Football Feast, Starting From the Acquisition of European Clubs

   Chapter 310 Who said it was a waste of time?

   Taking advantage of the dead ball, Chen Ran called Ribery, who was closer to him.

   "Frank, you and Messi will switch positions for a while, and then focus on increasing the number of attacks from inside shots to suppress Chelsea's attack."

   "Don't worry, boss, wrap it on me."

  Ribery patted his chest, still looking like he was not stingy. In his eyes, except for Crystal Palace, other teams are rubbish.

   Soon, Chen Ran's adjustment took effect.

   Messi who switched to the right, followed Chen Ran's instructions and started to cut inside frequently.

  Because Crystal Palace's right-back Maicon also often adds assists, Chelsea's left-back Ashley Cole can't take care of it alone.

   In addition, Chelsea's formation does not have wing-midfielders, which has led to Ballack, who is now playing the left-back position, has to reduce the number of forward thrusts and devote more energy to helping Ashley Cole defend.

   Correspondingly, after Ribery began to cut in and hit the goal, Lampard no longer dared to actively participate in the attack.

   Under the stinger, the pressure on Crystal Palace's back line was immediately relieved a lot.

   Unlike traditional centers like Tony and Jan Kohler, Cristiano Ronaldo is now at the forefront, but he does not stay in Chelsea's penalty area waiting for his teammates to pass the ball.

   Instead, he kept running out of the penalty area to cooperate with Messi or Ribery, and then turned back and stepped forward to grab a shot.

   This was a disaster. Terry, who was in charge of marking Ronaldo, had to follow after Ronaldo ran out of the penalty area.

   But when Cristiano Ronaldo turned back and rushed forward to take a shot, it was a little difficult with Terry's reaction and speed.

   When Terry was full of energy in the first half of the game, this was not obvious.

   But as the game time increased, Terry's movement rate became slower and slower, and gradually he couldn't keep up with Ronaldo's rhythm.

  When the game went to the 67th minute, Messi, who received a pass from Modric, cut inside again.

   At the same time, right back Maicon also rushed up from the back.

  Do you continue to follow Messi, or stay to watch Maicon who is advancing at high speed?

   What if he went to Messi, and Messi took the opportunity to give the ball to the unmarked Maicon?

  After hesitating for a while, Ashley Cole finally decided to stay and guard against Maicon, and entrusted the task of marking Messi, who had already cut in, to Ballack, who came back from the midfield position in time.

   However, Ashley Cole forgot to consider Barack's technical characteristics.

   Ballack, who is 189CM tall, has all the advantages of traditional German players. Offensive and defensive, he can be called an all-around player.

   But to let Ballack defend Messi, who is small, fast, skilled and extremely flexible, it is really difficult for him.

   In the face of Messi, Ballack seems to be a wooden stake.

   Messi swayed left and right, and a few fake moves deceived Ballack's center of gravity. Then, with a stab of his right foot, the ball was passed from between Ballack's legs to Cristiano Ronaldo, who ran out of the penalty area.

  Cristiano Ronaldo, who received the pass, did not pause, and directly used his heel to knock the ball back to Messi, who was bypassing Ballack.

   And Cristiano Ronaldo himself immediately turned around and rushed towards Chelsea's penalty area, bypassing Terry who came out.

  When the ball came back to Messi's feet again, Messi didn't hesitate, just broke his ankle and used the inner instep of his right foot to send a through ball to Cristiano Ronaldo who was desperately sprinting.

  Messi's through ball delivered just the right amount of points, and appeared on the line that Cristiano Ronaldo advanced forward with enough advance.

   found that the situation was not good, another Chelsea central defender Carvalho immediately rushed over with a shovel, trying to destroy the ball out of the penalty area.

  Cristiano Ronaldo, who saw Carvalho's action, first picked up the ball with his toes, and then he jumped up.

   just dodged Carvalho's flying shovel, and jumped over Carvalho's body even with the ball.

   At this time, Cudicini, who found that there were no Chelsea teammates between himself and Cristiano Ronaldo, had no choice but to give up and attack. Spread his limbs as much as possible, expand the defensive area and pounce on Ronaldo.

   In the face of Cudicini's attack, Ronaldo did not choose to excel, but sent a shot directly with a flick of his ankle.

