Fast-paced, high-confrontational games consume a huge amount of physical energy for players.

In the first twenty minutes of the game, although the Fiorentine players were slightly inferior to those of the Crystal Palace players, they made up for this very well through their own more running and fighting.

However, as time went by, when the Fiorentine players entered the first physical bottleneck period of the game, the situation on the court immediately changed.

After Ribery on the left received a pass from Fabregas, he first broke the defense of Fiorentine's right forward Donadale with his own speed.

Then, before right back Komoto came up to press, he passed the ball to Kaka who came over to pick him up.

At this time, Fiorentina's midfielder Felipe Melo followed Kaka and ran over.

Kaka knew that there was someone behind him, so he didn't stop the ball at all. Instead, he knocked the ball back to Ribery's route, and he himself went around from the other side of Felipe Merlot to start speeding up.

Front insertion.

At this time, Ribery had also bypassed Comoto and received the ball.

Seeing Kaka's actions, Ribery understood it and sent the ball directly to the line where Kaka was inserted.

When the ball arrived, Kaka took the opportunity and drove the ball into Fiorentina's penalty area.

Discovering that the situation was not good, Fiorentina's central defender Clauderup hurried over to make up for the defense.

Kaka did not entangle with Claudrup, but shook his ankle and rushed through the ball to Ronaldo in the middle before the opponent's foot. Then he bypassed Claudrup himself and continued to step forward.

As the center forward in this game, Ronaldo was entangled by Da Yinelli of Fiorentina in the penalty area.

Seeing the ball rolling towards him, Ronaldo, who wanted to shoot, found that he could not make any moves at all.

Dayinelli's hand used the cover of Ronaldo's body to tightly pull Ronaldo's jersey from an angle that the referee could not see.

In desperation, Ronaldo had to give up his plan to shoot directly. Seeing Kaka still fucking forward, he passed the ball back to Kaka.

When the ball returned to Kaka's feet again, Kaka had already broken through all the defense lines of Fiorentina and came directly to goalkeeper Ferre.

When Frey saw that something was wrong, he quickly abandoned the door and attacked Kaka.

Kaka did not use force to shoot the goal, but shook his ankle gently and shot with a sharp shot. The ball drew a wonderful arc and flew directly over Frey's head and flew towards Florence's goal.

“GOAL!”

With a series of dazzling cooperation and Kaka's wonderful shots, Crystal Palace led Fiorentina 1:0 away.

Crystal Palace scored the first goal, and immediately made Plandley, who was still shouting and constantly directing the players to strengthen the attack, wilted.

Because he has carefully studied Crystal Palace's past record, there is no precedent for a team to successfully reverse after Crystal Palace leads.

And on the side of Crystal Palace, Chen Ran felt relieved when he saw the team breaking the deadlock.

The intensive schedule consumes the physical fitness of the Crystal Palace players. If you cannot gain a lead in the first half, it will probably be even more difficult to get in the second half.

As Chen Ran expected, as Chen Ran expected, as the sixth of the seven games of the Devil's schedule, most of the players in Crystal Palace were gritting their teeth and persevering.

Before the first half was over, the players on Crystal Palace were already showing signs of fatigue.

Fortunately, the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half in time, which gave Crystal Palace a chance to breathe and adjust.

During the intermission, looking at the soaked players, Chen Ran not only gave them chicken blood as usual, but also replaced Kaka with Mascherano.

Jean Yaya Toure, Fabregas and Mascherano together form three midfielders to increase the defensive thickness of Crystal Palace.

And in Fiorentina, the same problem as most second-rate teams is that they only have one starting lineup that can be used.

If the starting lineup cannot defeat the opponent and it is basically impossible to turn the tables with a substitute player.

Plandelli, who is well aware of his team's situation, also knew this very well, so during the halftime break, he did not make any substitution adjustments except cheering the players.

At the beginning of the second half, Plandelli immediately saw the action of Crystal Palace.

Is Crystal Palace going to shrink its formation and strengthen its defense?

With only one ball leading, are they so confident in their defensive abilities?

