Crystal Palace vs Charlton - 0:0!
Crystal Palace vs Hoffenheim - 0:1!
Celtic vs Crystal Palace – 3:2!
Rangers vs Crystal Palace – 2:1!
Crystal Palace vs RB Leipzig - 2:3!
Crystal Palace vs AZ Alkmaar – 2:3!
Crystal Palace vs Fulham – 3:3!
This is the result of Crystal Palace in the warm-up match before the 2016-2017 season, with 2 draws and 5 losses, and no win!
This result is both unexpected and reasonable!
It is reasonable that Tong Yi's team will not have any good results in the pre-season warm-up matches, and even lost all the pre-season warm-up matches in several seasons. Moreover, this season Crystal Palace sold many main players and main substitutes, and introduced For many newcomers, their strength will definitely be greatly reduced, and it is understandable that their results will be poor.
But what is unexpected is that Crystal Palace still has strength on paper. It is impossible not to win a warm-up match, right?
But this kind of thing happens!
Crystal Palace fans don't care about this result!
They know Tong Yi and Crystal Palace very well. If they lose in the pre-season warm-up match, they will lose. As long as they can win in the main game, they will be fine. Moreover, Crystal Palace fans are full of confidence in their team.
Although Crystal Palace's results in the warm-up match were not good, Crystal Palace's condition is getting better and better.
Didn't you see that Crystal Palace scored more and more goals as we went behind, showing that it was getting better and better?
Crystal Palace fans are still looking forward to the new season!
Because, Ibrahimovic performed very well and scored a hat trick in the last warm-up match. He scored a total of 10 goals in 7 warm-up matches, but Ibrahimovic scored alone. 5 goals and 3 assists continued his excellent form last season, which made Crystal Palace fans very happy.
Originally, after Balotelli left, Crystal Palace fans were a little worried, thinking that no one in Crystal Palace could step up and score goals like Balotelli.
But Ibrahimovic's performance surprised them.
They even feel that Ibrahimovic will not be worse than Balotelli last season, nor will he be worse than Ignacio. Crystal Palace will still be very competitive in the new season. Crystal Palace fans believe in Tong Yi.
To be honest, the media reporters were also shocked!
They didn't expect that Ibrahimovic would be in such good condition and be able to integrate into Crystal Palace's tactics so well, which was shocking.
Some media reporters felt that they had underestimated Crystal Palace before!
Maybe Crystal Palace is also good this season!
Of course, it is difficult for Crystal Palace to defend the Premier League title with its current strength. But they have a great chance of qualifying for the European Cup, and they may even break into the top four of the Premier League and qualify for the Champions League next season!
Of course, it will be very difficult for Crystal Palace to qualify for the Champions League.
Because, this summer, Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal spent a lot of pounds in the transfer market! These are players who have spent hundreds of millions of pounds in the transfer market and have strengthened their lineup. Their strength is far greater than last season.
This season, it will be difficult for Crystal Palace to reverse these teams!
Therefore, media reporters generally believe that Crystal Palace should be ranked between 5th and 10th in the new season, and it is very likely to qualify for the European competition. But they will also face competition from the likes of Leicester City, Tottenham Hotspur, Everton, Southampton and West Ham United.
It is also difficult for Crystal Palace to qualify for the European competition!
At this time, Webster of "The Times" wrote in his column: "Crystal Palace has indeed strengthened this season, but due to the departure of Mane and Milinkovic, it has affected the team's strength. The impact is too great. Although Mbappe performed well in Sunderland, there is a huge gap between him and Mane. And young people such as Sabitzer and Llorente obviously cannot reach the level of Kimmich and Milinkovic-Savic. The height of Crystal Palace's starting and bench strength is worse than last season. What do you think they can do to compete for the championship? Especially the strength of their bench lineup has dropped so much that there is no way to compare with last season. So, this season Crystal Palace is not only failing in the league, but other fronts are also likely to collapse! Perhaps, Crystal Palace will have nothing to gain this season!"
Webster’s words still received support from many people!
Crystal Palace's previous results were good, and their multi-line combat strength has not been affected. On the contrary, the reason why their results are still good is that their substitute players are very strong, and there is not a big gap in strength between them and the main force. In almost every position, Tong Yi has at least two players, and although there is a gap in strength between the two players, there is not a particularly big gap.
It is precisely because of their strong substitutes that they have been able to gain something in the English League Cup and FA Cup, and even the Europa League and Champions League.
But this season, Crystal Palace is having a hard time!
These substitute players of Crystal Palace are all very young, and it is even the first time for many of them to hear their names, and even those who have heard of them are some players who have been loaned out by Crystal Palace.
To be honest, many people are not optimistic about Crystal Palace.
In the Times poll, 79.44% of people supported Webster, 18.89% opposed it, and 1.67% thought it didn't matter.
Those who oppose Webster feel that Crystal Palace is not as bad as he imagined!
