Chapter 90: Three Consecutive Guests (5)
The goal conceded in the opening 10 minutes clearly made Mourinho angry. Although he knew that the form of the players had been in question before the game, that was not a reason to concede. The goal conceded caused Leiria to lose the initiative of the game prematurely, and even worse against Porto. Jose Mourinho, the team that knows best, has reached its extreme and has little room to rise.
Its biggest feature is that it is based on a solid defensive foundation, relying on several people in the front court to cooperate in a small area to get offensive opportunities in the position or counterattack. And in this game, Leiria's state on the defensive end cannot meet Mourinho's requirements, not to mention that Leiria will definitely need to attack now, which is bound to weaken his defense.
After a furious scolding, Mourinho instructed his team to stabilize and not rush to counterattack, and to defend himself first. However, Porto did not weaken their attacking intensity, trying to take advantage of this time to expand the score, actively step forward to press, and destroy Leiria's inverted foot. Affected by Porto's tactics, Lao Lei had to stay honestly in the backfield, using his active running to maintain the stability of Leiria's backfield.
Now Lao Lei has a lot of running power than he usually plays, and Porto's pressing has forced him to run more distances to get his teammates to get the ball safely at his feet. Thanks to Lao Lei's running, although Leiria's ball did not pass the half, there were no mistakes in his own half. Although the situation has improved, Lao Lei's sense of uneasiness has strengthened, according to the current strength, even if it is 30 minutes with devil muscles, Lao Lei doesn't know if he can stick to the whole audience in such a state.
Porto scrambled for about 7 minutes, and when they couldn't break the football, they retreated, and there was no need to waste their energy in this place, they were the dominant side. After seeing Porto's players retreat, Lao Lei breathed a sigh of relief, this kind of pressing intensity will always make people have more psychological pressure, there will always be mistakes, and it will be dangerous if it happens in such a situation.
According to Mourinho's instructions, Lao Lei did not rush forward, but carefully observed Porto's defensive arrangement in the back field. There were a couple of tentative attempts to pass through midfield but were quickly pushed back by Porto, and Porto's defensive formation has been very good and there are no gaps to exploit. Lao Lei's heart couldn't help but sigh at the luck of the last encounter, the last time Porto still pressed out a full posture of a giant team playing a weak team, but now Porto is obviously paying more attention to its own defense, not pursuing the face of a false giant, very pragmatic. This may be the reason for their progress in grades, Lao Lei said in his heart.
Lao Lei couldn't help but sigh that this line of defense was really more than a cut above Leiria's defense. Although Leiria has conceded very few goals in the league, it is largely based on the possession rate of the old ray running and the solid foundation of the defensive gate of the old ray and calaba, and rarely let the opposing attacking players face their own back line. In such a comparison, Lao Lei also has to admit the advantage of the giants, that is, you will have better teammates to strive for higher honors.
But now is not the time to think about this, Lao Lei quickly put away his thoughts, although it is difficult, but I still have to try, it is not my style to surrender. Lao Lei beckoned to Andre and asked him to get closer, so that the success rate of cooperation would be higher.
However, at this time, the usual two-over-one cooperation did not achieve a good effect, Porto was obviously prepared for this, and Lao Lei often had 2 people to wrap up when he got the ball in the front court. At such a time, Lao Lei's lack of ability to hold the ball is magnified, although Lao Lei has had several wonderful breakthrough performances in the league, but that requires a little luck, with Lao Lei's current ball skills can not be used as a conventional weapon. The effect of trying to play a long pass is not good, Porto's high-altitude ball defense ability is still very good, and Porto basically won the first point.
And after winning the ball, Porto will not press the counterattack in a big way, so they will hand the ball to the person in the front line, and their own back line will not move at all, obviously waiting for Leiria to be pressed hard. In midfield, Lao Lei and Calabar teamed up to block Porto's counter-attack again, cutting the ball from Ivan's feet. At the beginning of the game, Lao Lei and Ivan still talked and shook hands very cordially, but now Lao Lei has no time to take care of his teammates, and he teamed up with Calaba to put Ivan down and grab the football.
At this time, Mourinho on the sidelines also had no good way for a while, and Lao Lei could only rely on himself. It was already the 20th minute of the first half, but Leiria still didn't put together a threatening attack and a shot on goal. Ray beckoned to the back line, motioning for them to press up a little, and then also signaled to Hugo and Bruno to retreat, leaving McCarthy alone in front. Don't worry about anything else, Lao Lei decided to use the advantage of numbers to control the midfield first.
In this way, Leiria's three fronts were very close and had a numerical advantage in the midfield area, and Porto could no longer concentrate on keeping an eye on Lao Lei. With Porto's backline standing still, their midfielders had no choice but to continue to drop back and give way to midfield. Although he got the midfield back, Lao Lei looked up and saw that Porto's dense defenders were numb, and it was difficult to do.
