Football: The strongest center in history

Chapter 177: One of the troikas of the Portuguese Premier League: Sporting Lisbon

Ronaldo’s recent frantic form has raised concerns about his performances in the Europa League.

April 21, Europa League semi-finals, first leg.

Paris Saint-Germain away to Sporting Lisbon.

For Ronaldo, who was a rookie in football half a year ago.

This Europa League gave Ronaldo a lot of firsts.

For example, the first time I stepped on the English stage, the first time I played against a German team, and now I came to Portugal as a player for the first time.

Portugal has a very bad memory for Ronaldo.

He and his father were once cheated out of a thousand euros here.

He still remembers what it was like.

At that time, it was really a failure, embarrassing.

But now, he can be regarded as a success.

In the entire European continent, he is also the number one person.

At least in the list of what “rising stars of the 90s” are evaluated.

His name is indispensable.

Moreover, this is still the Europa League semi-final!

At this stage, the event has received more attention.

Ronaldo decided to give a good show at this event and let the whole of Europe see how good he really is!

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Sporting Lisbon is known to many fans in the country. 、

After all, this is the parent team of one of the two strongest players in football today – Cristiano Ronaldo.

To be able to develop a player like Cristiano Ronaldo, Sporting Lisbon’s youth academy can be said to be very good.

Even if placed throughout Europe.

Sporting Lisbon’s Alcochete Academy is ranked well.

It can be the same youth base as La Masia in Barcelona and Castile in Real Madrid.

For Portugal as a whole, this youth base is definitely more important for Portuguese football than Real Madrid’s Castile is for Spain.

In the current Portuguese national team of twenty-three squads.

From Alcochet, there were sixteen.

It occupies half of the country.

It can be said.

Sporting Lisbon’s glory as one of the Portuguese troika is built on their brilliant youth academy achievements.

But nowadays.

The team’s situation in the Portuguese Premier League began to decline and it was in the game with rivals Ben. Porto is at a disadvantage in the competition.

So, this time the team reached the Europa League half.

Sporting Lisbon fans hope that the team will win the title and regain the upper hand in the rivalry with its two arch-rivals at home.

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And for Sporting Lisbon’s head coach Ricardo Sapinto.

Paris Saint-Germain is undoubtedly very good at it.

But the pressure on Sapinto is also enormous.

The team is currently fourth in the Portuguese Premier League and already has hopes of competing for the Portuguese Premier League title.

And the team has recently gone a five-game winless streak, which has brought the team into a trough, and even the third place in the league has been robbed by Braga.

For Sapinto, who only became manager of Atletico Lisbon in February in the middle of the season, the pressure he has faced in recent times is unimaginable.

Having lost his hopes of winning the league, Sapinto can only transfer his hopes of competing for a trophy to the battlefield of the Europa League.

In order to make the team play this game well, he even made a large-scale rotation in the last Portuguese Super League game so that the main players could rest and recover, which shows the importance he attaches to this game.

Sapinto and his coaching team have studied the video of Paris Saint-Germain matches many times.

Ronaldo is clearly a figure to ignore.

He scored fifteen goals in the Europa League!

It is just two goals away from the Europa League single-season goal record set by Porto’s Falca for 17 goals in a single season.

In this season’s Europa League, Falcao, who moved from Porto back to Atletico Madrid, was also a big killer in the Europa League.

Falcao scored eleven goals, four behind Ronaldo.

Against such a goalscorer who scored a bombardment in the Europa League, Sapinto could not ignore it in any way.

After taking a closer look at Ronado.

The pressure on Sapinto was even greater.

A center forward with a good header, the ability to turn around and shoot with his back outside the box, and a long-range shot…. How to contain him?

Sapinto felt.

The only good thing is that the skill of back singles seems to be newly developed by Ronaldo, which is not very mature yet, and it is a bit of a bit of a slight twist.

At the same time, his technique on his feet is still rough, and he has too much physical contact when attacking, which will show his strength, but it will also make the referee target him – he fouls more in attack.

This may be a point to consider.

But look at the players you have.

It seems that no one can compete with Ronaldo in strength…

The team’s two main central defenders.

Polga is only one hundred and eighty centimeters tall.

What about Sandao?

He was a little taller, one hundred and eighty-seven centimeters.

But both centre-backs weigh about the same amount, around eighty kilograms.

It’s not a level with Ronado!

Face a power-type, impact-shaped center like Ronaldo.

Sporting Lisbon has nothing to match.

So now Sapinto has to rack his brain to think about Sporting Lisbon’s strategy for this match.

To curb Ronaldo.

It is still necessary to find a way to cut off the Paris Saint-Germain midfielder and his connection.

This center forward, who is not good at dribbling and has poor personal ball control skills, once there is no support from the midfield, is like a tank without oil, and a pile of scrap iron is no different!

But how do you cut him off from the midfield?

Sapinto felt.

It is still necessary to start with the three players who passed the ball to Ronaldo and made the cannonball. _

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