Football Feast, Starting From the Acquisition of European Clubs: Chapter 162 New Changes in the System - Unexpected Joy
Chapter 162 New Changes in the System - Unexpected Happiness
Because of the problem of nail households in England, Chen Ran decided to build a new stadium on the existing land.
In the new season, Selhurst Park, the original home of Crystal Palace, is about to become history, and the FA has also approved the application of Crystal Palace and Arsenal to share Highbury Stadium.
Coincidentally, the traditional Community Shield game before the start of the Premier League happened to be between last season's Premier League champion Crystal Palace and last season's FA Cup champion Arsenal.
The match was played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. Vieira, who had just transferred from Arsenal to Crystal Palace this summer, was also put into the Crystal Palace starting lineup by Chen Ran.
It is estimated that Vieira himself did not expect that he would face his old club so soon.
On the Arsenal side, Hleb, who was newly introduced in the summer, also appeared in the starting lineup.
When Louis reported to Chen Ran the transfer situation of several giants, Chen Ran was a little puzzled.
After letting go of the midfielder Vieira, Arsenal bought an attacking player Hleb, who mainly plays in the midfield and midfield.
Is Wenger so confident in Arsenal's reserve of midfielders?
In this Community Shield competition, we can just see what medicines are sold in Wenger's gourd.
Because the new season of the Premier League will officially start in a week, Chen Ran also sent all the main players in this match against Arsenal to test the effect of Crystal Palace's previous preparations.
Center Tony
Left midfielder Cristiano Ronaldo, midfielder Modric, right midfielder Ribery
Midfielder Vieira, midfielder Simeone
Left-back Chiellini, centre-back Gareth Southgate, centre-back Vidic, right-back Maicon
Goalkeeper Cech
On the Arsenal side, Wenger is also the main force
F Henry, striker Bergkamp
Left MF Pires, MF Gilberto Silva, MF Hleb, MF Ljungberg
Left-back Ashley Cole, center-back Kolo Toure, center-back Campbell, right-back Lauren
Goalkeeper Lehmann
When Chen Ran saw that Wenger arranged Hleb in the middle, he was not only impressed by Wenger's courage.
To use such a player who is obviously strong in attack and weak in defense to play in the middle, that is, all the tasks of defense are handed over to Gilberto Silva alone.
What is Wenger trying to do?
Replacing defense with offense?
Do you think that you can’t find a suitable replacement for Vieira, so you simply give up defense and use offense to suppress your opponent?
Haha, then look at Arsenal's lineup, compared with Crystal Palace, who is suppressing who.
Because the nature of the Community Shield match is more like a friendly match, Chen Ran adopted Guardiola's tactics and pressed the onslaught at the beginning.
As Chen Ran predicted, Wenger really wanted to attack instead of defend.
As soon as the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game, Arsenal also all pressed on the attack.
This time, fans who came to Cardiff Millennium Stadium were blessed.
Crystal Palace and Arsenal both attacked aggressively.
But soon, the situation on the field began to tilt towards Crystal Palace.
Because Arsenal's midfielder, Hleb, was responsible for organizing the attack, obviously unable to meet Wenger's expectations, and it was always difficult to cross the Crystal Palace midfield line composed of Vieira and Simeone.
On the two flanks, whether it is Pires and Ashley Cole against Ribery and Maicon, or Ljungberg and Lauren against Ronaldo and Chiellini, Arsenal have the upper hand. Nothing cheap.
Especially on Ronaldo's side, Ljungberg and Lauren were obviously at a disadvantage and were eaten to death by Ronaldo.
Less than 20 minutes into the game, the entire Arsenal formation was forced back to their own half by Crystal Palace little by little.
Henry and Bergkamp, who stayed in front, were not supported by the midfield, and their power was greatly reduced.
The initiative on the field once again fell into the hands of Crystal Palace.
Seeing this situation, Chen Ran on the sidelines was completely relieved. Wenger's strategy of attacking and defending, at least for Crystal Palace, has little effect.
Thinking of this, Chen Ran quietly glanced at Wenger on the other side, and saw that the professor's face was gloomy, obviously not in a good mood.
At this time, Wenger was actually not really angry.
This method of substituting offense for defense is nothing but his helpless act.
