Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 126 Love Song
Such a good opportunity, how could Ronaldo miss it?

Without any hesitation, Ronaldo made a round and shot with one kick.

"boom!"

The ball was fast and powerful, and it directly hit the lower edge of Newcastle United's crossbar and bounced into the goal.Ji Wen even had time to stretch out his hand subconsciously, without even touching the fur of the ball.

"Goal"

Crystal Palace lead Newcastle United 1-0.

"Haha, the cooperation is really beautiful!"

The players on the pitch hugged each other to celebrate, and on the bench, Chen Ran also hugged Guardiola and Southgate.

"Boss, the tactics we designed in training have come out."

Seeing that their hard work has paid off, Guardiola and Southgate, who have just become coaches, are also very excited, even happier than their own goals.

After breaking the deadlock, the initiative for the next game completely fell into the hands of Crystal Palace.

However, this time Chen Ran didn't immediately take back and switch to defensive counterattack.

Because of Southgate's absence, Crystal Palace's defensive stability has dropped a lot.

Therefore, Chen Ran is now adopting the method of substituting offense for defense to reduce the pressure on the back line.

Souness is also the top iron. Since he has made an offensive tactical arrangement before the game, he has no intention of giving up.Now conceding a goal first gave him the motivation to give it a go.

It's a pity that Newcastle United's forced attack ended because Crystal Palace took advantage of their eagerness to equalize the score, and Tony scored another goal, entering the intermission with a two-goal lead.

"Guys, you performed well in the first half. In the second half, the team will adopt a double-tower tactic and try to score two more goals. Are you confident?"

"Have!"

In the locker room, the response of the Crystal Palace players was loud.

At the beginning of the second half, Chen Ran replaced Modric with Crouch as usual.Crouch hadn't been refrigerated just because he might want to leave.

The entire second half of the game was uneventful.

Although Souness has successively replaced Kluivert and Bart and other freshmen introduced this season, Alan Shearer also scored a goal for Newcastle United.

But on the Crystal Palace side, Tony and Crouch each scored a goal, completely killing Newcastle United's hope of scoring points.

In the end, when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, Crystal Palace beat Newcastle United 4-1 at home with two goals from Tony and goals from Ronaldo and Crouch.

While winning the No.14 round of the Premier League, it also brought Chen Ran a winning bonus of 200 million euros.

In the other matches of this round of the Premier League, Arsenal were tied 1:1 by West Bromwich Albion at home, and Chelsea were tied 2:2 by Bolton at home.

This time, the two opponents who were closely chasing Crystal Palace failed to win at the same time, allowing Crystal Palace to take the opportunity to continue to expand their lead.

The other two strong teams Manchester United defeated Charlton 2:0 at Old Trafford, while Liverpool lost 0:2 away to Middlesbrough.

After the No.14 round of the Premier League, Crystal Palace topped the standings with 42 points in [-] consecutive victories.

Chelsea has ten wins, two draws and two losses with 32 points, continuing to rank second.

Arsenal ranked third with nine wins, three draws and two losses with [-] points.

Thousands of miles away in China, as the winning streak of the Crystal Palace continues to increase, the Post Bar of the Crystal Palace is also becoming more and more lively.

"Invincible, really invincible, Crystal Palace is now in a state of sweeping the Premier League."

"Hehe, you are too high-profile, it is easy to attract black people like this."

"That's right. Before we win the Premier League championship, it's better for us to develop insignificantly first."

"That's right. Isn't there an old saying: 'Build walls high, accumulate food widely, and become king slowly'."

"I'll go, why do you think so much about watching a game? Just do it if you don't accept it!"

"No way. Crystal Palace is just a newly promoted team. It is incomparable with the old strong teams such as Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool. It is better to keep a low profile."

"It's okay, with Chen Ran here, I believe that Crystal Palace will become a wealthy club in the near future."

"Hey, I agree with that."

"Agree +1"

"Agree +2"

As the Crystal Palace continued to refresh their winning streak, the media in England has become a little numb.

