Chapter 400 new rewards

   Chapter 400 New Rewards

   This time, the central defender Marcos had to come out of Barcelona’s penalty area to make up the defense.

   Seeing another tall player, Messi played a fried ball this time, and after passing Marcos again, he continued to drive the ball towards goalkeeper Valdes.

   Just when Messi was about to kick and hit the goal, he found that Pique, who was in a bad situation, had to leave Suarez, who was in charge of marking, and a sliding tackle wanted to block Messi’s shot.

   Aware of Pique’s move, Messi immediately played a fake pass and pushed the ball to Suarez, who was now unmarked.

   In the face of such a good opportunity, Suarez naturally couldn’t let it go.

   He was used by Chen Ran with the “Level 1 Chicken Blood Card”, and this game is at the peak of his career.

  Suarez didn’t stop the ball at all, just volleyed against the ball.

“boom!”

   This shot is powerful and has a difficult angle. In addition, goalkeeper Valdes has moved his position ahead of time in order to block Messi’s shot.

   He now wants to turn around and come back to save Suarez’s shot, but he is out of reach.

  “GOAL!!!”

  With Messi’s assist and Suarez’s goal, Crystal Palace led Barcelona 1-0.

   “I didn’t expect it. Crystal Palace, which has been shrinking its defense, actually scored the first goal.”

   “Barcelona has not attacked with full force. It is estimated that they were afraid of Crystal Palace’s counterattack, but they still failed to defend.”

   “It’s not easy for Barcelona to do it this time. They have only one way to attack. But in this way, it will leave a lot of counterattack opportunities for Crystal Palace.”

   “One side scored the first goal, the balance of the entire game was instantly broken, and there will be a good show to watch.”

   “That’s right. This Champions League final is now the real start.”

   As the commentators analyzed, Guardiola can’t sit still anymore.

  Crystal Palace’s defensive ability, he knows best.

When    was at Crystal Palace, Guardiola was in charge of the team’s offensive tactical drills, while Simeone was in charge of the team’s defensive tactical drills.

   When the team faced off in groups, he often competed with Simeone.

   As a result, the attacking side, commanded by Guardiola, rarely beat the defending side, commanded by Simeone.

  You must know that at that time, his team concentrated on Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, Kaka, Tony and Modric and other Crystal Palace offensive core players.

   Now, Guardiola knows he has to gamble.

  Seeing Guardiola shouting on the sidelines for the Barcelona players to press on the attack, Southgate immediately got close to Chen Ran.

   “Boss, we have taken the lead now. As long as we keep this lead until the end of the game, the championship trophy will be ours. Should we add another defender?”

   “Don’t worry. As long as there are Messi and Suarez in front of them, Barcelona must leave more people to mark them.”

   “But if we have only one striker in front, Barcelona is easy to mark. So, leaving Messi and Suarez is more effective than adding a defender, understand?”

  Chen Ran used two “Level 1 Chicken Blood Cards” on Messi and Suarez. He knew how strong Messi and Suarez were at their peak. How could he give up?

  Although Guardiola ordered Barcelona’s players to fully attack the attack, out of fear of Crystal Palace’s ability to counterattack, he still left the two central defenders behind Marcos and Pique.

   And it is required that the two fullbacks Abidal and Puyol cannot go up to participate in the attack at the same time, and at least one person must be left to assist in marking Messi and Suarez.

  Although Guardiola has been careful enough, he still underestimated the ability of Messi and Suarez now. He didn’t know that Chen Ran used the “first-level chicken blood card” for these two guys.

   In his heart, Messi is the most threatening counterattack.

   And Suarez, a young player who has been on loan at the Dutch club Willem II for a long time, is at most a wingman who attracts the attention of the defense for Messi.

   As for the goal that Suarez scored before, it was also scored when Messi was unguarded after attracting all the defensive power of Barcelona after he played several people in a row.

   Therefore, Guardiola specially arranged for the experienced Marcos and full-backs to double-team to help defend Messi, but just let the still relatively immature Pique to mark Suarez.

