Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 235 Another Big Wave of People Sending Money
"Carlos, what you said makes sense. In this way, you let Saha warm up during the intermission, and in the second half of the game we will change our formation and attack. Even if we lose, it will not make it so easy for Crystal Palace to win."

"Ok."

Because the game had already achieved a two-goal lead in the first half, Chen Ran did not make any other adjustments during the intermission except to give the players some blood as usual.

But at the beginning of the second half, the situation changed suddenly. Manchester United, two goals behind, replaced the right midfielder Fletcher with striker Saha, and then moved Park Ji-sung to the right. Scholes retreated to play the central midfielder. Back to the British 442 parallel stance they are used to.

"Boss, it seems that Manchester United is going to attack?"

Seeing Manchester United's substitutions, Guardiola immediately keenly discovered Ferguson's intentions.

"Almost. If we continue to play according to the situation in the first half, Manchester United will lose too badly. I guess Ferguson feels that he can't afford to lose this man. Even if he wants to lose, he must lose vigorously."

"Boss, what shall we do? Are we changing our formation and shrinking our defense now?"

"Don't worry. Josep, remember, our Crystal Palace is not what it used to be. Even if Manchester United attack with all their strength, we are not afraid. We now have a two-goal lead. If we play against us, Manchester United will die. Worse."

Faced with Manchester United's changes, Chen Ran did not make any adjustments and still let Crystal Palace continue to attack.

This time, the game looks good.

Manchester United no longer hunkered down on defense, the two teams began to attack each other, and the game was played wide open, feasting the fans' eyes.

In 8 minutes, after receiving a bottom pass from Giggs from the left, Saha headed in the middle to grab the goal, and Cech struggled to save the ball.

As a result, the ball just flew to Rooney's feet. Lu Xiaopang stretched out his foot cleverly to block it, and pushed the ball towards the goal of Crystal Palace.

Petr Cech, who had just finished making saves, had no time to get up, so he could only watch the ball roll into the net.

The score on the field became 2:1, and Manchester United pulled back a goal.

This goal immediately inspired the morale of the Manchester United players and launched waves of more violent attacks.

Manchester United invested more offensive troops, and the defense line naturally became much more empty.

No. 607 minutes, when Manchester United scored less than 10 minutes.

Rooney's shot was too straight, and Cech held him tightly in his arms. Then Cech got up quickly and threw the ball to Vieira with a hand throw.

Vieira looked up and observed, and then passed the ball to Ronaldo who was advancing at high speed on the left with a big foot.

Since Manchester United was still attacking just now, a large number of players remained in Crystal Palace's half and it was too late to return to defense.

At this time, there is only one Gary Neville in front of Ronaldo.

Facing this 31-year-old veteran, Ronaldo didn't even bother to make fake moves.

After receiving Vieira's pass, Ronaldo slammed the ball forward and kicked the ball five or six meters away.

Then an acceleration bypassed Gary Neville and played a pass to himself three seconds later.

Nothing else, just bullying Gary Neville's speed is not enough.

After getting rid of Gary Neville, Ronaldo directly took the ball inside and rushed towards Manchester United's penalty area.

At this time, one of Manchester United's two central defenders, Sylvester and Ferdinand, was staring at Tony, and the other was staring at Ibrahimovic.Seeing Ronaldo rushing over, both of them wanted to go to defend.

However, at this time Tony and Ibrahimovic quit.They also saw Ronaldo's situation, so they tightly entangled Sylvester and Ferdinand, preventing them from getting out of the defense.

At this moment, Park Ji-sung, who claims to have three lungs, hurried back from the midfield.

Seeing that Ronaldo was about to rush into Manchester United's penalty area, Park Ji-sung quickly shoveled to the ground, even if he made a foul, he had to keep Ronaldo outside the penalty area.

"There's someone behind!"

Seeing the movement of Park Ji-sung behind Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic hurriedly reminded Ronaldo loudly.

Hearing Zlatan Ibrahimovic's voice, Ronaldo tapped it smartly, and Park Ji-sung slid past him.

Then Ronaldo looked up at Kuzzak's position, and directly took a curve ball with his right foot.

