Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 239 When something goes wrong, there must be a demon

Although Ashley Cole is fast enough, his physical strength cannot be compared with that of Ribery.

Franck Ribery also saw through this, facing Ashley Cole's defense, he directly confronted him physically.

After some fighting, Ribery knocked Ashley Cole off his center of gravity, and then dribbled away with the ball.

Seeing that the referee didn't call Franck Ribery for a foul, Ashley Cole complained loudly in great dissatisfaction.

It's a pity that the referee had already chased the ball and ran away at this time, so he ignored him at all.

"Bastard, hurry up and go back to defend!"

The referee ignored Ashley Cole, but Mourinho on the sidelines was so angry that he jumped.

This Ashley Cole was so busy complaining about the referees that he forgot about his duty, damn it.

Seeing Mourinho's angry look, Ashley Cole, who knew he had caused trouble, had to touch his nose and be scolded honestly, and hurried to chase Ribery.

However, at this time, Ribery had already run away.

After Ashley Cole was passed, there was a huge gap in Chelsea's left defense immediately.

In the penalty area, Terry and Carvalho had to mark Ibrahimovic and Tony respectively, and they couldn't get away to make up for the loopholes on the left.

Seeing such a good opportunity, of course Ribery would not let it go, and directly dribbled the ball towards Chelsea's penalty area.

At this time, Makelele, who served as a central midfielder, rushed back in time and blocked the line between Ribery and Chelsea's goal in time.

The experience of playing against Chelsea many times let Ribery know that Makelele is a defensive master and is not easy to deal with.

So Ribery didn't force it this time, but swiped the ball and brought it towards the baseline.

Then, before Makelele stretched out his foot to block, an inverted triangle pass passed the ball near the arc of Chelsea's penalty area.

This time, it greatly exceeded the expectations of Chelsea's defensive players.

Because Crystal Palace is now in Chelsea's penalty area, but there are two high center forwards, Tony and Ibrahimovic.

It is a classic cooperation to make a cross from the bottom and grab a shot from the middle, but I didn't expect that Ribery didn't do it.

At this time, because Makelele went to defend Ashley Cole, and another Chelsea central midfielder, Ballack, was not born as a defensive midfielder, he obviously did not have Makelele's defensive awareness.

This led to a short-lived vacuum near the arc of Chelsea's large penalty area, and no one was protecting it.

When everyone's eyes were chasing the flight path of the ball, a figure suddenly rushed out.

It's Kaka!
After distributing the ball to Ribery, he advanced to the front of Chelsea's penalty area.

"boom!"

Before the ball hit the ground, Kaka went up and volleyed.

The ball flew straight to the lower left corner of Chelsea's goal and bounced just before reaching the goal.

It was this bomb that just escaped Cudicini's hand that flew sideways and rushed into Chelsea's net.

"GOAL!"

With Kaka's volley, the score on the field became Crystal Palace 1:1 Chelsea.

While the entire Highbury Stadium was celebrating Crystal Palace's equalizer, Chen Ran felt a very strange feeling in his heart.

In this Premier League match at the highest level, the players who scored goals for the two teams were all ex-AC Milan players.

It can only be said that the previous AC Milan was really too strong. It deserves to be the top giant club that established the Milan dynasty. If you pick any one from the team, they are all first-class stars.

Such a strong club has declined to the point where it does not even qualify for the UEFA Champions League. Its own Crystal Palace must be a warning and must not repeat the mistakes of AC Milan.

"Boss, your substitution is really timely. Kaka scored a goal as soon as he came on the field."

As the Crystal Palace bench swarmed over to celebrate the goal, Chen Ran's thoughts were also pulled back by Guardiola and others.

"It's nothing. I'm just lucky. The main reason is that the players performed well."

Chen Ran smiled slightly, and replied lightly.

On Chelsea's side, seeing Crystal Palace equalize the score so quickly, Mourinho felt very uncomfortable.

Since he came to Chelsea, in the more than two years of fighting against Crystal Palace, he has rarely taken the lead once, but before he was happy for a long time, the score returned to a tie again.

