Football Feast, Starting From the Acquisition of European Clubs

   Chapter 67 Guardiola Returns

  Crystal Palace have started their winning streak again since being drawn by Norwich.

  The 11th round of the British Championship, West Ham United 1:3 Crystal Palace;

  The twelfth round of the British Championship, Crystal Palace 2:1 Cardiff City;

  The thirteenth round of the British Championship, Stoke City 0:1 Crystal Palace;

  The fourteenth round of the British Championship, Crystal Palace 3:0 Derby County;

  The fifteenth round of the British Championship, Crystal Palace 5:0 Rotherham;

  The 16th round of the British Championship, Gillingham 0:3 Crystal Palace;

   League Cup third round, Blackpool 1:3 Crystal Palace;

   Until the 17th round of the British Championship, Crystal Palace was tied 0-0 by the second-ranked Wigan Athletic with Norwich's previous defensive tactics.

   The six consecutive wins in the previous six rounds of the British Championship and a League Cup brought Chen Ran another 6.5 million euros.

  Crystal Palace currently has 15 wins and 2 draws, and their unbeaten record of 47 points is far ahead of the second-placed Wigan Athletic.

  During this period, Chen Ran collaborated with Sky TV on the documentary "Why England Can't Win the Championship!" ", after intense shooting and post-production, it was finally officially completed.

  The documentary condenses a total of 30 players who were once called geniuses. Through interviews with them, as well as their relatives, friends, former teammates, and coaches, they told stories of being forced to leave football because of malicious fouls.

  Sky TV can be considered to have invested a lot of money, and came up with a prime-time broadcast of this documentary.

   For a while, it shocked so many fans and even non-fans who pay attention to English football.

   With the help of many media, this documentary made by Chen Ran and Sky TV has become popular.

   A discussion of what exactly is preventing England from winning the title has spread in England.

A single spark can start a prairie fire.

   After that, although the FA did not introduce any new rules and regulations, the punishment for malicious acts of hurting people on the pitch was quietly much heavier than before.

When the    documentary was broadcast, Chen Ran watched it with Guardiola.

   Indistinctly, he seemed to see tears in Guardiola's eyes.

   "Boss, although I can't play football yet, at least I can be your assistant coach on the sidelines."

   After watching the documentary, Guardiola was silent for a long time and couldn't help but say to Chen Ran.

   "Uh, you better take care of your injury and talk about it. I'm still waiting for you to come back and be my midfield core."

  Chen Ran shook his head and rejected his proposal.

   Guardiola's injury recovery is very slow, it is safer to stay at rest.

"Boss, I actually asked the doctor, and he said that my recovery was not good, so I was mentally prepared to not be able to return to the court. During this time, I thought about it a lot. Maybe it's a good choice to concentrate on being a coach. "

   "I still remember, boss, you once promised me, Diego and Gareth, whoever performs well will be the future head coach of Crystal Palace. Boss, don't you want to go back on it?"

  Guardiola looked at Chen Ran pretending to be relaxed, as if to say something very common.

   "Have you made up your mind?"

   staring at Guardiola's eyes, Chen Ran asked slowly.

   Seeing that Guardiola seemed to be mentally prepared to accept the worst outcome, Chen Ran was also relieved, it would be best if he could think about it himself.

"Think about it, before I can play again, I will concentrate on being your assistant coach. If I really can't recover, then I will just retire. Boss, don't forget that I will also teach the tactics I designed. To the Crystal Palace players."

   "Okay, I've been waiting for this day for a long time. If you weren't injured, maybe Crystal Palace would have been able to play the tactics you designed by now, and you wouldn't have been tied twice with the bus tactics."

   The next day, when Chen Ran pushed Pep Guardiola back to the Crystal Palace training base in a wheelchair, all the players responded with warm applause and welcomed him back.

   However, for the players, the painful days also officially began from this day.

   In addition to the daily routine training, Guardiola will sit in a wheelchair and direct his players to practice according to the tactics he designed.

   As long as someone made a mistake, Chen Ran, who was watching from the sidelines, would stand up and scold him.

  In this way, day after day, under the constant repetition of boring training, Guardiola's tactics can finally see a little prototype.

   Then, Crystal Palace started a new round of winning streak.

  The 18th round of the British Championship, Crystal Palace 3:0 Preston;

  The nineteenth round of the British Championship, Crystal Palace 3:1 Crewe;

  The 20th round of the British Championship, Walsall 0:1 Crystal Palace;

  21st round of the British Championship, Crystal Palace 1:0 Coventry.

   After four consecutive victories in the Championship, Chen Ran earned another 4 million euros in addition to 12 points.

  Crystal Palace also continued to lead the Championship with an unbeaten record of 59 points with 19 wins and 2 draws.

   Next, Crystal Palace will usher in the fourth round of the League Cup, away to the Premier League team Aston Villa, which is also the strongest opponent that Chen Ran has faced since he coached Crystal Palace.

   Aston Villa has changed its head coach this season, and the current head coach is David O'Reilly, who once created the glory of Leeds United's youth guards.

   Aston Villa's performance in the first half of the season was not good, and it was even on the verge of relegation.

   However, now they seem to have come out of the trough, their recent record in the Premier League is not bad, and there are signs that they are about to turn around.

   Chen Ran saw two familiar names in Aston Villa's lineup.

  Colombia international Angel and England international Vassell, both of them are forwards, one is skilled and the other is fast, forming Aston Villa's strike partner.

   The recovery of their form has also been a key factor in Aston Villa's recent improvement.

   It seems that Crystal Palace's defense will be put to the real test this time.

  Chen Ran's heart was both a little nervous and a little looking forward to it.

   So far this season, Crystal Palace remains unbeaten, which has caused some bad signs within the team, and many people are a little bit floating.

  To say this is to blame Chen Ran, who made him recruit a group of future world top players for Crystal Palace?

   Although they are still far from mature, there is still a long way to go before the peak. But the group of people together, playing in the Championship is still no problem.

   Always chopping melons and vegetables, can you not float?

   It's time for them to touch a stronger opponent, Chen Ran muttered in his heart.

   Aston Villa's strength is at best in the middle of the Premier League, and it's not stable.

   is a semi-strong opponent. Now that we meet them, we can let the gang of Crystal Palace boys who have never seen the market adapt to the rhythm of the Premier League in advance.

   Well, it fits perfectly.

   (end of this chapter)