After the first round.
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This side had already injured Thiago, who was said to be out for six weeks, and with Matip's injury confirmed before the start of the round, Firmino, Jota and others were all there to be injured, Klopp was left with no choice but to line up his substitutes, and had to rest Henderson.
this match
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The backline changed to Phillips partnering Van Dijk, with Arnold and Robertson playing left and right wingbacks, while the midfield had the biggest change with Milner, Fabinho, Elliott, and Salah, Darwin, and LuisDiaz up front.
Actually, even with all the player changes.
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The match started with a bang, and the team was still more than a match for Crystal Palace.
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The Crystal Palace side actually relies on two people in front of the field, that is, Zaha, No. 11, and Ayew, No. 9, in the counterattack, one of the two people will go forward to receive a quick pass, of course, mainly from the left side of the road to rush over Zaha is the main force.
But as the game went on.
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There was no way to break through immediately, Crystal Palace lined up the defenders and midfielders to defend, in fact, Crystal Palace manager Vieira can't be considered as a masterstroke, if he didn't do this, he would have been immediately
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Score, except we have to say that Vieira lived up to his former French reputation, Crystal Palace's positional retention in defense and efficiency in launching counterattacks as well as fouling were all over the place, and I always felt like there were so many Vieira's on the field.
Which brings us back to what I mentioned earlier, now
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The midfield was not very good at pressing up to help the forward line, and after Mane left the team and drifted away from high pressing tactics, when both Henderson and Thiago were not on the field.
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Even the ability to distribute the ball and get into favorable positions is much lower, and Robertson from the beginning of the game is very poor form, honestly Arnold in this situation to join hands with Salah to break through Crystal Palace's defense of as many as 8 people is too difficult, you can see in the first half of the game Salah in front of the ball, but after he brought the ball on the right side of the road, he is not too much breakthrough, because it is useless to cross, there are too many people. But he didn't break much after he got the ball on the right side, because it's useless to break through, there are too many people.
Darwin, on the other hand, was heavily defended from the start of the game and the impoliteness of the moves against him started from the beginning and then gradually intensified, although he tried to ignore them, Crystal Palace's side gradually tightened up on him and when his role in the center declined there was no one left to pass to for Salah on the right.
Stuck like this, Crystal Palace struck back with 31 minutes on the clock when the keeper sent a high ball to Eze in front of the left, who received the ball and then faced the
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Arnold and Fabinho's front and back pincers, even in stopping the ball in the air, but also beautifully made a small lateral jump to escape Fabinho's foot out of the break, and Arnold just follow up but not actually go to the card, resulting in Eze as soon as he dodged away and then immediately gained the freedom, at this time, Fabinho has already left the center of the defense area to create a vacuum in the area, Eze kicked a pass straight to the front of the Zaha also started to easily over Phillips into a cutter. Zaha had already started in front of him and easily got past Phillips, Van Dijk chased him from the other side but couldn't catch up with him, Zaha ended up on the left side of the field with a one-touch shot to the far corner of the net.
The shot was, in fact
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Arnold looked like he was in the tackle but just stood there, in that moment it was actually Eze and Fabinho who were playing one on one, and after Eze went through Arnold collided with Fabinho making it impossible for him to chase him back, and then at the back, Zaha was running from the right side past Van Dijk's eyes and Van Dijk just let him go. At that time, he was the only one in front of Crystal Palace, and there were no players behind him for dozens of yards. As a result, the timing of Eze's pass and Zaha's breakthrough was too beautiful, and Phillips was a little bit too slow in making the offside, which resulted in the one-touch goal. In fact, if Van Dijk had followed a little bit more, he would still have had a chance to block Zaha.
It's not a good thing that Crystal Palace scored, of course they'll close down their defense and play harder, specializing in defensive counterattacks, and I think there's one more thing, the current
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As the weather is still relatively hot, there are water breaks in both the first and second halves of the game, making it look like four quarters of basketball and American soccer, where as soon as you go down for a drink of water, the crisis is immediately lifted, and then you go back up after a break, and then you go back up again.
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It's hard to create that situation that crushes the other team.
Then at the 40:00 mark Zaha had another one-timer, but this time Alisson came out fast and cleared it.
A big opportunity arose just before the end of the first half after
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When Elliott was trying to force a goal, he was given a free pass from the center to the left side of the box, Darwin came up to meet him and kicked a small curved ball from the left side of the box over the goalkeeper's defense, which was about to go in, but ended up bouncing off the post by a hair's breadth.
Darwin himself struggled in this game, for him it is different from the first game against Fulham, Crystal Palace gave him a lot more physical attacks than Fulham, he also had to withdraw from the penalty area and then think of a way out, but the second tier still has the Crystal Palace midfield group, the center post shot is Darwin moved to the left side of the road to get a good chance, in fact, he still has a great threat to Crystal Palace, not that he has been beaten by the other side of a stick is being held. It's not that he's been taking a beating from the other team, it's that he's being guarded, and Crystal Palace are under a lot of pressure to move on him.