But it's better than the previous situation. Lao Lei's on-field command made Mourinho's eyes light up, and he slowly had a way in his heart, but everything had to wait for halftime, and now he can only hold on like this.
It is not Lao Lei's style to be beaten with his hands, seeing that the middle lane is full of Porto's heavy soldiers, Lao Lei hit the idea to the side side. This season, Leiria's attack is to gain a local advantage in the middle, form a breakthrough, attract the attention of the defence, and then divide the ball to the wing to cut inside or pass. Porto's defence clearly blocked Leiria's ability to break through in the middle, leaving Leiria's wings on their own, and it seems that Porto are really well prepared for this game.
Now that he decided to try to open up the situation on the flanks, Lao Lei began to run back and forth in the midfield to pass the ball, allowing Porto's defensive formation to move left and right in order to gain a hint of opportunity. In the 30th minute of the first half, Lao Lei and Andre both pulled to the left side of Ugo, which shifted Porto's defensive focus to the left. At this time, Lao Lei immediately looked for Bruno with a big foot.
Let Bruno use his speed to find fighters. However, this attempt was quickly flopped by Porto's centre-back Carvalho and left wing-back. After winning the ball, Porto suddenly launched a counterattack like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter at this time.
Carvalho's big foot directly found Deco in the midfield, and because Leiria's defense was slightly forward at this time, Deco directly pushed behind him to find Postiga in front. Ivan also went to the other side and began to pull, and Porto's two wingers were also inserted, and all of a sudden Leiria's defense looked precarious.
Postiga leaned in on the interference of Laio behind him, waited for Porto's right winger Alenichev to cut in, flicked the ball to him, and then turned himself to continue forward. Alenichev didn't dribble the ball, just a big diagonal pass, looking for Ivan, who was already on the edge of the box.
At this time, Ivan still showed his ability to fight for the ball with his head, and under Ben's interference, Ivan chose to make the ball to Postiga on the other side of the penalty area. Postiga is in the box one step and gets the ball. Before Leiria's right wing-backs Victor and Raio came up, they opted to play directly into the far corner. Postiga showed off his superb shooting skills with a beautiful arc inside his left foot.
Lemato stretched out his hands as best he could to keep the ball out of the net, but the ball was still in the box. Another follow-up shot, only this time it was Ivan, and the ball rolled into Leiria's goal again. Ivan, who had probably been anticipating the moment before the race, looked excited and ran to the corner flag to do three front flips in a row. Then he found Victor, the general manager of Leiria, who came to watch the game, and stretched out two long middle fingers directly to his box, roaring: "Do you regret it? Do you regret it? You shit. ”
The camera found Victor's figure in time, and his face quickly turned from red to black, black to blue, blue to white, white and then red, which was very exciting. Ivan let out his own fury at the greedy merchant. At this time, the Dragons Stadium erupted into the Dragon's roar again, and the team was 2-0 in the first half, leading and Leiria looked powerless. Porto fans have already seen the light of day, and some have even begun to look forward to the carnage.
It's like the passionate commentary of the Porto live commentator: "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!! Two follow-up shots, 2:0. Leiria seemed helpless in front of us, could there be a third, a fourth? Hahaha, tell Leiria what a big family is. Not!! ”
Porto's counter-attack this time was very Leiria flavor, passing quickly, often reaching the opponent's penalty area with a few kicks and shooting with his feet. Leiria died on the moves she knew best. After the goal, Leiria's players looked dejected, which was too different from the high-spirited situation they have been in this season. Even in the game that he lost to Saibatur, he was never so embarrassed, this time he was completely led by the other party, without any initiative.
Lao Lei was also very frustrated, after all, it was the counterattack caused by the ineffectiveness of the attack he organized. Lao Lei suddenly slapped himself twice on the face at this time, getting out of the mood of just getting out of the decadence, if it goes on like this, it is an idiom in China that the army is defeated like a mountain.
In the following time, Porto saw the form of Leiria's players and chose to press the attack very smartly. At this time, if you are scored, 3:0, then the victory is decided.
Lao Lei, who came back to his senses first, took out a pressing posture that he hadn't had for a long time. In his own half, he launched a frantic pressing, and with a ferocious kick, he took down the Porto players again and again like bowling. However, the action was clean and did not give the referee a chance to play cards.
Lao Lei, who didn't have the energy to manage the organization, quickly led his teammates with his performance and started a tough defense. This lasted until the end of the first half of the game, and did not continue to expand the score.
By the time the referee's whistle blew, Lao Lei's jersey was already soaked with sweat and dirty.
Feeling the exhaustion of the body, and the big score of 2:0, this is the most difficult game that Lao Lei has encountered at present.
His eyes burned with unyielding fighting spirit.