Chapter 152: Heavy Sword Drogba
In the end, the score of 3:1 was maintained until the end, and this score was predicted by the outside world before the game. However, when it really appeared, everyone still had to sigh again about Porto's lonely defeat in the Portuguese Super League this season. With the win over Benfica, Porto began to widen the gap in the standings, giving them a six-point advantage over second-placed Benfica. This is undoubtedly a good thing for Porto, who have the task of Champions League, and so far there have been no major problems with Porto.
After the win over Benfica, Porto will travel to Guimaraes. However, two days after this game, Porto will have to travel long distances to Marseille in France to challenge Marseille away for the third leg of the Champions League group stage. Therefore, in this game against Guimaraes, Mourinho completely sent the second-tier team lineup and went all out to prepare for the match with Marseille. For the second-tier team, Mourinho has only one demand for them to defend with all their strength and fight for a draw.
And Porto's second-tier team did not disappoint Mourinho, at Guimaraes' home stadium, Porto can be said to have lined up a 10-0-0 formation, with no intention of attacking at all. With hard work and aggressive defending, Guimaraes did not break through Porto's goal after exerting his best at home and were held to a draw by Porto's second team at home. This disappointed Guimaraes, who was bent on getting three points at home after getting Porto's starting line-up before the game.
At the post-match press conference, Guimaraes' head coach couldn't help but fire a blast, denouncing Porto's "anti-football and destroying the charm of football". It is said that Mourinho's Porto has completely lost its grandeur. And Mourinho, of course, will not sit still, and said to the gray-haired Guimaraes manager on the spot: "I'm sorry. We have Champions League games to play. It is impossible to spend too much energy on Guimarães. Of course, if they want to fight us for real. Let's just let them win our second-tier team first. Otherwise, I wouldn't be interested. ”
The implication is that Guimarães is also worthy of playing against our second-tier team. These words almost didn't make Guimaraes' head coach angry. Mourinho's remarks caused another discussion in Portugal, but he didn't have time to worry about it. On the second day, he had already flown to Marseille with the whole Porto team to prepare for the Champions League group stage against Marseille.
It's not an easy game for Porto and Marseille will certainly be going to be able to go all out to win the game. Now Marseille is the same as Partizan Belgrade, with two points from one loss and one draw. It's just that the advantage of goal difference is barely ranked third. Qualification from Group F is a tough one for them, and there is no doubt that Porto are the most likely to qualify alongside Real Madrid in this group. If Marseille are to keep their hopes of qualifying, then this game will need to secure at least a draw. However, the draw only allowed them to breathe a sigh of relief, and the best thing was to take all three points. Therefore, in order to keep the hope of qualifying, Marseille will definitely do their best.
Marseille is somewhat similar to Porto in that it is one of the three Ligue 1 giants alongside Paris Saint-Germain and Lyon. There have also been brilliant achievements in the European arena, and AC Milan began an invincible journey in the Champions League when AC Milan's Dutch trio was formed. At this time, the Marseille musketeers were the first team to let the three musketeers AC Milan go home, and did what no European giants could do at the time. However, Marseille at this time did not have the glory of that time. Beginning his unshakable reign in Lyon, France, Marseille was powerless to resist due to the lack of top stars. Grand Paris was also in turmoil due to the departure of Ronaldinho in the summer. In Europe, Marseille is no longer as competitive as it used to be. For a long time, they will not be able to break through the group stage and enter the knockout round. However, no matter what, Marseille is still competitive as a team that can participate in the group stage of the Champions League. Porto will not be slack.
Unlike Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain, Marseille is the birthplace of the French Revolution. Born to be full of hustle and bustle. Unlike the aristocratic style of Paris Football Club, Marseille are naturally passionate. Bloody. Therefore, the home stadium of Marseille, the Stade Velodrome, is the famous home stadium of the devil in Ligue 1, and if you come here to play away games, you will always play in an irritating and noisy environment full of boos, which is very uncomfortable. And Porto deservedly got this treatment, boo, endless boos.
And Lao Lei, a freak, happens to like this kind of away environment the most, and such a game environment will stimulate him to play better. At this time, it was already the handshake ceremony before the game, and the two good teams shook hands. At this time, a burly and unusual black player appeared in front of Lao Lei. Lao Lei deliberately looked at him carefully, it was not that Lao Lei had never seen a black man, but he was the Marseille player that Mourinho had introduced when he explained the tactics in the Porto team, the most threatening Marseille player, his name was Drogba.
As the manager of Porto, Mourinho naturally dutifully studied the Marseille team in detail. The Ivory Coast striker was thus in front of Mourinho and aroused great interest in him. It can be said that Drogba is the kind of center forward that Mourinho thinks is the most suitable for his tactical system, strong enough to crush the body of almost all defenders, excellent physical fitness, speed like a cheetah, and a strong physique like a lion can keep defenders behind him forever, focusing on practicality.
