Football Feast, Starting From the Acquisition of European Clubs

   Chapter 121 Full Fire

   The media reporters who were fooled by Chen Ran again naturally wouldn't give him any good looks.

   On the pages of the major media the next day, there were many reports of scolding and mocking Chen Ran.

   "Crystal Palace, top of the Premier League standings, was knocked out of the League Cup by Manchester United."

   "In the League Cup game against Manchester United, none of the main players of Crystal Palace played. That Chinese man didn't even direct the game himself."

   "The Chinese defended himself after the game, claiming that he had no intention of giving up the League Cup."

   "The purpose of sending an assistant coach to direct the game is to win the game better. This is the sophistry of the Chinese."

   It is thousands of miles away in China, and this game is also being discussed in the post bar of Crystal Palace.

   An ordinary League Cup will naturally not be broadcast in China.

   However, there are netizens in the UK who open posts on Tieba for live text.

   This time, it has relieved the greed of domestic fans who are concerned about Crystal Palace.

   "Haha, we have a forward reporting team here."

   "That is, so that we can know the process of the game in real time for some future games that are not broadcast."

   "Damn it, Crystal Palace didn't even have a main team? Is Chen Ran giving up this game?"

   "What? It turned out to be Chen Ran's assistant coach Simeone who was on the sidelines directing the game? What the **** is going on?"

  Real-time report of the match has greatly increased the interaction of Crystal Palace fans in China.

   While keeping the popularity of Crystal Palace Post Bar high, it also significantly enhanced the stickiness of Crystal Palace fans.

After chatting with reporters in England, Chen Ran stopped paying attention to the reaction of the media and immediately threw himself into the preparations for the game against Liverpool.

  There is no way, and there is only one day off, and it is an away game, so Chen Ran has no time to be distracted now.

   In this summer transfer period, Liverpool's personnel have changed a lot.

   The most notable change is the transfer of the team's flagship character Michael Owen to Real Madrid.

   And another powerful striker, Heskey, who is also an England international, also moved to Birmingham.

   left the team together, as well as striker Diouf, striker Gillespie, midfielder Murphy, defender Babel and others.

  Fortunately, Liverpool is not Arsenal. While selling people, it also introduced a group of powerful players.

Bought striker Luis Garcia from Barcelona, ​​striker Cisse from Auxerre, midfielder Xavi Alonso from Real Sociedad, midfielder Nunes from Real Madrid, and Mara Adds defender Josemi.

   Of course, their coach Benitez is also new this summer.

   Therefore, from coaches to players, everything has to be re-run.

   In this case, Liverpool's current performance is naturally not much better.

   However, after more than ten games of actual combat drills, Liverpool players are now gradually mastering Benitez's new tactical concepts, and the performance of the entire team is also developing in a good direction.

   For this match against the Premier League leaders, Benitez has also been looking forward to it for a long time, and he wants to meet the Chinese who is in the limelight for a while.

   To this end, he sent Liverpool's strongest team.

   Striker Baros

   Front waist Kewell

  Left MF Riise, MF Xavi Alonso, MF Gerrard, MF Luis Garcia

  Left-back Traore, center-back Hypia, center-back Carragher, right-back Finnan

   Goalkeeper Dudek

  Although Liverpool did not perform well in the Premier League this season, Chen Ran did not dare to relax.

   In this season's UEFA Champions League final, Liverpool staged a classic night in Istanbul, reversing the flourishing AC Milan, and won the UEFA Champions League trophy.

   For this reason, Chen Ran deliberately gave up the League Cup match against Manchester United, just to recharge his batteries and do his best to deal with this Liverpool team.

   Since it was an away game, Chen Ran naturally arranged a defensive counter-attack lineup without any psychological burden.

   Center Tony

  Left midfielder Cristiano Ronaldo, right midfielder Ribery

   Midfielder Yaya Toure, Midfielder Modric, Midfielder Simeone

  Left-back Chiellini, center-back Thiago Silva, center-back Vidic, right-back Maicon

   Goalkeeper Cech

   The only thing that worried Chen Ran was that after Gareth Southgate was unable to play due to a strained thigh muscle, the stability of the back line decreased.

   After all, Thiago Silva is still too young to withstand the impact of a strong team, yet to be tested.

