MTL - Football Feast, Starting From the Acquisition of European Clubs-Chapter 478 life and death

  Chapter 478 You die

  Now Spain, after winning two consecutive European Cup championships in 2008 and 2012, as the main players in the team get older, they have passed their peak stage.

  Especially on the front line, due to the fading out of front line killers such as Torres and Villa, Spain is even showing signs of weakness.

   Chen Ran is no stranger to this Spanish team.

  During the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Chen Ran once led Portugal to defeat Spain in the final, snatching the championship trophy from the opponent.

  Because Chen came and went to coach the Brazil team, under the leadership of the old coach Bosque, Spain finally won the 2012 European Cup in Poland and Ukraine.

  However, because of Spain's poor performance in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, they were eliminated in the group stage, which made them miss the opportunity to avenge Chen Ran.

   Now, after finally running into the team coached by Chen Ran again, the whole Spanish team tried their best to avenge the loss of the World Cup championship.

   For this reason, Bosque dispatched all the main players who could play in his hands, and prepared to send Belgium home.

  Left forward Nolito, center Morata, right winger David Silva

   Central midfielder Iniesta, Central midfielder Busquets, Central midfielder Fabregas

  Left back Alba, center back Ramos, center back Pique, right back Juanfran

  Goalkeeper De Gea

   On the Belgian side, after the rotation against Sweden in the last game of the group stage, most of the main players got a full rest, and Chen Ran confidently formed his high-altitude bombing lineup.

  Center Lukaku

  Left Midfield Hazard, Central Midfielder Witsel, Central Midfielder Fellaini, Central Midfielder Dembele, Right Midfielder De Bruyne

  Left back Vertonghen, center back Kompany, center back Alderweireld, right back Carrasco

  Goalkeeper Courtois

  Because the match between Belgium and Spain was the only strong dialogue in the quarter-finals, it also attracted great attention from the outside world.

   "Belgium is having a hard time this time. Spain is the defending champion, and Chen Ran snatched the World Cup champion from Spain. They must have tried their best to avenge Chen Ran."

   "Hehe, although Spain is strong, Belgium is not a soft persimmon. And after Chen Ran's transformation, the current Belgian team is not a vegetarian."

   "That's right, Spain today is not the Spain it was four years ago. Without Torres and Villa, Morata alone can't support Spain's forward line."

"That's not necessarily the case. Although Spain's current striker strength has been weakened, the midfield is still top-notch. Belgium's high-altitude bombing victory wants to break through the defense line composed of Ramos, Pique and Busquets. It's a bit whimsical gone."

   "It's the same defense line. Two years ago, in the World Cup in Brazil, Spain didn't even make it out of the group stage. What else is there to brag about?"

   "Ahem, upstairs, you don't slap people in the face when you beat them, and you don't expose them if you expose them."

  As a representative of pass-and-control football, Spain tried to take the initiative on the field through passing and cutting cooperation from the first minute of the game.

  However, due to the 451 formation that Chen Ran arranged for Belgium, the three defensive midfielders of Fellaini, Witsel and Dembele were concentrated in the midfield, forming a thick barrier in front of the defense.

   This makes it difficult for Spain's offense to penetrate further after entering Belgium's half, let alone threaten Belgium's goal.

   On the Belgian side, after stabilizing the fence, it is easy to fight back.

  Especially Hazard and De Bruyne on the two wings, like two sharp knives, constantly stabbing the heart of Spain in turn. Coupled with the fact that Lukaku in the middle was responsible for grabbing points and outflanking, the Belgian team almost broke through the goal guarded by De Gea at the beginning of the game.

Seeing this situation, Bosque had no choice but to quickly order his two full-backs, Alba and Juanfran, not to press up easily to participate in the attack, but to stay in the backcourt and be responsible for marking Hazard and De Bruyne. Only then did the situation stabilize.

   But in this way, Spain's offensive in the frontcourt will inevitably be affected.

  As the fulcrum of Spain's offense, Morata is a very controversial player.

  He is talented and capable, but his biggest problem is his unstable performance.

  Although there are bright moments, he often loses the chain when the team needs him.

