MTL - Football Feast, Starting From the Acquisition of European Clubs-Chapter 484 meet each other

  Chapter 484 Meeting in Arms

  Although Pogba is also a player introduced by Chen Ran himself, the relationship between him and Pogba is not very close.

  Pogba was still young at the time. After Chen Ran and Raiola reached an agreement, although Pogba entered the Crystal Palace first-team roster, he still represented the Crystal Palace youth team more in the competition.

   Occasionally, he can represent Crystal Palace's first team in games, and basically they are in the FA Cup and League Cup, which Chen Ran doesn't pay much attention to.

  Later, Chen Ran handed over the position of head coach of the Crystal Palace Club to Guardiola, and after he went to coach the national team himself, the two sides had no intersection.

  Things are impermanent. When Chen Ran and Pogba met again, the relationship between the two parties had changed from a relationship between a boss and a subordinate to an opponent fighting each other.

  As Chen Ran expected, from the first minute of the game, Pogba frequently stepped in to participate in the offense.

   At this time, Pogba is in a very complicated mood.

   On the one hand, he has just become the football player with the highest transfer transaction price in the world, which shocked the whole world, which greatly satisfied his vanity.

  On the other hand, after all, he still failed to become the core midfielder of Crystal Palace, the most recognized team in the world, which inevitably left a trace of regret in his heart.

  Especially Chen Ran, currently the strongest coach recognized in the world, chose to support Guardiola's opinion and sold himself to another club, which filled Pogba's heart with anger.

  I obviously have the ability to become the core midfielder of Crystal Palace, why no one wants to believe in me?

  Facing the Belgian team led by Chen Ran this time, Pogba desperately hopes that he can defeat the opponent with his own hands.

   Prove to Chen Ran that your decision is wrong!

   As the head coach of the French team, Deschamps is not a fool.

  Although he didn't know that Pogba had so much inner drama, he obviously knew why Pogba was given up by the Crystal Palace club.

  Because he, like Guardiola, also put Pogba in the defensive midfielder position.

  He knows Pogba's style of play, not only for Crystal Palace, but also for the French team's midfield defense.

  No problem when playing against those weak teams, but facing Belgium led by Chen Ran, this point will definitely become the weakness of the opponent's focus.

  However, Deschamps did not prevent Pogba from playing like this.

  Now in this French team, there are not as many players with the ability to organize offense in the midfield as the Crystal Palace club. Didier Deschamps is reluctant to give up Pogba's offensive attributes.

  Therefore, Deschamps found another way, and specially arranged for right forward Sissoko to come back to help him defend when Pogba was on the top to participate in the offense.

   Less than ten minutes after the start of the game, Chen Ran discovered Deschamps' trick.

   "This guy Deschamps is quite flexible. But, in this world, are there so many good things that have the best of both worlds?"

  The corner of Chen Ran's mouth twitched imperceptibly, and then, taking advantage of the dead ball, he called Carrasco, who was closest to him, to his side.

   "Yannick, you go to inform other people and focus on the positions of Pogba and Sissoko in the French team."

"As a defensive midfielder, Pogba wants to rush up and participate in the attack. I have already told you in the pre-match preparation meeting. Now it seems that the French coach Didier Deschamps is using the right midfielder Sissoko to help Pogba. fill in the gap left."

  "When you counterattack, first target the space left by Pogba in the midfielder position and attract Sissoko."

"After Sissoko leaves his position, you immediately transfer the ball to the left. At this time, the French team only has right-back Sagna defending all the way. You should attack him with all your strength, understand? "

   "Boss, what if Sissoko doesn't go to the middle to help Pogba defend?"

   Carrasco asked curiously.

   "Is there a need to ask? Of course, from the space left by Pogba in the middle, go straight into the penalty area of ​​the French team!"

  When Carrasco passed Chen Ran's order to others, he saw the effect soon.

  When Pogba rushed to the front to participate in the attack again, the ball was cut off by Witsel, and then a through ball was passed to Lukaku in front.

   At this time, according to Chen Ran's order, Lukaku ran to the defense zone that originally belonged to Pogba.

  Because of Pogba's absence, he received the ball very smoothly. Then, like a heavy tank, it pushed directly towards the French team's penalty area.

   Realizing that the situation was not good, Sissoko kept in mind Deschamps' instructions and hurried over from the right to intercept Lukaku.