   On the day of the match, Anfield Stadium welcomed hordes of fans.

   They sang "You will never walk alone" one by one, wanting to see how the Crystal Palace, currently top of the Premier League, is doing.

   With the referee's whistle, the thirteenth round of the Premier League, Liverpool's home game against Crystal Palace officially began.

   Chen Ran, who was a little worried at the beginning, calmed down after watching the game for ten minutes.

  The attacking power of this Liverpool team is weaker than he expected.

   It may be that Benitez is also afraid of the strength of Crystal Palace, so he only sent Baros as a striker.

   The pressure on Crystal Palace's backline is obviously not enough.

   This gave Thiago Silva a very perfect adaptation process. In this game, it was the first time that Thiago Silva started in the Premier League.

   As for Kewell's attacking midfielder, Yaya Toure, Simeone and Modric are the three midfielders to take care of, and they are completely useless.

   On the two flanks, Riise, who played as a left midfielder, basically did not take advantage of Maicon, who was facing him.

   Luis Garcia, who is the right midfielder, took advantage of his fast speed and good technique to make Chiellini very difficult to defend.

   But Chen Ran, who soon discovered this problem, immediately asked Yaya Toure to help Chiellini in defense.

   The two burly men attacked, and the thin-body Luis Garcia was a little overwhelmed, and the threat dropped sharply.

   Behind Risser and Luis Garcia, Ronaldo faced Finnan and Ribéry faced Traore, but Crystal Palace had the upper hand.

  If it weren't for the fact that Crystal Palace's current tactics are defensive counterattacks, there are not enough people to go into the attack, and Gerrard keeps coming over to help defend.

   Here in Finnan, Ronaldo has long been suspicious of his life.

   Traore on the other side is not much better. He is a problem with Chiellini on the Crystal Palace side. They are both tall and full-backs.

   Once they encounter fast, nimble players, they are passive.

  Traore is 191cm tall. This height is used to play fullback. It is estimated that it is also because the defense is really unreliable, and the coach dare not use him to play the central defender.

  Ribery, who is opposite him, is just 170cm tall, extremely fast, and is good at making quick turns and stops and changing directions, just like a small steel cannon.

   After a few rounds, Ribery made Traore dizzy.

   If Benitez hadn't discovered the situation in time and asked Xavi Alonso to come over to help defend, I'm afraid something would have happened on Traore's side.

   "It seems that the strength of this Liverpool team is like that."

   Chen Ran whispered in his heart, could it be that his Crystal Palace is too strong?

   If Liverpool can beat AC Milan, wouldn’t it be that Crystal Palace’s strength is also above AC Milan?

   is wrong.

  Chen Ran quickly shook his head, he still had this self-knowledge.

   The current AC Milan is at its peak. The reason why they lost the Champions League is probably because they underestimate the enemy.

   It seems that he overestimated this Liverpool team a bit.

  Chen Ran nodded secretly, since that's the case, then you can give it a shot.

   The entire first half, although Chen Ran lined up a defensive counter-attack formation.

   However, due to the absolute advantage in the two flanks, Crystal Palace's counterattack was extremely sharp.

   Almost every counter-attack is a threat, keeping Liverpool's goal in turmoil.

  Although Crystal Palace has yet to score, anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is only a matter of time.

   "This is the real Crystal Palace."

   The reporters in the stands could not help but sigh.

   "That's right. Crystal Palace has already made Liverpool a little bit overwhelmed without pressing the attack."

   "This Chinese is so shameless. He dared to say that Crystal Palace did not have a main force and a substitute. Look at the content of this game, is it the same team compared to that day?"

   "Hehe, whoever believes what he says is a fool."

   "That's right. Let's scold him after we go back."

   gave up the League Cup match with Manchester United, allowing the main players of Crystal Palace to have sufficient rest time, which also gave Chen Ran more room for tactical adjustment.

   In this game, Chen Ran had the confidence to use Guardiola's offensive tactics.

   At halftime, Chen Ran replaced Yaya Toure with Fabregas, and then pushed Modric to the midfielder position.

   At the beginning of the second half, Benitez found the formation of Crystal Palace and pressed nearly 30 meters ahead.

   He, who has also studied Chen Ran's tactics carefully, immediately knew that Crystal Palace was going to overwhelm the attack.

