Football Feast, Starting From the Acquisition of European Clubs: Chapter 127 I thank his eight generations of ancestors!

   Chapter 127 I thank his eighth ancestors!

   Intermission, Crystal Palace dressing room.

   "Diego, are you tired in the first half? Come down and rest in the second half. We still have the Premier League to play the day after tomorrow."

   "Okay, boss."

  Simeone nodded, he knew that this was not the time to be brave, after all, age was not forgiving.

   In the first half, in order to get rid of him, Riquelme ran with Simeone all over the field, but he was exhausted.

   "Nemanja, you will replace Diego as the captain of the field in the second half."

   "Don't worry, boss, I won't let you down."

   Before Chen Ran finished speaking, Vidic stood up excitedly, and while busy showing his loyalty, he took the captain's armband handed over by Simeone.

   "Javier, your task after you play is to replace Diego to mark Riquelme. I only have one request, which is where he goes, where you go, and destroy him as much as possible to organize the attack."

   "Also, Riquelme is a more emotional player, you have to find a way to provoke him, so that his threat will be greatly reduced, understand?"

   "Understood, boss."

  Chen Ran turned to look at Mascherano again, explaining clearly what he needed to do.

"Little Luca, move forward to play the attacking midfielder, we are going to start attacking in the second half. However, if the ball falls to Villarreal, you have to focus on their midfielder Marcos Senna , he also has a certain organizational ability, and he cannot be missed."

   "Okay, boss."

   Hearing Chen Ran calling out his name, Modric immediately nodded in response.

   "Seske, you replaced Yaya in the second half. Your task is very heavy. You are not only responsible for the defensive task of the midfielder, but also assisting Luka to organize the offense. Can you do it?"

   "No problem, boss."

   Cesc Fabregas patted his chest with a bang, and with constant experience, his self-confidence is getting stronger and stronger now.

   After the intermission was over and the players walked out of the locker room, Guardiola approached Chen Ran again.

   "Boss, isn't it too risky for you to change?" Guardiola looked at Chen Ran worriedly.

   "Mascherano is going to mark Riquelme. If he is taken away by Riquelme, then we will have only Cesc Fabregas in the midfield position."

   "And Cesc Fabregas is not yet a specialized defensive midfielder, isn't this position too thin?"

   I have to say that Chen Ran's evolution is indeed a bit risky, and Guardiola's concerns are not without reason.

   "Josep, who do you think Villarreal's attack started?"

  Chen Ran did not directly answer Guardiola's question, but instead asked him a question.

   "That must be Riquelme, and maybe Marcos Senna"

   "Oh, I see." Guardiola exclaimed.

   Without waiting for Chen Ran to answer, he suddenly realized, and suddenly wanted to understand Chen Ran's arrangement.

"Boss, you mean, Riquelme with Mascherano and Marcos Senna with Modric, thus freezing both Villarreal playmakers ."

   "That's right. Villarreal's offense is mainly organized by these two people. If you stare at these two people, more than half of Villarreal's offense will be abolished."

   "And their side attack, it's not that I despise Villarreal, it's not comparable to us at all."

   "Of course, there must be risks. But Modric and Cesc Fabregas are on the court at the same time. After our offensive starts, how many chances are left for Villarreal to attack? It's hard to say."

   After adjusting the tactics, as soon as the second half started, the Crystal Palace's formation began to press forward as a whole.

  The pressure on Villarreal suddenly increased sharply, and he could no longer pass and cooperate smoothly in the middle and frontcourt as in the first half.

   "You bastard, don't follow me all the time, is it over yet?"

  Riquelme stared at Mascherano sullenly, both of whom are Argentines and naturally have no trouble communicating.

   There was a Simeone who took care of him in the first half, but it was a long-established Argentine predecessor. Although Riquelme was arrogant, he didn't dare to say anything.

   Unexpectedly, Simeone was replaced by Crystal Palace at half-time. As a result, a younger and better running Mascherano continued to haunt him.

   "Haha, don't be angry. I can't help it either. The boss told me that I will follow you all the time. I will follow you wherever you go."

  Mascherano laughed and didn't turn his back on Riquelme. After all, he was a fellow Argentinian, and he might even play with the national team in the future.

   "Your Chinese boss really looks down on me, and he even arranged for Argentines to stare at me."