Coupled with the fact that there was no explosive point in this game, the attention of the reporters was attracted by another matter.

That was the penalty for Pepe's foul that caused Cisse's fracture in the last game.

The FA believes that there is no evidence to prove that Pepe has maliciously injured others, and only suspends him for one game in accordance with the normal red card penalty rules.

This made the media in England explode. For a while, discussions about whether the punishment of Pepe was fair this time filled the pages of major media.

Chen Ran is naturally very satisfied with the punishment of the FA, saying that it is rare for the FA to find out.

After rejecting all interview requests from the media, Chen Ran turned his attention to the next opponent Crystal Palace will face, Villarreal from Spain.

Villarreal at this time is not an ordinary team.

Just this season, Villarreal only ranks behind Barcelona and Real Madrid, and will get No.3 in the Spanish First Division.

In the Villarreal lineup, there are still a group of talented players.

Riquelme, who is like the core midfielder from Argentina, is known as the last classical attacking midfielder.

The striker from Uruguay will win the La Liga Golden Boot this season. Diego Forlan.

There are also powerful players such as Jose Mari, Figueroa, Cazorla, Marcos, Senna, Tachinardi, Sorin, and Fonte.

It is also this group of players that created Villarreal's peak period.

The current head coach of Villarreal is also the famous Chilean engineer Pellegrini.

With his outstanding performance in coaching Villarreal, Pellegrini became one of the world's first-line coaches, and later got the opportunity to coach Real Madrid.

For this small Spanish team that is still not very eye-catching, the reborn Chen Ran will not have any thoughts of underestimating it.

In this away game, he has made the most difficult preparations.

For this reason, Guardiola, Southgate, Simeone and others did not understand.

Especially Guardiola, as an out-and-out Spaniard, his impression of Villarreal is still on the La Liga relegation team.

It's not his fault, Guardiola, who was born in Barcelona, ​​hasn't worked hard in Spain in recent years.

I usually pay attention to the situation of my old club Barcelona, ​​and at most add my old rival Real Madrid.

For other Spanish teams, he didn't pay attention at all.

That is to say, to prepare information about Villarreal for Chen Ran, Guardiola deliberately collected relevant information.

When he saw Villarreal's La Liga rankings in the previous three seasons, he thought it would be no problem for Crystal Palace to win their opponents.

Because Villarreal was almost relegated in two of the previous three seasons.

2001-2002赛季No.15名，2002-2003赛季No.15名，2003-2004赛季No.8。

Villarreal's qualification to participate in the UEFA Cup this season was only obtained by winning the Intertoto Cup last season.

"Boss, is Villarreal worthy of your attention?"

Guardiola asked a little puzzled.

"Well, the current Villarreal is not the former Villarreal. They now have a lot of good players and a good coach. We can't take it lightly."

Seeing the disapproval expressions of the three assistants, Chen Ran's heart sank.

This is not a good sign, a proud soldier must be defeated.

Thinking of this, Chen Ran's expression changed, and his tone of voice increased.

"I want to remind you, don't be dazzled by the results in front of you. For opponents you don't know, there is no harm in being extra careful, do you understand?"

Chen Ran usually has a pleasant face and rarely speaks in such a harsh tone.

Such a sudden change also made Guardiola, Southgate and Simeone stunned, and suddenly became vigilant.

It seems that the boss doesn't pay much attention to Villarreal, a small Spanish team.

Villarreal is located in the autonomous region of Valencia, Spain. It is a small city with a population of just over 5.

Villarreal's home ballad stadium can only accommodate more than 2 people.

This UEFA Cup game against the top of the Premier League made the entire Love Song stadium full of seats.

In other words, nearly half of the residents in the entire city of Villarreal came to watch the game.

For this game, Chen Ran sent a lineup of defensive counterattacks.

center tony
Left midfielder Cristiano Ronaldo, right midfielder Ribery
DM Yaya Toure, DM Modric, DM Simeone

Left back Chiellini, center back Thiago Silva, center back Vidic, right back Maicon
goalkeeper cech
Such a conservative lineup arrangement completely treats Villarreal as a strong team like Arsenal and Chelsea. It is no wonder that Guardiola and others are puzzled.

