Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 421 Did These Two Guys Take Medicine?

If Messi is replaced now, then his fear of De Jong will be fully exposed.

In this way, those teams that encounter Crystal Palace in the future are likely to use fierce defensive players to deal with the core of Crystal Palace's offense, greatly increasing the risk of injuries to Ronaldo and Messi.

Thinking of this consequence, Chen Ran resolutely resisted the idea of ​​immediately replacing Messi.

Moreover, Chen Ran has a better understanding of Manchester City's Petrov. He is a traditional left-footed player and cannot play on the right like Robben.

Mancini now swaps the positions of Petrov and De Jong, which is tantamount to abolishing Manchester City's wing attack.

Unless Mancini does not want to pull the score back, otherwise this situation will certainly not last long.

After weighing repeatedly, Chen Ran decided to take a gamble.

He got up from the bench and walked to the sidelines, taking advantage of the dead ball, and called Modric over.

"Little Luca, Manchester City has now transferred Petrov to the right. This is a traditional left-footed player who is not good at playing on the right."

"Then you keep passing the ball to Ribéry until Petrov goes back down the left."

"If Petrov goes back to the left, you pass the ball to Messi. In short, you remember that wherever Petrov is, you will pass the ball to whichever side. Understand?"

"Understood, boss."

Chen Ran's method is very simple, regardless of whether Mancini deliberately transferred De Jong to mark Messi.Crystal Palace doesn't attack from Messi's side, can you De Jong deliberately kick someone without the ball?

Soon, Mancini saw the changes on the Crystal Palace field.

One after another, the ball continued to fly from Modric's feet to Petrov's right.

Petrov, who was not used to the right side, completely gave up his offense at this moment, and only helped right back Sabaletta defend Ribery, who was drilling around like a small steel cannon.

And De Jong, who was transposed to the left, as a right-footed player, also had difficulty adapting to the left.

All of a sudden, Manchester City's two wing offenses were paralyzed at the same time, and Vieira and Gareth Barry in the center were neither players who were good at organizing offense.

The two forwards Adebayor and Twiston turned into kites with broken strings, unable to even catch the ball, let alone even think about scoring.

Seeing this situation, Mancini was a little impatient on the sidelines.

Now it's not only Manchester City's players who are playing uncomfortable, but he himself is also uncomfortable watching from the sidelines.

He quietly glanced at the bench of Crystal Palace, and found that Chen Ran had already sat back.

Mancini knew in his heart that Chen Ran would see through his temptation nine out of ten times, and the other party immediately came up with an effective countermeasure.

If you continue to play like this, then Manchester City will definitely lose this game.

In desperation, Mancini had no choice but to call Petrov to the sidelines again, and let him and De Jong return to their accustomed positions.

However, Mancini soon discovered that as he transferred Petrov back to the left, Crystal Palace also immediately shifted the main attack direction to Messi.

Wang Defa, did that guy Chen Ran identify with Petrov?
Wherever Petrov is, which side do you put the main attack direction on?
Seeing this scene, Mancini almost twisted his nose in anger.

Compared with De Jong, who is good at defense and temporarily plays the right midfielder, Petrov's left can be said to be one of Manchester City's main attack points on the field.

However, the Crystal Palace now always focuses their main attack on Petrov's side, which causes Petrov to spend a lot of energy on assisting and replenishing defenses.

Tired and half dead, how can Petrov have the energy to go on the offensive to deliver shells to Adebayor and Tevez?
In desperation, Mancini had to make adjustments again. He replaced Petrov with Robinho who had just returned from injury, and then changed Manchester City's formation from 442 to 4321.

Adebayor was at the front as a center forward, with Carlos Tevez and Robinho hiding behind him as shadow forwards.The midfielder consists of Gareth Barry, Vieira and De Jong forming the barrier in front of the defense.

Seeing Manchester City's substitutions and adjustments, Chen Ran immediately called Southgate to his side.

"Gareth, you go and notify Mascherano and Vardy to warm up now, and replace Toni and Messi with them later."

"Then Javier Mascherano, Yaya Toure and Modric formed a three-back midfielder, and Vardy took over Messi's position. The team changed to defensive counterattack tactics, and the formation changed from 4231 to no front 433."

