Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 56 Three birds with one stone

McCarthy returned to the locker room with a gloomy face, ignored anyone, went straight into the bathroom, and locked the door behind him.

"boom!"

A clenched fist slammed heavily against the wall.

Humiliation, this is naked humiliation!
"Chen Ran, you will pay for what you have done!"

At this time, McCarthy, who already understood that he was being tricked, gritted his teeth and said.

On the other side, in the dressing room of Crystal Palace.

Chen Ran, as usual, did not lose his temper because the team fell behind.

"Everyone performed very well in the first half. Don't care about the penalty. It's just because the opponent is too cunning. Let's change the formation in the second half and just overtake the score. Do you have confidence?"

"Have!"

The sonorous and forceful answer echoed in the small locker room.

Well, the momentum is good, Chen Ran nodded in satisfaction.

Coming to Thiago Silva, Chen Ran patted him on the shoulder.

"Thiago, don't pay too much attention to that penalty. Strikers are always very cunning. Learn from experience in the future and just be more careful."

"Boss, I'm sorry, I didn't do a good job."

"Haha, it doesn't matter. You are still young and have little experience in the game. This is a very normal thing. You don't think everyone blames you."

"Yeah, Thiago, when I was your age, I was not as good as you."

Southgate also interjected at this time to help Chen Ran enlighten Thiago Silva.

Seeing that the boss not only didn't blame him, but came to comfort himself instead, Tiago Silva finally put down a big rock in his heart, and finally he didn't have to worry about being hidden by the snow.

In the future, he must work harder in training and make fewer mistakes, otherwise he will be sorry for such a good boss, Thiago Silva secretly made up his mind.

"Guys, in the second half we're going back to Simeone's defensive counter-attack tactics. Modric, you replace Yaya Toure as an attacking midfielder; Fabregas, you replace Thiago Silva as a defensive midfielder; Gareth, you go back to center back. Got it all?"

"understand!"

As soon as the second half started, people were attracted by the substitutions on the sidelines.

Crystal Palace changed two players at once, and they all replaced defensive players with offensive players.

Anyone who knows the Crystal Palace can immediately understand Chen Ran's intention for this substitution.

This is the horn to attack.

McCarthy was on the bench, watching all this coldly.

At this time, he has become a head coach with no emotion.

Anyway, now that Sunderland has the ball in hand, the initiative is on his side.

Isn't Crystal Palace trying to bring the game back?

Then let's compare and see whether Crystal Palace's attack power is stronger or Sunderland's attack power is stronger.

So, after the ten-point contraction before the end of the first half, Sunderland returned to an offensive posture again in the second half.

Chen Ran was overjoyed by the changes in Sunderland. It seemed that McCarthy had fallen for it.

Chen Ran's previous series of actions had three purposes.

The first is not to let Cesc Fabregas appear on the field prematurely; the second is to slow down the defensive pressure of Crystal Palace at that time; the third is to use this to anger Sunderland's coach McCarthy, so that he will not shrink back to defend after leading .

Now it seems that the effect is good, and Chen Ran's three goals have been achieved.

As soon as Crystal Palace adjusted their tactics, the two wingers that had been silent for the entire first half immediately came alive.

In the first half, Ronaldo and Ribery were busy helping the team defend.The only few chances ended up conceding the ball because they could not get support, which made them very depressed.

Now, with the passing support from Fabregas and the cooperation of Modric, they immediately began to attack Sunderland's defense continuously.It seems that he wants to double the anger he received in the first half and return it to the opponent.

Because Sunderland did not shrink the defense, this gave Crystal Palace plenty of room to attack and greatly reduced the difficulty of Fabregas' passing.

Soon, Fabregas' left and right scheduling made Sunderland suffer.

First, Ribery on the right got the ball and broke through with the ball, passing a cross that allowed Tony to give full play to his header advantage.

Had it not been for the bravery of Sunderland's goalkeeper, who fought hard to save the ball, Crystal Palace would have equalized the score.

Immediately afterwards, Ronaldo on the left received a pass from Fabregas, and after passing the two, he rushed directly to Sunderland's penalty area.

Sunderland's defense deserves to have experienced the baptism of the Premier League, and they didn't panic when they saw this situation.

Some stepped forward to block Ronaldo's breakthrough route, and some left double-teaming Tony to prevent him from grabbing points. This stumped Ronaldo all at once.

He is now intercepted in the front and pursued in the back, and Tony in the penalty area is also being closely watched.For a while, Ronaldo didn't know what to do.

The current Ronaldo is still very young after all, and he is far from reaching the state of simplifying complexity and lifting weights as lightly as later generations.

According to Ronaldo's previous habits, he must be doing a few fancy fake moves now. It's best if he can pass others.As for whether you can score, it depends on luck.

However, since he was hung by Chen Ran with a Porsche 911 as a carrot, passing the ball, which used to be the last choice, has now become Ronaldo's first choice.

Tony was marked to death, so he definitely couldn't pass it on.

Ribery is too far on the right, and he is too short, his position is blocked by people in the penalty area, and he cannot be seen clearly.

When he was worrying, suddenly, from the corner of his eyes, Ronaldo saw a small man running near the arc of the penalty area, it was Modric.

It's you, Cristiano Ronaldo, who has already brought the ball into the dead end, flicked his ankle and passed an inverted triangle.

Modric had just scored a beautiful volley in the previous game. At this time, Ronaldo passed the ball again, and then the defensive players around him had not had time to post it.

It's a good opportunity. Modric has a successful case of scoring before, and this time he didn't hesitate, and he volleyed the ball again.

"boom!"

Like last time, Modric stretched the instep to 90 degrees again, and the ball was still so flat and so fast.

However, this time the ball did not go into the goal, but hit the crossbar hard, and then bounced high into the air.

As soon as Tony saw it, he rushed towards the ball's landing point, ready to fight for the header.

It's a pity that the defender responsible for marking Tony did his duty and never left Tony's side.

Tony was very accurate in judging the ball's landing point, but he was firmly bound on the ground with a big man, and he couldn't jump up at all. The ball was headed out of the penalty area by the Sunderland defender.

However, physics tells us that forces interact.

At the same time that Tony was pulled and did not jump up, Sunderland's defender was also interfered by Tony.

Therefore, the ball that was pushed out of the penalty area did not fly far.

Coincidentally, it happened to land in front of Modric who had just completed a shot.

Modric was also taken aback, does this mean to let me kick again?

Then I'm welcome.

"boom!"

Before the ball hit the ground, Modric went up and volleyed again.

It has to be said that the basic skills of Eastern European players are really solid.

After hitting the goal with two consecutive kicks, Modric's footwork was exactly the same, with almost no change.

This time, the ball went straight into Sunderland's goal like a fired shell.

Sunderland 1:1 Crystal Palace.

(End of this chapter)