MTL - Football Feast, Starting From the Acquisition of European Clubs-Chapter 431 helpless choice

   Robben and Maicon are also old rivals. From the time he just landed at Chelsea to now, he has suffered a lot in the process of playing against Maicon over the years.

   So that Robben is a little nervous when he sees Maicon, and his performance in the game is naturally greatly reduced.

   Coupled with Chen Ran's deliberate tactics against him, Robben had to devote most of his energy to assisting Marcelo's defense. For a while, Real Madrid's left attack almost came to a standstill.

   Mourinho, who saw all this in his eyes, shook his head helplessly, turned and called Portuguese left-back Coentrao from the bench again.

   After a simple warm-up, Mourinho replaced Robben with Coentrao to play left-back, and then pushed Marcelo to the front to play left-back.

After    left the burden of defending Messi to Coentrao, who had just come on the field, Marcelo immediately became active.

  He and Maicon are both Brazil internationals and know each other very well. Coupled with the same full-back, Maicon's little tricks Marcelo are also well aware of.

   Mourinho made such an adjustment, and Real Madrid's left attack suddenly regained its vitality.

   Seeing Mourinho replacing Robben, Chen Ran immediately called Southgate to his side.

   "Gareth, you now tell Alves to warm up and replace Maicon with him later. You tell Alves, Marcelo will let him deal with it."

   "Okay, boss."

   Soon, Real Madrid's attack on the left side, which had just improved, was pressed down by the new force Alves.

   is also a Brazil international and a full-back. Marcelo, who has already played most of the game, was immediately guarded by Alves, who was well-informed and energetic.

   Seeing this situation, Mourinho was also very helpless.

   Chen Ran saw through all his moves several times, and now he has used up three substitutions, and the rest can only be seen by the players on the court.

  Crystal Palace's side, after successfully suppressing Real Madrid's attack, Chen Ran still put the main attack direction on the right side of Messi.

  No way, who made him the head coach of the Portugal national team?

   Mourinho's newly replaced Coentrao is also a Portugal international. Chen Ran also knows his characteristics very well.

  Chen Ran knew very well that Coentrao couldn't guard Messi.

   As expected by Chen Ran, Coentrao performed well when he first came on the court, defending Messi's attack several times.

   But after a long time, when Crystal Palace repeatedly attacked him along the way, making him exhausted, Coentram finally made a mistake.

  When Messi rushed over with the ball again, Coentrao made too much of a grab, and was swayed by Messi through his crotch.

   Then Messi dribbled the ball diagonally into Real Madrid's penalty area, and central defender Albiol hurried over to make up the defense.

  Messi made another false shot to make Albiol think he was going to cut inside to shoot. Just when Albiol was preventing him from cutting inside, Messi took the ball to the bottom line.

   At this time, Casillas, who found that the situation was not good, quickly moved to the near post to prevent Messi from hitting the goal from a small angle.

   As a result, Messi used a shot to draw the ball horizontally in front of Real Madrid's goal.

"boom!"

  The ball flew past the goal quickly and quickly, whether it was a Crystal Palace attacker or a Real Madrid defender, whoever touched the ball could block the goal.

  In the penalty area, seeing Messi's pass, Ronaldo rushed over immediately, he threw his body out, trying to block the ball into Real Madrid's goal.

   Seeing this situation, Metzelder, who was in charge of marking Ronaldo, had no choice but to bite the bullet and stretch his feet to block the ball. He hoped to be able to block the ball from the baseline.

   However, Messi used the power of his shot to pass the ball, which was extremely fast and did not give Metzelder a chance to adjust at all.

  Metzelder did touch the ball before Ronaldo, however, the ball did not block the bottom line as he wished, but was directly kicked into his own goal by him.

   At this time, Casillas, who had just defended Messi's shot at the near post, could not come back, and could only watch his teammates complete a very wonderful tackle.

  “GOAL!!!”

   With Metzelder's own goal, Crystal Palace led Real Madrid 2-0 away.

   As soon as this second goal was scored, the Bernabeu Stadium, which had been lively like a vegetable market before, suddenly quieted down.

