Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 478
Now Spain, after winning two consecutive European Cup championships in 2008 and 2012, as the main players in the team get older, they have passed their peak stage.

Especially on the forward line, due to the fading out of striker killers such as Torres and Villa, Spain is even showing signs of weakness.

Chen Ran is no stranger to this Spanish team.

In the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Chen Ran once led Portugal to defeat Spain in the final and snatched the championship trophy from the opponent.

Since Chen then came and went to coach the Brazil team, under the leadership of the old coach Bosque, Spain finally won the 2012 European Cup in Poland and Ukraine.

However, because of Spain's poor performance in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, they were eliminated in the group stage, which made them miss the opportunity to avenge Chen Ran.

Now, after finally meeting the team coached by Chen Ran again, the whole Spanish team tried their best to avenge the loss of the World Cup championship.

To this end, Bosque dispatched all the main players who could play in his hands and prepared to send Belgium home.

Left winger Nolito, center forward Morata, right winger David Silva

Central midfielder Iniesta, Central midfielder Busquets, Central midfielder Fabregas
Left back Alba, center back Ramos, center back Pique, right back Juanfran

Goalkeeper De Gea

On the Belgian side, after the rotation against Sweden in the last game of the group stage, most of the main players got a full rest, and Chen Ran confidently formed his high-altitude bombing lineup.

Lukaku

Left Midfield Hazard, Central Midfielder Witsel, Central Midfielder Fellaini, Central Midfielder Dembele, Right Midfielder De Bruyne
Left back Vertonghen, center back Kompany, center back Alderweireld, right back Carrasco
Courtois
Since Belgium's match against Spain was the only strong-strong dialogue in the quarter-finals, it also attracted great attention from the outside world.

"Belgium is having a hard time this time. Spain is the defending champion, and Chen Ran snatched the World Cup champion from Spain. They must have tried their best to avenge Chen Ran."

"Hehe, although Spain's strength is strong, Belgium is not a soft persimmon. And after Chen Ran's transformation, the current Belgian head team is not a vegetarian."

"That's right, Spain today is not the Spain it was four years ago. Without Torres and Villa, Morata alone can't support Spain's forward line."

"That's not necessarily the case. Although Spain's current striker strength has been weakened, the midfield is still top-notch. Belgium's high-altitude bombing victory wants to break through the defense line composed of Ramos, Pique and Busquets. It's a bit whimsical gone."

"It's the same defense line. Two years ago, in the World Cup in Brazil, Spain failed to even qualify for the group stage. What else is there to brag about?"

"Ahem, upstairs, you don't slap someone in the face when you hit someone, and you don't expose your shortcomings if you expose someone."

As a representative of pass-and-control football, Spain tried to take the initiative on the field through passing and cutting cooperation from the first minute of the game.

However, in the 451 formation that Chen Ran arranged for Belgium, the three defensive midfielders of Fellaini, Witsel and Dembele were concentrated in the midfield, forming a thick barrier in front of the defense.

This makes it difficult for Spain's offense to penetrate further after entering Belgium's half, let alone threaten Belgium's goal.

On the Belgian side, after stabilizing the fence, it is easy to fight back.

Especially Hazard and De Bruyne, who are on the two wings, are like two sharp knives, constantly stabbing the heart of Spain in turn.Coupled with the fact that Lukaku in the middle was responsible for grabbing points and outflanking, the Belgian team almost broke through the goal guarded by De Gea at the beginning of the game.

Seeing this situation, Bosque had no choice but to quickly order his two full-backs, Alba and Juanfran, not to press up easily to participate in the attack, but to stay in the backcourt and be responsible for marking Hazard and De Bruyne. Only then did the situation stabilize.

But in this way, Spain's offensive in the frontcourt will inevitably be affected.

Morata, the fulcrum of Spain's offense, is a very controversial player.

Talented and capable, but his biggest problem is his unstable performance.

Although there are bright moments, he often loses the chain when the team needs him.

