Chapter 33: At a Disadvantage

After the start of the game, Lao Lei didn't feel the fish in water in the previous games at all. After the start of the game, Lao Lei maintained his usual style of play, running and pressing frantically, but these seemed to have no effect in front of the midfield led by Porto Deco. Under Deco's leadership, Porto's midfielders all use a quick shot, which makes Lao Lei, who has not opened the devil's muscles, have no chance to press in close quarters at all. Moreover, Porto's midfielders are much better than Leiria's opponents in the first four rounds, and the success rate of passing and pressure resistance are also not the same.

Deco strictly followed Paul's instructions and quickly passed through the midfield, with a lot less horizontal passes, dribbles, and more direct passes. Try to let the football spend as little time in the midfield as possible, which makes Lao Lei's defensive role plummet, and people don't give him a chance to play at all. According to the defensive efficiency of Lao Lei's previous game, there should be a steal every 5 minutes, which will make the opponent have no chance to attack continuously and greatly reduce the pressure on the back line, which is not counting the number of runs and pressing to slow down the opponent's offensive speed. It is conceivable that Lao Lei is important to Leiria's defense, which is also an important reason why Leiria has only conceded 1 goal in four rounds.

And now the tactics adopted by Porto have directly reduced Lao Lei's defensive efficiency, you must know that Lao Lei can only help on the defensive end now, and there is almost no effect on the offensive end, even if he has already taken an assist. The trick to Leiria's good performance in the first four rounds is to use Lao Lei when defending, which is equivalent to 1 more person, so as to use others to counterattack tactics when attacking. And now because Porto's tactics have become the effect of not having one more person to defend on the defensive end, and there is still one less person on the offensive end.

Lao Lei felt like someone was holding his throat now, he couldn't use his strength, and he gradually felt powerless. At the first 10 minutes of the game, Porto were in complete control. Although this strategy of quick ball play and attacking also has an impact on their attack, it is negligible in comparison. The on-site commentator Florno also said uneasily: "Porto completely suppressed our midfield defense with their midfield technical advantage, and now we are just passively beaten, and there is no power to fight back at all." The situation is very unfavourable for us and we hope that Mr. Mourinho will do something soon. ”

Leiria's fans also noticed that their team's situation was not good, so they could only be in a hurry and use their loud cheers to give the team atmosphere. Mourinho was also standing on the sidelines a little anxiously at this time, discussing countermeasures with Brito.

"I didn't expect Porto to take us so seriously and completely saw through our tactical intentions and weaknesses. What are your thoughts now, Jose Mourinho? Brito was also a little anxious.

"I didn't expect the manager of Porto to be so decisive. Giving up part of our possession and attack to limit Reima really looks up to us. With our offense, we only have a chance to score when we are defending on the counter-attack, but now there are almost no good counter-attacking opportunities, and we are completely suppressed. “

Just as the two of them were discussing, Lao Lei on the field felt very tired, this fatigue was mental exhaustion, no matter how hard he tried, it seemed to be useless. Old Ray looked at Porto's number 10, the core of their midfield, the black-haired Brazilian, and felt deeply powerless. Although he knew that he was the center of Porto's passing, and the head also allowed himself to entangle him as much as possible before the game started, and disrupt Porto's organization, but he had not done anything so far in the game. This Brazilian is like a loach, running around with him, and he never stops the football at his feet, always kicks the ball out, without a little mud and water, and he runs with him like a fool for nothing, without any effect. However, when he rushed to others, he immediately received the ball and observed the threatening balls one by one. This made Lao Lei almost scold him, ** is it an offensive player from Brazil, why can't you beat me, you pass me.

In the 13th minute of the first half, Deco took advantage of Lao Lei to leave his side, immediately took it forward, and directly shook the oncoming Raio with a skillful dribble, and then rushed to the penalty area of Leiria with a pick pass before Lao Lei forced back.

Inside the box, Postiga showed his quality as a talented striker praised by the Portuguese media, shaking off Ben's defence with a deceptive run, leaping high and making a beautiful header that headed out a ball. The ball flew towards the bottom left corner of the goal, and Lemato couldn't react and had to stretch his body as hard as he could to touch the ball. But he couldn't reach it, and luckily the ball hit the outside of the goal post and flew off the line. This made Mourinho break out in a cold sweat, if he conceded the ball at this time, this game would really be in suspense. The Leiria fans at the scene exclaimed in surprise, relieved to see that the ball did not go in.

Florno exclaimed, "Change, we have to make a change." Porto has rendered our Godzilla useless and Mourinho has to make a change. Otherwise, it's only a matter of time before the goal is conceded. “

The first point of the Porto corner kick that followed was won by Ben, but it was not pushed out of the box. Then Bruno struck a bigfoot and put the ball out of the touchline. Leiria's defense is about to run out of steam. At this time, Mourinho finally came to the sidelines, waved frantically at the players in Leiria to signal all the players to recycle, and shouted: "Everyone is back on guard, only Ivan is left in front, let's hold this first half first." Reima, your task now is to control the box for me, leave Deco alone, show me Porto's attacking players in the box. "When Leiria heard Mourinho's set-up, she retreated into her own half like a tidal wave, setting up plenty of numbers in the defensive end.