Plandelli looked at the Crystal Palace bench not far away and couldn't help but guzzle in his heart.

Generally speaking, leading one ball is not safe.

Moreover, Crystal Palace's strength is obviously above Fiorentina, so the opponent should take advantage of the victory and chase and score a goal before it can be normal.

If something goes wrong, there will be a demon. Plandelli also understands it. Thinking of the recent schedule of Crystal Palace that he once watched, Plandelli seems to have discovered some secret.

It seems that due to the intensive schedule, the players at Crystal Palace are a little exhausted.

Thinking of this, Plandelli immediately became excited, and he seemed to see the upset hope again.

Walking to the sidelines, Plandelli once again began to shout hello to the Fiorentine players and put on a big push to the attack.

Seeing this situation, Chen Ran not only had no intention of being anxious, but instead returned to the bench and sat down.

"Boss, a new offensive has been launched in Florence. Should we strengthen our defensive strength?"

Chen Ran was not in a hurry, but Southgate was a little uneasy.

He was the same as Plandelley's idea, and the lead of a ball was really unsafe.

"What's the hurry? Our Crystal Palace started with the tactics of defensive counterattacks. Now this situation is just a small scene."

"Besides, we have three people in the frontcourt now, Ronaldo, Messi and Ribery. These three guys are players with strong personal breakthrough skills and are most suitable for quick counterattacks."

"Garrez, keep calm. Don't look at Florence's attack now, there will be times when they cry."

Chen Ran reached out and patted Southgate on the shoulder. His assistant was still a little tender.

As Chen Ran judged, less than ten minutes after he comforted Southgate, Crystal Palace made a beautiful defensive counterattack.

After holding Girardino's soft and weak shot, Cech quickly got up, ran a few steps and threw the ball with a powerful hand tossed the ball at the unguarded Fabregas.

Fabregas, who had already observed his teammates' position in advance, did not pause at all. Before Felipe Mello came up to press, he passed the ball to Messi, who was running forward at the high speed on the right side.

Messi was running while observing the trajectory of the ball's flight. At this time, Fiorentina's left forward Jovitic had not had time to return to defense before he had started attacking.

In desperation, left-back Vargas had to leave his position and took the initiative to come forward to destroy Fabregas' pass to Messi.

Seeing Vargas' movements, Messi did not stop the ball. Instead, he ran and picked it with his heel.

After stopping, the ball drew an arc and just crossed over Vargas' head and landed in front of Messi.

This time, Fiorentina's entire left defense suddenly collapsed, and Messi drove the ball directly into Fiorentina's penalty area.

At this moment, Ronaldo in the middle of Crystal Palace and Ribery in the left were also in the high speed at the same time, which forced the Fiorentine defensive players to leave behind people to guard them.

With the involvement of Ronaldo and Ribery, only the only central defender Clauderup, who can send to intercept Messi, is left.

Claudrupp, Denmark's central defender, is 190cm tall, and has no problem with facing defense and fighting for high altitude balls.

But it would be hard to let him intercept Messi, who is fast, good at skill and extremely powerful in terms of ability.

Clauderup had just rushed to Messi, but before he could react, Messi hit the ball and stabbed it between his legs.

When Clauderup turned around and wanted to reach out to pull Messi and would rather make a foul than leave the ball, Messi had already rushed into Fiorentina's penalty area with the ball.

Seeing this situation, Claudrup hesitated for a moment and did not dare to continue to attack.

It was this moment of hesitation that Messi had already dribbled the ball and rushed to Fiorentina goalkeeper Frey to kill him.

When the situation was found to be critical, Da Yinelli, who was already guarding Ronaldo, had to abandon Ronaldo and rush over to intercept Messi.

Seeing Dayinelli's movements, Messi did not forcefully shoot. He shook his ankle and passed the ball horizontally to Ronaldo, who is now unmarked.

Of course, Ronaldo will not let Messi down. He took the bow and shot the ball with an arrow.

"Bang!"

Ronaldo's kicking position has crossed the penalty spot. At such a close distance, goalkeeper Frey had no time to react at all.