   When Cech once again blocked Eto’o’s shot, and then kicked the ball into Barcelona’s half with a big foot, Suarez immediately rushed towards the ball’s landing point at high speed.

   At this time, Pique, who had been following Suarez, also started at the same time. As he ran, he reached out to grab Suarez.

   The current Suarez feels like he has endless energy. Pique grabbed him a few times but didn’t hold back, and Pique didn’t dare to move too much because he was worried about taking a card. In the end, he had to chase the ball closely with Suarez.

  Pique’s speed was not as fast as Suarez, but Suarez was one step ahead of the ball to the spot.

   At this time, the ball is at least 35 meters away from Barcelona’s goal, and the success rate of the shot is too low.

  Pique was only thinking about how to stop Suarez from rushing into his own penalty area with the ball, and he never thought that Suarez would shoot directly.

   However, Suarez just played out of line. When the ball was still bouncing on the turf, he rushed up with all his strength and volleyed.

“boom!”

  The ball drew a strange arc, flying to the left when it left Suarez’s feet, but suddenly turned to the right when it flew halfway.

   When the ball was about to fly to the Barcelona goal, it suddenly fell and jumped directly to the upper left corner of the Barcelona goal.

   Goalkeeper Valdes responded very quickly. As soon as Suarez finished his shot, he had already started to move his feet to make a save.

   But when he moved into place and was about to kick off the ground, he suddenly found that the ball was flying in the opposite direction.

   When he wanted to turn around and make a save, it was too late.

  Valdes could only watch the ball fly into Barcelona’s net in front of him.

  “GOAL!!!”

   With Suarez’s brace, Crystal Palace led Barcelona 2-0.

  If there is still hope for Barcelona to reverse when Crystal Palace leads by a goal. Then Crystal Palace are now two goals ahead and there is no hope for Barcelona anymore.

   Because, since Chen Ran entered Crystal Palace, no team has ever been able to do this.

   Of course Guardiola also knew this. Looking at Suarez who was celebrating wildly in the stadium, he could only shake his head helplessly.

   This guy, who has been on loan since he was bought by Crystal Palace, turned out to be the key man in this Champions League final.

   turned his head and glanced at the Crystal Palace bench quietly, and Guardiola sighed inwardly.

   The boss is the boss, who can use a young player who has not been used for a few years as a killer. Who would have thought of such a meow?

   However, things have developed to this point, and he has no way back.

   Guardiola gritted his teeth, called up Belarus midfielder Hleb from the bench, and then used him to replace Barcelona midfielder’s only defensive midfielder Busques.

   “Is this guy Josep crazy? He stopped defending?”

   Seeing Barcelona’s substitution adjustment, Southgate suddenly exclaimed.

   “Hehe, Gareth, does it still make sense for Barcelona to defend now? Losing two or losing three is the same result for Barcelona. So, Josep is going to work hard.”

  Simeone is relatively calm, and he feels the same way about Guardiola’s current situation.

   If it were him, he would do the same thing as Guardiola. No way, who made the boss really too powerful.

   Chen Ran did not react to Guardiola’s substitution adjustment.

   He was still sitting firmly on the bench, as still as a mountain.

   “Fuck! Chen Ran is really good. Who would have thought that he used a little-known kid as a killer, and the effect was so good.”

   “Yeah. I thought it was because Crystal Palace had too many injuries, so I had to use new players in this Champions League final. It turned out that this was a killer move specially arranged by Chen Ran. This guy is really a thief.”

“Haha, why don’t you call it ‘chicken thief ran’? It really deserves its name. It’s just that Guardiola is a bit too miserable. I didn’t expect him to stay by Chen Ran’s side for so long, but he still fell into Chen Ran. in the hole dug.”

   “It seems that at least in a short period of time, no one can challenge Chen Ran’s position as the world’s strongest football coach.”

