Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 420

After three days of rest, on November 11, Crystal Palace ushered in the fourth round of the UEFA Champions League group stage.This time, they will sit at the Emirates Stadium to meet the challenge of Juventus.

This game is already the sixth game of the Devil's schedule at this stage of the Crystal Palace, and the continuous fighting has left the players with insufficient time to recover their physical fitness.

Judging from the physical examination reports of the Crystal Palace players obtained by Chen Ran, the players' bodies have entered a state of extreme fatigue.

In desperation, Chen Ran could only refer to the player's physical examination report again to arrange the starting lineup.

In addition, only two days after this Champions League game, Crystal Palace will usher in a strong dialogue with Manchester City in the Premier League.

Considering that Chelsea has now surpassed Crystal Palace by virtue of its goal difference advantage, and in the Champions League, Crystal Palace is now at the top of the group with three consecutive victories.

As long as Crystal Palace does not lose to Juventus in this game, then they can continue to suppress Juventus, the strongest opponent in this group.

Therefore, Chen Ran decided to rotate in this game to save his strength for the next game against Manchester City.

Therefore, Chen Ran sent all the main players in the midfield, but in the front court, Chen Ran sent Cavani, Suarez and Vardy as substitute players.

In terms of tactics, even though it was at Crystal Palace's home court, Chen Ran still adopted a defensive and counterattack style of play.

The ugly scene is ugly, the result is the most important.

For Juventus, Ferrara learned the lessons of the previous game. This time he came to the home court of Crystal Palace. From the first minute of the game, Juventus set up the bus directly.

But Ferrara soon realized that the situation was not right, and he placed the bus on his side, but Crystal Palace did not go all out to attack as they did in the previous game.Instead, he passed back and forth unhurriedly in the midfield, as if he was not in a hurry to attack.

In view of Chen Ran's current reputation, Ferrara was a little suspicious at first, worried that Chen Ran was digging a hole again, trying to lure Juventus to attack, and then took the opportunity to counterattack Juventus.

But after 10 minutes of the game, Ferrara saw that the Crystal Palace was still like this, and he couldn't help it.

Walking to the sidelines, Ferrara began to call on the Juventus players to move forward and conduct a tentative attack.

But Ferrara designed a 541 formation for Juventus in order to arrange the bus.Most of the players on the field are mainly defensive players.Even the only striker is the famous defensive forward Amaury.

With such a lineup, the offensive ability can be imagined.Even if Ferrara asked them to press on the attack, it would not pose too much threat to the Crystal Palace's defense.

Two teams, one stayed in the backcourt and played defensive counterattack, the other wanted to attack but the players were wrong, the game was dull and boring.

Until the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, the score remained at 0:0 without any change.

During the halftime break, Chen Ran didn't make any substitutions and adjustments other than giving the players blood as usual.

On the Juventus side, although Ferrara couldn't figure out why Crystal Palace was attacking wildly away, when they returned to their home court, they played a defensive counterattack instead.

But Ferrara still decided to seize this rare opportunity and must take away three points from Crystal Palace's home court.

So, he replaced Camoranesi and Salihamidzic, two good wing attackers, and also changed the formation from 541 to 4231.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, Southgate, who saw the changes in Juventus, immediately moved to Chen Ran's side impatiently.

"Boss, Juventus has already attacked, can we close the net now?"

"Gareth, hold your breath, wait a little longer, maybe we can solve the problem with our players on the field."

Chen Ran patted Southgate on the shoulder and said with confidence.

While comforting Southgate, Chen Ran silently called out the system, and quietly used a "Level [-] chicken blood card" for Suarez.

In order to ensure sufficient physical fitness for the game against Manchester City two days later, Chen Ran felt that Ronaldo and Messi should try not to play today.

Suarez, who used the "first-level chicken blood card", did not disappoint Chen Ran. After receiving a header from Cavani, he volleyed and broke through the goal guarded by Buffon, helping Crystal Palace win 1-0 at home. Juventus.

While the team won four consecutive victories in the Champions League group stage, Chen Ran also got a "Level [-] Recovery Card" from the system.

