Football Feast, Starting From the Acquisition of European Clubs

   Chapter 266 There is a new offer from the gold master

"boom!"

   Seeing Arsenal's Rosicky trying to rush over to destroy it, Alves didn't wait for the ball to land, and just volleyed.

   Alves' footwork was well controlled, and he hit a stick to the ground.

   And he was lucky, the ball didn't touch anyone's body in the crowded Arsenal penalty area.

   is also because there are too many people in the penalty area, which seriously blocked the sight of Arsenal goalkeeper Lehmann.

   When the ball came out of the crowd, it was too late for Lehmann to make a save, so he could only watch the ball fly into the net from his hand.

   "GOAL!"

   With Alves' goal, Crystal Palace overtook Arsenal 2:1.

   "It's Alves. Although he is only a backup full-back for Crystal Palace, he has also fully demonstrated his attacking ability."

   "The set-piece, another set-piece, Crystal Palace's current set-piece is too much of a threat."

   "Although it was not a header this time, Crystal Palace's height advantage obviously put a lot of pressure on Arsenal's back line, resulting in the ball not being cleared to a safe place."

   "There are too many explosions in the Crystal Palace now, so it's hard to guard against it!"

   Seeing Crystal Palace overtaking the score, Wenger, who was standing on the sidelines, suddenly sank.

  Although he knows that Arsenal are not as good as Crystal Palace now, as a manager, who doesn't want to win?

After hesitating for a while, Wenger turned around and called his assistant Pat Rice.

   "Pat, you go and tell Adebayor to warm up. We'll replace Eboue with him later, let's change to 343."

   "343? Boss, isn't this a little too aggressive?"

   Hearing Wenger's order, Pat Rice was also startled.

  Adebayor is a center, Wenger replaced right back Eboue with him, this is a desperate posture with Crystal Palace.

   "This game started well, I don't want to just give up. If you want to catch up with Liverpool and qualify for the Champions League, every point is important. Anyway, the worst result is to lose, it is better to give it a try."

   "Okay, just figure it out."

   Wenger is the head coach after all. Although Pat Rice felt that his decision was a bit risky, he still carried out his orders.

   Soon, Crystal Palace saw Wenger's substitution adjustment.

   "Boss, did Arsenal give up their defense completely?"

   Guardiola was also surprised to see Wenger replace the defender with a forward when the score was behind.

   Is this ready to gamble? I didn't expect coach Wenger to be so passionate even at his age.

   "Josep, let Chiellini warm up immediately, and then replace Evra with him to strengthen the defensive ability of the back line."

   "Chiellini was in charge of marking Pesci after he played, Vidic was in charge of marking Adebayor, and Thiago Silva and Alves restricted Henry together."

   "Okay, boss."

   Knowing that it was a critical moment, Guardiola didn't dare to delay and turned around and ran to execute Chen Ran's orders.

   Soon, less than five minutes after Arsenal's substitution, Crystal Palace also made a substitution.

   "Boss, the response from Crystal Palace is so fast."

   Seeing Chen Ran's actions, Pat Rice was also sighed.

   The effect of the substitution on his side has just been shown, and the Crystal Palace side immediately put a patch on it.

  Chiellini's defensive ability is obviously stronger than Evra, and he greatly shared the defensive pressure of Vidic and Thiago Silva as soon as he played.

   Arsenal's attacking momentum was just about to get up, but it was immediately suppressed again.

   "Alas, now that little guy in China is getting harder and harder to deal with."

   turned his head and glanced at Chen Ran in the distance, Wenger sighed helplessly.

   "Pat, go tell Flamini to warm up and replace Hleb with him later."

   "Eh, boss, didn't you change Adebayor's 343 to strengthen the offense? Why are you now replacing Hleb, who is more capable of attacking, with Flamini, who is more capable of defense?"

  Pat Rice felt that Wenger's two substitutions were a bit contradictory, and he was very puzzled.

   "Pat, whether it's Rosicky or Hleb, their two best positions are actually attacking midfielders. It's just that in order to meet our 442's tactical requirements, we have to play wingbacks."

   "Although the two of them can also play as wing-backs, they are far less effective than when they play as an attacking midfielder."

