Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 329 Don't Be Happy Too Early

However, Mourinho's troubles are far from over.

The physical consumption of Real Madrid players on the passive defensive side is far greater than that on the active offensive side of Crystal Palace.

Especially when the game came to an end, this became more and more obvious.

Less than 10 minutes after Crystal Palace equalized, Cristiano Ronaldo dribbled the ball from the left and passed Baptista and Salgado consecutively. Gago, who came back in time to defend, was knocked down and won. Take a free kick.

Although the place of the foul was close to the left line and far away from Real Madrid's goal, Ronaldo still made enough preparations and hit the goal directly with a heavy artillery.

The ball drew a beautiful arc and turned quickly and quickly towards the upper left corner of the Real Madrid goal.

Seeing the flight direction of the ball, Casillas quickly moved his feet and flew towards the left goal post.

But to Casillas' surprise, the ball suddenly fell when it flew to the middle of Real Madrid's restricted area.

And Crystal Palace's high center forward Tony jumped up high at this time, grabbing the ball in front of Metzelder.

It was this rub that immediately changed the direction of the ball's flight.The ball that was originally flying to the upper left corner of the Real Madrid goal flew directly to the center of the goal.

At this time, Casillas had already flown to the left.When he found that the ball changed direction, there was nothing he could do but watch the ball fly into the goal he was guarding.

"GOAL!"

With Tony's header, Crystal Palace scored two goals in 10 minutes and overtook Real Madrid 2:1.

"Fxxxk!"

On the sidelines, Mourinho, who saw Crystal Palace overtake the score, couldn't help but swear.

The special meow has already set up the bus, but he still failed to prevent the Crystal Palace's goal. Their players' personal abilities are really too strong.

This time Mourinho scratched his head a little bit. He wanted to strengthen his defense to keep the fruits of victory, but he didn't expect to fail to keep it in the end.

Now that the score is behind, should we continue to defend or attack again?

For a moment, Mourinho hesitated a little.

Real Madrid's substitution quota has been used up, and the game has entered the final stage, and the players' physical fitness is running low.

With the existing players on the field pressing the offense, Mourinho really has no idea whether it will be effective.

But what he can be sure of is that once the attack is pressed, Real Madrid's defensive loopholes will be exposed even more.

Players with declining physical fitness can't switch defenses and make up defenses in time as they did in the first half, which is likely to allow the forwards of Crystal Palace to seize the opportunity to score again.

After all, it is a two-round knockout match. If only one goal is lost, Real Madrid may still have a reversal in the second round.

But if he falls behind by two goals, Mourinho himself is not sure that he will go to the home court of Crystal Palace to stage the miracle of Istanbul.

However, Real Madrid fans don't think as much as Mourinho.

Seeing that the team was behind, but the head coach Mourinho did not move for a long time, the players on the Real Madrid field still shrank in their own half to defend.

Immediately, more than 8 Real Madrid fans in the entire Bernabéu stadium exploded again.

More violent boos echoed in the entire stadium again, soaring into the sky.

This time, even Chen Ran felt a little sympathetic to Mourinho. The head coach of Real Madrid is really hard to do.

In the end, Mourinho still stood firm and did not change his formation. Under full defense, Crystal Palace achieved a 2:1 reversal at the Bernabéu Stadium.

While gaining the initiative to compete for the semi-finals, Chen Ran also got a "Level [-] Recovery Card" from the system.

"Haha, this Mourinho is too miserable, isn't he? It's really rare to be booed like this by fans at his home court."

The match between Crystal Palace and Real Madrid, the two strong teams in the Champions League, naturally attracted the attention of countless fans.

Thousands of miles away in China, the Crystal Palace fans who are used to watching the game while pouring water on the post bar also expressed cheap sympathy for Mourinho's experience.

"That's right. Isn't it normal to play defensive counterattacks against opponents stronger than yourself? Do these Real Madrid fans understand football?"

