Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 399 Not sure who will take advantage

June 5, Stadio Olimpico in Rome.

The game has not yet started, fans from Crystal Palace and Barcelona from all over the world have surrounded the stadium.

There are also a large number of Hua Guo fans.

As Crystal Palace has dominated European football in recent years, not to mention the Premier League champions, even the Champions League final has now become a repertoire and a box-sealing battle for Crystal Palace.

There are more and more fans of the Crystal Palace in Huaguo, and they regard going to watch the Champions League final at the Crystal Palace as part of their travel and vacation plans.

Since Guardiola was still Chen Ran's assistant coach last season, he led the team to face off with his former club in the Champions League final a year later. Such a dramatic event, unsurprisingly, aroused heated discussions among countless fans.

Such a good subject of hype, the media who are best at fanning the flames will naturally not let it go.One after another, sensational headlines appeared in major media.

"An employee's counterattack! Guardiola is going to bring Barcelona to teach his former boss Crystal Palace a lesson."

"It took Chen Ran three years to help Crystal Palace win the Champions League. Now, Guardiola is likely to achieve what his former boss achieved in just one year."

"The battle between new and old talented coaches, can Guardiola replace Chen Ran and become the strongest coach in today's football?"

"As the champions of the Premier League and La Liga, this game will also determine who is the current number one league in world football."

"According to the latest data from the gambling company, the funds that are optimistic about Barcelona winning the UEFA Champions League this season have now surpassed Crystal Palace and achieved a major reversal. So will this also happen in this game? Let us wait and see."

Thousands of miles away in China, even though the Champions League final started in the early hours of the morning, the popularity of the Crystal Palace post bar has remained high since dinner.

Obviously, many Crystal Palace fans did not intend to sleep for a while at all, but were prepared to stay up all night.

"The situation of the Crystal Palace in this game is a bit bad. Barcelona's starting lineup came out, all of them are the main players, and they have not been affected by any injuries."

"Fuck! After playing for a season, you can still play with all the main players? Isn't this too unfair?"

"Ahem, there's no other way, who made them lucky. In the past few seasons, our Crystal Palace also had no major injuries throughout the season. Now we can only admit that we are unlucky."

"I said you are all worrying about it. Guardiola was just Chen Ran's assistant before. I don't believe he can do better than Chen Ran."

"Upstairs, the key now is that there is no one available for Chen Ran. If it is a healthy Crystal Palace, no one will worry about this problem."

"That's right. As the saying goes: 'A clever woman can't cook without rice'. No matter how good Chen Ran is, it's impossible for a player to recover from injury immediately."

"Hey, I hope Chicken Thief can continue to surprise us this time."

For this Champions League final, Chen Ran naturally made full preparations.

Before the game, he specifically called Suarez and Messi to his office.

"Leo, Luis, you two will be at your peak in this upcoming Champions League final. So I will pair you both up front and give you 'free fire'. You two have to be good. Seize this rare opportunity, you know?"

"Okay, boss!"

Suarez, who had already experienced the peak state before, immediately agreed excitedly.As for the downturn in the next three games, he didn't care.

You must know that he just returned to the Crystal Palace Club during the winter transfer period, and now he can represent the team in the Champions League final. Suarez is already very satisfied.

"Boss, peak state? I think my previous state has been good."

Messi didn't react for a while, scratched the back of his head and looked at Chen Ran in confusion.

"Hey, Leo, after you experience the peak state that the boss said, you will know what a wonderful feeling it is."

Before Chen Ran could speak, Suarez answered Messi's question for him as if he had experienced it.

Since the Crystal Palace was full of wounded soldiers, Chen Ran was very pragmatic and did not adopt the previous offensive tactics.

In this Champions League final, he allowed Crystal Palace to regain their housekeeping skills-defensive counterattack tactics.

Forward Suarez, Forward Messi

DM Yaya Toure, DM Fabregas, DM Mascherano
Left back Evra, center back Kompany, center back Thiago Silva, center back Vidic, right back Maicon
goalkeeper cech
On the Barcelona side, Guardiola is now a strong soldier.In addition, he is already known for being good at offense, so he naturally sent a starting lineup with amazing attack power.