   "Uh, maybe the boss thinks that Argentines know Argentines better. However, you should thank our boss, at least we are Argentines, we won't put black feet on you."

   Mascherano spoke to Riquelme, but his feet did not slacken in the slightest.

   followed closely by Riquelme and tangled Riquelme in a hurry.

   "I thank his eighth ancestors!"

"what!"

   As soon as he finished scolding Chen Ran, Riquelme let out a scream.

   "Fxxxk! Didn't you say that they are all Argentines and can't have black feet?"

  Riquelme fell to the ground, holding his feet and glaring at Mascherano.

   "You can't blame me for this. Who made you move so fast? I wanted to stab the ball, but you stabbed the ball first and stabbed it in your foot."

   "Why don't you move slower next time?"

"roll!"

   Mascherano touched the back of his head and explained to Riquelme apologetically, and wanted to reach out to Larry Kerme.

   As a result, Riquelme didn't dump him at all, and slapped Mascherano's hand open.

   "Beep!"

   The referee who originally called Mascherano for a foul happened to see Riquelme’s action and immediately showed him a yellow card.

   "Fx"

  Riquelme was going crazy. He was kicked and he got a yellow card instead.

  Is there still king law?

  Is there still heaven?

   Just as he was about to blurt out an international greeting, he found that the referee was staring at him with his hands already in his pockets.

   Fortunately, Riquelme's mind was still awake, remembering that he already had a yellow card on him, so he swallowed the second half of a word abruptly.

   When the referee walked away, Riquelme asked Mascherano with a dark face: "Are all your Crystal Palace players so shameless?"

   "Hey, the main thing is that the boss taught me well."

  There is no doubt about the talent of South American players, but compared with European players, their tactical discipline is not good enough, and they are very affected by emotions.

   Since being plotted by Mascherano, Riquelme's performance has been seriously affected. Obsessed with one-on-one contests with Mascherano, he put aside the matter of organizing the attack.

   Pellegrini on the sidelines also noticed Riquelme’s abnormality. Taking advantage of a dead ball, he deliberately called Riquelme to the sidelines.

   "Juan, don't always compete with that Mascherano, it is more important to organize the attack."

"I see."

  Riquelme agreed casually, without even looking at Pellegrini, turned around and ran back to the court.

  Pellegrini's face darkened with anger, what is the attitude of this special meow? Dad is the head coach!

   But thinking that the team's offense now has to rely on Riquelme, Pellegrini decided to put up with it first and settle accounts later.

After   Riquelme was taken over by Mascherano, more than half of Villarreal's offense was crippled.

   This time, Crystal Palace had no worries, and the offensive immediately overwhelmed Villarreal.

   After stealing the ball from Figueroa, Cesc Fabregas immediately passed a big foot to Tony from the back.

   "Chris!"

  Toni didn't stop the ball, leaned on the Villarreal center back Alvarez who was following him, shouted Ronaldo's name, shook his head directly, and ferried the ball to the left.

  Cristiano Ronaldo understood and started to activate when he heard Tony's voice, and instantly threw off Villarreal's right back Javi Venta.

   Then a fancy heel picked up the ball, picked the ball directly from behind to front, without any deceleration, went straight to the penalty area of ​​Villarreal.

   At this time, Villarreal's right back Javi Venta has been left behind by Cristiano Ronaldo, and right central defender Alvarez was also taken out of the penalty area by Tony.

   In other words, Villarreal's right half of the penalty area is already empty.

   "Gonzalo, hurry up and defend!"

   Villarreal's goalkeeper Barbosa hurriedly greeted another central defender, Gonzalo.

  Gonzalo also knew that the situation was not good, and rushed to the right desperately.

  Cristiano Ronaldo saw that someone came to make up the defense, and immediately shrewdly dunked his left foot, dunked Gonzalo who hurried over, and then raised his right foot to shoot.

"boom!"

  Unfortunately, Cristiano Ronaldo's shot angle was a bit right, but Barbosa threw the ball away and the ball flew to the other side.

  Suddenly, a small man rushed out.

   Before Villarreal's left-back Arua Barina made a clearance, he jumped to the top and headed the ball towards Villarreal's goal.

   At this point, Barbosa just got up from the ground, and before he could make a second save, the ball flew into the net.

   "Goal"

  It was Ribery who scored a header!

  Crystal Palace lead Villarreal 1:0.

