Football Feast, Starting From the Acquisition of European Clubs

   Chapter 295 The Law of True Fragrance

   "It seems that Martin Joel is determined to carry out the attack to the end today."

   Seeing that Tottenham Hotspur continued the previous onslaught situation, Chen Ran was not too worried. Crystal Palace started out with defensive counterattack tactics. I have seen many such scenes.

   When the game went to the 38th minute, after receiving a pass from Cesc Fabregas, Messi again dribbled the ball towards Tottenham Hotspur's penalty area.

   However, this time Tottenham's players learned their lesson, and Huddlestone got back in place in time to bring down Messi.

  “Beep!”

   The referee decisively awarded Crystal Palace a direct free kick about 30 meters away from the goal.

   The position of the foul is outside the upper right corner of the Tottenham Hotspur penalty area, which is just right for Beckham's right foot to play.

  Modric was not on the court, Beckham did his part to stand next to the ball.

   After glancing at Tottenham Hotspur's goal, Beckham stepped back, standing, running, and swinging his legs.

"boom!"

   A signature Bayesian arc turned with extreme precision to the upper right corner of the Tottenham Hotspur goal.

  Goalkeeper Robinson tried his best to fly to save, but unfortunately he failed to touch the ball, and in the end he could only helplessly watch the ball fly into Tottenham Hotspur's net.

   "GOAL!"

   With a free kick from Beckham, Crystal Palace led Tottenham Hotspur 2-0.

   "It's another free kick. Whether it's at Manchester United, Real Madrid or Crystal Palace, Beckham's free kick will always make opponents feel desperate."

   "After Modric, Crystal Palace has another free-kick master Beckham this season. The teams that will face Crystal Palace in the future may not dare to foul easily."

"Tottenham Hotspur attacked for nearly half of the game, nothing to say, but Crystal Palace scored two goals instead. Should Martin Joel consider changing his tactics? Otherwise, Tottenham Hotspur I'm afraid there will be more goals conceded in the future."

  I don't know how the commentator of the broadcast game commented on Martin Joel, but he is indeed a bit vague now.

   Fully pressing the attack will inevitably lead to loopholes in the back line. And what he didn't expect was. The counterattack of Crystal Palace's bench lineup is also so sharp, if this continues, Tottenham Hotspur will be killed.

  Martin Joel now realises that he grossly underestimated the strength of Crystal Palace's bench.

How to do?

   Do you attack the wrong way to the end, or change your tactics to play defensive counterattacks and accept the result of losing?

   Just when Martin Joel was hesitating, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half of the game, giving him a precious buffer time.

   At halftime, with a two-goal lead and the game progressing smoothly, Chen Ran did not make any personnel adjustments except to give the players blood as usual.

   On Tottenham Hotspur's side, Martin Joel was still a coward after all.

   Lost to Crystal Palace, the defending Champions League champions and the Premier League three-peat, no one will say anything about him, because Tottenham Hotspur is not as good as the other side.

   But if Tottenham Hotspur loses to Crystal Palace by a big score, then the overwhelming criticism may cause him to be dismissed.

   So, Martin Joel replaced striker Darren Bent with defensive midfielder Jokola, changing the formation from 433 to 442.

   Zocora is an Ivory Coast international, and the physical quality of African players has always been excellent. And he runs aggressively and has great coverage.

  Martin Joel's mission after replacing him is clear, that is to freeze Messi, Crystal Palace's sharpest attacking point on the field.

   And Zocora did exactly that.

  Although he is not as good as Messi in other aspects, he can always make reasonable use of his inherent advantages of being dark and tough to deal with Messi who is just 20 years old.

   In addition, the referee's penalty scale in the Premier League is relatively loose, and many actions have long been called for fouls in La Liga. Here, the referee did not respond at all.

   This made Messi, who was new to the scene, very uncomfortable for a while. After protesting to the referee to no avail, Messi himself was a little stunned.

   "Boss, Messi doesn't seem to have adapted to the Premier League's penalty scale. Do you want to replace him first?"

