoods roots, knows full well that if he goes to guard
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There must be no end to the attacking players who instead go to the top of the
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The waist position is what is effective, not grabbing the ball but blocking in the
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Players in front of the player does not allow him to pass the ball, it can not be mobilized on both flanks, random passes out of it is easy to be intercepted to play counterattack, which makes the
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The whole first half was very stifling, most obviously in their attacking speed, because the waist was clamped down, resulting in slow transition between the two wings, and the back and center backs are not too good to go forward to shorten the distance between the ball, and become only from the very back of the position of the ball, which led to the disappearance of Mahrez because of the
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The strength of the team is mostly concentrated on the left flank, and the right flank is going to be raided with Mahrez, and once the central distribution deteriorates and slows down, it will be difficult for Mahrez to produce there as he has to remain alone against the two-man defense that the opponent has already put in place.
Then at 21:00 Crystal Palace took another corner and this time it was Stones again, he missed the aerial ball coming at him head on, allowing Andersen to get up at the back post for an easy header, this time it was really Stones fault.
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At home, they were two points behind in the first half, they have been trying to catch up points but they can't do anything against Crystal Palace. After the second half, Guardiola started to make tactical changes, De Bruyne started to move to the right side obviously, B.Silva also support to the right side, but he also choose to go to the left side, which is like a free choice, Guardiola intentionally pulls the two sides more open and increase the number of people in the flanks. Guardiola has deliberately opened up the two sides and increased the number of players on both flanks, while allowing the back to play the ball as quickly as possible to avoid being robbed and counter-attacked.
This affected Crystal Palace, who could have strengthened their midfield pressing to play on the counter-attack, but Crystal Palace chose to play with the
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Together they went to the wing to engage, so Crystal Palace's midfield line was stretched slightly.
Guardiola followed up with a substitution, which he was already planning to make for Mahrez and the not-so-good Cancelo, in favor of Gundogan and Alvarez, but before he could execute it
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It's harvesting goals first.
53 minutes.
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At times pulling wide for crosses, at times allowing the wingers to break forward, the Crystal Palace midfield line was constantly being
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B.Silva received the ball on the right side of the field and fired a low shot from the 18-yard box, which was slightly deflected to keep the goalkeeper out of the game and into the back of the net.