  In Lukaku's mind, he also kept Chen Ran's explanation firmly in mind. After seeing Sissoko really came to help defend, he immediately passed the ball to Hazard on the left, and then continued to advance.

  At this time, only the right back Sarnia was left alone on the right side of the French team.

   Hazard is very familiar with Sarnia.

  Chelsea, where he played, had to play at least several times with Arsenal, where Sagna played, every season.

  The two men were on the same position again, and Hazard had a lot of experience in breaking through Sarnia's defense.

   At this time, according to Chen Ran's order, Belgian left back Vertonghen also rushed forward.

  Two-on-one, Sania suddenly panicked.

   Originally, he was not sure about single-handedly fighting Hazard, but now he has another Vertonghen to take care of, which immediately made him feel a little bit at a loss.

   At the moment Sania was distracted by Vertonghen, Hazard keenly seized the opportunity and changed direction twice in a row, directly shaking Sania so that he lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground.

   This time, there was nothing in front of Hazard, and there was no obstacle. He directly took the ball and rushed to the French team's penalty area.

  Seeing that his entire right wing was completely lost, Koscielny, the right center back of the French team, had no choice but to rush out to intercept Hazard.

   Hazard tapped the toe of his right foot lightly, and the ball just passed between the legs of Koscielny who was rushing over.

  After bypassing Koscielny, Hazard took the ball directly to the goal of the French team.

  Finding that the situation was not good, another central defender Umtiti, who was sitting in the middle of the penalty area, had to give up the task of marking Lukaku and rushed over to block between Hazard and goalkeeper Lori.

   Hazard did not continue to pass, but flicked his ankle and passed the ball across to Lukaku, who is now unmarked.

  At this time, both the left back Evra and the left midfielder Matuidi are desperately rushing to Lukaku.

   However, they were still a step behind.

  Lukaku didn't even give them a chance to block the hole of the gun. He didn't choose to stop the ball, but directly volleyed.

"boom!"

  The ball flew to the goal of the French team like a fired shell.

  Because the shot was so powerful and close to the goal, goalkeeper Lori had no time to react. As soon as he stretched out his hand, the ball flew into the net.

   "GOAL!!!"

  With Lukaku's heavy bombardment, Belgium leads France 1:0.

   "Good guy, Belgium's attack this time is completely taking advantage of the gap left by Pogba's attack and not coming back."

   "No wonder Chen Ran is willing to sell Pogba. His problem in the French team is the same as that of Crystal Palace. He only wants to attack and not defend."

   "Ahem, pay attention to the wording upstairs, Pogba is no longer a player of the Crystal Palace club."

  “I was still thinking about why the Crystal Palace Club sold Pogba before the start of the European Cup, but now I finally understand. It turned out that Pogba’s shortcomings would be exposed and he would not be able to sell at a good price.”

   "Fuck! From this point of view, the Manchester City club spent 150 million euros to introduce Pogba, wouldn't it be a big loss?"

   "The loss is too big, that is, the net worth has dropped by tens of millions of euros."

   "Hahahaha, you upstairs are too damaged!"

  On the sidelines, seeing Didier Deschamps, who was caught by Belgium and scored a goal even though he had taken precautions in advance, his face was livid.

   Originally, he thought that his arrangement was perfect enough, but he didn't expect that the Chinese man would successfully break the situation.

   At this moment, Deschamps deeply felt Guardiola's helplessness.

  Based on Pogba's physical condition, if he can play the midfielder well, he will definitely become a top superstar in the midfielder position, but he has an offensive heart that is not willing to do dirty words and tiring work.

  If Pogba's problem is not resolved, then the French team will lose the ball next.

   After racking his brains for a long time, the only way Deschamps came up with was to move Pogba away from the midfielder.

  Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain. Deschamps gritted his teeth, regardless that it was only the first half of the game, turned around and called Kanter from the bench.

  After the warm-up ended, Deschamps replaced the left forward Payet with Kanter.

  He moved Griezmann from the front midfielder to the left, and then let Pogba move forward to play the front midfielder. Kanter and Matuidi partnered with double midfielders.

   This arrangement, although sacrificing some of Griezmann's offensive power, at least made up for Pogba's big loophole.

