Last season, Crystal Palace scored 93 goals in the Premier League, but conceded only 29 goals!
This season, although the offense scored 2 more goals, it conceded 12 more goals. This is a big defense problem!
This has also resulted in Crystal Palace's goal difference this season being much less than last season.
Of course, this also explains why Crystal Palace did not win the Premier League championship this season. The Crystal Palace people had some problems on the defensive end.
Crystal Palace's number of goals conceded ranked sixth in the Premier League in the 2014-2015 season. This number of goals conceded is really too much. The team that conceded the fewest goals in the Premier League this season is the Premier League champion Chelsea. They only conceded 32 goals, which is a full 9 fewer goals than Crystal Palace!
No wonder Crystal Palace ranks behind Chelsea!
Except for Crystal Palace, all the top five teams in the Premier League this season have conceded fewer goals than Crystal Palace. None of them has conceded more than 40 goals.
There are many issues that Tong Yi and the others have to analyze, discuss and summarize this season!
This defensive problem should be solved as soon as possible!
Otherwise, it will be even more difficult for the Premier League next season!
However, Crystal Palace is also the team with the most goals in the Premier League this season. They have scored 95 goals, which is far more than their opponents. Ranking second on the scoring list is Manchester City, which ranks third in the Premier League. Their number of goals is 83, which is also 12 goals behind Crystal Palace.
This shows that Crystal Palace's offensive power is comparable to that of the entire Premier League.
This is something Tong Yi and the Crystal Palace coaches are proud of.
Even though they conceded so many goals this season, they were able to almost win the championship. The main honor was their offense. This season, Crystal Palace is much more proactive and adventurous than last season, and the high position pressure is more thorough and aggressive. This should be the reason why they concede more goals than last season.
Of course, this is also related to Tong Yi's too many rotations in the game.
Because this season, except for the veteran Carvalho, almost everyone else in the Crystal Palace center back combination is rotating. Even Ferdinand has played a lot of games. Rudiger, Laporte and Van Dijk are mostly rotating, so it is understandable that they concede more goals.
Moreover, the two full-backs are often rotated. More importantly, this season Tong Yi has very high requirements for the assists of the two full-backs, so the two full-backs spend more time in the offense. This is why Robertson The reason why he got the amazing data of 15 assists. Of course, before Zhang Linpeng left, his assists were also very large. After all, Zhang Linpeng also left 5 goals and 5 assists for Crystal Palace in this half season.
After Carvajal arrived, he also became familiar with Crystal Palace's play, often pressing forward and assisting.
It is understandable that Crystal Palace conceded more goals.
It was Crystal Palace's attacking power that shocked all the English fans and media reporters. What they didn't expect was that after Lukaku, the goal-scoring machine, left, Crystal Palace's attacking power actually increased. It was really shocking. People are amazed!
This season Crystal Palace has scored a total of 169 goals in all competitions, conceded 75 goals, and has a goal difference of 94 goals.
This data is still very amazing.
In terms of the total number of goals scored, Crystal Palace scored 9 more goals this season than last season, but in terms of the number of goals conceded, Crystal Palace is not as good as last season. This season Crystal Palace conceded 26 more goals than last season, which is scary!
Only 9 more goals were scored, but 26 more goals were conceded. Compared with last season, the goal difference was -17 goals!
This season Crystal Palace has conceded more goals on all lines than last season!
Of course, Crystal Palace has played a lot more games this season!
After all, Crystal Palace played in the UEFA Champions League group stage this season and reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup. This is a lot more games than last season.
So based on the average per game, Crystal Palace's attack power is actually still slightly declining, and the number of goals conceded has only increased slightly, but not much!
Generally speaking, Crystal Palace's performance in cup competitions this season is not as good as last season.
Last season, Crystal Palace scored 37 goals and conceded 9 goals in the Europa League; this season, Crystal Palace only scored 26 goals and conceded 10 goals in the Europa League. This score is 11 fewer goals and one more goal conceded. It can be seen that Crystal Palace's dominance in the Europa League is not as strong as last season.
However, in the EFL Cup, Crystal Palace is still very good this season, scoring 22 goals and conceding 4 goals; while last season, Crystal Palace scored 21 goals and conceded 9 goals in the EFL Cup.
It can be seen that this season the Europa League is a bit stretched!
However, Crystal Palace still won the Europa League.
This result is still good!
Of course, there are still many things to summarize, especially on defense. This is a problem that Tong Yi and his coaching staff have to solve, so that Crystal Palace can still maintain a strong competitiveness next season!
Of course, the premise is that Crystal Palace can retain these current players!
Now these players in Crystal Palace are a thorn in the flesh of other giants. I can't wait to remove them immediately and bring them to their own team!
The first one to bear the brunt is naturally De Bruyne, the Premier League's Player of the Season this season!