"Understood, boss."

As soon as the Crystal Palace shrank their formation to fight back, it immediately made Manchester City's offense more difficult.

After the space is compressed, the distance between defensive players is shortened, and it becomes easier to assist in defense.

Until the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, Manchester City failed to break through the goal guarded by Petr Cech.

In the end, with Messi's complementary shot, Crystal Palace beat Manchester City 1-0 in the away game.

While scoring the key three points, Chen Ran also got a "Level [-] chicken blood card" from the system.

In the other games of this round of the Premier League, there is another game related to the competition for the league title that is very interesting.

With Didier Drogba's header, Chelsea beat Manchester United 1-0 at Stamford Bridge, and continued to beat Crystal Palace with a goal difference advantage to top the standings.

Arsenal beat Wolves 4:1 in the away game, while last season's league runner-up Liverpool was upset again. They were tied 2:2 by Birmingham at Anfield.

After the match against Manchester City, Chen Ran immediately took Ronaldo and Pepe to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, to prepare for the European play-offs of the World Preliminaries.

The opponent Portugal will face this time is Bosnia and Herzegovina from the former Yugoslavia, and the schedule is not very favorable.

In this Bosnia and Herzegovina national team, there are many players with good strength.

For example, Dzeko of the Crystal Palace, and the veteran Salihamidzic of the Juventus team who just played against each other not long ago.

There are also Ibisevic and Salihovic who played for Hoffenheim, and Misimovic who helped Wolfsburg win the team's first Bundesliga title.

And the talented midfielder Pjanic who is only 19 years old and plays for Lyon in Ligue [-].

And their head coach is also the famous Croatian coach Blazevic who is no stranger to many domestic fans.

Just seeing the familiar names, Chen Ran knew that Portugal's two play-off games were not easy to play.

But at this time, no one has a way out.

If you want to get tickets to participate in the World Cup in South Africa, you must kill your opponent.

Portugal's home and away schedule forces the team to score as many goals as possible at home, otherwise who knows what will happen when they go away?
Therefore, Chen Ran sent all the main players to attack with all his strength, and he must win the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team at home.

Left winger Nani, center Ronaldo, right winger Quaresma

Central midfielder Meireles, Central midfielder Deco, Central midfielder Thiago
Left back Coentrao, center back Carvalho, center back Pepe, right back Paulo Ferreira

goalkeeper eduardo
As for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team, the head coach Blazevic also played the main force, and did not place a bus just because it was an away game.

Forward Ibisevic, Forward Dzeko
Left Midfielder Salihovic, Central Midfielder Misimovic, Central Midfielder Pjanic, Right Midfielder Salihamidzic

Left back Lulic, center back Vasayevich, center back Spasic, right back Bichukcic
Goalkeeper Begovic
When Chen Ran saw the starting list of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team, he couldn't help being surprised.

Blazevic is really tough enough. In his starting lineup, there is not even a full-time defensive midfielder.

Whether it is Misimovic or Pjanic, it is obvious that the offense is stronger than the defense. Does Blazevic want to play against Portugal in the away game?

Chen Ran's conjecture was completely correct. Blazevic really wanted to catch Portugal by surprise.

Compared with the star-studded frontcourt configuration, the defensive players of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team are basically unknown.

The Portuguese national team has not only top stars like Cristiano Ronaldo in the frontcourt, but also offensive players like Deco, Nani, Quaresma and Simao.

After careful analysis by Blazevic, he believed that relying on the defense line of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team, the Portuguese attack group headed by Ronaldo could not be stopped at all.

So, he thought of a trick and decided to use his strengths to avoid weaknesses, give full play to the offensive ability of these stars in the frontcourt of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team, and come to a counterattack with Portugal.

It's not about who concedes fewer goals, but who scores more goals.

After all, Blazevic is a famous coach who once led Croatia to the third place in the 1998 World Cup in France. Although his plan was very risky, he finally succeeded in convincing everyone in the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.

So, when the referee blew the whistle to start the game, Chen Ran immediately saw the players of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team rushing forward like hungry tigers.