Two days later, on November 11, Chen Ran brought the Crystal Palace team to Manchester to participate in the No.7 round of the Premier League.

It's just that what they will face this time is no longer Manchester United, but the newly promoted Manchester City Club.

After two consecutive years of large-scale investment by the Abu Dhabi consortium, this Manchester City team is no longer what it used to be.From the boss to the management, from the coach to the players, they have changed almost all over.

After the running-in of last season, the strength of Manchester City under Mancini's coaching has greatly increased, and this season has directly participated in the competition for the Premier League title.

Manchester City currently ranks fifth in the league, after Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Manchester United and Arsenal.The most important thing is that they are not far behind the top Chelsea and Crystal Palace, and they are not behind.

For this direct contest with the defending champion Crystal Palace, Mancini attaches great importance to it.

He also wants to take this opportunity to use the Crystal Palace, which is recognized as the strongest team, to weigh the current level of Manchester City.

Forward Tevez, Forward Adebayor
Left Midfielder Petrov, Central Midfielder De Jong, Central Midfielder Vieira, Right Midfielder Wright Phillips
Left back Sylvinho, center back Kolo Touré, center back Lescott, right back Zabaleta
goalkeeper given
On the Crystal Palace side, Chen Ran, who was rotated against Juventus, also sent the entire main lineup this time.

center tony
Left midfielder Ronaldo, midfielder Kaka, right midfielder Messi
DM Yaya Toure, DM Modric

Left back Chiellini, center back Thiago Silva, center back Vidic, right back Maicon
goalkeeper cech
Mancini, with lofty aspirations, naturally disdains to take the bus.

Although he knows that Manchester City's current strength is still far behind that of Crystal Palace, he still insists on the team's consistent tactics and played against Crystal Palace.

Tevez and Adebayor, the two forwards who were the main strikers of Manchester United and Arsenal last season, have strong personal abilities, but they were scooped up by Manchester City at the same time this season. .

One of the two is a typical black and tough center, and the other is capable of sudden shooting, fast and stocky. Their characteristics and types are just complementary, which is obviously the result of Mancini's careful selection.

In the midfield, the two gates of De Jong and Vieira are amazingly destructive, and Petrov and Wright Phillips on the wing are also speedy players with strong breakthrough capabilities.

On the defensive line, Kolo Toure and Lescott are also the core that Manchester City has just poached from Arsenal and Everton at high prices.

Arsenal and Everton have often been able to get European places in the past few seasons. As the main central defenders, Kolo Toure and Lescott have contributed a lot.

Left back Sylvinho was still playing for Barcelona last season, and right back Zabaleta was a good player introduced by Manchester City from the Spaniard last season.

Relying on this starting lineup composed of core players dug from various teams, Manchester City even played against Crystal Palace inextricably for a while, without losing the wind.

Chen Ran was no stranger to this kind of situation, so he was not in a hurry at all, and sat firmly on the bench to watch the game.

On the Manchester City side, Mancini is much more nervous, he has been standing on the sidelines constantly reminding and commanding the players on the field.

When the game progressed to No. 30 two minutes, after Cech hugged Adebayor's header to attack the goal, he immediately got up and sent the ball to the frontcourt with a big foot.

Tony quickly judged that the ball's landing point was not far from him. After he rushed over, he blocked Lescott, who was in charge of marking him close to him, and swung his head to ferry the ball to Ronaldo on the left.

Ronaldo observed the direction of the ball's flight while running. After adjusting his pace a little, he played a difficult action of stopping the ball with his heel.

After the ball was knocked by Ronaldo's heel, it just crossed the head of Zabaleta who rushed up to intercept Ronaldo.

Ronaldo stopped and passed, directly breaking through Manchester City's defense line on the right.

Realizing that the situation was not good, another central defender Kolo Toure hurried over to defend.

Ronaldo stepped on the bicycle a few times first, and after getting out of the neutral gear, he kicked the door without hesitation.

"boom!"

The ball flew towards Manchester City's goal like a fired shell.

