Before the start of the game, the outside world was taken aback when they got Porto's starting line-up. Mourinho did not play the usual 4-2-3-1 formation, but put on a 4-5-1 formation. After the two sides set up the formation, everyone was even more surprised, Lao Lei's position moved forward obviously, although he played in the back, but the actual position had passed the middle line. The five men in Porto's midfield took a W-shaped position, and Lao Lei's former partner Kostiani was partnered with another substitute midfielder.

In fact, Mourinho surprised the Porto players when he proposed this formation in training. In this formation, Lao Lei smelled the smell of Brazil's 4-3-2-1 formation in the World Cup, relying on the play of several players in the front court when attacking, and defending all of them back to their own half except for the strikers. The difference between the Brazilian team is that Mourinho arranged the attacking combination of Maniche, Alenichev, McCarthy and Lao Lei when attacking. Although this weakens the defensive strength of the backfield slightly, Mourinho let Lao Lei interfere with Maniche in the front court when he was defending, which can be regarded as a little compensation.

The formation arranged by Mourinho is the idea of playing defensive counterattacks. Although the frontcourt attack of Lao Lei and several people in the positional battle is also very interesting, the defensive counterattack is indeed the big head in this game in Porto. After all, Porto's frontcourt does not have players like Rivaldo and Ronaldinho who can play in any position, except for Lao Lei, lacks flexibility, and this tactic is to sacrifice possession. Jose Mourinho took the initiative to put Porto in a weak position in this game, which is the opinion of most people at this time. But people with poisonous eyes. It was vaguely found that Porto was advancing by retreating. It seems to have given up the initiative to attack, but in fact, it just hit the soft underbelly of Sporting Lisbon.

As everyone knows. Sporting Lisbon's attack relied on the two magic wings of Cristiano Ronaldo and Quaresma, but Mourinho let the dense backfield defense wipe out the winger's living space. Facing Cristiano Ronaldo and Quaresma, who did not have space to accelerate, Mourinho believes his team's defence is enough to block them. At the same time, Lao Lei and Maniche both have good defensive ability, acting as defensive defenders in the front field when defending, disrupting the midfield organization of Sporting Lisbon. Even Sporting Lisbon's super striker Jardel, without the support of the midfield, can be a clever woman without rice.

In this case, Sporting Lisbon's attack will rely more on the forward assists of the two full-backs. This is the moment when Porto is waiting for a counterattack. Mourinho's calculation is an upright conspiracy, even if you know, you can only obediently follow his wishes. In this game, according to Mourinho's arrangement, Lao Lei completely released his offensive firepower and focused more on the offensive end. This is also the key to the success of Mourinho's tactics, and Lao Lei himself is also very curious, if he attacks with all his might, what can he reach?

As Mourinho expected, after the start of the game. Sporting Lisbon sensed the power of Porto's tactics. Sporting Lisbon's attacking front, struggling in front of Porto's dense defence. This season, Kostiani, who has been hidden under the glory of the old thunder, is a sight to behold. It was also a large area of defense, and he did not do a bad job, forming an iron gate in front of the back line. At the same time, Lao Lei and Maniche also harassed Sporting Lisbon's ball-handling players in the front court. Although it was difficult to break the ball, it was enough for them to not be able to organize the attack with peace of mind. Sporting Lisbon's attack. When you are at the feet of a defender, you get in the way.

Although it seems that Sporting Lisbon has an absolute advantage. In terms of possession, Sporting Lisbon is even higher by 2 tiers, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that Sporting Lisbon has the upper hand. After repeated failed attempts at attack, the psychological pressure on the Sporting Lisbon players began to increase, and their self-confidence and stability slowly declined. It's not obvious yet, but once you cross a certain threshold, it's a big explosion.

It's been 20 minutes since the start of the game, but Sporting Lisbon haven't made a threatening attack. When they push up front, it feels like it's hard to get a step forward, and it's often a cross or a return pass in this place, a forward pass. Sporting Lisbon have also tried to take a high ball and go directly to Jardel in the box, but so far the back line led by Costa has not given Jardel a chance. Sporting Lisbon's attack, for a time there was nothing to do with Porto's defense.

Mourinho on the sidelines was very satisfied when he saw this situation. Although it is ugly on the field, Mourinho is not a manager who pursues beautiful football. Even though he is playing beautiful attacking football under Porto, he is a triumphant at heart. However, this is a bitter thing for fans who watch the offensive battle between Sporting Lisbon and Porto, and the current situation on the field makes them lethargic and boring.

