Chapter 485 I’m really convinced!

Deschamps called Coman, who was playing for Bayern Munich, from the bench. After a brief warm-up, he replaced midfielder Matuidi with Coman.

Then, Koeman replaced Griezmann as the left midfielder, and Griezmann was pushed to the front by Deschamps, partnering with Giroud as a double forward.

The French team's formation has also changed from the previous 4231 to a diamond midfield of 442, leaving only Kante playing as a defensive midfielder.

"I'll go! The French team is currently playing as a defensive midfielder. Isn't it too risky?"

"Yes. Defensive counterattack is Chen Ran's specialty. Although Kanter's defensive ability is good, he can't take care of the entire midfield by himself."

"Deschamps is gambling. He is betting on whether France will equalize first or Belgium will score again."

"There is no other way. There is not much time left for the French team. If we don't work hard now, we will pack up and leave."

"Pogba is a bit disappointing. Deschamps has already asked him to play as an attacking midfielder and handed him all the tasks of organizing the French team's offense. In the end, he did not have any outstanding performance."

"Haha, you upstairs didn't even look at who the French team's opponent was. Pogba grew up in Chen Ran's Crystal Palace Club over the years. Chen Ran knew his technical characteristics very well. In the game against the French team, Chen Ran

I will definitely teach the Belgian players how to mark Pogba."

"What you said above is correct. I guess this is why the Crystal Palace club rushed to sell Pogba before the start of the European Cup. Because they know that facing Belgium led by Chen Ran, Pogba will definitely be stared at.

, then you won’t be able to sell it at a high price.”

"Hahahaha, this guy Chen Ran is such a thief!"

"I guess the owner of Manchester City Club must look very ugly now."

At this time, Pogba on the court was also anxious and angry.

In the past, whether he was at Crystal Palace or in the French national team, when he joined the attack from the defensive midfielder position, he was always able to pose a threat to the opponent's defense with his strong body and outstanding technical ability.

This is also an important reason why Pogba has the confidence to be the core of Crystal Palace's midfield and why he can set a new record for player transfer prices.

However, today, when Deschamps moved his position forward to serve as a midfielder and gave him the responsibility of organizing the French team's offense. Pogba suddenly discovered that this job is not that easy to do.

It is completely different from when he played as a defensive midfielder. When Pogba appeared in the attacking midfielder position, he was immediately surrounded by Belgian defensive players.

Led by Fellaini, plus Witsel and Dembélé, Pogba has at least two Belgian players around him at any time to double-team and mark him.

This makes Pogba's space to get the ball very narrow. Once the ball is more than half a meter away from his body, or his movement is half a beat slower, Belgian players will immediately rush to press him.

Pogba spent a lot of effort not to let the ball be stolen from his feet by his opponent, but he also consumed too much energy and physical strength and failed to help the French team organize a decent attack.

Seeing that the game time was getting shorter and shorter, Pogba became more and more anxious, and he even began to frequently take long-range shots from outside the penalty area.

Unfortunately, the Belgian goalkeeper Courtois opposite Pogba is his former teammate at Crystal Palace and is very familiar with Pogba's shooting characteristics.

Although several of Pogba's long-range shots were of good quality, they were either caught or thrown away by Courtois and did not pose any threat to Belgium's goal.

Seeing that Deschamps used the last substitution to send in Koeman, Chen Ran immediately called out Nainggolan from the bench.

After the warm-up, he replaced Hazard with Nainggolan. He stocked up on four midfielders in the midfield, and then moved De Bruyne's position to the center. The team's formation also changed from the previous 451 to

Current 4411.

In the final stage of the game, the French team launched a crazy attack on the Belgian defense.

However, because Chen Ran had already built an iron barrel formation for Belgium, the French team was never able to break through the goal guarded by Courtois.

Instead, he seized the opportunity when the game entered stoppage time and launched a counterattack with a powerful hand throw from Courtois. De Bruyne then sent a super long-distance through ball.

Mertens first used his speed to get the ball before Kante, and then changed direction and ducked past center back Koscielny who rushed to intercept him.

Facing the goalkeeper Lori who abandoned the goal, Mertens moved the ball to the right, passed Lori and then directly pushed the ball into the empty goal.

"GOAL!!!!!"

After scoring against the German team, Mertens made another new contribution this time, helping Belgium expand its lead to two goals.

As soon as the second goal was scored, the French players were immediately discouraged.

After the restart, the referee quickly blew the whistle to end the game.

In the end, with goals from Lukaku and Mertens, Belgium defeated France 2:0.

While successfully getting the tickets for the finals, Chen Ran also got a "Level One Chicken Blood Card" from the system.

At this time, in a five-star hotel room in Manchester, Raiola silently turned off the TV.

This time he came to Manchester, not to Manchester City Club.

Instead, he is going to Manchester City's city rivals Manchester United.

As a top agent, Pogba is not the only player Raiola owns.

