Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 431 Helpless Choice
Robben and Maicon are also old opponents. From the time when he first landed at Chelsea to the present, he has suffered a lot in the process of playing against Maicon over the years.

So much so that Robben is a little scared when he sees Maicon now, and his performance in the game is naturally greatly reduced.

Coupled with Chen Ran's tactics aimed at him deliberately, Robben had to spend most of his energy on assisting Marcelo's defense.For a while, Real Madrid's left attack almost stalled.

Mourinho, who saw all this in his eyes, shook his head helplessly, turned around and called Portuguese left back Coentrao from the bench.

After a brief warm-up, Mourinho replaced Robben with Coentrao to play left back, and then pushed Marcelo forward to play left midfielder.

After throwing the burden of defending Messi to Coentrao, who had just played with plenty of physical strength, Marcelo immediately became active.

He and Maicon are both Brazilian internationals and are very familiar with each other.Coupled with the fact that he is also a full-back, Marcelo knows all about Maicon's little tricks.

With Mourinho's adjustment, Real Madrid's left-sided offense suddenly regained its vitality.

Seeing that Mourinho replaced Robben, Chen Ran immediately called Southgate to his side.

"Gareth, tell Alves to warm up now, and replace Maicon with him later. You tell Alves, and Marcelo will be handed over to him."

"Okay, boss."

Soon, Real Madrid's offensive from the left, which had just picked up, was suppressed by the new force Alves.

Also a Brazilian international and also a full-back, Marcelo, who has played most of the game, was immediately guarded by Alves, who knows everything and has plenty of energy.

Seeing this situation, Mourinho was also very helpless.

Chen Ran saw through all of his moves several times, and now he has used up three substitutions, and the rest can only be seen on the performance of the players on the field.

On the Crystal Palace side, after successfully suppressing Real Madrid's attack, Chen Ran still focused his attack on Messi's side on the right.

No way, who made him the head coach of the Portuguese national team?

Coentrao, who was replaced by Mourinho, is also a Portugal international. Chen Ran also knows his characteristics very well.

Chen Ran knew very well that Coentrao couldn't guard Messi.

As Chen Ran expected, Coentrao performed well when he first came on the court, defending against Messi's attack several times.

But after a long time, when the Crystal Palace repeatedly attacked him all the way and made him exhausted, Coentrao finally made a mistake.

When Messi rushed over with the ball again, Coentraang made too much of an attack, and was swayed by Messi through the crotch.

Then Messi dribbled the ball diagonally into Real Madrid's penalty area, and central defender Albiol hurried over to defend.

Messi feinted again to make Albiol think he was going to cut in and shoot. Just when Albiol was defending him from cutting in, Messi swiped the ball to the bottom line.

At this time, Casillas, who found that the situation was not good, quickly moved to the near post to prevent Messi from hitting the goal from a small angle.

As a result, Messi used the footwork of shooting to draw the ball horizontally towards Real Madrid's goal.

"boom!"

The ball flew past the goal fast and fast, whether it was an offensive player from Crystal Palace or a defensive player from Real Madrid, anyone who touched it could block the ball into the goal.

In the penalty area, seeing Messi's pass, Ronaldo rushed over immediately. He threw his body out, trying to block the ball into Real Madrid's goal.

Seeing this situation, Metzelder, who was in charge of marking Ronaldo, had no choice but to bite the bullet and stretch his feet to block the ball. He hoped to block the ball from the bottom line.

However, Messi is passing the ball with the power of shooting, the ball is extremely fast, and there is no chance for Metzelder to adjust.

Metzelder did touch the ball before Ronaldo, however, the ball did not block the baseline as he wished, but was directly kicked into his own goal by him.

At this time, Casillas, who had just defended against Messi's shot at the near post, couldn't make it back. He could only watch helplessly as his teammate completed a very wonderful shovel goal.

"GOAL!!!!!!"

With Metzelder's own goal, Crystal Palace lead Real Madrid 2-0 away.

As soon as the second goal was scored, the Bernabéu Stadium, which had been bustling like a vegetable market before, suddenly fell silent.

