Handsome position is not easy

Chapter 86 Rebellion and Obedience ([-])

Leiria's goal made Octavio instantly ashamed. Andrade's reckless grab was certainly wrong, but Ibarra's uselessness in the late position made him realize that he was temporarily What a serious mistake it was to arrange for the Argentine to play as a central defender.

Seeing Mourinho hugging and celebrating wildly with his assistant coach, and the lost Porto generals on the field, Octavio knew that he had to make adjustments now. Counting stoppage time, there should be 10 minutes left. Porto is not without The possibility of a turnaround.

They still have the thickness and strength of the lineup that Leiria can't match, but they can't continue to leave Ibarra's weakness in the backcourt. If there is any fatal mistake later, and the score expands again, Porto basically can only Swallowed the bitter fruit of failure.

Octavio quickly walked back to the coach's bench to communicate with the substitute players about the next tactical adjustments. The assistant coach also found the fourth official with satisfaction and informed the referee that Porto would complete the substitution before kick-off.

Replacing Ibarra, Paredes in the midfielder position replaced the poorly performing Argentine, and replaced Paulinho Santos. The Portuguese has played for Porto for ten years and is the foundation of the blue dragon's glorious history in the 90s One of the players, had been Porto's main midfielder before.

Although the number of appearances began to drop sharply last season, the 31-year-old veteran can still faithfully implement any order of the head coach. This is why Octavio chose to trust Paulinho instead of others at this time. Portugal Humans have only one very simple task, and this is something that many main players are unwilling and disdain to do.

It's very simple, one defense and one marking to kill Jan Rodriguez, the young man who was placed alone in the midfield by Leiria and assumed the responsibility of offensive and defensive conversion.

It's not that Octavio is unwilling to let the midfielders on the field do this, but in his observation, Paredes and Pavlin are more willing to devote their energy to this boring defensive task. In offense, they never wanted to put that young attacking midfielder on an equal footing with themselves.

"Paulinho, your opponent is only one person, the No. 77 Jan Rodriguez, don't underestimate him like Paredes, this young man has merits in all aspects, and he is extremely decisive. , In the case of one-on-one in the midfield, except for Deco, only your speed and turn can keep up with him, and you can press him to death in the half of Leiria, I only have this request."

"Don't worry, coach, I will take good care of that little guy." Paulinho adjusted the position of the shin guards, stood up and said to Octavio with a smile.

The Porto fans seemed unhappy that the manager had only changed the defenders, and boo after boo subsided when Paulinho stepped up to the fourth official.

The veteran didn't seem to hear anything. He clapped his hands to meet Ibarra who ran to the sidelines, comforted the Argentine with an extremely ugly expression, and rushed to his position quickly, spitting on the on the ground.

It seems that there are really too few appearances, and when the Asantas Stadium will boo me like this.

The years really go by so fast, and even Porto's own fans may have forgotten the amazing performance of the veteran who gradually faded out of sight in those years. Otherwise, how can this 1.7-meter-tall midfielder play 28 times in the national team? Scored two goals?
Paulinho just came on the field, and he gave Yang a badass. Thiago tried to find him with a diagonal pass, but Yang was squeezed away by Paulinho, although the latter failed to grab the first place. point, but the ball was still in the hands of Porto.

One time is a coincidence, and the second time can also be regarded as a coincidence, but if every time he catches the ball, there is this unusually active little midfielder obstructing the left and right, then anyone can find out that something is wrong.

Young quickly figured out the meaning here. Porto seemed to have specially sent a person to mark him. He mainly played the role of succession and transition in the midfield. Most of the passes under his feet were short. Yang also tried to do it One kick out of the ball, not to mention Yang's range of motion is very large, and he will even retreat to the parallel position of the three midfielders at the farthest.

Ordinary people will not intentionally defend against such players who do not keep the ball at their feet, because the income will be very low. This is also the meaning of this type of attacking midfielder on the field. The line is the best choice, and it is this kind of thinking that can give Yang a certain amount of space to control the ball.

Unless this point is the opponent's strongest offensive point, the head coach will not make a tactic of sacrificing the other roles of the players in exchange for one exchange. This is to force the game into a ten-on-ten situation. Leiria didn't use this trick against Deco. Why did Porto insist on picking himself out of the game?

Young doesn't have time to communicate with Mourinho. If he can get closer to some coaches, he will find that Mourinho's brows have become two mountains. Leiria's coach has discovered Porto's actions far earlier than him. I also saw the deeper meaning of this substitution adjustment.

This is a game of chess. Rooks change, horses change horses. Octavio understands the weakness of Leiria's 4-3-1-2 formation, which is different from the orthodox diamond-shaped four midfielders and three defensive midfielders. Too heavy, and rarely take the initiative to pull to the side to lead the attack. If there is no assistance from the defenders on both sides, then the only point of Leiria's midfielder is Yang.

Octavio's move was extremely ingenious. While pinching the opponent's conversion hub, he also quietly eliminated the only weakness in the formation.

If Mourinho accepts this ten-on-ten situation, Leiria's offense will only rely on long passes from the backcourt most of the time, and Paredes who retreated has made up for the lack of defensive height in the penalty area. Lack of strength.

At the same time, Secretario, Porto's offensive weapon, will be freed from the plight of helping Ibarra to defend, and will partially suppress Leiria's numbers.

In other words, this act of cutting off one person from the lineup at the same time is like when two boxers are fighting, Octavio exchanged an arm for a heavy blow to Mourinho's head. Confidence hit the opponent with the remaining arm, and Mourinho, who was dizzy and out of balance, could no longer use the same level of attack to offset the losses.

In the Seven Injuries Fist, if the internal strength is not perfected, you must first hurt yourself and then hurt others. Porto, where many main players are absent due to injuries, is very similar to this situation. One step counts as two steps, it really is so vicious.

It's not that Mourinho didn't think about the disadvantages of his chosen formation. It's really the strong strength of Porto and Deco that made him a bit cautious. In previous games, some people also noticed Young's strength and sent special personnel to try to mark him.

But firstly, those opponents were not giants like Porto, who could defend Yang so badly by just picking someone from the bench. With two wingers pulling left and right, Young has more than a few times more options for passing and receiving the ball.

(End of this chapter)