Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 243
"Okay. However, after you rejected Coca-Cola's offer last time, Chen, they haven't responded yet. Do you think Coca-Cola doesn't plan to sponsor us?"

Regarding Chen Ran's use of the competitive relationship between Coca-Cola and Pepsi to make them raise each other's prices, Stephen was a little worried that he had screwed up.

"Stephen, don't worry. As long as our Crystal Palace can continue to win various championships, then these sponsors will come back to the negotiating table honestly in the end."

"Because after making various comparisons, they will find that although sponsoring our Crystal Palace is a bit more expensive, it is definitely worth the money."

As Chen Ran spoke, he led Stephen to the championship trophy showcase in his office, pointing at the championship trophies inside, with confidence.

Because now the old stadium of Crystal Palace has been demolished, and the new stadium has not yet been built.So Chen Ran put the various championship trophies he won since he entered the Crystal Palace in his office, and admired them when he was free.

After the new stadium of Crystal Palace is completed, he also plans to learn from those wealthy clubs to build a trophy showroom.

However, there are only one Champions League trophy, one Europa League trophy, one UEFA Super Cup trophy, two Premier League championship trophies, one FA Cup trophy, and one English League Cup trophy in the cabinet.

The number is a little small, and I can't support the scene. I still need to continue to work hard.

Three days later, in the third round of the English League Cup, Crystal Palace went to Anfield to challenge Liverpool.

According to the plan made in advance, Chen Ran dispatched a full substitute lineup and handed over the command of the game to Guardiola.

Facing the cup game, the fighting power is far stronger than that of the league. Liverpool, who played with all the main players, and the substitute players of Crystal Palace were inseparable from their opponents.

In the end, Dirk Dirk scored a lore goal in stoppage time, and lost to Liverpool with a score of 2:3, and was eliminated from the League Cup.

After just one day of rest, the tenth round of the Premier League will start again, and Crystal Palace will go away to challenge Portsmouth, the dark horse of the season.

The reason why Portsmouth can become a dark horse this season is inseparable from their big moves during the summer transfer period.

They have introduced a group of veterans with good strength, such as Andy Cole, one of the former Manchester United's black winds, Sol Campbell, the former Arsenal's rear core, David James, the England goalkeeper, and the Nigerian striker Kanu.

Of course, they don't just buy veterans.Also bought a new Croatian star, the national team midfielder Kranjica who is known as Boban's successor, and former Chelsea right back Glenn Johnson, two young people who are only 22 years old.

The head coach Redknapp has also coached in the Premier League for many years and has very rich experience.

Facing this opponent, Chen Ran sent all the main players who had recovered greatly after the rotation and recuperation.

Redknapp is also an old fox. Facing the league leader Crystal Palace, he honestly let Portsmouth stay in the backcourt and set up the bus, hoping to take advantage of the intensive schedule and serious physical exertion of Crystal Palace to steal a point.

It is a pity that in front of this offensive combination of Tony, Ibrahimovic, Kaka, Ronaldo, Ribery and Modric, the bus in Portsmouth is like paper, two or three It was destroyed by the attack of the Crystal Palace in the next moment, and there was no resistance.

In the end, with the goals of Ibrahimovic, Ronaldo, Modric and Tony, Crystal Palace won Portsmouth 4-0 cleanly in the away game.Sweeping away the depression before, he was elated.

While scoring three points and continuing to consolidate Crystal Palace's leading position in the standings, it also brought Chen Ran the "Level [-] Recovery Card" he desperately needed.

Next, there will be four days of rest before Crystal Palace will face CSKA Moscow at home in the UEFA Champions League, which also allows the main players of Crystal Palace to recover relatively adequately.

Therefore, after being tied by CSKA Moscow in the away game, Crystal Palace waited for work at home this time and went on a killing spree. With the goals of Ibrahimovic, Thiago Silva and Ronaldo, it was 3:0 Great victory over CSKA Moscow.

