[football] walk side by side

The weather was fine and sunny, and the Alvalade Stadium, which can accommodate 52000 people, was packed.Cyril was sitting on the visiting team's bench, looking bored at each other with his friend who was also in a daze on the opposite home team's bench.

Yes, on the bench.

Although before the game, the media expressed excitedly that "this is a duel between Portuguese stars", but this did not prevent Mourinho and Inacio from choosing to put their own stars on the bench.

Cyril is okay, because when he played against Ferreira earlier, Mourinho set up a player rotation system. In order to ensure that the team has enough physical fitness to cope with the third-line battle, Mourinho will regularly perform team rotation .Being able to start in the last game does not mean that you can also start in the next game, or even the opposite. Starting in the last game often means that you will not start in the next game.

In the game against Lens, perhaps in order to fully activate Cyril's state, Mourinho rarely replaced Cyril in the starting lineup. It is not unexpected that Cyril, who is relatively deviated, is replaced by a player with better physical reserves.

Therefore, Cyril sat on the bench very calmly, observing the situation on the field.

At the beginning, Cyril was a little nervous. As the media said, if there is any team that may be able to cut off the possibility of Porto winning the league championship, then there is no one other than Benfica and Sporting Lisbon.

However, the scene on the court made everyone present couldn't believe their eyes.

In the words of Porto club chairman Da Costa after the game: "This is the first time I have seen my team dominate the game in Alvalade since I have been the chairman of Porto for 21 years."

Sporting Lisbon, which has always been offensive and defensive in games against Porto, was almost overwhelmed by Porto in this game.

"My God! If it weren't for the lion team logo hanging high in the stadium, I would have doubted that the Porto team I was explaining was against the mid-lower team of the Portuguese Super League, rather than Sporting Lisbon, one of the three giants!" Although the game happened At the Alvalade Stadium, but considering the particularity of the national derby, the Portuguese Football Association still specially selected a neutral commentator to be in charge of this focus match. Is it the competitive team I know?"

At the same time, almost the same remarks also appeared in the mouths of the commentators broadcast by major TV stations: "Welcome to the No.15 round of the Portuguese Super League. Porto challenged Sporting Lisbon away. The current score is 0:0. However, considering Lisbon Sporting is currently in a precarious situation. If Coach Inacio does not consider making some adjustments, Sporting Lisbon, which is already 10 points behind Porto at the top of the list, will definitely fall out of the championship.”

Cyril watched the game for a while, and the smooth offense and tough and rhythmic defense made him completely let go of his worries about the team, and instead focused on molesting his friends who were also sitting on the bench.

"Will your coach let you play?"

When he received the text message from the visiting team, Cristiano was sitting on the bench depressed, staring at the ever-changing stadium. Doing something is a torment for Cristiano, so when he saw the "friendly greeting" from Cyril, Cristiano was even more depressed.

"I don't know," he replied listlessly.

"Well, you don't have to be so frustrated," said the home team's bench and the visiting team's bench, which stood at both ends of the field, but this did not prevent Cyril from seeing the dejected look of the other Latino boy with his head bowed from a distance. Look, he thought about it for a while, and comforted him softly: "According to the situation where you are being beaten by us, your coach has only two choices, either attacking or defending and counterattacking. You will definitely not be able to beat us in attacking, Inaxi If O wants to win, the only option is to defend and counterattack."

And once Sporting Lisbon plays a defensive counterattack, a young player with Cristiano's speed and strong breakthrough ability is very much needed.

Cristiano obviously thought of this too, and the hope of playing was just kindled in his heart, but soon, the commentary from the commentator made him return to the bench in frustration.

"In the 20th minute of the game, Sporting Lisbon proposed a substitution, huh? Wait, why did you replace a defensive player? Even if the attack is not as good as Porto, Sporting Lisbon can definitely consider breaking through from the side and playing a defensive counterattack, but now it's like this What the hell is Inacio thinking? Is he not going to win?"

Cyrillic:""

Not to mention the commentator, Cyril felt that he didn't quite understand what the other coach was thinking.

Seeing the soft and messy black hair on the opposite side hang down again, Cyril was hesitating whether to continue to comfort the other party, at this time, a hand from behind put his shoulder

Cyril blinked, and looked innocently at his head coach who walked behind him at some unknown time.

"It seems that you are ready to play?" Mourinho said to Cyril with a half-smile when he was anxious about what punishment he would receive.

