Football Feast, Starting From the Acquisition of European Clubs

   Chapter 239 If something goes wrong, there must be a demon

   Although Ashley Cole is fast enough, his physical strength cannot be compared with Ribery.

  Ribery also saw through this, and in the face of Ashley Cole's defense, he directly confronted his body.

   After a fight, Ribery knocked Ashley Cole out of focus before dribbling the ball away.

   Seeing that the referee didn't call Ribery a foul for hitting someone, Ashley Cole complained a few words in dissatisfaction.

  Unfortunately, the referee had already chased the ball away and ignored him at all.

   "Bastard, don't hurry back to defend!"

  The referee ignored Ashley Cole, but Mourinho on the sidelines was so angry that he jumped.

  This Ashley Cole patronized and complained about the referee, but forgot his duty, **** it.

  Seeing Mourinho's angry look, Ashley Cole, who knew that he was in trouble, had to touch his nose and be scolded honestly, and hurried to chase after Ribery.

   However, at this time, Ribery had already run away.

After    Ashley Cole was passed, Chelsea's left defense immediately opened a huge gap.

   In the penalty area, Terry and Carvalho had to mark Ibrahimovic and Toni respectively, and could not get away to make up for the hole on the left.

   Seeing such a good opportunity, of course Ribery would not let it go, and dashed directly towards Chelsea's penalty area with the ball.

   At this time, Makelele, who was the central midfielder, came back in time and blocked the line between Ribery and the Chelsea goal in time.

   The experience of playing against Chelsea many times, let Ribery know that this Makelele is a defensive master and is not easy to deal with.

   So Ribery didn't push hard this time, but swiped the ball and took it towards the bottom line.

   Then, before Makelele stretched his foot to block, an inverted triangle pass sent the ball to Chelsea's penalty area arc.

   This time, it was far beyond the expectations of Chelsea's defenders.

  Because Crystal Palace is now in the penalty area of ​​Chelsea, but there are two high center forwards, Tony and Ibrahimovic.

   A cross from the bottom and a shot from the middle is a classic combination, but I didn't expect Ribery to do so.

   At this time, because Makelele went to fill up for Ashley Cole, and Chelsea's other central midfielder, Ballack, was not a midfielder, and he obviously did not have Makelele's defensive awareness.

  This led to a brief vacuum near Chelsea's big penalty area arc, and no one was protecting it.

   When everyone's eyes were chasing the flight path of the ball, a figure suddenly rushed out.

   is Kaka!

   After giving the ball to Ribery, he moved forward to the front of Chelsea's box.

"boom!"

   Before the ball hit the ground, he saw Kaka go up and volleyed.

  The ball flew straight to the lower left corner of the Chelsea goal and landed and bounced as it approached the goal.

   It was this shot, which just escaped Cudicini's outstretched hand and slid into Chelsea's net.

   "GOAL!"

   With Kaka's volley, the score became Crystal Palace 1:1 Chelsea.

  While the entire Highbury Stadium was celebrating Crystal Palace's equaliser, Chen Ran had a very strange feeling in his heart.

   In this competition at the highest level in the Premier League, the players who scored goals for the two teams turned out to be former AC Milan players.

   It can only be said that AC Milan was too strong before, and it deserves to be the top giant club that established the Milan dynasty. Just pick any one from the team, and they are all first-class stars.

   Such a strong club has since declined to the point where it is not even qualified to participate in the Champions League. Their own Crystal Palace must take this as a warning and must not repeat the mistakes of AC Milan.

   "Boss, your substitution is so timely, Kaka scored a goal as soon as he played."

   As Crystal Palace's bench swarmed over to celebrate the goal, Chen Ran's thoughts were also pulled back by Guardiola and others.

   "It's nothing, I'm just lucky, the main thing is that the players performed well."

  Chen Ran smiled slightly, and replied lightly.

   On Chelsea's side, seeing Crystal Palace level the score so quickly, Mourinho's heart is also very uncomfortable.

  Since he came to Chelsea, in the more than two years of play against Crystal Palace, he rarely took the lead once, but before he was happy for long, the score returned to a draw again.

