In the few days after the successful reconciliation with Kayla, Lao Lei and Kayla were completely glued together, and they had a good time mixing oil in honey. However, such happy days did not last long, Kayla was about to go back to continue filming, and Lao Lei also had to train and prepare for the upcoming restart of the league. After kissing Kayla goodbye and putting her on the plane, Ray returned to his solitary days again. Fortunately, the league is about to restart, and Lao Lei will not feel like he has nothing to do.

On January 10, 2004, Porto started their first league game after the winter break, going away to face Leiria's old club. Facing the old master, Lao Lei broke through the opponent's door in only the 6th minute after the opening. Lao Lei stepped forward to the front, and after a series of collisions with Maniche and Deco, he came to the edge of the penalty area. Immediately afterwards, a shot hit the goal, and the football went straight into the corner to open the door to Leiria. As usual, Lao Lei still didn't choose to celebrate, and his feelings for Leiria were always in his heart.

However, it is worth mentioning that there were not many Leiria fans in the stands of the Magalhayes Stadium for this game, and the attendance rate was only 20%. I don't know if I don't want to see the team play a game that is destined to lose, or I don't want to see Lao Lei break through the door of his team again, in short, in the first two seasons, the Magalhayes Stadium, which is known as the home of the devil, has completely declined with extraordinary speed. In fact, this Leiria team is completely different from the Leiria team of the previous two years, from the manager to the players. Lao Lei inevitably felt a little emotional in the face of such Leiria. The magical Leiria that he participated in creating is gone forever and has completely relegated itself to history.

Ultimately. Porto got off to a good start to the second half of the season with a hearty 3-0 win away from home. With this momentum. Porto began their first winning streak in the second half of the season. First of all, Porto need to go to the Real Mata Stadium to challenge Ferreira. In the face of Ferreira, Porto, who played with the main lineup, once again showed a dominance beyond the level of the Portuguese Super League. The whole game was firmly in the hands of Lao Lei and Porto, and Ferreira's counterattack was like a pebble thrown into the sea, and it did not make much waves. On the road, Maniche and Deco scored one goal each, while Lao Lei provided two assists in the game to help Porto beat Ferreira on the road.

It is worth mentioning. In the 54th minute of the second half, Lao Lei sent a long-distance straight plug of nearly 55 meters, allowing Maniche to hit the entire Ferreira defense directly behind the entire Ferreira defense and scored a goal. After sending this pass, Lao Lei was also very satisfied, he knew that this meant that his passing skills had once again risen a step in the process of causing qualitative changes from quantitative changes. Lao Lei was very happy, because he knew how much effort he had put in to get the promotion. It's still in his mind. I still can't forget what it was like to be like those demons who were like a hill when they bumped into me.

This pass was also unanimously praised by the Portuguese media after the game, saying that Lao Lei had already received a true pass from Rui Costa. At the same time, the media also threw out a point of view. "Portuguese", Porto's one-man "Portuguese League". In addition to the period when Lao Lei deliberately stepped on the red card and was banned, Porto's results in the Portuguese Super League fluctuated for a while. It's all terrible.

With the title of "Portuguese", Porto returned to their home turf. Meet the challenge of Benfica. Benfica are probably the only ones who can challenge Porto this season, but this challenge may only be a formal threat. There is no real threat. Although before the game, Camacho and Benfica's captain Simão still refused to admit defeat verbally, and still emphasized in front of the media that Benfica could overtake Porto and win the league title at the end of the season.

However, the expression of the facts confirms the correctness of the word "Portuguese". In front of Porto, Benfica is lagging behind in all aspects, although Benfica's players are still working very hard, but it has not had a great effect. After such a long run-in, this Porto team has completely reached the highest level in the run-in of the lineup, and there is no doubt that this Porto team has come to its peak.

In the 30th minute of the first half, Benfica struggled to hold on for half an hour before their defence was finally broken down by Porto. After Lao Lei received Deco's ball on the left side of the penalty area, he directly rubbed the outside of his right foot and rubbed the football into the penalty area and arrived in front of the goal. An outside arc made Benfica's goalkeeper very uncomfortable and could not choose to attack. And Lao Lei's pass also accurately found McCarthy in front of the goal, McCarthy's header was a little, and Benfica's goalkeeper had no time to react, so he could only watch the header go into the net.

