"Number 13, calm down! Did you hear that?! I need you to stay calm and don't make trouble for me, that is, don't trouble yourself. Perhaps because he felt that he was still intimidated by Lao Lei as a referee, after Materazzi was also pulled away, he pulled Lao Lei aside and said in a very serious and warning tone.

The tone in which he said this was so high that it had a kind of thorny and unpleasant feeling, and Lao Lei was naturally no exception. Fortunately, Lao Lei has not lost his mind at the moment, and he still knows that the referee on the field is inviolable, as long as he still wants to play. Although he would not pretend to be a good student and nod his head to accept it humbly, Lao Lei at least put on a cold face without any resistance, which made the referee unable to hold any pain.

Of course, this is just for show, and it is almost impossible to get him to give up his old suspicions and play a game with Materazzi that is an opponent and a friend. At this time, if there is a chance for Lao Lei to abolish Materazzi without any loss, then he will definitely have no one to carry out without any psychological burden.

In the eyes of some people, Lao Lei's behavior and thoughts may be hooligans, but in his own opinion, this is very normal, and this is his approach. Football is football, everything else is something else, if someone crosses the red line against themselves, then this person must be punished severely enough, this is Lao Lei's code of conduct. As for what other people would say about him afterwards, he didn't care at all, he always went his own way.

Because the game was followed by Italy's corner, the referee also deliberately spent some more time giving verbal warnings to Lao Lei and Materazzi, for fear that the two would take their words as a deaf ear. When he turned around, he immediately made trouble for him.

Regarding this, the referee still underestimated his authority on the pitch. and the ability of Ray and Materazzi to control their emotions. A bad guy or a bad boy wants to sit firmly in the main force in Haoqiang, except for the necessary ferocity. He also had to be rape enough. Because the kind of people who make trouble without caring about anything when their brains are hot, basically they don't even want a small club, let alone a strong team that has to compete for the championship every year. And this requires him to be treacherous, to know how to mix people's eyes and ears, how to escape the eyes of the referee, and even how to do the opponent under the rules.

Regarding these, although Materazzi and Lao Lei are not sure that they are not top masters, they are at least super-first-class. So. At this time when the referee's voice is so tight, the two will only be like good babies, and they will not make trouble at all. Of course, this does not mean that they reconcile and let go, but just look for a good time in the future, and then vent all their anger and dissatisfaction, and it is likely to be doubled.

After the game restarted, it was still Lao Lei who was targeting Materazzi in the Portuguese penalty area, but this time neither of them made any more moths. They all behaved like the most honest players, without any irregular movements. In the case that the two almost did not commit any crimes, in the end, the corner kick sent by Pirlo still found the Italian player. Totti grabbed the first spot at the front post. Completed a back-of-the-back header. But that kind of header was too difficult to shoot, and Totti didn't get it right this time, and the ball hit the ground and went straight wide of the near post. Flew out of the bottom line.

Even so, though. This did not prevent Lao Lei from once again raising the level of vigilance against Italy's set-piece attack to a new level. At this time, he also understood it completely. This Portugal team's aerial ball duel is its most fatal weakness, and it is the kind that can directly give up treatment, there is no way to treat it. In this regard, the only measure that Lao Lei can think of is to find a way to increase the success rate of passing and pass more safety, in order to expand Portugal's possession rate and reduce Italy's attacking opportunities.

Well, this is just a palliative solution, but this is indeed the most effective method that Lao Lei can come up with at the moment. Once you start chasing possession, you have to be conservative in your passing risk appetite, which will inevitably reduce Portugal's brilliance in attack, and thus elevate the game directly to the level of hypnotic comedy. For the fans, this is definitely bad news that couldn't have been worse. But Lao Lei can't manage so much at the moment, as an organizational core and brain, he must think more about the overall situation, from the perspective of the team and the game.

"God, it's still passing! Well, I'll admit that Portugal had a fantastic possession at this point and their occasional passes were really good, but oh my God, what about the shots, the goals?! You can't score a goal by passing! All I can say is that they are murdering my patience," one Brazilian commentator complained with so disappointment at the scene.

As a commentator in the perpetually popular attacking football country, some of the rather exaggerated sentences he uses in his words are understandable. But it should be noted that the commentators who are complaining about the boredom of the game at this time are by no means the only ones, maybe not so exaggerated, but what "extremely boring", "like a lullaby" and so on are definitely indispensable.

However, just when the fans began to share the same sentiments as these commentators, the players on the pitch might never agree with it. Because, at the moment, they still put all their energy and ability into the game, without the slightest price reduction, even if the scene of the game at this time looks like both sides are lazy.

This situation is like two masters in a high-level, mortal will never understand the duel of ideas, seemingly physical effort, in fact, both mentally and physically consumed very much. Regardless of whether the others agree or not, Lao Lei himself thinks so, from the position of an organizational core and brain.

At this point, he exerted much more energy than usual on every touch, pass, defending, and even running on his position. Since Portugal is not the kind of team that Barcelona has played ball control football since childhood, if you want to change the style of the entire Portuguese team to a more ball-possession and stable style, you need the core of Lao Lei to complete the overload task of driving the whole team with one person. It is no exaggeration to say. Lao Lei's CPU must have been overheated at this moment.

