Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 363 Roar
As soon as the game started, Chen Ran immediately felt something was wrong.

Chelsea's entire lineup retreated so far back, it's so special to put a bus on it!

Turning his head and glanced at the Chelsea bench not far away, Chen Ran suddenly realized: Fatty An is learning from Lyon's tactics against Crystal Palace, so he doesn't need FACE at all.

As Chen Ran expected, the competition was very difficult.

Chelsea's overall strength is stronger than Lyon, and among the five midfielders sent by Ancelotti, Lampard, Ballack and Deco are all versatile midfielders with excellent offense and defense.

Coupled with Malouda, a good wing player, and Essien, a defensive champion, although Chelsea's formation shrinks in its own half, they have both offense and defense, and they have hidden needles. This makes Crystal Palace have to reserve a hand to guard against Chelsea's counterattack when attacking.

"This Ancelotti must have watched the Champions League game between Lyon and us."

On the bench, Southgate and Simeone, who was sitting next to him, whispered.

"That's probably the case. But with Chelsea's strength, our game may be more difficult than Lyon's."

Simeone nodded slightly, and he also saw that Chelsea was imitating Lyon's tactics.

"Diego, you are best at defensive counterattack tactics. Do you see any loopholes in Chelsea's current field?"

Among Chen Ran's three assistant coaches, Guardiola is good at attacking and Simeone is good at defending, so Southgate looked at Simeone with hope, hoping that he, a defensive expert, can find Chelsea's flaws.

"At least I can't see it now."

After a moment of silence, Simeone shook his head helplessly.

After all, Ancelotti is a famous coach. Although he seldom drives the bus, it doesn't mean he can't drive the bus.

Coupled with the fact that Chelsea's players are strong enough, this makes their defense like a hedgehog that makes Crystal Palace unable to talk.

Southgate and Simeone discussed for a long time and failed to find a good way to break Chelsea's defense.

At this time, Chen Ran, who was also sitting on the bench, was not in a hurry.

Now more and more teams are taking the bus when playing against Crystal Palace, and he has summed up a set of countermeasures.

Putting the bus is a physical job, and the physical consumption of defensive players can be much greater than conventional tactics.

Therefore, Chen Ran usually consumes the opponent's physical energy in the first half, and then waits until the opponent's physical energy declines in the second half and the defense weakens before making a move.

This time against Chelsea, Chen Ran still decided to adopt the same coping method.

However, he was a little worried about the current situation facing the Crystal Palace.

Even a strong championship team like Chelsea started to bust up when they played against Crystal Palace, so will Manchester United and Lyon, which will face immediately after this game, adopt the same tactics?

If these guys are on the bus, how long can the physical fitness of the Crystal Palace players last?

Just as Chen Ran was lost in thought, the game time was ticking by.

Because Chelsea's defensive fence was firmly planted, until the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, the score on the field remained unchanged at 0:0.

During the intermission, Southgate couldn't help but approach Chen Ran with an idea.

"Boss, let's stop playing pass-and-cut cooperation, and simply put Dzeko and Cavani on the field, and then use high-altitude bombing tactics to deal with Chelsea."

"Among Chelsea's defenders, there is only one Terry who is considered tall, and the others are of average height. They must not be able to withstand our indiscriminate bombing."

"Gareth, your method is very good. However, it is not the time yet. Wait a little longer, and it will be better for us to take another shot when the Chelsea players' physical fitness declines, understand?"

Patting Southgate on the shoulder, Chen Ran encouraged him.

"So that's it, boss, you are still amazing."

Although Southgate's talent as a coach is not as good as that of Guardiola and Simeone, he is not a fool. Chen Ran immediately reacted with a slight dial.

Crystal Palace did not make any substitutions at half-time, nor did Chelsea.

Ancelotti was very satisfied with the team's performance in the draw with Crystal Palace in the first half. He praised Chelsea's players in the dressing room and hoped that they would do better in the second half.

Therefore, after the start of the second half of the game, the situation on the court was the same as that of the first half, and Crystal Palace was still conducting a half-time offensive and defensive drill around Chelsea.

