Arsenal's unexpected defeat at the Reebok Stadium largely comforted Tottenham fans who were extremely disappointed because the team was tied with Chelsea at the last moment, allowing them to spend a happy weekend. After all, although Tottenham failed to defeat Chelsea in this direct confrontation, the team still has a one-point advantage and has the initiative in this league championship battle, so the fans did not feel too much regret. disappointment. Moreover, arch-rival Arsenal overturned against Bolton and was further widened by Tottenham in the standings, which also played a considerable psychological comfort role for Tottenham fans.
As for Tottenham, the result of being equalized by Chelsea at the last moment did not have much negative impact on the players. On the contrary, it further strengthened their self-confidence - even opponents of Chelsea's level must rely on Ibrahimovic's last-minute performance. Only a flash of inspiration can barely escape the fate of defeat, so facing these teams that are far inferior to Chelsea, if they have neither schedule worries nor injuries, it would be really unreasonable if they cannot win.
In this way, the time came to January 22, and the twenty-fourth round of the English League went on as scheduled. Tottenham Hotspur visited Selhurst Park to challenge Crystal Palace, which was fighting for relegation!
Speaking of the Crystal Palace in the 2004-05 season, one player has to be mentioned, that is, Andrew Johnson, a local English shooter who rose to prominence this season and has the same name as a certain American president. The striker, who debuted at the Birmingham club, only scored eight goals in the first four seasons of his career. However, after moving to Crystal Palace, his scoring momentum was unstoppable, with 13 goals this season. The goal is tied with Drogba in the British scorer list, only behind Highbury King Thierry Henry!
Of course, unlike Drogba, who scores all league goals in sports matches, penalty kicks account for a large proportion of Andrew Johnson's goals - so far in the 2004-05 season, Andrew Johnson has scored Of the total thirteen league goals scored, there were five penalty kicks!
The reason why it occupies such a high proportion is that on the one hand, Andrew Johnson is the number one penalty kicker of Crystal Palace, so the proportion will naturally be higher; on the other hand, it is because Andrew Johnson likes to use fake penalties in games. Fall to cheat a penalty kick!
The team's top penalty taker + master of penalty kick deception, and having an English registered permanent residence, it would be strange if Andrew Johnson didn't hit many penalty kicks.
At this point, Tottenham can be said to have quite a say. You know, in the first meeting between the two sides this season, Drogba scored the first goal for Tottenham, which was at home at the time, shortly after the start of the game, and maintained this one-goal lead for most of the game. But because of Andrew Johnson's diving in the penalty area and a penalty kick, he lost the three points he was about to get!
It is for this reason that before the game started, George emphasized not to easily foul Andrew Johnson in the penalty area, or to make the referee feel that he was suspected of fouling him in the penalty area: "However, this does not mean that We are going to let this cunning boy roam freely in our penalty area. If the situation is urgent, it is not a bad idea to give him a penalty kick... I don't think Crystal Palace has the ability to withstand our offensive. This is even the case with Chelsea and Juventus. Something that Tusi didn’t do.”
"Boss, what do you mean, rather than preventing Andrew Johnson from cheating on penalty kicks in the game, getting as many goals as possible is the key to winning this game?" After hearing George's words, Ronaldo His eyes lit up and he couldn't wait to ask.
"That's right." Seeing Ronaldo understand the meaning of his words, George nodded approvingly and said, "In the past twenty-three league games, Crystal Palace has conceded a total of thirty-seven goals. Ranked fifth from the bottom among English teams. This shows that the quality of Crystal Palace's defense is actually quite bad. Therefore, if we expand the lead as much as possible, then even if Andrew Johnson cheats penalty kicks again, there is no way he can do it. You saved the day like that in the last fight!"
Hearing that George asked them to let go of their offense in this game, all the Tottenham players present were eager to give it a try. Like George, the players are also full of resentment towards Crystal Palace, an opponent who stole a victory from them with a controversial penalty.
However, what George did not expect was that his arrangement before the game allowed the Tottenham players who had clearly set their goals to completely kill the suspense of the game in just half an hour!
Only three minutes into the game, Robben relied on his personal ability to advance quickly from the left. After passing two Crystal Palace players in a row, he assisted Drogba to score, 1 to 0!
Five minutes later, Tottenham made a comeback. It was Robben who still formed a breakthrough on the left, but this time the Dutch Peter Pan chose to dribble the ball inside. After attracting most of the Crystal Palace's defensive power, he decisively struck across the ball. Drogba in the middle of the penalty area made a clever pass, allowing him to follow up. Cristiano Ronaldo got the chance to hit the empty goal, 2 to 0!
Conceding two goals in less than ten minutes after the start of the game stunned the Crystal Palace players. They did not expect that Tottenham's offensive would be so fierce and merciless. As a result, Crystal Palace, who was stunned by Tottenham's opening three goals, was penetrated by Robben and Vidic in the next twenty minutes, and fell into a passive situation of falling behind by a big score early!
Although Andrew Johnson repeated his old tricks in the second half, falling in the Tottenham penalty area during a counterattack and getting a penalty kick himself, but when the score between the two sides had become 6 to 1, Johnson's move A goal can actually have no impact on the overall situation!
Referees are not fools. Perhaps he would have awarded Crystal Palace a penalty because of Andrew Johnson's brilliant performance in the penalty area, but he would not have given Palace one penalty after another without solid evidence - if that happened. situation, it will inevitably cause strong dissatisfaction from Tottenham, and he himself will be pushed to the forefront. When the FA and pgmol launch an investigation under the pressure of public opinion and the truth comes out, he will most likely be infamous because of this game and lose the qualification to continue law enforcement in the UK!
Just like that, when the game ended, Tottenham Hotspur, playing away from home, bloodbathed Crystal Palace 7-1, avenging the previous draw with one stone by their opponent using a controversial penalty kick!
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