MTL - Football Feast, Starting From the Acquisition of European Clubs-Chapter 379 It hurts!

   Chapter 379 It hurts!

   Seeing Mendez's phone number displayed on the phone, Chen Ran was slightly taken aback, but he and Mendez hadn't been in touch for a while.

   "Jorge, why did you remember to call me today?"

   After a few chats, Chen Ran asked curiously.

   "Chen, I think there is a message you might be interested in."

   "Oh? What's the news?"

   "Just today, the Manchester City club entrusted Raiola to find Jose and want to introduce players from Real Madrid club."

   "Manchester City? Hehe, their hands are quite long."

   "The key is still Raiola. Without him, the Abu Dhabi consortium that has just entered the football circle would not have such a wide range of contacts."

   "What was Mourinho's reaction? Did he agree to Manchester City's signing request?"

   "José didn't agree on the spot, but I could see that he was a little moved."

   "Okay, I see. Jorge, thank you very much. I'll invite you to dinner when you come to London one day."

   "Haha, that's for sure, I've never forgotten that Chinese restaurant you picked."

After    hung up the phone, Chen Ran's face suddenly sank.

  Raiola, this greedy guy, really did his best for the Manchester City club.

   And that bastard, Mourinho, who didn't forget to make trouble for himself even in Spain.

   Although Manchester City is still far from being a threat to Crystal Palace, Chen Ran is still a little unhappy.

Carefully recalling the main lineup of Manchester City during the Mancini period, Chen Ran suddenly discovered that the opponent's captain and defense backbone Kompany, midfield core Yaya Toure, and main striker Dzeko have now been dug up by himself in advance. to the Crystal Palace.

   Coupled with the fact that De Bruyne, the absolute core of Manchester City, was also included in the introduction plan of Crystal Palace, Chen Ran felt that he seemed to pay too much attention to Manchester City.

  The game is played by people after all. In the Mancini era, Manchester City had main players in the front, middle and back three lines who were dug into the Crystal Palace by themselves. Do they still have the strength to compete for the Premier League championship trophy?

  Thinking of this, Chen Ran smiled helplessly.

  Rebirth is certainly his biggest reliance, but it also makes him introduce players with too high vision and standards.

  A lot of players who are actually very good, but now he is a little undervalued.

  Like David Silva, Chen Ranming knew that he was Manchester City's future offensive core player, but he was always undecided to shoot.

   After all, a team is not always better with more stars.

  David Silva is very good, but compared with Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, Kaka, Ribery or Modric, who can he replace?

   If you buy someone but don’t use it, there will definitely be conflicts over time.

   When the team is not united, it will directly affect the results of the game.

  The most obvious example, since Messi replaced Ribery as the team's main force this season, Ribery has been disliked by Messi.

   If Chen Ran hadn't acted to resolve it in time, I still don't know what that stunned young man of Ribery would have done.

  Real Madrid's painful lessons of blindly accumulating big-name players, Chen Ran always bears in mind.

   Therefore, except for the season when he first entered Crystal Palace, Chen Ran's signings after that were very cautious.

   Most of them are mainly talented young players, with a small number of famous players.

After    repeated weighing, Chen Ran finally gave up the plan to intercept Hu Manchester City, because it was really worth the loss.

   Chen Ran turned his attention to Crystal Palace after he explained that the fat man Luiz paid close attention to every move of Manchester City and Raiola.

   After only two days of rest after the FA Cup play-offs, on January 17, Crystal Palace ushered in the challenge of Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium this time.

   Coach Wenger is very personal. No matter before or now, when Arsenal faced Crystal Palace, he never contracted the formation and placed the bus.

   This time is no exception, Wenger still sent all the main lineup, ready to play a hearty battle with Crystal Palace.

   striker Van Persie, striker Adebayor

  Left midfielder Theo Walcott, center midfielder Nasri, center midfielder Alexander Song, right midfielder Rosicky

  Left-back Clichy, center-back William Gallas, center-back Kolo Toure, right-back Sagna

   Goalkeeper Almunia

   On Crystal Palace's side, one main team missed the FA Cup make-up, which also allowed Chen Ran to send the strongest lineup to face Arsenal with confidence.