   Guardiola was very keen to discover Messi's current situation, and hurried to Chen Ran's side to propose.

   After all, he was born in Barcelona. Since Messi came to Crystal Palace, Guardiola has taken great care of this little guy.

"Don't worry, wait. It's because he's not used to it yet that he needs to play a little longer on the field. Otherwise, if Messi is replaced now, he will never be able to adapt to the Premier League's penalty scale. "

  Chen Ran patted Guardiola on the shoulder. He also knew that this guy had a good relationship with Messi, but he was confused when he cared about it, which is understandable.

   ". Boss, you're right, I'm in a hurry."

   After listening to Chen Ran's analysis, Guardiola nodded slowly, knowing that Chen Ran's decision was right. This hurdle must be passed by Messi himself, and no one else can help.

  Since Martin Joel replaced Djokola to strengthen the defense, although Tottenham Hotspur’s offensive has weakened a lot, their defense line has also stabilized a lot.

  Crystal Palace's current offensive players, Beckham has no breakthrough ability, not to mention Jan Kohler, the only blasting point Messi was also successfully contained by Martin Joel's Zokola.

   For a while, the entire game scene formed a deadlock.

   Fortunately, Crystal Palace had a two-goal lead in the first half, so Chen Ran was not in a hurry.

   When the game reached 60 minutes, Chen Ran turned around and called Guardiola over.

"Josep, you go to inform Cavani and Dzeko to warm up, and then replace Jan Kohler and Beckham with them. The team's formation has changed from 451 to 442, Messi is the attacking midfielder, Cavani is Playing as a double striker with Dzeko."

   "Okay, boss."

   Soon, Martin Joel saw the substitutions and evolutions of Crystal Palace.

"442, Messi is the attacking midfielder, Cavani and Dzeko are partnering to play as a double forward. One of the three little guys is 21 years old and the other two are 20 years old. It seems that the Chinese is very satisfied with the current score and is ready to stop, It's time to start training newbies."

   After muttering to himself, Martin Joel also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

   Lost to Crystal Palace with a score of 0:2, and all aspects of the past have been explained, and it will not affect his position as head coach.

   Chen Ran didn't know that Martin Joel was thinking about his own thoughts there. He was preparing to train newcomers, but he didn't plan to stop.

  Although they are both newcomers, Cavani and Dzeko are no strangers.

   When they were loaned to Willem II before, they often played together as strike partners.

   Now that they have finally returned to Crystal Palace to play in the Premier League, the two little guys are naturally doing their best.

Compared with the slightly sluggish movements of Jan Kohler, who was substituted, Cavani and Dzeko were like two tigers just released from their cages, causing Tottenham Hotspur's backline to be a bit of a mess. Jump.

And Messi, who was moved to the attacking midfielder position by Chen Ran, is now facing no longer just a Djokora. Another midfielder of Tottenham Hotspur, Huddlestone, also appeared in his midfield. around.

  Huddlestone, although English, is also a black player. Being double-teamed by two black and hard players at the same time made Messi's breakthrough success rate drop sharply immediately.

   Fortunately, Messi's brain is smart enough to quickly adjust the way he plays before he can adapt to the referee's penalty scale.

   Reduce the number of breakthroughs and pass the ball to two strikers more.

   Once, twice, three times.

In the 75th minute, before getting caught in a double-team between Huddlestone and Djokora, Messi picked up the ball to Dzeko, then bypassed Tottenham's two The lower back continues to push forward.

Seeing that Messi was still pushing forward after passing the ball to himself, Dzeko quickly leaned on Dawson, who was defending against him, without stopping the ball. direction.

   At this time, Messi has used his speed to leave his follower Zocora behind.

Seeing Dzeko pass the ball over again, Messi first unloaded the ball lightly with his left foot, then grabbed the ball to Tottenham Hotspur's penalty area before Jokola made a tackle. inside.

   At this time, Cavani, who was waiting in the penalty area, was entangled with Ledley King, who was in charge of marking him.

   Both of them wanted to fight for the top of the ball, but under the pull of each other, neither of them could jump up, and could only watch the ball pass over their heads.

