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Chapter 88

Continuously overthrowing their most direct competitors in the league, the Porto team has left behind their former opponents at the initial stage of the league. Their crazy offensive tide has flooded all opponents in the Portuguese Super League, and the rest is just A mess after they ravaged.

Benfica, Sporting Lisbon, these once-equal opponents have been defeated by the Porto people, and the gap has been opened up by six points in five games. The trip is off to a good start.

With five consecutive victories, the Porto team entered the European competition with such a cool league record, and according to the Portuguese media, God took care of them, although there are giants like Real Madrid in Group F , but Porto's first game is against Partizan Belgrade.

Although it is an away game, all the Portuguese treat this game with an optimistic attitude, especially after the Porto team won the UEFA Cup. This kind of competitor in the second and third tier European leagues has not been favored by too many Porto people. Put it in your eyes.

This is a Serbian club with a typical former Yugoslav style. Although they do not have a shining past like the Belgrade Red Star, their record this year is obviously better than that of their former big brother, but for the Portuguese media, this is all. not a problem.

Who is the Porto team?The UEFA Cup champion last year, what an awesome name, this name alone can bluff many clubs in the second-tier European leagues. Could it be won by a small Belgrade Partizan?Are you kidding me!
Before the Porto team set off from Portugal, those media reporters who sang praises may have already written their articles. Maybe they just waited for the score of this game to come out, and then filled in the blanks and then they can directly deal with it. At least in their view Come on, there will be no surprises in this game.

Their European champions are now going to conquer the Champions League, and a team like Belgrade is only their first casualty.

Maybe in the former Southern region team that is very strange to them, only one person's name can be regarded as a big name, but it is just in the past tense.

Mateus, the only guy in the Belgrade Guerrillas is considered a big name, but he is not the absolute leader who once led the team to win the World Cup in Italy, he is just a famous player who has just turned into a coach novice.

Although Mourinho was also a novice a year ago, he now has the UEFA Cup title on his head, and Lothar Mateus can only be regarded as a student now. Anyway, Portuguese fans love The German had nothing to fear.

Perhaps it was the strong performance of the Porto team in the UEFA Cup last season that gave these Portuguese such strong confidence, and the perfect start of this season also made too many people regard winning the game as a kind of inertial thinking. Few people are not used to watching Porto lose.

At least in their view, in Group F, only absolute giants like Real Madrid can pose enough threats to Porto. Teams like Marseille and Partizan Belgrade are at best Porto's chances of advancing to the next round. stepping stone.

In the eyes of these people, the European second-tier league teams are no longer a problem for the Porto team to overcome. Now the Portuguese have to consider how to overthrow those absolute giants, such as Real Madrid in the same group, or Some other wealthy clubs.

This sentiment is not only spreading among the media and fans, even the players of the Porto team have begun to dream of winning the game away from home.

Even Deco, who has always been modest, has begun to become a little arrogant in front of the camera under the crazy pursuit of the media. He even said very directly in an interview with the Spanish media: "If it is one-on-one with Zidane I am confident that I can beat him on the court."

The commanders of the team have already started to become a little bit unconscious. Can you expect anyone in the Porto team to calm down now?
Dalley and McCarthy even said when facing the camera that they will definitely score as many goals as possible in the Champions League. Dalley hopes that after winning the UEFA Cup top scorer, You can also have a good time in the Champions League.

Now the only ones in the Porto team who can keep a calm mind are the kid Lin Yi and the uncle Mourinho. It's just that Lin Yi doesn't know if he can play, so he doesn't need to say What rhetoric.

"I don't need to say anything about the game that didn't start. Now my task is to get on the field and play instead of putting my ass on the bench. As for what kind of performance I will have in the Champions League ?Let the game answer that question.”

Lin Yi obviously didn't want to let such and such questions surround him, especially those questions from reporters with ulterior motives. For Lin Yi himself, instead of making a goal to attract attention, it is better to let himself hide in a corner and be a Take the invisible knife.

Mourinho, on the other hand, saw the undercurrent of the Champions League when he was in Barcelona. No one is easy to deal with any team that appears in the Champions League, even teams like Barcelona and Real Madrid. Fumbled at some obscure clubs.

