In the face of such an important game, a war of words to heat up the game is inevitable. In addition to the talk about the relationship between Porto and Sporting Lisbon, Lao Lei became the second focus. The reason is naturally because of several young talents in the Sporting Lisbon team who are not satisfied with Lao Lei's current title of "Portugal's next generation leader", such as Quaresma, Ronaldo and Viana. Because Lao Lei is the only post-80s player who entered the national team lineup in the 02 World Cup, these young people are not convinced by Lao Lei's current status and think that if he can enter the national team, he will not perform worse than Lao Lei.

If Lao Lei still stays in Leiria, for these young players, even if they defeat Lao Lei, there will be comments from Lao Lei's teammates. So for them, Lao Lei's transfer to Porto is just right, as long as he beats Lao Lei this time, he has no excuses. After Quaresma, Ronaldo and others expressed their belief in victory in front of the media one after another and implicitly mentioned Lao Lei, Lao Lei did not have any public response. It's not that he convinces them or looks down on them, but that he thinks that his current strength and status no longer need to fight with them for a short time.

However, if Lao Lei doesn't speak, it doesn't mean that others won't speak. His mentor Jose Mourinho was the first to respond: "This is our home stadium and of course our goal is to win. Who is the best young player? Thunderhorse, in my opinion, is undoubtedly Thunderhorse. As it stands, Reima has surpassed the younger generation of Portuguese players, a big cut, and there is no comparison. As soon as Mourinho's words came out, it completely provoked a war of scolding from the media.

Although the status of the first person of the younger generation is recognized by most Portuguese fans and media. However, Lisbon is not included in that. In particular, the media on the side of Sporting Lisbon beat the drums for Quaresma and Cristiano Ronaldo's Lisbon double star platform in Sporting Lisbon. Hopefully, they can outperform Lao Lei in this game to refute this kind of statement. Benfica, on the other hand, is a little lacking in confidence. In addition to Simao, a young winger, there are no other young players who can do it compared with Lao Lei, and Simao's status in the hearts of Portuguese fans is generally slightly weaker than Lao Lei and others. In any case, the match between Porto and Sporting Lisbon, in addition to a gimmick of competing for the top of the competition, the competition of the younger generation has become another highlight. Although Lao Lei had this attraction when he was in Leiria, but now it is a little different, if it was to see who was able to dominate the crowd at that time, then now it is to see if Lao Lei can be pulled off the horse.

After this hype. The attention of this game has also risen to a new level, and even some political celebrities in Portugal have said that they will come to watch the game. One of the most eye-catching viewers is undoubtedly Portugal's new coach and former Brazil coach Scolari, who said that this game will make these young people have a ranking in the national team in the heart of the new national team coach Scolari.

Although this claim has not been confirmed by Scolari himself, it is certain that it will affect their first impression of the new manager and may affect their international career. Scolari himself did come to observe the players, after all, Porto and Sporting Lisbon have sent the most players to the national team in the past two years. As for the competition of young players, he has no interest. For young players, what a game can prove, it's just a media hype.

Of course, at this time in his mind, Lao Lei must be ranked first. After all, it was at the 02 World Cup. To the Brazil led by him directly confronted. And Lao Lei's amazing performance in the World Cup also gave him a stunning impression. If nothing else, Lao Lei is the ironclad first commander of the Portuguese squad in his heart. Young and in good health. has strength, and the most important thing is that it has passed the big scene of the World Cup final. Who wouldn't use such a young core.

However, since Scolari took over Portugal, the pressure on his body has not been light. Even if he is the champion coach who led Brazil to the World Cup. On the one hand, Oliveira, as a Portuguese, led the national team to such excellent results, which has a very high status in the hearts of the Portuguese people, and Scolari, as a replacement for foreign monks, will naturally be questioned more. On the other hand, the Portuguese national team is facing the problem of renewal, the heyday of the golden generation has passed, the national team is in urgent need of young fresh blood, and whether Scolari, an outsider, can successfully complete the important task of updating the Portuguese national team, has also become one of the focus of doubts from the outside world.

And in the face of this pressure, Scolari did not fight back with words, but began to work quietly hard. He is sophisticated, and he knows that when he first came to a national team, he openly opposed the media of this country, which is not a good thing for you. In the face of the new Portuguese national team, he began to scout the players everywhere, especially paying special attention to the young players in Portugal. These young players will be the main players in Portugal's European Championship in two years' time. So this time to watch the game, he also has the intention of personally observing Ronaldo, Quaresma and others, as for Lao Lei, he is already the commander appointed by him, this time the main thing is to see Lao Lei's state and whether there is any progress.

On the evening of the day of the game, the Dragon Stadium was already overcrowded, and there was a touch of green and white in a sea of blue and white in the stands. But this person can't do anything in terms of momentum, and when the Lisbon players are introduced, the boos, only boos, cheers are completely drowned out. In contrast, there was a deafening cheer for the introduction of the Porto players.

