Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 425 Take Off Again
A week later, Crystal Palace ushered in the Premier League's famous Christmas devil schedule.

On December 12, in the No.26 round of the Premier League, Crystal Palace played against Bolton at home.

With goals from Suarez and Alves, Crystal Palace easily won Bolton 2:0.

While getting three points, Chen Ran also got a "level one blood recovery card" from the system.

In the other games of this round of the Premier League, Chelsea beat Birmingham 1-0 away, and Manchester United beat Hull City 3-1 away.

Manchester City beat Stoke City 2-0 at home and Arsenal beat Aston Villa 3-0 at home.

The Liverpool club, under the leadership of Rijkaard, defeated the Wolves 2-0 at Anfield, which can be regarded as initially stopping the downward trend.

After only one day off, on December 12, Crystal Palace ushered in the No. 28 round of the Premier League.This time, they are going to challenge Everton away.

Crystal Palace, which was forced to undergo a substantial rotation, almost overturned. Fortunately, Thiago Silva scored with a header in stoppage time, which enabled Crystal Palace to narrowly beat Everton 1-0 in the away game.

While getting three points, Chen Ran also got a "Level [-] Recovery Card" from the system.

In the other games of this round of the Premier League, Chelsea beat Fulham 2:1 at Stamford Bridge, and Manchester United beat Wigan Athletic 5:0 at Old Trafford.

Manchester City beat Wolves 3-0 away and Arsenal beat Portsmouth 4-1 away.

On the Liverpool side, they beat Aston Villa 1-0 away this time.Rijkaard achieved two consecutive victories after taking office, allowing Liverpool's management and fans to see the hope of a V-shaped reversal.

On January 1, the FA Cup will start again, and this time Crystal Palace will go to an away game against Milton Keynes.

For the FA Cup match, Chen Ran still followed the old rules.While he sent all the substitutes to play, he also handed over the command of the game to Southgate.

Milton Keynes is the original famous "Crazy Gang" Wimbledon, but the relocation and name change and the debt burden make this very characteristic team no longer what it used to be, and now it can only hang out in the third level of League One. .

Therefore, even Crystal Palace, who played all off the bench, still beat Milton Keynes 4-0 in the away game with the goals of Dzeko, Cavani, Vardy and Pepe.

While qualifying for the fourth round of the FA Cup, Chen Ran also got a "Level [-] Sight Card" from the system.

With the opening of the winter transfer window, Liverpool, which had just changed its head coach and was banned from signing during the summer transfer period, immediately made a full-scale attack.

Antero Enrique, who once served as the sports director of Porto, a famous black shop in Europe, has a wide network of contacts, coupled with the full support of the Qatari consortium behind him, the Liverpool club once again shocked the entire European football world with its generous spending.

For the first transfer, Liverpool used [-] million euros to bring in two Davids from the Spanish club Valencia - forward David Villa and midfielder David Silva.

In the second transfer, Liverpool bought Brazilian central defender David Luiz from the Portuguese club Benfica for 3000 million euros.

In the third transfer, Liverpool once again spent 3000 million euros to introduce the Serbian backcourt versatile Kolarov from the Italian club Lazio.

Although Rijkaard is Dutch, he has coached in Barcelona for a long time and knows more about La Liga players.

Therefore, after he succeeded Benitez as the head coach of the Liverpool club, he continued to increase his efforts to introduce players from La Liga.

So much so that the current Liverpool club team has gathered six Spanish internationals including Torres, David Villa, David Silva, Harvey Alonso, Arbeloa and Reina.

This number is even more than Liverpool's native England internationals.

In the winter transfer period, which has always been light in transactions, 6000 million euros were spent in one go, and Liverpool's consecutive large-scale transfers immediately attracted attention from all over the world.

Antero Enrique is also a thieves. He separates the press conference introducing new players.

For a while, the Liverpool club dominated the headlines of the sports section for several days in a row.

On January 1th, in the No.9 round of the Premier League, Crystal Palace played at home against Stoke City.

With goals from Tony, Ronaldo and Yaya Toure, Crystal Palace beat Stoke City 3-0 at home.

While getting three points, Chen Ran also got a "Free Kick Master Card" from the system.