   Guardiola’s substitution adjustment has certainly strengthened Barcelona’s offensive threat. But correspondingly, the loopholes in their back line were completely exposed to Messi and Suarez.

   Just as Barcelona’s players continued to attack the Crystal Palace backline, Cech once again launched a counterattack.

   After hugging the new Hleb long-range shot, Cech got up quickly, tossed the ball with a strong hand, and threw the ball to Cesc Fabregas in midfield.

   Cesc Fabregas first stopped and took away the harassment of Iniesta. Then he immediately used the footwork of the shot to draw the ball to the frontcourt.

   This pass, Cesc Fabregas used great strength. The ball flew more than 30 meters against the turf, and was ready to be sent to the line that Messi forwarded.

   “Wow! Cesc Fabregas’s pass was like a scalpel and easily cut through Barcelona’s defense.”

   Just when the commentator of the game praised the case of this ultra-long through racket, Messi took the ball and rushed towards the penalty area of ​​Barcelona.

   At this time, because Barcelona has already pressed the whole line, and now staying in the backcourt to defend, there are only two central defenders Pique and Marcos, and goalkeeper Valdes.

   As for the two full-backs, Abidal and Puyol, they have already been involved in the attack just now, and they have not had time to come back.

   In the face of Messi’s pressing step by step, Pique had to bite the bullet and meet him.

   That’s right, it’s Pique.

   Because Suarez, who he was in charge of marking before, had scored two goals in a row, Guardiola had to switch to the more experienced Marcos to defend Suarez.

   And Pique, now can only rely on himself to defend Messi one-on-one.

   Born from La Masia, Pique knows Messi too well.

   He has no certainty in his heart as to whether he can guard Messi.

   Seeing that it is Pique who is defending himself now, Messi has no intention of showing mercy. As soon as the small steps fell, a few fake moves made Pique dizzy.

   After passing Pique, Messi drove the ball directly into Barcelona’s penalty area.

   Finding that the situation was critical, Marcos planned to give up Suarez, who he was marking, and come to make up the defense.

   At this time, Messi made a fake move to prepare to pass the ball to Suarez, which scared Marcos to stop his footsteps.

   After discovering that Marcos had been fooled, Messi continued to approach Barcelona’s goal with the ball.

   This time, Valdés knew that no one could help him now, he could only rely on himself.

  So, Valdes immediately gave up and rushed towards Messi.

   Looking at the menacing Valdes, Messi did not have any panic. With a slight flick of the ankle, a light lob shot. The ball went over Valdez’s head and flew directly into Barcelona’s net.

  “GOAL!!!”

   With Messi’s light-heavy lob, Crystal Palace led Barcelona 3-0.

   As soon as the third goal was scored, everyone knew that there was no suspense in this game.

   Even at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Barcelona fans have already withdrawn.

   Guardiola, who had been standing on the sidelines and directing the game before, now turned around and returned to the bench to sit down. Both eyes stared blankly at the stadium without saying a word.

   On the Crystal Palace bench, Chen Ran made a move at this time, and he called Southgate to his side.

   “Gareth, you are now telling Beckham and Alves to warm up. They will replace Cesc Fabregas and Maicon in a while, and the team’s formation and style of play will remain the same. Understand?”

   “Okay, boss.”

   Seeing that the overall situation has been decided, the entire Crystal Palace bench is filled with a joyful atmosphere.

  Chen Ran just glanced at it lightly, and finally said nothing.

   In the next game, although Barcelona continued to attack Crystal Palace, their energy was not as good as before.

  Fortunately, when Barcelona was nearing the end of the game, Ibrahimovic scored a face-saving goal, and it didn’t make it too ugly.

  In the end, with Suarez’s brace and Messi’s goal, Crystal Palace defeated Barcelona 3:1 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome and successfully defended the Champions League this season.

   “Ding, congratulations to the host for winning the Champions League, with a special bonus of 40 million euros.”

   “Ding, reward the host for a chance to serve as the head coach of the national team. The host can decide whether to accept it or not.”

   (end of this chapter)