Football Feast, Starting From the Acquisition of European Clubs - Chapter 477

Chapter 477 Just do it if you don’t accept it!

Soon, Obonna knew what Lukaku wanted to do.

Originally, Conte arranged for Bonucci to be responsible for marking Lukaku, but Lukaku has been standing by Obonna’s side.

In this way, it became Bonucci and Obonna two flanking Lukaku.

Although the two of them kept a close eye on Lukaku, they left a big gap for Belgium’s Fellaini and Witsel who rushed in from outside the penalty area to grab points.

The two defensive midfielders in Italy, Parolo and De Rossi, are not as tall as Fellaini and the others, and it is very difficult to defend high-altitude balls. The goal guarded by Buffon is constantly threatened.

Seeing this situation, Conte had to make adjustments again, replacing it with Obonna to be in charge of marking Lukaku closely, and allowing Bonucci to free up his hands to deal with Fellaini’s back attack.

This time, the game finally entered the development direction that Chen Ran hoped to see.

When the game progressed to the 35th minute, Hazard broke through Barzagli’s defense on the left and made a pass from the bottom. In the penalty area, Lukaku jumped high and beat Obonna to grab the goal. At one point, a lion head slammed the ball hard towards the Italian goal.

Although Buffon threw the ball again, but because Lukaku’s header was too close and powerful, the ball finally bounced into the Italian net.

“GOAL!!!”

Relying on Lukaku’s header to score, Belgium had unexpectedly led Italy 2:0 before the end of the first half.

“How could Obonna be able to guard Lukaku? Kong Er’s idiot used him to mark Lukaku, it’s just courting death!”

“The people upstairs didn’t watch the game carefully. It wasn’t Conte who wanted Obonna to defend against Lukaku, but Lukaku took the initiative to find Obonna.”

“That’s right. Conte originally arranged for Bonucci to mark Lukaku, but since Obonna came on the field, Lukaku has been sticking to Obonna. Obviously this is a tactic specially arranged by Chen Ran.”

“That’s true. Lukaku did this, and he immediately attracted the two Italian central defenders to his side, creating space for Fellaini and the others to grab a shot. Conte didn’t If there is no way, we have to arrange Obonna to be responsible for marking Lukaku.”

“Hahahaha, after all, Kong Er’s idiot is not as good as Chen Ran, and he stepped into the hole Chen Ran dug.”

“Actually, this can’t be blamed on Kong Er. Chen Ran used Yangmou, either to defend against Lukaku, or to defend against Fellaini and the others. They are all bright cards. You can choose by yourself, and you can’t dodge them at all.”

“In the final analysis, there are still too many tall Belgian players, and it is hard to guard against.”

On the sidelines, seeing Lukaku scoring the second goal for Belgium, Conte reached out and patted his chest. He always felt that he couldn’t breathe and was uncomfortable.

As the fans analyzed, it is not that Conte did not discover Chen Ran’s intentions.

However, the biggest difference between a conspiracy and a conspiracy is that if the conspiracy is discovered, it can be completely avoided.

As for Yangmou, even if you see through it, you will eventually find that you can’t avoid it at all, and you can only follow the route designed by the other party honestly.

However, Kong Er is not a vegetarian. Now that he is two goals behind, he simply doesn’t care so much.

Anyway, this is a group match, not a life-and-death match. He can still afford the result of losing this match.

So, while the Belgian players were still celebrating their goals, Conte called all the Italian players to the sidelines.

Soon, everyone discovered that after the game re-kick-off, the Italian formation moved forward as a whole and began to aggressively attack.

Seeing that there was not much time left in the first half of the game, Chen Ran simply let Belgium shrink the formation and played a defensive counterattack.

Compared to the previous Italian team, Conte’s Italian national team can be regarded as a civilian team.

There are almost no big-name stars in the team, and there is even a lack of talented offensive players like Vieri, Del Piero, and Inzaghi.

In the midfield, there is no such thing as Pirlo who is good at passing and organizing offense. Most of them are engineer-type defensive players.