50 minutes, 55 minutes, 60 minutes
I have to say that the strength of Chelsea players is indeed much stronger than that of Lyon.

The Lyon players have shown signs of declining physical fitness at this time, but today, at least for the Chelsea players, they are still alive and well.

However, Chen Ran did not intend to wait any longer.

"Gareth."

"Boss, are you going to make a move?"

Upon hearing Chen Ran's call, Southgate rushed over immediately.

"That's right, you go and tell Ribery to warm up and replace Maicon with him later. Then let Ronaldo and Toni form a double forward, and Ribery will replace Ronaldo as a left midfielder. The team's formation also changed from 4231 to 352."

"Okay, boss!"

Soon, Ancelotti saw the substitution of Crystal Palace, and he immediately remembered the game video between Crystal Palace and Lyon he had seen.

The guy Chen Ran also made substitution adjustments at about this time in that game, but he replaced Dzeko at that time, but now he pushed Ronaldo to the forward line.

Considering that Ronaldo also has a height of 187cm, Ancelotti felt that Chen Ran wanted to copy the high-altitude bombing tactics against Lyon.

Taking a look at Chelsea's four defenders on the field, except for one Terry who is 187CM tall, the other central defender Carvalho is 182CM tall.

The two full-backs are even worse, Bosingwa is 180cm tall, and Ashley Cole is only 172cm.

Wanting to rely on this line of defense to deal with Crystal Palace's high-altitude bombing tactics, Ancelotti himself felt unreliable.

After hesitating for a while, Ancelotti gritted his teeth, since he has already put the bus in disregard of his face, he should simply do it to the extreme.

Therefore, he decided to follow the example of Lyon coach Palin again, and immediately turned around and called Serbian central defender Ivanovic, who was 188cm tall, from the bench.

After a brief warm-up, Ancelotti replaced left-back Malouda with Ivanovic.While adding a tall central defender, it also changed Chelsea's formation from 451 to 541.

Seeing Ancelotti's coping methods, Chen Ran was even more sure that this guy was learning the tactics of Lyon coach Palin.

However, after Carlo Ancelotti replaced Malouda, Chelsea's four midfielders, whether it is Lampard, Ballack, Deco or Essien, are better at central midfielders or midfielders. What a speed advantage.

In this way, Crystal Palace does not have to worry about Chelsea's quick counterattack.

Thinking of this, Chen Ran, who had no worries, immediately decided to continue to strengthen the offensive.

"Gareth."

"Boss, what are your orders?"

"Notify Alves immediately to warm up, and replace Cesc Fabregas with him later, and then the team's formation changed from 352 to 3133."

"Let Yaya Toure be the single midfielder, Ribery and Alves be the left and right midfielders respectively, and Modric also play the midfielder."

"You tell Ronaldo and Messi to let them act as left and right wingers next to Tony, and just stare at the gap between Chelsea's full-backs and central defenders."

"Okay, boss."

Chen Ran made another substitution and adjustment, which immediately made Ancelotti frown.

Before he saw that Chen Ran transferred Ronaldo to serve as a center forward with Tony, he thought that Crystal Palace would still adopt high-altitude bombing tactics like they did against Lyon.

But now Chen Ran puts Ronaldo back on the side, and with Messi, Franck Ribery and Alves who are good at attacking from the side, this obviously puts the focus of attack on the two sides. Ancelotti, who had been fooled by himself, suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.

Of Chelsea's four midfielders, none of them are wide players who are known for their speed.It will be very difficult for them to mark the wingers who can run faster than rabbits in Crystal Palace.

Just when Ancelotti was hesitating whether to make another substitution, the situation on the court has undergone tremendous changes.

Franck Ribery on the left dribbled the ball along the sideline, and Essien, who is now the right midfielder, immediately rushed to intercept.

Ribery did not get entangled with Essien, and directly passed the ball to Modric who ran from the center to meet him, and then he himself bypassed Essien and continued to advance.

While Modric blocked Deco, who was following him to defend, he passed the ball back to Ribery, who was advancing at high speed.

