Crystal Palace is currently ranked 14th in the standings, not far from the relegation zone, and has not yet completely avoided relegation. Therefore, they still have a need for points.
Moreover, with the previous conflict between the players of both sides and the fact that Willard made a profit and scored a goal after directly knocking Ledley away, the atmosphere between the two sides began to get stronger.
The Premier League is originally the league with the most intense physical confrontation among the five major European leagues. Now that the two sides have a lot of grudges with the connivance of the referee, it is natural that they must retaliate.
However, what happened next made Crystal Palace, and even fans across the UK and Premier League understand the power of Argentina's waist.
In the 22nd minute, seeing Willard advance with the ball again, midfielder Ledley, who seized the opportunity, rushed over from the side and tried to retaliate with a flying tackle.
As a result, Velarde's strong vision and consciousness had already understood his intentions. The moment Ledley fell to the ground, he took the ball out first and did not let Ledley touch the ball.
Then, when Ledley showed off his spikes and tackled Velarde to support his ankle without closing his feet, Velarde jumped up, but he didn't jump very high, but just lifted his foot off the ground, and then let Ledley made a tackle.
Ledley's shovel hit Willard's shoe, and because his foot was in the air and not supported on the ground, there was no damage at all.
But Willard screamed in the air and fell down suddenly. At the same time, he waved his hands down randomly, as if he wanted to reach out to the ground for cushioning, but he slapped Ledley hard. on the cheek.
Not only that, the fallen Willard also hit Ledley in the stomach with his elbow, causing Ledley to scream in pain after being slapped on the face and punched in the stomach.
And Willard, who looked like his ankle was tackled by Ledley and fell to the ground, clutching his ankle and screaming in pain, was actually fine.
The injury resistance attached to his 93 physique makes it difficult for him to get injured. Unless the supporting foot is still on the ground, and then the opponent directly violently tackles and directly tackles him.
Velarde's performance deceived referee Andre Marriner, and although Ledley's injury seemed much worse than Velarde's, Ledley was instead shown a yellow card. Willard, on the other hand, had nothing to do and even got a free kick opportunity in the frontcourt.
Despite loud protests from the Crystal Palace players, the referee insisted on his decision.
Velarde didn't get up early and hit the referee in the face like some players with missing heads. Instead, he sat on the ground and let the team doctor deal with it for a long time before he pretended to be limping and stood up.
But Ledley was really injured. Not only was the corner of his mouth bloody from a slap from Willard, but one of his ribs was directly broken by Willard's downward gravity and elbow. Therefore, Crystal Palace was forced to proceed. Made a substitution.
At this time, not many people realized the power of Willard, but they just felt that Ledley was a bit unlucky.
However, when the game restarted and the time came to the 36th minute, Lallana passed the ball and Verard and Crystal Palace center back Delani rushed to the ball at the same time. Verard fell to the ground first and made a tackle.
As a result, Delani did not jump up in time to dodge, and Velarde did not close his foot after scooping the ball away, and just kicked Delany's ankle.
Delany suddenly screamed and fell to the ground clutching his ankle.
There is no doubt that Willard was shown a yellow card for dangerous tackles, but Delani's ankle was injured by the tackle, forcing Crystal Palace to use the second substitution in the first half.
At this time, everyone's view of Willard changed.
The commentators were stunned and said:
"Villade's tackle was too fierce."
"Although he tackled the ball first, he should have retracted his feet after completing the tackle. As a result, not only did he not retract his feet, but he also seemed to specifically target Delani's ankle and tackle it, directly knocking Delany. Shoveled off the field.”
"Including Ledley, Willard has injured Crystal Palace players twice in a row in this game."
"Although I don't know if Ledley's dismissal by Velarde was intentional, but looking at this ball, Velarde is obviously not a person who swallows his anger."
"Previously, Crystal Palace took advantage of the referee's relatively loose enforcement and committed a relatively fierce fighting foul against Liverpool."
"Now there's retaliation from Liverpool and Willard."
"This is something Willard has rarely seen in games before."
"But if Crystal Palace hadn't committed the flagrant foul first, maybe Willard wouldn't have retaliated so fiercely."
"In previous games, Willard was relatively clean and disciplined."
"Obviously, Velarde's creed is, if you play with me, I will play with you. If you tell me the rules, I will tell you the rules. If you commit a flagrant foul, you will face my malicious retaliation. .”
"Although Willard received a yellow card, Crystal Palace was forced to make two substitutions in the first half, and both were substitutions for the main defense."
"It's not difficult to imagine how much pressure Crystal Palace's defense will be under in the next games."
The commentators were right. After two players were injured by Willard and left the field, the Crystal Palace players felt the intimidation of Willard and did not dare to foul him again, and they were one-on-one with Willard. He didn't dare to challenge easily any chance he had to grab the ball.
They are all afraid of being directly injured by Velarde like Ledley and Delani and leaving the field.
Coupled with the fact that Henderson, Emre Can and other teammates were also making strong counterattacks, Crystal Palace's plan to scare Liverpool with fierce fighting failed. Moreover, on the contrary, their players began to worry about injuries and did not dare to fight too fiercely with Liverpool.
Coupled with the fact that two main players were injured and left the field, the Crystal Palace defense was greatly affected. The 0-1 score did not last until the end of the first half and was broken again in the 44th minute.
This time it was Lallana's shot that caused goalkeeper Alex McCarthy to make a save and was hit by center Origi's supplementary shot.
Lallana's performance in these two games is really incredible, and he seems to be regaining his glory and returning to the main force.
Liverpool’s midfield and frontcourt offensive lineup is quite competitive!