This is Mourinho's ideal tactical bridgehead, although Drogba's foot skills are still very clumsy, but Mourinho sees his room for growth, his foot skills will not become very good, but can become very practical, simple, to achieve a sufficient Cheng dù. At the same time as having such a plain zhì, there is also an excellent sense of smell in front of the door, a decisive kick in front of the door. Mourinho felt as if he had seen a player who had been created by God for his tactical system. Porto is not bad for McCarthy inside, but McCarthy does not have a suzhì who can deal with the top central defenders, and the future growth space is far less than Drogba's. But in any case, Drogba will not become Mourinho's at this time. Porto's player, Jose Mourinho, can only temporarily put aside his admiration for him. Started watching the video of Drogba's game. Looking at the unstoppable Drogba on the screen, Mourinho's face began to become solemn.
Lao Lei and his teammates were also in the team's tactical class. Saw the video of Drogba's game. The whole team was stunned by Drogba's body, Lao Lei originally felt that his body was strong enough, but now he finally realized what it means to be called a mountain and a mountain high, looking at Drogba's size compared to himself, Lao Lei thought to himself, "I didn't expect that I was still quite slender." At the same time, Lao Lei also looked at Costa and Carvalho with sympathetic eyes, as a player who was going to be directly opposite Drogba, Lao Lei drew two crosses for the two of them in his heart. Costa and Carvalho, on the other hand, looked at each other with a wry smile. The two discussed whether to buy personal safety insurance before the game.
In this way, Drogba has become the number one target of attention in the Porto team, and most of Porto's tactical arrangements in the past two days have been related to him. Seeing the real person at this time, Lao Lei still looked at Drogba's body and size very curiously, and had to sigh What was he raised on. Holding Drogba's hand, Lao Lei could feel the heaviness on his hands, which told Lao Lei that this was a real muscle, not a fake that was practiced to deceive people. And Drogba saw Lao Lei's meaningful gaze, and suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, and his heart was cold. Chrysanthemum tightened, immediately broke away from Lao Lei's hand, greeted the next player in Porto, and said in his heart: "Could it be that he has taken a fancy to me?" I'm still so handsome. "Luckily, Ray doesn't know what Drogba is thinking right now. Otherwise, Lao Lei will definitely immediately turn on the devil's muscles and flesh man to bombard Drogba to the scum.
Didier Drogba has had a very good season at Marseille and he has become the new favourite of the Marseilles. In the stands of the stadium in Velodrome, a portrait of Drogba was also held alof. And the tsunami cheers of the DJ when he introduced Drogba were all telling the world how popular Drogba is in Marseille at the moment. Such a welcome at home. It is enough to show how this person's strength and appearance are, Lao Lei took a deep look again. He had a hunch that Drogba would be a big problem for Porto to win. And Lao Lei's glance happened to be noticed by Drogba, which once again made him shudder deeply, and silently said in his heart: "I can't see him." I can't see him. "I want to get rid of the discomfort caused by Lao Lei.
Shortly after the start of the game, as old Ray had a hunch, Drogba immediately gave Porto a big dismissal. First of all, Marseille's possession of the ball, Ligue 1 teams are mostly based on cumbersome ground coordination of play, but Drogba's survival seems to have changed this, Marseille's style of play has been influenced by Drogba, becoming very direct, pursuing power and speed. Immediately after kick-off, Marseille made a surprise attack.
Marseille's backfield quickly gave the football to the feet of the full-backs in the front, and after a few steps from Marseille's full-backs, they drove the football directly into the Porto penalty area, without giving Lao Lei a chance to defend the ball. In other teams, it's a messy way of playing, but at Marseille it doesn't seem to be the same. Seeing this, the Marseille fans immediately stood up and looked expectantly at the Porto penalty area. When Lao Lei saw such a scene, he suddenly chuckled in his heart, and immediately turned his head to look at his own forbidden area and saw a surprised scene.
In the middle of the Porto penalty area, Drogba forced his way forward as if he didn't see Costa, to grab the first spot. And Costa felt like a mountain pressing down, and slammed into Drogba with all his might. But the result left him bloodless, and Drogba seemed to be unaffected, but Costa himself completely lost his position. Drogba was firmly stuck, jumped high against the football, and was a full force overhead, but fortunately this header was too positive and was firmly pressed under him by Baia, so as to defuse Marseille's first attack of the game.
This attack seemed simple, but it scared the whole Porto team into a cold sweat. The Porto players were aware of the defensive strength of captain Costa, but they did not expect to be given such a chance by Drogba.
In such a crude way, in such a direct way.
A sentence suddenly popped up in Lao Lei's mind.
The heavy sword has no edge, and the great ingenuity does not work.
Didier Drogba deserves that comment. (To be continued......)