Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 338 Messi's scream
It has to be said that although Thuram did not intentionally hurt people, it actually forced Crystal Palace to replace Ronaldo, one of the three major attackers, which relieved the pressure on his defense a lot.

Moreover, the game was interrupted for more than ten minutes, which also gave Barcelona's physically disadvantaged players a chance to breathe.

Barcelona really took advantage of this foul.

After the game restarted, the Barcelona players who had recovered their physical fitness immediately launched a tidal attack on the Crystal Palace's defense.

Seeing this situation on the field, Guardiola moved to Chen Ran's side worriedly on the Crystal Palace bench.

"Boss, we are now leading the score and the game has reached the final stage. Shouldn't it be better to shrink the formation and play defensive counterattack tactics?"

Although Guardiola has always admired the attacking style of play, he is not a rigid person.When it is necessary to shrink the defense, he will not hesitate to put the bus.

"Josep, counting injury time, the game is estimated to have about 10 minutes left. If we shrink our defense now, do you think we can defend for such a long time with our current defense?"

Chen Ran didn't answer Guardiola's question directly, but looked at him and asked back.

"Forehead"

This time, Guardiola was stopped by the question. After hesitating for a long time, he didn't answer.Because he himself, like Chen Ran, is not at ease with the current defense line of the Crystal Palace.

"Okay, Josep, I understand what you mean, but 'offensive instead of defensive' is obviously the most feasible way for us at present. Even if we can't score, we can at least keep the ball in Barcelona's half as much as possible. Wouldn't it reduce the pressure on our defense in a disguised form?"

"But, boss, it's a bit risky."

Looking at the Crystal Palace formation that is very high on the field, Guardiola is still a little worried.

"Josep, how can there be anything perfect in this world? No matter what kind of choice you choose, there will be risks. We can only choose a gamble with relatively small risks."

"I understand."

In fact, why is Guardiola worried about Chen Ran?
It's just that as a head coach, he can't just consider the technical and tactical aspects.

Chen Ran knew very well that after a season of exhaustion, the players were exhausted both physically and mentally.

At this point in the game, both teams have reached their limits.

Now both sides are holding on with one breath, and whoever gets discouraged first will collapse.

A football game is a war in peacetime. In addition to the confrontation of weapons and equipment, the morale of the army is also very important.

Therefore, even though he knew the risk was high, Chen Ran still chose to continue the confrontation with Barcelona.

However, the miraculous Pepe can always bring "surprises" to Chen Ran.

When Henry once again sent the ball into the Crystal Palace penalty area from the left, in order to prevent Ibrahimovic from heading the goal, Pepe, who was at a disadvantage in height, pulled too much, and both of them fell on the ground. Inside the restricted area.

"beep!"

The referee immediately blew his whistle decisively, and then pointed to the penalty spot.

What the hell!

On the sidelines, Chen Ran, who had witnessed all this, had only these two words to express his mood at the moment.

However, the matter did not end there.

The referee then showed Pepe the second yellow card of the game, and then two yellow cards turned into one red.

This time, the tens of thousands of Crystal Palace fans in the Luzhniki Stadium quit.

Thuram kicked Ronaldo in the head before and didn't give a red card. Now not only is Barcelona awarded a penalty, but Pepe is sent off with a red card. What's so special about it?
Immediately, overwhelming boos resounded throughout the stadium.

On the side of Barcelona fans, it is a completely different scene.

The fans who were still very anxious because of the score behind were naturally overjoyed by the referee's penalty, with endless applause and cheers.

In the Luzhniki Stadium, the collision of ice and fire was staged again.

At this time, the coaches and players on the Crystal Palace bench were also very angry.If it wasn't for the fourth official to stop him, he would have almost rushed into the court to argue with the referee.

But Chen Ran was surprisingly calm at this time. He knew very well in his heart that the referee would still make such a penalty after using the "Eagle Eye Guardian Card".

