I Want to Be the King of Football

At the weekend, in the 31st round of the Portuguese Super League, Sporting Lisbon faced Beiramar at home.

The Alvalade Stadium was full of people.

This was another crucial battle for the league title, attracting 50,000 Sporting Lisbon fans to the scene.

In the face of tyrannical strength, aiming to win the championship, and playing at home, Sporting Lisbon, Beiramar coach Antonio Sosa actually arranged the play style of four central defenders on the back line, and his conservative heart is obvious.

Sporting Lisbon was not polite to their opponents and bombarded wildly from the beginning of the game.

In the 29th minute, Jardel opened the scoring for the team again, breaking the goal of Beiramar.

This goal greatly ignited the passion of the Alvalade Stadium.

But then, Luck seems to have started not to favor Sporting Lisbon.

Rodrigo Tello, who had returned to the starting lineup, was fouled by an opponent while holding the ball shortly after Jardel's goal.

The game was completely deadlocked.

Sporting Lisbon has no effective way to take Bellamar's tight defense.

At half-time, Belamar coach Antonio Sousa made his first substitution.

Fari Faye, who had just returned from injury, replaced former Sporting Lisbon midfielder Luis Manuel.

After Fari Faye came on, Beiramar formed a double striker, showing his determination to fight back to the end.

Four minutes later, Antonio Sosa made another substitution, replacing the Brazilian midfielder Marcelinho with right-back Ribeiro.

If the previous substitution was still unpredictable, then the second substitution can be described as a poor idea.

So, Boloni made a second substitution in the 54th minute, replacing Hugo Viana with Cristiano Ronaldo, trying to use Ronnie to impact and suppress Bellamar's right, limiting Counterattack from the opponent's right.

But in the 70th minute, Bellamar still played a quick counterattack on the right flank.

Ribeiro, who came on as a substitute, rushed the ball to the 30-meter area of ​​Sporting Lisbon on this side, and sent a wonderful pass to the penalty area. Fari Faye's speed completely exploded at this moment, grabbing the ball. a favorable position.

Guerroga chose to foul without any means and was sentenced to death by the referee.

Yellow card and penalty kick!

Fali Faye calmly took the penalty and made it in one fell swoop to equalize for Bellamar.

One to one!

The situation has changed dramatically.

No one expected that this was originally a game in which Sporting Lisbon was guaranteed to win, but in the end, Antonio Sosa suddenly made a big show and had the courage to change two players in a row in the midfield within four minutes, completely breaking the deadlock.

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Boloni stood in front of the coach's bench, watching the game on the field intently.

Beiramar is different from Setubal. This is a typical Portuguese Super League team with a more open style of play.

Judging from Antonio Sosa's series of substitutions, he completely gave up the midfield competition, directly tightened the back line, and at the same time focused on counterattacking, giving play to the strength and strength of forwards led by Fari Faye. Features.

One of the characteristics of Bellamar's style of play is that the back line is pressed hard, but he is also very firm when he returns to the defense.

As long as the ball reaches the frontcourt, the back line will press up and give enough support to the midfield and frontcourt, but once the ball is lost, it will immediately retreat, very resolute.

The problems of Sporting Lisbon were also exposed, mainly in the progression of the ball.

Quaresma and Ronnie are too sticky with the ball, and the midfield is not moving fast enough, which leads to many times, Sporting Lisbon starts to counterattack from stealing the ball, and when the ball reaches the frontcourt, only to find that Bellamar has already returned to the defense. .

Even if a threat can be created, the opponent's four central defenders return to their positions, basically blocking all attacking lines.

At this moment, Boloni really has a kind of trouble that is both happy and painful.

As Quaresma and Ronny juggle their cool, but little-than-game-friendly tricks on the court, Boloni probably wants to rush up and beat them up. impulse.

Can you two stop being so showy?

You don't feel good about not going through the opponent's eleven players, aren't you?

But the problem is, the fans at the scene just like to see their gimmicky juggling skills, and they applaud.

The game has been slow to open, and there is not much time left for Sporting Lisbon.

Boloni's sense of crisis is also growing stronger.

Just the day before, Boavista thrashed Setubal 4-1 at home, and if they don't win Beiramar tonight, Athletic will be sent to the league leaders, which has led Sporting Lisbon for almost a season. That said, it's definitely a frustrating thing.

More importantly, Boloni's position will be shaken.

The compatriot Nikulei, who was introduced with a lot of money, did not perform well and was plagued by serious injuries. If he can't win the championship again, why should Boloni stay?

Thinking of this, Boloni showed a determined look on his face, turned around, and shouted at the bench.

Su, get ready to play!

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The game has reached the seventy-fourth minute.