On the sidelines, the gloomy Mourinho couldn't help but feel a little frustrated. Could it be that he's going to lose to that guy Chen Ran again this time?

For the rest of the game, although Real Madrid, which had hurt their morale, was still attacking, it was no longer comparable to before in terms of strength or frequency.

However, near the end of the game, Ibrahimovic once again staged a magical performance.

He couldn't get the ball in the penalty area of ​​the Crystal Palace, so he ran to the midfield and asked for the ball.

Then, at a distance of nearly 40 meters from the goal of Crystal Palace, under the interference of Mascherano, a super-long-range deciduous ball directly broke through the goal guarded by Petr Cech, saving a little face for Real Madrid.

In the end, with Ribery's goal and Metzelder's own goal, Crystal Palace beat Real Madrid 2:1 away.

While getting the initiative to advance to the semi-finals of the Champions League, Chen Ran also got a "first-level chicken blood card" from the system.

After the game, the pro-Barcelona media will naturally not let go of the opportunity to laugh at Mourinho.

Reports such as "The Chinese are defeated" and "Mourinho should give up his illusions and set his goal of chasing Guardiola" are more and more mean, which makes Mourinho half dead.

Chen Ran naturally didn't care about the harm he caused Mourinho.Early the next morning, he flew back to London with the Crystal Palace.

Because in two days, they will usher in the No. 30 Premier League No. [-] match against Manchester City at the Emirates Stadium.

After two consecutive seasons of generous investment, and after the running-in of last season, the Manchester City club this season under the leadership of Mancini seems to be completely reborn, which is impressive.

They have been at the top of the standings since the beginning of the season.

Although they have little chance of competing for the Premier League trophy, there is still hope for a Champions League spot.

Manchester City Club, Mancini's office.

"How is it? Roberto, do you have the confidence to win Crystal Palace this time?"

Raiola looked at Mancini with a smile and asked.

As the transfer consultant of the Manchester City Club, the team has signed a large number of signings for two consecutive seasons, and various commissions plus consulting fees have made him a lot of money.

Coupled with Manchester City's outstanding performance this season, boss Mansour also attaches great importance to him.The current Raiola can be said to be proud of the spring breeze.

"do not know."

Mancini shrugged.

Although the team's performance is good now, as the head coach, Mancini's mind is still relatively clear.

"So unconfident? Crystal Palace just played against Real Madrid in Spain. There is only two days between them, and with the exhaustion of the journey, they can't recover to their best condition at all."

"Roberto, why don't you learn the bus tactics used by other teams against Crystal Palace? Crystal Palace's physical fitness is not good, so use a war of attrition to drag them to death."

Raiola's biggest star Ibrahimovic is now playing for Real Madrid, and he naturally watched the broadcast of the Champions League.

In Raiola's view, if Mourinho makes Real Madrid shrink their defense and put the bus on the bus, they may not lose this game.

"Putting the bus? This is not in line with my tactical philosophy."

Mancini frowned slightly, and immediately rejected Raiola's proposal.

"I said, why are you so brain-dead? It's not like you are asked to set the bus every day, what's the matter with setting the bus once in a while? So many strong teams set the bus when they play against Crystal Palace. The most important thing is to score points."

Raiola looked at Mancini with a look of hatred.

In his opinion, if you can't get points, any tactics are shit.

"Mino, stop talking. No team won the championship by playing the bus."

Mancini looked firmly at Raiola.He still doesn't know that in his previous life, Chelsea won the team's first Champions League championship by playing the bus tactics.

Hastily rushed back to the Crystal Palace in London, just had a simple recovery training, and was about to face the Premier League match with Manchester City.

As Raiola analyzed, although Chen Ran has adopted a tactical style of play that consumes less physical energy in the match against Real Madrid, the current physical condition of the main players is still not optimistic.

In desperation, Chen Ran only needs to send a large number of substitute players to play against Manchester City.

