Chapter 396 Tinker has a bold idea

  After a week off, Crystal Palace ushered in a consecutive week of double games.

   Their opponents in the Champions League semi-finals have also been determined, and this time they will face Juventus, who have quickly recovered from the “Italian phone door” incident.

   In another Champions League semi-final, Chelsea, who eliminated Liverpool, will face Barcelona led by Guardiola.

   This season, Guardiola, who is the first time coach of the team, shines.

   Barcelona, ​​led by him, not only defeated the rival Real Madrid in La Liga, but also firmly occupied the top position of the league standings.

   And in the Champions League, he also made great progress all the way, and now he has reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, which also makes Southgate and Simeone envious.

  On April 26th, in the thirty-fourth round of the Premier League, Crystal Palace will go away to challenge Sunderland.

  Because Crystal Palace will go to Italy and Juventus for the first leg of the Champions League semi-final in two days, so Chen Ran has a large number of substitute players in the starting lineup for this game.

   Fortunately, the opponent’s strength is limited. With the goals of Cavani and Pepe, Crystal Palace defeated Sunderland 2:1 away.

  At the same time that he got three points, Chen Ran also got a “Level 1 Rehabilitation Card” from the system.

   In the early morning of the second day after the game, Chen Ran led the Crystal Palace team to Turin, Italy.

   Although Juventus was previously punished and dropped to Serie B because of the “Italian phone door” incident, there are still many main players in the team.

Such as strikers Trezeguet and Del Piero, midfielders Nedved, Camoranesi and Marchisio, defenders Zebina and Lelotalie, goalkeeper Buffon and other famous players, make them It was soon back in Serie A.

Coupled with the newly introduced powerful players such as Salihamidzic, Zanetti, Iaquinta, Amauri, Sissoko, Paulson, Andrade and Melberg, Juventus has Amazing speed to restore vitality.

   And their head coach is the famous “tinker” Ranieri.

   This guy can’t bring a team to the top of the world, but he’s best at putting a team in chaos together quickly.

   The boss of Juventus, obviously, took a fancy to this specialty of Ranieri.

   For Ranieri, being able to lead Juventus to the Champions League semi-finals this season has been a surprise.

   Now he has encountered Crystal Palace, which has won the Champions League three times in a row. He also knows that Juventus is not as strong as his opponents. With the way they played in Serie A, it would have been a tragic death.

   Therefore, Ranieri, who has always been pragmatic, arranged a starting lineup for the defensive counterattack very simply.

   Center Trezeguet

   Left midfielder Nedved, midfielder Sissoko, midfielder Marchisio, midfielder Paulson, right midfielder Salihamidzic

   Left-back Molinaro, center-back Andrade, center-back Lai Rotarie, right-back Zebina

   Goalkeeper Buffon

   On Chen Ran’s side, he dispatched the entire main lineup without hesitation. Even if you go to an away game, you have to try to win the game.

   center Cavani, shadow striker Messi

   Left midfielder Evra, midfielder Cesc Fabregas, right midfielder Alves

   Defender Yaya Toure, Defender Mascherano

  Left center back Kompany, center back Vidic, right center back Thiago Silva

   Goalkeeper Cech

   In addition, Chen Ran called Cavani over to talk alone before the game.

  Who knew that before Chen Ran could speak, Cavani excitedly asked Chen Ran as soon as he entered the door.

   “Boss, you came to me, is it because my best state is coming?”

   “Uh, you all know?”

  Cavani’s sudden question really made Chen Ran stunned for a moment.

   “Hey, boss, Suarez, Vardy and Dzeko all told me about this.”

  Cavani touched the back of his head and smiled a little embarrassedly.

  As long as there are people, there are rivers and lakes. At Crystal Palace Club, young players such as Cavani, Dzeko, Suarez, and Vardy who were loaned to the Dutch club Willem II for training spontaneously formed a small circle.

  Cavani also heard about Chen Ran’s conversation with Suarez and the others before, and he was very envious of it.

   Now it’s finally his turn, naturally excited.