"Hehe, what Real Madrid fans want is not only to win, but also to win beautifully. Have you forgotten that Capello won the La Liga title last season and was fired?"

"I'll go, it's really like this. It seems that the position of the head coach of Real Madrid is a crater, and most people really can't sit still."

"This Mourinho is really unlucky. He was forced by Chen Ran to stay at Chelsea and ran to Real Madrid. He thought it was a golden thigh, but he didn't expect that Enemy Luzhai was hit on the head by Chen Ran again. A sap."

"Hey, it's really like what was said above. Mourinho even left England and came to Spain, but he couldn't escape Chen Ran. It seems that the relationship between these two people is really bad."

"If you want me to say, Mourinho and Chen Ran are simply the football version of Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang, 'Since you are born, He Shengliang'."

After the match against Real Madrid, Chen Ran took the team back to England overnight.

Because three days later, the No.30 round of the Premier League will start again, and Crystal Palace will go to Liverpool to challenge Everton this time.

In the past few seasons, Everton under Moyes' coaching has always been at the forefront of the Premier League, second only to the strong teams of Crystal Palace, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal, and is a frequent visitor to the European war.

Although there are no big-name stars in the team lineup, there are also powerful players such as Arteta, Yakub, Cahill, Van der Meyde, Phil Neville and Lescott. Their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated. A tough nut to crack.

Moreover, Pepe was still suspended for this game, so Chen Ran had to let Mascherano continue to play as a central defender.

With two headers from Yakubu and Cahill, Everton drew with Crystal Palace 2:2 at home, breaking the biggest upset of this round of the Premier League.

In the other games of this round of the Premier League, Manchester United defeated Middlesbrough 3:2 away, and Chelsea beat Manchester City 2:0 away.

With the help of Everton, Manchester United and Chelsea took the opportunity to narrow the point gap with Crystal Palace.

Now they are three and four points behind Crystal Palace respectively. With five league rounds left, they have rekindled their already very slim hopes of winning the championship.

To make matters worse, the continuous high-intensity games caused the veteran Vieira to suffer a muscle strain.Although it is not particularly serious, it will also be absent for about a month.

Even if the recovery goes well, Vieira is estimated to only be able to catch up with the last round of the Premier League and the Champions League final.

The injury of Vieira, the absolute main force and captain of the Crystal Palace midfielder, immediately attracted the attention of the English media.

Coupled with the fact that Crystal Palace was tied by Everton in this game, for a while, the voice of looking down on Crystal Palace emerged again.

"Crystal Palace has been unfavorable. After several main players were reimbursed for the season, the team captain and midfielder Vieira was also included in the injured list."

"In the final sprint stage of this season, Crystal Palace lost a series of generals, which cast a shadow on their way to defend the title."

"The game was tied by Everton, and captain Vieira was injured. Crystal Palace gave Manchester United and Chelsea the hope of catching up. This season's Premier League title has also rekindled suspense."

"In the previous few seasons, only a few players in Crystal Palace were troubled by injuries, which is also an important reason why they were able to win many championships. Now, how to win the championship under the condition of serious injuries will be very important to the Chinese. It's a real test."

"According to the latest data from the gambling company, as Crystal Palace continues to have important players injured and absent, the gap in winning odds between them and Manchester United and Chelsea is also shrinking."

Chen Ran no longer has the mind to deal with the direction of public opinion.Because three days later, Crystal Palace will face the second round of the Champions League eight-for-four match.

Same as Chen Ran's itinerary, Mourinho took Real Madrid back to his familiar London on the second day after playing La Liga this weekend.

As soon as he landed, he received the "good news" that Vieira was injured. For this reason, he opened a bottle of red wine to celebrate a little.

On Chen Ran's side, the increasingly stretched list of available players made him frown.

It's not that a starting lineup cannot be arranged, but that if this continues, fewer and fewer players can be rotated, and many players have to fight continuously.

As we all know, players who continue to play in a fatigued state are the most likely to cause injuries.

