No matter how much competition there is outside the field, football still has to be judged on the field in the final analysis.

A week later, Chen Ran ushered in the eighth round of the Premier League. Crystal Palace faced Fulham at home.

Fulham is a team that has been hovering on the Premier League relegation line all year round. The biggest player in the team right now is Andy Cole, one of the famous former Manchester United doubles who just joined from Blackburn this season.

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Other players such as French midfielder Mal Blanc, Polish international Radzinski, Portuguese international Boa Moute and other players can also be regarded as powerful players.

The head coach Coleman is a former Wales international who retired from Fulham in 2002 and became the head coach of Fulham in 2003.

He is still only thirty-four years old and is a veritable young coach. In his previous life in 2018, he even served as the head coach of a club in northern China.

Facing such a Fulham team and playing at home, Chen Ran had nothing to worry about and directly sent out an attacking lineup.

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Left midfielder Ronaldo, attacking midfielder Modric, right midfielder Franck Ribery

Defensive midfielder Cesc Fabregas, defensive midfielder Simeone

Left back Chiellini, center back Southgate, center back Vidic, right back Maicon

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Fulham head coach Coleman felt chilled when he saw Crystal Palace's lineup.

As a young coach, although he lacks experience, his diligent study has made up for this shortcoming.

Crystal Palace's tactics are now firmly imprinted on Coleman's mind.

No matter what players Chen Ran sends, he will immediately know what tactics Crystal Palace is going to use.

With the starting lineup now sent by Crystal Palace, Coleman immediately understood that this game would be difficult for him.

As he expected, Crystal Palace launched a fierce attack right from the start.

The offensive wave got higher and higher, suffocating Fulham's defensive players.

Coleman, standing on the sidelines, could only watch every attack of Crystal Palace on the court and get anxious.

Because he has fielded Fulham's strongest lineup, his tactics are also to stay in his own half for defensive counterattacks.

After using up all the available cards in hand, whether they can withstand Crystal Palace's offensive depends on the performance of the Fulham players on the field.

At this time, Coleman's heartbeat frequency seemed to be changing with the offensive rhythm of Crystal Palace.

As more games are played, Crystal Palace players become more and more familiar with Guardiola's tactics.

Chen Ran, standing on the sidelines, watched with pleasure as the players on the field skillfully tore apart Fulham's defense, looking for any exposed loopholes.

This is the result of more than a year of hard work and training by the entire team.

Thinking of this, Chen Ran's thoughts drifted outside the stadium again.

If the Crystal Palace players can resist the temptation from the outside and no one is willing to leave, then this murder plan might as well be put on hold for the time being.

Those transfer fees don't matter if you don't make money.

Chen Ran secretly made this important decision.

After all, it is not easy to build a team with super combat effectiveness. Chen Ran will not sacrifice for the sake of making money.

"How you choose is up to you."

Looking at the familiar faces on the field, Chen Ran murmured to himself.

When the game reached the 29th minute, the ball came to Ronaldo's feet again.

This time he didn't do any fancy tricks and directly used his speed to eat Fulham's German full-back Walz alive.

When the ball was brought close to the baseline, Ronaldo passed the ball into Fulham's penalty area before Walz stretched his legs to block it.

Fulham's two central defenders, Knight and Goma, tried their best to trap Toni, but none of the three could jump up. The ball passed through Fulham's goal and fell towards

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"boom!"

A small figure suddenly appeared.

It turned out that Ribery, who was on the right, rushed into the penalty area, got ahead of another Fulham defender, Jenson, and made a diving dive to head the ball into the goal guarded by De Brogny.

"Goal..."

Crystal Palace leads Fulham 1:0.

Fulham took every precaution and kept an eye on Toni, but they ignored Ribery, who had nothing to do with headers. Coleman was so angry that he jumped from the sidelines.

After scoring the first goal, Crystal Palace opened up the situation and played more confidently.

Chen Ran stretched out his hand and waved in the direction of the Crystal Palace goal. Now he didn't even need to speak, the players knew what he meant.

The players of Crystal Palace now know what kind of person their head coach is. As long as the task is completed, he will not give up any more effort.

When Fulham kicked off again, they found that Crystal Palace did not continue to attack, but had retreated into its own half and launched a defensive counterattack.

Coleman had carefully studied Chen Ran's tactics. When he saw what happened on the field, his heart suddenly went cold.

Because he knows that compared to offense, defensive counterattack is actually the specialty of Crystal Palace.

Last season, Crystal Palace relied on defensive counterattacks and twin-tower tactics to win the Championship and League Cup.

Coleman asked himself, if Fulham presses out to attack now, can Fulham cope with Crystal Palace's defensive counterattack?

Coleman shook his head secretly. Although he didn't want to admit it, Coleman knew that he was not sure at all.

In fact, before the game, Coleman had already made plans for possible adverse situations in the game.

Now, he had to adopt one of them.

It's very simple, just pretend that nothing happened.

Fulham, continue to implement the previous defensive counterattack tactics, as if the conceded goal does not exist.

Because Coleman has thought carefully about it, losing a goal to the league leader is not a shame, and he can definitely explain the past.

But if he loses three or four games at once, the pressure on him will be great, and he may not be able to keep his position as head coach, which he has not yet secured.

Therefore, Chen Ran saw that after the game restarted, Fulham was still huddled in its own half, with no intention of actively attacking to equalize the score.

"Hey, Coleman is quite sensible."

Chen Ran was also a little surprised. Don't they say young people are easily impulsive?

Why is it that these young coaches he meets are each more cunning than the last and are not fooled at all?

This Coleman is so calm when encountering difficulties, without any emotional adjustment.

This young man has a future.

Chen Ran looked at Fulham's bench in the distance with approval, then returned to the Crystal Palace bench and sat down.

