Volume 1 Chapter 286 Breaking the Game

It was Ronaldinho's first appearance in the Champions League, and what he didn't expect was that he would reach the final of his first Champions League appearance, something he hadn't imagined since choosing to join Chelsea.

When he chose to leave Paris Saint-Germain, he was indeed unhappy in Ligue 1, because he felt that Ligue 1 could no longer meet his desire and need for improvement, and he was not motivated to play in Ligue 1, especially in the season after the World Cup, he did not perform very well, just because of lack of motivation and excitement.

He wanted to go to a higher stage, to a better team, to find a more suitable space and platform for his own play, to find a more motivating force to stimulate his progress, so he set himself the goal at that time, from Manchester United to Real Madrid to Barcelona, all the teams he was interested in were giants.

And even if he ends up coming to Chelsea, although this team is not a giant, the goals and ideas elaborated on by head coach Ye Qiu in the phone call to him, as well as all the news he heard about Chelsea, give him a feeling that this team is very ambitious, and they can participate in the Champions League.

Manchester United is obviously using procrastination to negotiate the transfer fee, Real Madrid wants him to stay for another season, Barcelona has no clear offer for the time being, only Chelsea seems to be very sincere, and Ye Qiu personally called him, so in the end, he chose Chelsea, and even now, this choice he feels is the wisest choice in his life.

During his year at Chelsea, he has improved significantly, his body has become stronger and more adaptable to the Premier League without affecting the pace and frequency of his feet, he has become the heart of the team's attacking attack, and he has repeatedly opened up the situation for the team's stalemate attack, which has made him conquer the fans even after only one year at Chelsea.

Ye Qiu trusted him, and after arriving in London, his brother Assis licensed his portrait management rights to Eliza Moon's agency, allowing them to promote and operate in the world, and Chelsea also operated with him as the leading star, all of which made him famous.

What catapulted his reputation even more was his and Chelsea's outstanding performances on the pitch, winning the Premier League title in an unbeaten season and reaching the Champions League final with a momentum that made Chelsea look unstoppable, and Ronaldinho's own performance was the pinnacle of his life.

Even, a lot of people are telling him that all he needs is a crucial final of his own

It's like Ronaldo's in the final of the Korea-Japan World Cup, he needs a game like that

But just before the game, Ye Qiu found him to talk to him and said the same thing to him repeatedly, that is, the more important the moment, the more calm and rational he should be, the more he should judge the situation clearly, and not mess with himself.

The same thing he once heard from Scolari, from some famous seniors who cared about him, and from his teammates after being sent off for a red card in the Korea-Japan World Cup, and he himself has suffered and tasted lessons, so he believes in it.

From the very beginning of the game, he kept reminding himself to be patient, to play when he has the opportunity, not to stick to the ball too much, to follow the trend and ensure that the team's overall tactics achieve strategic goals.

Sure enough, with Chelsea's steady style of play, Porto was gradually worn out of sharpness and gradually lost patience, especially when Ye Qiu walked to the sidelines and conveyed a positive and obvious signal to all the players and sounded the horn of the counterattack, the calmer he became, and he was still patiently waiting for the opportunity.

Even, after a direct confrontation with Ferreira, Ronaldinho laughed and sarcastically teased Ferreira, "I promised Douglas McCone, I will weigh how much you have for him"

If part of the grievances between Ye Qiu and Mourinho come from UEFA's season and annual awards, then almost all the grievances between McCone and Ferreira come from these two awards, because McConn, who won the treble with Ye Qiu at that time, was pressed down by Ferreira, who won the League Cup, and lost the best of the season, and the Brazilian is obviously angry.

Therefore, before the game, Ronaldinho joked that he would definitely torture Ferreira for his fellow Brazilian teammates to see if he was really the best right-back in Europe.

However, we have to admit that Porto's defensive system is very tight, and Ferreira is not very fast, but he has a strong sense of position, and his sense of coordination and dedication on the pitch are excellent, ensuring that he can at least ensure that he does not make mistakes on the right side of the field.

Sometimes a defender is like that, you can't guarantee that you won't give the opponent any chance for the whole game, that's something that no defender can guarantee, but a good defender can do it, and I make you very depressed and very uncomfortable for the whole game, and you can't play the game normally, that's fine

Ferreira is undoubtedly one of those players, very peachy, very durable and very well-rounded.

But it's clear that this time he's met a freewheeling genius

McCone quickly dribbled forward along the right side, the Brazilian right-back was very energetic in this game, after the team pressed the attack, his right side became the main direction of Chelsea's attack, plus Ronaldinho is very tacit to stay on the left side of the penalty area to echo, for McCone to interfere with the defensive pressure, so his performance is very active.