The current Porto team is not strong enough to despise others. Don't forget, this is the Champions League. The teams that can appear here are all the best in the leagues of various countries. Even if there is a little negligence on the field, it may It will make the Porto team beyond redemption.

It is not that Mourinho has not reminded his players in the pre-match preparations that this is a Champions League game, and every game is the toughest confrontation.

If you want to keep winning, you must first put the damn title of the UEFA Cup champion behind you. In the Champions League, there are no weak players.

Although Mourinho had warned these high-spirited players in advance, they still ran into trouble at Partizan Belgrade's home court.

Complete control of the game, the Porto team did this at the opponent's home court. They even had a 70% to 30% possession time ratio on the field, but the opponent's goal was not blocked by the Porto team. Destroyed by absolute possession of the ball.

Partizan Belgrade is not afraid of ugly scenes, especially Matthaeus is not afraid that his defensive style of playing hard and clear will lead to boos from the home fans, because the opponent is the champion of the UEFA Cup. This title has given the Partizans enough reasons to play defense fight back.

Allowing you to hold the ball and allow you to calmly organize the attack in the midfield, Matthaus set up enough interception lines for Porto in his own half.

As long as the Porto team's attacking group overwhelms the half court, what awaits them is fierce tackles and pure German-style physical confrontation. Coupled with the delicateness of these Serbs, the Porto team has an advantage on the scene, but they can't beat them at all. A well-organized rampart for the opponent.

Deco and Darrei were completely stared down by the Serbians. As long as the two of them try to get the ball, they will inevitably be flanked by two or three opponents at the same time.

Deco, who had just recovered from his ankle injury, was completely overwhelmed by this fierce pressing. Now it has become a luxury for him to face the goal of the guerrilla team. He can only keep passing back and passing back. , and occasionally one or two unconventional passes can provide some help to the forward line.

Mourinho kept pacing back and forth on the sidelines. It wasn't that he was unprepared for such a bad situation. It's just that the group of guys under him lost their usual calmness and only thought about how to quickly eat up their opponents. Just like what they did in the Portuguese league.

Lin Yi followed the assistant coach Brito to prepare for the warm-up, while watching the headache situation on the court, he didn't know what he could do now, but the excitement brought by the Champions League, It has begun to spread in his body.

But the tough Mateus instilled the style of the Germans into the guerrillas. These Serbs, who are technically delicate, once they have a ferocious will, they can bring more trouble to the Porto team than that.

Before the end of the first half, it began to rain heavily in the sky of Belgrade. The ferocious rain began to pour on the lawn of the stadium, and the poor field also began to accumulate water quickly. This made the Porto team, which had a technical advantage, begin to lose Sharp feeling.

The half-time reprimand made the Porto players start to play the spirit of twelve points to deal with the game, but God seems to like to joke with these guys. In the second minute after the start of the second half, the Partizan used the counterattack to win a corner kick Opportunity.

This is the only corner kick played by the Guerrilla team so far in the game, but it was this corner kick that made the Porto people suffer. Veteran Drulovic, who had played for the Porto team, took a free kick. Blocked, their young striker Deri Basic made a follow-up shot.

Pressing the opponent for nearly 50 minutes, and then being knocked down in this way, the twisted line drawn by the football in the heavy rain, and the magical back block, including the last supplementary shot, all happened so strangely, That wasn't basically a shot, more like a passive bounce.

But no matter what, the goal has already been scored anyway. As for how it was scored, no one cares. The whole of Belgrade is cheering for this goal. Time is running out.

At the second when the goal appeared, Lin Yi subconsciously glanced at Mourinho. He wondered if this wretched uncle would think of him.

But Mourinho still frowned on the sidelines, and didn't look at his substitute players, maybe he was still thinking about something.

This head-on stick has awakened the dreams of many Portuguese. . .

(The first update... There will be more in the afternoon... Resume the update speed, I hope the grades will gradually improve, I hope that during the National Day holiday, everyone will be happy, but also pay attention to the body, the recent respiratory disease It is rampant, please protect yourself...and your family.)
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