MTL - Football Feast, Starting From the Acquisition of European Clubs-Chapter 372 Being a coach is more than just studying tactics

   Chapter 372 Being a coach is not just about studying techniques and tactics

  The latest order from Liverpool's two full-backs, Aurelio and Abeloa, is to prevent Crystal Palace from sending cannonballs from the wing to high points in the penalty area.

   So the two of them focused their defense on marking Messi and Ribery's bottom crosses.

But Benitez didn't expect Chen Ran to play a trick. When Messi once again dribbled the ball to the right to break through, he suddenly turned inward, and the ill-prepared Aurelio moved a step slower and was beaten by Messi. left behind.

   found that the situation was not good, and Liverpool's left-backed midfielder Lucas quickly posted to entangle Messi, trying to prevent him from continuing to break through to his own penalty area.

   Seeing someone intercepting himself, Messi immediately played a croquette. However, he did not continue to advance to Liverpool's penalty area, but immediately kicked the door after dodging Lucas.

"boom!"

  Messi took a curveball with his left foot, and the ball flew towards the upper right corner of the Liverpool goal with a strong spin.

  Goalkeeper Reina's sight was blocked due to the dense crowd in the penalty area.

   When the ball was already flying, he reacted hastily.

  Although Reina tried his best to fly sideways, he was still a step behind.

   When his hand was in place, the ball had already flown into the net.

   "GOAL!"

   With Messi's long-range shot, Crystal Palace led Liverpool 1-0 away.

   "Beautiful and extraordinary, with a wonderful long-range shot in the world, the teenager Messi seems to be a rising superstar again!"

   "Liverpool's left-back Aurelio doesn't seem ready for Messi to cut in. He seems to focus all his attention on preventing his opponent from making a cross."

"Liverpool placed the bus for more than half-time, but after all, they still failed to defend against Crystal Palace's attack. Next, it will be a major test for Benitez. It is a difficult choice whether to press up to attack or continue to defend. ."

   "Teams such as Chelsea and Lyon before have told us that when facing Crystal Palace, if you want to put the bus in the end, you should put it at the bottom. Don't press out and attack in the middle, it will end up worse."

  Although I don’t know what the match commentator said, Benitez, who was standing on the sidelines, also had a solemn expression and frowned.

   Do you press on the offense to get the score back, or continue to play dead on the bus?

   Two thoughts clashed fiercely in Benitez's mind.

  In the VIP box, the two American bosses of Liverpool were like deflated **** at this time.

   "Tom, being scored by Crystal Palace, does that mean Liverpool's game is going to be bad?" George Gillette looked at Tom Hicks with a hint of fantasy.

   "Almost. So far, no team has been able to reverse with Crystal Palace leading."

  Tom Hicks is also a little disillusioned. Putting aside so many things, he went all the way from the United States to the United Kingdom. It seems that he is going to have a good time.

   "If Liverpool can't get the championship trophy this season, I'm afraid they won't be able to sell for a good price." George Gillette is obviously more concerned about cashing out.

   "If it doesn't work, just keep waiting. We bought the Liverpool club to make money. I won't do anything that loses money."

"Wait? I can't wait. I have to rely on the money from the sale of Liverpool to save the emergency. In addition, Liverpool has so many loans now, and the more it drags on, the bigger the debt. If it doesn't go bankrupt by then , then we'll be playing chickens and eggs."

   As soon as he heard that Tom Hicks would continue to hold the Liverpool club, George Gillette immediately became anxious. His current financial situation is much worse than Tom Hicks.

   "Then are you willing to sell your Liverpool stake at a loss?"

  Tom Hicks glanced at George Gillette lightly.

  “.”

   This time, George Gillette stopped talking. As Tom Hicks said just now, they bought the Liverpool club to make money, not to lose money.

   "If you are willing to sell your Liverpool shares at a loss, I can take over."

  Tom Hicks' words surprised George Gillette.

   "Tom, do you have so much money?"

   "The loan is just that."

   "I'll think about it again."

   On the sidelines, neither Chen Ran nor Benitez thought that a goal by Messi might lead to a change in the equity of Liverpool Club.

   And on Benitez's side, he has already thought of a countermeasure.