Left winger Henry, center Ibrahimovic, right winger Eto'o
Central midfielder Iniesta, Central midfielder Busquez, Central midfielder Xavi

Left back Abidal, center back Marcos, center back Piqué, right back Puyol

goalkeeper valdes
The Olympic Stadium in Rome, which can accommodate 10 people, was packed today.As soon as Chen Ran walked out of the player tunnel, he felt the noisy and enthusiastic atmosphere in the stadium.

"Boss, long time no see."

Following a familiar voice, Chen Ran saw Guardiola coming from the Barcelona bench.

"Yeah, long time no see. Josep, you're doing a great job!"

The two shook hands and exchanged greetings outside the player tunnel, and the reporters present naturally would not miss this precious shot, and they kept taking pictures of the two of them "clicking".

"Boss, are you planning to play a defensive counterattack in this game?"

Guardiola has already seen the starting list of Crystal Palace, and he is very familiar with Chen Ran and Crystal Palace, so he immediately guessed Chen Ran's plan.

Chen Ran also knew that he couldn't hide it from Guardiola, so he shook his head with a wry smile.

"Josep, you must be aware of the current injury situation of Crystal Palace. The offensive players are almost injured. What can I do if I don't play defensive counterattacks?"

"That's true. Boss, then I will take advantage of it."

"Haha, this is the charm of football. There are times when you have advantages and times when you have disadvantages. Who can say for sure?"

After a brief chat, Chen Ran and Guardiola returned to their benches.

Seeing Chen Ran approaching, Southgate immediately joined him.

"Boss, what did that Josep guy tell you?"

"He asked me if I wanted Crystal Palace to play on the counter-attack."

"What? How could you ask this before the game? Does Josep understand the rules? Boss, you won't tell him."

Southgate almost yelled in surprise.

"I said that Crystal Palace did adopt defensive counterattack tactics today."

"Huh? Boss, how can you tell Josep this? This is our tactical secret."

At this moment, Southgate's eyeballs almost popped out.

"Hehe, do you think, based on Josep's understanding of Crystal Palace, after seeing our starting roster, he doesn't know what tactics we use?"

"Well, that's true. Hey, it's really a big trouble to meet an opponent who understands us so well."

Southgate was taken aback at first, then sighed helplessly.

At this time, Chen Ran called out the system silently, and first activated an "Hawkeye Guardian Card".

Then they used a "first-level chicken blood card" for Messi and Suarez respectively.

Immediately afterwards, he gave Yaya Toure and Mascherano a "Level [-] Recovery Card" respectively.

Finally, he used a "Free Kick Master Card" on Cesc Fabregas.

After finishing these things, Chen Ran nodded in satisfaction.

It's time for Guardiola to experience what the real Crystal Palace is.

When the referee blew the whistle to start the game, Barcelona immediately pressed across the board and launched a tidal offensive to the Crystal Palace's defense.

Fortunately, Chen Ran was well prepared and sent enough defensive players to Crystal Palace.Except for Suarez and Messi, all players shrank to defend in their own half.

Therefore, despite Barcelona's ferocious offensive, Crystal Palace did not mess up and stubbornly withstood the opponent's indiscriminate bombing.

On the sidelines, seeing the familiar faces of Crystal Palace players on the field, Guardiola also had the illusion that he was in another world. He almost regarded the Crystal Palace players as his own players several times.

For this game, Guardiola has already made difficult psychological preparations.

He is very clear that although Crystal Palace is now plagued by injuries, the loss of personnel is serious.But it is still a very strong team with a very strong combat effectiveness.

As long as Chen Ran is there, the team will have a backbone and there will be no chaos.

If you want to beat this team, you must not be in a hurry.

As Guardiola, who has been Chen Ran's assistant coach for three or four years, he knows Chen Ran's coaching style very well.

