Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 109 Something's Not Right

Facing the upcoming match against Crystal Palace, Aston Villa's head coach David O'Reilly has mixed feelings.

In the League Cup last season, the two teams had played against each other.

Facing Crystal Palace, which was still a Championship team at the time, David O'Reilly didn't take it seriously at first.

However, the result of that game gave David O'Reilly a slap in the face, shattering his wishful thinking of qualifying for the UEFA Cup through the League Cup.

Now, when the two teams meet again, David O'Reilly finds that he needs to look up in the face of Crystal Palace, which has won all six games and tops the Premier League standings.

In less than a year, the positions of the two teams are completely different.

This huge gap made David O'Reilly feel unspeakably awkward.

This season Aston Villa's signings are not big, just bought defender Laursen from AC Milan, introduced midfielder Belsen from Nantes, loaned forward Carlton Cole from Chelsea, and brought in striker Carlton Cole from Chelsea. Rasburg signed defender Drobini on loan.

It's all tinkering, and none of them can play. This is the helplessness of coaching small and medium-sized clubs. The boss has no money.

David O'Reilly's original ambitions have been shattered by reality.

Facing the top of the Premier League, even in Aston Villa's own home court, he still honestly formed a 451 formation for defensive counterattack.

On the Crystal Palace side, because after this game is over, there will be no double matches next week.So instead, Chen Ran adopted an active offensive tactic during this away trip.

center tony
Left midfielder Cristiano Ronaldo, midfielder Modric, right midfielder Ribery

DM Fabregas, DM Simeone

Left-back Chiellini, C-back Southgate, C-back Vidic, Right-back Maicon

goalkeeper cech
As soon as the referee blew the whistle to start the game, Crystal Palace immediately pushed forward, keeping Aston Villa firmly within 30 meters of their own side.

Although on the surface Fabregas played the midfielder position, but in fact he has reached the arc of Aston Villa's penalty area.

Together with Modric, he began to repeatedly pull Aston Villa's defense.

The ball will be distributed to Ronaldo on the left for a while, and Ribery on the right for a while.He even cooperated with Tony, who ran out of the penalty area, to make a two-pass pass and cut.

All of a sudden, the gate guarded by Aston Villa goalkeeper Sorensen immediately fell into a precarious situation, and it seemed that there was a possibility of falling at any time.

David O'Reilly did not expect that Crystal Palace would adopt such an aggressive style of play. He watched the video of the last Crystal Palace game against Manchester City at home.

Except for the 10 minutes at the beginning of the second half, Crystal Palace played weakly for the rest of the game.

The offensive investment is low, and the players are not active in running.

At that time, David O'Reilly thought it was due to the impact of double matches in a week, and the physical fitness of the Crystal Palace players had problems.

For this reason, he was a little happy, thinking that Aston Villa had the hope of scoring points against Crystal Palace.

But what's going on now?

Crystal Palace played weakly at their home court, but they came to Aston Villa to show off their might?
Could it be that Crystal Palace thinks Aston Villa is easier to bully than Manchester City?
David O'Reilly immediately felt humiliated. When Temiao himself led Leeds United to the semi-finals of the Champions League, that Chinese man was still watching in front of the TV.

David O'Reilly is only in his 40s now, and he can be regarded as a young man in the coaching profession.Compared with those well-informed old foxes, they are still a bit inexperienced.

If it was another old fox, seeing this kind of scene, it would shrink into the tortoise shell even more, and it would not come out even if it was killed.

David O'Reilly was still too young, and his head became hot, thinking that since he could defend, he might not be able to defend, so he might as well have a fight with Crystal Palace.

So, David O'Reilly walked to the sidelines and shouted for his players to press on.

Vassell, who was originally arranged by him to play as a winger, has now returned to the forward position, advancing forward with Colombian international Angel.

David O'Reilly's move made Chen Ran stunned.

Aston Villa's players collectively moved at least 30 meters forward before goalkeeper Sorensen kicked in after Toni's header went wide of the line.

"???"