Liverpool's tactics on the field remained the same, except that in the defense of the two full-backs, Benitet specially explained that they cooperated with the three midfielders, and paid attention to the goal of Messi and Ribery. 's man-marking.

   Soon, Chen Ran found that it became very difficult for Messi and Ribery to cut in and hit the goal again.

   "Benitez is a remedy for the dead."

   After muttering in his heart, Chen Ran immediately walked to the sidelines and took advantage of the opportunity of the dead ball to call Ribery, who was closer to him, to his side.

"Frank, tell Messi, then you two will focus on the bottom pass. After three consecutive crosses, you will start to cut inside and hit the goal. Just follow the 3 bottom passes and add them. The proportion of 1 inside cut and hit the goal will be allocated, understand?"

   "Eh, boss, is it so complicated?"

  Ribery scratched his head and looked at Chen Ran with a puzzled expression.

   In his opinion, just go straight up and do it, why bother.

   "According to the order, if you can't do it, then I can replace it."

"Okay, I get it now."

  Chen Ran's face twitched, and Ribery immediately fainted.

  In the Crystal Palace team, apart from Chen Ran, Ribery refused to accept anyone, not even Ronaldo.

   Back on the court, despite reluctance, Ribery took the initiative to run to Messi to convey Chen Ran's latest instructions.

   Messi is a little surprised that Ribery, who has been unpleasant to himself since this season, took the initiative to talk to himself.

   Fortunately, Messi is not a difficult person to get along with. Ribery took the initiative to communicate with him, and he immediately responded positively.

   After all, Ribery is the old man of Crystal Palace. Even if he can't be a friend, he should at least not be an enemy.

   On the sidelines, Chen Ran, who deliberately arranged for Ribery and Messi to communicate, nodded with relief when he saw this scene.

  If you want to be a good head coach, it is not just as simple as studying technical and tactical play.

   In addition to improving the relationship with the players, we must also pay attention to the relationship between the players at all times to ensure that the atmosphere of the team is positive. To be able to think in one place with the heart, to make it with energy.

   Since Chen Ran put Messi in the main lineup this season, Ribery, who was replaced in the same position, has been very dissatisfied.

   However, Chen Ran's prestige in Crystal Palace is too high.

   Even Ribery himself was brought back to Crystal Palace by Chen Ran from an amateur club in France.

Although this guy   Ribery was a little stunned, he still understood the reason for repaying gratitude.

   Therefore, Messi, the biggest beneficiary, naturally became the target of his dissatisfaction.

   This kind of situation, Chen Ran naturally sees it, and he has long been planning to solve this problem.

   After all, with Ribery's somewhat stunned personality, if the contradictions accumulate for a long time, God knows what he will do.

   In a previous life, when this guy was in Bayern Munich, he once beaten Robben for taking a free kick.

  Chen Ran doesn't want a similar thing to happen to Crystal Palace, especially for these two top players who he values ​​very much.

   It just so happened that Cristiano Ronaldo was recently injured and missed, and Ribery returned to the starting lineup.

   After playing the main force, Ribery naturally felt a lot better, so Chen Ran just took this opportunity to provide a step between Ribery and Messi.

   Judging from the current situation, the effect is not bad.

   Benitez's side, of course, did not know that Chen Ran's simple adjustment had so many intentions behind it.

   However, he soon discovered that Crystal Palace began to focus on crosses from the flank again.

   "This Chinese man is too cunning!"

   Benitez cursed bitterly.

   He had just finished setting up the defense against Messi and Ribery's internal shots, and before he got back to the bench, Crystal Palace began to make bottom passes, which made his previous arrangement a waste.

   After the scolding, Benitez hurriedly got up and returned to the sidelines, again loudly reminding the Liverpool players to pay attention to the Xadi pass from Crystal Palace.

   This time, it was replaced by Liverpool's two full-backs, Aurelio and Abeloa, who began to curse in their hearts.

   However, they were not scolding Chen Ran, but Benitez.

   How did you become the head coach? What do you want them to do? One command for a while, always changing, is it accurate?

   is still the same sentence, scolding, but these two guys dare not not implement Benitez's order.

