Chapter 114: The Unexpected Final (3)

Vialla was completely stunned when faced with the red card shown to him by the referee. In such an important game, with a red card so quickly, Vialla certainly knows what a big mistake he has made. The momentary lack of calm brought great regret, and Viara lowered his head and slowly walked towards the players' tunnel. After just over 10 minutes of play, he was about to go back to the locker room to shower. The red card also pushed Sporting Lisbon to the brink of a cliff, not only trailing by one goal, but also facing 10 men for the next nearly 80 minutes. Leiria's odds of winning have increased dramatically, and as long as he doesn't make big mistakes, he can win this match.

Standing on the sidelines, Jardim was after the initial anger and dissatisfaction. Now he just stood quietly on the sidelines with his hands on his chest, his face expressionless and his eyes lost. After Viara left the court, he didn't come up to comfort him, and Viala didn't take the initiative to come over and apologize to Jardin, and the two passed by.

There was no one happier than the Leiria fans in the stands, and before the start of this game, they expected it to be the same hard-fought battle as the previous one. I didn't expect that at the beginning of the game, Leiria would have such a big advantage. They felt like they had seen the shiny trophy beckoning to them. For most of the month, Leiria fans feel like they are living in a dream, not only the league title, but now even the Portuguese Cup title. In their opinion, this will be Leiria's greatest season ever.

Although they are happy, they still have a little worry in their hearts. That's Lao Lei, with Lao Lei's performance getting better and better and Leiria's achievements, almost every few days there will be news of Lao Lei's transfer to a certain club. Although most of them have been confirmed to be false news, they still make them restless, and they are afraid that one day the news of Lao Lei's official transfer will be exposed.

After experiencing happiness, you will be more afraid of pain. That's the current mentality of Leiria fans, and Leiria is not a big club that can keep coming in with a steady stream of talented players. Once Old Ray left, they knew that what awaited Leiria was another long period of low time. Even if he knew in his heart that a young genius like Lao Lei would not stay for long in a small club like Leiria, the stage here was too small. But as loyal Leiria fans, they can't help but hope that the old Ray can stay, and that their young king can continue to lead Leiria to glory forever. But now to their delight, their king was doomed to leave halfway through the season.

After the restart, Sporting Lisbon had no choice but to retract their defense and switch to defensive counter-attacking tactics, giving the initiative of the game to Leiria. However, a big problem with Sporting Lisbon is that they are not good at playing defensive counter-attacks, and more often they use their own tidal attacks, attacking instead of defending, and suppressing the opponent's attacks. Their defensive ability is not strong, and now they suddenly have to play defensive counterattacks, and the situation becomes only defense and no counterattack. Just stabilizing their own defense line left them with no extra energy to organize a counterattack.

And Leiria's players, who were extremely dominant because of the situation, played very relaxed and gave full play to their ability to control the situation around Lao Lei. In the frontcourt, the pressing of Ronaldo, Quaresma and Jardel was more like a useless exercise, lacking the support of their teammates, making the situation look like the Leiria players were running with three men. This kind of running is very demoralizing, especially for young players like Ronaldo and Quaresma. This move, which was more like a battle of righteousness, quickly disappeared into invisibility. Leiria's players are very relaxed in the midfield, slowly backwards, not in a hurry to attack, holding the mentality that if you don't come out, I won't attack.

The scene may be lethargic for the neutral fans watching the game, but for the fans of Leiria, it is a relish, and if they continue to play like this, the championship will be theirs. Some Sporting Lisbon fans even closed their eyes in disbelief as they saw their bewildered supernovas Ronaldo and Quaresma, sleepwalking super-goalscorer Jadel, and the disgraced Sporting Lisbon team.

Lao Lei controls the rhythm on the field, and he is not in a hurry to attack. Although he also likes the storm and directly crushes the opponent's attack, in this kind of final, everything is mainly stable, and winning the championship steadily is the most realistic. Since it was the first half, it was not yet time to decide the death, and the players of Sporting Lisbon were wasting time with Leiria in this way. Soon the first half was over, with Leiria holding on to a one-goal lead thanks to Ugo's goal.

"It was a really sleepy first half and I'm sure there were a lot of fans who felt the same way I did. It was a good game just 10 minutes into the first half. But a goal and a red card changed everything. Viara's red card, so uncool, such an uncool performance, I think he has already put a cross in Mr. Oliveira's heart. In front of Reima, he was like a rookie player, except for the foul at the opening time, there was no outstanding performance. This kind of performance is enough to insulate him from the last 23-man squad.

I hope that the managers of both sides can deploy more proactive tactics in the second half, which can be regarded as saving the eyes of me and the fans. “

It's a pity that Mourinho is not the one who can take care of the feelings of the fans at such a time, for him everything is about winning the championship. In the second half, Leiria's tactics will not change in the slightest, and he is still worried that Sporting Lisbon will attack and kill with one blow when he stands in the gap. And Leiria's players are also fully committed to Mourinho's tactics, as this is the safest tactic that can bring them another title.

