Chelsea have two days to recuperate after arriving in Porto. During the two-day break, Ranieri closed all his training sessions and did not accept any media interviews. This is probably also to create problems for Porto's preparations, because Chelsea's main squad has changed too much, and a large number of powerful stars is enough for Ranieri to change the formation at will, which is a luxury for any manager. The intention of closed training is probably also to confuse Mourinho.

In this regard, Mourinho is much more stretched and has little room for change. Porto's main lineup is a solid lineup, there is not much room for change and substitution, and there is nothing to compare between the two teams in terms of the thickness of the bench. However, Mourinho also has his own deep understanding of this. He didn't bother to guess Chelsea's starting line-up at all, he just needed to know Chelsea's overall tactics. Based on his knowledge of Ranieri's character and commanding style, there is no doubt that Chelsea will play counter-attacking tactics when away from home. Although such a tactic is rigid, it is needless to say that it is practical. That's why Chelsea have won all five away games in the Champions League this season and conceded just one goal. Opponents who are looking for stability, although they lack explosiveness, are the most difficult to deal with, because they will not leave you with any easy opportunities to take advantage of.

Based on this situation, Mourinho decisively arranged the attacking tactics for Porto. Against a team like Chelsea, it is necessary to get enough advantages at home, otherwise when it comes to Chelsea's home stadium, it is likely to be slowly worn to death by the opponent. Chelsea have been 4-4-2 this season. Jose Mourinho's two days have also been an important point of attention for a training team to break down Chelsea's defensive system.

In addition to that, there is another point that Mourinho fears the most. That is that Porto lack the experience to play against a team of this style in England. When it comes to the game, it is likely to cause a little discomfort. The pace of the transition between attack and defence in England is very fast. Most of the attacks are fast and direct, and this style of play is very impactful. In order to counter this, Mourinho intends to use possession to neutralize Chelsea's attack. And that's just part of what needs to be done in this game, but the tactical training for the Porto players in the past two days has not been easy.

In the intense preparation of the two sides, the time passed quickly, and it was the day of the game. This Champions League semi-final match has attracted bad people to watch, although neither team is a big team. However, the influence of the Champions League is still here. Due to the importance of this game to Lao Lei, Xiantia and Kayla both came to the stadium to cheer for Lao Lei. In addition, in an inconspicuous corner of the stadium, a petite figure dressed in punk costume with big sunglasses is also closely watching the figure of Porto No. 13 in the stadium.

The pre-match ceremony was over, and the players of both teams were already in their positions, waiting for the game to resume. Looking at the position of the players on the field, it is clear that Ranieri still sent a 4-4-2 formation. On the back line, from left to right, is Bridge. Galla, John Terry and Melchiott, while the midfield four were Joe Cole and Frank Lampard. Makelele and Glen Shire. Up front, Ranieri continued the combination of Gudjohnsen and Hasselbaink, putting Crespo and Mutu on the bench. Porto, on the other hand, are still their strongest squad. 4-2-3-1 formation.

With the referee's whistle and the loud cheers of the Porto fans, the first leg of the match between Porto and Chelsea officially began. The first thing to do was Porto's possession after the start of the game. According to Mourinho's arrangement, Lao Lei was not in a hurry to organize his teammates to attack after the opening. It's about holding the ball firmly in your hands first. And Chelsea, as expected, was also very conservative, began to retreat, and did not mean to press out. Seeing such a scene, the corners of Mourinho's mouth hooked a trace of arc, this is what he wants.

At the start of the game, the distance between Porto's three lines was kept short, and the whole game was in a state of movement together. The compact front made Porto's possession more handy. Barcelona? Ranieri said in his heart, and looked at Mourinho on the side suspiciously, he didn't know what Mourinho's idea was. Ranieri is no stranger to Barcelona's possession-based style of play. He didn't think Mourinho would copy Barcelona's style of play, and he bred up and paid attention to the situation on the pitch, trying to see what Mourinho's idea was.

In fact, there is a difference between Porto's current style of play on the field and Barcelona, if Barcelona only has a No. 4 player as the core, then Porto has two, Lao Lei and Deco. The remaining nine Porto players surround Lao Lei and Deco, who organise and deploy passes from all directions, as well as passes after receiving the ball. When not attacking, it's like two big trees with entangled roots, with Lao Lei and Deco connecting Porto's front and back. However, as soon as Porto switched to attack, things changed.

At this time, Lao Lei will become the only core, which is determined by Lao Lei's superhuman running ability. And Deco is on Lao Lei's side to assist, in order to prevent the opponent's encirclement and interception. Just like on the pitch now, after a dull opening 10 minutes, Porto took the lead in the first wave of attack. Lao Lei stepped forward, Deco retreated, and the positions of the two people basically remained at the same level.

After receiving a pass from Kostiani, Old Ray faced Makelle and had no intention of entanglement. Playing with Deco next to him, Lao Lei took the ball diagonally and carried Makelele forward a few steps, and after attracting the attention of the Chelsea players, he directly knocked back with a heel with his right foot and handed it to Deco, who knew how to cross the run. At this time, Chelsea's forward midfielder Frank Lampard was keeping a close eye on him, and when he saw Deco get the ball, he immediately stuck to him. However, Deco was not ready to stop the ball, but directly made the ball to Lao Lei.

