Chapter 190: Mourinho's pragmatism
With a shot covering his eyes, Old Ray naturally won Alberto's admiration. Young people like to be in the limelight, and Alberto has to admit that Lao Lei's shooting style is indeed cooler. And for the Nationals, this goal is already a way to get their collective soul out of the body. In the opening 20 minutes, they were scored three goals in a row, including an eye-covering and humiliating shot, which was a huge blow for them. With that mentality, Porto managed to score another goal for the rest of the first half. In the first half, Alberto received a pass from Lao Lei, and immediately shook off the inattentive central defender of the national team, successfully countered offside, and scored a single knife to expand the score to 4:0.
When the midfield left, almost all the Nationals players entered the players' tunnel with their heads hanging weakly, and everyone could see that the team's fighting spirit had been lost in this game. The atmosphere at the Stadio d'Aragonus was very enthusiastic, and it was another gift from the Porto team, a hearty victory. But they didn't know that the hero who had brought them victory and joy at this time was being reprimanded by Mourinho. Alberto and Lao Lei were in the dressing room, with their heads down, obediently accepting Mourinho's criticism, not daring to refute a word.
What they were reprimanded for was the way the two of them handled the ball on a couple of occasions in the first half. In the view of the pragmatist Mourinho, he should shoot well when it is time to shoot, what kind of football into the goal, or play fancy football like Lao Lei with his eyes on goal. None of this is to be condoned. Even if it is a goal, it is not allowed. Jose Mourinho will not allow such a culture to develop in his team. This time, Lao Lei and Alberto's cousin Xiàn happened to be caught by Mourinho. Two people who know Mourinho's philosophy and ideas. also knew that he had just hit the muzzle, so he became an obedient baby.
In short, no matter what, Lao Lei was replaced at the beginning of the second half. Porto fans also know that this is a time to save for the game against Bayern Munich in three days' time. In view of Lao Lei's excellent performance in this game, Porto fans gave him a standing ovation and praised Lao Lei. Lao Lei also raised his hands and applauded, saluting the Porto fans around him. After coming to the bench, Lao Lei also sat down quietly and watched the game. In this game, Lao Lei's goals have been achieved. The anger that faced the national team before was finally vented in this game.
The final score of this game was fixed at 6:0. After Lao Lei went down, the situation of Porto suppressing the national team did not change. 6:0 A massacre, Porto is such a game, avenging the grudge between the two teams last time they met. At the same time, this big win also became the game that Porto used to sacrifice the flag before the second leg of the match with Bayern Munich.
After the game, the Portuguese media were all in a tone of exclamation, to express the fact that Porto were the giants and unscrupulous in the Portuguese Super League revealed later in this game. At the same time, they all expressed their support for Porto to successfully eliminate Bayern. After all, Porto has become the only seedling of the Portuguese Super League in Europe at this time. There are a lot of Portuguese footballers who want Porto to do well in the Champions League. It's about the face of the Portuguese Super League as a whole, Portuguese football, and I don't know how long it's been since I've seen a Portuguese Super League team advance to the last 8 of the Champions League.
About the second leg of the battle between the two teams. Although Bayern still insists that they can complete a comeback at the Dragon Stadium and enter the last 8 of the Champions League. But I'm afraid that apart from Bayern's valued fans, not many people will still have hope for Bayern's promotion. Even the bookmakers. It was also after the first game that the odds for Porto to advance were urgently lowered.
At this time, the outside world is full of voices that are optimistic about Porto's promotion. This somewhat made Porto's players a little fluttery. After all, this is Bayern Munich, the top European giant. Being able to eliminate them made this group of Porto players, who had been almost unknown before, very proud in their hearts. But fortunately, it was this little hairy head, which was discovered by Mourinho in time. directly used the reason that the whole team was not serious in training, and all the players in the team were punished by Mourinho.