"Now that I replace Hleb with Flamini, I'm going to put Rosicky, who is in better form today, in front to play as an attacking midfielder, and then let Gilberto Silva, Baptista and Fra The three of Meaney played behind him to provide protection."

   "The team's formation has also changed from 343 to 3313, understand?"

   "That's it, I see."

   After Wenger's explanation, Pat Rice came to a realization and ran to carry out Wenger's order with sincerity.

   Soon, Crystal Palace saw Wenger's substitution adjustment again.

   "Boss, Arsenal seems to have changed their formation again. They should be playing in 3313 now."

   After observing for two minutes, Guardiola immediately understood Wenger's evolution.

   "3313? It seems that Arsenal rarely play this formation. What happened to coach Wenger today? Did you get any stimulation?"

  Chen Ran touched his nose and turned to glance at the Arsenal bench in the distance.

   "Josep, go and tell Mascherano to warm up, replace Tony later, strengthen the defense in the middle, and the team's formation will become 451 with three midfielders."

   "Okay, boss."

  Crystal Palace now leads the score, and the initiative is in Chen Ran's hands. As long as the defense line is stabilized, the three points are still Crystal Palace.

   So Chen Ran is not in a hurry, no matter what kind of trick Wenger makes, he just needs to see the trick.

   Soon, Wenger and Pat Rice, who saw Crystal Palace make another substitution, were also a little speechless.

   They had just moved Rosicky from the wing to a midfielder, and Crystal Palace immediately increased the number of midfielders to three.

   As soon as Rosicky gets the ball, he is immediately surrounded by two black and hard characters and an Argentine ruthless character. As far as Rosicky's face is small, it's not bad that he didn't scare the urine on the spot.

   "Boss, what should we do now? Crystal Palace's defense is not leaking."

  Pat Rice scratched his head. Frankly speaking, Wenger's command was good enough, but he was still deciphered one by one by the Chinese. Now he has a deep understanding of what it means to be "helpless".

   Seeing the current situation on the field, Wenger pouted helplessly, and after dropping a sentence, he turned back to the bench and sat down.

   "Leave everything to God"

   "Leave everything to God?"

  Pat Rice raised his head and glanced at the dark night sky with no moon or stars tonight, and his heart suddenly felt cold.

  After Crystal Palace strengthened their defense, it was difficult for Arsenal's offensive to penetrate Crystal Palace's defense. However, on the Crystal Palace side, Arsenal now does not have a 3313 formation of full-backs and full-backs, but it leaves a huge space for Ronaldo and Ribery to play.

   In the 71st minute, after Cech hugged Henry's shot, he immediately launched a counterattack by throwing the ball with his hand.

   Vieira, who received the ball, used his body to move away to interfere with Rosicky, and a big foot passed the ball directly to Ronaldo on the left.

Arsenal's right midfielder Flamini immediately came over and wanted to break Ronaldo's ball. Ronaldo swayed past Flamini with a fried ball, and then accelerated the ball to Arsenal's penalty area. past.

   At this time, because Arsenal were still attacking just now, most of the players were still in the Crystal Palace half.

After    Flamini was passed, only three defenders of Arsenal were left in front of him.

   And in Arsenal's penalty area, Ibrahimovic alone attracted Senderos and William Gallas two defenders.

   Seeing that the situation was not good, Colo Toure immediately came up to intercept Ronaldo's breakthrough.

   Facing Colo Toure, who was rushing towards him, Ronaldo deftly stabbed the ball forward, just passing between Colo Toure's legs.

After    crossed the crotch, Ronaldo took advantage of the situation and rushed the ball into Arsenal's penalty area.

   Seeing that the situation was critical, William Gallas rushed over to make up the defense.

   This time Cristiano Ronaldo didn't prepare to excel any more. Before William Gallas' foot stretched out, he took a volley with his left foot.

   This shot was powerful and fast, and went straight to the upper right corner of Arsenal's goal.

  Lyman jumped and stretched his body to the limit. Unfortunately, he still failed to touch the ball, and could only watch it fly into Arsenal's net.

   "GOAL!"

   With Cristiano Ronaldo's single-handed breakthrough, Crystal Palace extended their lead to 3:1.

  As soon as Crystal Palace scored the third goal, Arsenal's players were a little discouraged.

