Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 266 Another new offer from the benefactor

"boom!"

Seeing Arsenal's Rosicky wanting to rush to destroy, Alves didn't wait for the ball to hit the ground, and directly volleyed.

Alves' footwork was well controlled, and he hit a ground cut.

And his luck was also very good, the ball did not touch anyone's body in the crowded Arsenal penalty area.

It is also because there are too many people in the penalty area, which seriously blocked the sight of Arsenal goalkeeper Lehmann.

When the ball came out of the crowd, it was too late for Lehman to make a save, and he could only watch the ball fly from his hand into the net.

"GOAL!"

With Alves' goal, Crystal Palace overtook Arsenal 2:1.

"It's Alves. Although he is only a backup full-back for Crystal Palace, he has also fully demonstrated his offensive ability."

"Set-pieces, set-pieces again, Crystal Palace's set-pieces are too threatening now."

"Although it was not a header this time, the height advantage of Crystal Palace obviously put a lot of pressure on Arsenal's defense, which caused the ball to fail to clear to a safe place."

"Crystal Palace has too many explosions now, it's impossible to guard against!"

Wenger, who was standing on the sidelines, suddenly sank when he saw Crystal Palace lead the score.

Although he knows that Arsenal is not as strong as Crystal Palace now, but as a head coach, who doesn't want to win?
After hesitating for a moment, Wenger turned around and called his assistant, Pat Rice.

"Pat, you go and tell Adebayor to warm up. He will replace Eboue in a while, and we will change to 343."

"343? Boss, isn't this a little too radical?"

Hearing Wenger's order, Pat Rice was also startled.

Adebayor is the center forward, and Wenger replaced right back Eboue with him. This is a posture to fight Crystal Palace desperately.

"This game started well, I don't want to give up just like that. Every point is important if you want to catch up with Liverpool to qualify for the Champions League. Anyway, the worst result is to lose, so it's better to give it a try."

"Okay, just think it through."

After all, Wenger is the head coach. Although Pat Rice felt that his decision was a bit risky, he still carried out his order.

Soon, the Crystal Palace saw Wenger's substitutions and adjustments.

"Boss, has Arsenal completely given up on defense?"

Guardiola was also surprised to see Wenger replacing the defender with a forward when the score was behind.

Is this going to be all-or-nothing?I didn't expect coach Wenger to be so passionate even at his age.

"Josep, let Chiellini go to warm up immediately, replace Evra with him later, and strengthen the defensive ability of the back line."

"After Chiellini came on the field, he was responsible for marking Pesci, Vidic was responsible for marking Adebayor, Thiago Silva and Alves together restricted Henry."

"Okay, boss."

Knowing that this is a critical moment, Guardiola didn't dare to delay turning around and ran to carry out Chen Ran's order.

Soon, less than 5 minutes after Arsenal made a substitution, Crystal Palace also made a substitution.

"Boss, the response from the Crystal Palace is so fast."

Seeing Chen Ran's actions, Pat Rice was also amazed.

The effect of the substitution on my side had just been shown, and the patch was immediately applied on the Crystal Palace side.

Chiellini's defensive ability is obviously stronger than Evra's. As soon as he played, he greatly shared the defensive pressure of Vidic and Thiago Silva.

Arsenal's offensive momentum, which was just about to rise, was immediately suppressed again.

"Hey, now that little fellow from Huaguo is becoming more and more difficult to deal with."

Turning to look at Chen Ran in the distance, Wenger sighed helplessly.

"Pat, you go and tell Flamini to warm up and replace Hleb with him later."

"Boss, didn't you change Adebayor to 343 to strengthen the offense? Why are you replacing Hleb with stronger offensive ability with Flamini, who is stronger in defense?"

Pat Rice felt that Wenger's two substitutions were a bit contradictory, and he was very puzzled.

"Pat, whether it's Rosicky or Hleb, their two best positions are actually attacking midfielders. It's just that in order to meet our 442's tactical requirements, they have to switch to full-backs."

"Although the two of them can also play as wingers, their effects are far less than when they play as attacking midfielders."