While running, Mourinho stood on the side of the pitch and took a megaphone and shouted: "I know that in your hearts now, the proud little tail is already cocked." But what I want to tell you is that you are still worthless. Bayern can knock us out with a 2:1. Do you think this is such an unthinkable thing? Yes! I can tell you responsibly that as long as you are eliminated by Bayern, no one will sing the praises like this again. You're going to be the mud you can't hold up to the wall in the eyes of others, hillbillies. So before officially eliminating Bayern, hang your little tails. Otherwise, don't blame us for being polite. ”
Lao Lei felt the most innocent among the Porto players, and it was almost a bolt from the blue for him. He didn't have any idea of underestimating the enemy, and Bayern's decisive counterattack in the second half has always been deeply in his mind. However, looking at Mourinho's posture, he also knew that he would definitely not be able to escape, how could he convince the public without punishing himself, the core of Porto. Lao Lei thought to himself, yes, even if I am practicing physical fitness, after my ears automatically filtered Mourinho's words of training, I honestly ran in circles. After Mourinho's motion to kill the baton, it did have an effect. The Porto players sometimes returned to their old mentality, and seeing the result, Mourinho nodded and cancelled the temporary three-in-a-day training session.
When Porto was seriously preparing for the game, Bayern also took a special plane to Porto the day after the match between Porto and the national team. In an interview with the media, although all the generals under his command expressed their belief in victory, Heathfield praised Porto in front of the media. "Our aim in this game is to give the fans a good game", "Porto are a very good game, they deserve a place in the quarter-finals", a series of soft words, almost the reporters on the scene wondered if this was a fake Heathfield.
The old coach Heathfield can be regarded as open this time, and such psychological tactics have also been taken out, hoping to increase Bayern's hope of victory. However, Mourinho didn't take the bait at all, and in the face of the reporters who came to interview, he directly sent all the reporters with a fluttering "he is very discerning". If it weren't for Mourinho's killing, Heathfield's words might indeed have an impact on the Porto players, but what he didn't expect was that Mourinho had already given Porto a preventive shot and strangled the hidden danger in the cradle.
The day of the game was fast approaching, and the starting line-ups for both sides had already been confirmed an hour before the game. Compared to Bayern, which has replaced Lizarazu with Salihamidzic, Porto's starting lineup has undergone a major operation. Jose Mourinho unexpectedly fielded a 4-3-1-2 formation that looked like a counter-attack. In the midfield position, in addition to Lao Lei and Kostiani, Maniche who had made cameos in the Portuguese national team and Porto also played the midfield position again in this game. He and Kostiani are separated from the left and right sides of Old Ray, with Old Ray in the middle. Up front, Jose Mourinho boldly gave up two wingers, leaving a striker Deco and two strikers McCarthy and Alberto. Such a formation is almost pointing at Heathfield's nose and telling him that Lao Tzu is going to play defensive counterattacks today.
Seeing such a formation, Heathfield could only shake his head helplessly. At the same time, I also have a little appreciation for Mourinho's decisive change of formation, not fascinated by the previous victory, and chose a path that looks a little boring and ugly, but is the safest path to victory. In the face of such Porto, Bayern has only one choice, go all out. Heathfield, who has watched many videos of Porto's games, has no doubts about Porto's counter-attacking ability, and such a situation is very unfavorable to Bayern. But Bayern can only play according to Mourinho's script, after all, the initiative is in the hands of the opponent. Heathfield is just hoping that Bayern can score a goal in their best hands, and in that case they may be able to give Bayern a chance to live.
However, Porto's defence, which is focused on defending and counter-attacking, is not so easy to crack. Especially next to the two backs who are already very difficult in themselves, Lao Lei and Kostiani, and the addition of a man with excellent defensive ability, such a three-back combination will undoubtedly make Porto's defense more stable. It is no exaggeration to say that the three-back barrier composed of Lao Lei is the most outstanding back waist match in the entire Portugal with offensive and defensive capabilities. With the exception of Porto, only the Portuguese national team may be able to complete such a combination. Considering the current composition of the Portuguese national team, Bayern now has the perfect combination of the Portuguese national team's midfield and backfield.
With the referee's whistle, the second leg of the Champions League 1/8 knockout round, the match between Porto and Bayern officially began. Ballack, after winning the ball, looked at the dense Porto defence. Taking a deep breath and in the mood of a decisive battle, he took the ball to the front.
The blue and white wall in front of him became the biggest obstacle that Bayern had to cross first.
The situation became very clear from the beginning of the game, and the solid blue and white wall firmly blocked the wave of white attacks of Bayern in the away white jersey outside the blue and white wall. (To be continued......)