In the right-hand corner of the box, McCone was on the verge of making a quick stop to cross, but it was suddenly distributed to Frank Lampard at the edge of the box.

Maniche always followed Lampard, and Mourinho kept reminding them before the game that they must pay attention to Chelsea's interspersed attacks on both sides of the defence, so when he saw Frank Lampard inserted, he also quickly followed in, while Carvalho blocked in front of Lampard in advance, blocking the opportunity for England's magic lamp to get the ball into the penalty area.

For this set of defensive tactics, Porto has been practicing for more than ten days before the game, and the focus is to restrain Lampard's back-up attack, because all teams that play Chelsea know that Lampard's back-up attack has become one of Chelsea's most important scoring methods, and if you can't stop this move, you can't withstand Chelsea's attack at all.

But Lampard was quick enough to see players next to him and in front of him, he immediately turned and blocked Maniche with his back, Carvalho with his arms and knocked the ball back to Deco behind him.

Deco is a very smart, intelligent player, and even though he is very low-key, when he gets on the pitch, he always keeps a clear head, knows what he needs to do, and he always keeps the right distance from his team-mates in front of him, where he needs to be there most.

Deco's response was like a rain after a long drought, but the Portuguese midfielder was facing the incoming ball, but he held his head up, and he noticed that Drogba carried Jorge Costa with his body, and Carvalho was a little more distant from Jorge Costa because of blocking Lampard's relationship, and Costinha was ready to push himself.

All the signs were reflected in his mind in an instant, giving him a very clear vein, that is, as long as the ball was passed between Maniche and Costinha into the box, Drogba could form a one-on-one shot.

What is Deco's ability, Carvalho knows better than anyone else, the central defender is not tall, but he is very flexible and has good speed, but the most important thing is his awareness, when he saw Lampard knock back to Deco, his mind immediately came to mind the hole next to him, and he also blocked it to the left for the first time.

So when Deco's through ball passed through Costinia and Maniche and wanted to go straight to the penalty area, Carvalho just stretched out his right foot and blocked the ball.

The fans of both teams in the stands were shocked by this scene in a cold sweat and exclaimed.

And Carvalho's block blocked the ball to the left, and Jorge Costa, who was blocked by Drogba, also raised his foot and wanted to clear the ball as soon as possible, but this kick was also cleared because of the hurry, coupled with the speed of the ball, it did not hit the right part, and the ball fell to the left corner of the penalty area.

Ronaldinho stopped the ball in the left corner of the penalty area as if he was striding out, and Ferreira wanted to plug the leak, but at this time he quickly returned to his defensive position and blocked Ronaldinho's route.

But the Brazilian had a smile on his face, revealing the fierce teeth that Ferreira saw as extremely ugly, and knocked lightly after receiving the ball, as if he was going to break forward and go directly into the penalty area, and this road is also very dangerous, because at this time Drogba and Lampard are in the penalty area, if he really breaks through, a direct cross will be very fatal.

Therefore, Ferreira chose to block the route of the bottom for the first time to prevent the Brazilian from breaking through, so he also measured his speed, paid attention to keeping his distance, and let himself retreat into the penalty line.

But at this time, Ronaldinho suddenly buckled the ball to the right side, and along the line of the penalty area, from the original bottom to a horizontal inward cut, this sudden change made Ferreira a little unresponsive, not only him, but even Jorge Costa, who was defending Drogba just now, reacted immediately, quickly shook off Drogba and rushed up.

The two met at the top of the arc and the penalty area line junction area, and Ronaldinho made an obvious feint to stop the goal, deceiving Jorge Costa to raise his left foot to block, but what he didn't expect was that Ronaldinho didn't show any signs of hitting the goal, but quickly took two steps along the big penalty area line.

These two steps fully reflect Ronaldinho's skills and vision, because these two steps just put him outside the bag area of Jorge Costa, who reacted, and Costigna, who retreated into place, and if he took an extra step or a little less, he would not have the opportunity and route to hit the goal.

And Ronaldinho only took two steps, he saw the opportunity, directly picked up his right foot without hesitation, and hit a kick to roll the ball, this kick is also very smart, rebounding after landing before goalkeeper Baia, and Baia even made a flying save, but because of the ball rebound, he finally failed to prevent the ball from going into the net

“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

At the same time as the on-site commentator shouted the shout of the goal, Ronaldinho quickly rushed out of the stadium, quickly rushed to the stands where the Chelsea fans and his family were, and kept putting his hands to his mouth along the way, making a flying kiss movement, the whole person looked very excited, and rushed directly to the sidelines.