"Now after I replace Hleb with Flamini, I plan to put Rosicky, who is in better shape today, to play the front midfielder, and then let Gilberto Silva, Baptista and Fra The three of Meany play the defensive midfielder behind him to provide protection."

"The team's formation has also changed from 343 to 3313, understand?"

"That's it, I understand."

After Wenger's explanation, Pat Rice suddenly realized, and ran to carry out Wenger's order with conviction.

Soon, the Crystal Palace once again saw Wenger's substitutions and adjustments.

"Boss, Arsenal seems to have changed their formation again. Their current formation should be 3313."

After observing for 2 minutes, Guardiola immediately understood Wenger's changes.

"3313? In my impression, Arsenal rarely play this formation. What happened to Coach Wenger today? Did you get any stimulation?"

Chen Ran touched his nose, then turned his head and glanced at the Arsenal bench in the distance.

"Josep, tell Mascherano to warm up, replace Tony later, strengthen the defense in the middle, and the team formation becomes 451 with three midfielders."

"Okay, boss."

Crystal Palace is now leading the score, and the initiative is in Chen Ran's hands.As long as the defense is stable, the three-pointer is still Crystal Palace's.

So Chen Ran was not in a hurry, no matter what strange moves Wenger made, he just had to deal with them.

Soon, Wenger and Pat Rice, who saw Crystal Palace making another substitution, were also a little speechless.

As soon as they transferred Rosicky from the wing to the position of the midfielder, Crystal Palace immediately increased the number of midfielders to three.

As soon as Rosicky takes the ball, two black and tough players and an Argentine ruthless character immediately surround him.With Rosicky's stern look on his face, it's not bad if he didn't scare the pee on the spot.

"Boss, what should we do now? Crystal Palace's defense is impeccable."

Pat Rice scratched his head. Frankly speaking, Wenger's command was good enough, but he was still cracked by the Chinese man one by one. Now he has a deep understanding of what it means to be "helpless".

Seeing the current situation on the field, Wenger curled his lips helplessly, and after dropping a word, he turned around and returned to the bench to sit down.

"Leave it all to God"

"Give everything to God?"

Pat Rice looked up at the dark night sky with no moon or stars tonight, and his heart suddenly felt cold.

After the Crystal Palace strengthened its defense, it was difficult for Arsenal's offensive to penetrate the Crystal Palace's defense.But on the Crystal Palace side, Arsenal now does not have a 3313 formation of full-backs and full-backs, but leaves a huge room for Ronaldo and Ribery to play.

No. 701 minutes, after Cech hugged Henry's shot, he immediately counterattacked with a hand throw.

Vieira, who received the ball, used his body to push away the interfering Rosicky, and passed the ball directly to Ronaldo on the left with a big foot.

Flamini, the defensive midfielder on the right side of Arsenal's midfielder, immediately leaned over to break the ball from Ronaldo. Ronaldo swayed past Flamini with a fried ball, and then accelerated the ball towards Arsenal's penalty area. past.

At this time, because Arsenal was still attacking just now, most of the players were still in the half of Crystal Palace.

As soon as Flamini was passed, there were only three Arsenal defenders left in front of him.

In Arsenal's restricted area, Ibrahimovic alone attracted two defenders, Senderos and William Gallas.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Kolo Toure immediately rushed forward to intercept Ronaldo's breakthrough.

Facing Kolo Toure who was rushing towards him, Ronaldo lightly poked the ball forward, and it just passed between Kolo Toure's legs.

After crossing the crotch, Ronaldo dribbled the ball into Arsenal's penalty area.

Seeing that the situation was critical, William Gallas rushed over to defend.

This time, Ronaldo didn't prepare too much. Before William Gallas' foot stretched over, he directly kicked his left foot and it was a volley.

The shot was powerful and fast, heading straight for the top right corner of Arsenal's goal.

Lehman jumped and stretched his body to the limit.It's a pity that I still couldn't touch the ball, and could only watch the ball fly into Arsenal's net.

"GOAL!"

With Ronaldo's solo breakthrough and scoring, Crystal Palace extended their lead to 3:1.

As soon as Crystal Palace scored the third goal, Arsenal's players suddenly became a little discouraged.