  Although Mourinho knew that Crystal Palace was very difficult to deal with, there was still a sense of frustration in his heart.

   However, Mourinho has never been one to give in easily. Soon he cleared his mind and regained his composure.

  Since they can lead Crystal Palace once, they can lead the second time.

   Isn't the score equalized? Just another one.

  Thinking of this, Mourinho immediately greeted his players loudly on the sidelines and continued to strengthen the attack.

   Shevchenko, who has returned to a two-forward configuration, seems to be really rejuvenated.

   Under the cover of Drogba, he repeatedly threatened Cech's Crystal Palace goal.

   Just when the first half was about to end, Robben from Chelsea's left successfully broke through Thiago Silva's defense and made a cross.

  In the penalty area of ​​Crystal Palace, Drogba grabbed in front of Vidic who was marking him, rushed to the front and shook his head with a lion, pushing the ball to the goal of Crystal Palace.

  Cech's reaction was very timely, he jumped into the air and blocked the ball.

   At this moment, it was Shevchenko again, who quickly judged where the ball was falling. Just before Chiellini made the siege, a jumped dive to the top and smashed the ball into the Crystal Palace goal.

   At this time, Cech, who had just finished the save, had no time to get up and could only watch the ball fly into the Crystal Palace net again.

   With Shevchenko's brace, Chelsea led Crystal Palace again 2:1.

   This time, Mourinho, who was standing on the sidelines and saw the team lead Crystal Palace again, was excitedly running in front of the Chelsea bench and slipped to his knees. He was even more excited than Shevchenko who scored.

"childish!"

   In the distance, Guardiola, who saw Mourinho's exaggerated actions, snorted in disdain.

   "Josep, everyone has been losing for more than two years. He finally took the lead once. Can't we celebrate? Who knows if he is still in the mood to celebrate when the game is over."

   Simeone, who was standing beside Guardiola, replied lightly when he heard Guardiola's comment.

   "Haha, Diego, you are too bad. He finally had a good dream, why should he wake him up?"

  Chen Ran's three assistants are of course Southgate. After hearing Simone's words, he patted him on the shoulder, looking like you are the worst kid.

  Because of the brilliant record achieved by Crystal Palace in the past few years, Guardiola and the others did not pay much attention to the fact that Crystal Palace was one goal behind.

   Because they firmly believe that with Chen Ran's superb command and dispatch, and with Crystal Palace's current super offensive strength, they can break any team's goal.

  Chelsea, the underdog, is no exception.

   And Chen Ran, who was standing on the sidelines, had a trace of worry in his heart.

   He is not worried about Chelsea taking the lead again, he is worried that Shevchenko, who has been depressed at Chelsea in his previous life, will not be activated now, right?

   In his previous life, Mourinho stubbornly insisted on his 433 formation, wasting the big killer of Shevchenko that Abramovich bought at a high price.

   But why is he willing to change to a double striker today?

   With doubts in his heart, Chen Ran glanced at Mourinho from a distance, what was this guy provoked?

  If Mourinho is really no longer stubborn, then such Mourinho can be even more difficult to deal with.

  With such worries, the first half of the game ended.

   At halftime, Chen Ran, who returned to the locker room, did not blame the players for the team falling behind twice.

   After giving the players a shot of blood as usual, Chen Ran looked at Yaya Toure.

   "Yaya, how about you take a rest first in the second half?"

   "Boss, I'm fine."

   Knowing that Chen Ran was definitely going to strengthen his attack, Yaya Toure nodded readily and agreed.

   "Little Luca, in the second half, you go up to replace Yaya and play the double midfielder with Patrick. Do you understand?"

   After comforting Yaya Toure, Chen Ran turned to look at Modric again.

   "Understood, boss."

   After making the substitution adjustment, Chen Ran did not intend to change his tactical style of play. Because after Modric came on, this is Crystal Palace's strongest attacking lineup now.

   In this game, Chelsea's momentum must be suppressed.

   Chen Ran has a faint hunch that this game is likely to be the key to the changing fate of Mourinho and Chelsea.

  If you let Chelsea win this game, then maybe their momentum will get out of hand.