This can only show one thing, that is, at least this penalty is not a misjudgment.It is almost impossible for the referee to change the judgment.

When losses are unavoidable, the first reaction of wise people is not to lose more.

After making this judgment, Chen Ran immediately walked to the sidelines and drove the emotional Crystal Palace players and coach back to the bench.

With Chen Ran's supreme prestige in the Crystal Palace club, these guys in the Crystal Palace all returned to the bench and sat down honestly.

Ignoring the thanks from the fourth official, Chen Ran immediately called Fabregas who was closest to him.

"Cesc, tell those guys not to mess around. Then let Mascherano replace Pepe at centre-back and Alves drop back into midfield with you and Modric at the back. barrier."

"You tell Messi and Kaka that the two of them will be free players in the frontcourt and have no fixed positions. As long as they can break through Barcelona's goal, it is up to them to decide how they want to play."

"Understood, boss."

Cesc Fabregas also knew that the situation was urgent, so he ran back to the field without further ado to convey Chen Ran's latest instructions.

In the Crystal Palace team, the players never compromised on Chen Ran's orders immediately.

So despite their reluctance, they still honestly dispersed from the referee.

"Boss, I'm sorry."

Pepe, who came down from the field, came to apologize to Chen Ran with a guilty face.

"Ugh"

Looking at Peipei who had apologized to him for the first time in front of him, Chen Ran shook his head helplessly.

I am really a living and wronged person, why did I think of bringing this guy back to the Crystal Palace from Portugal?

However, although this kid often gets into trouble, he is quite obedient and capable.Gritting his teeth hard, Chen Ran showed a smile uglier than crying, reached out and patted
Pepe's shoulder.

"Okay, I know you didn't mean it. You're tired too, go and rest."

There is no way, I have to fill the hole I dug myself with tears in my eyes.

On the Barcelona side, although Zlatan Ibrahimovic was not the team's first penalty shooter, but seeing him holding the ball tightly in his arms, coach Frank Rijkaard did not speak.

Seeing that it was Zlatan Ibrahimovic who took the penalty kick, the Crystal Palace fans in the Luzhniki Stadium booed again.

However, Ibrahimovic was unaffected by the boos at all, put the ball firmly on the penalty spot, and looked up at his former teammate Petr Cech.

Take a few steps back, stand still, run up, swing your legs.

"boom!"

Ibrahimovic pushed the upper left corner of a goal with the instep of his right foot. Although it was a push shot, it was still powerful and the ball was fast.

When Cech rushed over, the ball had already flown into the net.

With Zlatan Ibrahimovic's hat-trick, Barcelona and Crystal Palace became 4:4.

This time, the Barcelona fans were ecstatic, and Ibrahimovic was their hero.

But the fans of Crystal Palace already hated Ibrahimovic to the bone, boos, abuse, and all kinds of international greetings all came out.

At this moment, Chen Ran knew in his heart that it was impossible to bring Ibrahimovic back to the Crystal Palace, and he himself cut off the way back to the Crystal Palace.

After equalizing the score, Barcelona intends to win the game in one go.Relying on the advantage of one more person, they continued to attack the Crystal Palace's defense.

Seeing this situation, Chen Ran silently called out two "Level [-] Recovery Cards" from the system, and used them on Thiago Silva and Mascherano respectively to defend them The general replenishes physical strength.

At this point, the game has entered the last 10 minutes.If there is no goal, then another half hour of overtime will be played.

For overtime, Barcelona, ​​who lacks physical fitness, is definitely unwilling to play.

Rijkaard knew very well in his heart that these Barcelona players are all supported by one breath, and they can continue to persist if they keep playing.

But there will be a 10-minute break before the start of overtime. He is worried that once the players let go of their breath, they will never be able to lift it up again.

On the Crystal Palace side, although they have a certain advantage in the physical fitness of the players.

But they now have one less player on the field, which requires more running from the remaining players to make up for the space left by Pepe's ejection.