   On the sidelines, Mourinho, with a gloomy face, couldn't help but feel a little frustrated. Is he going to lose to Chen Ran again this time?

   In the rest of the game, although Real Madrid, which had hurt morale, was still attacking, it was no longer comparable to the previous one in terms of intensity and frequency.

   However, near the end of the game, Ibrahimovic once again performed a magical performance.

   He had been unable to reach the ball in the penalty area of ​​Crystal Palace, so he ran to the midfield and took the initiative to ask for the ball.

   Then, at a distance of nearly 40 meters from the Crystal Palace goal, under the interference of Mascherano, a super-long fallen leaf ball directly broke the goal guarded by Cech, saving a little face for Real Madrid.

  In the end, with Ribery's goal and Metzelder's own goal, Crystal Palace defeated Real Madrid 2:1 away.

  At the same time as he got the initiative to advance to the semi-finals of the Champions League, Chen Ran also got a "Level 1 Chicken Blood Card" from the system.

   After the game, the pro-Barcelona media will naturally not miss the opportunity to ridicule Mourinho.

   Reports such as "The Chinese are defeated" and "Mourinho should give up his illusions and set the target of his pursuit as Guardiola" are more mean than each other, making Mourinho half-dead.

   Chen Ran naturally did not care about the damage he caused to Mourinho. Early the next morning, he flew back to London with Crystal Palace.

  Because in two days, they will usher in the 33rd round of the Premier League against Manchester City at the Emirates Stadium.

   After two consecutive seasons of generous investment, and after last season's run-in, this season's Manchester City club under the leadership of Mancini seems to be completely reborn.

   They have been at the top of the standings since the beginning of the season.

   Although they have little chance of competing for the Premier League trophy, they are still very hopeful to get a place in the Champions League.

   Manchester City Club, Mancini's office.

   "How is it? Roberto, do you have the confidence to win Crystal Palace this time?"

  Raiola asked Mancini with a smile.

  As the transfer consultant of Manchester City Club, the team has made a lot of signings for two consecutive seasons. Various commissions and consultant fees have made him a lot of money.

   Coupled with Manchester City's outstanding performance this season, the boss Mansour also pays special attention to him. The current Raiola can be said to be proud of the spring breeze.

"do not know."

  Mancini shrugged.

  Although the team is doing well now, as the head coach, Mancini's mind is still relatively clear.

   "So unconfident? Crystal Palace just played a game against Real Madrid in Spain. With only two days between them and the fatigue of the journey, they can't get back to their best condition at all."

   "Roberto, why don't you learn the bus tactics used by other teams against Crystal Palace? Crystal Palace's physical fitness is not good, then use the war of attrition to kill them."

   Raiola’s biggest star now, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, plays for Real Madrid, and he naturally watched the UEFA Champions League broadcast.

  In Raiola's view, if Mourinho lets Real Madrid shrink the defense, the game may not be lost.

   "The bus? That doesn't fit my tactical philosophy."

  Mancini frowned slightly and immediately rejected Raiola's proposal.

   "I said, why are you so hard-headed? It's not like you are asked to set up the bus every day, but once in a while? So many strong teams set up the bus when they play against Crystal Palace, and scoring points is the most important thing."

  Raiola looked at Mancini with a look of hatred for iron.

   In his opinion, if he can't get points, any tactics are shit.

   "Minuo, don't say it anymore, no team won the championship by using bus tactics."

  Mancini looked firmly at Raiola. He still doesn't know that in his previous life, Chelsea won the team's first Champions League by relying on the bus tactics.

   hurried back to Crystal Palace in London, just had a simple recovery training, and was about to face this Premier League match with Manchester City.

   As Raiola analyzed, although Chen Ran has adopted a tactical approach with less physical energy consumption in the game against Real Madrid, the current physical condition of the main players is still not optimistic.

   In desperation, Chen Ran just sent a large number of substitute players to Manchester City.

   striker Suarez, striker Cavani

  Left midfielder Ribery, center midfielder Cesc Fabregas, center midfielder Beckham, right midfielder Vardy

   Left-back Evra, center-back Kompany, center-back Pepe, right-back Alves

   Goalkeeper Van der Sar

   On the Manchester City side, without the drag of the European war, the physical condition of the Manchester City players is much better, and Mancini naturally sent the team's strongest lineup to challenge Crystal Palace.