   Center Tony

   Left midfielder Ribery, midfielder Kaka, right midfielder Messi

   Midfielder Yaya Toure, Midfielder Modric

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

   Goalkeeper Cech

  Crystal Palace and Arsenal are old rivals who have fought many times, and there are no secrets between them.

   Therefore, when the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game, the two teams started a fierce battle without any temptation.

   Less than 20 minutes into the game, Messi successfully broke through the defense of Arsenal's left back Clichy on the right and successfully made a cross from the bottom.

   In the penalty area, Tony, who has an absolute height advantage, beat William Gallas, who was in charge of marking him. A lion shook his head and broke the Arsenal goal guarded by Almunia.

  “GOAL!!!!!”

  Crystal Palace lead Arsenal 1-0 at home.

   Wenger did not seem surprised to see the score trailing.

   He remained firmly on the bench, letting the Arsenal players on the field play freely.

  After half an hour of the game, due to the decline in physical fitness, Arsenal's midfielder began to gradually unable to withstand Crystal Palace's offensive, and the team's formation was also pushed back to the half-court by Crystal Palace.

   At this time, Arsenal's assistant coach Pat Rice came to Wenger's side.

   "Boss, do you want to shrink the formation defense first, so as not to lose the ball again in the first half of the game?"

   "Pat, do you think that with our defense line, we can stop Crystal Palace's offensive?"

   Wenger did not answer the assistant's question, but instead asked a question.

   "I'm afraid I can't prevent it."

  Although unwilling to admit it, Arsenal have always been better offense than defense.

   "Since this is the case, it is better to attack to the end. Our offensive players have been in good shape recently, and there may be a glimmer of hope."

  Pat Rice nodded slightly, Wenger understood what he meant, it was actually a bet to see if Arsenal's attacking players could score.

   At this time, as if to verify Wenger's judgment.

  The little tiger Walcott used his speed to successfully break through Maicon's defense on the left, and made a cross from the bottom. However, his footwork was not well mastered, and his passing power was too great.

   In the penalty area, Adebayor used his strong body to squeeze away Thiago Silva and grab the ball.

   But because Walcott's passing quality is not good, Adebayor can't head directly to the goal.

   In desperation, he had to reluctantly point the ball to Van Persie who was not far from him.

  Van Persie reacted very quickly, immediately grabbed in front of Kompany, and dived to the top of the ball to the Crystal Palace goal.

  Because the distance was too close, Cech couldn't react quickly and could only watch the ball fly into the goal he was guarding.

   The score on the field became 1:1, and Arsenal equalized the score.

   "Huh? Arsenal are in good shape today."

   On the Crystal Palace bench, Southgate said something a little surprised.

  As a result of being dragged down by the new stadium, Arsenal have withdrawn from the competition for the league title in the past few seasons.

   Coupled with the fact that they often lose the chain and lose to weak teams, many people despise Arsenal.

  Chen Ran's side is as stable as Mount Tai, still the same sentence, fighting against each other, Crystal Palace has never been afraid of anyone.

   Just as the first half was about to end, Cech grabbed Adebayor's header and kicked the ball into the frontcourt with a big foot.

  Tony quickly got into position, blocked Alexander Song behind him, and with a shake he ferried the ball to Kaka, who was pushing forward at high speed.

  Kaka didn't pause, he picked the ball with his toes, just over the head of Kolo Toure, who was approaching to intercept. After even stopping, he rushed directly towards Arsenal's penalty area.

   At this time, since Arsenal were still attacking just now, many people are still staying in Crystal Palace's half-time and can't come back.

In front of   Kaka, there is only one central defender William Gallas and goalkeeper Almunia left.

   Without any hesitation, Kaka sprinted at a high speed, flicked the ball like a left front, raised his left foot and shot.

   At this time, William Gallas' attention was all on Kaka's right foot.

   He knows very well that Kaka's breakthrough shot is powerful, so he has been defending Kaka's main right foot shot.

   But William Gallas didn't expect Kaka to shoot with his left foot this time, and when he reacted and wanted to block, he was already a step behind.

  Kaka's shot was so powerful that it flew towards the top right corner of Arsenal's goal like a cannonball.

   Seeing Kaka knocking on the door, Almunia hurriedly moved and jumped over.

