Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 174 Unexpectedly, these little guys are really competitive!
Because, the starting lineup sent by Crystal Palace in this game is all substitutes and young players.This gave Benitez a feeling of punching the cotton with all his strength.

Chen Ran played this game thoroughly. Not only did all the players use substitutes, he even handed over the command of this game to Simeone, who is good at defensive counterattacks.

Simeone even brought his tactical concept to the extreme, shrinking the defense and entangled with Liverpool until the last moment of the game.

If Pique, who came off the bench, was inexperienced and gave Liverpool a penalty kick, otherwise Simeone might really be able to drag Liverpool to a penalty shootout.

If it's time to kick a penalty, then anything can happen.

After giving up the League Cup match with Liverpool, the main players of Crystal Palace got a relatively sufficient rest time.

Three days later, in the No.11 round of the Premier League, Crystal Palace beat Portsmouth 3-0 at home with goals from Ronaldo, Modric and Mascherano.

After playing the Premier League, Chen Ran took the team to Seville, Spain to challenge Real Betis away.

For this Champions Cup group match, Chen Ran still did not dare to relax at all, and dispatched all the main players of Crystal Palace.

However, because it was an away game, Chen Ran adopted Simeone's defensive counterattack tactics.

Real Betis obviously wanted to win the Crystal Palace at home, and attacked across the board from the beginning.

Fortunately, Chen Ran was well prepared. After more than two years of training, Crystal Palace's defensive players have already possessed a strong ability to resist blows.

Real Betis stormed most of the game, but still failed to break through the Crystal Palace defense.

After seven to 10 minutes of the game, the physical fitness of Real Betis players began to decline significantly.

And this was the opportunity Chen Ran was waiting for.

Substitution, change, onslaught.

Crystal Palace went all out and scored with a header from Toni, beating Real Betis 1-0 in the away game.

After the game, Chen Ran immediately flew back to London overnight from Seville with the team.

Three days later, Crystal Palace will usher in another fierce battle with Arsenal.

By the time we got back to London, it was already the next morning.

Not to mention the players of the Crystal Palace, even Chen Ran and the other coaches who didn't need to play were too tired to move.

The team members were sent home to have a good rest for a day, and when they concentrated again, it was already the morning of the third day.

Due to the continuous campaign, the physical condition of the players has been used to the limit.

Therefore, Chen Ran did not arrange any training, but asked his assistants to move their bodies and do some simple recovery movements.

"Boss, the physical condition of the players is not very good. Some players are already overtired. If they are used again, they may be prone to injuries."

As Guardiola said, he handed the Crystal Palace players' physical condition monitoring data report to Chen Ran.

Chen Ran took it over and took a look, his heart sank.

What's more, almost all the main players are too tired.

It seems that in this game against Arsenal, it is impossible not to rotate.

After all, the season is still very long. If the main players are injured for this game, it would be too cost-effective.

"Josep, you go to the youth team and transfer a few young players. In this game, we will use substitutes to add young players."

"Boss, are you planning to give up this game against Arsenal?"

"Who said that? Arsenal will also play in the Champions League group stage, and their players are no better than us."

Chen Ran gave Guardiola an angry look.

"Besides, our substitutes and young players in Crystal Palace are not bad. It is not certain who will win and who will lose in this game."

Now that the matter has developed to this point, Chen Ran simply decided to play big.So, he drew up a jaw-dropping starting lineup.

Forward Dzeko (19), Forward Suarez (18)
Left midfielder Bale (16 years old), right midfielder Vardy (18 years old)
midfielder Mascherano (21 years old), midfielder Yaya Toure (22 years old)
Left back Evra (24 years old), center back Thiago Silva (21 years old), center back Pepe (22 years old), right back Alves (22 years old)
Goalkeeper van der Sar (35 years old)
It can be said that, except for the goalkeeper Van der Sar, all are young players.

The average age of this lineup is only 21.63 years old.