The ball turned directly to the upper left corner of Manchester United's goal. Kuzzak jumped and stretched his body to the limit, but still failed to touch the ball.

"GOAL!"

Crystal Palace led Manchester United 3:1, extending the lead to two goals again.

"Thanks."

After scoring the goal, Ronaldo immediately found Ibrahimovic and thanked him in a low voice.

"Hehe, half of the credit for your goal is due to me."

"You are dreaming."

Ronaldo, who rarely thanked others, was half-dead by Ibrahimovic's words, and turned his head to celebrate with other teammates.

Seeing that Crystal Palace scored another goal soon, Ferguson on the sidelines was also helpless.

He was watching the game. It wasn't that Manchester United's players didn't work hard, but that those guys from Crystal Palace were too perverted to guard against them.

Forget it, continue to attack, wherever you hit.

Ferguson, who had no hope of winning the game, also thought about it, waved his hand, and continued to call on Manchester United's players to attack.

Even if you lose, you have to lose vigorously.

No. 708 minutes, Manchester United's aggressive attack once again received results.

Still Giggs made a breakthrough cross from the left, Rooney and Saha who outflanked the ball at two points in the center did not get the ball, the ball was pushed out of the penalty area by Thiago Silva first.

It's a pity that the ball didn't go far, and it just fell at the feet of Carrick, who was guarding outside the penalty area of ​​Crystal Palace.

Before Yaya Toure came up to block, Carrick also volleyed.

The ball was urgent and fast, and flew directly into the upper right corner of the Crystal Palace goal.

This is an absolute ten-point corner, and even though Cech tried his best, he couldn't prevent the ball from entering the net.

The score on the field became 3:2, and Manchester United pulled back a goal again.

"Josep, inform Kaka, Mascherano and Alves to warm up, and replace Toni, Maicon and Yaya Toure in a while. Kaka will serve as the attacking midfielder, and the team changes to 4231."

"Okay, boss."

Soon, Chen Ran's substitutions paid off.

After Mascherano and Alves replaced Maicon and Yaya Toure, who had declined in stamina, Giggs' offense fell silent.

After Kaka came on the field, he took over the task of organizing the offense from Vieira.

His dribbling in the middle to break through and divide the ball is sharper, more direct and more threatening than Vieira's long pass in the midfield.

No.807 minutes, Kaka once again broke through with the ball in the middle at high speed, and both Scholes and Carrick were left behind by him.

In desperation, Sylvester had to give up his man-marking Ibrahimovic and come up to make up the defense.

Seeing a gap in Ibrahimovic's position, Kaka directly made a pass, and the ball just passed over the head of Sylvester who was rushing up, and fell in front of Ibrahimovic.

The weight of Kaka's pass and the position are just right, so that Ibrahimovic didn't need to make any adjustments. Before the ball landed, he directly ejected it with his right foot.

Although Ibrahimovic's shot angle is not tricky, it is strong enough and fast enough.And the position of the shot is between the penalty spot and the small penalty area line, which is already very close to the goal.

Goalkeeper Kuzzak had no time to react, so he subconsciously reached out to block it.Although the ball was touched, it could not change the result of the ball flying into Manchester United's goal.

"GOAL!"

Ibrahimovic scored another goal, and Crystal Palace led Manchester United 4:2.

As soon as Crystal Palace scored the fourth goal, Manchester United was completely discouraged.Coupled with the fact that there is not much time left in the game, Manchester United's players can no longer afford to attack.

In the end, when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, with Ibrahimovic's hat-trick and Ronaldo's goal, Crystal Palace beat Manchester United 4:2 at home.

For this strong dialogue between Crystal Palace and Manchester United, thousands of miles away in China, it has also attracted the attention of many fans.

"I don't know if you are the same as me? If Crystal Palace won a strong team like Manchester United before, I was both excited and excited. Why do I feel nothing when I see Crystal Palace win Manchester United now?"

"Haha, I'm similar to the one upstairs, I feel a little numb after winning too much."

"That's right. Crystal Palace can win the Champions League, and it will not be easy to win the Premier League again."

"Upstairs, I seriously doubt that you are connoting Liverpool."

"I'll go! I didn't, I didn't mean that, don't talk nonsense."