This is also the key reason why Morata has never been able to become a top striker although he has played for some wealthy clubs.

Today, Morata, who is 189cm tall, is submerged in the double-teaming of Belgian tall defensive players such as Kompany and Alderweireld.

Iniesta and Cesc Fabregas finally sent the pass into the Belgian penalty area, but he didn't grab a single one.

Spain's pass control could not enter Belgium's penalty area, and Spain also took precautions against Belgium's counterattack, and the whole game entered a stalemate all at once.

On the sidelines, seeing this situation, Chen Ran was not in a hurry and sat on the bench to watch the game.

Anyway, he has the trump card of high-altitude bombing, even if he can't score goals in sports games, he still has corner kicks and free kicks.

When the game progressed to No. 307 minutes, De Bruyne broke through the right and wanted to make a pass from the bottom. As a result, the ball was blocked by the Spanish left back Alba with a shovel and the Belgian team won a right corner. Opportunity.

At this time, I saw a group of big men running up from the Belgian midfielder.

Fellaini, Kompany, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Witsel and Dembele, plus Lukaku who was right in front, the Spanish penalty area was immediately crowded big man.

For Spain, which is now prepared for the tactics of the Belgian head team, it suddenly feels like a formidable enemy.

Bosque on the sidelines kept urging forward Morata to return to his penalty area to help mark the group of tall guys in Belgium.

However, even so, Spain can't get enough tall players to deal with Belgium's tall army.

Except for Pique who is 192cm tall, and Busquets and Morata who are 189cm tall, not counting goalkeeper De Gea, Ramos is the tallest in Spain at 184cm, and the others are a group of small men with a height of less than 1.8 meters.

In addition to arranging Pique, Busquets and Morata to mark the tallest Belgian players such as Lukaku, Kompany and Fellaini.

In desperation, Bosque could only arrange some Spanish players with obvious height gaps to mark other Belgian big men.

At the corner flag, De Bruyne took the corner kick himself.

He first looked up at the position of his teammates in the penalty area, and then raised his hands to make a signal.

"boom!"

The ball drew a high arc and flew towards the Spanish penalty area.

Since Chen Ran tailored a set of high-altitude bombing tactics for the Belgian team, he asked De Bruyne and Hazard, who were in charge of taking set kicks, not to kick flat fast balls when passing the ball. The arc of the ball must be high enough to give full play to the height advantage of Belgian players.

This time, De Bruyne's corner kick also followed this principle.

When the ball flew into the Spanish penalty area, there was chaos inside.

Especially those Spanish players who were not tall enough, used both hands and feet, trying their best to prevent the Belgian players from taking off to compete for the top.

There were already a lot of people in the penalty area, and with various small movements, several players from both sides fell down at once.

"beep!"

The on-duty referee Kralovic immediately blew his whistle, and then quickly ran into the penalty area, indicating that it was the Belgian Alderweireld who fouled.

This time, the Belgian players were immediately blown away.

Good guy, the Spanish players are pulling and pulling one by one, making small moves.It's fine if the referee doesn't blow a penalty, but he still calls himself a foul?
The Belgian players immediately surrounded the referee Kralovic emotionally and asked for an explanation.

On the sidelines, seeing this situation, Chen Ran quickly turned on the system and used an "Hawkeye Guardian Card".

Due to the distance, although Chen Ran didn't know what happened in the restricted area just now.However, seeing how emotional his players were, he took immediate action.

Although UEFA has enabled the Hawkeye system in this European Cup, the Hawkeye system at this time is actually just a goal line system, and it is limited to judging whether the ball has crossed the goal line, and it does not have the ability to correct the referee's misjudgments. Function.

Soon, Chen Ran saw the effect of the "Hawkeye Guardian Card".

The referee Kralovic "knows the mistake and can correct it" and changed the sentence for Belgium to get a penalty.

This time, it was the turn of the Spanish players to quit.

When the Belgian players had just dispersed to celebrate the penalty kick, the Spanish players led by Ramos surrounded Kralovic again.