Especially in the frontcourt, the oldest Dzeko is 19 years old, and the youngest Bell is 16 years old who has just graduated from high school.

When Chen Ran came up with the starting list, Guardiola, Simeone and Southgate were all stunned.

"Boss, are you kidding me?"

Southgate looked a little dazed.

"Ahem, what are you thinking? Am I joking about this kind of thing?"

"Boss, this game against Arsenal is the Premier League, not the League Cup like it was against Liverpool."

Simeone was worried that Chen Ran had misremembered the nature of the game, so he kindly reminded him.

"I know it's the Premier League game against Arsenal. I'm not old and I have a good memory."

"Boss, although Arsenal also played in the Champions League, their grouping is better than ours. There are no strong teams in their group."

"Two days ago, they easily won Sparta Prague in the Czech Republic 3-0 at home, and we just flew back from the away game in Spain."

"From the perspective of physical consumption, Arsenal can be said to be waiting for work. They can definitely send a main lineup to deal with us."

"If we use this lineup to play Arsenal, I'm afraid there will be more than good luck."

Guardiola was obviously also very worried about Chen Ran's starting lineup, and his eyebrows frowned.

"Do you think I want to take such a risk? You have also read the monitoring data of the players' physical condition brought by Josep. Do you think these main players can play again? For a game, the main players were injured. ,does it worth?"

Chen Ran spread his arms and looked helplessly at the three musketeers in front of him.

This time, Guardiola and the three of them stopped talking.

They are all players, especially Southgate and Simeone, who are still the main players of Crystal Palace.

At their age, I probably know what my physical condition is.

It's not that you can't continue to play, but it's really very easy to get injured.

It may be an ordinary action that is usually fine, but if you do it now, you will be injured.

"Okay, I understand your worries. But things have come to this point, and you have to make a choice. Besides, the level of our young players is still very good. Maybe they can bring us surprises. .”

Chen Ran was busy persuading his assistant to accept his exaggerated starting list.

Here at Arsenal, Wenger is in a good mood.

Although the team's performance in the Premier League is not very good, but in the Champions League, Arsenal is playing well.

The club's financial situation makes Wenger's current mentality very calm.

He knew in his heart that it was already difficult for Arsenal to compete with Crystal Palace and Chelsea for the Premier League title.

Therefore, he put his main energy into various cup competitions, especially the European Champions Cup.

After all, compared with the league, the number of games in the cup is much less, and it is more likely to be upset.

Maybe as long as you play one or two key games well, you can win the championship.

More importantly, the high bonuses of the Champions League are a very crucial income for Arsenal, who are currently short of money.

However, facing the upcoming Premier League match with Crystal Palace, Wenger does not intend to let it go.

Because he has carefully studied Crystal Palace's schedule and their opponents.

Wenger is very sure that the current Crystal Palace must be exhausted, and this is also the easiest time for the Crystal Palace to deal with.

If such a good opportunity is missed, even God will not forgive himself.

Arsenal and Crystal Palace have played against each other in the past two years. Arsenal has been overwhelmed by Crystal Palace.

So far, Arsenal has not won against Crystal Palace, where does this make Wenger face?
Therefore, after Wenger easily won Sparta Prague at home, he has been gearing up and waiting for the Crystal Palace to come to his door.

Looking at the photo of Chen Ran in the newspaper in front of him, Wenger smiled slightly.

"Little guy, I'm sorry, I must show you some color this time."

Because since the beginning of this season, Crystal Palace has been renting Arsenal's Highbury Stadium.

So even though this game is Arsenal's home court, Crystal Palace is no stranger to it, it's just that Arsenal fans are sitting in the stadium now.

In order to win this game, Wenger still did his best.

Forward Henry, Forward Bergkamp

Left Midfielder Pires, Central Midfielder Gilberto Silva, Central Midfielder Hleb, Right Midfielder Ljungberg

Left back Ashley Cole, centre-back Campbell, centre-back Kolo Toure, right-back Lauren
goalkeeper leyman
Just when Wenger was full of ambition and ready to win Crystal Palace, assistant coach Pat Rice brought him the starting list of Crystal Palace.