Which young people loaned out by Crystal Palace have also performed well in other teams, such as Sabitzer and Llorente, they have performed well in the Bundesliga, especially Sabitzer, he is about to become RB Leipzig's The main midfielder. Originally, RB Leipzig was planning to buy him out, but unfortunately Tong Yi disagreed!
Moreover, these young people were all discovered by Tong Yi. Does Tong Yi’s vision of discovering young people still need to be questioned?
There has not been a single failure case among the young people Tong Yi discovered.
Therefore, these people believe in Tong Yi!
They all felt that Tong Yi had his reasons for being optimistic about these young people. Perhaps the performance of these young people in the new season would shock everyone. Another group of super new stars will emerge from the Crystal Palace.
Come and try it quickly. 】
Adriana, a beautiful reporter from The Times, expressed completely opposite views to Webster's in her column. Adriana wrote: “We can see from the pre-season warm-up matches that Ibrahimovic has perfectly integrated into Crystal Palace’s tactics and perfectly demonstrated his strength. If Ibrahimovic can continue his performance at Paris Saint-Germain this season, then Crystal Palace will explode this season! Perhaps, Ibrahimovic's performance is better than Balotelli's last season Even more amazing! Moreover, these young people introduced by Crystal Palace are worth looking forward to. They have performed well in their respective teams before. It seems that the strength of Crystal Palace's substitutes has declined, but it is not necessarily the case! Therefore, Crystal Palace is still a very competitive team in the new season, and I think they have the ability to compete for the Premier League championship! If they win the Premier League championship at the end of the season, don’t be surprised!”
No one thought that Adriana would be optimistic about Crystal Palace?
And are you optimistic about Crystal Palace winning the Premier League title? This is too fake!
Even those who are optimistic about Crystal Palace do not dare to boast that Crystal Palace can win the Premier League championship!
Judging from Crystal Palace's performance in the pre-season warm-up match, it is impossible for them to win the championship!
The performance of Mbappe, who came to replace Mane, was really not very good. It seemed that he was too far behind Mane. Originally, they thought that Perisic would replace Mane, but in the warm-up match, Tong Yi obviously asked the young Mbappe to replace Mane.
Therefore, they all felt that Crystal Palace was not good!
Mane's position is a flaw. Even Perisic can't reach Mane's height. One of Crystal Palace's wings has been broken when both wings fly together. How can Crystal Palace still fly?
Even though Ibrahimovic performed well and unexpectedly, it still wasn't good!
"The Sun" conducted a poll here. Only 3.22% of people think that Crystal Palace can successfully defend the title; 7.32% of people think that Crystal Palace can qualify for the Champions League, that is, 2-4th place; 12.51% of people think that Crystal Palace can successfully defend the title. Qualify for the Europa League, meaning 5th-7th place; 52.27% of people think Crystal Palace can get 8th-12th place; and 22.22% think Crystal Palace can get 13th-17th place this season; also Only 2.46% of people think that Crystal Palace will be relegated this season, that is, they will get a ranking of 18-20!
It can be seen that the people who think Crystal Palace will be relegated are similar to the people who think Crystal Palace will win the championship.
It seems that everyone thinks that Crystal Palace's probability of winning the championship and being relegated this season is very low, but their probability of reaching the top four is also very low. Most people still believe that Crystal Palace will reach the bottom half of the Premier League. They have lost their previous magic.
And these people also believe that the bottom half of the Premier League is where Crystal Palace should be.
It can be seen from this that most fans and media reporters in England are not very optimistic about Crystal Palace in the new season. Only a few people like Adriana are optimistic about Crystal Palace!
At this time, many media and fans are also sarcastically mocking Adriana and others, saying that they are really blind, and they are optimistic about the Crystal Palace?
Is the Crystal Palace like this worthy of being favored?
It's simply impossible!
At this time, football legend Ian Wright stood up and said: "Compared with the Crystal Palace last season, the Crystal Palace has really changed a lot, and its strength has dropped a lot. Mane, Milin The departures of Kovic, Balotelli, Kimmich and Laporte cannot be filled by Crystal Palace players this season. Their strength has dropped at least two or three notches. And what about their competitors? They Our competitors have made a lot of signings this summer and have greatly improved their strength. Their strength has increased beyond Crystal Palace's expectations and is unmatched by the Crystal Palace people this season. I think that this season, Crystal Palace can't even win. To qualify for next season’s European competition!”
There are many people who have the same idea as Wright!
Among them, Gary Neville thinks so and strongly supports Wright's view.
Neville said: "This season, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City really spent a lot of money and introduced a lot of powerful players. Their strength even surpassed that of Crystal Palace last season. This season, Crystal Palace naturally has no way to compete with these teams. Therefore, it is difficult for Crystal Palace to succeed this season. Miss Adriana’s opinion is really shocking, to be honest, Ibrahimovic Qi did perform well, but he is by no means as good as Balotelli. I believe Balotelli will use his undisputed performance at Manchester United in the new season to prove to everyone that he is not comparable to Ibrahimovic. ! Throughout the season, Crystal Palace and Ibrahimovic had no chance!"