There seems to be no suspense in today's game.

Not many troops were put into the attack by both sides, so the game was naturally not a good one.

However, the Crystal Palace fans at home didn't care at all.

Now as long as Crystal Palace can continue their winning streak in the Premier League, they will be very happy.

As for the game process not being exciting enough?

That's not important, we Crystal Palace fans are not that pretentious.

Since before the game started at Selhurst Park, Crystal Palace fans have not stopped singing. It is as if they are not here to watch a game, but to attend a large concert.

The reporters in the stands looked at each other in confusion.

Why is this happening again?

As soon as they take the lead, they retreat to defend and counterattack. Do you, Crystal Palace, have any higher pursuits?

"This Chinese guy's coaching philosophy is too utilitarian."

"Yeah, if everyone does what he does, can we still watch the game?"

"Yes, we must condemn his behavior together."

"However, it is understandable that Crystal Palace played a defensive counterattack after taking the lead. Why did Fulham continue to adopt defensive counterattack tactics when they were already lagging behind?"

"That's right. This Coleman is a coward. He must be frightened by the Chinese man's winning streak."

"Coleman became the head coach of Fulham just after retiring. He probably has little experience. I think it is impossible to expect him to create some difficulties for the Chinese."

"Well, if Crystal Palace wins this game again, it will be the first eight consecutive victories in the Premier League. This is too scary, and I don't know who can stop them from moving forward."

"Yes. Now every time Crystal Palace wins a game, it is setting a new record."

"Stop sighing there and think about how to write the manuscript after the game."

"How else can I write it? It's nothing more than praising the Chinese and the Crystal Palace."

"Oh, I have to write these again. When will these days end?"

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During the halftime break, Chen Ran simply replaced Cesc Fabregas with Yaya Toure, and at the same time pulled Modric back to the midfielder position, completely launching a defensive counterattack.

Coleman also persisted in his determination to play dead and did not make any changes.

Therefore, the second half of the game remained calm.

Both teams used their only forward players to attack, so naturally it was difficult for them to score goals.

As expected by reporters, Crystal Palace finally relied on the header of the little Ribery to beat the visiting Fulham 1:0 at home and won the game smoothly.

While setting a record of eight consecutive wins at the beginning of the Premier League, it also brought Chen Ran a winning bonus of 2 million euros.

In other games in the eighth round of the Premier League, Arsenal defeated Charlton 4-0 at home and resumed their scoring spree.

In the highlight of this round, Mourinho led Chelsea to a 1:0 home victory over Benitez's Liverpool.

Ferguson's Manchester United once again failed to win the game and were tied 1:1 by Middlesbrough at Old Trafford.

Crystal Palace now tops the table with 24 points after winning eight games.

Arsenal is second with 22 points from seven wins, one draw, and Chelsea is third with 19 points from six wins, one draw, and one loss.

Since the three teams at the top of the list all won the game, the gap between them did not change.

The situation is still very anxious.

Thousands of miles away in China, fans who follow Chen Ran and Crystal Palace are also very excited.

Eight consecutive wins at the beginning of the league, let alone the highly competitive Premier League. Even in any country's league, that is an amazing result.

"I didn't expect it. This Chen Ran is really powerful. A little-known Crystal Palace was brought to this point by him."

"Yes, I originally only paid attention to Crystal Palace because the owner of Crystal Palace is from China, but now it is out of control. I played every game at Crystal Palace and even got dark circles under my eyes."

"Yes, I have watched every Crystal Palace game. That Chen Ran's tactics are so stupid. As soon as he takes the lead, he immediately retreats to defend and counterattack."

"He's quite a thief. Several times I saw the opponent's head coach get furious with anger, but there was nothing he could do against Crystal Palace."

"What kind of chicken thief? Can you speak? This is too ugly. His behavior should be called 'gou', do you understand?"

"Gou? What do you mean?"

"You're just trying to live an ignoble existence!"

"Hey, don't mention it, this word is quite vivid to describe Chen Ran's tactical style."

"My opponent, the word 'Gou' has a profound meaning, and it is the perfect word to describe Chen Ran."

"I have decided. If Chen Ran can lead Crystal Palace to win the Premier League championship this season, I will call him God Gou. If he fails to win the championship, I will call him Chen Gou."

"Damn it, whether it's God Gou or Chen Gou, now it all depends on Chen Ran's own choice."

"Hahaha...that's a good idea. That's what I shouted too."

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Chen Ran didn't know yet that thousands of miles away in China, he was about to share the same name with a scumbag.

Because there are three major cup competitions this year: the European Cup, the America's Cup and the African Cup, there are also a lot of events on national team match days.

As Crystal Palace continues to lead the Premier League standings, many players in the team have also attracted the attention of their respective national team coaches and have been selected for the national team squad for the first time in their lives.

These players, who have changed their life trajectories by joining Crystal Palace, were selected for the national team for the first time much earlier than in their previous lives.

For example, Crouch, although he was only the main substitute for Crystal Palace, was still recruited into the national team by the current England coach Eriksson.

This is a full year earlier than when Crouch entered the national team in his previous life.

This time, Chen Ran was completely at ease.

Because almost all the Crystal Palace first-team players were drafted by their respective national teams, even his assistant coaches Southgate and Simeone were not spared, leaving only Guardiola, who is already in a semi-retired state.

His players were promoted to the national team one after another, but Chen Ran's mood was mixed and it was difficult to be happy.

The advantage of course is that the value of these players has increased with the blessing of national football status.

But there may be more disadvantages. First, frequent national team assignments are unavoidable in the future, which will make things worse for the Premier League schedule, which is already known for its intensive competition.

Second, with the opportunity to perform in the national team, these players may attract more tigers and hungry wolves.
Chapter completed!