Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 301
When the referee blew the whistle to start the game, there was no temptation between Crystal Palace and Arsenal, and they directly opened their posture and fought against each other.

Although Arsenal's strength is not what it used to be, Wenger's tactical style is still the same as before, sticking to the technical line and sticking to offensive football.

This is also an important reason why they can still maintain the most expensive tickets in the Premier League even if they do not have a championship.

Even against defending champions like Crystal Palace, Wenger did not let Arsenal shrink back and put the bus.The two teams played very well, and the game was very good.

No.18 minutes, Rosicky got rid of Maicon's entanglement and sent the ball into the penalty area of ​​Crystal Palace.

Under Nemanja Vidic's close pressing, Adebayor still managed to get the spot, and headed the ball to Van Persie not far away.

Van Persie took the risk of being kicked in the head by Thiago Silva before Thiago Silva stretched out his foot to destroy it. He jumped to the top and slammed the ball towards the Crystal Palace goal.

Van Persie hit the ball at a very tricky angle and flew directly to the upper right corner of the Crystal Palace goal.

Even though Cech made a quick save, he couldn't touch the ball, and could only watch the ball fly into the net he was guarding.

Less than 10 minutes into the game, Arsenal scored a goal first, leading Crystal Palace 1-0.

On the sidelines, just as the Arsenal players were cheering and celebrating, assistant coach Pat Rice quickly walked to Wenger's side.

"Boss, we are now ahead of Crystal Palace. Should we switch to defensive counterattacks and keep this lead?"

"Defensive counterattack?"

Hearing Pat Rice's proposal, Wenger frowned slightly.

But it was his old partner who spoke after all, so Wenger patiently explained.

"Pat, your suggestion is not unreasonable. But do you think our Arsenal's defensive ability can stop the strong attack of Crystal Palace?"

"Well, if we shrink the lineup, we can still carry it."

This time, Pat Rice's answer was a bit vague. After all, Arsenal under the leadership of Wenger has never been good at defense.

"Pat, let me ask you a little bit. If we shrink the lineup and give up the initiative in the game, that kid Chen Ran will send up Yang. If Kohler and Tony play double centers together, William Gallas, who is 182cm tall, and William Gallas, who is 178cm tall Can Kolo Toure handle it?"

"Uh, don't we still have Senderos? His height is 190cm."

"Use Senderos? Are you at ease?"

Hearing Pat Rice mention the name of the Swiss, Wenger asked helplessly.

In fact, Senderos performed very well when he first debuted, but since he was abused by Chelsea's Drogba a few times, I don't know if there is a psychological problem. Now the more he plays, the less confident he is.

After Senderos repeatedly made defensive mistakes, Wenger now dare not send him on the field even if he knows that the central defender combination of William Gallas and Kolo Toure is not capable of air defense.

Being blocked by Wenger's rhetorical question for a long time, Pat Rice simply bypassed the topic of Senderos.

"Boss, but if we fight against Crystal Palace like this, I'm worried that we won't be able to stand up in the future."

"Pat, we all know how strong Arsenal is now. It's normal for us not to be able to play against Crystal Palace. No one will say anything. If that's the case, why don't we fight for it?"

"What's more, offense is our Arsenal's housekeeping skill. If we switch to defense, we will look far away. Do you understand?"

"Understood, boss."

After convincing his assistant coach, Wenger did not make any adjustments to Arsenal, and the team still maintained an offensive posture, playing back and forth with Crystal Palace.

On the Crystal Palace side, Chen Ran didn't make any adjustments because he was scored by Arsenal.He sat on the bench in a godly manner, believing that his players would definitely be able to break through Arsenal's goal.

The Crystal Palace players did not disappoint Chen Ran. Just ten minutes after Arsenal scored, Kaka dribbled the ball from the center and was brought down by Gilberto Silva. The referee gave Crystal Palace a good position. free kick in the frontcourt.

The position of this free kick is facing Arsenal's goal, the distance is just over 30 meters, which is very suitable for hitting the goal directly.

This time, Modric, Ronaldo and Ribery stood next to the ball at the same time again, seemingly arguing over who should take the free kick.