Although Mourinho knew that Crystal Palace was very difficult to deal with, he still couldn't help feeling frustrated.

However, Mourinho was never one to throw in the towel easily.Soon he calmed down and regained his composure.

Since you can lead Crystal Palace once, you can lead the second time.

Isn't the score equalized?Just one more.

Thinking of this, Mourinho immediately greeted his players loudly on the sidelines and continued to strengthen the attack.

Shevchenko, who returned to the double striker configuration, seemed to be really rejuvenated.

Under the cover of Drogba, he repeatedly threatened the Crystal Palace goal guarded by Petr Cech.

At the end of the first half, Arjen Robben from Chelsea's left successfully broke through Thiago Silva's defensive cross.

In the penalty area of ​​Crystal Palace, Drogba rushed ahead of Vidic who was marking him, rushed forward and nodded a lion to shake his head, and headed the ball towards the goal of Crystal Palace.

Cech's reaction was very timely, and he rose into the air to block the ball.

At this moment, it was Shevchenko again, who quickly judged where the ball fell.Before Chiellini made a clearance, he leaped to the top and smashed the ball into the Crystal Palace goal.

At this point, Petr Cech, who had just finished making saves, had no time to get up, so he could only watch the ball fly into the Crystal Palace net again.

With Shevchenko's brace, Chelsea once again lead Crystal Palace 2:1.

This time, standing on the sidelines and seeing the team lead Crystal Palace again, Mourinho excitedly ran in front of the Chelsea bench and slid and knelt, which was even more exciting than Shevchenko who scored the goal.

"childish!"

In the distance, Guardiola snorted disdainfully after seeing Mourinho's exaggerated behavior.

"Josep, he has been losing for more than two years, and finally took the lead once. Can't you celebrate? Who knows if he will still be in the mood to celebrate at the end of the game."

Simeone, who was standing next to Guardiola, heard Guardiola's comment and replied lightly.

"Haha, Diego, you are too bad. He finally had a good dream, why wake him up?"

Among Chen Ran's three assistants, of course, Southgate is indispensable. After hearing what Simeone said, he patted him on the shoulder, looking like you are the worst kid.

Because of the brilliant record that Crystal Palace has achieved in recent years, Guardiola and the others don't care much about Crystal Palace's one goal behind.

Because they firmly believe that with Chen Ran's superb command and scheduling, and with the current super offensive strength of Crystal Palace, they can break through the goals of any team.

Chelsea, the defeated player, is of course no exception.

But Chen Ran, who was standing on the sidelines, felt a little worry in his heart.

He wasn't worried about Chelsea taking the lead again, he was worried that Shevchenko, who had been depressed in Chelsea in his previous life, would not be activated now, right?
In the previous life, Mourinho stubbornly insisted on his 433 formation, wasting Shevchenko, a big killer that Abramovich bought at a sky-high price, in vain.

But why is he willing to switch to a double forward today?

With doubts in his heart, Chen Ran took another look at Mourinho from a distance. What stimulated this guy?
If Mourinho is really no longer stubborn, then such Mourinho will be even more difficult to deal with.

With such worries, the first half ended.

During the intermission, Chen Ran returned to the locker room and did not blame the players for the team falling behind twice.

After giving the players a shot of chicken blood as usual, Chen Ran looked at Yaya Toure.

"Yaya, how about you come down for a rest in the second half of the game?"

"Boss, I'm fine."

Knowing that Chen Ran must strengthen his attack, Yaya Toure readily nodded and agreed.

"Little Luka, in the second half, you will step up to take over Yaya's position and serve as a double midfielder with Patrick. Do you understand?"

After appeasing Yaya Toure, Chen Ran turned to look at Modric again.

"Understood, boss."

After making substitutions and adjustments, Chen Ran didn't intend to change his tactics.Because after Modric played, this is the strongest attacking lineup of Crystal Palace now.

In this game, we must suppress Chelsea's momentum.

Chen Ran had a vague premonition that this game might be the key to turning the fate of Mourinho and Chelsea.

If Chelsea win this game, maybe their momentum will be out of control.

