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Chapter 84 New Season

Holidays are a rare relaxation for every professional player, but a short break can only give them a little rest after months of exhaustion. For these players in Porto, the season with more busy game tasks coming soon.

Except for Lin Yi who could not enjoy the holiday well, the rest of the people have adjusted their physical condition before the start of the season and started to prepare for the new season, which is very important for winning the UEFA Cup. The Porto team will be a brand new season.

Including the new players who have recently reported to the Porto team, they are already in high spirits, striving to play well in the Champions League and defending the Portuguese Super League championship. These are the goals of the Porto team. Mourinho will lead the stronger Porto team to start a new journey.

The little guy who has been trained by Faria for a summer also looks a little stronger, but his worrying height still stays at about 1 meters, but this kid's physical condition has greatly improved, and his physical confrontation has also changed. more aggressive.

Just like what Faria said to Mourinho, "This kid is now able to make more defensive players worry about him. This knife has become sharper. Just wait and see, his performance in Europe It will scare those opponents on the field."

But it was his teammates who shocked Lin Yi's training results first. After a busy summer, this kid has become sharper. Surprised.

Maniche, who has always been known for his strong defense, was actually attacked by Lin Yi directly from the front when he was confronting in groups. Squeeze through.

Although Lin Yi's shot after breaking through Maniche's defense still failed to pass through Baia's ten fingers, but Lin Yi's head-on one-on-one breakthrough rhythm really shocked Maniche.

If it were changed to last season, when Maniche and the others defended Lin Yi, although it would be difficult to break the ball directly from this kid's feet, they could rely on their experience and advantages in physical confrontation to control Lin Yi as much as possible. outside the danger zone.

They can let this kid pass the ball, but they will never allow him to dribble the ball easily. Even if it is a foul or physical confrontation, they must keep this little guy out of the danger zone, and they will not let him pass the ball at all. There is a possibility of a direct attack facing the goal.

But now this kid is obviously no longer afraid of such a level of confrontation, he no longer needs to use non-stop running to open the gap, even if it is a direct one-on-one confrontation, he can definitely defend himself opponent.

The proficient surmounting skills and the improvement of physical confrontation allow Lin Yi to cope with various situations on the court more easily, just like Maniche personally experienced. After a summer, this little black-haired guy has already became more powerful.

Lin Yi was a bit lucky to be able to become a surprise player in the European competition last season, especially the unfamiliarity of his opponents gave him a lot of opportunities to take advantage of, but his performance in the UEFA Cup final has already made him become someone else. The goal.

If you don't make some changes or enhancements now, it will be very difficult to stage those miraculous moments. This sense of crisis forces Lin Yi to make great strides forward, otherwise, he will be eliminated by this arena.

For Mourinho, he must ask the players to keep their ambitions. Anyone who is satisfied with the UEFA Cup will not stay in the team.

"I'm not going to make them dazzled by a win like this, I'm going to ask for more ambition, that's the only way we can keep winning."

And Lin Yi's performance in training is exactly what he needs most. This little guy who has been demanding himself is the most terrifying kind of power on the court. Now that little guy will become even more deadly in offense. more threatening.

However, the Champion of the UEFA Cup still made some players feel a little smug. This is the result of being surrounded by too many people to praise, and this is not just the performance of one or two people. This kind of honor is quickly wearing away their wolf-like spirit. fighting spirit.

Some bad signs have already appeared in the Porto team. Just like Mourinho himself observed, some players have already started to be late in the pre-season training, and it is not as simple as once or twice, but this kind of Things simply wouldn't have happened in the last season.

Mourinho has long been prepared to deal with all this. The changes brought about by this kind of success can easily appear in the championship team, so he must kill this bad situation in time. This tough guy will not Will keep a so-called face for anyone.

Several players who were late in a row were exiled by Mourinho mercilessly to the bench or the second team for recovery training, and those who were not focused enough during training were directly removed from the main position by him. Removed from above.

Anyway, the current Porto team does not lack players. Mourinho also dared to make a large-scale rotation in the pre-season training. Quasi-main players like Bosingwa, McCarthy and Lin Yi began to increase their playing time significantly. They even directly replaced those champions.

Even the absolute main players like Maniche were trained by him for 5 minutes by pointing their noses mercilessly on the sidelines. Mourinho's toughness woke up those main players who were a little bit flustered. There was only one lesson for them, That is, don't provoke this tough guy.

Mourinho said a word to the players after the rectification campaign: "I want to remind you that the glorious past sometimes hurts us in some way. This is a new season. If you don't want to lie on the past honor It’s better to cheer up now!”

As Porto prepares for the new season on the go, something big is happening in Portuguese football, with a clash between their two main rivals at home as Porto quietly adds players. a war.

It was also a big man who ignited the fuse of this war, and it was he who caused the confrontation between Benfica and Sporting Lisbon to break out again.

Jose Vega, the guy who tried to seduce Lin Yi to join him, originally tried to sign a few good guys from the Porto team this summer as his future investment goals, but he saw this before him Mendes is obviously much smarter than him.

Within a week after the Porto team won the UEFA Cup in Seville, Mendes had already obtained a new contract with Mourinho, Carvalho and others in advance. This advance was fast enough, So there was no chance for Jose Vega to pry at all.