And in this regard, they fought fiercely with the Portuguese players in the midfield, without giving an inch.

"Boss, is the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team going all out?"

Boas, who also sensed that the situation was wrong, also moved to Chen Ran's side at this time.

"It seems that they are going to play against us. Andre, you go tell the players on the field to stabilize the defense first. The opponent's style of play consumes a lot of energy. It depends on how long they can last." It's been a long time."

"Understood, boss."

Faced with this situation, Chen Ran, who had experienced many battles, was no stranger to it.

Let the bullets fly for a while, don't worry.

If the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina can play 10 minutes of the game according to this rhythm, then he also recognizes it.

However, according to Chen Ran's experience, this possibility is extremely slim.

As long as the physical fitness of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team declines, it will probably lead to a complete collapse.

On the other side, Blazevic stood on the sidelines from the first minute and watched the progress of the game.

Because he knew very well in his heart that with this kind of game rhythm, it is impossible for players to persist for nine to 10 minutes.The outcome of this game depends on whether the Bosnia and Herzegovina team breaks through Portugal's goal first, or their own physical fitness problems first.

In fact, Blazevic has already thought about it, as long as he can take the lead in breaking the Portuguese goal, he will immediately change the defense and set up the bus.

And the progress of the game was indeed moving in the direction Blazevic hoped for.

Bosnia and Herzegovina were awarded a direct free kick from a good position when Pepe brought down his club team-mate Dzeko from outside the box.

The Bosnia and Herzegovina national team has no shortage of free kick masters. Whether it is the right-footed Misimovic or the left-footed Salihovic, they have scored direct free kicks in the Bundesliga.

At this time, these two guys were standing next to the ball at the same time.

After the two whispered a few words in each other's ears, they began to measure their steps back at the same time.

Because the position of this free kick is very positive, no matter the left foot or the right foot can hit the goal directly, so for a while, the Portuguese goalkeeper Eduardo has difficulty judging who is going to take the free kick.

After standing still, Misimovic first started to run.

Swing your leg, then feint with your right foot over the ball.

Immediately afterwards, Salihovic ran up and swung his legs.

"boom!"

The ball arced straight to the upper right corner of the Portuguese goal.

Eduardo was still disturbed by Misimovic, and he was already half a beat behind when he made a save.

The ball got into Portugal's net from his hands, Bosnia and Herzegovina scored the first goal, leading Portugal 1:0.

On the sidelines, Chen Ran, who saw Bosnia and Herzegovina scoring the first goal, shook his head helplessly. It is estimated that the next game will be difficult.

As Chen Ran expected, Blazevic moved very quickly.

While the Bosnia and Herzegovina players were still celebrating their goals, he called Ramisic, a full-time defensive midfielder, from the bench.

Blazevic was very decisive. He didn't care about the present or the first half of the game. After the warm-up, he replaced the teenager Pjanic with Ramisic.

At the same time, the Bosnia and Herzegovina team's formation shrank and retreated across the board.

Except for Dzeko and Ibisevic, the two forwards who stayed near the center circle to wait for an opportunity to counterattack, the other players all retreated to the half court to set up the bus.

"Boss, what are we going to do now? Do we want to substitute someone to strengthen our offense?"

Seeing that Blazevic simply changed his formation and set up the bus, Boas also moved closer to Chen Ran a little impatiently.

"Don't worry. The first half of the game is not over yet, we still have plenty of time."

After Chen Ran dismissed Boas in a few words, he called up the system silently and gave Nani and Quaresma a "first-level chicken blood card" respectively.

Isn't Blazevic going to drive the bus?Let's see if Bosnia and Herzegovina's defense can withstand the peak level of Nani and Quaresma.

Next, Nani and Quaresma, who were used by Chen Ran with the "Level [-] Chicken Blood Card", seemed to be different people.

Breaking through Bosnia and Herzegovina's defense in turn on the two sides made the Bosnia and Herzegovina team panic in front of the goal, feeling like they were about to lose the ball at any time.

On the sidelines, Blazevic looked serious and frowned upon seeing this situation.

How did this Nani and Quaresma suddenly become so powerful?

Did these two guys take medicine?

(End of this chapter)