"Pat, are you sure this starting list is real?"

Wenger looked at his assistant in disbelief and asked.

"Yes, boss. When I first saw it, I also felt that this starting list must be wrong. But after repeated confirmation, this is indeed Crystal Palace's starting list for this game."

Pat Rice shrugged, indicating that he was also surprised.

"It seems that the little guy from Huaguo is planning to give up this game."

"Probably so. Crystal Palace just came back from Spain's Champions League match, and their main players must be very tired, otherwise the Chinese man would not have played without all the main players."

"Hehe, Pat, from this point of view, we are more confident in winning the Crystal Palace game today."

"Yes, boss. Today, our Arsenal must win!"

When the two teams lined up to enter the field, not only the fans who were familiar with Crystal Palace were very surprised.

Even the media reporters watching the game from the stands widened their eyes, repeatedly confirming the players from Crystal Palace.

"Good guy, Crystal Palace really played with all substitutes today."

"Yeah, none of the main players played. Is that Chinese man going to give up this game?"

"I'm afraid that's true. Crystal Palace played six games in [-] days, and just flew back from Spain after playing the Champions League game the day before yesterday. I estimate that the main players of Crystal Palace must be very tired now."

"Nine times out of ten, that's the case. Otherwise, that Chinese man wouldn't give up this Premier League game. This is not a League Cup match."

"Then this decision is really bold enough. You must know that Chelsea is only three points behind Crystal Palace. If Crystal Palace loses this game, then Chelsea will catch up."

"Hehe, it's more interesting this way, isn't it? If Crystal Palace is far ahead like last season, I'll almost throw up when I write a manuscript praising Crystal Palace."

"That is, the league still looks better with competition. Although I don't like the upstart Chelsea, if they can prevent the Chinese from Crystal Palace from continuing to win the Premier League title, then I don't mind being a Chelsea fan. "

"Haha, I thought so too."

"Me too!"

Seeing the full bench lineup sent by Crystal Palace, Wenger will naturally not be polite.

When the referee blew the whistle to start the game, Arsenal pushed forward across the board, attacking violently as if they wanted to eat Crystal Palace in one bite.

Fortunately, although the Crystal Palace lineup is too young, the defensive players from the midfielder to the goalkeeper still have a lot of game experience.

It is certain to be in a hurry, but it did not collapse as Wenger expected.

According to Chen Ran's request, the two full-backs Bell and Vardy also retreated to their own half to help Evra and Alves defend.

Suarez also retreated to the center circle to harass Arsenal's Hleb, who was responsible for organizing the attack.

Only Dzeko was left in front by Chen Ran, ready to serve as the bridgehead for the counterattack at any time.

For these teenagers of the youth team, there are not many opportunities to play in normal times.

Even if there is a chance to play, most of them are some games that the team is ready to give up.

For example, in the previous League Cup against Liverpool, it was not even Chen Ran, the head coach of the team, who stood on the sidelines and directed the game.

This time is very different from the past. This game is the Premier League.And what we have to face is the traditional strong team Arsenal.Standing on the sidelines and directing the game is also the team's head coach Chen Ran himself.

This time, these teenagers who got the chance to play were extremely excited.Everyone made up their minds to perform well so as to leave a deep impression on Chen Ran.

So, I saw these young teenagers running and scrambling desperately on the court.Use their actions to help the team make up for the lack of experience and ability.

So that Arsenal stormed for more than 20 minutes, but failed to break through the goal guarded by Van der Sar.

This time, not only Wenger was shocked, but even Chen Ran was a little surprised.

"Boss, I didn't expect these little guys to be really competitive!"

Guardiola's admiration came from next to his ears. Although Chen Ran didn't agree, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.

(End of this chapter)