Crystal Palace won two consecutive games and scored seven goals without conceding a goal. It can be regarded as a fierce blow to the faces of those who looked down on Crystal Palace when they had not won two consecutive games before.

Two days later, in the No.11 round of the Premier League, Crystal Palace challenged Liverpool at Anfield for the second time within ten days.

However, this time the Crystal Palace is completely different from the Crystal Palace in the English League Cup ten days ago.

Due to problems with the club's operations, the Liverpool club did not make any big signings during the summer transfer period.

The biggest transfer is nothing more than the introduction of Dutch striker Kevin Dirk from Feyenoord for 1465 million euros.

What remains is the acquisition of midfielder Pennant from Birmingham for 910 million euros, Welsh striker Bellamy from Blackburn Rovers for 900 million euros and Argentine defender Paletta from Banfield.

Because Liverpool had just defeated Crystal Palace ten days ago, but public opinion generally believed that Crystal Palace voluntarily gave up the League Cup match because the schedule was too dense.

So now they are fighting again, Liverpool are full of fighting spirit from top to bottom, and they are going to give Crystal Palace a little color.

Liverpool's head coach and tactician Benitez certainly knows the disparity in strength between Crystal Palace's main lineup and substitute lineup.

To this end, Benitez carefully designed a set of 4411 tactics that focus on defense and hide needles in the cotton.

Center Kevin Dirk

Midfielder Kewell

Left Midfield Zenden, Central Midfielder Gerrard, Central Midfielder Xavi Alonso, Right Midfielder Pennant
Left back Riise, center back Agger, center back Carragher, right back Finnan
goalkeeper reina
On the Crystal Palace side, with the continuous improvement of the team's strength, Chen Ran now has the capital mainly based on me.

No matter what tactics the opponent uses, Crystal Palace has the confidence to remain unchanged and respond to all changes.

Of course, the premise is that Crystal Palace's main lineup is in good physical condition.

Considering that Riviera played all the games in the previous two games, as the only player in the main lineup who was over 30 years old, just in case, Chen Ran added the "Level [-] Recovery Card" just in case. "Used on Vieira.

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
Because Liverpool took the initiative to shrink their formation and concentrate their forces on their own backcourt defense.In addition to Dirk, Kewell, other players have not crossed the center line.Therefore, Crystal Palace controlled the midfield very smoothly and formed a siege against Liverpool.

However, Benitez's training for Liverpool has been very effective. Every player on the field is implementing his tactical arrangements to the letter.

So that the Crystal Palace stormed for three to ten minutes, but they still haven't broken the goal guarded by Reina.

It wasn't until 10 minutes later, when the first small bottleneck appeared in physical fitness, that Liverpool's defense showed a flaw.

No.303 minutes, after receiving a pass from Vieira, Ronaldo dribbled the ball along the left line at high speed.

According to Benitez's original arrangement, the right forward Pennant should quickly return to the defense, closely follow Ronaldo, and then be intercepted by the right back Finnan. It can make up for the gap in the individual strength of Liverpool players.

However, due to a physical bottleneck, Pennant stopped after a few steps.

This will make Finnan miserable. With Finnan's personal strength, how can he defend against Ronaldo?
Seeing Finnan coming up to intercept him, Ronaldo just hit the ball with his heel and passed the ball. While passing Finnan, he also successfully completed the inside cut.

At this time, central midfielder Harvey Alonso, who was on the right side, realized that the situation was not good, and immediately rushed over to defend.

Cristiano Ronaldo, who had just finished hitting the ball with his heel, saw Harvey Alonso pounce on him, and immediately made another fried ball, passing Harvey Alonso again.

Looking up at Liverpool's goal, Ronaldo directly used the instep of his right foot to throw a curve ball.

With a violent spin, the ball flew to the upper left corner of Liverpool's goal.

Seeing Ronaldo's shot, Reina quickly soared into the air and flew sideways. Unfortunately, he still couldn't touch the ball and could only watch the ball fly into Liverpool's goal.

"GOAL!"

With Ronaldo's wonderful performance, Crystal Palace finally broke the deadlock on the field and led Liverpool 1-0.