“Okay, Edinson, now that you know everything, I won’t go into it. You just need to remember that you have the ‘free fire’ in this game. Take advantage of this rare opportunity, understand ?”

   “Understood, boss, I will not let you down!”

   This season is the first time Juventus has participated in the Champions League after the “Italian phone door” incident.

   This has a strong symbolic meaning and represents the rebirth of Juventus, an old giant club.

   In addition, they reached the Champions League semi-finals all the way, which also aroused great enthusiasm among Juventus fans.

  Today’s match against Crystal Palace, which won the Champions League three consecutive times, is even harder to get a ticket. The entire stadium was packed.

  Before the game started, Chen Ran silently called out the system and used a “Level 1 Chicken Blood Card” for Cavani.

  When the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game, Crystal Palace did not have any temptation, and immediately pressed the attack across the board.

   On the Juventus side, except for striker Trezeguet, all returned to their own half to defend.

   As if the game was not played at Juventus’ home stadium, but at Crystal Palace’s Emirates Stadium.

   Seeing this situation, Chen Ran could only helplessly shake his head.

  Because Crystal Palace is now too famous, one after another veteran giants teams have begun to learn the tactics of those weak teams to use the bus to deal with Crystal Palace.

   This game seems to be another very hard battle.

  Chen Ran, who was mentally prepared, simply sat down on the bench for the entire first half of the game.

   Until the referee on duty blew the whistle for the end of the first half, the score remained at 0:0 without any change.

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

   He now has a lot of experience with these bus teams. When the opponent is full of energy, it is difficult to break through the opponent’s defense with the current incomplete lineup of Crystal Palace.

   However, Chen Ran is not in a hurry, because the opposing players will always be tired.

   On the Juventus side, Ranieri was very satisfied because the two teams were tied in the first half.

   While praising his players, he also asked them to make persistent efforts and continue to stick to the style of play in the first half of the game.

   After the start of the second half, although Crystal Palace’s offensive was still fierce, it was still unable to break through the goal guarded by Buffon for a while.

   Juventus players are in quite good physical condition, and it was not until about 70 minutes into the game that their players showed obvious signs of physical decline.

   Alves dribbled the ball at a high speed along the right line. Although Juventus’ left midfielder Nedved is known as the “Iron Man”, he is almost 37 years old this year. After chasing a few steps, he was left behind by Alves.

   Seeing that the older brother Nedved did not guard Alves, the junior left back Molinaro hurried up to intercept.

   Alves didn’t play any tricks, just slammed the ball forward, and then started to fight for speed with Molinaro on his back.

   Unlike many speedy full-backs, Alves is not only fast, but also very strong.

   In the physical confrontation with Molinaro, he did not lose at all. And taking advantage of his speed, he suddenly smashed past.

After    Alves connected Nedved and Molinaro, he pushed the ball inside and rushed the ball directly to Juventus’ penalty area.

   found that the situation was not good, and Juventus’ Portuguese central defender Andrade hurried over to make up the defense.

  Alves didn’t choose to overplay, but threw the ball in the direction of the baseline. After dodging Andrade’s attack, followed by a flick of his right ankle, the ball drew a wonderful arc and flew towards the middle of Juventus’ penalty area.

  Cavani, who had been waiting for an opportunity in the penalty area, started the moment the ball left Alves’ feet.

  He rushed to the spot of the ball before La Rotarie, who was in charge of marking him, jumped high, and a lion shook his head and smashed the ball into the Juventus goal.

  Buffon’s reaction was very fast, he stepped hard, and jumped to save Cavani’s header.

   However, since Buffon’s ball was blocked with his palm instead of his fist, the ball did not fly far.

   Discovering that the crisis has not been completely resolved, the midfielder Marchisio, who came back to help defend, immediately rushed to the point where the ball landed, wanting a big foot to clear the ball out.

   At this moment, a small player suddenly grabbed Marchisio from behind him in front of him.

   A second before Marchisio stretched his foot to kick the ball away, the player appeared between him and the ball.

“what!”

