"The game was finally over, and when Scolari brought on Reima and Deco at the start of the second half, it should have been over. In 10 minutes, the super attack wave of 3 goals has made the entire Iranian team lose the courage and confidence to resist. This entire second half can be regarded as Portugal's training work. 3:0, congratulations to Portugal for winning the second match of this World Cup and successfully securing a place in the round of 16"

In this way, the game ended with an unexpected and reasonable result. It was almost certain that Portugal would win before the game, but it wasn't until they settled the battle in the first half, especially in the last 10 minutes of the first half. Iran caused Portugal some problems as expected, but fell far short of what was expected of them before the game. After the game, Portugal's attacking frenzy in the last 10 minutes of the first half became the focus of attention for a while.

With such admiration, Lao Lei naturally became the focus of the outside world's big books. Unlike before, when he showed his level on the big stage again, reporters became the group of people who praised him again. After two undisputed victories in a row, Lao Lei and Portugal became the real center of attention on the World Cup stage, and their table Xiàn began to be known as the champions.

But in these few days, Portugal and Lao Lei are not the biggest focus, but Argentina, one of the South American duo. After they slaughtered Serbia and Montenegro with a score of 6:0 in the second round of the group stage, the entire world football world was amazed by Argentina's strong attacking firepower for a while. Compared to the five-star Brazil that was extremely disappointing in the first round. Argentina is increasingly expected to carry the banner of South American football in this World Cup.

In such a situation. Since Argentina and Portugal are in groups C and D respectively, a question naturally arises. Argentina and Portugal are the two teams so far. Will the best teams meet in advance in the round of 16 to complete a match that can be called an early preview of the final? As soon as this topic was raised, it immediately detonated the entire world football world.

For a time, the two groups C and D received the most attention among the eight groups. In addition to Argentina and Portugal, who have already qualified in these two groups, the Netherlands in Group C have also won both games, and the uncrowned king will fight Argentina for the top spot in Group C. This means: In any case, Portugal will be in the round of 16 against one of the world's biggest teams.

As a result, a series of issues such as who Portugal will meet, and whether it will be waterproof in the final round of the group stage with Mexico because of who it wants to touch, have begun to become the focus of attention from the outside world. Then, Lao Lei, Figo and Scolari naturally became the focus of the media.

Scolari has lost his temper for this. On a stage like the World Cup, being overly concerned by the media and the outside world is not good news. One way or another. This will affect the team's preparation to a greater or lesser extent. However, in addition to this, Scolari himself is really bothered by this problem, and it is the Netherlands. Or Argentina. As a manager, this is something he will have to think about as it will determine Portugal's reach for the final. What difficulties and schedules will be faced.

In addition to him, the Portuguese players privately between. It is also because of the media hype that there has been a lot of discussion on this issue. When preparing for the match against Mexico. Their hearts have flown to the question of who their opponents are in the knockout round. This is not a good phenomenon, but it is also unavoidable, as long as there is a coveting heart for the final Hercules Cup, such a psychology is inevitable.

However, among them, Lao Lei is an exception. He wasn't worried at all, or didn't care at all. When his teammates were talking, Lao Lei was just on the sidelines, calmly carrying out a relaxed daily physical training. Considering the busy schedule of the World Cup, watching videos and training with the ball every day has been all the training tasks of Lao Lei in recent times.

After the players discussed and discussed on their own, Lao Lei, who had not made any remarks, was naturally and inevitably noticed. Due to Lao Lei's personality, although he has a good relationship with his teammates in the team, he is not too close. Because, it is said that people who can play together can play together, so Lao Lei, who can't play anything, naturally lacks a common language with his teammates.

Therefore, the Portuguese players have always wanted to ask Lao Lei, but they can't open their mouths. As long as they saw Lao Lei's indifferent look, as if he didn't care about anything, they felt as if they were asking a stupid question, and they couldn't ask it. It wasn't until the day before the match against Mexico that Valente, one of the Porto gangs, took the lead in asking Lao Lei this question.

