Chapter Eighty-Nine: Three Consecutive Guests (4)
The referee, who came to his senses, considering that it was the home stadium of the University of Coimbra and that the outcome was decided, finally showed a yellow card to Caelho instead of giving a red card. At this time, Caelho, who was sitting on the ground, made a painful expression, pulling his toes with both hands, looking like he should have cramps. The referee also hurriedly signaled for the team doctor to come on, and the three substitutions of the University of Coimbra were all used up, and after Caelho was carried off the field, he had to use only 10 men on the field.
However, at this time, neither side has the will to continue playing. The next time passed quickly, and the referee saw this situation and did not wait for the time to run out of injury time, so he blew the final whistle directly. At this time, Lao Lei, who had just escaped from the state of the devil's flesh man, also suddenly felt physically exhausted. Although there are devil muscles, the continuous away travel still makes Lao Lei feel tired.
After the game, the players of the University of Coimbra left the pitch with their heads bowed and walked to the dressing room. They did their best in this game, but unfortunately the difference in strength made them have to suffer the bitter fruit. At this time, Lao Lei seemed to remember something, and did not leave but walked directly to Keelho, who was faltering on the sidelines, and took off his jersey as he walked, revealing a strong tendon meat.
As he was slowly leaving, he suddenly noticed a shadow in front of him, and an away shirt from Leiria was in front of him. When he looked up, he saw Lao Lei, who was sweating profusely, in front of him. Puzzled, he asked, "What do you want to do?" Brat. “
"Less nonsense, change or not, if you don't change it, I'll leave." Although he admired Keelho's fighting spirit, Lao Lei was not embarrassed to say it, so he deliberately said in this unkind tone. Keelho stared at Old Ray's face for a few seconds, and a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth. At this moment, Lao Lei who saw it was a little embarrassed.
At this time, Keelho took off his jersey, handed it to Ray, and then reached for Ray's jersey. Random immediately turned around and walked away, but said as he walked, "I will definitely beat your kid last time, don't be too complacent." "Seeing that Keelo left with a literary fan, Lao Lei regretted a little in his heart, he shouldn't have changed his jersey with him, Nima, he lost and was still so **, this should be my patent.
With Keelho's jersey in hand, Ray returned to the locker room. After washing up, Lao Lei, who came to the team bus, found that his starting teammates had fallen asleep tiredly. After returning to Leiria without a few days of rest, they had to make the long journey to Porto, where they faced Portuguese giants Porto at the Stadio de Dragon.
This time against Porto, Lao Lei's heart feels different from the first time, after all, this will be his team next season. Lao Lei shook his head and forced himself not to think about it, he was still a player of Leiria, so he should concentrate on playing for Leiria. Looking at his teammates' tired faces, Lao Lei felt that the last game of this three-game trip would be a bad one.
The physical fitness and spirit of the Leiria players, this Porto team after the change of coach, under the leadership of the assistant coach who came up, began to rebound strongly, has won 5 consecutive wins, and has bitten Benfica in the standings, the two teams are only 3 points apart, from 10th to fourth place. Now the situation in the standings is that Leiria has a record of 15 games, 13 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, and the situation of 40 points is overwhelming the top 3 of the Portuguese Super League, and Sporting Lisbon is close with a difference of 38 points and two points, followed by Benfica with 33 points and Porto with 30 points. With 15 rounds left in the league, even Porto have a chance to win the league with such points, and now no one can afford to be sloppy, especially Porto.
Porto, who still have a slim title hope, will definitely do their best to close the gap when they play league top Leiria. Coupled with the fact that Porto is now in high spirits, Leiria will certainly not have a good time at the Dragon Stadium.
Another highlight of this game is that Ivan faced his old club, and after moving to Porto, Ivan did not perform well. In Porto, Postiga is the heart of Porto's attack, and Ivan is more of a feint. It's not like in Leiria, where Lao Lei and others are desperately feeding him the ball in the back, and Ivan didn't score anything in the two games during the winter break. I'm sure he'll miss the good days in Leiria now, but it's a pity that it's McCarthy who is enjoying his old treatment. In the scorer list, Ivan has been completely thrown away by Jardel, and now Jardel is far ahead with 20 goals, and he is no longer in the top spot in the scorer list in the first half of the season. The poor performance has led to calls for parallel goods in the media in Porto. Ivan's life was not easy.
In fact, in Ivan's heart, he is very resentful of Leiria's club management, after all, this is not a transfer of his personal will, and the dilemma after the transfer has deepened the resentment. Before the game against Leiria, in an interview, although he said: "I still have a lot of feelings for Leiria, and I hope that our two teams can contribute a good game." "But in my heart, I can't wait to break through the door of my old club, and this is not against Lao Lei but at the top of the Leiria club.
