I Want to Be the King of Football

On January 5th, the Alvalade Stadium was brightly lit, as bright as day.

The stands were full, the crowds were full of people, and the noise was monstrous.

The performance of Sporting Lisbon this season is not ideal, especially the start, which has been broken successively, which makes the fans very dissatisfied.

In particular, losing the Champions League qualifiers and the Super Cup has caused Boloni, the double-crowned coach, to encounter a crisis of confidence.

Fortunately, with the deepening of the season, young players such as Sudong, Ronnie, Quaresma, Tonito and Pepe gradually provoked the role, although there are still main battles like Sudong and Nikulei in the process. , but overall, fairly stable.

The Portuguese Super League ranked second, the UEFA Cup reached the round of 16, and the Portuguese Cup also advanced again and again. The three fronts went hand in hand.

For example, the Portuguese Super League should not be satisfied with the second place only.

Work harder to pull the leader down?

That's what Green Lions fans expected when they walked into the Alvalade Stadium.

The league is seven points behind. If Porto cannot win this game and let the opponent continue to expand their lead, then as the outside media said, the Portuguese Super League champion will lose the suspense early and become Porto’s bag.

This is the last thing the home fans want to see, but it is what some away fans who follow the team's southward expedition look forward to.

Don't look at the fact that there are not many fans of Porto's expedition to Lisbon, and they are also arranged in a remote corner by Sporting Lisbon. They are at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, and they are also away from home, but they are not intimidated, but they shout with special passion.

There is still some time before the game starts, but Porto fans are already shouting slogans in unison.

Porto, champion!

The fans of Sporting Lisbon were also annoyed and started to fight back in an organised manner.

The scene was chaotic and deafening.

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Players from both teams lined up in the player tunnel, waiting to play.

They are both Portuguese Super League teams, and they have many acquaintances with each other.

What surprised Su Dong the most was Pepe, who seemed to know a lot of people in Porto.

Deco, Delle, and winger Clayton are all Brazilian players, of which Pepe and Deco are still brothers.

In Pepe's words, the two of them left Brazil through the same channel, and it was precisely because of Deco's successful precedent that their fellow juniors followed and landed in the Portuguese Super League.

At first, they chatted quite happily, but gradually, the voice became a little louder.

Pepe, in particular, seemed to return to the team after uttering a harsh word.

What's the matter? Su Dong asked Pepe curiously.

It's nothing. Pepe shook his head, but quickly thought of something, Wait a minute in the game, you have to be careful, Carvalho and that guy named Jorge Costa are very dirty. , a lot of small movements, and rough.

Mourinho's team is brutish and aggressive in defense, something Sudong had learned as early as last season.

Don't worry, I'm not easy to mess with. Su Dong smiled confidently.

Pepe snorted coldly, I've already told Delray that if they dare to attack you, I'll take revenge on their genius, and I'll shovel him how they shovel you!

Su Dong was stunned when he heard it, and they were arguing over there because of this.

In terms of ferocity and rudeness, Pepe said that she was second, and no one would dare to recognize the first.

Every time this guy plays, he seems to be fighting with his opponent.

But strange to say.

When Pepe was in Maritimo before, Su Dong and Ronnie hated his foul, but when he came to Sporting Lisbon and fouled his opponent, they found it quite enjoyable.

The ass decides the head!

The Porto genius in Pepe's mouth is Postiga,

The striker has been righted this season, but his performance is not as good as McCarthy, so that there have been voices in the Porto team that they want to buy back the underperforming McCarthy from La Liga.

Last season's two powerful and powerful Portuguese stars, Quaresma continued to move forward steadily, while Postiga was a little behind, and was even faintly surpassed by Ronnie.

Professional football is like this. If you don't advance, you will retreat.

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Led by the referee Lucilio Baptista, the two teams slowly walked into the stadium.

At this moment, there were overwhelming cheers at the Alvalade Stadium.

The stadium broadcast, like the name of the dish, was the first to announce Porto's starting lineup.

Although Mourinho often uses a four-three-one-two striker formation, in the Portuguese Super League, they use four-three-three the most. This is obviously because Mourinho is strong enough for his team. confidence.

In the Portuguese Super League, which team can force Porto to use three defensive midfielders.

Goalkeeper Baia, the back line is Valente, Carvalho, Jorge Costa and Paulo Ferreira, the three midfielders are Deco, Costinha and Maniche, and the front is Del Lai is on the left, Postiga is in the middle, and Capuccio is on the right.

This is basically the main lineup of Porto this season.

Although the midfield is a third midfielder, Deco's position has always been high, more like an attacking midfielder.