Once entering the endless cycle of fatigue combat → injury → more fatigue combat → more injury, what awaits the Crystal Palace will definitely be the result of a collapse.

After counting the only two "Level [-] Blood Recovery Cards" left in the system inventory, Chen Ran couldn't be happier.

Because although the "first-level blood recovery card" can make a player have plenty of physical energy in the game, it can't reduce the player's fatigue.

It's like drinking a can of Red Bull when you're sleepy. It can refresh you at the time, but you still need to sleep and rest afterwards, otherwise you will only be more sleepy.

However, the match against Real Madrid was just around the corner, and Chen Ran couldn't care less now, so he sent Mourinho home first.

Mourinho, who has only one way to win, once again showed the world his crazy side. Contrary to the full shrinking of the defense at the Bernabéu Stadium, this time at the home court of the Crystal Palace, Real Madrid aggressively pressed the attack.

Mourinho sent four strikers at the same time, bombarding around the Crystal Palace defense.

Chen Ran didn't show any weakness either. He knew that Crystal Palace's defense was seriously lacking, and even if they took the bus, they might not be able to defend it.

Therefore, Chen Ran also arranged an attack lineup for Crystal Palace, preparing to use offense instead of defense.

In this way, the two teams staged a crazy goal battle at Crystal Palace's home court.

With goals from Toni, Ronaldo, Kaka and Thiago Silva, Crystal Palace won 4-4 against Real Madrid at home.

In the end, with a small victory in the first round, Crystal Palace thrilledly eliminated Real Madrid with a total score of 6:5 and successfully advanced to the semi-finals of the Champions League.

In other competitions in the Champions League, in addition to Crystal Palace, Chelsea, Barcelona and Inter Milan have grabbed the other three places in the Champions League semi-finals.

Although he successfully advanced to the semi-finals of the Champions League, Chen Ran was not happy at all.

Because in this game against Real Madrid, when Crystal Palace fell behind 3:4, Thiago Silva made a desperate dive to help the team equalize the score.

But he himself couldn't stop the car and bumped into the goal post after the ball was headed, and his head was bleeding on the spot.

The team doctor sewed eight stitches for him in an emergency on the court. Fortunately, there is no problem with the bones. The diagnosis result when he was sent to the hospital was a mild concussion.

However, for the sake of the players' health, at least in the last two games, Chen Ran did not plan to play Thiago Silva again.

This time, Crystal Palace's defence, which was already short of people, was even worse.

The absence of Vidic, Chiellini, Thiago Silva and Vieira at the same time not only gave Chen Ran a headache, but also made Crystal Palace's opponents laugh. pregnant.

Manchester United Club, in Ferguson's office, CEO Ed Woodward once again sat in front of Ferguson with a bottle of red wine smiling.

"Sir Ferguson, as you expected, Crystal Palace's injuries are getting worse and worse. I believe that the moment of collapse you predicted is not far away. Shall we have a drink to celebrate in advance?"

"Haha, Ed, don't worry. It's not too late for us to celebrate after the Crystal Palace really collapses. Otherwise, if you are survived by that Chinese man, you will feel sorry for your good wine again."

With a calm expression on his face, Ferguson stabbed Ed Woodward unhurriedly.

"Ehhaha, how could it be? Crystal Palace is almost out of defense now. Even if Pepe is released in time and comes back, but with his hot-headed substitute and Mascherano's temporary cameo How can the back line hold up?"

Although he is a layman, after joining the Manchester United club, Ed Woodward also put in a lot of effort to improve his football knowledge, and now he is fluent in football.

"Well, Ed, you are becoming more and more proficient in football now. However, that kid from Huaguo is very cunning, maybe he can really survive this difficulty. So, we can't be too happy now, Understand?"

Although he said not to be too happy too early, Ferguson couldn't hide the smile on the corner of his mouth.

Also in London, Chelsea, Ancelotti and CEO Peter Kenyon also sat together.

(End of this chapter)