  This is also the key reason why Morata has never been able to become a top striker although he has played for some wealthy clubs.

   Today, Morata, who is 189cm tall, is submerged in the double-teaming of Belgian tall defensive players such as Kompany and Alderweireld.

  Iniesta and Fabregas finally sent the pass into the Belgian penalty area, but he didn't grab any of them.

  Spain's pass control couldn't enter Belgium's penalty area, and Spain also took precautions against Belgium's counterattack, and the whole game suddenly entered a stalemate.

  On the sidelines, seeing this situation, Chen Ran was not in a hurry at all, and sat firmly on the bench to watch the game.

  Anyway, he has the trump card of high-altitude bombing. Even if he can't score a goal in a sports game, he still has corner kicks and free kicks.

When the game progressed to the 37th minute, De Bruyne made a breakthrough from the right and wanted to pass from the bottom. As a result, the ball was blocked by the Spanish left-back Alba with a shovel and the Belgian team won a right. Corner chance.

  At this time, I saw a group of big men running up from the Belgian midfielder.

Fellaini, Kompany, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Witsel and Dembele, plus Lukaku who was right in front, the Spanish penalty area was immediately crowded big man.

  Spain, who had already prepared for the tactics of the Belgian head team, suddenly felt like a formidable enemy.

  Bosque on the sidelines kept urging striker Morata to return to his penalty area to help mark the group of tall guys in Belgium.

  However, even so, Spain can't get enough tall players to deal with Belgium's tall army.

Except for Pique who is 192cm tall and Busquets and Morata who are 189cm tall, not counting goalkeeper De Gea, Ramos is the tallest in Spain at 184cm, and the rest are a group of small men with a height of less than 1.8 meters .

  In addition to arranging Pique, Busquets and Morata to mark the tallest Belgian players such as Lukaku, Kompany and Fellaini.

   In desperation, Del Bosque could only arrange some Spanish players with obvious height differences to mark other Belgian big men.

  At the corner flag, De Bruyne personally took the corner kick.

  He first looked up at the position of his teammates in the penalty area, and then raised his hands to make a signal.

"boom!"

  The ball drew a high arc and flew towards the Spanish penalty area.

Since Chen Ran tailored a set of high-altitude bombing tactics for the Belgian team, he asked De Bruyne and Hazard, who were in charge of taking set kicks, not to kick flat fast **** when passing the ball. The arc of the ball must be high enough to give full play to the height advantage of Belgian players.

   This time, De Bruyne's corner kick also followed this principle.

  When the ball flew into the Spanish penalty area, there was a mess inside.

  Especially those Spanish players who were not tall enough, they used both hands and feet, trying their best to prevent the Belgian players from jumping for the top.

  There were already many people in the penalty area, coupled with various small movements, several players from both sides fell down at once.

   "Beep!"

  The on-duty referee Kralovic immediately blew his whistle, and then quickly ran into the penalty area, indicating that it was Alderweireld of Belgium who fouled.

   This time, the Belgian players were blown up immediately.

  Good guy, the Spanish players pulled and pulled one by one, making small movements. It's fine if the referee doesn't blow a penalty, but he still calls himself a foul?

  The Belgian players immediately surrounded the referee Kralovic emotionally and asked for an explanation.

  On the sidelines, seeing this situation, Chen Ran quickly turned on the system and used an "Hawkeye Guardian Card".

  Because the distance was too far, although Chen Ran didn't know what happened in the restricted area just now. However, seeing how emotional his players were, he took immediate action.

Although UEFA has enabled the Hawkeye system in this European Cup, the Hawkeye system at this time is actually just a goal line system, and it is limited to judging whether the ball has crossed the goal line, and it does not have the ability to correct the referee's misjudgments. Function.

   Soon, Chen Ran saw the effect of the "Hawkeye Guardian Card".

  The referee Kralovic "knows the mistake and can correct it", and changed the judgment to Belgium to get a penalty.

   This time, it was the turn of the Spanish players to quit.

  When the Belgian players had just dispersed to celebrate the penalty kick, the Spanish players headed by Ramos surrounded Kralovic again.

