Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 238 Epiphany
On the Crystal Palace side, according to the battle plan formulated in advance, Chelsea must win this game with all their strength.

However, because of fear of Chelsea's strong strength, Chen Ran did not continue to use the formation of three backs this time, but returned to the 442 twin towers tactics commonly used last season.

Forward Toni, Forward Ibrahimovic
Left midfielder Cristiano Ronaldo, right midfielder Ribery
Vieira, Yaya Toure
Left back Chiellini, center back Thiago Silva, center back Vidic, right back Maicon
goalkeeper cech
Both Crystal Palace and Chelsea are too familiar with each other.

So there was no temptation in the game, and the two sides launched a fierce confrontation from the first minute.

Frankly speaking, it's not that Shevchenko is not good enough, but that he is really not suitable for playing right winger.

For a shooter, after staying away from the goal, his threat is at least half less.

However, although they are not the players that Mourinho wants, it has to be said that the arrival of powerful stars such as Shevchenko, Ballack, and Ashley Cole has indeed given Chelsea the front, middle, and rear. There has been a great reinforcement, making Mourinho more players available.

However, whether Mourinho can use it well is another matter.

For wingers, more scenes are dribbling the ball from the wing to break through the bottom pass, and this is obviously not something Shevchenko is good at.

After a few attempts, Shevchenko found that the Crystal Palace left-back Chiellini who was facing him was not easy to deal with.

Shevchenko is 30 years old this year, and his knee was seriously injured before, and his speed and explosive power are not as good as when he was young.Now he has no way to rely on speed to force Chiellini.

After entangled with Chiellini for a while, Shevchenko simply abandoned the right winger position set by Mourinho for him, and began to take the initiative to move closer to the center.

Shevchenko's move was immediately noticed by Mourinho, who was always watching the progress of the game.

Mourinho, who has very strict requirements for tactical discipline, immediately frowned. It's okay for Shevchenko to perform poorly, but he dared to violate his own tactical arrangements and make his own claims?
Is this guy not taking himself seriously because of his good relationship with the boss Ibrahimovic?

All of a sudden, Mourinho's heart surged with an unknown fire, and an impulse to replace Shevchenko immediately lingered in his mind.

After a long time, remembering Peter Kenyon's warning, Mourinho took a deep breath, and suppressed the idea of ​​replacing Shevchenko with what little reason he had left.

Perhaps, Shevchenko ran to the middle of the road to have unexpected gains, and Mourinho had no choice but to comfort himself in this way.

No. 18 minutes, Ballack, who also joined Chelsea this summer, took the ball and passed it to Shevchenko.

At this time, Shevchenko has completely left the position on the right side, at most it is on the right side of the center.

Shevchenko had just received the ball, and Vieira on the Crystal Palace side had already blocked it.

Seeing Vieira coming to grab the ball, Shevchenko buckled the ball to the right, passed Vieira and began to dribble towards the Crystal Palace penalty area.

Seeing that Vieira was passed, left-back Chiellini quickly moved in to help defend, aiming at the ball with a flying shovel.

Shevchenko flicked the ball to the right again, avoiding Chiellini's tackle.

However, because of avoiding Vieira and Chiellini's steals, Shevchenko has now brought the ball outside the upper left corner of the Crystal Palace penalty area, seriously deviated from the center.

But Shevchenko didn't care so much, after taking the ball one step forward, without even raising his head, he directly used his right foot to make a powerful long-range shot, and the ball drew an arc and flew towards the goal of Crystal Palace. goal.

Cech jumped with all his strength, but still failed to reach the ball.

The ball just passed Cech's fingertips and flew directly into the upper right corner of the Crystal Palace goal, absolutely dead!
World wave, this is an incredible world wave.

When Shevchenko celebrated wildly, not only the Crystal Palace was dumbfounded, but even Mourinho at Chelsea didn't react.

Seeing the world wave scored by Shevchenko, Mourinho had mixed feelings for a while.

It stands to reason that it is rare for Chelsea to lead Crystal Palace and I should be happy, but why can't I be happy?
Could it be that the tactics I have been insisting on are wrong?

