Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 236 Don't Repeat the Mistakes of Real Madrid

Because there was another UEFA Champions League this week, after a day's rest, Chen Ran led the team to Porto, Portugal's second largest city, to challenge the Portuguese giants, the 2004 UEFA Champions League champion Porto away.

Although the current Porto cannot be compared with the Porto brought by Mourinho two years ago, there are still many outstanding players in the team.

Like the famous Portuguese winger Quaresma, Argentine midfielder Luis Gonzalez, Brazilian midfielder Anderson, Argentine forward Lisandro Lopez, Brazilian midfielder Asuncao, Portuguese forward Postiga, etc. .

In order to show his importance to Porto, even though it was an away game, Chen Ran still formed the 352 formation that Crystal Palace will play this season.

Forward Toni, Forward Ibrahimovic
Left midfielder Ronaldo, midfielder Kaka, right midfielder Ribery

Vieira, Modric
Left centre-back Chiellini, centre-back Nemanja Vidic, right centre-back Thiago Silva

goalkeeper cech
As for Porto, the head coach Ferreira, who just took office this season, continued his predecessor's style of play, and did not shrink his defense just because Crystal Palace is the defending champion.

Left winger Quaresma, center forward Postiga, right winger Sandro Lopez

Left midfielder Raul Meieles, midfielder Assuncao, right midfielder Luis Gonzalez
Left back Fletcher, center back Bruno Alves, center back Ricardo Costa, right back Bosingwa
goalkeeper hilton

"Boss, the head coach of Porto, Ferreira, is very courageous. Is this going to play against our Crystal Palace?"

Guardiola, who got Porto's starting list, was also amazed. Now there are fewer and fewer warriors who dare to fight against Crystal Palace.

"Really? Let me see."

After taking the list from Guardiola, Chen Ran saw many familiar names, and some of the players were quite capable.

The most representative is Quaresma. For some unknown reason, he performed extremely well in second-tier clubs, but he seemed to be a different person when he arrived at a wealthy club.

In his previous life, Quaresma has stayed in Barcelona, ​​Inter Milan and Chelsea successively, but none of them have gained a firm foothold.

"I read from the information that the head coach of Porto, Ferreira, took over the team only last month."

"I guess he hasn't had time to reset the team's tactics yet, so he can only continue to use his predecessor's style of play. After all, this style of play has been tested in actual combat and won the Portuguese double crown last season."

"Besides, it's a good thing that Porto dared to attack. At least we don't have to play so tired. We must know that there will be Premier League games to be played in two days. We must thank this Mr. Ferreira."

"Haha, boss, you are too bad."

On September 9th, the Dragon Stadium in Porto, Portugal was full of seats. Everyone wanted to see the style of last season's Triple Crown Champion Crystal Palace.

Facts have proved that these fans who bought tickets to watch the game did not waste their money.

With the whistle of the referee, Crystal Palace and Porto began the battle.

Frankly speaking, the 352 formation facing the 433 formation is a great test for the three defenders of Crystal Palace.

Because Thiago Silva, Vidic and Chiellini will defend Porto's Postiga, Quaresma and Lisandro Lopez three strikers, almost always in a pair In the contest of one.

This requires very high personal abilities of the three defenders of Crystal Palace, because the defenders are different from other positions.Once they make a mistake, it is likely to lead to a loss.

Fortunately, Crystal Palace's midfield is strong enough to keep the ball in Porto's half for most of the time, which greatly relieves the pressure on Crystal Palace's defense.

No. In the 207th minute, Kaka broke through with the ball in the middle. After passing Porto's midfielder Assuncao, he made a powerful long shot with a very tricky angle. He was dragged by goalkeeper Hilton's flying save, hit the crossbar and bounced back.

Tony in the penalty area overwhelmed the central defender Bruno Alves and headed the ball towards Porto's goal.Hilton, who had just made a save, had no time to react and could only watch the ball go into the net.

"GOAL!"

With Toni's goal, Crystal Palace lead Porto 1-0.

No.40 In the second minute, Ibrahimovic's kick was held in his arms by Porto goalkeeper Hilton because of the angle of the shot. Resma.

