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When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, Mourinho actually slid on the grass on his knees like a player who was 20 years younger.

The Porto players swarmed up, submerging Mourinho's figure in the blue jersey.

The Manchester United players left the field frustrated. They did not expect Porto to lock in the victory 5 minutes before the end of the game. This is really a blow to people.They thought they could take away a tie from the Dragon Stadium.

Karl's heart was beating extremely fast in the minutes to the end of the game, and when Porto finally scored a goal, his emotions fell straight to the bottom-he finally knew why heart disease has gradually become a high incidence in world football, modern football The pressure of competition is increasing. Stars and coaches are living under the spotlight. Although they are very glamorous in the eyes of fans, this kind of life needs to be consolidated by achievements. Football is also a place where newcomers come out in large numbers. Once a star does not score a few games in the first few games, he will soon be questioned, "The state is declining? Parallel imports?" Over time, how could it be possible to suffer from heart disease?

Ferguson's situation of continuing to coach after minor surgery is considered good. I don't know how many head coaches and stars have retired directly because of a bad heart.

Taking a deep breath, Carl told himself to maintain a normal mind. There is no team in this world that is always victorious and undefeated. Victory and disastrous defeat are extremely common things that happen every day. Since you are going to go in this business, you should look away .

Of course, the meaning of being open is just not to let the result of the game affect one's mood and reason too much, it does not mean to lose one's desire to win - the desire for victory must not only be there, but also strong.A player who doesn't want to score is not a good player, and a manager who doesn't want to win is not a good manager.

After readjusting his mood, Carl turned around and prepared to go back to the locker room. He still has a lot of players who need to be comforted, so that the players under his command can always maintain a positive and competitive spirit, and don't let their low emotions affect their games. State is also one of the responsibilities of the head coach.

"Mr. Oston, are you going to leave the Dragon Stadium like this?"

At this moment, a voice came from behind Carl.

Carl turned around, raised his eyebrows and looked at Mourinho: "Otherwise, you want to keep me for dinner?"

"You have to say something to your opponent." Mourinho smiled happily: "This is more in line with your British gentleman's demeanor, isn't it?"

Using gentlemanly demeanor as an excuse, Mourinho just wanted him to admit that he lost.Carl put his hands in his coat pockets, and said calmly and calmly: "Mr. Mourinho, congratulations to you and your team for winning this game."

Mourinho refused to give up: "The truth?"

Carl looked at him with a half-smile: "Guess."

Mourinho shrugged and said helplessly: "How can I know what you are thinking? Even if you are secretly talking bad about me now, I can't detect it." After a pause, he blinked again: "Do you think How's Dragon Stadium?"

"Impressive." Carl meant it with all his heart.

"Old Trafford is one of the stadiums I am most looking forward to. I believe it will leave me with very unforgettable memories in half a month." That is to say, but Mourinho's expression seems to be Hinting to Carl, what Old Trafford gave him will definitely not be a memory of failure.

"Unforgettable memories? Absolutely." Carl smiled with ulterior motives: "Don't Mr. Mourinho know about England's specialty?"

Mourinho frowned: "What?"

"Football hooligans." Carl smiled as he passed each other.

……

Porto defeated Manchester United at home in the first round of the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals. This is not a big upset in this UEFA Champions League, because in the other quarter-finals held at the same time, AC Milan actually played with the team from Czech side Sparta Prague drew, while Juventus also lost to La Liga side Deportivo.

Compared with these two lesser-known teams, Porto is considered a giant in the Portuguese Super League, and their results in this UEFA Champions League have also been good. In the group stage, they almost beat Real Madrid and scored No.1. Besides Manchester United is not nothing, they have an away goal.

Also because of this away goal, when the English media commented on this game, they did not spray too much venom on Smith and Carl, but simply said: "The performance of Manchester United's acting coaches is not bad, but if Ferguson It could have been better than that if the Jazz could have coached the game themselves."

Although Ferguson is still lying on the hospital bed, this does not prevent him from continuing to shine for the team-by using two mouths to trip the opponent or something, Ferguson loves to do it most.

If it is possible to launch a vote among the fans to choose who is the master of psychological warfare in today's football, then 80.00% of the votes are estimated to be for Ferguson.And now, when Ferguson started talking again, he finally met his real opponent.

who?Mourinho.

From the interview with "The Sun", Ferguson opened the prelude to the scolding: "After watching the video of the game against Porto, I am really fed up with the rough football of the Porto people! They endlessly harassed with fouls. Our players, this is unbearable, and the Porto people did not apologize for it after the game. I am very glad that I was not able to go to the field due to physical reasons, otherwise I would probably faint in anger at the Dragon Stadium .”

Just one day later, Mourinho hit back in Portugal's "Ball" newspaper: "Did my players really do something wrong? In my opinion they played very well and the referee didn't give a penalty. They have yellow cards or red cards, otherwise I really apologize to Manchester United. To be honest, Manchester United is a great team. They have many stars. Our players are worth less than one-tenth of the value of Manchester United stars! It stands to reason that they should beat us by a big score, but in reality, ha, Porto scored 2:1!"

Since Mourinho made a counterattack, the "Sun" and "Ball" have become the place where the two are fighting each other. For this reason, the two newspapers also opened a special column to compare Ferguson and Mourinho. The daily interviews of the two are put up.