The game has now lasted for more than 70 minutes. The decline in physical fitness and the gap in strength with Crystal Palace have made Arsenal's players lack confidence in chasing two goals in a row in the remaining ten minutes.

The next game was uneventful, although in stoppage time, Arsenal scored a header from Adebayor, but the referee also blew the whistle for the end of the game.

In the end, Crystal Palace defeated Arsenal 3:2 away with the goals of Ibrahimovic, Alves and Ronaldo.

At the same time as getting three points, Chen Ran also got a "Level [-] Accurate Card" from the system.

In this round of the other Premier League, in addition to Crystal Palace against Arsenal, there is another strong dialogue, that is, Manchester United will go to Anfield to challenge rival Liverpool.

As a result, Liverpool's performance in the league was as weak as ever, losing 0:1 to rival Manchester United at their home court.

In another game, Chelsea defeated Portsmouth 2-0 in the away game. Together with Manchester United, they still clung to Crystal Palace.

Four days later, the second round of the UEFA Champions League round of [-] to [-] will begin again.

Because Crystal Palace scored 4:1 in the first round of the away game, Chen Ran can calmly rotate the lineup when he returns to the home game this time, so that the players who played all the games against Arsenal will get time for rest.

In the end, with the goals of Jan Kohler and Modric, Crystal Palace drew 2:2 with the visiting Eindhoven at home, eliminated their opponents with a total score of 6:3, and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

In other competitions, Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea eliminated their opponents respectively, and advanced to the quarter-finals of the Champions League just like Crystal Palace.

This time, among the top eight teams in this year's Champions League, there are four clubs from the Premier League.The status of the Premier League as the world's number one league has also become more and more stable.

"Chen, there is something new about the beverage sponsorship."

Seeing Stephen rushing into his office excitedly, Chen Ran's heart skipped a beat. It seemed that there was good news again.

"What's the matter? Is there another offer from a new benefactor?"

Chen Ran asked casually jokingly.

"Huh? How did you know?"

Stephen was taken aback when he heard that, did the other party contact Chen Ran directly?

"Really? I just said it casually."

"Indeed. The Red Bull Group got the news from nowhere, and learned that Gatorade is planning to sponsor our club. So they also sent us an offer with better terms than Gatorade's."

"Oh? Tell me carefully."

As soon as he heard that the offer was even more favorable than Gatorade, Chen Ran's interest was immediately aroused.

"A three-year contract for the exclusive sponsorship of sports drinks, 1200 million euros per year."

"This condition is clearly aimed at Gatorade. It seems that Red Bull also has a nail in Gatorade."

The Red Bull Group's quotation is just ahead of Gatorade in all aspects.It would be hard to believe that the Red Bull Group did not know the price quotation of Gatorade.

"It should be. But this situation is also normal. Commercial espionage is too common now."

Stephen shrugged, indicating that this was all to be expected.

"Red Bull Group also bought the football club itself, why would it think of sponsoring us this time?"

"I guess they were stimulated by Gatorade. After all, the clubs acquired by Red Bull Group have not achieved any outstanding results yet, and the advertising effect is limited. They are afraid that Gatorade will take advantage of the reputation of our Crystal Palace to seize their market."

Stephen obviously did his homework, and he immediately answered Chen Ran's question.

"But that's fine. Gatorade and Red Bull compete, and we benefit. I like it."

"Stephen, tell Gatorade the offer from Red Bull Group and ask them if they will follow. If not, then we will sign a contract with Red Bull."

"Okay. Chen, do you want Coca-Cola to distribute a copy too? Since the Galaxy Football Group incident came out, they haven't moved."

"Forget about Coca-Cola. Gatorade and Red Bull are direct competitors. If the two of them really fight, we can get the most benefits."

"understood."

When Stephen was reporting the Red Bull Group's offer to Chen Ran, at the headquarters of the Austrian Red Bull, the boss Dietrich Mateschitz was listening to his subordinates' discussions about Chen Ran, Crystal Palace Club and the Galaxy Football Group.

Originally, this was just to fight against Gatorade and sponsor Crystal Palace Club's ordinary business practices.

But owner Dietrich Mateschitz has developed a strong interest in Chen Ran's Galaxy Football Group.

(End of this chapter)