"Reima, who do you think we touch better?" "What?" was asked by Valente so suddenly, and Lao Lei didn't react for a while. It took a few seconds for him to slowly come back to his senses and think of what Valente wanted to ask. Seeing that all around him were looking at his teammates with curious expressions, he smiled a little suddenly, and then said in a faint, but very firm tone: "Is there any difference?" Anyway, just run over it all the way. ”

As soon as Lao Lei's confident answer came out, the Portuguese players were a little stunned. It's not that they don't have self-confidence, but the words and deeds of head coach Scolari in recent times have affected them, making them unconsciously a little too cautious and restrained. At today's daytime press conference, Scolari even hinted that in order to avoid encountering Argentina, he will hide the main team in the match against Mexico. When a manager makes such a statement, it's no wonder that the players don't think much about it.

The reason why Lao Lei is different is because he is a self-oriented person in the field of football, except for Mourinho who can hold him down on some occasions, he is mostly a person who does not consider other people's ideas. In layman's terms, Lao Lei is a person with the attributes of a ball master, but he has always been under Mourinho. It's just that the table doesn't come out.

Scolari, on the other hand, is due to the good relationship and experience with him. Lao Lei is not good at saying anything publicly. It's just that in private, he thinks about what he thinks. Just do what you do. Scolari himself is quite aware of this, and I have to say that this is one of the reasons why he wants to open the Portuguese head coach.

Therefore, apart from Mourinho, he is rarely influenced by the ideas of other managers or players, no matter how big the opponent is or how high his status. Such a player can be annoying at times. But sometimes it works. Just like now, as the next captain of Portugal, Lao Lei's words immediately caused a huge repercussion in the hearts of Portuguese players, and just thinking about them is quite arrogant. For a moment, they themselves suddenly wondered why they were worried about such a stupid question.

At the pre-match press conference on the second day, Lei was asked the same question again. Before him, Scolari was also concerned about this issue. Again, he replied, the same flickering, meaning very ambiguous. The corners of Ray's mouth twitched as he listened to Scolari's answer. I was a little disdainful in my heart. After comparing and comparing, Lao Lei finally determined that Mourinho was the most suitable manager for his taste.

At this time. Lao Lei's answer, according to the general situation, should be the same as Scolari's. It means something about the same. But he doesn't have the interest in playing these official tones. It's not that they won't fight. But on this kind of issue, at this time, he doesn't have such a mind at all.

So, the corners of his mouth twitched, and after a faint smile, he gave a simple answer. "I've never thought about it, maybe you can ask Argentina or the Netherlands, anyone. But as far as I'm concerned, I don't think that's something we need to think about. Of course, for others, it may not be the case. ”

After finishing speaking, Lao Lei's mouth left the microphone in front of him, leaned back in the chair, and looked at the reporters in the audience with an expressionless face. His grim face and answer shook the entire press conference for a while. But he didn't notice Scolari's slightly reluctant smile, and he didn't know that his words had strengthened Scolari's decision to reject the Portuguese Football Federation's request to renew his contract.

Anyway, that's all for later. In front of Scolari, Lao Lei and Portugal, the most urgent thing to solve is the battle for the top spot with Mexico. With Mexico held to a draw by Angola in the second round of the group stage, they will have a much heavier task than Portugal in this game, not only to fight for the top spot, but also to avoid capsizing in the gutter. Because as long as Angola beat Iran in the final round of the group stage, they are not without the possibility of being eliminated.

It's just that they are also very self-aware, in the face of Portugal, they honestly put on a posture of defending and counterattacking, from the beginning of the game, they did not have the slightest intention of playing against Portugal, after all, maintaining a draw is their most basic task. But their idea of holding on was shattered in just the sixth minute of the game.

After Lao Lei won the ball in front of the Mexican penalty area, he immediately knocked the ball with a non-looking heel and caught the entire Mexican defense off guard. Simao, who replaced Figo as the starter of the game, stabbed diagonally on the right side, got the football before Moses and the left wing-back, and then pressed with Lao Lei, who also replaced Kostiani as the starter of the game, and made a very comfortable assist. The latter received the ball and smashed home from around 12 yards to give Portugal the lead.

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL！！！ Beautiful goals, beautiful attacks! This is our Portuguese football, our football! No matter how many times you look at Reima's heel, it's just as amazing, how did he do it?! It's incredible!! I'm not saying that Maniche and Simão are not good, but Reima's passing, too good at stealing the show"

Just when the Portuguese commentator sang praises for Lao Lei, Lao Lei, who was proud to go to the Schalke Stadium, didn't seem to realize what kind of shock his pass brought to others, and just smiled faintly.

Just as he said in his pre-match press conference, he was calm! Assertive!! (To be continued......)