When the big broker was about to make a move, he was surprised to find that he had nothing left to earn, and those upstarts in Porto had already got their names, and he, a big crocodile with the name of Figo's manager, was investing in the future. The road has fallen behind others.

However, Jose Vega, who never gave up, still took away Capsu and Clayton in the Porto team, but compared to the future prospects of Lin Yi and Carvalho, the big player in the Portuguese agent circle Dude obviously ate it once.

Jose Vega, who failed to take advantage of the Porto team and did not want to be empty-handed in the summer trading market, set his sights on the Benfica team. The good cooperative relationship between him and Villariño made He also began to plan some things about the transfer for this old friend.

Of course, the premise is that he can also get enough benefits from it, especially that fat guy Villariño intends to let Jose Vega work at the Benfica club, which is very important for Jose Vega who has already started to prepare for his future. Said, is not a small temptation.

One is eager to consolidate his position in the Portuguese agent circle, while the other urgently needs the team's performance to recover in order to keep his position as chairman. These two guys naturally came together because of their respective interests.

The smooth return of Nuno Gomez from Fiorentina gave Benfica fans a lot of hope of regaining the league championship, but Jose Vega believes that such personnel additions are not enough to form a kind of pressure on the Porto team. deadly threat.

He set his sights on Sporting Lisbon once again, especially after Cristiano Ronaldo joined Manchester United from Lisbon with a lot of money, which made Jose Vega set his sights on the youth training camp of Sporting. I hope I can have as good luck as Mendes.

Moreover, the bad economic situation of Sporting Lisbon has also caused many players to have a change in their hearts. The Portuguese international there has also become the target of Jose Vega's seduction, but this guy who is dazzled by interests and prestige seems to have forgotten something.

Figo also came from Sporting Lisbon at the beginning. The reason why Jose Vega has been able to mediate among the top three in Portugal is that his agent status has allowed him to maintain a relatively neutral attitude, but now he is Gave up the amulet like a dizzy head.

Jose Vega's secret contact and incitement made many players of the Sporting team start to think about leaving. This bad mood also began to infect the entire team's preparations. There was an undercurrent in the Sporting Lisbon team. Good voices started to sound, catching the competitive team off guard.

When the Sporting Lisbon team learned that all the bad things that happened in their team were due to this guy, the furious Sporting team executives pointed all the blame at the arch rival Benfica in the same city, as well as the self-righteous head agent Jose Vega.

They publicly declared that Jose Vega was no longer a friend of Sporting Lisbon. At least it is difficult to be accepted again by the competitive team in a short period of time.

Then the two clubs turned such behind-the-scenes operations directly into a war of poaching each other. Simão, Gomez, Pinto, Ricardo, the main players of the two teams were all involved in this confusing transfer. During the World War, the city of Lisbon is now in complete chaos.

Today you publicly seduce my players on TV, then tomorrow there may be players in your team who are about to leave. The confrontation between the two powerhouses in Lisbon has reached a fever pitch for the first time in the 21st century. The hatred is deepening further.

Public accusations between team presidents in the media, players' uneasiness about the future, and ongoing clashes between fans have been the main talking points between the Lisbon duo this summer, but their Training and tactical arrangements have been delayed again and again.

The poor coaching staff of the two teams don't know their team, who will be missing when they wake up tomorrow morning, how can this kind of training continue, the players on both sides are also upset by this kind of rumors, there is no The way to concentrate on preparing for the season.

While the Porto team is constantly replenishing, the other two strong players in Portugal are performing this kind of dog-eat-dog drama. Maybe now the chairman of the Porto club, Da Costa, can enjoy the Portuguese Super League next season in a very safe way. Defending, it seems It's not a problem.

The Porto team's first league game of the new season seems to be confirming this fact. Last season, the Guimaraes team rushed to No. 4 in the league standings, and ran into the new UEFA Cup champion Porto head-on.

Before this game in Porto, Sporting Lisbon and Benfica had their first games at the same time. They were beaten by their opponents from afar at the door of their own homes. The consequences of the chaotic preparations are being played it works.

Before the game, there were media predictions that the Porto team, which has entered the running-in period of new players, is likely to experience ups and downs in performance for a period of time, and the Guimarães team, which has not undergone major personnel adjustments, will definitely have a chance to explode at home. Cold, after all, the fourth place in the league is not in vain.

But the Porto team used the miserable score and the absolute advantage of 78% ball possession rate in the whole game to stun those who were going to see them stumble. 3:0, this is a score that makes people feel desperate. The Porto team did not give the opponent Save any face, this is a simple massacre.

And Lin Yi also won a 45-minute performance opportunity in the second half, with an assist and two threatening shots. This black-haired kid is using this performance to remind those opponents that a sharp blade that has been honed throughout the summer has come out. sheathed. . .

This little guy who has been made the key to the team's victory by Mourinho no longer hopes that he is just a weapon to deal with emergencies. In the new season, he needs to be the protagonist of the team, at least one of the protagonists on the field.

A new season, new teammates, a new journey, and everything new is starting. . .

(The first update, start the debt repayment operation... By the way, Chelsea lost yesterday??? Is Manchester City going to inherit the good tradition of the previous Villa team and be a pure killer of a strong team? Please, at least spend hundreds of millions, the top four No matter what, you have to guarantee it...)
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