As a result, the Arsenal players on the field also saw the scene of three people using finger-guessing to determine the right to take a free kick.

It seemed that Modric decided the outcome with one punch, Ronaldo and Ribery shook their heads and walked away.

Ronaldo walked towards Arsenal's penalty area, while Ribery walked towards his right.

Modric did not send the ball out immediately, but looked in the direction of Arsenal's goal, as if observing the position of goalkeeper Almunia.

At this moment, Ronaldo, who had just passed the Arsenal wall, suddenly accelerated and rushed into the penalty area.

At the same time, Modric flicked his ankle and made a pick pass. The ball flew over the head of Arsenal's wall and just flew into the route of Ronaldo.

Because Chen Ran used the "Free Kick Master Card" for Modric several times before and helped him score several amazing free kicks, Modric now also has the title of free kick master.

Coupled with the good position of this free kick, the Arsenal players focused on defending his free kick and hitting the goal directly.

Unexpectedly, Modric was uncharacteristically this time, and instead of hitting the goal, he played tactical cooperation.

By the time the Arsenal players reacted to intercept Ronaldo, Ronaldo had already received the ball and rushed into Arsenal's penalty area.

"boom!"

Without any hesitation, Ronaldo raised his foot and hit the goal as soon as he entered the penalty area.William Gallas, who wanted to fly to block the hole of the gun, was a step too late after all, and did not have time to block Ronaldo's shot.

Arsenal goalkeeper Almunia, who also focused on Modric, reacted half a beat too slowly. It was too late to make a save after Ronaldo shot, and the ball passed from Almunia's fingertips. Into the Arsenal net.

"GOAL!"

With a brilliant free-kick tactical cooperation, Crystal Palace was equalized by Cristiano Ronaldo, and now the two teams are back on the same starting line.

"It's really unexpected. I didn't expect that Crystal Palace didn't let Modric hit the goal directly this time. It seems that they have been improving."

"Crystal Palace's free kicks will become more and more difficult to defend in the future. In addition to free kick masters like Modric and Beckham, now there is a new tactical coordination, which is really hard to defend against."

"It seems that the Chinese man is not satisfied with the status quo, and is still adding new offensive methods to Crystal Palace. With such competitors, it is really too difficult for other Premier League clubs to snatch the league championship from Crystal Palace."

"Haha, Boss, our free kick came out together!"

On the sidelines, Guardiola, Simeone, Southgate and other coaches were more excited than the players on the field.

Because this tactical coordination was designed by Chen Ran, and then these assistant coaches led the players to practice over and over again in training, in exchange for today's goal.

Chen Ran was also inspired by Ronaldo, Franck Ribery and Modric, who used finger-guessing to compete for the right to take free kicks last time, and designed this tactical coordination.

When everyone sees that the three decide who takes the free kick by guessing punches, they will definitely subconsciously think that the player who grabs the right to take the penalty will definitely hit the goal directly.

Chen Ran just wanted to use this to mislead the attention of the defensive players. Judging from today's on-site reaction, the effect was very good.

"It's a good game. Let's try to turn all other tactical coordination in training into goals."

"Haha, no problem, boss."

On the other side, Wenger, who saw Crystal Palace's goal, also shook his head.

Not to mention the players on the field, even he himself did not expect that Crystal Palace would be willing to give up such a good free kick to directly hit the goal.

After winning so many championships, the little guy from Huaguo didn't seek pleasure, but was able to think about excellence and constantly enrich the team's tactics. It's really not easy.

Thinking of this, Wenger has a feeling that he is old.

Today's young people are better than each other.

With Ronaldo equalizing the score, the initiative of the entire game gradually fell into the hands of Crystal Palace.

If the referee hadn't blown the whistle for the end of the first half in time, Crystal Palace might have achieved a reversal.

During the intermission, Chen Ran did not make any personnel adjustments because the situation on the court was very good.

At Arsenal, Wenger replaced Hleb with Lars Diarra and moved Rosicky to the attacking midfielder.