  Thinking of this, Chen Ran left the locker room early. He wanted to be alone, sort out his thoughts, and see if there were any loopholes in Crystal Palace.

   At the beginning of the second half, Mourinho saw that Crystal Palace replaced Yaya Toure with Modric.

   This Chen Ran is really bold.

   Remove a defensive midfielder and replace it with an offensive playmaker. Crystal Palace is going to be desperate.

   Chen Ran's substitution made Mourinho immediately understand the opponent's intentions.

  Crystal Palace's offensive strength, no one knows better than his title contender, there are really few teams that can guarantee against Crystal Palace's offensive without conceding a goal.

  Chelsea are leading anyway, should we replace Ballack with Essien to strengthen the defense and keep the one-goal lead until the end of the game?

   Or maintain the current lineup and continue to play against Crystal Palace?

  Two choices may lead to two completely different results, which one is better to choose?

   For a while, Mourinho also hesitated.

   Mourinho was hesitating, the Crystal Palace players on the pitch would not give him time to think about it.

  Chen Ran's intention to replace Yaya Toure with Modric was obvious, and the Crystal Palace players understood it. When the referee blew the whistle for the start of the second half of the game, he immediately pressed on the entire line, putting on a posture of not breaking Loulan's oath and not returning it.

   In the 52nd minute, when Drogba's header was confiscated by Cech, Cech quickly counterattacked and threw the ball to Modric with his hand.

  Modric looked up, then pulled and buckled, flashing past Barack who came up to press.

   Immediately after that, he took the right foot and slammed the ball on the instep, and with the footwork of shooting, he sent a through ball that was more than 30 meters on the ground, and accurately sent the ball to the foot of Kaka in the front court.

   At this time, Chelsea had just finished their last attack, and most of the players were still in the Crystal Palace half.

Near    Kaka, there is only one defensive player, Makelele.

   Such a good opportunity, how could Kaka miss it?

   After receiving Modric's ultra-long through ball, Kaka took the ball and started to accelerate directly.

   Although Makelele’s defensive ability is strong, it would be too difficult for him to compete with Kaka in speed.

   Soon, Makelele was left behind by Kaka.

   At this time, the two strikers of Crystal Palace also started to create opportunities for Kaka in a very tacit understanding.

  Tony moved forward to the left, Ibrahimovic moved forward to the right, and Terry and Carvalho, who were responsible for marking the two, had to keep an eye on them one by one.

   This time, it left a big gap for Kaka.

   And Chelsea's current defensive line, Ashley Cole just went up to assist and has not come back.

The only remaining right back, Boraluz, rushed over to make up the defense. Kaka made an emergency stop and stepped on a button with his left foot. Directly to the upper left corner of the Chelsea goal.

   Seeing the direction the ball was flying, Cudicini used all his strength to fly to save. It's a pity that Kaka's shot was too angled. The ball bypassed Cudicini's fingertips and still flew into Chelsea's net.

   "GOAL!"

   After Shevchenko, Kaka also scored twice, helping Crystal Palace equalize the score again, Crystal Palace 2:2 Chelsea.

   "My dear, this is not Crystal Palace vs Chelsea, this is AC Milan's civil war."

   At this time, thousands of miles away in the country, countless fans are also paying attention to the focus of this Premier League match.

   "Yeah. With Shevchenko on one side and Kaka on the other, two former AC Milan players scored four goals on the field. This is crazy!"

   "I don't know if they are crazy or not, but I know Ancelotti must be crazy."

   "Yes, I lost the two attacking cores all at once. I guess if Ancelotti was watching this game, he would have cried under the covers at night."

   "I don't care if An Fat cry or not, I just care if Crystal Palace can win this game today."

   "That's definitely no problem. Since Chen Ran took over Crystal Palace, when has Chelsea won Crystal Palace?"

   "It's hard to say. Today's Chelsea feels different to me than before."

   "Really? Do you feel the same way upstairs? I thought I was the only one who felt that way."

   "Maybe it has something to do with Mourinho's evolution. He used to use the 433 formation all the time, but today it has become 442, which is really rare."

   "What the upstairs said makes sense. If something goes wrong, there must be a demon."

   (end of this chapter)