Seeing that the situation was showing signs of getting out of control, two assistant referees rushed over from the sidelines to help Kralovic maintain order.

"Judging from the multi-angle slow-motion playback, it was Spain's Juanfran's foot that tripped Belgium's Alderweireld. The referee Kralovic changed the penalty, which is absolutely correct."

Just when the game was interrupted because of this penalty, the major broadcast TV stations were constantly replaying what happened in the Spanish penalty area just now.

"Then why did Kralovic foul Alderweireld in the first place?"

"Perhaps Kralovic identified the wrong person?"

"No way? Even the jerseys are different, so can you identify the wrong person?"

"Could it be that Kralovic found out that there was a problem with his penalty under the reminder of the Belgian players?"

"Well, I am afraid that only Mr. Kralovic can answer this question."

After nearly 10 minutes of interruption, the game was finally resumed.

As the first penalty shooter designated by Chen Ran, De Bruyne picked up the ball and walked towards the penalty spot without hesitation.

First, he stepped on the turf near the penalty spot with his feet, and then De Bruyne carefully placed the ball.

Taking a few steps back, De Bruyne looked up at De Gea on the opposite side and ran up.

"boom!"

De Bruyne arched his foot into the bottom right corner of a Spanish goal, and De Gea completely misjudged the direction and dived to the left.

"GOAL!!!!!!"

With De Bruyne's penalty kick, Belgium lead Spain 1-0.

On the sidelines, watching Belgium wildly celebrate their goals on the pitch, Del Bosque blushed with anger.

In his opinion, this penalty kick is completely out of thin air!
The damn referee must have charged the Belgian for the change.

However, this is the end of the matter, and Bosque now has no choice.

This is a knockout game, and if you lose, you will go home.

In the 2014 World Cup, the result of Spain returning home without qualifying in the group stage has already caused Bosque to be questioned.

That is to say, Bosque's past achievements and qualifications are unmatched in Spain, so that he can still keep the position of head coach of the Spanish national team.

However, if Spain cannot achieve satisfactory results in the European Cup this time, then he will really be kicked out.

As a result, Bosque waved his hand, and Spain attacked across the board.

Even the two full-backs Juanfran and Alba, who stayed to mark Hazard and De Bruyne before, are now over the center line together.

Seeing Bosque's adjustments, Chen Ran was suddenly happy.

After all, it is easier for him to fight back only if Spain aggressively presses the offense.

It didn't take long, before Spain's offense was effective, the referee Kralovic blew the whistle for the end of the first half.

"Let Chen Ran's team take the lead, and it will be difficult to make a comeback. Spain this time is more or less ominous."

"That's right, the team coached by Chen Ran has done a great job defensively. Once they get ahead of other teams, it's basically over."

"That penalty kick is too crucial! How dare the referee change the decision in such an important game, the referee is quite kind."

"Haha, the key is that his change of sentence is still correct, and this will stop everyone's mouths."

"Hehe, those upstairs are too naive. I'm sure, at least the Spaniards can't keep their mouths shut."

During the intermission, since the game was going well, Chen Ran did not make any substitutions and adjustments except to beat the players as usual.

And in the Spanish dressing room, the assistant coach showed Del Bosque a slow-motion replay of the first-half penalty on a tablet.

"Boss, judging from the slow-motion replay, there is no problem with Kralovic's change of sentence this time. We have nothing to do with him."

"I see. Don't tell other people about this."

Bosque carefully looked at the slow-motion playback on both sides, and then turned off the tablet directly.

"Okay, boss."

After dismissing the assistant coach, Bosque first used Kralovic's change of sentence to stimulate the Spanish players, and then said that he must use the victory to give Kralovic a loud slap in the face.

This move worked very well, and the fighting spirit of all the Spanish players was mobilized immediately.

Bosque struck while the iron was hot, and he replaced Nolito with Pedro.Put all your eggs in one basket and fight Belgium to the death.

(End of this chapter)