Seeing that Ribery and Modric easily passed Essien with a two-to-one cooperation, Chelsea's right back Bosingwa hurried up to stop Ribery from continuing to break through.

Cristiano Ronaldo, who is now playing as a left winger, immediately beckoned to Ribery to pass the ball to him after seeing Bosingwa leave his defense zone.

Without any delay, Ribery passed the ball directly to Ronaldo, and then bypassed the rushing Bosingwa and continued to advance.

At this time, the benefits of Chelsea's five-back formation are revealed.

Although the right back Bosingwa left his position, there is another Carvalho, who is the right center back, marking Ronaldo.

After receiving Ribery's pass, Ronaldo did not act immediately.

He first leaned against Carvalho with his body, and when Ribery came in from the wing, he tapped his heel lightly, and the ball hit Ribery's advancing line just right.

At this time, Carvalho's attention was on Ronaldo, while Bosingwa was left behind by Ribery and desperately chased after him.

Franck Ribery, who was unstoppable in front of him, took the ball and headed directly towards Chelsea's penalty area.

At this moment, Terry, who found that his right defense was broken by Crystal Palace, had to leave Tony, who was in charge of marking him, and rushed to intercept Ribery.

This delighted Ribéry, who was dribbling the ball while observing the situation in Chelsea's penalty area. Just as he was about to pass the ball to Tony, who was now unmarked, he suddenly found that Chelsea's left central defender Ivanovic had arrived in time. Tony's side.

"Frank, give me the ball!"

Just when Franck Ribery was hesitating whether to continue passing the ball to Toni or simply dribble the ball through himself, Ronaldo's annoying and familiar voice suddenly came from his ear.

There is no way, every time they go out to play together, Ronaldo, who has an absolute advantage in appearance, is always the one most popular with girls, which makes the scar-faced Ribery's heart full of envy and hatred.

Therefore, Ribery doesn't need to look at all, just by hearing the voice, he knows that Ronaldo is calling him.

As a teammate who has played together for several years, although Ribery is a bit naive, he is still convinced of Ronaldo's ability.

Hearing Ronaldo's greeting, Ribery passed the ball in an inverted triangle very readily.

As expected of a teammate who has cooperated for many years, at this time, Ronaldo, who was also advancing towards Chelsea's penalty area at high speed, just arrived.

Quickly adjusted his pace, Ronaldo went up to face the ball and shot with one kick.

"boom!"

The ball flew towards the upper left corner of Chelsea's goal with a strong spin.

Goalkeeper Cudicini saw Ronaldo hit the goal, quickly moved his feet, and jumped towards the direction of the ball's flight.

"when!"

Although Cudicini didn't touch the ball, his luck was not bad. The ball hit the crossbar and bounced high.

At this time, Cudicini had just finished making a save and was lying on the ground before getting up, but Tony had already rushed into the small penalty area very keenly to prepare for a header shot.

As soon as Tony moved, Ivanovic, who was defended by Chelsea, also hurriedly followed, and competed desperately with Tony for position in the small penalty area.

Under the interference of Ivanovic, although Tony won the ball, he failed to correct his position.

The ball flew towards Chelsea's goal lightly, but at this time, Cudicini had already got up from the ground, and tried his best to push the ball out of the goal line.

Just when Cudicini fell to the ground after making his second save, he heard a "bang!", and the ball flew back from his head.

This time, Cudicini was unable to make a third save and could only watch the ball fly into Chelsea's goal in front of him.

"GOAL!"

It's Ribery!

After the guy passed the ball to Ronaldo, he stayed in the Chelsea penalty area and prepared to shoot.

As a result, Cudicini's second save just put the ball in front of him.

Facing the fat delivered to his mouth, Ribery certainly would not miss it.

Rushing up to meet the ball was a volley, helping Crystal Palace break the deadlock and leading Chelsea 1-0.

After the goal, the excited Ribery took off his jersey and rushed to the camera to roar.

Since the beginning of this season, his main position has been snatched by Messi.Only in some less important games, he can appear in the starting lineup.

For this, Ribery has been unhappy for a long time.
(End of this chapter)