Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 242 I Don't Need You

"Boss, didn't you say that Crystal Palace is in a bad state recently? Can this be called a bad state?"

Wenger's old partner Pat Rice went up to Wenger and complained.

"Yeah, Crystal Palace is really not what it used to be. Today they have a lot of substitute players, but I didn't expect the attack power to be so strong."

Wenger shook his head helplessly. He has completely given up the idea of ​​competing for the Premier League title now.

As far as the current staffing of Crystal Palace is concerned, from the main force to the substitutes, everyone is a strong player with almost no weaknesses, which makes people feel powerless after watching it.

Moreover, the age structure of the team is also very reasonable. A small number of veterans and a large number of middle and young players can almost guarantee that the fighting power of Crystal Palace will not decline in the next ten years.

How did that little guy from Huaguo bring such a group of people together?It's really enviable!

It's all about emotion, but Wenger has no intention of giving up the game.

Walking to the sidelines, Wenger began to yell at Arsenal's players to continue to attack.

That's right, he also plans to fight Crystal Palace to the end today.

Because he knew in his heart that with the current attack power of the Crystal Palace, it would be impossible to defend.

Although Arsenal can't compare with their peak period now, as long as Henry and Van Persie are there, they have a chance to pierce any defense.

Just before the end of the first half, Henry dribbled the ball past Alves' flying tackle.

Seeing Vidic rushing to defend, Henry simply did not continue to break through into the Crystal Palace penalty area.

Instead, in the position outside the upper right corner of the Crystal Palace penalty area, he directly used his right foot to draw a curve ball and shoot.

"boom!"

With a violent spin, the ball flew directly to the upper left corner of the Crystal Palace goal.

Because the angle of the ball was too tricky, Cech tried his best but failed to touch the ball. In the end, he could only watch the ball fly into the net of Crystal Palace.

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

Shortly after Henry's goal, the referee blew the whistle to end the first half.

The Crystal Palace bench, which used to be very active after leading by two goals, is now much more dignified.

However, Chen Ran didn't have much reaction to Henry's goal.

This kind of world wave goal is an uncontrollable factor, and it is not something you can prevent if you want to.To be entered into the world wave, one can only consider oneself unlucky.

Big deal, just score two more goals for Arsenal on my side.

During the intermission, Chen Ran did not make any adjustments to the tactics other than to encourage the players.

However, he only called Modric aside.

"Little Luka, if there is a corner kick in the second half, don't kick it directly. Call a teammate to cooperate with you in a tactical corner kick. It's the kind of kick and step, and then you kick the ball directly to Arsenal's goal. "

"Boss, why do you want to kick like this? Do you mean to shoot directly from a corner kick? Boss, with such a biased angle, with my ability, the success rate is very low."

Hearing Chen Ran's tactical arrangement, Modric couldn't make any other expressions other than a dazed expression.

What kind of weird tactics are these? Does the boss have a fever today?

Seeing Modric staring at him with strange eyes, Chen Ran felt helpless for a while.

What can he say?Tell Modric I gave you the "Free Kick Master Card", and you just shoot?
The reason why Modric gave such a weird order was because Chen Ran suddenly thought that a corner kick is actually a kind of free kick, but it is just a very special kind of position.

Although there are not many cases where corner kicks are directly scored, they will happen once every three to five times, which is not an incredible thing.

Therefore, Chen Ran wanted to make full use of the effect of the "Free Kick Master Card" to see if his judgment was correct.

"Ahem, the main reason is to give Arsenal a surprise. You see, even you think the success rate is low, so Arsenal will be even less prepared. Understand?"

In any case, Chen Ran still found a barely plausible excuse for himself.

"Okay. But boss, if you don't score, you can't blame me."

Modric is an honest boy. Although he does not agree with the orders of his boss Chen Ran, he is still willing to carry them out.

On Arsenal's side, in order to make up for the lack of height in the back line, Wenger had to replace the left back Clichy with the Swiss central defender Senderos who had just returned from injury, and then moved William Gallas to the left. Play left back.