In addition to Ivan, there is one other person in the Porto squad who wants to win against Leiria the most, and that is their current interim head coach, former assistant coach Fonseca. As the interim head coach who was called upon and did his job well, Fonseca said that the word temporary was no longer enough for me. For him, it is very good to beat Leiria, and he can add chips to his own positive turn. Of course, the interim head coach doesn't know that his dream position has been booked by the current manager of Leiria, and he is still dreaming without knowing it.
This strong conversation, of course, has attracted the attention of the football world all over Portugal, in their words, "it is a direct confrontation of title contenders". There are also media reports that the current Portugal head coach Oliveira will also appear at the Dragon Stadium, and the media boldly speculated that Oliveira's trip not only to inspect the state of Porto's international players, but also to want to inspect Lao Lei at close range.
Although this is just speculation by this media, it has caused a lot of repercussions, and now there is a strong voice in Portugal to "bring Lao Lei to the Japan-South Korea World Cup". This season's outstanding performances have made the Portuguese football community regard him as the mainstay of the future Portuguese national team, along with Postiga, Quaresma and the recent emergence of Sporting Lisbon's new star Cristiano. Ronaldo, these four are now known by some media as Portugal's new four little kings, the successors of the golden generation. Among them, Lao Lei's current performance is outstanding, and he has a hidden power to suppress the other three. Of course, Porto's Postiga was not convinced by this point of view, and even said in an interview with the media that he wanted to compete with Lao Lei in this game.
"Championship fight", "revenge of the old club", "trip to the national team? and "Rising Star Battle", there are too many gimmicks in this game, which causes the heat to rise again and again. Sporting Lisbon and Benfica are naturally sitting on the hill and watching the tiger fight, hoping that both sides will fight and lose both, and they will both fan the flames: "Porto should fight for the dignity of the giants, and it would be a great shame if they were killed by Leiria." "I'm sure Porto will win, we're giants, what does Leiria have."
No matter how noisy the outside world is, Mourinho and his Leiria are silent and low-key, and considering the state of the team, even Mourinho, who has always been a big mouth, has kept a low profile to reduce the pressure on the players. Lao Lei doesn't care about this, and the most distressing thing in his heart now may be what he should do if the Portuguese Football Association really sends a call-up order. Mendes had already been angry with Lao Lei a few days before the game, and under the recommendation of the Portuguese Football Association, Oliveira had a special intention to inspect Lao Lei, the new Portuguese Super League star, and he told Lao Lei to perform well. The problem of the national team, which has been evaded for a long time, has been placed in front of Lao Lei.
Ignoring Lao Lei's distress, on January 27, Leiria's away match against Porto blew on time. The Stadio de la D'Angela was packed and Porto fans were eager to see their side face Leiria at home and increase the possibility of competing for the league title.
Porto's strength on paper is comparable to Leiria, and the main thing is to see how many layers each side can play. Porto, who has home advantage and physical advantage, undoubtedly occupies a huge advantage. After the start of the race, this advantage became apparent.
Leiria, who was not in the best mental state and physical condition, was sluggish after the start of the game and was slow to get into shape. In this kind of evenly matched game, the slightest mistake can be infinitely magnified, let alone such an obvious decline.
Deco, who was keenly aware of Leiria's poor form, commanded Porto to press frantically after the start of the game. Leiria's backline, which was not in good spirits, looked shaky under the stormy attack of Porto's opening game. At this time, Lao Lei has completely given up the intention of attacking the organization, and has returned to the front of the penalty area to form the first line of defense in his own half with Calaba.
It's a pity that even Lao Lei is just one person, in front of Porto's overall offensive, Lao Lei seems to be lonely and weak. And in the first meeting, Deco, who knew that the defensive end was difficult to deal with, was very clever to choose more high balls, so that Porto's forward line directly attacked the back line of Leiria, who was not in shape.
In the 10th minute, Leiria's defence was finally broken. Deko made a long pass to Marcheni on the left side, and Marcheni faced the out-of-form left full-back Antonio, and directly cut inside with speed. After squeezing past Antonio, he took a few steps across the belt and chose to shoot directly from a distance before Lao Lei came up. It was a high-quality long-range shot that was fast and flew straight into the bottom left corner of the goal. Lemato only had time to make a save and didn't hold the ball. At this time, Postiga in the penalty area showed his awareness of running, suddenly ran in front of the ball, left Laio behind, and then stretched out his foot and poked lightly, and the ball rolled into the net.
Just 10 minutes into the game, Porto had a home lead over Leiria. The poor form of Leiria's players has left them at their own peril.
The Dragon's Stadium erupted with a dragon's roar, and Leiria's prospects for this game were not good.