The only thing that can be used is this relatively solid defense line.

Under the leadership of Conte, the fundamental reason why this Italian national team can still achieve good results is that Conte adopted a pragmatic defensive counterattack style.

However, Conte now requires the Italian formation to move forward and attack with all their strength, which immediately exposed his biggest shortcoming.

Pellet, the team’s only offensive fulcrum, was surrounded by a group of tall defensive players in Belgium. He was alone and alone, and it was difficult to even get the ball, let alone create opportunities for others.

In this way, after ten minutes of onslaught, Italy ushered in the whistle at the end of the first half without any achievements.

During the intermission, because the first half of the game went very smoothly, Chen Ran didn’t make any substitutions and adjustments other than giving the players blood as usual.

On the Italian side, Conte replaced the defensive midfielder Parolo with the more offensive Motta. Obviously, he is determined to continue the attack.

After the start of the second half, the situation in the final stage of the first half continued.

Although Italy aggressively pressed the offense, it was thunderous and rainy, and it did not pose any real threat to Belgium’s goal.

On the Belgian side, the defensive counterattack was very successful.

When the game progressed to the 61st minute, Courtois firmly embraced Pellet’s hard-won header opportunity.

Then he got up quickly and kicked the ball with a big foot to the area where Lukaku was in the frontcourt.

Lukaku immediately judged the landing of the ball, and used his strong body to block Obonna, who was in charge of marking him in Italy, behind him.

At the same time, Hazard and De Bruyne on the two wings of Belgium started at the same time, advancing at high speed.

Because Italy was still attacking just now, most of the players are still in Belgium’s half and it is too late to return to defense.

The right back Barzagli followed Hazard and ran back, but on De Bruyne’s side, the left back Chiellini, who had just completed the bottom pass and passed the ball to Pellet, was completely in the same position. Large gaps.

Realizing that the situation is not good, De Rossi, who is in the midfielder position, hurried over to defend.

At this time, Lukaku also found that there was a gap on De Bruyne’s side, and he passed the ball decisively.

Although De Rossi’s defensive awareness is nothing to say, he is a 33-year-old veteran after all. In terms of speed, he is not De Bruyne’s opponent at all.

De Bruyne quickly used his speed to leave De Rossi behind. Seeing this situation, Italy dragged to the end, and Bonucci, who was in the penalty area, had to push out to intercept De Bruyne.

Seeing Bonucci, De Bruyne didn’t choose to go beyond others, but directly pushed a through ball to the front left with his right foot.

The ball crossed the entire court diagonally, and appeared just right on Hazard’s high-speed forward line.

At this time, Hazard has also used his speed to leave Italy’s right back Barzagli behind.

After receiving a pass from De Bruyne, Hazard took the lead and rushed directly into the Italian penalty area.

At this time, there are no Italian defensive players between Hazard and Buffon.

In desperation, Buffon had no choice but to bite the bullet and abandon the door to attack, and rushed towards Hazard.

Hazard dexterously flicked the ball to the side and forward. After avoiding Buffon’s attack, he flicked his left ankle and pushed the ball into the now empty Italian goal.

“GOAL!!!”

With De Bruyne’s assists and Hazard’s goal, Belgium leads Italy 3:0.

“The boss of the Flemish players, De Bruyne, assisted the boss of the Walloon players, Eden Hazard? The significance of this goal is far greater than the goal itself!”

“Could it be that under Chen Ran’s coaching, the internal conflicts that have plagued Belgium for many years have finally been resolved?”

“It seems that Chen Ran let De Bruyne and Hazard live in the same room, and then let the Flemish players and Walloon players pass the ball to each other during training, and the arrangement has indeed achieved very good results.”

“Perhaps, this is the style of a top coach. Not only leading the team to achieve good results, but also helping the team solve some deep-rooted diseases.”

“If the Flemish players and the Walloon players can really let go of the past, then Belgium is likely to go further in this European Cup.”

Hazard’s goal was neither the first goal nor a lore goal, but it aroused the surprise of many European TV commentators in charge of broadcasting.