Quaresma has fast speed, good technique, and flexible body. Before Thiago Silva, who was in charge of marking him, made a kick, he flicked the ball lightly and passed Thiago Silva.

Immediately afterwards, Quaresma rushed to the restricted area of ​​​​Crystal Palace. Seeing Thiago Silva being passed, Modric, who was serving as a midfielder on the right, hurried over to defend.

After all, Modric is not a full-time midfielder and lacks defensive experience, so he rushed too hard.

After being swayed by Quaresma, he made an arc with his right foot, and the ball flew straight to the upper left corner of the Crystal Palace goal.

Quaresma shot the ball from an extremely sharp angle. Cech jumped into the air and tried his best but failed to touch the ball. He could only watch the ball fly into the Crystal Palace net.

With Quaresma's wonderful curve ball, Porto equalized the score, Crystal Palace 1:1 Porto.

"Boss, do you want to change back to a back four? It's a bit too difficult to defend three forwards with three backs."

"It doesn't matter, let's observe again. Porto has a certain strength, but there is still a gap compared with us. As long as we can keep scoring goals in front, conceding goals in the back is acceptable."

"The three-back system will be our common tactic in the future, just take advantage of the opponent's strength to exercise."

"Understood, boss."

Not long after, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, and Crystal Palace and Porto scored 1:1.

During the intermission, Chen Ran didn't get angry because the score was equalized by the opponent, but just gave the players a little blood as usual.

Moreover, he did not make any adjustments, and still maintained the offensive tactics of the first half of the game.

On Porto's side, they were able to play back and forth with the defending champion Crystal Palace in the first half, and the score was also a draw.

This makes the Porto team very excited from the head coach Ferreira to every player below.

The performance in the first half was so good, Ferreira naturally did not need to make adjustments.

So, at the beginning of the second half of the game, Crystal Palace and Porto started the battle again, and the scene was very beautiful.

However, with the passage of time, such a long period of high-paced, high-confrontation games made the physical fitness of the Porto players gradually unable to keep up.

Crystal Palace players are used to playing in the high-tempo, high-confrontation Premier League, so they don't think so, but for Porto players who are used to playing in the relatively low-level Portuguese League, it is a bit too much.

No. In the 601st minute, Cristiano Ronaldo from the left dribbled the ball along the sideline and saw Porto's right midfielder Luis Gonzalez chasing after him.

Cristiano Ronaldo hit the ball with one heel, and while knocking Luis Gonzalez down, he cut inside to the middle.

Seeing that Zlatan Ibrahimovic was advancing from the right side of the center to the front left at high speed, Ronaldo pushed his left foot lightly and sent a through pass.

The ball just passed between Porto's right-back Bosingwa and centre-back Ricardo Costa.

At this time, Ibrahimovic just arrived, took advantage of the trend and rushed the ball into Porto's penalty area.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Porto goalkeeper Hilton quickly abandoned the goal and rushed up to block Ibrahimovic's shooting angle.

Seeing Hilton's action, Ibrahimovic dribbled the ball at high speed while flicking it lightly, and the ball just passed Hilton who was attacking and flew towards Porto's goal.

At this moment, Bruno Alves, another central defender of Porto, rushed out, trying to destroy the ball with a flying shovel.

It's a pity that his reaction was still a step slow. Although Bruno Alves had reached the ball, it was too late for him to make the right moves. As a result, he dribbled the ball and fell into the net.

"GOAL!"

With the combined goals of Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic, Crystal Palace once again led Porto 2:1.

"Haha, boss, I didn't expect this ball to be passed by Ronaldo to Ibrahimovic. I thought it would be difficult for them to cooperate if they didn't deal with it."

Guardiola was very happy to see the goal, because now everyone in the Crystal Palace knows that Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic compete with each other, and no one accepts the other.

Now that they can play with each other and score goals, it means that the situation between the two people is not too bad, which also makes Guardiola breathe a sigh of relief.

For a team, no matter how strong the lineup is, it is not as important as unity.

This point is deeply understood by Guardiola, who was born in Barcelona.