  Unfortunately, he was still a step behind. By the time Almunia stretched out his hand, the ball had already flown into the net ahead of time.

  “GOAL!!!!!”

  Crystal Palace 2:1, leading Arsenal again.

   Soon, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half of the game.

   During the intermission, Chen Ran did not make any substitution adjustments except for the usual bloodbath to the players.

   On Arsenal's side, Wenger replaced Clichy at left-back with Sylvester, and then moved William Gallas to play at left-back.

   While strengthening the defense on the left, it also enhanced the air defense of the rear line.

   However, the progress of the second half of the game proved that Wenger's substitution adjustment was of no use.

   Although Clichy's defensive ability is not as good as that of William Gallas, William Gallas' speed is not as fast as Clichy.

  Messi used his speed and extraordinary ability to make William Gallas suspicious.

  In the 63rd minute of the game, Messi made a fried ball past William Gallas and then dribbled the ball directly into Arsenal's penalty area.

   found that the situation was not good, central defender Colo Toure rushed over to make up the defense.

  Messi changed direction and immediately swept the ball in front of the goal after dodging neutral.

  The ball flies close to the ground, fast and fast.

   Whoever touches the ball has the potential to block it into Arsenal's goal.

  Arsenal's defenders immediately threw the mouse away. It was just a few tenths of a second of hesitation that the ball slid past Arsenal's goal.

   At this time, a figure suddenly appeared in the back.

"boom!"

  It's Ribery, this guy was afraid that he wouldn't be able to touch the ball, so he simply shoveled on the ground and threw his body out.

   Indeed, Ribery's method is very common, the ball was directly blocked by him into Arsenal's goal.

  Almunia could only helplessly watch the ball fly into the goal he guarded again.

"what!"

   At the moment when the ball entered the net, a shrill scream also sounded.

   It turned out that although Ribery blocked the ball into Arsenal's goal.

   But he split his legs when he slid, and with great inertia, his crotch also slammed into the right post of the Arsenal goal.

   "His!"

  The entire Emirates Stadium, everyone who saw this scene, all took a breath.

  This. It hurts!

   "Team doctor!"

   The referee, who also saw this scene, immediately turned around and greeted the Crystal Palace bench.

   At this time, due to the distance, Chen Ran and the players and coaches on the Crystal Palace bench only knew that Crystal Palace scored again, but did not see what happened to Ribery later.

   Only when the referee greeted the team doctor did he know that the situation was not good.

"what happened?"

  Chen Ran immediately walked to the sidelines and asked the Crystal Palace players on the court.

   "Boss, it seems that Ribery hit the Arsenal post when he hit the goal."

   Captain Thiago Silva hurried over to report the situation to Chen Ran.

   "Oh? That's fine."

   Hearing that he hit the goal post, Chen Ran was relieved.

   This should just be a hard injury, it was painful at the time, but it will be fine after a while.

   "Boss, Frank seems to have hit the post with a vital part."

   hesitated for a while, but Thiago Silva still told what he saw.

   "What? Are you sure?"

   Now Chen Ran is a little anxious, that part can be said to be the most vulnerable part of a man, Ribery will not be beaten by chickens, right?

   "Gareth, you quickly tell Ronaldo to warm up and replace Ribery with him later."

   "Okay, boss."

  Cristiano Ronaldo has recovered from injury, but for safety reasons, Chen Ran did not let him start in this strong dialogue with Arsenal.

  The game was interrupted for nearly ten minutes because of Ribery's injury.

   Seeing the team doctor making a substitution gesture towards him, Chen Ran's heart suddenly sank, wouldn't there really be a problem with Ribery?

   When Ribery was carried off the court on a stretcher, Chen Ran immediately walked over to inquire about the situation.

   Seeing that the tough guy Ribery had tears in the corners of his eyes, Chen Ran knew how much he was in pain.

   "Boss, I will use ethyl chloride and ice packs to relieve Frank's pain first, but the specific situation will require further examination at the hospital."

   "I see, you will accompany Frank to the hospital now, and you must take good care of him."

   "Okay, boss."

   Watching Ribery being carried into the ambulance, Chen Ran prayed secretly in his heart, but nothing happened.

   (end of this chapter)