And here in Villarreal, Pellegrini also sent all the main players.

Diego Forlan and Figueroa partnered up front, and Riquelme was responsible for organizing the offense as the attacking midfielder.

Tachinardi and Marcos Senna form a double defensive midfielder. The former is an Italian international born in Juventus with strong defensive ability, while the latter not only has excellent defensive ability, but also has good organizational offensive ability. Shooting skills are very good.

Especially Marcos Senna, who was originally a Brazilian, but was favored by Spanish coach Aragones because of his outstanding ability. After changing his nationality, he was recruited into the talented Spanish national team.

There is also the Argentine international Sorin, who is also a powerful character who can take the entire left wing.He can play from left wing to left back.

It can be said that Villarreal is already a strong team in terms of the configuration of the center and frontcourt.

This point has been verified from the beginning of the game.

Under Riquelme's organization, Villarreal quickly took the initiative on the field.

The offensive wave after wave made Crystal Palace's defense a little breathless.

"Boss, I didn't expect Villarreal to be so strong now. I was negligent."

Guardiola approached Chen Ran and confessed his mistake in a low voice.

Chen Ran glared at him angrily, but said nothing.

Who made Guardiola have just started as a coach and is relatively immature?
In fact, Chen Ran knew in his heart that this was because Guardiola had been playing for Barcelona since La Masia.

Except for Real Madrid, he actually looked down on other Spanish teams in his bones, so he made the mistake of underestimating the enemy.

However, it seems that my own arrangement has not played any role.

Looking at the battle situation on the field, Chen Ran couldn't help frowning.

Before the game, he specially arranged for Yaya Toure to mark Riquelme.

But judging from the current effect, it is far from ideal.

Riquelme's technique is so good, compared with him, Yaya Toure is like a tall and clumsy wooden stake, played around by Riquelme.

No way, Yaya Toure is too tall, and his shortcoming of slow movement frequency is usually not obvious.

But now facing Riquelme with excellent skills, he got rid of him in a few moves, which made Yaya Toure fall into a state of exhaustion.

No, if Riquelme is allowed to play so freely, something will happen sooner or later, Chen Ran feels that he must make some adjustments.

"Diego, you go and mark Riquelme instead of Yaya Toure."

Taking advantage of the dead ball, Chen Ran immediately called Simeone to the sidelines.

"Got it, boss."

The effect of the adjustment is immediate.

The old Simeone immediately made his fellow Riquelme feel very uncomfortable.

As soon as Riquelme was restricted, Villarreal's offensive threat immediately weakened a lot.

Because the number of times Diego Forlan and Figueroa received the ball dropped significantly compared to the beginning.

If they can't catch the ball, they naturally have no chance to shoot.At this time, the defense line of Crystal Palace has a chance to breathe.

Pellegrini on the other side did not respond.

It wasn't that he didn't see Chen Ran's adjustment, but that he was very confident in Riquelme's ability and believed that he would be able to create threatening shooting opportunities for the striker.

Chen Ran used Simeone instead of Yaya Touré to mark Riquelme, and the effect was good, but as time went by, another fatal problem was exposed.

Because Simeone is almost 35 years old this year, and his physical fitness is not as good as before.

In this way, the whole court marks Riquelme, and he goes wherever Riquelme goes, which consumes a lot of physical energy.

Now that the halftime game is not over, Simeone's footsteps have begun to lose track of him.

"Boss, Diego's physical fitness seems to be a bit behind."

Guardiola came up again at this time, and he also discovered this situation.

"Well, you let Mascherano warm up now."

Chen Ran didn't look back, and directly gave Guardio the order.

"Should we change now? The first half is almost over, should we wait until the intermission?"

"First confuse Pellegrini, let him mistakenly think that I will continue to strengthen the defense. I will change the formation in the middle of the midfield, so that at the beginning of the second half, we can beat Villarreal by surprise."

"Boss, what tactics are you going to use?"

"You'll know then."

(End of this chapter)