Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 428 The Magical Schedule

Barcelona led by Guardiola, last season's UEFA Champions League runner-up, unexpectedly lost 0:1 away to CSKA Moscow.

Guardiola obviously underestimated the impact of the severe cold weather in Moscow in February on the Barcelona players in southern Europe.

CSKA Moscow set up a bus at home to deal with Barcelona. As a result, Barcelona couldn't attack for a long time, and the physical energy consumption of the players was much greater than usual.

When the game came to an end, CSKA Moscow, which was used to playing in this kind of weather, succeeded in a counterattack and had no choice but to return to Spain with hatred.

Fortunately, the UEFA Champions League is now a two-leg home and away game system. Guardiola still has a chance to comeback when he returns to home.

Only two days later, on February 2, Crystal Palace ushered in the No.20 seven rounds of the Premier League.This time, they are going to challenge Aston Villa away.

Since he had just fought against Florence, Chen Ran made a large rotation in this game.

Fortunately, the substitute players of Crystal Palace are also very competitive. With the goals of Suarez and Vardy, Crystal Palace beat Aston Villa 2:1 in the away game.

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

However, in this game, Yaya Toure, who has been fighting continuously, suffered a thigh muscle strain, which cast a shadow over the victory of this game.

After Vieira left, Yaya Toure was Chen Ran's candidate to replace Vieira, which was also an important reason why Chen Ran was willing to let Vieira go.

So in many games, players in other positions can be rotated, but Chen Ran rarely rotates Yaya Toure.

Now Yaya Toure's injury has brought a lot of hidden dangers to Crystal Palace's next game.

In other matches of this round of the Premier League, there is another strong dialogue that is very interesting.

Manchester City and Liverpool, two clubs that have just changed local bosses, are going head-to-head. Everyone wants to see who is more powerful.

However, the results were somewhat unexpected.

Liverpool, which is obviously stronger, failed to win Manchester City. The two teams were evenly matched, and the home game of Manchester City ended 0:0.

另外，切尔西在客场2：0轻松战胜狼队，曼联也在客场3：1拿下了埃弗顿，阿森纳在海布里球场2：0战胜桑德兰。

After playing all the games in this round, Crystal Palace still failed to get rid of Chelsea, but only ranked first in the standings with a slight lead of three points.

After the devil's schedule at this stage, Crystal Palace finally ushered in a week's rest.

On February 2th, in the No.27 eighth round of the Premier League, Crystal Palace will face Portsmouth at the Emirates Stadium this time.

With the goals of Tony and Ronaldo, the Crystal Palace, who played with all the main players, defeated Portsmouth 2-0 without any suspense.

In other games of this round of the Premier League, there was an upset that could affect the ownership of the Premier League title this season. Chelsea unexpectedly lost 2:4 to Manchester City at Stamford Bridge.

With Crystal Palace winning, the gap between them and Crystal Palace was suddenly widened to six points.

Not only that, after Manchester United beat West Ham United 3-0 at Old Trafford, they also surpassed Chelsea to rank second in the standings.

In addition, Liverpool beat Blackburn 2:1 at Anfield, and Arsenal won Stoke City 3:1 away.

After all the games in this round, Crystal Palace topped the standings, Manchester United came in second four points behind, and Chelsea dropped six points behind to third.

A week later, Chen Ran once again saw the amazing schedule of the FA.

On March 3th, in the No.6 nine rounds of the Premier League, Crystal Palace will go away to challenge Arsenal;

On March 3, the FA Cup quarter-finals, Crystal Palace will sit at the Emirates Stadium to face Aston Villa again;
On March 3, in the second round of the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, Crystal Palace will fly to Italy to challenge Florence;
On March 3th, in the No.13 round of the Premier League, Crystal Palace will rush back to face Wolves at home.

Four games in seven days, an average of less than two days.

Especially in the first two games that were close together, there was not even a day's rest in the middle. The FA is not afraid of sudden death of players.

"It seems that the FA does not want Crystal Palace to eat alone, forcing itself to give up the FA Cup."