  Forward Tevez, Forward Adebayor

   Left midfielder Petrov, center midfielder Vieira, center midfielder Gago, right midfielder De Jong

  Left-back Drenthe, center-back Kolo Toure, center-back Lescott, right-back Sabaleta

  Goalkeeper Shay

  Mancini did not follow Raiola's suggestion to put the bus, but he still strengthened Manchester City's defensive strength on the field, replacing the sharp attacking winger Wright Phillips with the defensive giant De Jong.

   When Chen Ran saw the Manchester City starting list, he immediately judged that Mancini had put the team's main attack direction on the left today.

  So, he deliberately called Crystal Palace's starting right midfielder Vardy to his side.

   "Jamie, your main task today is to target Manchester City's left midfielder Petrov. As long as Manchester City attack from the left, you must follow Petrov wherever he goes. Understand?"

   "Understood, boss."

  Valdi answered with a strong force.

   There are not many opportunities to start, and Vardy cherishes it.

  So, when the game started, Petrov immediately found himself with a nasty guy next to him.

"stay away from me!"

   Petrov glared fiercely at the young man in front of him, and said angrily.

   "The boss gave me the instruction: I will follow you wherever you go."

  Valdi smiled naively and directly told Petrov of Chen Ran's order.

   Petrov was stunned for a moment, unable to believe his ears.

   How can you tell your opponents the coach's instructions directly?

   Is this guy an idiot?

   Peterlov, who was afraid that it would be contagious to communicate with idiots too much, simply ignored Vardy.

  However, he soon discovered that this suspected idiot was not an ordinary difficult person.

   He really did it, he went wherever he went.

   On the sidelines, Mancini, who has been paying close attention to the situation on the field, immediately discovered this situation.

   He almost immediately concluded that this must have been a deliberate arrangement by the Chinese to limit Petrov's offensive ability.

  Although Vardy is an offensive player, his defensive ability is average. However, he used his relentless running and active scramble to greatly weaken Petrov's offensive threat.

   As a result, Manchester City is in the same situation as Real Madrid two days ago.

   The right midfielder uses players who are stronger in defense than attacking, and the main attack direction is placed on the left, but the players on the left are restricted by Crystal Palace.

   As a result, the first two super-strength forwards could not receive the ball, and the attack suddenly fell into a stagnant state.

  The game has just started, so it is impossible for Mancini to make a substitution now.

   Fortunately, his mind turned fast, and he immediately came up with a way to deal with it.

   Soon, Chen Ran also saw Mancini's adjustment.

   Tevez, who was originally one of the two strikers, took the initiative to retreat to the attacking midfielder position and took on the task of connecting Manchester City's midfield.

   On the Crystal Palace side, because the team's current midfielders, Cesc Fabregas and Beckham are not full-time defensive midfielders, the defensive hardness is not enough, and they do not do a good job of restricting Manchester City's attack in the middle.

   This time, Manchester City's mid lane attack came alive.

   Seeing this situation, Chen Ran immediately called Southgate to his side.

   "Gareth, you should tell Mascherano to warm up now, and use him to replace Cavani later. The team adopts defensive counterattack tactics, and the formation has changed from 442 to 451."

   "Eh, boss, it's not long before the game starts to change people? Would you like to wait a little longer?"

   "No wait, I'm afraid something will happen."

   "Okay, boss, I'll make arrangements now."

After    sent Southgate away, Chen Ran secretly sighed.

  Yaya Toure's injury disrupted the original rotation plan.

   Just played a game against Real Madrid and he wanted to give Mascherano a break.

But now that Mancini has changed his attack focus to the middle, the two non-professional defensive midfielders, Cesc Fabregas and Beckham, are a bit unstoppable, so Chen Ran can only re-play Mascherano .

   When Mascherano finished his warm-up and walked to the sidelines to wait to play, Chen Ran silently turned on the system and gave Mascherano a "Level 1 Healing Card".