Football No. 10: God's Perspective

Portuguese Super League, the top domestic football competition in Portugal.

In the first match, as the defending champion, Porto, sitting at the home stadium of the Dragon Stadium, accepted the challenge from the newly promoted Famalicao team.

Coach Aola continued the starting lineup of last season.

Wang Pu, Silva, and Muto entered the 18-man roster for this game and were on standby on the bench.

There is still a big gap in strength between the two sides.

Having just been promoted from a low-level league, and the first game was against the last champion, the Famalicao team could not keep up with the rhythm on the field.

The score of 4-0 at halftime announced that the second half entered garbage time.

The team's top scorer, Edu, scored twice with his head and feet, easily and happily, and the opponent couldn't even organize a decent confrontation. In terms of data, Porto also showed the super strength of the class bully, with a 59% ball possession rate, firmly occupying the initiative of the game.

Twenty minutes into the second half, two more goals were scored, and the game was completely suspenseful.

Ola waved his flag, pointed at Silva and Muto on the bench, and replaced two young players at once, replacing Edu and David who were off the field.

It can be seen that the two were still a little nervous, and they were out of tune with the team's rhythm, and even made several mistakes, which made Ola on the sidelines shake his head frequently.

The Porto fans on the sidelines were also disappointed with Muto and Silva, the two rising stars of the youth team.

Such performance made Ola wonder whether his practice of replacing two young players at once was too radical.

There were only ten minutes left in the game, and the Porto team, which was leading by a large score, did not intend to make another substitution.

Wang Pu, who was warming up on the sidelines and ready to play at any time, began to get impatient, but to his disappointment, he did not get the coach's call until the final whistle sounded.

Facing the newly promoted team, a big win is not enough to be happy.

Instead, the poor performance of the two young players who were promoted to the sky attracted media criticism.

Some media even directed the topic to Wang Pei, who did not play, questioning whether his ability could match Porto's almost breaking new player salary level.

The pressure of public opinion made Wang Pei very distressed and aggrieved.

He did nothing, but had to pay for the poor performance of Silva and Muto. What's the reason?

Even in depression, you have to accept reality. This is what professional players have to face.

One game a week, the pace is fast.

In the second round of the league, Porto played against the weak team Tondela, a team that has been hovering in the relegation zone for many years and is slightly stronger than the newly promoted team.

I thought it would be easy to win, but the progress of the game really made Ola sweat. Ten minutes into the game, Porto's central defender Rum himself gave the opponent a single-handed goal with a stupid disappointment and fell behind.

In the second half, the whole Tondela team defended, with five defenders and wingers only half the field, leaving only one forward in front, surrounding their own goal with three layers inside and three layers outside.

Iron bucket formation, bus, breaking dense defense is a world-class problem, which makes countless famous coaches helpless.

Even with an overwhelming advantage, it is only blooming but not bearing fruit. As time goes by, Porto's players begin to become impatient.

After almost the entire game, the game was deadlocked. In the last stage of injury time, relying on the strong point of corner kicks, central defender Rum scored a header to make up for his mistake and luckily equalized the score.

In the end, facing a weak team, the defending champion was tied.

After the game, Porto was criticized by the media.

"The defending champion is lost."

"The defending champion capsized in the gutter."

"Such a performance is not worthy of the championship"

...

Various sarcastic titles brought great pressure to the club.

The third round of the game cannot afford to lose.

Ola sent all the main players to win the game with a score of 2-0. The process was bumpy and the goals were scored at the beginning and end. It is hard to say that it is satisfactory. In terms of state, it is still a little worse than last year.

Under the pressure of results, Ola is more cautious in using young players. Silva, Muto and Wang Po did not get a chance to play in the second and third rounds.

Time flies. More than a month has passed in the blink of an eye, and the league has reached the sixth round.

Porto ranks fifth in the standings with 3 wins and 3 draws, 10 points behind Benfica, the leader.

In the days when he did not play, Wang Po worked hard.

However, the quality of this training is still a level lower than the intensity of real combat.

Not only that, if a football player does not have a long time without a game, it is not good for maintaining his state.

Although there are constraints on the playing time in the contract, if the other party really wants to take advantage of the loophole, there are still many ways.

The unsatisfactory results made the atmosphere in the team begin to become subtle.

As the captain of the team, David is still very prestigious among the players. He is very dissatisfied with the recent deployment of the head coach Ola, and puts pressure on the club to let him leave on the grounds of results.

Ola was very angry when he heard the news. Not only did he remove David from the captaincy, he also drove him out of the training ground and banned him from the team's roster.

Killing a chicken to scare the monkey, shooting the leading bird.

The authority of the coach cannot be questioned.

Losing David is a huge blow to the team's strength. The position of the back midfielder is very important for attacking and defending. One mistake will lead to a situation where the attack is paralyzed and the defense collapses.

In the absence of reinforcements for the team, the candidate to replace David must be carefully selected.

There is no way, Silva was forced to do it.

The first game was quite good, but after two or three rounds of adaptation, he became more and more outstanding and more and more comfortable.

He is indeed an SS-level player.

This discovery also made Porto fans excited, and he became their new favorite.

As for Wang Po, who they once shouted long live, he had long been forgotten because he sat on the bench.

The next two months were definitely the darkest time in Wang Po's life. There were no games, and only training accompanied him.

Silva's outstanding performance made all the resources in the team tilt towards him and focus on training.

Without the thorn, coupled with the gradual formation of tactics, Porto also got on the right track, and the results soared. There was only one point difference from Benfica, the top position, and it ranked second in the standings.

As for Muto, Wang Po had long been forgotten in the corner.

Starting from the eighth round, he couldn't even make the 18-man roster for the game.

There was no need to think about the higher-level European war, and even the cup competition was not included, which made Wang Po discouraged.

"I think we should make a new choice."

In the dormitory, Hamburg's expression was very serious.

Just now, he had communicated with the club's top management and coaching staff. The answers they gave were not satisfactory, and even humiliating. He felt fooled.

Now the coaching staff means that the playing time within the contract can only be slowly found in the cup competition.

This statement undoubtedly completely killed Wang Pei's league dream.

Obviously, in the eyes of Ola's team, Silva, who has already risen to the top, is the focus of their team's training, and the strength he has shown has also repaid the trust of the coaching staff.