He knew that Chen Ran liked to attack late, and waited until the opponent's physical fitness declined in the second half of the game before taking a fatal blow.

Therefore, when Barcelona stormed the Crystal Palace's defense for a long time without any results, Guardiola immediately and decisively ordered the players on the field to slow down the attacking rhythm, shrink the formation, take a breath, and recover their physical fitness.

On the other hand, seeing that Barcelona did not go all out to launch a continuous offensive, but retreated back to their own half, the corner of Chen Ran's mouth couldn't help twitching slightly.

Damn, it's really annoying to have an opponent who knows himself too well.

"Boss, why is Barcelona not attacking anymore? Is that kid Josep holding back some bad water?"

Southgate muttered in a low voice, he was very puzzled by Barcelona's abnormal performance.

"This guy is afraid of attacking too hard, and the Barcelona players will consume too much energy, and we will seize the opportunity to kill them in the second half of the game."

"Boss, Josep really understands you."

Southgate glanced at Chen Ran with a wry smile, and there was nothing he could do in this situation.

Chen Ran had no opinion on the current situation on the court.

Guardiola's arrangement in this way can certainly reduce the physical consumption of Barcelona players.

But, in the same way, Crystal Palace's defensive players also got a respite.

In the end, it is not certain who will take advantage of it.

In the next game, Barcelona's offense showed a wave-like rhythm.

Attack for a while, rest for a while, peaks and troughs, repeating the cycle.

On the Crystal Palace side, the players strictly followed the plan made by Chen Ran before the game.

Even when Barcelona's shrinking formation entered the trough, Crystal Palace did not have any intention of pressing up to attack.

Except for Messi and Suarez, the other players are almost no more than the center line.

Until the referee on duty blew the whistle for the end of the first half, Barcelona still failed to break through the goal guarded by Petr Cech.The score on the field was still 0:0 without any change.

During the intermission, Chen Ran did not make substitutions and adjustments other than giving the players blood as usual.

On the Barcelona side, despite failing to score in the first half, Guardiola was not in a hurry.

In addition to encouraging and motivating the players, he also did not make substitution adjustments.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, the trend of the first half of the game continued.

The game was played tepidly, and the audience was drowsy watching it.

"Fuck! Is this still the Champions League final? What the hell are you playing!"

"That's right. It's understandable for Crystal Palace to play a defensive counterattack due to serious injuries, but Barcelona didn't take advantage of this opportunity to attack, but played there. What is Guardiola thinking?"

"Mao's nine are shallow and one is deep. All I see are shallow, how can there be deep? They can't penetrate the defense line of the Crystal Palace at all."

"Hahahahaha, the one upstairs made me laugh so hard. I guess Guardiola was too afraid of Chen Ran, so he kept kicking back and didn't dare to use his full strength."

"Indeed. Guardiola has been Chen Ran's assistant coach for such a long time. Chen Ran is amazing. I guess no one knows better than him."

Just when the audience complained that the game was silent and boring, the situation on the court changed suddenly.

After holding Ibrahimovic's header firmly in his arms, Cech quickly got up and sent the ball to the frontcourt with a big foot.

Seeing Cech's counterattack, Suarez and Messi started at the same time, one went to grab the ball, and the other started to advance towards Barcelona's penalty area at high speed.

At this time, Barcelona's midfielder Busquez also rushed to the point where the ball fell, and was about to unload the high-altitude ball.

Suddenly, a small man rushed over and intercepted the ball from in front of him.

It's Messi!
Messi, who intercepted the ball, immediately dribbled the ball along the right and advanced at high speed.

The striker Iniesta on Barcelona's side couldn't catch up with Messi at all.

Realizing that the situation was not good, left back Abidal had no choice but to rush forward to intercept.

Facing the tall and burly Abidal, Messi flicked the ball lightly, and the ball just passed between Abidal's spread legs, playing a pass through the crotch.

Leaving Abidal who had no time to react, Messi continued to lead the ball towards Barcelona's penalty area.

(End of this chapter)