De Bruyne is really terrifying. He has scored 16 goals and provided 19 assists in the Premier League this season. And all his total statistics this season are that he scored 21 goals, sent 29 assists, and almost got 20+30 data. It is really abnormal!
Which giant club doesn't covet such a top midfielder?
It is said that Real Madrid, Barcelona, Milan duo, Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City are all interested in the Belgian midfielder and want to introduce him!
And these teams are luring De Bruyne like crazy!
In their view, De Bruyne should leave Crystal Palace this season.
Because no one is the absolute main force in Crystal Palace, even a top midfielder like De Bruyne needs to be rotated, and the rotations are still very many. De Bruyne has not even played in the Champions League many times this season. Because cup matches are almost all rotated to Goretzka, De Bruyne and Goretzka are responsible for the league and the cup.
This is indeed a good plan for Crystal Palace, but is it not a good thing for the two top midfielders? Because they all want to play almost all the games, rather than spreading them out!
Do you think a world-class midfielder like De Bruyne would not want to play in the Champions League?
Do you think an excellent midfielder like Goretzka really only wants to play in the cup and not play in the league?
How can this be!
In their words, both De Bruyne and Goretzka are capable of full attendance. Moreover, perfect attendance is also required at their age. Not only does perfect attendance have no harm to them, but it also has many benefits. Therefore, they feel that De Bruyne and Goretzka must be very dissatisfied with their playing time at this time.
Both of them want to take the lead alone!
Therefore, at this time, these giants saw the opportunity to poach De Bruyne and Goretzka!
Yes, this guy Goretzka is very young. But his data is also very amazing and shocked the world.
This season, Goretzka scored 8 goals and provided 6 assists in the Premier League, but his total statistics this season are 20 goals and 18 assists. In other words, he scored 12 goals and provided 12 assists in various cup matches in his main battlefield. This data is not much worse than De Bruyne.
And Goretzka is even younger!
No wonder at this time, the Bayern Munich people were really chasing Goretzka like crazy, eager to take Goretzka to Bayern Munich!
Of course, this also allowed Bayern Munich to see an opportunity!
In their opinion, only one of De Bruyne and Goretzka can be kept by Crystal Palace!
These two people definitely can't coexist!
That's why so many wealthy clubs are chasing De Bruyne and Goretzka crazily at this time!
If they can really poach these two people, then the Crystal Palace will really fall apart in an instant.
You have to know that by poaching these two players, Crystal Palace has lost 41 goals and 41 assists, which means it has lost 82 goals!
These two people have accounted for almost half of Crystal Palace's goals this season!
If they were all dug out, wouldn't it really destroy the foundation of the Crystal Palace?
Of course, these other giants are not only interested in Crystal Palace's De Bruyne and Goretzka, they also want to poach Crystal Palace's Mane, Salah, Kanter, Paulinho, Van Dijk, and Laporte , Edward and Robertson!
Yes, these giants want to poach all the main players from Crystal Palace!
Especially Mane and Salah!
This guy Mane has had a big breakout this season. He has scored 25 goals and provided 12 assists in the Premier League. He has scored a total of 28 goals and provided 17 assists in all competitions.
Salah has scored 18 goals and provided 11 assists in the Premier League this season. He has scored a total of 29 goals and provided 15 assists in all competitions. These two main strikers of Crystal Palace scored a total of 57 goals and provided 32 assists. The two also contributed a total of 89 goals!
This is also very scary. Of course, many of their assists were also assists to De Bruyne and Goretzka. Many of the assists provided by Goretzka and De Bruyne were also given to these two people.
They all make each other successful!
If other wealthy families really poach these four people, Crystal Palace will be completely finished!
Therefore, Tong Yi must stabilize the mentality of these players this offseason. It is best to keep these guys.
These four guys Tong Yi will definitely not be willing to sell, this is the cornerstone of their Crystal Palace!
However, Tong Yi also knew that it would be difficult to keep all four of them!
Mainly De Bruyne and Goretzka, these two have performed too well this season. The main reason is that Goretzka has grown too fast, and it seems that he has to take the lead alone. It is obviously impossible for these two to coexist. Goretzka and De Bruyne are obviously unwilling to share playing time like this season!
Many outsiders believe that Crystal Palace's failure to advance further in the Champions League this season is due to rotation. If the attacking side lets all the main players go out of the Champions League, there is no way they will be able to advance to the top 16, and may even be killed. Entering the top 8.
And De Bruyne and others have not participated in many Champions League games, which will definitely make them dissatisfied. If the situation remains the same next season and they are unable to play in the Champions League, De Bruyne and the others will definitely not be willing to take him to the Crystal Palace!
Tong Yi also knew something about it, because he had already seen such signs!
It is very likely that before the start of the new season, Tong Yi will have to choose between De Bruyne and Goretzka!
