Chapter 52: A Wonderful Start
In Leiria's dressing room, Lao Lei was listening to Mourinho's tactical arrangements. By the time he had seen his family's text messages and Kayla's text messages this morning, he had already seen them one after another. Kayla's text message made Lao Lei's eyes light up, and reminded him of the youthful and beautiful figure of that bar. Kayla's arrival made Lao Lei's heart have some more thoughts that he didn't have, and he felt that he suddenly had an inexhaustible amount of strength. The woman you like will always make a man full of strength. What a man can never lose in front of the woman he likes is grace, and the best demeanor on the court is the arrogance and calmness of the winner.
"I don't think I need to say more about the importance of this game, everyone knows it. Now let's think about the game in front of us, think about the difficulties and difficulties at that time, and think about the fruitful results we have gained. Now everybody is saying that Sporting Lisbon will step on our heads and get to the top of the league and I can tell very clearly that they are looking down on us and I'm not happy. Now I want you to tell them who's number one in the league, and give me the head that Lisbon sticks up and stomps on it. 'Jose Mourinho is doing the routine pre-match mobilization and if Mourinho wasn't the head coach of football, he would certainly be a good speaker. Leiria's players will always be incited by Mourinho in just a few words, and their will to fight will be high.
"Remember this game, objectively speaking, our opponents were strong, but they didn't reach the point of being invincible. Raio, I want you to pay attention to Sporting Lisbon's Jadel, the goalscorer has been incredible this season, but I don't want him to have that kind of performance in our game. We must be vigilant at all times, Raio, your task today is to keep him to my death, and make him uncomfortable no matter what he does. And Ben, as soon as Jardel gets the ball on the edge of the penalty area, I want you to immediately go up and hit Raio without giving him any chance. This is a striker who won't create his own chances, so don't let him get a chance. β
'We started the game with a defence that started with a steady rhythm and didn't follow the rhythm of Sporting Lisbon, because it wanted us to play against him, and this season Lisbon's attack is the best in the Portuguese Super League. However, remember that our defense must be flexible, not rigid and defensive, and sometimes it must be appropriately extended. Remember, you can't hold Lisbon for 90 minutes. β
"Next, Reima. In this game, Sporting Lisbon will not give you space like SetΓΊbal, this is not their way of playing. I want you to think a lot about attacking and defensively, I'm sure Calabar will give you good support. Remember, don't think about shit long or short passes. I just need a pass that will win the game. Do you understand? β
Lao Lei, who was already boiling in battle, nodded at Mourinho and said firmly: "No problem, head." Leave it to me. "The elder Lei Zhilu said that Mourinho's words were to relieve himself of the mental pressure on long passes. With too much pressure, it will make the long pass, which is not excellent now, even worse.
After Mourinho finished arranging, Brito opened the door and walked in and said, "Jose, it's time." β
"All right, boys. It's time to prove yourselves and give them good looks. Mourinho clapped his hands and encouraged his disciples as they got up and walked out. Originally, Mourinho did not expect his team to come this far before the start of the season. The current situation made Mourinho start to think about the league title that he once thought was out of reach, and for this he also deliberately declined the invitation of Porto conveyed by Mendes some time ago. At least until the end of the season, he has no thoughts of leaving, and if he leads Leiria to a championship this season, he will go down in the history of this team, no matter what happens later. The ** that made history makes it difficult for a proud person like Mourinho to refuse.
And this game is the key to whether or not you can win the championship, because a small ball club like Leiria is not good at counterattacking battles. It can only fight with the wind, and it doesn't have enough mental strength and squad thickness to counterattack. Once this game is won by Sporting Lisbon and overtaken, the possibility of Leiria overtaking again is very small, and it will even continue to decline. Mourinho's heart has already labeled this match as a direct contest for the title.
It depends on whether the "lion" of Sporting Lisbon eats Leiria, or whether Leiria shoots the lion.
"It's out, the players from both sides are already playing. It's a direct conversation between the first and second in the league, with the winner first and the loser second. Although Leiria's recent form has taken a dip due to Andre's absence, I think this game will bring out all the power of Leiria's players. Sporting Lisbon has surprised everyone by their attacking power this season, especially their top scorer Jadel's form. I believe it will be a wonderful and moving game. So, Pinto, what do you think is the key to this game? β
"I think the key to this game is the undisputed core of both teams, Remaia and Jardel. It's a bit incredible, but you can't deny how much chance of victory Leiria has depends on the 19-year-old who has just made his debut season. Before this match, Remaier's ability was questioned by the vast majority of the media, and the head coach of Sporting Lisbon, Mr. Jardin, also vowed to seal Remaier perfectly. In the previous game, he was not in good shape for a while, or he showed the prototype, which is a big highlight of this game. And Jardel, as long as he continues to score goals so wildly, is a guarantee of victory for Sporting Lisbon. β
At this time, the two teams are already preparing to kick off. When Lao Lei was on the field, he still wanted to see if he could find his family and Kayla in the stands, but in the presence of more than 52,000 people, Lao Lei couldn't see anything. At this time, Kayla was already in the stands, she was wearing a beige baseball cap, big sunglasses, covering half of her pretty face, still wearing boots, denim, white shirt casual, ordinary dress, and carrying a cute pink little backpack. This made her look friendly and playful, she saw Lao Lei looking around, wondering if he was looking for herself, and a trace of sweetness rose inexplicably in her heart. But the only problem is that she sat in the crowd of fans at Sporting Lisbon, which made her a little embarrassed, and she couldn't shout loudly when Lao Lei appeared.
