Chapter 41: The Birds

To be selected by Villarinho as Benfica's manager, Toni still has some ability. For Leiria, who is challenged with the power of seven consecutive wins, although he says that he will definitely win, and despises Mourinho, as long as he is not a fool, he knows that he can beat Porto, and the team that is undoubtedly at the top of the league with 21 points in seven rounds must be extraordinary. If he hadn't been forced by Villarinho, Toni wouldn't have let out such cruel words. Although he should have been better on paper than Benfica, who knows the outcome of the football match.

However, in order to save his face and job, Tony really put in the effort and carefully watched the video of the first seven rounds of Leiria's games. Among them, the video of the match between Porto and Ohannes made his eyes shine, and through the video of these two games, he found the weakness and the way to restrain the tactics of the number 13 and Leiria.

After watching the video of the game, he also had to sigh that Lao Lei's running and pressing was really annoying, although I don't know how far Lao Lei ran, but Tony knew that Lu Dao would definitely be amazing. He had never seen someone so able to run, it was like a perpetual motion machine. However, Porto's approach made him breathe a sigh of relief, and it seems that this is an effective way to limit it. As for Porto's last goal, in his opinion, it was obviously an unexpected goal, because from his analysis of the video, Lao Lei is obviously a player with no offensive skills, let alone a long-range shot.

In the end, he decided to adopt Porto's style of play, taking a quick midfield, preferring to make mistakes rather than give Lao Lei a chance to break the ball, and give Leiria a chance to counterattack quickly. He asked Benfica's players, no matter what position they were in, to counter-attack on the spot after conceding the ball, delaying the time for the opposing player to play forward and delaying the speed of Leiria's counter-attack.

Ten minutes into the game, Tony's intentions were almost all fulfilled. For 10 minutes, Ray didn't have a single break, and Leiria didn't play a threatening attack. In terms of situation, Benfica still has the advantage, having already opened the door twice, although it is not too threatening. However, in Toney's opinion, it is only a matter of time, and with the attacking strength of Benfica's lineup, it should not be a problem to break down Leiria's defense. However, what he didn't pay attention to was that Mourinho, who was on the opposite side, looked at the situation on the field, and did not have a trace of anxiety and dissatisfaction, but was very calm, and there was a trace of pride in his eyes.

Before the game, Mourinho had expected Benfica to make such an arrangement, after all, the limiting effect of the Porto game was too obvious. However, he does not worry too much about Benfica playing like this, in his opinion, Benfica has limited Lao Lei while also abolishing his own attack.

The vengeful Mourinho will naturally make a careful analysis of this Benfica team, and he has come to the conclusion that Benfica's use of this tactic will not have the same effect as Porto. Although Benfica's skill level allows them to pass through the midfield quickly and safely, what Benfica lacks compared to Porto is that Benfica do not have the same variety of attacking methods as Porto. Porto can propose a variety of attacks under the organization of Deco, and Benfica's attack this season has almost always relied on the organization of a strong midfield, they are used to playing slow ground penetration operations, and abandoning the fast attacking rhythm of the midfield is not what this Benfica team is good at. And in Mourinho's view, Benfica's organizational core Martins does not have Deco's comprehensiveness and easy ball control, and he judges that Benfica's organizational core Martins is not able to adapt well to the new attacking method given by the coach immediately, which leads to confusion in Benfica's attack.

And in the 10 minutes since the opening, it seems that Mourinho's judgment is not wrong. Benfica's attack, which gave up the flamboyant control of the ball in midfield, appeared weak and powerful, but it was not effective. So far, Benfica has only had two reluctant shots on goal, and they are not much of a threat. In order to stabilize the situation, he also specially instructed Lao Lei to recover his position and fully participate in the defense in the opening stage.

Looking at Tony with a smug face on the sidelines, Mourinho smiled contemptuously, saying that the chances of winning this game were a few points greater.

It wasn't until the 18th minute of the game that Benfica had their first shot on target of the game. Benfica completed a trio of three, and it was Martins who led the ball quickly past Leiria's midfield entanglement. Lao Lei, who had just been shaken off by Benfica's subtle cooperation, didn't stop for a moment, turned around and chased Martins. Martins didn't choose to pass to his teammates this time, and the previous game made him feel as if his teammates didn't get into the groove and wasted a lot of opportunities. After Lao Lei retreated, although Leiria did not have the sharp counterattacks of the first seven rounds, it was easier to run and press, and the efficiency also increased, destroying many Benfica's offensive opportunities.

However, he didn't have time to stop it this time, because Martins shot directly from distance in the box. Martins' long-range shot was played at a high level, with the ball drawing a beautiful arc into the crossbar and into the corner of the right post, and Lemato's save looked useless. But in the end, the goal helped Leiria, and the ball flew off the line. Causing a burst of regretful exhalation at the Stadium of Light, Benfica's on-site commentator also said with regret: "Now the team has one goal left to consolidate the advantage it occupies now." Martins' long-range shot was a pity, oh my God. ”

Lao Lei looked at Martins who was holding his head with some hatred, this time he didn't do his job. You must know that Mourinho handed over the front of the penalty area to Lao Lei before the game, and this time his carelessness gave Martins an easy chance to get up and almost conceded a goal.

Mourinho on the sidelines also shouted: "Lei Ma, Lei Ma, do your job well, I lost my mind just now." Lao Lei heard it, waved his hand at Mourinho, and signaled that he knew what he said.