So, he's very busy right now. So busy that I almost forgot about Materazzi's. For example, in the 19th minute of the first half, due to Carvalho's mispassing. Lao Lei fell into the siege of Italy on the right side of the midfield. 'Kostiani was on my right flank, Ferreira didn't come up at the back, but Figo was in the drop-back position, right in front of him. There were two safe passing spots, but the passing lines were blocked by Totti and Perrotta. So, I can only press forward first. ”

After making up his mind, Lao Lei first crossed his shoulders and arms, and firmly stuck Gattuso behind him. Then, in the case of stepping on a football. Suddenly, the heel slammed back, allowing the ball to pass through Gattuso's crotch and behind him. Immediately, he turned and accelerated, trying to overtake Gattuso directly from outside the touchline. It wasn't an easy process, and Gattuso's route slot made Ray put more effort into it than originally expected. After resisting a dark elbow from Gattuso, he finally took the lead in controlling the football with his long legs. And took two steps forward.

However, this does not mean that Lao Lei has successfully broken through, on the contrary, he has entered the Italian encirclement more and more. Except for the three closest to him. At this time, almost all the Italian players in the middle and on the left were at his core, faintly forming an airtight encirclement. And their purpose is not to break the ball directly, but to force Lao Lei to make a mistake in passing. Or just kick the ball away so they can get the ball.

For this. Lao Lei also knew it very well in his heart. The reason why he chose to do this is naturally that he feels that this is the best way to resolve this encirclement. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so stupid as to drill into the trap. It's just that the success of this path is too difficult, and Rao is Lao Lei also feels the same way at this time.

How difficult it was, so big that he felt that he had completely mobilized all his brain cells at this point, leaving no room for anything. In Ray's career so far, this is quite rare. Facing Perrotta, who pounced on him, Lao Lei directly made a realistic right-footed smash feint, which immediately caused Perrotta's body to shake, which was a key step in his subsequent series of difficult ball handling.

"There's a gap, pass along the line, the angle is 5 degrees, the power is moderate. After passing the ball, he cut forward at an angle of 30 degrees to attract Totti's attention and receive Figo's return pass. Seeing that his passing route had appeared, Lao Lei did not hesitate, after stepping over the football with his right foot, his left foot immediately followed behind his right foot, and rubbed the football up with a difficult juggling action of flower arrangement.

It's not that Old Ray deliberately wants to perform, but it's really the only passing option he can think of at this time to play Gattuso and Perrotta. At the same time, it was a very difficult pass. Not to mention that it is not easy for him to pass it out, and because he is too close to the sideline at this time, after the football is rubbed, it is likely to go directly out of the bottom line.

Fortunately, Lao Lei succeeded this time. After the ball looked past Perrotta's remedial left foot, it finally narrowly reached the feet of Figo behind Perrotta. At this time, although Perrotta did not see the strange flight of the football at all, he immediately raised his hand firmly to protest against the linesman, and the football had already flown out of the sideline in mid-air. The idea is good, but it's a pity that he stretched his neck like a swan, and looked at Lao Lei's pass carefully and carefully as a linesman, and didn't agree with his idea. At least in the eyes of the linesman, Lao Lei's pass did fly to Figo's feet in mid-air against the sideline.

"Good, Totti is up. Well, the angle is running bigger, it's okay if it's not enough, and it's still within the fault tolerance range. After following the predetermined running route diagonally forward and getting Figo's backshot, this conclusion was immediately in the mind of the elder Ray. Although Figo's pass was due to Grosso's interference, his pass was deviated, but fortunately, this was still within the scope of Lao Lei's fault, and it did not affect Lao Lei's next pass, and the pass that broke through directly.

"Diagonally back 25 degrees, Kostiani, I love you to death, old man, it didn't disappoint me." After the afterglow saw Kostiani run to the position he had envisioned, Lao Lei, who had just received the ball, immediately made a move. After his right foot was too high to give way to the football, he slammed his heel hard, and the ball passed through the gap between Totti and Gattuso as Ray had expected, and came to Kostiani's feet. Although Gattuso's toe touched the ball slightly, the ball still came to Kostiani's feet without danger due to the fact that Lao Lei deliberately strengthened the insurance.

Since then, this tight encirclement set up by Italy has been completely broken by Lao Lei, and the ball is still firmly in Portugal's hands. Some people may think that Lao Lei did this time, it was too thankless, and there was no need for such trouble, even if he gave Italy the ball once, it should not cause any major problems. This idea is wrong, Lao Lei is so laborious this time, not just for this success.

One of the most important aspects of the success of the so-called possession tactics is to undermine the confidence and motivation of the opponent. So how should it be combated, this starts from destroying the opponent's tight clamping and grabbing again and again, and the tighter the destruction of the encirclement, the more effective it is, just like Lao Lei this time.

In such a process, any long pass with a big foot or handling the ball at will add confidence and motivation to the opponent's closing scramble. Therefore, in order to stabilize and increase the possession, especially in a situation where the demand for possession is very high like Portugal at the moment, the more you face a tight encirclement of this intensity, the easier it is to deal with it. This is the purpose of Lao Lei's efforts this time, for the long-term plan of the future game.

However, success is success, and Lao Lei is indeed tired. Don't look at these few strokes, it doesn't take much effort, but it is more in mental consumption. By the time Ray passed the football to Kostiani, his brain was already covered with white sweat. And, before he could breathe a sigh of relief, slow down, and immediately run and be ready to pick up the football, which is his most important task as the heart of Portugal at the moment.

Fortunately, Lao Lei is a person who is excited because of difficulties, otherwise, under such great pressure, he may not be able to persevere now.

In the face of such a fierce battle, this is the luck of Lao Lei and the luck of Portugal.

At the same time, of course, it is also a misfortune for Italy.

At this time, Lao Lei was like a microwave oven, although he looked calm, the blood in his body was actually boiling hot.

His eyes were full of light, too.

Blazing!

Fiery!! (To be continued......)