Real Madrid, Barcelona's deadly rival, is because the big guys in the team stand on their own hills and no one accepts the other, which seriously affects the team's combat effectiveness.

After seeing the situation of Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic, Guardiola had a bad association.

It is not easy for the Crystal Palace to get to where it is today. Guardiola does not want to see the Crystal Palace repeat the old path of Real Madrid.

For this reason, Guardiola also went to report to Chen Ran.But at that time, Chen Ran didn't seem to care too much, and instead comforted him that everything was under control.

But now it seems that I am a bit unreasonable.

"Hehe, Josep, although these two guys are very arrogant, they are also smart people. Knowing that the team's performance is good, they can be better. Don't worry, if one day someone really does something too much, I won't let it go."

"Boss, I feel relieved with your words."

Porto's players seemed a little deflated after Crystal Palace took the lead again.

No matter how coach Ferreira yelled from the sidelines, they never played the momentum of the first half of the game again.

In fact, it can't be blamed on Porto's players for not working hard, because their current physical fitness has dropped sharply.Every step I take, my legs feel like they've been filled with lead.

Porto's physical fitness has declined, and Crystal Palace has no intention of stopping.

For Chen Ran, a one-goal lead was far from enough.

No.705 minutes, Ribery on the right made a pass from the bottom after passing Porto left back Fletcher.

Crystal Palace outflanked at three points in the middle. Under the interference of Porto defender Bruno Alves, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who was in charge of grabbing the front point, missed the ball.

But behind him, Tony, who was in charge of grabbing points in the middle, grabbed the ball in front of Ricardo Costa, another Porto central defender, and smashed the ball heavily towards Porto's goal.

However, Tony hit the ball more squarely, and the goalkeeper Hilton didn't even need to move his position, he just punched the ball out with both fists.

Hilton used a lot of strength, and the ball flew directly out of Porto's penalty area.

Porto midfielder Assuncao, who was standing outside the penalty area to protect, was about to catch the ball and launch a counterattack. At this time, a figure rushed up from behind him.

It was Modric, this guy ran all the way from the position of the midfielder, caught the ball before Assuncao, and then kicked a long shot.

The ball was flat and fast, drawing a straight line towards Porto's goal.

However, judging from the flight path of the ball, it is more positive just like Tony's header just now.

And Porto's goalkeeper Hilton has now returned to his position, and it is unlikely that the goal will be scored.

Suddenly, on the line of the ball flying team, someone stretched out a foot and rubbed the ball slightly.

Looking up along the long legs, it is Ibrahimovic.

I don't know if this guy found that the shot was too straight and wanted to change the direction of the ball's flight on purpose, or just subconsciously stretched out his foot to block it.

If it is the former, it can only be said that Ibrahimovic's golf quotient is frighteningly high.

It was Ibrahimovic who rubbed lightly and slightly changed the direction of the ball, which caught Hilton by surprise.

Hilton, who was ready to catch the ball, had no time to adjust, and could only watch the ball fly into the net from his side.

"GOAL!"

I don't know if this goal should be regarded as Modric's or Ibrahimovic's. Anyway, Crystal Palace leads Porto 3:1.

Seeing how little time is left in the game, Crystal Palace now has a two-goal lead in their hands. Chen Ran began to replace the main players one after another, and Ming Jin retreated.

Due to the severe decline in the physical fitness of the players, Porto was also unable to launch an offensive.

In the end, Crystal Palace defeated Portuguese giants Porto 3:1 away and won two consecutive victories in the UEFA Champions League group stage.

"Ding, congratulations to the host for winning the game, and I will reward you with an 'Hawkeye Guardian Card'."

Seeing that the "Hawkeye Guardian Card" used in the Champions League final has now been supplemented, Chen Ran expressed his satisfaction.

Because two days later, Crystal Palace will participate in the seventh round of the Premier League and go away to challenge West Ham United, so Chen Ran flew back to the UK overnight with the team after the game.

Unfortunately, Chen Ran, who had just returned to London, received bad news from Stephen that there was something wrong with the acquisition plan of Recife Sports.

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