In fact, Wenger was mentally prepared for how much effect he could have.
This kind of strategy is fine to play against weak teams, but against a strong team like Crystal Palace, it is estimated that it will have little effect, because there is no suppression at all.
It’s not that Wenger doesn’t want to buy a midfielder to replace Vieira, but that a good midfielder in the transfer market is too expensive.
Seeing that Chelsea spent 50 million euros to buy Essien, Wenger knew that it was better to give up this unrealistic idea given Arsenal's current financial situation.
Because of the nature of the competition in the Community Shield, the two coaches did not pay much attention to the outcome.
Neither Chen Ran nor Wenger commanded too much adjustment.
At the end of the first half of the game, Cristiano Ronaldo finally broke the deadlock for Crystal Palace, with a header that broke the goal guarded by Lehmann.
Crystal Palace lead Arsenal 1-0.
At halftime, Chen Ran used up 5 substitutions at one time.
replaced Jan Kohler, Evra, Alves, Mascherano and Yaya Toure.
Wenger was not as aggressive as Chen Ran, but he also changed three players.
The second half of the game was still very open, with Alves and Henry each scoring a goal.
In the end, Crystal Palace defeated Arsenal 2:1 and won the Community Shield for the first time.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for winning the first game of the new season and obtaining a first-level harvest card. The attendance rate of Crystal Palace's next three home games will reach 100%."
"Huh? The system really does what it says, it's really a new thing."
Chen Ran curiously looked at the first-level harvest card in the system.
Although they did not give money directly, considering that Crystal Palace will play football at Highbury Stadium, a place they don’t know well this season, it can be considered a disguised gift of money.
You should know that Arsenal's Highbury Stadium is located in north London, and most of the fans of Crystal Palace live in south London.
If they were going to watch the game at Highbury Stadium, they would have to cross most of London from south to north.
Therefore, Chen Ran is actually not sure how many fans will be willing to travel long distances to watch the Crystal Palace game at Highbury Stadium in the new season.
If the stadium is empty when you are playing at home, wouldn’t it be ugly for the defending champions of Crystal Palace?
Well now, with this Tier 1 Harvest card, at least Crystal Palace's attendance for the first three home games is guaranteed.
As long as you keep getting the Harvest Cards in the next games, those Crystal Palace ticket revenue this season will not have to worry.
You must know that Highbury Stadium can accommodate more than 38,000 spectators, while the original Selhurst Park Stadium of Crystal Palace can only accommodate more than 26,000 spectators.
If all are calculated according to the maximum capacity, Crystal Palace's ticket revenue this season can increase by at least 50%.
At this moment, Chen Ran felt that although he was not as happy as giving money directly before, the new changes in the system were not bad, and he hoped that there would be more surprises in the future.
A week later, the 2005-2006 Premier League season officially began.
In the first round, Crystal Palace faced Charlton at home.
Before the game, Chen Ran was most worried not about Charlton's opponent, but whether the first-class harvest card in his hand was really effective.
So that after the team took the bus to Highbury Stadium, Chen Ran was reluctant to enter the locker room.
He asked Guardiola, Southgate and Simeone to take the players to the locker room to prepare for the game, but he stayed outside to observe the fans entering the field.
When he saw fans wearing Crystal Palace jerseys constantly appearing in the stands of Highbury Stadium and gradually filling up, Chen Ran finally let go.
It seems that this first-level harvest card is indeed effective.
The game itself has nothing to say. Compared with Crystal Palace, Charlton's strength is too different.
Chen Ran directed Crystal Palace to attack with full force from the first minute of the game.
In the first half, Tony and Vidic took advantage of the set-piece and scored a header each. In the second half, Ronaldo staged another solo ride and scored a single-handed goal.
In the end, Crystal Palace easily defeated Charlton with a score of 3:0 in their first game at Highbury Stadium.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for winning the Premier League game, and a special bonus of 2 million euros for winning."
"Hey, it seems that the winning bonus has not been completely cancelled. It is a pity that the bonus has not been increased, and it is still 2 million euros."
Although there are no surprises this time, I am still very satisfied with Chen Ran when I have the money.