Ferguson: "Porto always wants to rely on the referee to win. They want it, but we don't need it. I suggest that the referee who will referee the next game should go to see the video of the first round match between Manchester United and Porto in advance, then he will be against Porto. The style of football, like what I've seen on video, there's nothing in this team that I can appreciate."

Mourinho: "It's boring to talk about the style of play and the referee after losing the game. Manchester United is afraid of Porto. They feel unconvinced when they lose to us, so they are sour grapes. And according to my experience of Manchester United's many games Observe, their forwards Ruud van Nistelrooy and Ronaldo also have a 'good' habit of diving, as long as the defenders of the opposing team touch them lightly, they can immediately fall screaming."

Ferguson's counterattack this time was very angry: "Manchester United's forwards did not dive! Ruud van Nistelrooy and Ronaldo are both technical forwards. Such players should be heavily protected on the court. If an opponent hits them fiercely, they will be injured. It's a normal reaction to fall to the ground. But Porto, they have already had five players suspended by red cards this season. This record is really amazing."

When it comes to the second round of the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals half a month later, the two are even more unwilling to give in to each other.

Mourinho seemed very proud in this interview: "Ferguson has been putting pressure on the referee on duty for the next game. He knows that Porto's football is very desperate, so he hopes that the referee can face them when Manchester United is at home. Ferguson was scared of us because we won the first leg and it was Manchester United who had to win the second leg to keep themselves out, Porto had nothing to fear and I wasn't worried at all."

Ferguson: "Manchester United are unbeaten at home in 17 Champions League games. Every time we have been eliminated in the past few years, it was because of away goals. Manchester United is a great team, and only the best team To beat Manchester United at home, although Porto is very good, but this is a record that Real Madrid failed to break at Old Trafford, the Portuguese is still not good enough."

The confrontation between "The Sun" and "Ball" was extremely exciting, and the entire European football world surrounded them to watch the excitement.Many coaches who have suffered from Ferguson's losses are laughing in their hearts: There are also times when your "hairdryer" is deflated!

And when Ferguson and Mourinho stirred up the media of the two countries like a pressure cooker, Karl was not idle, he was concentrating on... stealing lessons.

Ferguson is a world-renowned master of psychological warfare, and he has created countless brilliant records. Judging from his confrontation with Mourinho these days, the latter's combat effectiveness is not much better.Now that the media information is so developed, the tedious and trivial matters off the court can often determine the outcome of the game after being hyped, and the essence of psychological warfare is to irritate opponents, encourage players, and use the media to throw smoke bombs. Carl studies this more and more The more he is fascinated, he hopes that one day he can cultivate the ability to kill people with a few words.

However, Karl didn't expect his first small test to come so soon.

When there was still a week before the second confrontation between Manchester United and Porto, Mourinho finally didn't want to continue to grind with Ferguson. When he was interviewed, he said in rather sarcastic words: "The next game Who is my opponent in the game? Does Manchester United still have an acting manager named Auston and Smith? Under the brilliant aura of Sir Alex Ferguson, they are really 'conspicuous'."

It seems that Mourinho and Ferguson are tired of scolding each other, and finally realized that there are still two figures in this world, Carl and Smith.

Carl didn't want to stir himself into the muddy water at all, but since Mourinho has called his name, it will only appear that Manchester United is cowardly if he doesn't respond.

Smith is not good at words and does not like to show off. Carl accepted the reporter's interview on behalf of the two of them on the second day: "The reason why Mr. Smith and I did not accept the reporter's interview is because we all focused on the team's daily training, In preparation, you know, a big team always has a lot going on every day."

Shrugging his shoulders, Carl smiled a bit maliciously: "But since Mourinho has questioned it, I also have a question to ask him-is the head coach of Porto free to do anything? Otherwise, why does Mourinho Mister will appear in the newspaper every day, bickering with a frail old man lying in a hospital bed?"

Even the reporter who interviewed Carl couldn't help laughing after turning off the camera, not to mention the reactions of others when the news hit the TV or the newspaper.

Portugal's "Ball" was silent for two days before Mourinho made a counterattack that was neither salty nor light.Coupled with the fact that the match date was approaching, after this day, the fighting spirit of the two teams dropped a lot.

However, Ferguson called Carl that night and said with a smile: "I should have let you join the scolding battle earlier, and I will definitely make that Portuguese man capsize in the gutter!"

Karl just rubbed his nose and smiled. His combat power is just icing on the cake. Before he has mastered his skills, he doesn't want to be the leader alone.

The author has something to say: PS: The hair dryer is Ferguson's nickname.

PPS: Because someone suggested that the names of the players in the game are very confusing, and it is hard to tell who belongs to which team, so the Manchester United first-team lineup for the 03-04 season is attached: Goalkeeper:

13 carroll

14 Howard

3 Steele

Guard:

2 Gary Neville

3 Phil Neville

5 Rio Ferdinand

6 Wes Brown

22 O'Shea

27 Sylvester

2 Mark Lynch

Midfielder:

8 Nicky Butt

11 Giggs

15 Klebson

16 Roy Keane

18 Paul Scholes

19 Temba

23 Richardson

24 Fletcher

25 fortune

26 pew

33 Eagles

39 Thiene

forward

7C. Ronaldo

9 Louis Saha

10 Fanny

12 Bellion

20 Solskjaer

21 Diego Forlan

Colin Heather