The aggressive choice in the second half was quite good. It consumed a lot of physical energy from Chelsea. Otherwise, it would be hard to say how things would develop. The defensive state displayed on the defensive line made Wen Sheng feel reassured.

I have to say that now that their team is showing off its muscles, even Chelsea are becoming more cautious. They are not as arrogant as before. At least they are more concerned about Crystal Palace defensively. The absolute chances the team gets are really not too many.

Wen Sheng is not very worried about his team. Firstly, how many teams can there be like Chelsea?! Secondly, if the players become more experienced, the offense will be even more powerful.

Wen Sheng finished watching the video once that night before getting up and going to bed.

In any case, the next focus will be on the Europa League.

A few days later, Crystal Palace traveled to Braga, Portugal.

Braga is located in the north of Portugal. It is a small city and looks very quiet. After Wen Sheng and the others arrived in Braga, they took a walk before the meal and took a group tour of the urban scenery.

According to what Wen Sheng said on the plane, everyone is lucky to have the European War. Look, you can travel without spending your own money. If you have to pay for it yourself, you are probably not willing to go to Braga.

bring it on.

Wen Sheng's joke caused everyone to boo.

Morelli, the general manager of Sujiji, took the lead and joked: "I agree with Daniel's statement anyway! If it were not at public expense, I would definitely not choose to travel here!"

There really isn't much to see in Braga. Going out for a walk together was more like getting off the plane to adjust one's physical and mental state.

Wearing casual clothes, it is not easy to be recognized by the local people, otherwise what if the local fans don't like it and beat someone?!

Well, this possibility is almost impossible. Wen Sheng doesn't think it will be dangerous anyway.

The team is a group of young and energetic men, and there probably aren't a few unscrupulous gangsters looking for trouble.

The Braga Municipal Stadium on the second day was packed with Braga fans. The stadium only had two stands in the north and south, with a capacity of only about 30,000. Crystal Palace fans were assigned to a corner of the north stand, and there were quite a few people there.

, basically all seats are full.

This stadium was originally built for the 2004 European Cup. It is located on the hillside of Castro, and the entire stand is almost a cliff.

It is very unique. It is a bit small, but the facilities of the stadium are very complete, with a total of 30,154 seats, 352 toilets, 20 bars, and 4 first aid centers. The 270 square meter large screen is the largest in Europe.

When everyone came to the stadium in the morning, they felt the unique charm of this stadium. Wen Sheng also thought that playing here would be a more interesting thing.

Crystal Palace is playing in the Europa League for the first time this season and has been making history. This game is also the first time they have met a Portuguese team in the European arena.

It’s not that Wen Sheng doesn’t value the Europa League, although talking about the championship is just lip service.

In this current situation, the fight for fourth place is definitely more important than the Europa League.

At present, the Europa League champions are not qualified for the Champions League. In comparison, Wen Sheng feels that the Champions League next season will be more attractive, not to mention that even the club's top management is definitely willing to focus on the league.

so……

In this game, Wen Sheng adopted another major rotation. Onyewu and Van Dijk partnered to form a defensive double tower combination. McCarthy couldn't take a break and continued to use him as a left back. Morgan couldn't take a break either, let him play the right back, and let Bernard

Tia and Klein breathed slowly.

In other words, Wen Sheng actually used a combination of four central defenders in this game.

Matic, Ndiaye and Stroman partnered in the midfield, and Klose, Smith and Scannell partnered in the forward line.

This person has almost changed over and over again, who does Wen Sheng place his hopes on?

If it doesn't work out for Klose and Stroman, we should at least maintain a draw here.

Braga's head coach, Domingos Paciencia, used to be a member of the Portuguese national football team and has played for the giant Porto for a long time. According to the original trajectory, he should lead Braga to the Europa League finals this season and compete with Porto.

Join forces, but now he has to pass Wen Sheng first.

To be honest, the young coach of Crystal Palace, who is famous all over Europe, sent out a four-centre-back formation, which surprised Dominguez. However, he was thinking broadly and thoroughly. Considering the ranking of Crystal Palace in the league, he could easily guess

The other side's concern is that they don't want to use too much energy in the away game, and they still have to save their energy for the league.

Alas, this is a common problem among first-class league teams. They don’t pay much attention to the Europa League. Isn’t Wen Sheng still young? Don’t you think that the Europa League is actually quite good! Domingos can’t guess it anyway.

Wen Sheng's thoughts.

It's a good thing for Domingos that Crystal Palace has a substitute lineup like this. They don't want to advance and look down on the Europa League. We can't!

If Wen Sheng knew what Domingos was thinking, he would definitely say something to him, "Who the hell said I don't care about this game?! I also want to win the championship, and I also want to advance, but there's nothing I can do!"

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Wen Sheng still made careful arrangements for this game. The first step was to solidify the defense, the second step was to control, and the third step was to engage in positional warfare.

This tactical arrangement is not the same as the team's daily operation. Usually he emphasizes backcourt control and frontcourt control, but in this game he demanded to focus on full-court control, which only consumes a little more time.

After the start, the two sides were cautiously testing each other. The two teams had probably seen similar highlights of each other's games, but this was the first time they met. In this kind of knockout competition, no one dared to be careless.

As for Crystal Palace, it was clear that they were on the defensive from the start.

Braga controlled the ball but did not dare to attack boldly.

The game is always in a dull atmosphere, but the fans at the stadium may be more passionate than the players on the field.

The first half was spent in this tepid situation, Braga did not play as well as Crystal Palace.

At home they were a bit more proactive, but Crystal Palace's defense was solid.

But when the Crystal Palace was attacking, Stroman's long pass dispatching and Klose's ball control ability in the frontcourt were really good. They were more threatening when handling the ball several times, which gave Crystal Palace a good opportunity. Unfortunately, Scan

Nell and Smith failed to capitalize on two great opportunities.

Dominguez played very depressed. In fact, Wen Sheng hoped that his team could have more possession of the ball. However, Braga had more control in the first half, but they were depressed offensively.

Mingos originally thought that the formation of four central defenders would cause problems for them to fill in or defend on the wing, but who knew that they would be rock solid.

His team didn't stand a chance!

There were many English media reporters watching the game. They originally planned to go back and write an article to criticize Wen Sheng's strange formation of four central defenders. Who knew that they actually played well in the first half?

Like, this makes them short of material.

In the second half, Domingos asked Braga to increase their attack intensity, and the pressure on Crystal Palace increased sharply. Just when Braga thought they were going to score, who knew that they attacked too much and got carried away, and the result was that Crystal Palace's housekeeper

His defensive counterattack skills were effective.

In a classic counterattack, Klose's retreat fulcrum was extremely effective. Then he rushed to the penalty area to receive Smith's inverted triangle pass, opening the door for the opponent for Crystal Palace.

After losing the ball, Dominguez said that it was too bad and they had forgotten what they were capable of!

However, if you want to blame this kind of thing, you really can't be too sure. Braga attacked too hard and maintained a good formation. Crystal Palace couldn't touch the ball for a long time. As time went by, the main attacker's defense was inevitable.

It may lead to a relaxed mentality.

Wen Sheng hugged Lawrence and the others happily.
Chapter completed!