After discovering Chen Ran's intentions, Benitez immediately called up Croatia international Biscayne from the bench.

   After a simple warm-up, he quickly replaced Kewell with Biscayne.

   Benitez let Biscayne, Xavi. Alonso and Gerrard form the three central midfielders together, and Liverpool's formation also changed from 4411 to 451.

   At this time, the positions of the two Crystal Palace central defenders, Thiago Silva and Vidic, were almost pressed near the arc of the middle circle.

  The entire Liverpool formation has been completely enveloped by Crystal Palace.

   Guardiola's tactics, which have not been seen for a long time, reappeared at the feet of the Crystal Palace players.

   kept passing and pulling Liverpool's defense, and once conceded the ball, he immediately pressed on the spot.

   The rhythm of the entire game, fast and slow, has been completely in the hands of Crystal Palace.

   Benitez is also a person who is nervous and excited, and his face will turn red.

   Now, with a blushing face, he stood on the sidelines staring intently at all the details of the game.

   Especially his left-back Traore, the least let him feel at ease.

   Every time he sees Crystal Palace pass the ball to Ribery, Benitez's heart rises.

   However, Benitez never meant to replace Traore.

   The reason is very simple, as a coach who has carefully studied Chen Ran's tactics.

   Benitez is very clear that Crystal Palace also has a big killer, which is the twin tower tactics.

   He kept Traore on the court just to guard against Chen Ran's twin towers tactics.

   After all, the 191cm black big man is still useful to fight for the header.

   Chen Ran also discovered Traore's problem.

   "Seske, you and Modric pass the ball more to the right, Liverpool's Traore is their weakness. Understand?"

   Taking advantage of the dead ball, Chen Ran called Cesc Fabregas to the sidelines to make arrangements.

   "Understood, boss."

   Cesc Fabregas, who received Chen Ran's order, acted resolutely.

   The ball, which was still tearing at Liverpool's defense line, was now being passed to Ribery.

   This time, Benitez couldn't stand.

   If Crystal Palace is allowed to play like this, he is afraid that Liverpool will concede the ball first before Chen Ran uses the twin towers tactics.

   took a look at Baros, who was isolated and helpless in the frontcourt. Benitez gritted his teeth and replaced the only striker Baros on the field with fullback Josemi.

   After Josemi came on the field, he replaced Traore as left-back, while Traore moved in to play left-back.

   This time, Liverpool has completely turned into a 550 without striker.

   "I'll go, this Benitez is really decisive."

   Now that Liverpool has no forwards in the frontcourt, Chen Ran has no need to leave so many defenders in the back.

  So, Chen Ran immediately called Crouch from the bench and used him to replace the central defender Thiago Silva.

   Remove a defender and add a striker.

  Guardiola's tactics + twin-tower tactics, all-round three-dimensional attack.

   There are both short-pass penetration under the foot and high-altitude bombardment above the head.

   Coupled with the sharp breakthroughs from the two flanks, the Crystal Palace at this time is truly full of firepower.

   Liverpool fans across Anfield were stunned.

  When was Liverpool so suppressed at their home ground?

   Even in the face of old rivals Manchester United and Arsenal, Liverpool are still winning and losing.

   Even if he lost, he had never been so passive.

  Suddenly, the extremely passive situation on the field of Liverpool made Anfield fans angry.

  The boos from all over the sky resounded through the sky.

   However, it remains to be seen whether these boos were directed at Crystal Palace or Benitez.

   In the stands, the media reporters were also shocked by the situation on the field.

   "Is Crystal Palace's current offensive capability so strong?"

   "Yeah. You must know that they are not facing a weak team. This is the old and strong Liverpool."

   "Tsk tsk, it seems that the Chinese man has been keeping his hand. If Ferguson saw this game, he must be glad that Crystal Palace voluntarily gave up the League Cup."

   "That's right. As far as Manchester United's state this season is concerned, it's no better than Liverpool. If it really meets today's Crystal Palace, it's probably similar to Liverpool's."

   "So far this season, Crystal Palace has won Chelsea and Arsenal, and today's Liverpool may not be spared. I want to see if the Chinese can sweep these strong teams."

   "OMG! If this is the case, isn't that Chinese going to dominate English football?"

   Just when the reporters were talking about it, the situation on the court changed again.

   (end of this chapter)