And Lao Lei also pushed to the penalty area a little sullenly, and he felt frustration. He was completely defeated by the opponent's No. 10 Deco. The previous game was smooth sailing, which made Lao Lei a little fluttering, and Deco told Lao Lei that football is not so simple, but it is not enough as long as he is in good health. This game made Lao Lei start to be full of expectations for improving and becoming stronger in terms of skills.

Seeing the tactical arrangements made by Mourinho, the commentator on the Porto side said triumphantly: "It seems that Leiria is ready to be a shrinking turtle, and this is what this game should look like." That's what a small club like Leiria should do against a great club like Porto. It seems that Porto should not be a big problem to win this game, and the top of the table for this small club should come to an end. “

Leiria, who was defending with all her might, set up a bus inside her own entrance. Although Porto was in complete control of the ball, there was no good way to defend the Leiria penalty area for a while. Lao Lei vented his frustration in the penalty area, and when he saw that the players of Porto were entangled, he once again sacrificed Bao Sanjiao's defensive skills, how to get yin, and Postiga was the focus of Lao Lei's care.

Postiga, who had just made a good goal, was in a good mood and he felt that he was in good form at the moment and could try to score a few more goals in this game. With his youthful and powerful body and erratic movement, Postiga is a bit of a breeze in the Leiria penalty area. He also took the time to observe Leiria's No.13, a player who was very hot some time ago, and what he said in the pre-match interview was just a deliberate fault. Watching Lao Lei run inactively, Postiga's heart was full of contempt, and he said that football is not something that can be run, and it seems that he really does not despise wrong.

By the time Mourinho made a full-fledged defensive set-up, Postiga felt like it had changed. The forbidden area is full of people, and there is not much space left for him to move. And when it comes to fighting for headers, it's not that easy.

Lao Lei used the tricks learned in the NBA to use Postiga even harder. Within 10 minutes, Postiga had three or four new minor scars on his body. Now only 18 years old, Postiga was impulsive by Lao Lei's small movements, coupled with the fact that he had no place to run and could not match Lao Lei, Postiga's role in the penalty area began to decline rapidly. The high ball that Porto drove into the penalty area and gave him basically didn't make any difference, he didn't fight for a few at all, and the fight was ridiculously biased. Especially in a fierce scramble with Lao Lei, Lao Lei used the famous stool in the NBA to defend, and Postiga, who originally relied on Lao Lei, suddenly fell into a dog and ate, and the football was directly pushed out of the penalty area by Lao Lei, who jumped backwards.

Feeling embarrassed and indignant at being teased, Postiga jumped up and asked the referee for a penalty. However, the referee ignored him at all, signaling that he could see clearly that Leiria's number 13 did not make any defensive moves. Postiga, who was in a hurry, directly pulled up his jersey, pointed to a few bruises made by Lao Lei, and shouted at the referee: "Are you blind, look at his infringement on me." The referee, who was yelled at by a rookie, showed a yellow card directly to Postiga, and if Deco hadn't pulled him away in time, he would have volunteered to leave the field. This made Lao Lei cry out for pity, but he did everything he could against Postiga and almost succeeded. However, he still looked at Postiga with a smile, waited for Postiga to walk in, and said softly, "It's so easy to like a fool like you." “

Hoping to provoke Postiga and bring him off the field, Lao Lei disappointed, Postiga seemed to have calmed down a lot and did not fall into the trap of Lao Lei. However, after seeing that the high ball was not very effective, Porto decisively began to shoot from distance. The various long-range shots made the Leiria fans nervous, but fortunately Lemato did well and did not score for Porto.

It wasn't until the last minute of first-half stoppage time that the situation changed. Deco, who received the ball outside the penalty area, suddenly turned on the mode of individual breakthrough, and a croquette passed Laio. After coming to the front of the big forbidden area, I still want to continue to advance. Old Ray ran out, and a big sliding shovel tried to shovel the football away from Deco's feet. At this time, Lao Lei's lack of experience showed his shortcomings, and he boldly chose to slip and skid, tripped Deco, and gave a free kick in a dangerous position.

After the two sides set up the wall and defensive positions, Deco took a direct free kick after the referee's whistle. The ball slid straight into a beautiful arc and hung into the top right corner of the goal, and Lemato couldn't do anything about it, and the ball went straight into the net. The referee gestured to the midfield for the goal and in the final moments of the first half, Porto opened the scoring with a direct free-kick from Deco after a 30-minute siege. 1:0。

Lao Lei, who was inside, looked at Deco with a look of ecstasy among the Porto players who were celebrating wildly, pursed his lips, and his eyes were full of unwillingness.