"In the 38th minute, oh my God, in the 38th minute, Chelsea finally broke the deadlock first, when Brazilian superstar Ronaldinho, after cutting inside with the ball on the left side, shook off three Porto defenders in succession, and shot through Porto's goal with a boccia ball that almost hung into the corner outside the penalty area"

"A very, very wonderful shot, Ronaldinho from receiving the ball to cutting inside, the whole process was smooth and hearty, without the slightest pause, as if with a unique rhythm, it didn't look like he was kicking, but more like dancing, dancing their Brazilian samba"

The whole process of Ronaldinho's goal was constantly replayed on live TV and on the big screen, but all the fans in the stadium obviously didn't have the heart to watch it, because they were either ecstatic, it was a Chelsea fan, or they were hit hard, it was a Porto fan.

"From the slow motion we can see that Chelsea's attacking changes are indeed very unexpected, first through McCone on the right to create an attack, Lampard knocked back, Deco wanted to go straight behind him, but Carvalho defused this attack, but cleared the ball to the left, Ronaldinho faced Ferreira one-on-one, easily past the Portuguese right-back, Kim then went past Jorge Costa and the retreating Kostigna, and hit the goal at the very least"

'Porto's defence was constantly mobilized by Chelsea's attack, and finally revealed a fatal flaw, and we can even imagine that if the ball did not fall to the left, Davies, who was inserted in the middle of the middle, would also quickly form a second echelon attack, and the Dutchman's long-range footwork and crosshairs were also very surprising.

The Chelsea players gathered on the sidelines, and even goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar at the back rushed to the front and hugged his team-mates tightly, and everyone looked ecstatic as they finally pried open the Porto goal.

"Douglas, I'm telling you, it's too easy to get past him, he's nowhere near as good as you," Ronaldinho said with a smile as he grinned and gave him a gentle punch in the chest.

'The situation has become very unfavourable for Porto, they were already inferior in terms of quality, and now that Chelsea have broken the deadlock, there are fewer and fewer opportunities left for Porto, at least Mourinho has no way to continue to play counter-attacking because he has to think about how to attack and equalize'

Ye Qiu is obviously confident about this situation, he knows very well that with Chelsea's attacking power, as long as Porto's morale declines and the player's mentality is relaxed, he will definitely have a chance to score, and in fact, the team did not disappoint him, Ronaldinho's goal is very beautiful.

But it was the result of teamwork, only the last one to shine was Ronaldinho

Ye Qiu was very happy after the team scored, turned around and kept high-five his assistants to celebrate, but when the players returned to the court, Ye Qiu walked to the sidelines and kept making a move to continue pressing forward against the players.

"It can be seen that Ye Qiu is now showing a clear attitude, and he wants to take advantage of the critical moment when Porto has just conceded a goal and morale is low, and further form a strong offensive blow to Porto, presumably hoping to directly lay down the situation in the first half."

Mourinho also seems to be very worried about such a situation, so he kept shouting players on the sidelines, asking all the Porto players to stabilize the situation, quickly retreat to defend, be sure to stabilize the defensive formation, and not let Chelsea chase after the victory, otherwise, the Porto game will really be over.

As a result, in the last few minutes, Chelsea kept attacking, and Porto was beaten very embarrassed and had to take a rigid posture, and even their striker Delle retreated to the midfield to defend, which shows how much pressure Chelsea's attack has brought to Porto.

But Porto's defense is indeed tough enough, no matter how Chelsea attack, when they adopt a stubborn posture, Chelsea will also be difficult to break Porto's position for a while and a half, although they have created a lot of chances, but they have never got a great chance to score, and finally failed to further expand the score.

The score of 0 was also maintained until halftime

However, in the last ten minutes of stoppage time, Chelsea's attack ignited the enthusiasm of the Blues fans in the stands, especially when Chelsea scored, all the Blues fans who went to the Schalke Stadium were obviously crazy, singing and cheering without stopping, making people feel the madness of the Blues fans.

Especially when the Danish referee Nelson blew the whistle for the end of the first half, the Chelsea fans rose from their seats in unison to greet the players off the pitch in heroic fashion and sent them into the tunnel with a loud applause.

"The situation of 0l behind in the first half is very unfavorable for Porto, their strength itself is not dominant, the field and the score are behind, you can predict it, in the second half they will play more passively, but it is not completely without opportunities, if Mourinho can adjust the team in the second half and make effective changes, maybe it can turn the situation around, after all, it is only behind the L goal, anything can happen."

"For Chelsea, whether Ye Qiu will choose to continue the offensive in the first half in the second half and continue to chase Porto in the second half, or follow the strategy of the first half and adopt a more patient tactical style of play, this is undoubtedly a possible choice, but the situation has obviously fallen to Chelsea's side."