Thinking of this, Chen Ran left the locker room early.He wanted to be alone, to organize his thoughts, and see if there were any loopholes in the Crystal Palace.

As soon as the second half started, Mourinho saw that Crystal Palace replaced Yaya Toure with Modric.

This Chen Ran is really courageous enough.

Removing a defensive midfielder and replacing it with an offensive playmaker, Crystal Palace is desperate.

Chen Ran's substitution made Mourinho immediately understand the opponent's intentions.

No one knows the offensive strength of Crystal Palace better than his opponent for the championship. There are really few teams that can guarantee to resist the offensive of Crystal Palace without conceding a goal.

Anyway, Chelsea is leading now, should we replace Ballack with Essien to strengthen the defense and maintain the one-goal lead until the end of the game?
Or maintain the current lineup and continue to play against Crystal Palace?

Two choices may lead to two completely different results, which one is better to choose?
For a while, Mourinho also hesitated.

Mourinho is hesitating, and the Crystal Palace players on the field will not give him time to think.

Chen Ran's intention to replace Yaya Toure with Modric was obvious, and the Crystal Palace players understood.When the referee blew the whistle to start the second half of the game, he immediately pushed forward across the board, posing as if he would not return until he broke Loulan.

In two minutes, when Drogba's header was confiscated by Cech, Cech quickly launched a counterattack and threw the ball to Modric with a hand throw.

Modric looked up, then pulled and buckled, and flashed past Ballack who was coming up to press him.

Immediately afterwards, he slammed the ball with the instep of his right foot, and with a shooting technique, he sent a through ball over 30 meters to the ground, and accurately sent the ball to Kaka's feet in the frontcourt.

At this time, Chelsea had just finished their last attack, and most of the players were still in Crystal Palace's half.

Near Kaka, there is only one defensive player, Makelele.

How could Kaka miss such a good opportunity?

After receiving Modric's ultra-long-distance through ball, Kaka took the ball and started to accelerate directly.

Although Makelele's defensive ability is strong, it would be too difficult for him to compete with Kaka for speed.

Soon, Makelele was left behind by Kaka.

At this time, the two forwards of Crystal Palace also began to create opportunities for Kaka very tacitly.

Tony moved forward to the left, and Ibrahimovic moved forward to the right. Terry and Carvalho, who were in charge of marking the two, had to keep a close eye on each other.

This time, Kaka left a big gap.

As for Chelsea's current defense line, Ashley Cole went up for an assist just now and hasn't rushed back yet.

The only remaining right back, Boulahrouz, rushed over to cover the defense. Kaka made a sudden stop, stepping on and dunking with his left foot. Fly directly to the upper left corner of the Chelsea goal.

Seeing the direction in which the ball was flying, Cudicini used all his strength to fly to save it.It's a pity that Kaka's shot angle was too tricky. The ball bypassed Cudicini's fingertips and still flew into Chelsea's net.

"GOAL!"

After Shevchenko, Kaka also scored twice to help Crystal Palace equalize the score again, Crystal Palace 2:2 Chelsea.

"Man, this is not Crystal Palace vs Chelsea, this is AC Milan's civil war."

At this time, thousands of miles away in China, countless fans are also paying attention to the focus of this Premier League match.

"Yeah. Shevchenko on one side and Kaka on the other. Two former AC Milan players scored four goals on the field. This is crazy!"

"I don't know if they are crazy or not, but I know Ancelotti must be going crazy."

"That's right, losing two major offensive cores at once, I guess if Ancelotti is also watching this game, he will hide under the covers and cry at night."

"I don't care if An Pang cries or not, I just care if Crystal Palace can win the game today."

"That must be no problem. Since Chen Ran took over Crystal Palace, when did Chelsea win against Crystal Palace?"

"It's hard to say, Chelsea feels different to me today than before."

"Really? Do you feel the same way upstairs? I thought it was just me."

"Maybe it has something to do with Mourinho's change of formation. He used to use a 433 formation all the time, but today it has changed to a 442 formation. It is really rare."

"What the upstairs said makes sense. If something goes wrong, there must be a demon."

(End of this chapter)