Regardless, the game started on time at the referee's whistle. The first 10 minutes of the game proved that the managers of both sides had a deep understanding of each other. The opponent's arrangement is all on their own weakness, but at least the pace of the game in these 10 minutes is very fast, which makes the fans enjoy watching it.
Just five minutes into the game, Sporting Lisbon's midfielder found a chance to pass a behind-the-back ball to Jardel in front of him after a series of inverted feet. Jardel is a typical point-grabbing striker, and his skills at his feet are not very good, otherwise he would not have been able to enter the Brazilian national team with his goal efficiency, you must know that he scored 150 goals in 146 games in Porto, an average of more than a terrifying efficiency per game. Clever positioning, strong body and superb shooting skills are his greatest strengths. This time, he used the sudden change of direction in his running position to shake off Laio who was closely following, and then used his body to jam Laio behind him. When he was about to enter the big penalty area, he was made up in time by the back, and he first broke it with a clean tackle.
After Raio, who was behind Jadel, got the football, he immediately passed it to Lao Ray who ran up. After Lao Lei got the football, he did not immediately adopt a slow-paced attacking method, he decided to give Sporting Lisbon a knock first, and then the next game could slow down Sporting Lisbon's attacking speed and intensity, so that it could not be unscrupulous.
Lao Lei first passed the ball to his partner Caraba, and then dodged the players of Sporting Lisbon who came up to rush, quickly cut forward, and gave Caraba a forward gesture. Calaba understood what Lao Lei meant, and immediately returned the ball to Lao Lei, who was already near the center circle.
In this game, the Lisbon defenders did not step over the middle line at all, just to prevent this situation, and immediately launched a rush to Lao Lei, trying to delay the time and interrupt Leiria's counterattack. In the face of Sporting Lisbon's players, Lao Lei unexpectedly did not pass the ball, but directly changed direction, and passed the players of Sporting Lisbon who were obviously unprepared by Lao Lei.
This is Lao Lei's rare successful initiative in the game, after Lao Lei passed the players of Sporting Lisbon who were a little stunned, the heart was cool, the heart said a small sample, you are a Chinese Sun Tzu's art of war in vain, this is called surprisingly winning. In fact, before the start of the game, Lao Lei had this idea, he thought about it for a long time and felt that his road was too dead and easy to be stared at, so he had already decided that he would have an atypical Lei Mayer in this game.
No one thought that Lao Lei would dribble the ball at this time, which left a lot of open space in front of Lao Lei, and the players of Sporting Lisbon were still waiting for Lao Lei's pass, and they couldn't come back all of a sudden. Lao Lei, who experienced a solo ride, did not try to continue to pass at the 24-yard line. Instead, he self-consciously gave it to Ugo from the left lane, and pulled it to the middle lane himself.
After taking a few steps, Ugo directly passed the ball into the penalty area and looked for a header of 10,000. However, the first drop was won by the players of Sporting Lisbon and pushed out of the penalty area. This happened to fall at the feet of Lao Lei, who rushed at the football and made a powerful shot. Unfortunately, the ball was slightly over the crossbar, but it also caused an exclamation from the Sporting Lisbon fans, including the Leiria fans, Joseph and a certain little girl.
In the first five minutes of the game, Leiria had Lao Lei first completed the first shot of the game. Sporting Lisbon returned the favor, and in the 7th minute, Sporting Lisbon won a corner.
Although Jadel in the penalty area grabbed the first point with his good sense of fighting for the top and his skills. It's a pity that under Ben and Laio's bags and small movements, the body can't exert much strength. Jadel chose to rub the ball back to a teammate outside the box.
It was Sporting Lisbon's No.18 Carrillo who won the ball outside the box, and Carrillo also opted for a long-range shot. The ball flew so hard that Lemato didn't dare to hold it up and knocked it out with his fist.
However, the football did not leave the penalty area, and Jardel, who was in the box, played his sense of the point perfectly this time, and he touched the football first. This was followed by a quick follow-up shot, and this is when Antonio made a contribution. Standing on the goalline, his brain reacted quickly this time, and he instinctively lifted his foot to block Jadel's follow-up shot. Raio didn't give Sporting Lisbon another chance and drove the ball off the sideline with a big kick.
At this time, it was a pity that it became a fan of Sporting Lisbon. Both sides each missed a good chance to score.
The opening 10 minutes felt like a big battle, but after 10 minutes, Leiria rarely relented. However, because Leiria is not blindly defending, but actively creating opportunities to counterattack, this is also a wonderful scene.
It was again Raio and Ben who broke off Jadel's pass, and the ball reached Carabar's feet first. It was transferred from Calaba to Lao Lei, who won the ball and played a one-two with Ugo near the left.
However, Lao Lei did not completely shake off the marking players of Sporting Lisbon. At this time, Lao Lei saw a small gap in Sporting Lisbon's defensive line, and he did not hesitate to make a long pass.
At this time, a voice came from the system in his head: "Trigger the Pseudo Long Transmission Master Experience Skill." β