[football] walk side by side

Mourinho walked into the dressing room with a happy and relaxed mood.

At the moment when Claudio Lopez scored a goal, Mourinho's heart sank instantly, because he was too aware of the style of the Italian team. At that time, his heart was almost Totally disappointed.It's not that I didn't think that Porto would overtake the score in the first half, but this kind of thinking is just a thought. It is too difficult to attack the Italian team that is good at defense with two goals in less than half an hour.

But his players did.

They were abrupt in the later time, allowing Lazio to swallow two bombs.

The impeccable performance of the players made Mourinho rarely smile when he was sitting in the locker room. What made him even more satisfied was that when the players walked in one after another, none of them were proud of it. Yangyang, on the contrary, his players were very calm.

It was at this time that Mourinho was very sure: Porto must be the champion of the UEFA Cup!

This is a team that is qualified to win the championship no matter in terms of strength, mentality and demeanor!

"To be honest, I really want to praise you, because you have achieved the best situation I hoped for." Mourinho said slowly: "But at this time, I have no way to praise you. You guys, because the game is not over yet, I can't put too much pressure on you."

Mourinho is not the kind of head coach who likes to praise him in front of the players himself. It can even be said that he almost never does it. The only place where he can see his compliments are various newspapers, but this often makes people The players themselves have a sense of doubt as to whether the head coach has really praised him. After all, everyone knows that those newspapers often forge words that do not exist.

At this moment, although Mourinho made it clear in his words that he did not want to praise, everyone understood what he meant.

This rare compliment made everyone puff up their chests involuntarily, with a look of pride on their faces, not the pride of being ahead of their opponents, but the pride of their own strength, the pride of being recognized by the head coach.

"So..." Looking at the proud disciples in front of him, Mourinho couldn't help smiling: "Can you please give me a chance to praise you after the game?"

"No problem sir," Costa said with a big laugh, "you just have to think of your compliments in advance!"

Compared with the high morale of the Porto players, the Lazio players were frustrated.

In any case, it is not an easy thing to take the lead first and then be overtaken by two consecutive goals in the shortest time, and when the person who breaks their player is still a player who is almost younger than them When I was a ten-year-old boy, the feeling of displeasure in my heart became even more obvious.

When they opened the door of the locker room and walked in one after another, at this moment, the head coach Felipe who returned to the locker room before them was already sitting in front of the tactical board, thinking hard alone.

No one is willing to lose, let alone when the UEFA Cup title is within reach.

Everyone sat in silence, waiting for the head coach to order the tactics for the second half of the game.

At this time, Felipe already had a certain idea.

In the first half, Mourinho's substitution can be said to have an immediate effect, because Cyril's appearance completely made up for the shortcomings of insufficient midfield supplies, and greatly strengthened Porto's offensive ability in the frontcourt. To live in Porto, one must freeze Cyril Slade.

And it's not that hard to do that.

Yes, Cyril Slade's judgment of timing is indeed very good, which is even far superior to those more mature and experienced midfielders, but it is undeniable that the constraints caused by age are still on him. keeping it.

For example, physical fitness?

Thinking of this, Felipe showed a very shallow smile. He stood up and walked under the tactical board. While writing and drawing on the tactical board, he said to his players without looking back: "In the second half, we Hit like this..."

In the second half of the change of sides, both sides played extremely fiercely.

Mourinho looked down and couldn't help frowning.

Since this season, Porto's offense has been known for its ferocity and ferocity, but Lazio is different. The ferocity they are showing at the moment is more like a tactical change, and this change can be said to clearly point to a people.

Cyril Slade.

It's not that Lazio has become deliberately targeting Cyril alone, but compared to Deco and others who have never been defeated in physical confrontation, Lazio's level of physical confrontation is not unheard of in the past, and they have already experienced it. Become seasoned.But Cyril's own age is there, and the young man's body bones have not fully grown at all. Once there is a physical collision with Lazio's defenders, he will undoubtedly be at a disadvantage.

In fact, this situation is not uncommon.