The goalkeeper Shay immediately flew up and blocked the ball.

However, before Ji Wen breathed a sigh of relief, he saw a small man rushing out from the side.

"boom!"

It's Messi!
Just when Tony ferried the ball to Ronaldo, he had already started to advance towards Manchester City's penalty area from the right.

And before Manchester City's defender reacted, he was the first to appear near the ball's landing point, and then went up to face the ball with a volley.

"GOAL!!!!!!"

With Messi's supplementary goal, Crystal Palace lead Manchester City 1-0 in the away game.

Seeing the first goal scored by Crystal Palace, Mancini was surprisingly calm.He just called the Manchester City players to the sidelines to explain something while the Crystal Palace players were celebrating their goals.

It may be that Mancini's arrangement played a role. After the re-kick-off, there was no panic on Manchester City's side.

They are still executing in an orderly manner according to the previous tactics.

Seeing that there was no chance to take advantage of the victory, Chen Ran was not in a hurry.

The situation of the game once again returned to balance, until the referee blew the whistle for the first half of the game, the score on the field did not change again.

During the intermission, as Crystal Palace successfully gained the lead, Chen Ran did not make any adjustments except for encouraging the players.

On the Manchester City side, Mancini replaced Wright Phillips with England international Gareth Barry.

He used Gareth Barry and Vieira as a double midfielder, and then arranged for De Jong to play as a right midfielder.

No way, Wright Phillips' defensive ability is too poor, and right back Sabaletta alone can't defend Ronaldo.

As soon as the second half started, Chen Ran saw Mancini's substitutions and adjustments.

De Jong is a well-known villain in football, and Mancini put him on the right, which made it clear that he was going to deal with Ronaldo.

In case this guy hurts Ronaldo, even if he is sent off with a red card, it will not be able to make up for the loss on his side.

You must know that Ronaldo is not only the absolute core of the Crystal Palace, but also the pillar of the Portuguese national team.Without Ronaldo, the Portuguese national team would have to drop at least one notch.

A week later, the Portuguese national team will compete with the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team in the European preliminaries.At this time, Ronaldo must not be injured.

Thinking of this, Chen Ran immediately called Southgate to his side.

"Gareth, go and inform Ribery to warm up now, and replace Ronaldo with him later."

"Boss, the second half of the game has just started, isn't it too early to make a substitution now?"

Southgate was also a little confused about Chen Ran's sudden decision to make a substitution.

Why don't you just change during the intermission, why do you have to wait until the second half of the game starts?
"Stop rambling, execute my order immediately." Chen Ran's expression darkened, and he reprimanded Southgate in a rare way.

"Okay, boss, I'll arrange a replacement right now."

Seeing that Chen Ran, who rarely loses his temper, suddenly became serious, Southgate's heart tightened, and he quickly turned around to greet Ribery to warm up.

Soon, Mancini saw that Crystal Palace replaced Ronaldo with Ribery.

As Southgate said just now, the substitution at this point in time is obviously not normal.

Mancini glanced thoughtfully at Chen Ran, who was on the Crystal Palace bench. Did this guy replace Ronaldo because he switched De Jong to the right?

In order to verify his conjecture, Mancini called his nearest left midfielder Petrov to the sidelines.

"Martin, you go and change positions with De Jong now and let him come to play left midfielder."

"Boss, I've never played on the right."

Petrov looked at Mancini with some hesitation. He is a traditional left-footed player, and he is not used to the current popular way of playing left-footed to the right and right-footed to the left.

"It doesn't matter, it's just a temporary change of position, to confuse the Crystal Palace, and I will let you change back in a while."

Mancini also knew Petrov's characteristics, and patted him on the shoulder to reassure him.

Soon, Chen Ran saw that Manchester City had switched the positions of Petrov and De Jong again.

In this way, the player De Jong directly faces becomes Messi.

Did this guy discover his fear of De Jong and was deliberately testing himself; or did he just routinely swap positions between the left and right midfielders?
Turning his head and glanced at Mancini standing on the sidelines, Chen Ran couldn't make up his mind for a while.

(End of this chapter)