After a series of ceremonies, the big game that the whole of Portugal watched was left to kick off with the referee's whistle. Jose Mourinho was on the sidelines, his hands on his chest, staring closely at the players on the pitch. It was a real test for his Porto, and it could be a title game for the season, and he couldn't afford not to take it seriously. Although he made a series of rotations for the game to keep the players fit, his Porto was not able to fully integrate. Especially when Lao Lei is in the front court. The degree of tacit understanding between him and Deco still does not meet Mourinho's requirements. Deco, who was the heart of Porto's organization last season. He has not yet fully adapted to his new role in Porto, the second-in-command of Lao Lei.

And Sporting Lisbon is also in a lot of trouble. Except for the super scorer Jadel who is unable to play due to injury. Joao, Bento and others, who played in the World Cup, were affected by the World Cup virus and did not recover to their best condition after the World Cup. At present, Sporting Lisbon has to rely on their two talented young wingers for most of their attacking team.

Lao Lei looked at the players of Sporting Lisbon in front of him, including many of his teammates in the national team, Joao, Bento, Beto, etc., and there are also many people who are a little hostile to him, Ronaldo and Quaresma. After last season and the World Cup, he knows a team that is one of the only teams in the Portuguese Super League that can pose a threat to Porto this season. Lao Lei jumped on the spot twice again, moved his body and said, "This game must be won." Widen the gap. ”

Just then, the referee's whistle blew and Maniche passed the ball back to Lao Lei, Porto's kick-off. Facing Joao and others who came forward, Lao Lei began to organize the backfield with ease. The opening style of Sporting Lisbon was a bit unexpected by Lao Lei, and after the whistle blew, he began to launch a crazy rush in the front court at any cost, which was menacing. And this made the players of Porto, who had not yet moved physically due to the start of the game. It's a bit embarrassing. Mourinho also glanced at the manager of Sporting Lisbon next to him in surprise, but he didn't expect the other party to be so active and bold and play so fiercely at the beginning of Porto's home game.

Although Lao Lei tried his best to use his own run, so that his teammates could pass the ball to him more easily. However, Viana, who was attached to him at this time, made his teammates always have more concerns and hesitations when passing the ball to Lao Lei, and the transmission of the ball seemed to be stumbling and did not have the previous smoothness. And these concerns and hesitations are often the beginning of mistakes.

In the 6th minute of the first half. Sporting Lisbon spared no effort to press, and finally got a break in front. Costa's pass back to Lao Ray was interfered with by Joao. It hit Joao's foot and created a touchline. Although the elder Lei tried to control the football first, he was interfered by the joint efforts of Barbossa, Viana and Quaresma. It didn't work out, two blocked the card and one grabbed the ball. The ball eventually fell to Quaresma, and as soon as he got the ball, he began to accelerate with the ball and soon found himself near the penalty area of Porto. At this time, Porto's right full-back Valente was already pressing, and in the face of Valente's defense, Quaresma did not pass the football to Joao who was asking, but chose to force it himself.

Quaresma, who was bent on overpowering Lao Lei in the race, was too expressive at this time. Especially the previous series of excellent performances and praise from the outside world, so that his self-confidence is now bursting. As he approached Valente, Quaresma's left foot slashed towards the soccer ball, but it didn't touch the soccer ball, just a feint of pedaling a bicycle, and sure enough, his right foot followed by a slash over the soccer ball, twice in a row.

Suddenly, he kicked his right heel back and knocked the ball to the left side of his body. Then he kicked out of the ground with his left foot and began to accelerate the inward incision. Valente, on the other hand, was known for his stability in defense and was simply unmoved by Quaresma's cycling. When Quaresma began to cut inside, he sped up. And Quaresma's dribbling action, although the visual effect is good, the action itself is more awkward. So he needed small steps to adjust, and after chasing the football, the speed slowed down. By this time, Valente had already re-posted it.

And when Valente was about to come up and stretch his foot to break the ball, he suddenly knocked the ball to the right side of his body again with his left heel. Successive heel knocks change direction, allowing him to get space to handle the ball in an instant. And taking advantage of this moment, he directly unreasonably got up with his right foot and shot the goal, and took out his famous stunt to shoot the outside of the instep of his right foot after cutting inside. This technique is not used by ordinary people, and few people can use it as beautiful as Quaresma. The ball made a wonderful external arc in the air and went straight to the far corner of the Porto goal.

Accompanied by exclamations from the stands, the football swirled past Baia's fingertips and into the dead corner of the goal. Just seven minutes into the game, Quaresma gave Sporting Lisbon the lead in the battle for the top spot with a beautiful individual performance after a break up front. 1:0, Porto fell behind at their home turf.

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL！！ Ricardo! Ricardo!! Pretty! Couldn't be more beautiful!! The continuous heel knock ball changes direction, and the outer instep arc to the most rear, is impeccable!! 1:0, we are ahead of Porto with the Dragons! Halu haha, where is Remayar?!! Our Ricardo is the future leader of Portugal! With the excited shouts of the commentators on the Sporting Lisbon side, the blue and white sea in the stands of the Dragon Stadium fell silent, and the green and white began to jump and react.

After seeing the ball scored, Quaresma turned to Lao Lei behind him and made a provocative gesture of dominating the world with his hands raised high in the eyes of the silent Dragon Stadium, with a wicked smile on the corner of his mouth. Then it was drowned in the celebratory crowd of teammates.

Lao Lei looked at Quaresma's provocation, put his hands on his waist, and his eyes showed an uncontrollable battle intent. (To be continued......)