   So, just when Aurelio and Abeloa focused their defense on preventing their opponents from making a cross, Ribery got angry.

  According to Chen Ran's tactical design, Messi and Ribery made three consecutive crosses, effectively attracting Liverpool's defensive attention.

   When the ball was passed to Ribery's feet again, the guy first ran along the left wing with the ball, posing as if he was going to force a bottom pass.

   Then just as Liverpool's right-back Abeloa was closely guarding next to him, Ribery made a sudden stop and dunked the ball back.

  Abeloa was caught off guard and fell to the ground. Ribery took advantage of the opportunity to lead the ball and charged directly towards Liverpool's penalty area.

   At this time, Liverpool's right midfielder Gerrard rushed over to block Ribery's forward line.

  Ribery did not continue to rush, but dunked the ball with his left foot, and immediately hit the goal with his right foot after a horizontal step.

"boom!"

   This shot Ribery hit the ground ball, the ball was close to the turf, passed between Gerrard's legs who wanted to block the shot, and went straight to the lower right corner of the Liverpool goal.

   This ball is even more hidden than Messi's goal. When Reina saw the ball, it was too late to make a save, and the ball ran from his hand into the goal he was guarding.

   "GOAL!"

   With Ribery's low shot, Crystal Palace led Liverpool 2-0 away.

   At this moment, the Anfield stadium, which had echoed "you will never walk alone" before, suddenly became silent.

  Everyone knows that it is almost impossible to get back two goals from Crystal Palace.

   On the sidelines, Benitez stared blankly at the Crystal Palace players who were cheering and celebrating in the stadium.

  In the VIP box, Tom Hicks and George Gillette got up and started putting on their coats to leave early.

   On the Crystal Palace bench, Chen Ran did not participate in the celebration, but instead called Southgate to his side.

   "Gareth, you arrange for Beckham and Cavani to warm up immediately, and replace Messi and Tony with them later."

   "Okay, boss."

   On the Liverpool side, Benitez immediately guessed Chen Ran's intentions after seeing Crystal Palace's substitution adjustment.

  Tony and Messi are both the main players of Crystal Palace. The end of these two basically means that Crystal Palace is ready to withdraw.

   For the sake of the game, Benitez has nothing to worry about.

   There is no point in continuing to defend, anyway, the worst result is to lose, it is better to fight at the end, maybe it will be able to create a miracle.

   After all, Benitez created one of the most impressive miracles in the history of world football, the Istanbul Night.

  So, not long after Crystal Palace just completed the substitution adjustment, Liverpool also used Babel to replace Hypia as the left midfielder, and Benayoun replaced Lucas to play the right midfielder.

   also replaced Robbie Keane with Kuyt, played the shadow striker behind Torres, and changed the team's formation from 532 to 442. Liverpool pressed on the whole line, from defense to attack.

   "Boss, should we shrink the formation to strengthen the defense?"

  Seeing the changes in Liverpool, Southgate immediately moved to Chen Ran's side.

   "It doesn't matter. Just continue to play like this, fight against each other, we Crystal Palace have not been afraid of anyone."

  Chen Ran shook his head slightly and declined Southgate's suggestion.

   With two goals in hand, he is very confident.

   As soon as Liverpool pressed out to attack, the loopholes in the back line were exposed.

   In the next game, although they scored a goal by Torres.

   But on the Crystal Palace side, Cavani also responded with a header.

  In the end, with the goals of Messi, Ribery and Cavani, Crystal Palace defeated Liverpool 3:1 at Anfield, further consolidating their position at the top of the standings.

  At the same time as getting this key three-pointer, Chen Ran also got a "one blood return card" from the system.

   In other Premier League matches in this round, Chelsea beat West Ham United 1:0 at Stamford Bridge, and Manchester United was drawn 0:0 by Tottenham Hotspur.

  Arsenal was drawn 1:1 by Middlesbrough on the road, Manchester City lost again, they lost 0:1 to Everton at home.

   After the 17th round of the Premier League was all over, Crystal Palace have extended their lead over second-placed Liverpool to seven points.

  Although the progress of the entire season is less than half, Chen Ran can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

   (end of this chapter)