The head coach of Sporting Lisbon was on the sidelines, pacing back and forth anxiously, he could see that his team was not at a good position on the field at this time, but he couldn't do anything for a while. I wanted to let the fullbacks go up to strengthen the attack, but I was afraid that Lao Lei and other frontcourt players would seize the gap to counterattack. The clock slowly came to the 31st minute of the first half, and he finally couldn't sit still, and if he didn't make any more moves, Sporting Lisbon might be on its own. Cristiano Ronaldo and Quaresma are young and vigorous in the end, and after many times of playing together without results, they can't help but change to singles mode.

And the choice of fighting separately cannot pose a threat to Porto's defence. Another breakthrough was about to be formed, but after being knocked down by Kostiani, Ronaldo finally couldn't help but fight with Kostiani. It can be seen from this that Ronaldo's heart can no longer remain calm and irritable. This is the disadvantage of a team relying on young players, when playing downwind, young players can naturally play heartily, but once it becomes a headwind, the instability of young people will often leak out. Sporting Lisbon relies on two young men, and based on past experience, Mourinho doesn't think these two are the kind of young and old-fashioned people, which is one of the reasons why he is so confident in this set of tactics.

The head coach of Sporting Lisbon finally couldn't help but be on the sidelines, making a gesture to press the attack to Beto and the other two full-backs. With the addition of full-backs, Sporting Lisbon has finally come alive on both flanks, playing a variety of combinations, and Porto's defence is no longer as comfortable as it was just now. In the stands of the José Alvalrad Stadium, there was finally life again, and the cheers were once again floating in the air.

Mourinho on the sidelines also smiled at this time, and his heart finally came out. He raised his fist at the Porto players on the field. This was agreed before the game, which meant that the counterattack had officially begun. Almost at the same time, the offensive and defensive tempo of both sides of the game suddenly became faster. This made the fans in front of the TV refreshed, and finally waited for the picture they wanted to see.

In the 36th minute of the first half, Ronaldo played with the left full-back who came up on the left wing, and finally broke through to the vicinity of the penalty area with the ball. Facing Valente, after pedaling a few bicycles, he suddenly flicked the outside of his right foot and cut inward. After a few steps of horizontal dribbling, he directly hit the goal with his right foot. Although the power of the football was great, it was directly blocked by Costa's back. Kostiani, who was outside the penalty area, took the lead in grabbing the second landing point, and at the same time, Lao Lei and others began to accelerate the start, and the counterattack began!

Although Kostiani's long pass kung fu was not as accurate as the current old Lei, it was enough. Lao Lei ran forward while looking up to observe the flight trajectory of the football. Bento was the first to find the position at this time, and Lao Lei could only stop inside, lean on him, and compete with him for the position. Lao Lei opened his hands to firmly block Beto behind, and the football with a declining face, his chest did not stop, and then without waiting for the football to land, he directly raised his right foot back. The football flew up again, and after flying over the heads of the two people, Lao Lei directly rotated 180 degrees with the trend, and then accelerated forward.

After stretching out his right foot to stop the ball, he leaned back to block Bento's forward grab, and then took the ball to speed up and get rid of Bento's entanglement. A brilliant back-turn pick up the ball drew an exclamation from the Sporting Lisbon fans who felt the danger.

Lao Lei continued to accelerate and rush forward with the ball, and after reaching the edge of the penalty area, he flicked his right foot to the side. There, Alenichev was already accelerating forward and the Sporting Lisbon left-back was not yet in place. Lao Lei continued to accelerate forward, pulling towards the middle and tearing apart the defense of Sporting Lisbon. Alenichev dribbled directly to the edge of the penalty area, and suddenly knocked back to the old ray at the edge of the middle penalty area. And Lao Lei did not stop the ball, but knocked forward with the trend, and the ball was given to Alenichev, who used his speed to eat the central defender of Sporting Lisbon in front of the penalty area.

Alenichev used his speed to catch up with the ball before it went off the line. Then it was directly in front of the goal, and there were already two outflanking points in front of the goal, McCarthy and Maniche. McCarthy was too close to a Sporting Lisbon defender at this point, and his shot angle was blocked by the Sporting Lisbon goalkeeper. He stretched out his right foot, made a feint to shoot, and then went straight to the back of the heel and knocked the ball to the back post.

At the back post, Maniche was already unmarked, facing an empty goal, an easy push, and scored the first goal of the game. 1:0, Porto took the lead away from home. The fans of Sporting Lisbon couldn't react for a while, and the José Alvalad Stadium suddenly fell silent. They can't figure out how they suddenly became the lagging side when they shouted that they had the advantage just now.

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL！！ 10 seconds! 10 seconds!! Porto's classic counter-attack recreates Lisbon! Sporting Lisbon's defence collapsed!! Who would have thought that it was just Porto's first shot on goal, and it was a startling efficiency. The whole process is like Porto using a sniper rifle to snipe Sporting Lisbon!! It was an assassinating counterattack!! (To be continued......)