The conflict between the Flemish and Walloons is not very well known to fans in other regions, but it can be said to be a household name in Europe.

Seeing that De Bruyne and Hazard were able to score goals together, many European fans immediately raised their expectations for Belgium’s results in this European Cup.

Leading by three goals, the overall situation has been decided, and then Chen Ran began to replace the main players one after another.

And Italy also scored a face-saving goal by Edel at the end of the game.

In the end, with the goals of Kompany, Lukaku and Hazard, Belgium defeated Italy 3:1 in the first game of this European Cup.

While getting off to a good start, Chen Ran also got a “Level 1 Sight Card” from the system.

In another game in this group, Ireland even drew 1:1 with Sweden, which owns Zlatan Ibrahimovic, which allowed Belgium to successfully occupy the first place in the group.

“I didn’t expect Italy to become so weak now. It can’t attack, and it can’t defend.”

“Hehe, don’t you upstairs look at who is Italy’s opponent?”

“Exactly. Can the team coached by Chen Ran be compared with ordinary teams?”

“Haha, I guess he probably forgot that Italy had seven wins and three draws in the qualifiers and remained undefeated.”

“Chen Ran is really awesome. In the past, who would have imagined that Belgium could easily beat Italy 3:1.”

“That’s right, although this Italian team is not as good as before, their defensive skills have not been lost. Looking around the world, there are not many teams that can break the goal guarded by Buffon three times in a game.”

“It’s a pity that Chen Ran’s tactics for Belgium are a bit too simple and rough.”

“I don’t think there is any major problem. In major competitions such as the European Cup and the World Cup, as long as you can win the final championship trophy, nothing else matters.”

Three days later, on June 18, Belgium played the second match of the group stage in Bordeaux, France and Ireland.

The biggest player in the Irish team is striker Robbie Keane, but at this time Robbie Keane is 36 years old and has entered the late stage of his career.

He has also left the European mainstream league now and plays for the Los Angeles Galaxy of the American Major League.

Such an Irish team naturally poses no threat to Belgium.

With the goals of Lukaku, Witsel and De Bruyne, Belgium easily won the opponent 3:0.

While winning two consecutive victories in the group stage and securing the promotion quota ahead of time, Chen Ran also got a “Level 1 Recovery Card” from the system.

In another match in this group, Italy defeated Sweden 1-0 and rose to second place in the group.

Four days later, Belgium moved to Nice, France, to play the final match against Sweden in the group stage.

Because Belgium has locked the quota for the group appearance in advance, Chen Ran has carried out a large rotation in this game.

In the end, Belgium and Sweden drew 1:1 with the goal of substitute striker Michy Batshuayi.

In another game in this group, Italy beat Ireland 1-0.

In this way, Belgium ranked first in the group with two wins and one tie with seven points and advanced to the top 16. Italy ranked second with two wins and one loss with six points, and successfully won another place in the top 16.

However, to Chen Ran’s surprise, due to Spain’s poor performance in the group stage, they were squeezed to the second place in the group by Croatia.

As a result, Belgium’s opponent in the quarter-finals directly became Spain.

“Good guy, if I knew I would meet Spain, Belgium might as well lose against Sweden in the last game of the group stage.”

“Yeah, I’ve been busy for a long time, but I finally found myself a defending champion as an opponent. It’s really unlucky!”

“You said, could this be the French again?”

“This should not be the case. After all, the French probably didn’t expect the defending champion Spain to qualify as second in the group.”

“Then Belgium is miserable enough this time. After being divided into the death group, and meeting the defending champion in the quarter-finals, the difficulty of winning the championship has been fully stretched.”

“If you want me to say, what do you want to do so much? Isn’t it just to play for a strong team? What Chen Ran said is right. If you want to win the championship, you will have to meet a strong team sooner or later.”

“Hahahaha, what the upstairs said makes sense. Chen Ran has won so many championship trophies over the years, which one has not been snatched from a strong team?”

“That’s right, just do it if you don’t accept it!”

(end of this chapter)