  Seeing that the situation was showing signs of getting out of control, two assistant referees hurried over from the sidelines to help Kralovic maintain order.

  "Judging from the multi-angle slow-motion playback, it was Spain's Juanfran's foot that tripped Belgium's Alderweireld. The referee Kralovic changed the penalty kick, which is completely correct."

   Just when the game was interrupted because of this penalty, the major broadcast TV stations were also constantly replaying what happened in the Spanish penalty area just now.

   "Then why did Kralovic foul Alderweireld in the first place?"

   "Maybe Kralovich has identified the wrong person?"

   "No way? Even the jerseys are different, so can you identify the wrong person?"

   "Could it be that Kralovic found out that there was a problem with his penalty after being reminded by the Belgian players?"

   "Well, I am afraid that only Mr. Kralovic can answer this question."

   After the game was interrupted for nearly ten minutes, it was finally resumed.

  As the first penalty shooter designated by Chen Ran, De Bruyne picked up the ball and walked towards the penalty spot without hesitation.

  First stepped on the turf near the penalty spot with his feet, and then De Bruyne carefully placed the ball.

   Taking a few steps back, De Bruyne looked up at De Gea on the opposite side, and ran up.

"boom!"

   De Bruyne arched the lower right corner of a Spanish goal, and De Gea completely misjudged the direction and pounced to the left.

   "GOAL!!!"

   With De Bruyne's penalty kick, Belgium leads Spain 1:0.

   Sidelines, watching Belgium wildly celebrating goals on the court, Bosque flushed with anger.

  In his opinion, this penalty kick is completely out of thin air!

  The **** referee must have taken money from the Belgian to change the sentence.

   However, the matter has come to this point, Bosque now has no choice.

   This is a knockout game, and if you lose, you will go home.

  In the 2014 World Cup, the result of Spain returning home without qualifying in the group stage has caused Bosque to be questioned.

   That is to say, Bosque's past achievements and qualifications are unmatched in Spain, so that he can still keep the position of head coach of the Spanish national team.

  However, if Spain cannot achieve satisfactory results in the European Cup this time, then he will really be kicked out.

   As a result, Bosque waved his hand, and Spain attacked across the board.

   Even the two full-backs Juanfran and Alba, who stayed to mark Hazard and De Bruyne before, are now over the center line together.

   Seeing Bosque's adjustment, Chen Ran was immediately happy.

  After all, only when Spain aggressively presses the offense can it be easier for him to fight back.

   Not long after, and before Spain's attack was effective, the referee Kralovic blew the whistle for the end of the first half.

   "Let Chen Ran's team take the lead, and it will be difficult to turn the game around. Spain this time is more or less a disaster."

   "That's right, the team coached by Chen Ran has done a great job defensively. Once they get ahead of other teams, it's basically over."

   "That penalty is too critical! How dare the referee change the decision in such an important game, this referee is quite kind."

   "Haha, the key is that his change of sentence is still correct, and this will stop everyone's mouths."

   "Hehe, those upstairs are too naive. I'm sure, at least the Spaniards can't keep their mouths shut."

  During the intermission, due to the smooth progress of the game, Chen Ran did not make any substitutions and adjustments other than giving the players blood as usual.

   And in the Spanish locker room, the assistant coach showed Bosque a slow-motion replay of the penalty in the first half of the game with a tablet computer.

   "Boss, judging from the slow-motion replay, there is no problem with Kralovich's change of sentence this time. We have nothing to do with him."

   "I see. Don't tell other people about this."

  Bosque carefully looked at the slow-motion playback on both sides, and then turned off the tablet directly.

   "Okay, boss."

  After dismissing the assistant coach, Bosque first used Kralovic's change of sentence to stimulate the Spanish players, and then said that he must use the victory to give Kralovic a loud slap in the face.

   This trick worked very well, and the fighting spirit of all the Spanish players was immediately mobilized.

   Bosque struck while the iron was hot, and he replaced Nolito with Pedro. Put all your eggs in one basket and fight Belgium to the death.

  (end of this chapter)