Chen Ranxin said that David O'Reilly is really a warrior, and now there are not many teams who dare to take the initiative to attack Crystal Palace.

Such a rare opportunity must be firmly grasped, otherwise how can we be worthy of a good man like David O'Reilly?
The reporters in the stands were also surprised by the forward move of Aston Villa's formation.

"What is David O'Reilly trying to do? Fight against Crystal Palace?"

"It looks like, don't you see that Vassell's position has returned to the forward?"

"Tsk tsk, this David O'Reilly is really brave. The attack power of Crystal Palace is no joke."

"I think David O'Reilly is not courageous, but he thinks that Aston Villa may not be able to defend. Instead of this, it is better to fight against Crystal Palace. Anyway, the worst result is to lose."

"Hehe, David O'Reilly is still too young. It's the same loss. Is losing one game the same as losing three or four?"

"Let's see if David O'Reilly's courage is rewarded."

Seeing Aston Villa press out, Chen Ran immediately called the Crystal Palace players back from the sidelines, and then called Simeone who was closer to him.

"Diego, tell the whole team to switch to defensive counterattack tactics from now on. You and Cesc Fabregas play as a midfielder, and Modric is still a midfielder. Understand?"

"Understood, boss."

After receiving Chen Ran's latest order, Simeone immediately turned around and ran back to the field to convey it, only to see the formation of Crystal Palace and quickly withdraw it.

Except for center Tony, everyone else retreated to their own half.

"???"

David O'Reilly was also shocked when he saw the changes in Crystal Palace.

what happened?Is your own change of formation so important?
That Chinese man was immediately scared?

Could it be that I underestimated Aston Villa's attack power?
David O'Reilly couldn't help but doubt his previous judgment at this time. Could it be that he overestimated his opponent and underestimated himself?

Forget it, no matter how much.

Since Crystal Palace took the initiative to recover, it just happened to make Aston Villa's offense smoother.

Can't figure it out, David O'Reilly simply doesn't want to.

Now that the arrow is on the string, it has to be launched.

It's not just David O'Reilly who can't figure it out, even the reporters in the stands are also confused.

"What is that Chinese man doing? Didn't he play well just now? Crystal Palace's offensive has completely suppressed Aston Villa, why did he retreat?"

"Isn't it frightened by David O'Reilly's change?"

"Don't be kidding. Just these few players from Aston Villa, can they hold down Crystal Palace?"

"Then why did this Chinese man do this?"

"Who knows, keep reading, I believe there will be an answer in a while."

In fact, Chen Ran's idea is very simple. With the excellent record of Crystal Palace, more and more teams shrink back and play defensive counterattacks when they are playing against Crystal Palace.

Chen Ran had no choice but to adopt Guardiola's tactics.

Although this set of tactics is effective in breaking dense defenses, the requirements for players are too high.

Because the formation of the entire team is very high, the players are required to maintain a high press and a half-court press at all times to prevent the opponent from counterattacking, and this consumes a lot of physical energy.

Now that Aston Villa has come out by itself, Chen Ran is also happy to play the defensive counterattack that Crystal Palace is good at.

Relaxed and freehand, why not do it?
With the strength of Aston Villa players, it is not easy to break through the defense of Crystal Palace.For this, Chen Ran is very confident.

Things were just as Chen Ran expected. Even though Crystal Palace gave up the initiative in the game, Aston Villa's offensive came to an abrupt end outside of Crystal Palace's penalty area.

As soon as the ball entered the penalty area of ​​Crystal Palace, it was destroyed by Southgate, Vidic and others.

Angel and Vassell had no chance to shoot in the penalty area.

The only few shots were all long shots or set kicks.

Aston Villa couldn't break through Crystal Palace's goal, but due to the pressure on the offense, the loopholes in their backcourt were exposed.

With enough sprint space, Ronaldo and Ribery, who are on the two wings, now have the opportunity to show their talents.

Just before the end of the first half, Ronaldo received a long ball from Cesc Fabregas, a croquette, past Aston Villa full-back Dela Cruz.

Then he played a two-for-one cooperation with Modric, bypassing the central defender Laurson who rushed to defend.