After seeing the schedule, Chen Ran immediately had this realization in his heart.

Chen Ran, who didn't attach much importance to the FA Cup, actually sent a substitute lineup to participate in the FA Cup and League Cup.

However, giving up on your own initiative and being forced to give up by others feels completely different.

For a moment, Chen Ran wanted to give the FA some color.

However, considering that he will step down as the head coach of Crystal Palace after the end of this season, and the unlucky one will be Guardiola who will succeed him, Chen Ran finally gave up his plan to compete with the FA.

In the early days when Guardiola took over the Crystal Palace, he will definitely experience a period of shock, so don't make it more difficult for him.

On March 3th, in the No.6 ninth round of the Premier League, Chen Ran brought the Crystal Palace to their familiar Highbury Stadium.

Wenger, who has completely lost his mind to compete for the Premier League title, has become more free and easy now.Even facing a strong enemy like Crystal Palace, he still sent a starting lineup that focuses on offense.

Forward van Persie, forward Bendtner

Central midfielder Nasri, Central midfielder Arshavin, Central midfielder Rosicky

Alexander Song

Left back Clichy, center back William Gallas, center back Vermaelen, right back Sagna
goalkeeper almunia
On the Crystal Palace side, since Chen Ran has decided to give up the FA Cup, Chen Ran naturally used all the main players in this game.

Forward Ronaldo, Forward Tony
Left Midfielder Ribery, Central Midfielder Mascherano, Central Midfielder Modric, Right Midfielder Messi

Left back Chiellini, center back Thiago Silva, center back Vidic, right back Maicon
goalkeeper cech
Arsenal still continued their consistent tactical style. From the first minute of the game, they played against Crystal Palace.

The open game, coupled with the fact that both teams are following the technical route, made the game very exciting, and also made the fans who bought the most expensive tickets in the Premier League feel that the money was worth it.

When the game progressed to No. 203 minutes, Van Persie received a long pass from Alexander Song in the backcourt, and volleyed directly without stopping the ball while running at high speed.

Cech, who was caught off guard, couldn't react in time. When he made a save, the ball had already flown into the net from his hand. Crystal Palace trailed Arsenal 0:1.

However, the Arsenal fans who were boiling in the audience were not happy for long.

Less than 10 minutes after Van Persie's goal, Ronaldo received a header from Toni, and a volley side hook helped Crystal Palace tie the score at 1:1, and the score was maintained until the end of the first half.

During the intermission, Chen Ran was not in a hurry about the current score.He did not make any substitutions and adjustments other than giving the players blood as usual.

On Arsenal's side, Wenger was also very satisfied with the team's performance in the first half.In addition to encouraging the players to make persistent efforts, he also did not make substitution adjustments.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, the two teams continued to attack each other.

When the game progressed to No.601 minutes, Messi broke through Clichy's defense on the right and entered Arsenal's penalty area.

After attracting everyone's attention, he passed the ball into an inverted triangle.

Outside the penalty area, Modric, who had been waiting there for a long time, volleyed the ball.

"boom!"

At this time, Arsenal's midfielder Alexander Song arrived in time to stretch his feet to block Modric's shot, and the ball hit Alexander Song's leg and was refracted.

Goalkeeper Almunia, who had already moved ahead of time, wanted to turn around to make a save, but it was too late, and he could only watch helplessly as the ball bounced into the net in front of him.

"GOAL!!!!!!"

With Modric's lucky goal, Crystal Palace overtook Arsenal 2:1.

However, Van Persie's state of the game was surprisingly good.

Also less than 10 minutes after Modric's goal, after receiving a header from Bendtner, Van Persie jumped to the top and pushed the ball into the Crystal Palace goal guarded by Petr Cech again to tie the score. 2:2.

The two teams scored goals one after another, and the fans present were hooked.But on the Crystal Palace side, some people were a little impatient.

"Boss, Van Persie's state today is a bit too exaggerated. Thiago seems to be struggling to defend him. Shall we change a defender to guard Persie?"