Ibrahimovic is Raiola's biggest star before Pogba.

However, because Ibrahimovic is 35 years old this year, after his contract with Real Madrid expires, the other party has no intention of renewing it.

At this time, Manchester United took the opportunity to extend an olive branch, so Raiola came to Manchester this time to discuss Ibrahimovic's contract with Manchester United.

However, although he is busy with Ibrahimovic's affairs, Raiola has not forgotten to care about his biggest cash cow.

However, after watching the European Cup semi-final between Belgium and France, Raiola once again deeply felt Chen Ran's terror.

"Everything is going according to the Chinese's expectation. This is really terrible!" Raiola murmured to himself.

In the room, looking at the Manchester night sky outside the window, Raiola suddenly felt a little cold.

At the same time, also in Manchester, Manchester City club chairman Kaldoun Al Mubarak turned off the TV with an ugly expression.

He originally wanted to see how Pogba, whom he had just spent a lot of money to introduce, would perform. As a result, only the word "disappointment" could describe his current mood.

Pogba's performance in this game cannot be considered bad, but he was unable to turn the tide and lead the French team to defeat Belgium. Obviously, he is not worthy of his transfer worth of 150 million euros.

Although 150 million euros is nothing to the Abu Dhabi consortium, Kaldoun Al Mubarak is just a senior manager sent by the Abu Dhabi consortium to manage Manchester City Club.

If Pogba's performance falls too far short of his transfer value of 150 million euros, Kaldoun Al Mubarak will also have to bear the corresponding responsibility.

After a moment of silence, Kaldoun Al Mubarak picked up the phone and called Raiola.

At this time, he did not know that Raiola was now in Manchester.

On the other side, Raiola, who was still thinking about Chen Ran, saw the name of Kaldoun Al Mubarak displayed on his mobile phone, and his heart suddenly tightened.

Damn it, this Kaldoun Al Mubarak is not going to attack because of Pogba's incident, right?

Although Raiola felt uneasy, he also knew that escaping at this time would not solve the problem, but would instead anger the other party.

Gritting his teeth, Raiola answered the phone.

"Hello, Mr. Chairman, it's so late and you haven't rested yet? Do you have any instructions?"

"Mino, did you watch the European Cup semi-final between Belgium and France just now?"

"Well, I just finished watching it."

"I'm a little disappointed with Pogba's performance."

"Well, Mr. Chairman, players' status will always have ups and downs. Pogba's performance in this game is indeed not outstanding, but his ability is absolutely no problem."

"I believe you have also seen that even though Belgium defended Pogba with multiple double-teams, it was still difficult to steal the ball from his feet."

"And he is just 23 years old this year, and he will definitely get better and better in the future. With Pogba in our Manchester City club, we won't have to worry about the lack of core players in the midfield for the next ten years."

Raiola tried his best and finally managed to appease Kaldoun Al Mubarak with his sharp tongue.

After hanging up the phone, Raiola finally breathed a sigh of relief and went to the bathroom to get a towel and wipe the sweat on his forehead.

Damn it, it’s not easy to make some money these days!

Back in the bedroom, Raiola thought for a while, then took out his cell phone and sent a text message to Chen Ran.

The content is very simple, only one sentence.

"Mr. Chen, I'm really convinced!"

In another semi-final, Portugal also defeated Wales with a score of 2:0. In this way, they will compete with Belgium for the European Cup championship trophy.

Since neither Belgium nor Portugal has won the European Cup before, no matter who wins this game, a new European Cup champion will be born.

The current head coach of the Portuguese national team is local coach Fernando Santos, who became the team's head coach after the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Prior to that, he spent most of his time coaching clubs in Portugal and Greece, and has succeeded Rehagel as the head coach of the Greek national team since 2010.

Although the Portuguese team participating in this European Cup has changed a lot in terms of personnel compared to when Chen Ran was coaching, the core players are basically still the same people.

The top star Cristiano Ronaldo is naturally indispensable, Pepe and Carvalho on the defense are still there, and the two wingers Nani and Quaresma are also still on the team.

"Haha, the opponent Ronaldo probably doesn't want to encounter is the Belgian team coached by Chen Ran."

"That's for sure. From Crystal Palace to the Portuguese national team, Cristiano Ronaldo has played under Chen Ran for so many years. He knows how good Chen Ran is."

"I wonder if Cristiano Ronaldo will give the current head coach any advice to deal with the Belgian team."

"Haha, what's the point of coming up with ideas? I've never heard of this Fernando Santos, how can he compare with Chen Ran? Even if he has Ronaldo in his hands, he will probably lose in the end in all likelihood."

"Ahem, don't say so absolute what you said upstairs. It's too demeaning. It should be said like this: After ninety minutes of the game, although the Portuguese players tried their best, they still lost to Belgium in the end and lost the European Cup.

champion."

"Damn it! You're trying to steal the bamboo shoots upstairs!"
To be continued...