In the past in the Portuguese Super League, it was not that no team targeted Cyril’s general physical weakness and used him as a breakthrough to play Porto, but there has been little success. For one thing, Cyril played as a front midfielder or a midfielder. , It is not easy to freeze players in the back position. Secondly, according to Mourinho's observation, although Cyril is not strong enough, he is smart enough. Many times when the opponent's player comes aggressively, he can often be like a loach. Generally dodged.

If it weren't for this, Mourinho would not use him as the main substitute, and let him play freely on the court.

like now

Seeing that he was about to be passed by Cyril, the helpless Lazio defender thought about what his head coach said, and simply ran directly towards Cyril.But at this moment, Cyril passed the ball to Del Rey who was responding in front, and he turned to the side, removing most of the force of the Lazio defender's collision.

It's just that the impact brought by that strong big guy still knocked Cyril to the ground.

Mourinho naturally sees all this in his eyes.

So far, Lazio's fouls are still within the range he can tolerate, and Cyril's dexterity is enough to protect him from being hit by a solid, um... there is no need to replace Cyril for the time being, but if If Lazio's actions were a little too much, then in order to protect Cyril, Mourinho had to replace him no matter what the score was.

But at this time, the whistle from the referee suddenly resounded throughout the audience.

Um?Mourinho looked up subconsciously. At this moment, the entire stadium has become a mess. The players of Lazio and Porto have formed two groups with the team as the area, standing face to face, which looks very similar. The trend of pushing and shoving developed. When Mourinho looked over, he happened to see captain Jorge Costa angrily reaching out and pushing the opponent's defender.

what happened?

Mourinho hadn't had time to get angry with Costa's impulsiveness, because his eyes quickly shifted to Cyril on the other side. This discovery made his pupils shrink, and his whole face changed!

Cyril sat on the grass with a look of forbearance and pain on his face.

He didn't move, didn't pay attention, or stop the Porto people on the other side who were trying to fight with Lazio, but this kind of scene made Mourinho's heart sink, regardless of the bullshit rules that the coach can't go on the pitch , while calling the team doctor who was on standby, he raised his foot and rushed to the lawn.

If it was just an ordinary injury, Cyril would definitely stand up immediately and continue the game, and he would not turn a blind eye to the extremely irrational situation of his teammates and do nothing. There is only one reason for him not to interfere at all, and that is, this time The pain is not ordinary!

The referee was the first to arrive at the field. The referee first gave a red card to the Lazio defender who charged, and then took out a yellow card from his pocket and handed it to Costa, who had been clamoring to beat him up. , This yellow card made Costa even more angry, and at the same time awakened Costinia's rationality. The latter hurriedly hugged Costa, and dragged the captain away from the referee.

On the other side, Deco and Delray squatted in front of Cyril, asking nervously: "Cyril, are you okay? Where is the pain?" Due to their different physical fitness, the players may be more or less There will be some injuries, but generally speaking, the size of the injury will vary depending on the body part of the injury.

Jankauskas stood beside Cyril, trying to help him up, but was stopped by the team doctor who arrived in time: "Wait, don't touch him!" The team doctor looked very nervous, after all, sometimes , the layman's disturbance will only make the injury worse.

Mourinho didn't ask any questions. He turned his head and said a few words to the team doctor, and called two people to carry Cyril down. In fact, there is nothing to ask about this situation. Cyril has always done things properly. This competition has always been as long as it can last, and the problem this time is probably not a trivial matter.

At the same time, the referee quickly quelled the chaos on the field. He separated the players on both sides. After making sure that they were honest, he asked Mourinho to leave seriously. Mourinho nodded. , and no longer had the idea of ​​putting pressure on the referee. At this moment, he was still concerned about Cyril's injury. Facing the referee's request to leave, he left the field very readily.

"You warm up and get ready to play." Back at the coach's bench, Mourinho first gave instructions to Depero on the bench, and then focused all his attention on the emergency treatment for Cyril. On the team doctor: "Mr. Lyle, how is Cyril's injury?"