At present, the Czech Football League has just passed the winter break, they only have 18 teams in the league, the winter break is almost a month, the advantage of such a long winter break is that the players can get a good rest, the disadvantage is that they may not be able to fully adapt to the rhythm of the game for a while, the first leg of this Europa League is the first game after the winter break in Sparta Prague.

Crystal Palace fielded a 442 formation as usual in this game, with Speroni in the goalkeeper position, and Mark Speloni in the backline. Johnson, Benatia, McCarthy, Hills, midfielders Scannell, Mertens, Kante, Stroman, Vardy and Klose up front.

Changing the formation 442 is one of the ways that Wen Sheng has thought about in the past two days, and it is one of the ways to deal with the lack of midfielders, and Prague can just test it.

442 is more like 424, Wensheng is not going to be conservative in the away game, to solve the battle as much as possible with a positive offensive attitude, of course, with the existence of bilateral forwards, the fullback is mainly responsible for defense, and you don't have to press too much on the offense to support, as long as you cooperate to put pressure on the opponent, as much as possible to avoid the bottom,

Under the double striker, Klose has been given heavier responsibilities, Wensheng has specifically explained his requirements to Klose, without De Bruyne's all-round forward, Klose has to be as versatile as possible, he may not be able to do so well, but at the moment he is definitely more suitable than Vardy for Wensheng's requirements for nine and a half.

Prague's head coach Joseph. Hovanec has been a former Sparta Prague player, team-mate with Nedved and others, and has coached the national team before, and he has been in charge of Sparta Prague since 2005, so he has been doing a good job and is an experienced manager.

Wen Sheng originally thought that Sparta Prague was the home stadium, and they should attack harder to try to win against Crystal Palace.

But he didn't expect Khovanets to simply put the bus on the bus and firmly play defensive counterattacks.

"You know, they've never played well against our England team!" Hawkins shook his head.

Sparta Prague has a long history of poor results against England, and in Hovanec's hands he has had several meetings with England teams, losing all of them.

Hawkins said that the reason is just one of them, but the more important reason is that Sparta Prague wants to qualify, and Horbanec has to be a little more careful.

England's teams are like Crystal Palace, many teams do not value the economic benefits brought to them by the Europa League, which is not as good as working hard in the league, but these teams in Eastern Europe are different, Sparta Prague can only be regarded as a third-rate team, their operating costs are relatively low, and the Europa League is an important economic source that must be cherished.

It's just that their strength has indeed been far behind the mainstream league teams a lot over the years, not to mention that Crystal Palace, the promoted horse, knows that the strength of Hovanets is very strong, and the head coach Wen Sheng is very famous in Europe.

Especially after the draw for Crystal Palace in December last year, the Czech media paid close attention to the situation of Crystal Palace and Wensheng.

The tree is a big move, of course, Howanets has studied the team of Crystal Palace carefully, Crystal Palace's counterattack has always been sharp, and Hovanets doesn't know?! So to be on the safe side, he chose to be cautious and tie his fence tightly.

Wen Sheng has no choice but to fight a tough battle, with Klose, crosses can be used, the old comrade's header skills are still there, but the jump may not be as arrogant as before.

Howanets didn't expect Crystal Palace to use 442 tactics in this game, and he was still a little uncomfortable at the beginning, so that Crystal Palace got a lot of opportunities, but unfortunately the players of Crystal Palace did not grasp it, which made Wensheng feel very regretful.

Sparta Prague's players adapted for more than ten or twenty minutes, their performance was much more consistent, they ran aggressively, tirelessly, and their formation was backward, which made Crystal Palace gradually a little blind, and Crystal Palace got a few set-piece opportunities, but unfortunately they were not very threatening.

The uneventful 0:0 in the first half made Wen Sheng not only a little worried.

At half-time, he grabbed Klose again and carefully explained what he didn't do well.

The veteran was given important responsibilities today, but he hasn't played such an important role for many years, and there is a lot of creativity in the Bayern Munich midfield, so Klose naturally doesn't have to take on so many responsibilities, and now the situation at Crystal Palace is different, and he still needs some adaptation.

He didn't do a good job in the first half and it was easy to be too dead.

"Mino, you need to retreat a little deeper when you receive the ball, their defense is too far back, and you can't follow behind!"

"Dris, Sean, you have to focus more on individual breakthroughs in the second half and cut into their box?! Don't worry about mistakes! ”

"Their defense is very well organized, we can't penetrate them, so at this time you must strengthen your personal breakthrough and tear their defense!"

There are many ways to deal with the bus, individual breakthroughs, strong team penetration, set-pieces, long-range shots can be the way to win, but Crystal Palace is not good at penetration, lack of De Bruyne, others really can't pass that kind of ball, set-pieces needless to say, has always been the weakness of Crystal Palace, not only their own set-piece offensive efficiency is poor, but also the defensive set-piece is barely good.

As for long-range shots, who can?!

Stroman could, N'Golo Kante couldn't.

This season for Kante, Wen Sheng is a little guilty, Kante is more and more used as a sapper, the offensive role is not as good as last season, Wen Sheng doesn't want him to be like this, but now the team doesn't need Kante's contribution in this regard, as one of the two backs, he is more of a defensive responsibility, and it is enough to give a certain amount of support in attack, and he does not need to hold the ball more, but needs him to press forward without the ball.

After all, a personal breakthrough should be a more feasible plan, so Wen Sheng hopes that the two wings will strengthen their personal breakthroughs while suppressing their opponents to create problems for them.

Sparta Prague were still on the defensive at the start of the second half, and Wensheng guessed that Hovanets should think of not conceding a goal at home, and when it came to Selhurst, his side could put more force into the counter-attack to get a goal.

Now he can't care so much, so he can only wait patiently.

I have to say that Crystal Palace's tactical adjustment still brought a lot of trouble to the opponent, after all, Sparta Prague players have limited personal ability, so that they have many dangers in front of the goal, and their goalkeeper Brazek began to perform high in front of the goal to resist, stunned that Crystal Palace could not score goals.

Their luck was blazing, but in the 89th minute, Palace still scored.

One of the tactical means of breaking the bus is a set-piece, Crystal Palace relied on a set-piece from the left position, and Benatia successfully scored the killer goal!

Wen Sheng wiped a handful of sweat from his head.

It was too hard to use all the wingers he could use, and it turned out to be set-pieces, a tactic that his own team didn't seem to be able to use well.

After the game, Wen Sheng praised Sparta Prague's goalkeeper Brazek.

'We did really well and created a lot of chances! But they had Brazek standing in front of the door today, and he was really amazing! They did very well and if it's a draw, I think I can take it, they deserve it! ”

The tenacity of the opponent left a deep impression on Wen Sheng, who had to admit that the opponent was really good, but 0:1 was not a very ideal result for them.

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