And in the dressing room of Sporting Lisbon, there is a silence of despair, decadence and frustration. Perhaps because the situation was too unfavorable, Jardim of Leiria, who originally wanted to take revenge on Mourinho before leaving, was also unable to do anything at this time and was silent. Viara even covered her head with a towel and remained motionless. In the first few minutes, Jardim tried to muster the players' motivation to keep trying, but to no avail. The news of his departure quickly reduced his prestige in this team until it disappeared. Seeing that nothing could be done, Jardim fell silent, causing the current phenomenon.

At the start of the second half, the situation on the pitch disappointed the commentators. The game didn't get exciting, and the lethargic rhythm continued on the field. In such a situation, Lao Lei even felt that the devil didn't need to turn it on. Slowly, the patience of the Sporting Lisbon fans finally reached the limit, and they let out loud boos to say whether it was dissatisfaction with Leiria's passive style of play or the inaction of the Sporting Lisbon players.

In the 75th minute, the young force in the Sporting Lisbon team, with Xiao Xiaoluo and Quaresma as the core, was young and strong after all, and he couldn't stand to lose the game in such a humiliating way. Together, they launched the most rear-end offensive and looting against Leiria. If it were someone else, he might have been caught off guard by this sudden attack, but Old Ray had made up his mind to leave another trophy for Leiria. He was engrossed in every detail of the game, so this time Sporting Lisbon's onslaught was dealt with very calmly by Lao Lei, and this was the opportunity that Leiria had been waiting for. And because of the team's results this season, Leiria's players seem to be very confident, and they seem to be comfortable with passing and receiving the ball in pressing.

Originally, because of one less person, Sporting Lisbon's defense can only look at the maintenance. But now that pass is pressing, there is a gap in Sporting Lisbon's backline that is gradually widening. In the 78th minute, the elder Lei keenly observed the gap in the right rib of Sporting Lisbon. Immediately, a long pass with a big foot accurately found Bruno in front, and this time the pass arrived, the ball arrived, and the tacit understanding was full.

After receiving the ball, Bruno took a step and went straight into the box. Then decisively fired a low right-footed shot and Patricio made a fine save on the goal line, keeping out Bruno's shot with his own right foot. But he couldn't stop McCarthy's follow-up shot, and McCarthy's clever movement gave him the opportunity to shoot into the empty net.

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!! In the 78th minute of the match, Leiria finally scored the second goal of the game. It finally brought a touch of change to the dull situation. Sporting Lisbon's players finally couldn't help but attack, this is the style that Sporting Lisbon should have, this lion team should not die in their own penalty area. That would be an insult to Sporting Lisbon's style. ”

Another conceded goal did not hold back the young players of Sporting Lisbon, who continued to press all over the pitch. In the last 10 minutes, the game once again presented a fierce situation of back and forth between the two sides. In the 85th minute, Sporting Lisbon's pressing finally paid off. Quaresma stole Andrey's pass back to Victor and curled a point down the right flank with his famous right-footed curling ball with the outside of his right foot. 2:1, it's a score that will fill the imagination, and it doesn't make Leiria feel safe.

The Sporting Lisbon fans in the stands came alive again, cheering loudly for their team, hoping that the team could do a miracle. It's a pity that this kind of pressing is too exhausting, and Sporting Lisbon never gets a good chance in the following time. Instead, it was Leiria who seized on Sporting Lisbon's fitness crisis, and Andre rewrote the score to 3-1 with a powerful volley from the edge of the box on 89 minutes. In stoppage time, Ray also scored his worst goal for Leiria with a powerful long-range shot.

Amid the cheers of the Leiria fans shouting for the king, Lao Lei's heart was mixed, and now the time for farewell has really come. Old Ray felt his eyes moisten a little, he covered his face with his hands, and bowed to the stands of Leiria fans again.

See you again, Leiria! See you again, you guys!

A whistle sounded, and the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game. Sporting Lisbon once again took on the role of the underdogs who rushed to leave, and the young Ronaldo and Quaresma, who wanted revenge before the game, were disappointed, and the young ones had unwilling and wet eyes on their faces. This is a football game, where there are as many tears as there is joy.

"The match is over, congratulations to Leiria for winning the Portuguese Cup in the 01-02 season. They are also the champions of the Portuguese Super League this season, and the small city staged a football counterattack. They are double champions! Congratulations to Leiria, they are the best team of the season and they deserve it. ”

The celebratory Leiria people did not know that this was the most glorious moment, and it was also the end of the moment. The fireworks are brilliant and can't be far away.