Benitez is worthy of being a famous coach. Even after seeing Crystal Palace score, he was still indifferent and did not make any adjustments to the team.

Liverpool played in exactly the same formation as before, and it seemed that Crystal Palace's goal did not exist at all.

"Boss, what is Benitez trying to do? He didn't react at all when he was behind in the score. Could it be that he just accepted the result of losing?"

After the excitement of the team's lead passed, Guardiola also discovered something wrong with Benitez.

"I don't know if Benitez accepts the result of losing. But if I were the head coach of Liverpool, I would also defend first when I was not as good as my opponent."

"If the situation on the court is still only one goal behind at the 10th and [-]th minute of the second half, then it will not be too late for me to attack again."

"So that's what Benitez planned."

Hearing Chen Ran's analysis, Guardiola realized something.However, he immediately had a new question.

"Boss, since you know what Benitez is planning, how are you going to deal with it?"

"Response? No need to deal with it. There is a saying in Huaguo, which is called 'one force will reduce ten meetings'. With the current attack power of our Crystal Palace, it will be fine if Liverpool keeps defending. As long as they dare to press out and attack, they will die miserably by then." .”

"Boss, what do you mean by 'one power down ten meetings'?"

It is also difficult for Guardiola to read these five Chinese characters.

There is no way, who made Chen Ran, the boss of Crystal Palace, be from Huaguo.

If there is something good on the top, it will be great on the bottom.

Now the entire Crystal Palace club has set off a wave of learning Chinese. From top to bottom, almost all Crystal Palace employees can speak a few words of Chinese.

"To put it simply, as long as we are strong enough, no matter what tactics Benitez uses, it will be useless."

"understood."

The progress of the game seemed to be confirming Chen Ran's judgment.

Under Liverpool's strict defense, the first half of the game ended with Crystal Palace leading 1:0.

During the intermission, neither Chen Ran nor Benitez made any adjustments.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, Liverpool still shrunk to defend in their own half, and it seemed that they were really willing to accept the result of a small loss.

I have to admit that Benitez's training of Liverpool is really in place.

You must know that it is very tiring to keep passive defense all the time, whether it is physically or mentally.It is very rare for Liverpool players to persist for most of the game without crashing.

When the game progressed to 10 minutes later, Benitez made a shot.

"Boss, there seems to be a substitution at Liverpool."

After listening to Chen Ran's analysis, Guardiola, who had been paying attention to the movement of Liverpool's bench, immediately noticed Benitez's change.

Following Guardiola's gaze, Chen Ran saw Benitez call forward Luis Garcia and right back Arbeloa from the bench.

Obviously, Benitez wanted to attack.

"Boss, as you said, Liverpool is going to counterattack."

Seeing that Chen Ran's judgment was accurate again, Guardiola was also very impressed.

"Josep, remind the players to cheer up, a good chance to score is coming."

"Haha, boss, you are really bad."

As Guardiola walked to the sidelines to remind the players according to Chen Ran's instructions, he secretly wondered what kind of expression Benitez would have if he knew that the boss had been waiting for him to make a move.

Soon, Benitez seemed to be implementing the plan that Chen Ran made for him step by step.The midfielder Kewell was replaced by the more powerful shadow forward Luis Garcia, and Finnan, who was better at defending than attacking, was replaced by Arbeloa who was more capable of assisting.

As for the Crystal Palace, the players who received Guardiola's reminder felt a little puzzled by Chen Ran's order.But Chen Ran's victories all the time made the Crystal Palace players have a tendency to worship him blindly.

As long as it is Chen Ran's order, he must execute it if he understands it, and he must execute it if he doesn't understand it.

Because the facts have proved time and time again that the result of executing Chen Ran's order is usually a victory.

As a result, just as Liverpool changed their formation to press the attack, Crystal Palace's offensive suddenly increased in intensity.

All of a sudden, the half-court offensive and defensive drill, which lasted most of the time, instantly turned into a spark-splashing confrontation.

(End of this chapter)