In terms of Porto's current dominance in the Portuguese Super League, whoever gives it the lead will find it difficult to turn it back again, and Benfica is of course among them. After taking the lead, Porto reverted to their usual way of controlling the ball, controlling the tempo of the game with non-stop passing, luring Benfica into attacking.

However, Benfica also held their breath and did not start to press out until the 60th minute of the second half. In the previous game time, Porto did not have any recklessness in the attack, and once it didn't work, they decisively passed back and reorganized, and played very calmly. Seeing such Porto, Mourinho nodded approvingly, compared to Porto's passionate games, Mourinho undoubtedly prefers the current situation and style of play in Porto. Calm and moderate, is what a team with championship contention looks like.

In the 65th minute of the second half, although the score on the field remained unchanged, Benfica could only helplessly attack with all their might, and Porto was waiting for such an opportunity. Lao Lei and Maniche immediately started to launch a counter-attack on the spot after cutting off the football at the feet of Benfica's backfield players on the previous occasion. Lao Lei made a straight kick through the two Benfica defenders and gave it to the feet of Deco, who stepped forward into the box. Deco faced Benfica's goalkeeper and smashed Benfica's door again with a light pick.

After 2:0, the overall situation of this game is also decided. In the following game time, although Simão scored a goal to pull back a point in the final stages of the game, it was already in the overall situation. In the end, Porto won Benfica with a score of 2:1 at home and managed to get three points. And after this game, the gap between Porto and Benfica has also widened to 7 points. After the game, the Portuguese media also had to sigh again that this season's championship is the most suspenseless in recent years.

After a successful win over Benfica, Porto continued their winning streak in the Portuguese Super League. After the match against Benfica, Porto won five league games in a row, and after the winter break, they managed to play a wave of seven consecutive wins. This also allowed Porto to continue to widen the gap between them and Benfica in the standings, extending the gap to 11 points.

After winning Maritimo 3:1, Porto also had to temporarily end the task of the league, because the 1/16 knockout round of the Champions League is about to begin. Porto, who are the top of Group F, will have a more favorable schedule against Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich. After the league match with Maritimo, the whole Porto team did not return to Porto, but flew to Munich, Germany, non-stop to prepare for the match against Bayern.

After their plane arrived, they were interviewed by the local media in Munich. On the Bayern side, they secretly rejoiced that they could draw Porto. In this season's Champions League, there are three teams who are considered to be the most favoured finishers in the group: Lyon, Monaco and Porto. Although Bayern is still the big brother of the Bundesliga in the league this season, considering the decline in the strength of the German national team in recent years, the competitiveness of German teams in the Champions League is also declining, including Bayern, of course. This can be seen from this season's Champions League group stage, Bayern can only be relegated to Lyon in Group A, and the second place can be seen from the table xiàn.

You must know that the other two teams in the group are Celtic and Anderlecht, in such a group, can only finish second, this result is not reasonable for Bayern in any way. Bayern also won the Bundesliga and the German Cup in Germany last season, but in last season's Champions League, they could not even qualify for the first round of the group stage. The weakness in the Champions League this season has once again made the German media even louder in their accusations against Bayern. Because Bayern's domestic transfers are often known for poaching the main force of competitors, and it is difficult for German players to refuse Bayern's invitation, it is often caused by the phenomenon that some Bundesliga teams beat Bayern in one season to win the championship and then decline immediately the next season. Ballack's move from Bayer Leverkusen to Bayern Munich in the summer of '02 is the most recent example. This has caused Bayern to be extremely unpopular in other parts of Germany, and some people even directly blame the main reason for the decline in the competitiveness of the Bundesliga on Bayern, which can only be in the nest.

However, after entering the knockout round and meeting Porto, Bayern's superiority as a giant was once again shown. Even if Porto is significantly better than Bayern in the group stage, the media in Munich can still come up with a lot of reasons to prove that Bayern's winning side is still much higher than Porto's, what knockout experience, Heathfield's experience, Bayern's heritage and so on.

For these giants, regardless of the actual situation, and groundless pride, Lao Lei has always been the most unacceptable. So when the media in Munich asked him, "Do you have the confidence to beat Bayern", Lao Lei answered him directly.

"Confidence? Bayern, who couldn't even make it to the second round of the group stage last season? Of course we have. (To be continued......)