Sporting Lisbon made the last substitution adjustment. Boloni replaced No. 8 player Barbosa with No. 36 Sudong.

It's a signal to step up the attack.

Sporting Lisbon now has three young players under the age of 20 on the pitch, all of whom have performed well this season.

Especially Su Dong on the 36th, he was only 17 years old. In the last away match against Setubal, after coming off the bench, he played for 40 minutes and turned the game around with one pass and one shot.

Boloni also has high hopes for Su Dong, and will bet on him for the last and most precious substitution opportunity.

I wonder if he can continue his excellent performance in the last round?

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Different from playing Setubal in the last round, this time after Su Dong came on the court, Sporting Lisbon changed to a four-four-two formation.

But among the two forwards, there is still a clear division of labor and cooperation between Su Dong and Jardel.

Su Dong's position is further back, and the scope of activities is also larger. The main task is still to act as a fulcrum, as well as connecting the midfield and striker, and supporting the advancement of the two flanks.

At the tactical level, Sporting Lisbon also retreated a bit.

On the one hand, it is to ensure the stability of its own defense line and beware of counterattacks from players such as Fary Faye, on the other hand, it is also hoped that Bellamar can be pressed further forward.

Antonio Sosa also adjusted his tactics immediately, and Boloni's substitution did not have an immediate effect.

Su Dong tried several times on the court, but the effect was not obvious.

But he still maintained his patience, kept moving, kept responding, and kept looking for opportunities.

This kind of game is all about exhaustion.

Don't look at the situation, but in fact, the opponent's defenders have also been tossed enough by Jardel, Ronnie and Quaresma, and their physical energy has been consumed a lot.

There are still more than ten minutes. After playing, we must patiently look for opportunities and try to rush.

This is the focus of Boloni pulling Su Donger to face his life before going on the court.

The greater the consumption, the easier it is for technical actions to go out of shape and the more prone to mistakes.

Su Dong has executed the head coach's intentions well.

His running was very active, and Bellamar's players did not dare to give him the chance to get the ball casually, so the defender was forced to run with Su Dong, which was even more terrible for the opponent who had already consumed a lot of money.

Pontes once gave Su Dong a crude but vivid analogy on this issue.

It's like a person who is in a hurry to go to the bathroom. When do you think is the most unbearable?

The answer is, the closer you are to the bathroom, the greater the chance of being unable to resist.

It's human psychology.

By the same token, the harder the game is, the easier it is to make mistakes at the last minute. It's nature.

So, the more it gets to the end, the more critical the player's willpower and the substitutes become.

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Into the eighty minutes, Bellamar also made a substitution.

This time they replaced a striker, obviously still wanting to play offense.

The Lisbon Sporting fans at the scene also felt the stalemate of the game situation.

Time passed bit by bit, all three substitutions were used up, and the situation on the field still did not improve, which made the fans start to worry that the game might be tied?

As a result, fans began to cheer for the players.

Boloni also stood on the sidelines, constantly encouraging the players while reassuring them and asking them to be patient.

The players also showed anxiety, and mistakes began to increase, which is not a good sign.

Eighty-five minutes later, all the 50,000 fans at the scene had lost their minds and ignored Quaresma and Ronnie's possession of the ball, because they were all worried about the team's offense and the result of the game.

Wouldn't it really be a draw?

The players also started to panic.

In just three minutes, Sporting Lisbon's Diogo and Paulo Bento were awarded cards one after another, while Belamar's Ribeiro and substitute striker Demetrios were also awarded cards one after another. All of the players started to be highly nervous, and all of them were tense.

Eighty-eight minutes... eighty-nine minutes...

Bellamar once again completed a steal in the midfield, defender Felipe's sudden insertion, grabbed the ball at Ronnie's feet, and quickly launched a counterattack with the ball, and it was led by Fari Faye and Demetrio. The two attacked at the same time.

As before, the entire back line was directly pressed near the midline.

Su Dong had planned to respond to Ronnie, but this time he went back all the way to defense.

When he returned to the 30-meter area, Andre Cruz in the penalty area had completed a defense and blocked the ball directly.

Ronnie just chased back desperately all the way, and grabbed the clearance ball from Andre Cruz on the left side of the penalty area.

As soon as he stopped the ball, Bellamar's counter-attack arrived.

The pressing defender Felipe forced Ronnie to the touchline and tried to grab the ball again.

Just when Ronnie was hesitating about what to do, Su Dong ran over in time and raised his hand for the ball.

Ronnie, give me the ball!

As soon as Su Dong shouted, Ronnie, who had a tacit understanding, passed the ball out.

And Beiramar's other central defender, Cristiano, was already behind Su Dong.