In the other games of this round of the Premier League, Chelsea beat Hull City 1-0 away, and Manchester United narrowly beat Birmingham 2-1 away.

Manchester City beat Blackburn 4:1 at home, while Arsenal were tied 2:2 by Everton at home.

Liverpool, who just made a big signing, really saw an immediate effect. They defeated Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 at Anfield.

A wave of three consecutive victories seemed to let everyone see the demeanor of the Premier League runner-up last season.

On January 1, in the second round of Premier League No.16, Crystal Palace will go to Old Trafford to challenge Manchester United this time.

In the League Cup, Crystal Palace, who played all substitutes, was eliminated by Manchester United.

But now in the league, Chen Ran will not be so polite.

Forward Ronaldo, Forward Tony
Left midfielder Ribery, central midfielder Yaya Toure, central midfielder Mascherano, right midfielder Messi

Left back Chiellini, center back Thiago Silva, center back Vidic, right back Maicon
goalkeeper cech
On the Manchester United side, Sir Alex Ferguson also sent the entire main lineup to face Crystal Palace.

Forward Rooney, Forward Berbatov
Left Midfield Park Ji-sung, Central Midfielder Hargreaves, Central Midfielder Carrick, Right Midfielder Nani
Left back Fabio, center back Ferdinand, center back O'Shea, right back Valencia
Kushchak
As in previous games, despite knowing that Manchester United is not as strong as Crystal Palace, Ferguson still did not adopt the tactic of placing the bus.

From the first minute of the game, the two teams launched a fierce confrontation, and this was what Chen Ran wanted to see the most.

When the game progressed to No. 30 and two minutes, Cech quickly got up after catching Berbatov's barb shot, rushed to the edge of the penalty area and threw the ball vigorously to launch a counterattack.

Franck Ribery, near the middle circle, stretched out his foot and hooked the ball away from Hargreaves.

After getting the ball, Ribery immediately took the ball and ran all the way along the left line.

Realizing that the situation was not good, Manchester United's right back Valencia hurried up to intercept Ribery.

At this time, Ronaldo also ran back from the front to meet Ribery.

Therefore, Ribery did not entangle with Valencia, and directly passed the ball to Ronaldo, and then he bypassed Valencia and continued to advance.

At this time, Manchester United's central defender O'Shea also followed Ronaldo out of the penalty area.

Ronaldo didn't stop the ball at all, but directly knocked the ball back to Ribery, who was advancing at high speed, with the heel of his right foot, playing a two-over-two cooperation.

This time, both Valencia and O'Shea were left behind at the same time, and Ribery's front was wide open.He changed direction and dribbled the ball directly into Manchester United's penalty area.

At this time, another central defender of Manchester United, Ferdinand, was still staring at Tony, far from being able to quench his thirst.

Fortunately, the midfielder Carrick rushed back in time and blocked the middle between Ribery and goalkeeper Kushchak.

Franck Ribery first dunked the ball back, waited until Carrick shifted his center of gravity, and then dunked forward.

After two consecutive dunks, Carrick, who was caught off guard, immediately lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground. There was no barrier between Ribery and Kushchak.

Without any hesitation, Ribery took a curve ball with his right foot.

"boom!"

Kuschak flew up, but unfortunately he was still a step too slow, and could only watch the ball fly from his hand into Manchester United's net.

"GOAL!!!!!!"

With a wonderful goal from Ribery, Crystal Palace lead Manchester United 1-0 away.

On the sidelines, Ferguson was angry and helpless when he saw the goal.

It's not that my defensive players don't work hard, it's that the opponent's ability is too strong to defend.

Ferguson didn't lose his temper this time, but just told Manchester United's players to strengthen their defense against Ribery.

Fortunately, Manchester United's players were quite competitive, until the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, the score on the field did not change again.

During the intermission, since the first half of the game went very smoothly, Chen Ran did not make any substitutions and adjustments except to encourage the players to make persistent efforts.

On the Manchester United side, Ferguson replaced Park Ji-sung with veteran Giggs, intending to strengthen the offense to bring the score back.

At the start of the second half, Chen Ran, who saw Manchester United's substitutions, smiled slightly. The old man still refused to admit defeat.