He just subconsciously stretched out his hand, but the ball had already appeared in the net.

“GOAL!”

With Messi's assists and Ronaldo's goal, Crystal Palace led Fiorentina 2:0 away.

With two goals in hand, Chen Ran was able to strike a defensive counterattack with peace of mind.

Soon he replaced Messi with Evra, then transferred Ribery back to the right and asked Evra to play the left forward.

Not long after, Chen Ran replaced Ronaldo with Cavani and took the lead in front as the arrow to counterattack.

And in Florence, Plandley no longer dares to defeat Crystal Palace in an upset manner.

However, this is their home court in Fiorentina, and he has no choice but to continue the attack.

However, the sound of Plandelli standing on the sidelines to direct the game was no longer as loud as before.

On the court, the Fiorentine players seemed to be deflated balls.

Although they are still launching attacks, they are showing a trend of becoming weaker and weaker in terms of strength and effect of the attack.

On the sidelines, Chen Ran, who was sitting steadily on the bench, saw this scene and knew that Crystal Palace would win in this game.

As Chen Ran expected, when the referee blew the whistle of the end of the game, Crystal Palace defeated Fiorentina with a score of 2:0.

While winning two consecutive victories in the Champions League group stage, Chen Ran also got a "Level 1 Blood Recovery Card" from the system.

Without the mood to celebrate the victory of the game, Chen Ran flew back to London with the entire Crystal Palace team overnight.

There is no way, and it is only two days apart. On October 4, Crystal Palace will challenge Tottenham Hotspur away again to play the seventh round of the Premier League.

In the second half of the game against Fiorentina, the players at Crystal Palace have shown obvious fatigue.

And this is not a problem for individual players, but a widespread phenomenon.

The first thing Chen Ran did after returning to London was to arrange for the players to take a good rest for a day, and then arranged for the team doctor and physical coach to conduct a comprehensive physical test of all players.

The result is not optimistic.

"Boss, if we follow the team doctor's standards, we can't even get together the eleven players in the starting lineup."

Looking at the physical examination report in his hand, Southgate couldn't help frowning.

Chen Ran also had a copy of the same report, and he was also having a headache about it.

"Garreth, are you stupid? Just use the team doctor's advice as a reference."

Chen Ran glared at Southgate with annoyance, then turned to look at Simeone beside him.

"Diego, you will take the players to review the defensive counterattack tactics when you are training tomorrow."

"Okay, boss."

Faced with this situation, Chen Ran could only choose the starting lineup among the players who were not in such bad physical condition.

The opponent of Crystal Palace in this game, Tottenham Hotspur, who are not qualified to participate in the European competition, have sufficient rest time.

Due to Tottenham's start this season, he only got two points in the first six rounds of the Premier League, including two draws and four losses, but only got two points without winning in one game. Head coach Juander Ramos is under great pressure now.

However, he carefully studied the recent situation of Crystal Palace and found that his opponent has been almost exhausted by the recent devil schedule, which is a good opportunity for him to turn things around.

So Juander Ramos put in all his might and prepared to do a big vote. As long as he can win the Crystal Palace, which is now at its peak, the pressure on him will be wiped out.

Forward Darren Bent, forward Pavliuchenko

Left forward Left Cora, centre forward Heddlestone, centre forward Jennas, right forward Lenon

Left-back Ector, central defender Laidley King, central defender Woodgate, right-back Colluca

Goalkeeper Gomez

On the Crystal Palace side, Chen Randong finally sent out a starting lineup with a pretty good physical condition.

Forward Dzeko, forward Kavani

Mascherano, Yaya Toure, Beckham,

Left-back Evra, central defender Pepe, central defender Thiago Silva, central defender Kompani, right-back Alves

Goalkeeper Van der Sar

Because Crystal Palace and Tottenham Hotspur are both London teams, this game is also a small London derby.

In addition to the current momentum of Crystal Palace, Tottenham Hotspur’s home court, White Hart Lane Stadium was full on the day of the game.
Chapter completed!