   The game has now been going on for more than 70 minutes. The decline in physical fitness and the gap in strength with Crystal Palace have made Arsenal's players less confident in chasing two goals in the remaining ten minutes.

   The next game was uneventful. Although Arsenal scored a header from Adebayor in stoppage time, the referee also blew the whistle for the end of the game.

  In the end, Crystal Palace defeated Arsenal 3:2 away with goals from Ibrahimovic, Alves and Ronaldo.

  At the same time that he got three points, Chen Ran also got a "Level 1 Aiming Card" from the system.

   In other Premier League matches in this round, besides Crystal Palace against Arsenal, there is also a strong dialogue, that is, Manchester United go to Anfield to challenge rival Liverpool.

   As a result, Liverpool's performance in the league was as weak as ever, losing 0:1 to arch-rival Manchester United at home.

   In another game, Chelsea beat Portsmouth 2-0 away, and together with Manchester United, they still clung to Crystal Palace.

   Four days later, the second leg of the UEFA Champions League 16-in-8 is about to start again.

Because Crystal Palace scored 4:1 in the away game in the first leg, this time back at home game, Chen Ran can calmly rotate the lineup, so that the players who played the full game against Arsenal will get time for rest.

  In the end, with the goals of Jan Kohler and Modric, Crystal Palace drew 2:2 at home with visiting Eindhoven, eliminated the opponent with a total score of 6:3, and advanced to the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

   In other competitions, Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea eliminated their opponents and advanced to the Champions League quarter-finals like Crystal Palace.

   Now, among the top eight teams in this UEFA Champions League, there are four clubs from the Premier League. The Premier League's status as the world's No. 1 league has also become more stable.

   "Chen, there's something new about beverage sponsorship."

   Chen Ran's heart moved when he saw Stephen, who rushed into his office, and it seemed that there was good news.

   "What's the matter? Is there another offer from a new gold master?"

  Chen Ran asked casually jokingly.

   "Huh? How did you know?"

   Stephen was stunned for a moment. Did the other party contact Chen Ran directly?

   "Really? I just said it casually."

   "Indeed. The Red Bull Group did not know where to get the news that Gatorade was going to sponsor our club. So they also sent us an offer with better terms than Gatorade's."

   "Oh? Tell me carefully."

   As soon as he heard that the conditions were better than Gatorade, Chen Ran was immediately interested.

   "A three-year contract for the exclusive sponsorship of sports drinks, 12 million euros per year."

   "This condition is clearly aimed at Gatorade. It seems that Red Bull also has nails in Gatorade."

   Red Bull Group’s offer just beats Gatorade in every way. To say that the Red Bull Group did not grasp the quotations of Gatorade, I would not believe it.

   "It should be. But this is normal. Commercial espionage is too common now."

   Stephen shrugged, indicating that this was all to be expected.

   "The Red Bull Group has also acquired the football club itself. How could they think of sponsoring us this time?"

   "I guess they were stimulated by Gatorade. After all, the clubs acquired by the Red Bull Group have not achieved anything yet, and the advertising effect is limited. They are afraid that Gatorade will use the fame of our Crystal Palace to seize their market."

  Stephen had obviously done his homework, and immediately gave the answer to Chen Ran's question.

   "But that's fine, Gatorade competes with Red Bull, we win, I like it."

   "Stephen, tell Gatorade the offer from Red Bull Group, and ask them if they will follow suit. If they don't, then we'll sign with Red Bull."

   "Okay. Chen, should Coca-Cola also send a copy? Since the Galaxy Football Group thing came out, they haven't moved."

   "Forget about Coca-Cola. Gatorade and Red Bull are direct competitors. If they really fight, we can get the most benefit."

"Understood."

   Just when Stephen was reporting the offer of Red Bull Group to Chen Ran, at the Red Bull headquarters in Austria, the owner Dietrich Mattschitz was listening to his subordinates discussing Chen Ran, Crystal Palace Club and Galaxy Football Group.

   Originally, this was just to fight against Gatorade and to sponsor the Crystal Palace Club’s ordinary business behavior.

   But the owner Dietrich Mattschitz has a strong interest in Chen Ran's Galaxy Football Group.

   (end of this chapter)