There is also no suspense in Sporting Lisbon.

The goalkeeper is Thiago, who gradually replaced Nelson this season, the back line is Rui Jorge, Andre Cruz, Pepe and Gueruga, and the three midfielders are Rui Bento and Alberti. Ni and Barbosa, the frontcourt is a trident combination of Ronnie, Sudong and Quaresma.

The suspense of the offensive lineup is not big, the key lies in the midfield.

Boloni's lineup is also very consistent with his usual conservative and cautious characteristics. He won Tonito and adopted a three-back play style. This is also tantamount to indirectly telling everyone that Sporting Lisbon's overall strength is not as good as Porto.

Of course, this is also an accepted fact.

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With a whistle from Baptista, the game officially began.

Porto displayed an aggressive presence from the start, the biggest change since Mourinho took charge.

Mentally, Porto are far more aggressive than they were last season.

They were like hungry wolves, attacking Sporting Lisbon.

The striker is pushed up, the midfield is pushed forward, the defense is pushed forward...

This is Porto's high defense!

On the one hand, the overall strength of the team is the best in the Portuguese Super League. On the other hand, the combination of the current European advanced high-position defense and pressing tactics, coupled with Mourinho's more sophisticated and scientific training system, made Porto's performance in the Portuguese Super League. Out of the amazing stability and combat effectiveness.

To a certain extent, when the Portuguese Super League team encountered Porto this season, they were all beaten up like a turkey.

So far, the Portuguese Super League has played 15 rounds, and no team has even beaten Porto, and the same is true of the Portuguese Cup.

Even in the UEFA Cup, Porto has only lost two games, both strategically giving up away games after a big first-leg victory.

So, in a way, no team has really beaten Porto so far this season.

This strong confidence built through long victories and Mourinho's aggressive tactics made the Porto team unstoppable.

Even Su Dong has to admit that in terms of football, Porto is indeed the best team in the Portuguese Super League.

As an opponent, Su Dong's task is to defeat Porto.

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From the start of the game, Sudong felt Porto's ubiquitous constraints on him.

He retreated, Carvalho was always with him, Costinha was always around him.

Due to Porto's midfield advantage, Sporting Lisbon's midfield could not be pressed at all, so the single midfielder Costinha looked more like he was cooperating with Carvalho, joining forces back and forth to freeze Sudong.

And all the high balls, Jorge Costa always rushed up the first time.

This 1.88-meter-tall veteran has good jumping ability, and more importantly, is very experienced, and predicts the path and placement of the ball very quickly.

Two central defenders and a midfielder were like creating a triangular prison, trapping Su Dong in it.

Ronnie and Quaresma, who have played valiantly on the wing this season, also ran into trouble tonight.

Especially Ronnie on the left.

Paulo Ferreira played with Sporting Lisbon last season. This player has a really good defense and is very comprehensive, which makes Ronnie, who is sticking the ball, not very cheap in front of him.

The same goes for Quaresma dealing with Valeant.

On one side, Sporting Lisbon's offense was targeted and contained, and on the other, Porto's offense targeted Sporting Lisbon's left flank, which is Rui Jorge's side.

Rui Jorge is young and mainly focuses on assists, and defense is not his strength, so Mourinho will focus on arranging Capuccio to attack the left side of Sporting Lisbon tonight.

But Porto also encountered a problem, that is, their lack of support in the middle.

Postiga couldn’t replace McCarthy, Delle was guarded by Queroga, and Deco’s back insertion was Porto’s most important scoring method this season, but the old Milan captain Albertini personally guarded the Brazilian midfielder, Rui Ben Torto and Barbosa from the side support, which makes the defense of Sporting Lisbon is also very solid.

The tactics of both teams are full of pertinence, not only targeting the opponent as a whole, but also limiting the core players in local areas.

This made the game more dull, and neither side had a good chance.

But competition is still fierce.

In the 14th minute, Rui Jorge fouled while defending Capuccio and was shown a yellow card.

Three minutes later, Jorge Costa was also given a yellow card for a foul while marking Sudong.

In the 22nd minute, Pepe fouled while defending Deco and got another yellow card.

When the two teams can't open the situation with each other, they can only fight for consumption to see who can't help but make mistakes first.

The dull game entered the second half and still did not improve.

Rui Bento gets another yellow card for a foul when he gets in after a defence against Costinha.

In 60 minutes, Sporting Lisbon got four yellow cards and Porto got one. The situation is evident.

A yellow card is like handcuffs. When you wear handcuffs, your performance will naturally be restricted.

Everyone can see that the situation of Sporting Lisbon is getting worse and worse.