If it enters overtime, as time goes by, the disadvantage of one less player in Crystal Palace will become more and more obvious.

Therefore, for Crystal Palace, trying to solve Barcelona within 10 minutes is also the result that Chen Ran wants to see.

Therefore, in the final stage of the game, although both players were exhausted, both Chen Ran and Rijkaard ordered their players to continue attacking.

At this time, in the Luzhniki Stadium, whether it is the fans of Crystal Palace or Barcelona fans, they have already raised their hearts to their throats.

There is not much time left in the game. Whoever scores a goal at this time will basically seal the victory.

When the game entered the countdown stage of injury time, the two teams were about to end the 4-minute game with a huge score of 4:10 and enter overtime.

Petr Cech clung to Zlatan Ibrahimovic's header before getting up quickly and kicking the ball into Barcelona's half with a big kick.

Cech's big foot is very powerful, and the ball's landing point is almost close to the arc of Barcelona's big penalty area.

As the only full-time midfielder currently on the Barcelona field, Marcos immediately judged where the ball fell and rushed over quickly.

Just when Marcos thought he could get the ball steadily, a figure suddenly jumped out from beside him, leaped high, and took the ball away with his head first.

It's Messi!
I saw that after the other person landed, before the ball hit the ground, he immediately twisted his body, turned around and volleyed in the air.

"boom!"

Messi's shot was very powerful, but it didn't seem to hold the ball down, and it was about to fly to the stands behind the Barcelona goal.

Just when the goalkeeper Valdez breathed a sigh of relief, the ball suddenly fell rapidly when it was approaching the goal.

No, it's a deciduous ball!
Valdez quickly moved his feet, flew up, and rushed towards the right side of the goal.

However, just because Valdés initially judged that Messi's shot was high, his reaction was a step slower.By the time he made another save, it was already too late.

After the ball fell rapidly, it just flew into the net from the upper right corner of the Barcelona goal.

Valdez's fingertips were almost able to reach the ball.

After landing, the annoyed Valdes thumped the turf hard.

It's over, it's over.

"GOAL!"

The moment the ball flew into the Barcelona net, the entire Luzhniki Stadium suddenly boiled again.

Tens of thousands of Crystal Palace fans were completely insane, because everyone knew that the game was coming to an end and Barcelona had no time to comeback.

On the other side, the Barcelona fans did not respond with overwhelming boos this time.

As the camera swept across, stupefied and heartbroken faces appeared in front of audiences all over the world.

On the field, Messi, who scored the lore goal, didn't want to celebrate. After all, he is also a Barcelona youth training player from La Masia, so he still has some feelings.

However, the other players in Crystal Palace didn't care so much. Before Messi could react, he was thrown to the ground.

Then one after another the strong men pressed up, playing the game of stacking arhats, regardless of the screams of the smallest Messi who was pressed down at the bottom.

On the sidelines, contrary to the enthusiastic atmosphere in the Luzhniki Stadium, Barcelona's bench was silent.

Head coach Rijkaard is like a statue, standing there alone, watching the Crystal Palace players celebrating wildly on the field, without any words, movements, or even expressions.

And here on the Crystal Palace bench, it has become a sea of ​​joy.

A few coaches are still reserved, but the substitute players have already started to celebrate each other.

Seeing that the overall situation has been settled, Chen Ran finally breathed a sigh of relief and began to move quietly.

These guys have to throw themselves into the sky every time they win the championship, and this time they must slip away early.

It's a pity that Chen Ran's three assistants have long been on guard against his move.

Southgate stood in front of Chen Ran with a stride, "Boss, where are you going?"

"Ahem, Gareth, why are you stopping me? I'm just going to remind the players not to let their guard down. After all, the referee hasn't blown the whistle to end the game."

"is it?"

Southgate looked at Chen Ran suspiciously. Frightened by Chen Ran's prestige in the team, he still chose to believe Chen Ran's explanation.

At this moment, the whistle sounded for the end of the game.

(End of this chapter)