   "I'll go. The first half of the game was played for less than half an hour. Was Deschamps a little too anxious to make a substitution so early?"

   "I think Deschamps' substitution is very timely. If he doesn't change now, he might be scored by Belgium again in a while."

   "That's right. Chen Ran has now made it clear that Belgium is playing on the loophole of Pogba, and Deschamps is a wise choice to plug the loophole first."

   "Now Deschamps has put Pogba in the front midfielder position, which can be regarded as satisfying Pogba's wish to be the core of the midfield. If he still does not perform well, then I really can't blame others."

  …

  On the sidelines, seeing Deschamps' substitutions and adjustments, Chen Ran had to admit that this guy reacted quickly and decisively.

  However, Belgium is now leading by one goal, and Deschamps is still a step behind after all.

   Walking to the sidelines, Chen Ran waved his hand, and saw the entire formation of Belgium begin to shrink rapidly.

   Soon, everyone saw that, except for Lukaku, the other Belgian players retreated to their own half and played defensive counterattack tactics.

   "Hahahaha, Chen Ran is such an idiot. As soon as he scored a goal, he began to shrink his formation and play a defensive counterattack."

   "Chen Ran often did this in the early days of coaching Crystal Palace. I haven't seen him for a long time, and I miss him very much."

   "The French team is in big trouble now. Defensive counterattack is Chen Ran's housekeeping skill. Now we have to see if Deschamps can solve it."

  …

   On the sidelines, seeing the changes on the Belgian field, Deschamps felt a little disgusted as if he had eaten a fly.

  As soon as he replaced a good player who broke through the wing with a defensive midfielder, Belgium began to put the bus, which was simply **** for tat.

   Deschamps glanced bitterly at Belgium's bench, and reluctantly began to direct the French team to attack Belgium's already well-prepared defense.

   Breaking dense defenses has always been a worldwide problem. Until the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, the French team failed to break through the Belgian goal guarded by Courtois.

  During the intermission, Chen Ran, who was very satisfied with the progress of the game, in addition to giving the players blood as usual, replaced Lukaku with the small forward Mertens who had made great achievements before.

   If you want to play a defensive counterattack, then fight to the end.

   On the French side, Deschamps replaced Sissoko with Martial.

  He has no way out now, so he can only continue to strengthen his attack.

  At the start of the second half, Chen Ran's heart sank when he saw Didier Deschamps use Martial to replace Sissoko to play right midfielder.

  Although Martial has not been able to reach the height that people expected before, but with his speed and agility, the 189cm tall left back Vertonghen must be very difficult to deal with.

   No, hidden dangers must be killed in the cradle!

   Without any hesitation, Chen Ran immediately turned around and called Vermaelen from the bench.

  After the warm-up was over, Chen Ran called Vermaelen to his side again.

   "Thomas, you will replace Vertonghen soon, and you must pay attention to the newly replaced Martial on the French team."

   "If you feel that it is a bit difficult to defend alone, let Witsel go to help you, understand?"

   "Understood, boss."

  Not long after the start of the second half of the game, everyone saw that Belgium had just completed the substitution, and then made another substitution adjustment.

   "What is Chen Ran doing? The interval between the two substitutions is too short, right? Why not do it all at once? Or did he change his mind temporarily?"

   "I guess Chen Ran saw that Martial was replaced by the French team, so he quickly adjusted the choice of left back."

  "The upstairs makes sense. Vertonghen is too tall. With his speed and flexibility, there will definitely be problems defending Martial."

   "I'll go, then Chen Ran's reaction is too fast!"

   "That's why Chen Ran won so many championship trophies."

  …

  It was completely different from the feeling of the fans watching the excitement. Deschamps felt an indescribable frustration in his heart at this time.

   As soon as he made a move, without even seeing the splash, Chen Ran immediately plugged the loophole. This made Deschamps feel powerless all over his body, as uncomfortable as he wanted.

  Because Deschamps' substitutions and adjustments, Chen Ran has already taken precautions, so the effect is minimal.

  Under the heavy defense of the Belgian team, Pogba, who served as the front midfielder, also fell into the double-teaming of Fellaini, Witsel and Dembele's three midfielders, making it difficult to do anything.

   Seeing that the time was running out, Deschamps turned around again and looked at the bench of the French team. He was ready to work hard!

  (end of this chapter)