Southgate couldn't help but moved to Chen Ran's side to make suggestions.

The division of labor in Crystal Palace's defense today is that Thiago Silva is in charge of marking Pesci, while Vidic is responsible for marking high center forward Bendtner.

But now Van Persie has scored two goals in a row under Thiago Silva's defense, which made Southgate rarely lose confidence in his central defender.

It's not that Chen Ran has not considered Southgate's proposal, but as the head coach, he thinks more.

Van Persie was able to score two goals in a row, not because Thiago Silva made any low-level mistakes, but purely because he was in a particularly good state today.

In this case, no matter whether Vidic is replaced, or Kompany and Pepe on the bench go to guard Persie, I am afraid the result will not be much different.

And once this is done, it is equivalent to telling everyone clearly that the coach has lost trust in him, which will also have some bad effects on Thiago Silva.

After all, Thiago Silva is the current captain of Crystal Palace.

After weighing it over and over again, Chen Ran felt that even if Arsenal couldn't win today, Crystal Palace could still afford the price.

So, Chen Ran reached out and patted Southgate on the shoulder.

"Gareth, you have to have confidence in Thiago. Besides, isn't it equalized, there is more than enough time left in the game."

"With the offensive strength of our Crystal Palace, it is not difficult to score another goal. You go and tell the players on the field that the whole line will be pressed next, and this game must be won."

"Understood, boss."

Chen Ran's latest order was soon transmitted to the field.

The formation of Crystal Palace began to press forward visibly to the naked eye.

On Arsenal's side, even though Wenger kept asking the players to press forward on the sidelines, he wanted to push the Crystal Palace back.

But the game has now come to an end, and the physical fitness of the players has generally declined, and they can no longer make up for the gap between themselves and their opponents through more active fighting and running.

Seeing that the players on the Crystal Palace field had successfully compressed Arsenal's formation into the half-court, Chen Ran called Southgate to his side again at this time.

"Gareth, you tell Dzeko to warm up now, and replace Maicon with him later. The team's formation changed from 442 to 343, let Dzeko, Ronaldo and Tony go to Arsenal's penalty area to grab point."

"Arsenal's two centre-backs, Vermaelen and William Gallas, are of average height, allowing Ribéry and Messi to pass the ball to the striker. The high-altitude bombing tactic that has not been used for a long time is now just used to deal with it Arsenal."

"Okay, boss."

Soon, Wenger saw the substitution adjustment on the Crystal Palace side.He knew in his heart that Chen Ran was about to launch a general attack.

Although Wenger knows that Arsenal's strength is not as good as Crystal Palace, but now he has the opportunity to score points from Crystal Palace, he will never give up easily.

So, Wenger immediately called the Welsh midfielder Ramsey from the Arsenal bench.After a simple warm-up, he replaced striker Bendtner with Ramsey.

With Ramsey and Alexander Song serving as Arsenal's double defensive midfielders, Van Persie was left alone to counterattack in front, and the team's formation changed from 442 to 4231.

As the two teams completed their tactical adjustments, the game entered a heated stage.

Both Tony and Dzeko are 193cm tall, and even Ronaldo is 187cm tall.On the Arsenal side, the two central defenders Vermaelen and William Gallas are only 182CM tall.

According to Chen Ran's instructions, the ball was sent into Arsenal's penalty area one after another, causing Arsenal's defense to crumble, as if they were about to lose the ball at any time.

Seeing this situation, Wenger also had to quickly replace Arshavin with the 192cm tall central defender Julu to strengthen the defense.

However, although Julu has height, he is only 23 years old this year and he is still too immature as a central defender.

When Ribery sent the ball into Arsenal's penalty area again, Dzeko, who had just played not long ago, rushed in front of Julu, who was in charge of marking him, and headed the ball into the goal guarded by Almunia.

"GOAL!!!!!!"

With Dzeko's lore goal, Crystal Palace beat Arsenal 3-2 in the away game.

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

(End of this chapter)