That's good, just dedicate a wonderful game to the fans.

There is no way, because many teams now adopt the tactics of placing buses when facing the Crystal Palace, which has caused a serious decline in the excitement of the Crystal Palace game, and many fans complained about it.

When Chen Ran is free, he will dive in the forums and post bars where Crystal Palace fans gather, and he knows this situation, but this kind of thing is not something he can decide on his own.

It is rare to encounter a team with such backbone as Manchester United willing to play against Crystal Palace. Of course, Chen Ran is willing to accompany him.

As a result, the two teams continued their confrontation in the first half, and played very well, which made the fans who came to watch the game today very happy.

However, when the game time lasted to 10 minutes, Manchester United gradually became overwhelmed.

When they were physically fit before, Manchester United's players could also make up for their lack of technical ability by being more active in fighting and running.

But now that his physical fitness has declined, all the loopholes that had been covered up have come out.

In this game, although Ronaldo was arranged by Chen Ran to act as a striker with Tony, his and Tony's tasks were completely different.

The task Chen Ran assigned to Ronaldo was more like a No. [-] and a half, not only serving as a shadow forward behind Toni, but also responsible for connecting Ribery and Messi on the two sides out of the penalty area.

Ribery's goal in the first half of the game was credited to Ronaldo's cooperation.

Now, when Messi passed the ball to Ronaldo on the right, he continued to advance like Ribery in the first half.

The defenders on Manchester United's side also learned their wisdom from a pitfall. When Messi continued to advance, the left back Fabio did not relax his marking on Messi at all, and turned around and chased Messi back.

Seeing Fabio's actions, Ronaldo immediately gave up his plan to cooperate with Messi.While resisting O'Shea who was in charge of pressing him closely with his body, he turned around and passed the ball to Tony in the penalty area, and then rushed to the front right.

At this time, Tony was facing the Manchester United goal. Behind him, Ferdinand, who was in charge of marking him, was holding Tony's jersey tightly, wishing to hold him in his arms.

While Tony blocked Ferdinand with his huge body, he used the arch of his right foot to push the ball back directly to the line of Ronaldo who was going forward.

At this time, Manchester United's left-back Fabio had chased Messi out of his position, leaving a huge gap for Ronaldo.While Ferdinand was blocked by Tony, O'Shea was left behind by Ronaldo and desperately chased after him.

Realizing that the situation was not good, Hargreaves in the midfield rushed over to make up for the defense.

However, Ronaldo's action was still a step faster.

Before Hargreaves arrived, Ronaldo was one step ahead.

He didn't stop the ball at all, rushing up to meet the ball was just an angry shot.

"boom!"

The ball was like a shell fired from the chamber, without rotation or arc, and flew directly to the upper right corner of Manchester United's goal.

Goalkeeper Kushchak's reaction was already very fast. As soon as the ball left Ronaldo's feet, he had already flown out.

It's a pity that Ronaldo's shot is powerful, fast and has a tricky angle.The ball flew directly into the United net from between Kushchak's hand and the post.

"GOAL!!!!!!"

With Cristiano Ronaldo's ten-point shot, Crystal Palace led Manchester United 2-0 away.

After falling behind by two goals, the morale of Manchester United's players was a bit low. Coupled with the decline in physical fitness, even Ferguson made continuous substitutions and adjustments, but failed to save the defeat.

In the end, with the goals of Franck Ribery and Ronaldo, Crystal Palace defeated Manchester United 2-0 away.

While getting three points, Chen Ran also got a "Level One Blood Card" from the system.

而在本轮英超联赛的其他比赛里，切尔西在斯坦福桥7：2狂胜桑德兰，曼城在客场2：0战胜埃弗顿，阿森纳也在客场2：0轻取博尔顿。

On Liverpool's side, they narrowly beat Stoke City 2:1 away in this round.After Rijkaard took office, the team has achieved four consecutive victories.

All of a sudden, the pages of the English football media were filled with news about Liverpool Club and Rijkaard.

Reports such as "Liverpool Club is taking off again" and "Rijkaard is Chen Ran's real opponent" are flying all over the sky.

(End of this chapter)