Because of Campbell's injury, Senderos, who is 190cm tall, has gradually become the main player in Arsenal since last season.

In this summer's World Cup, Senderos played as Switzerland's main central defender.However, it also caused a shoulder injury, and he just returned from injury until last week.

As in the first half of the game, the two teams still started a back-and-forth battle.

In 8 minutes, Alves on the right used his speed to forcibly break through Arsenal left back William Gallas and sent a cross to the center.

In Arsenal's penalty area, Jan Kohler was tightly double-teamed by two central defenders one behind the other.

Senderos was responsible for fighting for the header in front of Jan Kohler, while Kolo Toure hid behind Jan Kohler and used various small movements to interfere with his take-off.

Arsenal's defensive method is indeed effective, Jan. Kohler was not able to jump up, the ball was successfully pushed out of Arsenal's restricted area by Senderos.

But Senderos's clearance was not far away, falling not far outside Arsenal's penalty area.

Seeing this situation, Modric, who was ambushing outside the Arsenal penalty area, rushed over immediately.

At this time, Gilberto Silva of Arsenal also discovered this huge hidden danger and also rushed over.

As a result, the more flexible Modric arrived first.

However, he didn't have time to do complicated moves, because Gilberto Silva was also in place immediately after.

In a hurry, Modric could only poke the ball with his toe before Gilberto Silva's foot stretched over, and poked the ball to Kaka not far away.

Seeing the ball rolling towards him, Kaka certainly would not miss this good opportunity.Directly draw the bow and set the arrow, facing the ball is a volley, and the ball flies to the lower right corner of the Arsenal goal at high speed against the turf.

Arsenal's goalkeeper Lehmann reacted quickly, flying sideways, and blocked the ball out of the baseline with his fingertips.

"pity!"

Whether it was Kaka on the field, Chen Ran on the sidelines, or even the entire audience, they almost thought that the goal was going to be scored.

However, although the goal was not scored, it still got a corner kick anyway.

The one who took the corner kick was, of course, Crystal Palace's first kicker, Modric.

Seeing that Crystal Palace got a corner kick, Modric remembered the tactics that Chen Ran explained during the intermission.

So Modric called Kaka over, and the two played a tactical corner together.

After a brief exchange, Kaka stood about one meter away from the corner flag area. Modric passed the ball to him, Kaka stepped on the ball, and Modric rushed up and kicked it.

Then, everyone saw the ball flying very high and spinning violently. When it was about to spin out of the baseline, it suddenly fell and jumped into the upper left corner of Arsenal's goal.

Goalkeeper Lehmann originally thought that the ball was going to go out of the baseline, but when he found that the ball began to fall rapidly, it was too late to make a save.

And Rosicky, who was standing next to the goalpost, encountered such a situation for the first time.

When he found that the ball was about to fly into the goal from his head, he immediately jumped up vigorously, trying to push the ball out.

It's a pity that Rosicky's height is not enough, and he is not good at heading the ball, and he is not good at grasping the timing of the jump. In the end, he can only watch the ball fly into the net from above his head.

"GOAL!"

With a direct goal from Modric's corner kick, Crystal Palace led Arsenal 3:1.

World wave!
Another world wave!

Goal scored from a corner kick!

Seeing this goal, the entire Highbury Stadium was boiling.

An unbelievable goal, even Modric, who scored the goal, was dumbfounded.

When Kaka rushed over and hugged him tightly, his mind was still in a mess.

He scored, and actually scored a goal. How did the boss know that he could kick a corner kick and score directly today?
Could he be a prophet?

Is it true that the legendary boss will practice mysterious oriental witchcraft?
At this moment, Chen Ran's tall image in Modric's heart added another layer of mysterious aura.

On the other side, on the Arsenal bench, Wenger and his old partner Pat Rice looked at each other.

This kind of goal can be scored, how can this game be played?
"Boss, it seems that the luck of this game is not on our side."