However, didn't I win the UEFA Cup and European Champions Cup with this 433 tactic?
At this moment, Mourinho had huge doubts about himself, which has never happened before.

He has always believed that the 433 tactics that brought him success before can keep him successful.

But since meeting Chen Ran, his 433 tactics seem to have failed.

After two seasons, Chelsea has been pressed to the ground by Crystal Palace.

Could it be that there is a problem with his own tactics?
Reminiscent of the fact that Chen Ran's Crystal Palace has been using several sets of tactics constantly, at this moment, Mourinho seems to have an epiphany.

No matter how good a set of tactics is, it will eventually have its limitations.If you encounter a tactical play that restrains it, you will have no power to fight back.

The really correct approach is to prepare several sets of tactics like Chen Ran did, and choose the most suitable tactics for different situations and opponents.

After figuring this out, Mourinho looked at Chen Ran, who was on the Crystal Palace bench in the distance, with a complicated expression.

Unexpectedly, I would have a day to learn from my competitors.

Mourinho, who was so proud to the bone, felt an indescribable feeling in his heart at this time.

However, the extremely smart Mourinho also knew in his heart that if he wanted to defeat Chen Ran, the best way was to learn from Chen Ran's strengths first.

In the past, he had always disliked Chen Ran. Even if he lost to Chen Ran for two consecutive seasons, he was unwilling to admit that Chen Ran was better than him. Naturally, it was even more impossible to learn from Chen Ran.

Now he had an epiphany, everything else was imaginary, as long as he could defeat Chen Ran, he could do whatever he wanted.

Thinking of this, Mourinho immediately called Shevchenko, who was still celebrating his goal, to his side.

"Sheva, your goal just now is so beautiful, it can definitely be rated as the best goal of the Premier League this season."

"Thank you."

Hearing Mourinho's praise, Shevchenko was also taken aback, the sun came out from the west?

You must know that because of whether he is the main player, the boss Abramovich directly put pressure on Mourinho, which also made the relationship between him and Mourinho very tense, and the two usually have little communication.

Now Mourinho would take the initiative to praise himself, and Shevchenko was a little flattered for a while.

"Sheva, I thought about it just now. Since you are more suitable for the two-forward tactics, then you and Drogba will act as two-forwards. Let Robben drop back to play the left midfielder, Lampard play the right midfielder, and Makelay play the right midfielder. Lay and Ballack in central midfield. The formation becomes 442. Understand?"

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Shevchenko was completely taken aback.

what happened?Did Mourinho take the wrong medicine today?

One must know that before this guy was fighting with the boss over whether he was the starter, why is he suddenly so talkative now?

At this moment, Shevchenko really wanted to reach out and touch Mourinho's forehead to see if he had a fever.

"What's wrong? Didn't you understand?"

Seeing that Shevchenko was stunned and did not respond, Mourinho asked again.

"Ah? Oh, no problem, I understand. Boss, don't worry, we will be able to win the Crystal Palace today."

Shevchenko is not a difficult person to get along with. Since the head coach Mourinho has taken the initiative to show his favor, of course he will follow the trend.

After all, I will still play under Mourinho for some time in the future, so it is necessary to have a good relationship with the head coach.

Mourinho's adjustments through Shevchenko were immediately discovered by Chen Ran and Guardiola.

"Boss, there seems to be something wrong with Mourinho today. Robben retreated, Shevchenko moved to the center, and Lampard switched to right midfielder. Has he given up the 433 formation he has been insisting on?"

Guardiola was very surprised by Chelsea's change of formation. Mourinho actually gave up the tactics he relied on for success?
Chen Ran, who also saw the changes in Chelsea, couldn't help feeling tense.

If something goes wrong, there must be a monster. Chen Ran, who knows Mourinho, an old opponent very well, has a bad feeling.

This stubborn guy was able to give up what he had been insisting on, was he stimulated by something?

After much deliberation, Chen Ran focused his attention on Shevchenko.

In the less than 10 minutes of the game just now, the most eye-catching thing was Shevchenko's world wave goal.

Could it be this Shevchenko that caused Mourinho's abnormal changes?
"Josep, you go and inform Kaka to warm up and prepare to replace Maicon on the field. The team is preparing to change to 352."