"I am not surprised that Crystal Palace can win Manchester United, but the Ibrahimovic they introduced this year is too eye-catching. It is really strong to perform a hat-trick against Manchester United."

"The key is that the goals are all wonderful. Especially the first two, a falling leaf and an undercut. That guy Chen Ran has a really good eye for picking players."

"Not only Zlatan Ibrahimovic, but Kaka also performed very well. The breakthrough, the passing, the shooting, he is an all-around player."

"With the addition of these two new players, I estimate that Crystal Palace will still have a chance to win the Triple Crown this season."

"Upstairs, if it is considered the European Super Cup, it should actually be the quadruple champion."

"If you calculate it like this, will the Club World Cup at the end of the year also be counted?"

"It makes sense, you can't forget the Club World Cup. Don't worry, according to Chen Ran's operation of buying people after winning the Triple Crown, he will definitely not be satisfied with just one Triple Crown."

"Crystal Palace's goal is five crowns!"

"Five crowns +1."

"Five crowns +2."

The next day after the match against Manchester United, when Chen Ran was researching the information of his opponents in the upcoming Champions League, Stephen found him again.

"Chen, since we won the Triple Crown, more and more manufacturers want to sponsor us, especially the manufacturers in the beverage industry are the most active."

"I sorted out their information and quotations. If you take the time to see who you choose, make a decision early so that we can make money earlier."

"Oh? Who is there? Tell me briefly first."

Hearing that someone gave him money again, Chen Ran suddenly became interested, dropped the information in his hand and looked at Stephen with great interest.

"Okay. Singha beer from Thailand, San Miguel from the Philippines, Coca-Cola from the US, Gatorade sports drink from the US, grape energy drink from the UK, Estella beer from Spain, red devil wine from Chile, Huaguo's Wahaha drink and Huaguo's Tsingtao beer."

"so much?"

Chen Ran was also taken aback when Stephen announced a large list of names.Good guy, as long as the team's performance is good enough, it's really easy to make money.

"Actually, there are more. After my selection, some manufacturers with low quotations or low brand awareness have been eliminated."

"Stephen, do I remember that Gatorade is not a brand of Pepsi? What? This time it's not Pepsi that makes the offer, but Gatorade?"

Because of the previous naming of the International Champions Cup, Chen Ran has some understanding of the American brand Gatorade.But the main market for this brand of sports drinks is in the United States, and Red Bull is more popular in Europe and Asia.

Now that Pepsi sponsors Crystal Palace in the name of Gatorade, is it trying to seize Red Bull's market share?
"It was indeed Gatorade who made the offer. I guess it was because Pepsi saw the effect of title sponsorship of the International Champions Cup before, so it wanted to continue to promote in the football field."

Hearing Stephen's analysis, Chen Ran also felt that it made sense.

It is estimated that the International Champions Cup can achieve such a high attendance rate in the United States, where football development is underdeveloped, which probably surprised Pepsi's management, and then there is this offer.

"Stephen, which of these offers has the highest bid?"

"Coca-Cola, their bid is 1000 million euros per year. But what they are asking for is an exclusive contract, as the only official beverage brand formulated by Crystal Palace. If we sign a contract with Coca-Cola, then we cannot sign other beverage brands."

"Exclusive contract? It's not impossible. It's just that carbonated drinks will have a bad effect on football players. You tell the Coca-Cola people about this. If you want to exclusively sponsor the Crystal Palace, you must add money."

"Also, how much is Gatorade's bid?"

"800 million euros per year is also an exclusive contract. Their requirements are the same as Coca-Cola, and they are also the only official beverage brand formulated by the Crystal Palace."

"In this way, you can go to Gatorade and tell the people that the price will increase to 1000 million euros per year, and then it will be the only official sports drink brand formulated by Crystal Palace."

"Sports drink? Chen, you mean to add the word sports, and then we can sign contracts with other non-sports drink manufacturers?"

Hearing Chen Ran's idea, Stephen's eyes lit up.This method is good, just adding two words can increase a lot of income.

"That's right. Since Pepsi wants to promote the Gatorade brand to seize Red Bull's market, then we can just take advantage of this loophole. This is a lot of income, and it is not profitable."

"Understood, I'll contact them now."

(End of this chapter)