Pat Rice scratched his head and said helplessly.

"It seems so. Well, just do your best."

What else can Wenger say now?All he could do was show a wry smile.

Fortunately, the fighting spirit of the Arsenal players was not crushed by Modric's shocking world wave.

No. 709 minutes, it was Henry again. After receiving a pass from Rosicky, first a Marseille slew past Alves, and then another Simeone passed through the crotch and passed the defensive defense, and then dribbled the ball into the Crystal Palace. restricted area.

Facing Vidic's defense, Henry dialed and dunked, and after flashing a gap, he directly used the instep of his right foot to throw a curve ball.The same footwork was used for the previous goal, but this time the shot was closer.

The arc of the ball's flight bypassed Vidic and the fingertips of goalkeeper Petr Cech, and flew into the Crystal Palace goal again.

With Henry's brace, Arsenal once again narrowed the score gap to one goal, and the score on the field became 3:2.

This goal seems to have once again inspired the fighting spirit of the Arsenal players.

Under Wenger's command, Arsenal launched wave after wave of offensive.

Seeing that there was not much time left in the game, Chen Ran also began to deploy troops to strengthen the defense.

He replaced Simeone with Yaya Toure, Alves with Maicon and Southgate with Thiago Silva.

In the end, under the tenacious struggle of the Crystal Palace players, the score of 3:2 was maintained until the end of the game.

At the same time as the end of the two games without victory, Chen Ran also got a very effective "Free Kick Master Card" from the system.

It happened that the only remaining "Free Kick Master Card" was used up by Modric in this game, and the system immediately added one, which is really considerate.

In the ninth round of the Premier League, in addition to Crystal Palace vs. Arsenal, there is another highlight, that is, Manchester United vs. Liverpool at home.

As a result, Manchester United defeated their old enemy Liverpool again with a score of 2:0 at Old Trafford.

Another focus of the game is Chelsea at home against Portsmouth, the dark horse of the season.

It's a pity that this dark horse was not good enough. After meeting Mourinho, it became a dead horse. Chelsea won Portsmouth 2:1 at Stamford Bridge.

After the end of the ninth round of the Premier League, Crystal Palace continued to top the standings with a record of eight wins and one tie with 25 points.

Manchester United and Chelsea have the same 22 points, ranking second and No.3 respectively.

Bolton ranked fourth with [-] points and Arsenal ranked fifth with [-] points.

As for Liverpool, they rank No.11 with only [-] points, so let’s not mention it.

Although Crystal Palace still has the English League Cup three days later, they are going to Anfield to challenge Liverpool.

But because this game is in the plan made before, I plan to send all substitutes to play.

So after playing against Arsenal, Chen Ran can finally take a breather and rest.

Unfortunately, Chen Ran thought too beautifully.

As the chairman and head coach of the Crystal Palace Club, although things on the court have come to an end for the time being, there are still many things outside the court waiting for him to deal with.

When Chen Ran came to work at the Crystal Palace Club the next morning after the game, he was blocked by Stephen in the office.

"Chen, Gatorade has a reply. They said that they can add the word 'sports' to the wording of the exclusivity clause, but the corresponding sponsorship fee will also be reduced from 800 million euros to 600 million euros."

"What? Stephen, the asking price I asked you to give them was raised from 800 million euros to 1000 million euros. Why is it not rising but falling now?"

"Uh Chen, Gatorade's reason is that if we add the word 'sports', we can add many other beverage sponsors, so the sponsorship fee should be reduced."

Stephen looked at Chen Ran helplessly, the people at Gatorade are not fools, of course they can see what you want to do.

"Hehe, it seems that the people at Gatorade are pretty smart. But, Stephen, you tell the people at Gatorade that my asking price is 1000 million euros. If they don't agree, then I will sign with Coca-Cola."

Chen Ran smiled disdainfully, now there are many people who want to sponsor the Crystal Palace, I don't lack you.

(End of this chapter)