At this time, Makelle showed his excellent positional awareness, and did not follow Lao Lei, but crossed horizontally. Stood on Deco's passing route. This made Lao Lei have to turn around to catch the ball, and Makelele, who was stuck behind him, came to receive the football. was entangled like kraft candy by him, and didn't give Lao Lei a chance to turn around. But the pass of the old ray. Sometimes you don't need eyes. After a buckle on the inside of his right foot, he didn't turn around, and directly passed the ball to the far right side. There, Maniche had already tacitly stepped forward. With the pull of old Ray and Deco, Chelsea's current left side defence is lax.

And this is also a deliberate arrangement of Mourinho, Chelsea's right wing-back Melchiot is, in his opinion, a breakthrough point that Porto can exploit. The Ajax-born Dutch right-back, although he is good enough in Mourinho's opinion, has a fatal flaw as a defender. That is, he is too unstable and frizzy. It's like the summer weather, it changes when it is said, and no one knows what kind of table he will give, just like a nerve knife. Mourinho's instructions were to strike Melchiot and let the nerve knife kill Chelsea.

After Maniche got the ball, he didn't take the path of going outside and making a cross from the bottom, but cut directly inside and went to Melchiot. Face Maniche. The young Dutch defender was not nervous, he retreated step by step, always keeping the distance between himself and Maniche, neither closer nor farther. This continued until Maniche dribbled to the edge of the box. Melchiott couldn't go back until he was able to keep going. At this moment, Maniche was about to go outside with a button of his right foot, and Melchiot's center of gravity naturally shifted outward.

However, Maniche then took advantage of his left foot and pulled it back. After Melchiott changed his center of gravity again, he clasped his right foot again. Re-accelerate. At this time, Melchiott had no time to adjust his center of gravity again. Maniche directly accelerated to open up the distance between him and Melchiot. Then cut straight inside on the left edge of the box.

At this time, Maniche did not cross, but chose to knock back to the top of the penalty area, and McCarthy's forward cut drew away all the defenders in the middle of the Chelsea box. After the old ray won the ball, he was again entangled by Claude Makelele, and Deco was also entangled by Lampard. At this time, Lao Lei once again sacrificed his heels. The lineup is compact and has a role to show, and Kostiani, who came in later, got the opportunity to open the spot. In the face of Lao Lei's pass, Kostiani became Porto's third wave of attack, and completed the first shot on target of the game with a powerful shot. Chelsea goalkeeper Jonathan Cudicini didn't dare to slack off in the face of Kostiani's powerful smash and knocked the ball out with both fists, which was then cleared by Chelsea John Terry.

It was a very fluid attack and the Porto fans were very sorry why they couldn't get on the scoresheet. However, the form of the team made them believe that Porto's goal would come soon. But things are not as simple as Porto fans think, and Chelsea's tough English style of play is starting to show its power.

In the 14th minute of the first half, Old Ray and Deco wanted to make a comeback in midfield. Just when Deco received an over-the-top pass from Lao Lei and wanted to dribble forward, Frank Lampard next to him directly hit his body, knocked Deco to the ground, and made him roll a few laps along the way. It's all an English foul, England calls it men's football, tough guys, while others call it rough, brutal.

Frank Lampard's unrelenting collision sent Deco to the ground, and he didn't recover for a moment. And the Dragon Stadium suddenly erupted in deafening boos. The Porto players also rushed over and cared about Deco's situation. They all know that although Lao Lei is the core of Porto, Deco has his irreplaceable position in Porto, and once he is injured, the impact on Porto is incalculable.

It was here that while Deco's injury was being worried, there was friction between Maniche and the Chelsea players on the side. Maniche tried to get a few words out of Lampard, but was pushed away by Terry. The two of them immediately had a quarrel, Maniche had a hot temper, but Terry was also not a person who was afraid of things, and the two of them suddenly fought together, and the field was suddenly chaotic.

At this time, Lao Lei rushed directly and pushed Terry away. This action directly triggered a larger conflict on the field, and the players of the two teams directly surrounded each other. It took a lot of effort for the referee to pull the two teams apart and verbally warn Lao Lei and Maniche.

However, at this time, Lao Lei did not care about the referee's warning, and he stared at Melchiot. The Dutch defender took advantage of the chaos just now to push Lao Lei fiercely, and scolded: "Get out, SOB!" This made his face imprinted directly in Lao Lei's mind. It has nothing to do with right or wrong, it's just that Lao Lei has never been a person who doesn't fight back and doesn't fight back.

After the referee walked away, Lao Lei turned directly to Melchiot.

Staring at him, his eyes filled with a cold, playful smile.

And Melchiot, who was also young and vigorous, did not show weakness at all, and glared back directly. At the same time, he was still muttering something obviously uncomfortable.

His action directly made the corners of Lao Lei's mouth hook up a trace of arc, a cold arc.

Lao Lei pointed at him, then raised his palm, and pointed his finger in the direction of his neck.

He waved left and right and made a throat-slitting salute.

The curvature of the corners of his mouth suddenly became a little bloodthirsty.

Directly pronounced the death sentence of Melchiot!! (To be continued......)