Cyrillic:"??"

His blankness was answered by Mourinho's terse instructions: "Go warm up and get ready to play."

"In the 305th minute of the game, Porto proposed a substitution. No. 26 Cyril Slade replaced No. 11 Delray and so on! What kind of bloody substitution is this!" The voice of the commentator sounded a little broken: "Use a Organize the midfielder to replace a striker? What does Mourinho mean by this? Turn offense into defense? Isn’t it said that Cyril Slade is not good at defense? Is there something wrong with this national derby?”

Cyril said in his heart that you think it's wrong. If you knew what position my head coach asked me to play, you would probably be even more devastated?After thinking about it, Cyril still calmly slapped Del Rey, who was off the field, and then trotted to Del Rey's position.

To be more precise, this position is actually more like Cristiano's position when he was a winger at Sporting Lisbon.

However, because he is familiar enough with Cristiano's role in Sporting Lisbon, when Mourinho told Cyril about his position in the game, Cyril almost immediately understood Mourinho's intentions .

Under normal circumstances, Porto's offensive tactics are supported by the midfielder. The three players in the frontcourt cooperate with each other to advance to the opponent's half. Porto also adopted this tactic in this game, but Sapinto The leading Lisbon defender defended like a lion, but Porto's first goal was delayed.

Inacio chose to strengthen the defense. It may be that he did not stabilize the defense first, and then took advantage of the unstable mentality of the Porto players to attack and counterattack.

In this way, Mourinho's intention to change Cyril to the striker is obvious.

He hopes that Cyril will use his speed and excellence to attack Sporting Lisbon's defense on the wing, create more opportunities for the striker or score goals himself.

Out of the inertial thinking of a midfielder, as soon as Cyril came on the field, he subconsciously observed the position of his teammates and waited until he found that there were no teammates in front of him. Then he remembered that Mr. seems to want to play the role of a winger. ?

Silently patting his head, Cyril exhaled and focused on the running positions of the Lisbon players.

Sporting Lisbon's tenacious defense prevented Porto from finding any good opportunities. At this time, they are continuing to hold the ball and rest in the midfield.

"I have to admit that Porto's aggressive tactics this season make their games always look particularly pleasing to the eye, but when they can't find opportunities and keep falling in the midfield, the process is also unusually boring. Beautiful pass! The ball landed right at Slade's feet!"

"Slade, uh, Slade broke through with the ball." The commentator sighed helplessly: "I am used to Slade's passing and distribution, forgive me for being hard to imagine what it would be like for him to be on the front line, but looking at it now Come on he did a good job."

Deco's long pass was very precise and ingenious. When Cyril received the ball, he was already in Lisbon's half. The ball was bouncing obediently under his feet. With a push, a pull, and another change of direction to accelerate, he directly threw away the defender who had been tortured by Del Rey in the first half.

As the spiritual pillar of Sporting Lisbon on the field, Sapinto is a man with a bit of a lion-like fighting spirit, but half an hour of observation is enough for Cyril to notice some other things. For example, this tenacious defender seems to be injured. ?

No wonder Mourinho told Delray to "watch Sapinto more" in the first half of the game. It seems that the husband has also discovered this, so he will hold on to the opponent.

But Cyril discovered in the first half of the observation that this is not a man who will succumb to the pain, let alone give up chasing after a defensive failure, but it is undeniable that the existence of the injury has accelerated his recovery. Physical consumption also slowed down his running speed and on-the-spot explosive power.

That is to say, as long as Cyril gets rid of him by relying on his speed, there is basically no need to worry about facing this defender who is equally strong in strength and will.

In other words, at this moment, this man has become the best breakthrough in Sporting Lisbon's defense.

After breaking through Sapinto, Cyril's attack was quickly intercepted by the other two defenders of Sporting Lisbon.

Cyril was not discouraged either. Of course there was a reason why Sporting Lisbon could block Porto's half-hour-long attack. Naturally, it was impossible for Cyril to break through by himself, but when the ball returned to his feet again, Intentionally or unintentionally, Cyril walked around to Sapinto again.

Looking at the lingering Porto new winger in front of him, the spiritual leader of Sporting Lisbon looked very helpless: "Brother, you can't do this."

He was tortured by Del Rey for more than half an hour, and finally the big man went down, but a younger, faster and more impactful winger came. Damn, is it really okay for you to bully the wounded so unscrupulously!