Regardless of why Mourinho changed the tactics he had always insisted on, Chen Ran had to respond because Crystal Palace was now behind.

"Huh? Boss, the game has only been played for more than 20 minutes now. Isn't it too early to make a substitution?"

Hearing Chen Ran's instruction, Guardiola froze for a moment, but didn't react for a long time.

It's just a goal lost, and it's still the opponent's world wave. It's not that the Crystal Palace players made any major mistakes, so they shouldn't react so much, right?

"No, just do as I say. There is something wrong with Chelsea today. It feels bad to me. We have to take the lead and suppress Chelsea's momentum."

"Ok, I see."

Seeing Chen Ran's firm attitude, Guardiola stopped persuading him.Because Chen Ran's previous record has fully demonstrated his ability to command the game.

Kaka, who received the warm-up notice, did not expect that he would play so early today.

As for Chelsea, when Mourinho saw Kaka getting up from the bench and running to warm up, he secretly admired Chen Ran's decisiveness.

As expected of an opponent who has been overpowering him all the time, he has a keen sense of the game. It seems that Chen Ran has also discovered his abnormality today.

Thinking of this, Mourinho was not angry but happy, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and he glanced at Chen Ran in the distance.

Now that you have discovered it, let's have a good fight today to see who is stronger, Chelsea or Crystal Palace.

At this time, as if telepathically, Chen Ran just happened to look towards Mourinho.

In an instant, the eyes of the two met in the air, and sparks seemed to flash in the air.

After Kaka warmed up, Chen Ran called him to his side.

"Ricciardo, after you play as an attacking midfielder, the team's formation has changed to 352. Tell others, you have only one task today, and that is to score goals, keep scoring goals, until the end of the game. Understand ?"

"Understood! Boss, don't worry, we will leave the matters on the court to us."

Seemingly feeling that Chen Ran's mood today was different from usual, Kaka nodded emphatically.

Soon, everyone saw that Kaka replaced the right back Maicon, and the Crystal Palace changed to 352.

"Good guy, Crystal Palace started to make substitutions after only 20 minutes into the game. Isn't that a little too hasty?"

For the two consecutive seasons of the Premier League champions and runners-up matchup between Crystal Palace and Chelsea, almost all football journalists in England came to watch the match.

"Hehe, it is estimated that the Crystal Palace is rarely behind, so that Huaguo is in a hurry."

"It's possible. It's not the same as it used to be. It's not easy to score a goal in Crystal Palace now."

"Oh, I didn't expect that. The big words that the Hua people said back then have now come true one by one."

"Yes. Crystal Palace has now won the Premier League for two consecutive times. If they win the Premier League again this season, then no one will question the fact that Crystal Palace has created a new football dynasty."

"I hope Chelsea can win this season and snatch the league championship trophy from Crystal Palace. Otherwise, it would be tiresome to see that Chinese man holding the trophy all the time."

"Hehe, I think you should give up this unrealistic idea as soon as possible. How many times has Mourinho played against that Chinese man in the past two years, and has he won?"

"You can't say that. Didn't Chelsea score the first goal today? I think they have a good chance of winning Crystal Palace today."

"Really? Let's wait and see."

As soon as Kaka played, the momentum of the entire Crystal Palace was completely different.

Because Vieira used to organize the offense from the position of the midfielder, but now it has become Kaka, the midfielder, who constantly breaks through and divides the ball.

If Crystal Palace used bows and arrows to attack from a long distance before and Chelsea had enough time to prepare for defense, then Crystal Palace is now rushing up with a sword and stabbing directly at Chelsea's heart.

No.305 minutes, Kaka broke through with the ball in the middle, and after seeing Makelele and Ballack come up to double-team, he immediately distributed the ball to Franck Ribery on the right.

This time, Ribéry is no longer facing Bridge, nor Del Horno, but England's active international, Ashley Cole, one of the most outstanding left-backs in football today.

Seeing Ashley Cole who was also known for his speed coming up, Ribery smiled coldly, and his scarred face added a bit of fierceness.

(End of this chapter)