Forward Suarez, Forward Cavani
Ribéry left, Fabregas, Beckham, Vardy
Left back Evra, center back Kompany, center back Pepe, right back Alves

goalkeeper van der sar

On the Manchester City side, without the drag of the European war, the physical condition of the Manchester City players is much better. Mancini naturally sent the team's strongest lineup to challenge the Crystal Palace.

Forward Tevez, Forward Adebayor
Left Midfielder Petrov, Central Midfielder Vieira, Central Midfielder Gago, Right Midfielder De Jong
Left back Drenthe, center back Kolo Toure, center back Lescott, right back Zabaleta
goalkeeper given
Although Mancini did not adopt Raiola's suggestion to set up the bus, he still strengthened Manchester City's defensive strength on the field, replacing the sharp offensive winger Wright Phillips with the defensive champion De Jong.

When Chen Ran saw Manchester City's starting roster, he immediately judged that Mancini put the team's main attack on the left today.

So, he deliberately called Crystal Palace's starting right forward Vardy to his side today.

"Jamie, your main task today is to keep an eye on Manchester City's left midfielder Petrov. As long as Manchester City launches an attack from the left, you must follow wherever Petrov goes. Do you understand?"

"Understood, boss."

Vardy answered sonorously.

There are not many opportunities to start, and Vardy cherishes it.

So, when the game started, Petrov immediately found that there was an annoying guy beside him.

"stay away from me!"

Petrov glared at the young man in front of him fiercely, and said angrily.

"The boss gave me the instruction: Wherever you go, I will follow you."

Vardy smiled foolishly, and directly told Petrov Chen Ran's order.

Petrov was stunned for a moment, and couldn't believe his ears.

How can you tell the opponent directly the head coach's instructions?

Is this guy an idiot?

Petrov, who was afraid that he would be contagious if he communicated with idiots too much, simply ignored Vardy.

However, he soon discovered that this suspected idiot was not ordinary.

He really did it, wherever he goes, he goes there.

On the sidelines, Mancini, who has been paying close attention to the situation on the field, also immediately discovered this situation.

He concluded almost immediately that this must be a special arrangement by the Chinese man, just to limit Petrov's offensive ability.

Although Vardy is an offensive player, his defensive ability is average.But he also made Petrov's offensive threat greatly weakened by using his spare no effort to run and actively fight.

In this way, Manchester City fell into the same situation as Real Madrid in the previous two days.

The right midfielder uses players who are stronger in defense than offense, and the main attack direction is placed on the left, but the players on the left are restricted by Crystal Palace.

As a result, the first two super capable forwards couldn't catch the ball, and the offense immediately stalled.

The game has just started, Mancini naturally can not change now.

Fortunately, his brain turned quickly, and he immediately came up with a solution.

Soon, Chen Ran also saw Mancini's adjustment.

Carlos Tevez, who was originally one of the double forwards, took the initiative to retreat to the midfielder position and took on the task of connecting Manchester City's midfield.

On the Crystal Palace side, since the team's current midfielders Fabregas and Beckham are not full-time defensive midfielders, the defense is not hard enough, and the restrictions on Manchester City's offense in the middle are not well done.

This time, Manchester City's central attack came alive.

Seeing this situation, Chen Ran immediately called Southgate to his side.

"Gareth, tell Mascherano to warm up now, and replace Cavani with him later. The team adopts defensive counterattack tactics, and the formation has changed from 442 to 451."

"Boss, did you change players not long after the game started? Do you want to wait a little longer?"

"Don't wait, I'm afraid something will happen if you wait any longer."

"Okay, boss, I'll make arrangements now."

After dismissing Southgate, Chen Ran secretly sighed.

Yaya Toure's injury disrupted the original rotation plan.

He had just played against Real Madrid, and he wanted Mascherano to rest for this game.

But now that Mancini has shifted his offensive focus to the middle, Fabregas and Beckham, the two non-professional defensive midfielders, are a little bit unstoppable, and Chen Ran can only bring Mascherano back on the field. .

When Mascherano finished warming up and walked to the sidelines to wait to play, Chen Ran silently turned on the system and gave Mascherano a "Level [-] Recovery Card".

(End of this chapter)