  Cudicini hurriedly reached for the ball, but unfortunately Cristiano Ronaldo's lob shot was high enough. The ball flew past Cudicini's fingertips and into the Chelsea net.

   "GOAL!"

   With Ronaldo's brace, Crystal Palace led Chelsea 2-0 at home.

   As soon as this second goal was scored, the entire Crystal Palace home ground immediately boiled.

  The home team's fans cheered and sang the Crystal Palace anthem, resounding through the sky.

  Because since Chen Ran entered Crystal Palace, the team has never had a record of being overturned by an opponent with a two-goal lead.

   On the Chelsea side, Ancelotti frowned, and he could no longer see a trace of the ease before the game started.

  It is completely different from Mourinho's emphasis on wing attack, while Ancelotti concentrated his forces in the middle.

  For most opponents, Chelsea can break through the opponent's defense with the super-strength players in the squad.

   But once he met an opponent as strong as Crystal Palace, Ancelotti scratched his head a little.

  Especially after Chen Ran was replaced by Yaya Toure, Crystal Palace now has three defensive midfielders on the field.

  If Chelsea continues to attack from the middle, it is likely to return without success.

In fact, Ancelotti is not without a winger now. Although Robben was let go in the summer, Chelsea also introduced the French international Malouda from Lyon, plus the original Joe Cole in the team. With Wright Phillips, there is no shortage of manpower.

   Seeing that his current tactical play could not break the Crystal Palace's defense line, after hesitating for a while, Ancelotti finally decided to change his team.

   Soon, Chen Ran saw that Chelsea replaced Ballack with Malouda and Pirlo with Belletti.

   Chelsea's formation on the field has also changed from 4312 to 442, with Malouda as the left midfielder and Joe Cole playing from the front midfielder to the right midfielder.

  Essien returned from right back to the middle, forming Chelsea's double central midfielder with Lampard, while Belletti replaced Essien as right back.

   "Ancelotti is going to attack on the wing instead."

  Chen Ran immediately saw through Ancelotti's intention to make a substitution and immediately turned around and called Guardiola to his side.

   "Josep, tell Evra and Alves to warm up now and replace Ribery and Modric with them later."

   "The team's formation has changed from 451 to 442. Evra and Alves are the left and right midfielders respectively. Ronaldo is still the center, and Messi is the shadow striker."

   "You tell Evra and Alves that their main task after they play is to show me Joe Cole and Malouda who killed Chelsea."

   "Okay, boss."

   Soon, after Chelsea ran out of three substitution places early, Crystal Palace also ran out of three substitution places.

   Seeing Chen Ran's substitution, Ancelotti immediately turned black.

   Special meow, this Chinese man's reaction is really fast.

   I just arranged for the team to switch to attacking on the wing, and Crystal Palace immediately made corresponding substitution adjustments. This is not a chance for me.

   However, things have come to this point, and Ancelotti, who has run out of substitutions, can only bite the bullet and continue to rush forward.

   With the successive changes of Ancelotti and Chen Ran, the focus of offense and defense of the Crystal Palace and Chelsea teams has also shifted from the previous center to the current wing.

For a while, whether it was Malouda and Joe Cole from Chelsea, or Evra and Alves from Crystal Palace, these players who were later replaced with more stamina were struggling on the two flanks. Indistinguishable.

The scene of the    match was once again deadlocked, which was certainly acceptable to Chen Ran. After all, Crystal Palace is now two goals ahead, and he can sit on the bench and watch the game in a relaxed mood.

   On the Chelsea side, Ancelotti couldn't sit still for a moment, standing on the sidelines and constantly directing players to attack, attack, and attack again.

   Until the end of the game, Chelsea finally sent a cross from Belletti from the right. Drogba in the penalty area beat Vidic to grab the ball and headed the goal.

   After Cech struggled to save the ball, Shevchenko took a step ahead of Thiago Silva and blocked the ball into the Crystal Palace net to get a goal back for Chelsea.

   In the end, with Ronaldo's brace, Crystal Palace beat Chelsea 2:1 at home.

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

   In other Premier League matches this round, Manchester United beat Bolton 1:0 away, Arsenal also beat Wigan Athletic 2:0 away, and Liverpool defeated Newcastle United 3:0 at Anfield.