   Ribery, who was also very excited that he could score a header, ran all the way to celebrate, and then was crushed by the Crystal Palace teammates who came.

   "Fxxxk! Stop squeezing, **** will be squeezed out by you!"

   After breaking the deadlock, Chen Ran did not shrink the defense, but continued to maintain the current offensive intensity and continued to put pressure on Villarreal.

   "Boss, we have another Premier League game the day after tomorrow, can we get it now?"

   Guardiola looked at the time, and the game had reached seventy minutes.

   "Wait a minute. Villarreal's attack power is very strong, and our defensive stability is weakened. I worry that once the attack strength drops, Villarreal will seize the opportunity to counterattack."

   "However, how much energy is left to cope with the Premier League the day after tomorrow? We have to fly back to London overnight."

   "We already have a ten-point lead in the Premier League, and there is some room for error. But in the UEFA Cup, we have no chance of making mistakes. Let's win the UEFA Cup first."

"Understood."

   Guardiola nodded helplessly, and that was all he could do.

   After another ten minutes, Chen Ran replaced Modric with Pepe.

   Using Pepe, Cesc Fabregas and Mascherano to form the three midfielders, Crystal Palace's entire formation began to shrink and played a defensive counterattack.

   Even so, Villarreal seized the opportunity in the last ten minutes and slammed hard several times, almost breaking the Crystal Palace goal.

   In the end, when the referee blew the final whistle at the end of the game, Crystal Palace scored a header with Ribery's header and beat Villarreal 1:0 away.

   He won three consecutive UEFA Cup group matches and ranked first in Group E. At the same time, it also brought Chen Ran a winning bonus of 2.5 million euros.

   As soon as the game was over, Chen Ran took the team to London overnight.

  No way, in the Premier League the day after tomorrow, Crystal Palace is still an away game.

  This schedule is too immoral.

  It was the morning of the second day after arriving in London. Chen Ran did not let the team go home, but instead arranged to rest in the hotel.

  The players can rest, but Chen Ran can't. He has to prepare for the game against Southampton tomorrow.

   Southampton is not strong, and it is also a team that fights for relegation all the year round. It is currently ranked fourth from last in the Premier League.

   From this point of view, it is good news for Crystal Palace.

In the summer, Southampton brought in defender Van Damme from Ajax, striker Croce from Aston Villa, defender Yasia from Guingamp and defender from Brondby Jacobson and more.

  Chen Ran looked around and found no outstanding players.

  So, he decided to test the strength of the Crystal Palace substitutes in this game.

   striker Crouch, striker Tony

   Left midfielder Evra, center midfielder Cesc Fabregas, center midfielder Yaya Toure, right midfielder Alves

  Left-back Chiellini, center-back Thiago Silva, center-back Vidic, right-back Maicon

   Goalkeeper Cech

   It was said that a substitute was sent, but in fact Chen Ran only made rotations in the midfield and frontcourt. In the back line, he did not dare to move.

  When the Southampton manager found out that Crystal Palace had a lot of substitutes in the line-up, he was ecstatic and thought he had hope of taking points from the league leaders.

  Unfortunately, Chen Ran did not rotate the defense.

   This made it difficult for Southampton to find that they could not break the Crystal Palace defense at all.

   Also, due to Chen Ran's large rotation, Crystal Palace's offensive ability has declined, so Crystal Palace has been slow to break the deadlock on the field.

  In this way, it was a bland and boring game, until after Chen Ran replaced Ronaldo and Ribery in the second half, Tony scored a header.

  Crystal Palace beat Southampton 1:0 away and won 15 consecutive Premier League victories. At the same time, it also brought Chen Ran a winning bonus of 2 million euros.

   In other Premier League games this round, Liverpool beat Arsenal 2:1 at Anfield, Chelsea beat Charlton 4:0 away, and Manchester United also beat West Bromwich Albion 3:0 away.

   After the fifteenth round of the Premier League, Crystal Palace topped the standings with 15 consecutive victories and 45 points.

  Chelsea ranked second with 11 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses with 35 points.

  Arsenal ranked third with nine wins, three draws, three losses and 30 points.

  After returning to London, exhausted Chen Ran fell asleep.

   It wasn't until noon the next day that he was woken up by Fatty's phone call.

   "Chen, there is new news from the private detective."

   There may be an update in the evening, just write it and post it.

  

  

   (end of this chapter)