I am the king of football

Chapter 134 Dull Steadiness

London, England, is an international metropolis with four Premier League clubs: Arsenal, Tottenham, London and Fulham. In its heyday, two other FA clubs, Crystal Palace and Burnley, also played in the Premier League.

Therefore, the city of London can be called the cradle of Premier League clubs. Crystal Palace is located in the south of the city, and its home stadium is Selhurst Park, which can accommodate more than 26,000 people.

As they have a history in the Premier League, they are not short of fans. When the Hull City bus drove into the streets around Selhurst Park, they were booed a lot.

However, the Hull City team, which has fought in more than 30 rounds of league games, has not been affected too much. In the face of absolute hard power, all the complaints are nothing.

From the moment they got off the bus to the start of warm-up, the entire Hull City team responded to the boos from the home team's fans with great momentum. When both teams disappeared into the player tunnel, the Crystal Palace fans who had asked for trouble also died down.

As a group of fair-skinned, long-legged beauties in cheerleading uniforms entered the stadium, the fans in the stadium began another round of wild cheers.

"CCTV, CCTV, good evening, dear audience friends, welcome to watch the 2011th round of the 2012- Championship League match between Crystal Palace and Hull City at home. I am the commentator Zhan Jun."

Zhan Jun's voice was heard before the two teams entered the stadium. Apparently, CCTV's broadcast was also cut in early because of the cheerleaders who were constantly shaking their hands on the field.

"Haha, what you are seeing now is Crystal Palace's unique cheerleading team. They are the only British football club that has a cheerleading team."

Before the game and during halftime, this super-good-looking cheerleading team can always stimulate the hormones of more than 20,000 fans in the stands. It is undoubtedly a beautiful landscape.

Unfortunately, the players sitting in the locker room had no chance to see these beauties. When the two teams entered the stadium under the leadership of the referee team, the entire stadium had already returned to its original state.

The captains of both teams got together and played rock-paper-scissors, and in the end the winning Crystal Palace captain chose the right to kick off for the home team.

As both teams took their positions for the kick-off, the referee checked the time for the final time and then blew the whistle to start the game.

"The game has officially begun. The home team Crystal Palace, wearing their blue and white home uniforms, attacked from left to right, while Hull City, wearing their orange uniforms, were on the other side."

At the beginning of the game, the Crystal Palace team, which was lined up in a 343 formation, arranged a dense formation in the middle and front court. As their midfielder Di Gakoy organized the team's formation to slowly advance, the Hull City players in the front court felt a sense of suffocation.

"The home team has achieved very good results in the past few rounds of the league with the 343 formation. They arranged three offensive players, Wilfred Zaha, Chris Martin and East, on the front line. The four midfielders from left to right are Jedinak, Di Gakoy, Parr and Ambrose."

Seeing that both teams played quite steadily at the start, Zhan Jun simply began to announce the starting lineups of both teams to the fans in detail. The Crystal Palace team, which was in control of the ball at the moment, was naturally announced in advance.

"On the defensive line, Klein, McCarthy and Anthony Gardner formed a three-man defense. Their position was very compact, almost giving up the defense of the two flanks, and Speroni was the goalkeeper."

It can be said that the entire team has no stars at all. Although everyone's strength is very even, there is really no one who is too outstanding, which is very consistent with Crystal Palace's current league ranking.

However, it is this balance that makes their entire team seem to have almost no weaknesses. The two wingers in the 343 formation are midfielders when they move forward and full-backs when they move backward. They are very useful in changing formations, but they are a bit physically demanding, which means that Crystal Palace often uses their substitution quota in these two positions.

At this moment, when Crystal Palace was suppressing Hull City, they played very well with the close combination of seven players in the frontcourt.

"Hold on! Be careful of their infiltration~"

Bruce on the sidelines didn't have many good options but kept reminding his players to cheer up. Fortunately, Hull City got into the game very quickly and under Coren's close command, everyone's cooperation was very good.

"Qin Hu and Kane have also moved back. It seems that Tiger City has no intention of playing a quick counterattack in this game. The ball control skills of these two forwards are not weak, and they are very good points to get the ball."

When Zhan Jun said this, twenty minutes had passed. At this moment, Kane and Qin Hu, who finally got the ball on the court, were cooperating tacitly to tease Pal and Jedinak.

When Kane received the ball again from Qin Huli, he made a lob pass to the front right and sent the ball to Cooper who was on the right.

Unfortunately, as a winger, Cooper does not have the ability to make a one-stop attack. When he got the ball and passed the opponent's midfielder's pursuit and interception, Klein, who was responsible for the left side defense, made a precise positioning and experienced judgment to directly destroy Cooper's breakthrough attempt.

When Qin Hu and Kane were restricted in the midfield by their opponents and had difficulty getting opportunities, Cavelli and Cooper got several such chances, but unfortunately the results were not very good. It was obvious that Shui Jingong had the confidence to send out three defenders, and their three defenders were quite stable in positioning and defense.

Of course, even if they did not give Hull City any chances, Crystal Palace did not have many chances of their own. Although they had three players on the front line, they did not threaten more than Hull City.

We have to praise the combination of Maguire and Coulson in this game. Maguire is steady and crouching, while Coulson is flexible and aggressive. One is slow and the other is fast, one is covering the bottom and the other is attacking. Whenever the Crystal Palace trident comes in front of them, the two young players can always make them fail.

As a result, the score remained unchanged until the end of the first half, and both sides entered the halftime break with a score of 0-0.

Some drowsy fans in the stands didn't shout anything until the Crystal Palace team's eye-catching cheerleaders re-entered the stadium, and then they became active again.

"Both teams played quite steadily in this game, which made the game a bit dull. In fact, I think Hull City could have played a little bolder. Their points almost allow Bruce to let his players do whatever they want."

Zhan Jun gave his own opinion. In his opinion, there was nothing wrong with Bruce's arrangement, but Hull City, who were far ahead, really did not need to be so cautious. They had plenty of points to squander, and it was not a good thing to let Crystal Palace play back and forth with them in this way.

After getting used to seeing world-class coaches deploying their troops and fighting back and forth against each other, looking at this game, I can only say that it is indeed a Championship-level showdown.

Chapter 2 is here! Thank you for your support! I think any coach who dares to play with three defenders is bold and radical, but the premise is that the defense must be stable. If he can keep it stable, he is a famous coach. If he can't, then he is XJBT.

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