When receiving the ball from Modric again, Ronaldo had already rushed into Aston Villa's penalty area and faced Aston Villa's goal.

Although the angle is a bit small, it has formed a single knife and can hit the door.

Aston Villa's goalkeeper Sorensen saw that the situation was not good, so he could only abandon the goal and go up to block Ronaldo's shooting angle as much as possible.

According to Ronaldo's previous personality, no matter how small the shooting angle is, he will definitely choose to shoot.

But since Chen Ran fulfilled his bet on the Porsche sports car at the end of last season, the two made a new agreement.

Chen Ran's request is very simple, that is, as long as Ronaldo can also get ten assists in the Premier League this season, then Chen Ran will give Ronaldo another Ferrari.

White PIAO makes people happy, which is human nature, and Ronaldo can't resist this temptation.

So, at this critical moment, Ronaldo instinctively remembered the Ferrari sports car, and then subconsciously passed the ball across the middle, making Sorensen's attack completely useless.

At this time, Tony was blocking another Aston Villa central defender Melberg behind him, stretched out his foot and pushed gently, and sent the ball into the now unguarded Aston Villa goal .

"Goal"

Crystal Palace lead Aston Villa 1-0.

After witnessing all this, Chen Ran couldn't help but feel a little proud.

It can allow Ronaldo to grasp the rationality of handling the ball earlier, and the money for these two sports cars will not be wasted.

On the other side, David O'Reilly, who saw the goal lost, sat back on the bench a little discouraged.

He knew in his heart that Aston Villa's game was probably hanging.

After Crystal Palace takes the lead, they will definitely continue to shrink back and play defensive counterattacks.

And if Aston Villa continues to attack, it is likely to be attacked by Crystal Palace.

However, the matter has come to this point, David. O'Reilly decided to continue to attack, giving up halfway is not his character.

During the intermission, just as David O'Reilly expected, Chen Ran did not change his defensive tactics.

Instead, he replaced Fabregas with Yaya Toure, and then pulled Modric back to the position of the midfielder, playing Yaya Toure, Modric and Simeone's three midfielder tactics .

Therefore, throughout the second half of the game, although Aston Villa had always taken the initiative on the field, Crystal Palace relied on counterattacks and scored two more goals.

No.60 In the second minute, Toni received a cross from Ribery, jumped high, overwhelmed Melberg and broke through the goal guarded by Sorensen again with a header.

No. 708 minutes, this time Ronaldo took advantage of Aston Villa's heavy pressure and the empty space in the rear, received a long pass from Modric over 30 meters from the backcourt, and first picked the ball past Raul Sen, and then without waiting for the ball to hit the ground, he shot directly.

The ball crossed a beautiful arc and went straight to the dead corner of the goal. Crystal Palace led Aston Villa 3:0.

This time, it can be regarded as completely crushing the morale of the Aston Villa players.

In the remaining time of the game, Aston Villa never organized a decent offensive again.

In the end, with the whistle of the referee, Crystal Palace relied on Tony's brace and Cristiano Ronaldo's world wave to beat Aston Villa 3-0 in the away game.

While achieving seven consecutive victories in the Premier League, it also brought Chen Ran a winning bonus of 200 million euros.

而在本轮的其他英超比赛里，阿森纳在客场1：0小胜曼城，切尔西在客场同样以1：0小胜米德尔斯堡，曼联在客场1：0小胜托特纳姆热刺，利物浦在主场3：0大胜诺维奇。

In other words, these strong teams all won this round.The position of the top three in the Premier League has not changed in any way.

Unfortunately, the joy of victory disappeared with the appearance of Little Fatty Louis.

"Chen, there seems to be something wrong with the rumors in the transfer market recently."

"What's the matter, have you heard any news?"

Chen Ran asked casually while looking at the information in his hand, he thought that the little fat man sent him newspapers from major media.

"No news."

"not any."

Chen Ran was taken aback for a moment, and there was something wrong with what he said, and then he suddenly raised his head to look at Louis.

(End of this chapter)