   Marchisio’s foot that wanted to make a clearance kicked the player firmly.

With a scream of   , the player fell to the ground.

   is Messi!

“All!”

   The referee’s whistle sounded immediately afterward, and he reached out to point to the penalty spot, awarded Crystal Palace a penalty, and then quickly ran to the foul spot to check Messi’s injury.

   On the sidelines, the moment he saw Messi being kicked down, Chen Ran’s heart twitched.

   Messi must never get hurt again!

   At this moment, Chen Ran would rather not take this penalty in exchange for Messi’s safety.

   Under the signal of the referee, the team doctor of Crystal Palace rushed into the stadium with a medicine box.

With the footage broadcast on TV, all the fans around the world saw that on the back of Messi’s right calf, a long bloodstain was drawn by the studs on the sole of Marchisio’s feet, and the pain caused Messi’s eyes to widen. tears.

   After emergency treatment of Messi’s injury, the team doctor decisively made a substitution gesture to Chen Ran on the sidelines.

   On the sidelines, Chen Ran, who didn’t know the specific situation of Messi’s injury, saw the team doctor’s gesture, and his heart suddenly “squeaked”.

   Is Messi seriously injured?

  Chen Ran forcibly suppressed the irritability in his heart, turned around and called Southgate to his side.

“Gareth, you quickly let Beckham warm up and replace Messi with him later. Then let Beckham, Yaya Toure and Mascherano form the third midfielder together. The formation has also changed from the current 352 to 361.”

   “Okay, boss.”

   Knowing that the situation is urgent, Southgate did not dare to delay and immediately turned around to carry out Chen Ran’s order.

   Soon, Messi was carried to the sidelines on a stretcher, and Chen Ran hurried over to understand his injury.

   “Boss, don’t worry, Leo has only some skin injuries, and there is no major problem. It’s just that we can’t continue to participate in this game today, lest the injury will worsen and the minor injury will become a major injury.”

   “Well, you’re doing it right, Leo’s health is the most important thing.”

   Seeing the shocking bloodstain on Messi’s calf, Chen Ran felt pain just looking at it.

   “Leo, you’ve done enough. Rest well, and leave this game to other teammates.”

  Get up from the stretcher, Messi, who only dared to support his body with one foot, looked up at Chen Ran.

   “Boss, we must win this game.”

   “You can rest assured that with me, your efforts will not go unrewarded.”

  Chen Ran and the team doctor took Messi back to the Crystal Palace bench while talking.

   At this time, the game on the field has resumed.

  Cavani, who won the “free fire right” in this game, picked up the ball and walked towards the penalty spot.

After    placed the ball, Cavani retreated all the way to the vicinity of the penalty area line.

   Taking a deep breath, Cavani didn’t look at the opponent’s goalkeeper Buffon at all, just stared at the ball and started to run.

“boom!”

  Cavani pushed a low ball with the inner instep of his right foot, and the ball flew to the lower left corner of the Juventus goal against the turf.

  Buffon completely misjudged the direction of Cavani’s shot selection, and could only helplessly get up and go to the net to pick up the ball.

   “GOAL!

  ”

   With Messi’s desperate fight, Cavani scored a crucial penalty to help Crystal Palace lead Juventus 1-0 away.

   After insisting on most of the game, Juventus was still broken by Crystal Palace. This allowed Ranieri to have a bold idea while being a little frustrated.

  Now, Cavani is the only attacking player left in Crystal Palace.

  Other threatening players were unable to play due to injuries.

   This time, the pressure on the Juventus back line is greatly reduced.

  Ranieri felt that it was time to give it a shot.

  So, Ranieri immediately called Camoranesi and Del Piero from the bench.

   After a simple warm-up, he replaced Nedved and Marchisio with both of them.

   Juventus’ formation has also changed from the current 451 to 442.

   Camoranesi took over Nedved’s place, while Del Piero was the shadow striker behind Trezeguet.

   Seeing Juventus’ substitution adjustment, Chen Ran knew that Ranieri still couldn’t hold back and attacked.

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