In other games in this round, Chelsea beat Wigan Athletic 1-0, Manchester United beat Everton 2-0, Arsenal beat Newcastle United 2-0 and Liverpool 0-0 Drawn by Middlesbrough.
After the first round of the Premier League, Crystal Palace once again ranked at the top of the Premier League with the advantage of goal difference.
A week later, in the second round of the Premier League, there were two strong dialogue contests.
One game is Arsenal vs. Chelsea, and the other is Crystal Palace going to Anfield to challenge the new Champions League champions Liverpool.
After the reversal in Istanbul, the spirit of the entire team is different now.
Although the performance in the Premier League is still so inconsistent, in the first round of the game, among several strong teams, only Liverpool did not win.
But from top to bottom, they are filled with an inexplicable confidence.
Just like when Chen Ran asked Little Fatty to contact Harvey Alonso before, he was also categorically rejected by the other party.
Chen Ran didn't dare to neglect this kind of team.
If you really want to make Liverpool go crazy, then it will be difficult to clean up. Even the prosperous AC Milan can get down on the ground.
Because it was an away game, Chen Ran cautiously adopted defensive counterattack tactics.
Center Tony
Left midfielder Cristiano Ronaldo, right midfielder Ribery
Midfielder Vieira, Midfielder Modric, Midfielder Simeone
Left-back Chiellini, centre-back Gareth Southgate, centre-back Vidic, right-back Maicon
Goalkeeper Cech
On the Liverpool side, the confident Benitez also came out in full force.
striker Morientes, striker Cisse
Left MF Zenden, MF Xavi Alonso, MF Gerrard, MF Luis Garcia
Left-back Riise, center-back Hypia, center-back Carragher, right-back Finnan
Goalkeeper Reina
I don't know if it was Liang Jingru's courage. Benitez didn't seem to care about what he was facing. It was a team that won the Premier League title with an unbeaten record last season.
The starting lineup he sent was purely for offense.
Except for Harvey Alonso and Gerrard, who are barely balanced on offense and defense, Zenden and Luis Garcia on the two flanks, one is a typical winger, and the other is simply a striker.
Seeing Benitez's formation, Chen Ran suddenly realized that this guy was aiming for three points.
As expected by Chen Ran, Liverpool pressed up aggressively at the beginning of the game, just like the scene when Crystal Palace beat Charlton in the last game.
However, Crystal Palace is clearly not comparable to Charlton.
After two years of running-in, these players on the court have already been very tacit.
Even Vieira, who just joined in the summer, is an experienced top player. He doesn't need to be greeted by other teammates at all, he knows what to do when and what to do.
So, although Liverpool's offense looked fierce, it didn't create any real threatening scoring opportunities.
Ten minutes, twenty minutes, and gradually, Liverpool players also began to enter the first physical bottleneck period.
Chen Ran counted the time on the sidelines, and he worked hard, and then fell again and again, and exhausted three times. The experience of the ancestors still works.
"Little Luca!"
Look at the 30th minute of the game, Chen Ran immediately greeted Modric on the sidelines.
Taking advantage of the dead ball, Modric ran over.
"Boss, what are your instructions?"
"Your position is premised now, go to play the attacking midfielder. Then tell others that Liverpool's players are a little tired, and now it's our turn to take action. Move me 20 meters forward in the overall formation, and press Liverpool back to me."
"clear."
After listening to Chen Ran's challenge, Modric had no unnecessary nonsense, turned around and ran back to the court.
Soon, the players of Benitez and Liverpool found that the players of Crystal Palace began to move forward as a whole, and it became more and more difficult for them to cooperate in passing and cutting in the midfield.
"No, Crystal Palace is going to launch a counterattack."
Benitez didn't eat dry rice either, and he immediately saw Chen Ran's intentions.
He also knew that after 30 minutes of onslaught by Liverpool's players, they have now entered a bottleneck period of physical fitness.
This Chinese man really knows how to seize the moment.
Watching the fierce battle between the players on both sides in the midfield, Benitez's face became more and more solemn.
Because, although Harvey Alonso and Gerrard in the middle are not at a disadvantage, the weak defensive ability of Zenden and Luis Garcia on the two wings has become two huge loopholes at this time.
How to do? Do you want to make adjustments now?
(end of this chapter)