When Martins got the ball again, he found that Lao Lei didn't know when he had posted himself. Feeling the small movements that Lao Lei performed on him, and pushing himself with his strong body, Martins felt that he was about to lose the ball, and Lao Lei suddenly strengthened his defense, which made Martins a little unaccustomed.

Lao Lei seized the opportunity to poke the ball on his toes, and then used his body to forcefully arch Martins' body, and controlled the football in two big steps. Just as he was about to pass to Andre, he suddenly found that there was a Benfica player closely following André's side. Leiria's teammates around him were like this, and for a while, Lao Lei didn't know what to do with the ball. At this time, Martins was already following up and was about to steal. Old Ray used his body to stop Martins behind him, and just when he was about to lose control, Raio's voice came from behind: "Pass here, Thunderma." Behind. After Lao Lei heard it, he was overjoyed in his heart, and he directly knocked his heel behind him. Then after the unexpected Raio received the ball, he didn't stop, and directly stepped forward as a central defender.

This caught Benfica's players off guard, while Mourinho on the sidelines was a proud man. Old Ray gets the ball, passes to Andre, and then Andre makes a quick pass to organize the attack, which is almost Leiria's counter-attacking mode. Mourinho, of course, knew that Toni would definitely take precautions against this, so he arranged that Laio, who was okay with the ball, could insert and join the counterattack at the right time, which was a change of tactic.

Raio's sudden rise made Benfica's blocking plan fall short, and Raio, who was unmarked for a while, easily advanced almost 10 metres and crossed the centre circle. At this time, when Benfica finally had personnel to make up for it, Raio did not continue to bring it, and directly passed it to Andre, who had already taken advantage of the chaos. After André got the ball, he quickly split the side, and Bruno was already plugged in at high speed.

Bruno relied on his speed to go straight to the bottom, and both Ugo and Ivan rushed to the middle to meet Bruno's pass. And behind them, Lao Lei is cutting in at high speed at all costs, you know, he said that he said that he wanted to teach Benfica a lesson for Mourinho, Lao Lei is a man who keeps his promises, and he feels that nothing can teach Benfica more than a goal. In Benfica's half, Leiria relied on the speed of a quick counterattack to achieve a good situation of 4 to 5. Benfica's ball certainly showed that the team was in a dangerous situation right now, and they booed wildly in an attempt to influence Leiria's attacking players.

Lao Lei ran towards Benfica's penalty area with a puff in his mouth, listening to the crazy boos of Benfica's fans, and read in his heart, head, I want to teach them a hard lesson for you. To be honest, Lao Lei's spit before the game was actually angered by Benfica's treatment of Mourinho like this, and he deliberately wanted to give Benfica fans a good look. Therefore, the Stadium of Light became the second stadium of Lao Lei's insult after the Real Mata Stadium. It wasn't until Lao Lei retired that everyone realized that this was only the beginning of Lao Lei's record of insulting the stadium, so much so that there was a saying in European football later: "If you want to provoke and provoke Lei Maia, first consider whether your strength is enough to stop Lao Lei." Otherwise, he's bound to leave something on your pitch. Of course, if you do any personal attacks on him, his family and friends, then congratulations, your team's stadium will surely go down in football history forever with a backdrop in shame. ”

Getting back to business, after Bruno dribbled the ball at high speed to the baseline, Benfica defenders had already come up to block his cross. Bruno faced the defenders, first pedaled two bikes, then flicked the ball out and made a gesture to pass the ball. After Benfica's defender raised his foot, a man suddenly came and cut the ball directly along the bottom line to the penalty area.

After coming to the penalty area, Bruno was not greedy, and before the defenders pressed up, he directly passed a high ball to Ivan and Ugo in the penalty area. Ivan won the header, but the Benfica goalkeeper made a world-class save and jumped up to knock the ball out with one palm. The Benfica defender headed the ball out of the box before Ugo.

Benfica's fans exclaimed in surprise and then exhaled in reassurance. And Benfica's commentary said excitedly: "Mika, Mika made a world-class save." Ha Luha, it was 100 years before Leiria wanted to score our goal,.......... wait, how could he be there? The commentator's passionate commentary came to an abrupt end, and he saw the back of a No. 13 appear on the flying football line.

Lao Lei tightened his right foot, used his greatest strength, against the incoming ball, and without pausing, it was directly a powerful volley. There is a 20% probability that I will be caught, Lao Lei's heart screams, the feeling of shooting is very good, and Lao Lei Zhilu said that this kick was accurate.

After hearing only a bang, the football flew to the left side of the goal at a very fast speed, and the momentum sank. In fact, the angle is not tricky, but Benfica's goalkeeper Mika has just gotten up at this time, and he can't make a second save immediately. The ball went straight into the goal, hit the net, and fell silent at the Stadium of Light.

Seeing that the ball really went in, I didn't wait for the referee's whistle to blow. Lao Lei directly took off his shirt, revealing the T inside, with a pattern and a sentence printed on it.

Lao Lei frantically ran to Mourinho on the sidelines, and the T was clinging to Lao Lei's body in the wind.

The camera clearly catches a birdie on top of the T-Jack, a birdie stunned by a player wearing No. 13, "Do you want me to teach you how to play, birdie". The little bird looked like a kitty eagle.

Old Ray ran in front of Mourinho and showed him his carefully prepared T-s.

And the Stadium of Light once again rang out with deafening boos, drowning out the referee's whistle.