Let Flamini, Gilberto Silva and Las Diarra stand behind Rosicky to provide protection. Wenger intends to strengthen the team's interception ability in the midfield to bring back the passive situation.

Although Lars Diarra is a thorn, his personal ability is still good.

At the beginning of the second half, Wenger's substitutions and adjustments really paid off. Arsenal finally gained a firm foothold and were no longer as passive as they were suppressed in the second half of the first half.

After playing for more than ten minutes, Wenger replaced Adebayor with Eduardo, ready to give it a go.

Although Eduardo's current nationality is Croatian, he is actually a Brazilian.

Before breaking his leg, Eduardo was also a very talented striker.Whether it is in the club or the national team, his performance is very good.

Seeing Arsenal's constant substitutions and adjustments, Chen Ran looked down at his watch. The game lasted 65 minutes, and the time was almost up.

Since Wenger has put up a heavy defense in the middle, then he will avoid the reality and play the weakness of Arsenal.

"Josep!"

Chen Ran turned around and called Guardiola over.

"Boss, what do you need me to do?"

"You go and tell Jan Kohler to warm up and replace Kaka with him later."

"Okay, boss."

When Guardiola went to arrange a substitution, Chen Ran also took advantage of the dead ball to call Modric to the sidelines.

"Little Luca, after Jan Kohler comes on the field, you should split the ball to the two sides. Let Ronaldo and Ribery pass high balls to Tony and Jan Kohler in the penalty area, understand?"

"Understood, boss."

Soon, Wenger saw Crystal Palace's substitutions.And what followed was that Modric passed the ball to the two wings one after another.

Since Arsenal has no full-backs on the field now, all three midfielders are concentrated in the middle position, which makes both Clichy and Sagna have to face the attacks of Ribery and Ronaldo alone.

When the game progressed to No. 703 minutes, Ronaldo on the left received a pass from Modric again.

Lars Diarra in the middle of Arsenal wanted to rush over to help defend, but he was a step too late. Once Ronaldo started to speed up, Las Diarra could only follow behind to eat ashes.

This time, the right back Sagna can only bite the bullet and come up to intercept Ronaldo's breakthrough with the ball.

As a result, Ronaldo didn't pause at all, but kicked the ball forward directly, playing a pass to himself three seconds later.

Fighting for speed, the young and strong Ronaldo has never been afraid of anyone.

However, Sarnia is not a good stubble. The physical fitness of the black player prevents him from being thrown away by Ronaldo.

Seeing that he couldn't get rid of Sarnia, Ronaldo made an emergency stop and stepped on the ball. Sarnia couldn't stop the car and rushed out.

Glancing at Arsenal's penalty area, he found that Tony and Jan Kohler were already in place. Ronaldo didn't choose to continue to break through with the ball, but directly passed the ball in.

In the penalty area, Jan Kohler, who is 202cm tall, and Tony, who is 193cm tall, have an obvious height advantage.

One of the two rushed to the front point, and the other occupied the middle.

Arsenal's two central defenders, Kolo Toure and William Gallas, were in a mess for a while, pulling and dragging, using all kinds of tricks.

Even so, in the end Tony grabbed the ball and hit the goal with a flick of his head, breaking through the goal guarded by Almunia.

"GOAL!"

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

Once this goal is scored, Crystal Palace will be able to play the rest of the game.

If Arsenal want to get back the score, they have to fully press and strengthen their offense.

In this way, the loopholes in their defense became more obvious.

In the 804th minute of the game, Jan Kohler also received a cross from Ribery from the right and scored another header for Crystal Palace with the overwhelming momentum.

In the end, with the goals of Ronaldo, Tony and Jan Kohler, Crystal Palace reversed Arsenal 3:1 away.

While getting three points, Chen Ran also got a "level one blood recovery card" from the system.

In other games of this round of the Premier League, there was another strong dialogue. Manchester United defeated Chelsea 2-0 at Old Trafford, surpassing their opponents and ranking No.2 in the Premier League.

Another strong team, Liverpool, is still unsatisfactory as always. They were tied 0:0 by Birmingham at Anfield, and lost a good opportunity to narrow the points gap.

(End of this chapter)