   With a victory over Chelsea, Crystal Palace held onto their top spot, with Manchester United one point behind and Chelsea now four points behind Palace in third.

The day after the match against Chelsea, Chen Ran flew to Norway with the Crystal Palace team. Three days later, Crystal Palace's Champions League group stage away game against Rosenberg will start again.

  Although it is the Champions League and an away game, in view of Rosenberg’s limited strength and Crystal Palace’s four-game winning streak in the group stage before, the qualifying situation is very good.

   More importantly, the Champions League group match is on November 29th, and on December 1st, Crystal Palace will have a fifteenth round match of the Premier League, and they are going to challenge Sunderland away.

   Therefore, Chen Ran still made a large rotation of the starting lineup of Crystal Palace, and all the players who played the whole game in the game against Chelsea sat on the bench.

  In the end, with the goals of Dzeko and Cavani, Crystal Palace drew Rosenberg 2:2 away. While getting four wins and one draw, one round ahead of schedule was guaranteed to advance to the Champions League round of 16 as the first in the group.

   As soon as the game was over, Chen Ran flew back to London with the team overnight.

   Chen Ran is now accustomed to the perverted schedule of the **** FA.

   Fortunately, Sunderland is not a strong team. Although it is not easy to fly around, the rotation made by Chen Ran in advance still ensures that the main players of Crystal Palace have enough physical strength to win the opponent.

  In the end, with the goals of Ronaldo, Thiago Silva and Vieira, Crystal Palace easily defeated the opponent 3:1 away.

  At the same time as he got three points, Chen Ran also got a winning bonus of 2 million euros from the system after a long absence.

   In other matches in the Premier League this round, Manchester United beat Fulham 2-0 at Old Trafford, and Chelsea beat West Ham United 1-0 at Stamford Bridge.

   Arsenal beat Aston Villa 2:1 away, Liverpool beat Bolton 4:0 at Anfield.

   In the league standings, Crystal Palace is still one point ahead of Manchester United and four points ahead of Chelsea without any change.

   A week later, in the 16th round of the Premier League, Crystal Palace went to Old Trafford to challenge Manchester United.

   Just when Chen Ran was leading the team to actively prepare for the game, Stephen found his office again.

   "Chen, the latest news, the negotiations between G14 and UEFA and FIFA have progressed, and the opinions of each member club are now being solicited."

   "Oh? Has there been progress? Could it be that UEFA and FIFA made concessions?"

   Hearing the news brought by Stephen, Chen Ran, a reborn, actually knew the result in his heart, but he still acted with it.

   "It's a concession. However, this concession is conditional."

   "UEFA and FIFA have promised that they can compensate the player's club for injuries while representing the national team. But the condition is: G14 must be disbanded."

   "Disband G14? This is expected."

   Hearing the same conditions as in the previous life, Chen Ran knew that the wheel of history was still running according to the original trajectory.

   "Er Chen, you don't seem to be surprised by this condition?"

   Stephen was very surprised by Chen Ran's expression that was not surprised at all.

   "What's the surprise? If I were the president of UEFA or the president of FIFA, I would do the same."

   Seeing Stephen's reaction, Chen Ran reminded himself in his heart that he had to act in a full set.

   "Uh, that seems to be the case. Chen, when the G14 meeting, how will we express our position? Do you agree or disagree?"

   "Don't be in a hurry, we'll just have to wait and see the results."

   "Er Chen, what do you mean"

   As Chen Ran's friend for many years, Stephen immediately noticed that there was something in Chen Ran's words.

   "G14 was vigorous and powerful when it was established. As a result, so many years have passed, and nothing has been achieved. If we hadn't joined G14 a while ago, this organization would have been forgotten."

   "Now that UEFA and FIFA are finally willing to make concessions, those guys don't hurry up and accept it?"

   "In any case, I finally got real money and silver. It can be said that there is no toss in vain. Now that I have closed my hands, I have an explanation for all aspects, which can be regarded as HAPPYENDING."

   "Huh? Then it's over since Crystal Palace joined G14. Isn't it a waste of time?" After hearing Chen Ran's analysis, Stephen suddenly lost his interest.

   "Who said it was a waste of time?"

  Chen Ran patted Stephen on the shoulder, the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

   (end of this chapter)