   Just when everyone thought that the ball was going to fly off the sideline, Dzeko, who had just finished the ball for Messi, appeared at the back point just in time.

"boom!"

   A diving for the top, Dzeko flew out and smashed the ball into Tottenham Hotspur's goal.

  Dzeko is 193cm tall. He jumped a little too high for this ball when he took off with all his strength.

   So much so that he failed to head the ball directly to the goal, but smashed it to the ground before reaching the goal, and then bounced towards Tottenham Hotspur's goal.

   It was this rebound that made the ball just avoid the hand of goalkeeper Robinson that came to save.

   Watching the ball fly into the net from his own eyes again, Robinson's heart couldn't be more aggrieved.

   "GOAL!"

   With Dzeko's header, Crystal Palace led Tottenham Hotspur 3-0.

After taking a three-goal lead, Chen Ran then replaced Thiago Silva with Pepe, giving more substitutes a chance to play.

   In injury time, Berbatov once again dashed. He helped Tottenham score a face-saving goal with a superb volley from the side.

  In the end, Crystal Palace defeated Tottenham Hotspur 3:1 with a substitute lineup, continuing their strong performance.

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

   The game is not over yet, thousands of miles away in China, the post bar of Crystal Palace is lively again.

   "Haha, Chen Ran's vision for selecting players is really hard to say. The three goals in this game were all scored by new players this season. The signing effect is really too strong."

"That's right. Especially that Messi, who scored one, assisted one, even Beckham's free-kick was made by him. The three goals in this game are all related to him, I see who else said Chen Ran trading Ibrahimovic for Messi is a losing business."

   "Cough, upstairs, Messi's performance in this game is really good, but the new season has just begun, I think it's not too late to watch a few more games before coming to a conclusion."

   "That's right, it's not uncommon to open high and go low. I also think it's better to be cautious."

   "What do you mean upstairs? Are you expecting Messi to behave badly?"

"Absolutely not. I'm also a Crystal Palace fan. I wish the team was as strong as possible. It's just that after Tottenham replaced Djokola to mark Messi, Messi's performance is not as good as before. This is me Important reasons for caution."

   "That's true. Since that Djokola came on the field, Messi's breakthroughs have decreased significantly."

   "You don't even look at how much that Djokora moves, and the referee doesn't blow the whistle at all. It is estimated that Messi has just come from La Liga and has not yet adapted to the penalty scale of the Premier League."

   "This is the crux of the matter. If Messi can't adapt to the Premier League's penalty scale, then he will definitely not help Crystal Palace as much as Ibrahimovic."

   "The upstairs statement makes sense. It seems that we really need to observe it again."

   There was also a strong-to-strong conversation in the rest of the Premier League's third round.

   Liverpool faced Chelsea at Anfield, and the two teams drew 1:1.

   Manchester United lost 0:1 to their city rivals Manchester City in the derby, and Arsenal also drew 1:1 away by Blackburn.

   Several strong teams were either tied or lost, and immediately let Crystal Palace take advantage of the fisherman. With the advantage of goal difference, and Manchester City, which also won three consecutive victories, ranked first and second in the standings.

  According to the usual practice, Little Fatty collected the comments of the major media after the game and brought it to Chen Ran.

   Just when Chen Ran watched with interest the media pinch their noses and praise Crystal Palace, Stephen also came over.

   "Chen, there is news from the Red Bull Group. They have accepted his conditions and are willing to exchange 20% of the shares of Galaxy Football Group with Red Bull Salzburg and Red Bull New York."

  Stephen was all smiles, obviously very satisfied with the decision of Red Bull Group to finally give in.

   "Oh? Is it? That's really good news. After so much back and forth, it's finally coming to fruition."

   Chen Ran was also very happy to hear the good news brought by Stephen.

  Although he said he didn't care if there were those two clubs, in fact he couldn't escape the true fragrance law.

   "However, Chen, the Red Bull Group has a condition attached, I wonder if you can accept it?"

   (end of this chapter)