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Although Mourinho did not predict the result of the next round in the press conference after the game, Brito knew that this guy was just pretending to be a big shot, because after the game, Mourinho had already started to think about who their next opponent would be.

"My team will not lose three goals in a row in France and not score a goal. The fate of this round has been determined at the Dragon Stadium."

This is what Mourinho said to Brito privately. According to this guy's personality, it is impossible to lose the second round.

And the state of the entire Porto team is really amazing. At this moment, Mourinho vowed that he would not let the next game have an accident.

He would never allow his team to make such a mistake. Now he is thinking more about who he will face after entering the semi-finals.

However, according to the situation after the first round, AC Milan, which beat Deportivo La Coruna 4:1 at home, is most likely to become the next opponent.

It's Italian again. After watching the game between AC Milan and Deportivo La Coruna, Mourinho was very troubled. AC Milan is indeed a bit too strong.

Before the start of this season, in order to promote the stadium for the European Championship, AC Milan played a friendly match with Porto at the Dragon Stadium.

Although Porto did not play with all its main players in that game, little guys like Lin Yi did not play, and the game was lost 0:2.

In that game, AC Milan did not attack hard, but Inzaghi and Shevchenko tried their hand at it, and they broke Porto's defense.

The Ukrainian's impact made Carvalho helpless, and the other beast who lived on the offside line was even more cunning and scary.

You should know that AC Milan did not play with all its main players at that time. At least half of their main players did not appear, but this was enough for them to win the game.

You can say that it was just a friendly match, and the players on both sides did not play hard, but you have to admit that AC Milan has an advantage in many aspects.

What Mourinho saw was not the simple result, but the clear-cut offense and defense of AC Milan, which was simply natural.

Ancelotti has trained such a red and black army in his own way. With orderly offense and defense, they become difficult to beat.

This is the feeling of a mature team, ending the whole game in a leisurely rhythm and in their own way.

It won't give you too many opportunities. Even if there are occasional mistakes, they will be made up quickly, and they will not appear flustered and nervous in the game.

Anyway, from the beginning to the end of that friendly match, Mourinho had a feeling of having nowhere to exert his strength. That feeling was very bad and unforgettable.

Not to mention that AC Milan's lineup has big players such as Maldini, Nesta, and Shevchenko, even their substitutes are a level better than Porto. It took them less than half an hour to destroy Deportivo La Coruna. This is the terrifying feeling that the powerful AC Milan brings to people.

Although Mourinho once led Porto to kill Lazio from Italy last season, this time even he himself is not sure.

"If I really meet these Milanese, I may not know what the final result will be." Mourinho said while watching the game video.

This is not Mourinho showing weakness, but he really lacks the confidence to let the current Porto team challenge such a giant team continuously.

AC Milan is not Manchester United. It has a complete team and strong firepower, and these teams from Italy are too accustomed to this two-round knockout match.

The Italians will never take risks easily on the road. That world-class defense line will never leave too many offensive opportunities for the Porto team.

With the current offensive ability of the Porto team, it is indeed quite difficult to break a gap in the AC Milan defense line.

A striker like McCarthy probably won't get any advantage in front of Nesta. The guy who even Ronaldo has a headache with is too tough.

The opponent's midfielder is not given for nothing. A partner like Gattuso and Pirlo is difficult to bite off even if Lin Yi and Deco are added.

Add to that the sharp offensive iron triangle of Kaka, Inzaghi and Shevchenko, MY GOD, even Mourinho is scratching his head now.

The 4:1 victory over Deportivo La Coruna is the best interpretation of AC Milan's strong offensive line. Those Italians are quite crazy.

Facing the third place in the La Liga standings, they can still attack like a whirlwind. AC Milan is really a headache.

If they really meet the opponent head-on, Mourinho is a little unsure about the semi-finals. Can they win? This is probably the first time he has raised a question.

When facing Manchester United, Mourinho is confident that he can kill the opponent, because the Red Devils have obvious loopholes in the back line, but AC Milan does not.

It can even be said that AC Milan's back line is basically equivalent to the Italian national team, which is the hardest type in reinforced concrete.

But even if you worry, there is no way, after all, what is coming will always come, but before that, Mourinho must go away to win Lyon.

There are still two weeks, when the second round ends, it will be decided who can enter the threshold of the top four. Anyway, Porto is determined to win now.

Porto is not used to giving up a good situation. For them, now is the time to create history. They are about to enter the semi-finals.

As for the experience of winning the championship in 1986, the current players have not experienced it, but they are creating their own history.

But before the start of the Champions League, Porto still has two rounds of league games to play. Mourinho's requirement is to win all of them and strive to win the championship in advance.

Porto has opened up an 18-point gap with the second-placed Benfica team, and there are only the last 8 rounds of the league. They only need to win two more games.

In fact, this is a result without any suspense. Even the management department of the Portuguese Super League is ready to send the league trophy to Porto.

But Mourinho needs to eliminate the last theoretical possibility. In two games, they must get 6 points and end the battle 6 rounds in advance.

The beasts of the Porto team did not disappoint Mourinho. On the fourth day after defeating Lyon, they defeated Ivora 4:1.

Brazilian teenager Alberto started the game and continued his wonderful performance in the league. Deco and Lin Yi contributed two assists respectively.

Alberto scored two goals in the penalty area, Maniche and Costinha scored with long shots respectively. This was a hearty victory.

The opponent they suppressed throughout the game only shot once, but this shot actually scored. Carvalho's butt became the unlucky assist.

After losing the ball, Baia kicked Carvalho's big butt, "You should find someone to cut this damn thing immediately."

Throughout the game, Mourinho has been sitting very quietly on the sidelines. Now the Portuguese Super League is no longer difficult for him.

If you want to get six points, there will be no mistakes. This is the dominance Mourinho wants. Even if it is not the main lineup, the result is the same.

A week later, with most of the lineup being substitutes, Porto easily defeated their opponent 2:0 at Moreirense's home ground, relying on Alenichev's wing breakthroughs, scoring one goal in each half, and completely killed the last theoretical suspense about the Portuguese Super League championship.

Dallei, who returned from injury, received two passes in the middle, and two light shots made him follow McCarthy in the Portuguese Super League's scorer list.

Now the Portuguese Super League's assists and scorer list have been dominated by Porto, and even the young player Alberto has jumped to fifth place in the scorer list.

The number of assists by Deco and Lin Yi is even several streets ahead of their opponents. According to their opponents, these two guys are just brushing up their data in the league.

Six rounds in advance, and only one loss so far, this is Porto's strong performance this season, and they have completed the defense of the championship.

Before the end of the season, they had already made their total goal difference reach 54, leading the second place Benfica by 27, exactly double. Porto's road to defending the title was completed completely by stepping on the corpses of these opponents. They dominated the league like a crushing force.

When defending the title successfully, Mourinho did not choose to celebrate, and even the Porto players did not seem very excited. At this moment, they were very quiet.

"We have already won one of the two championships we scheduled. The next one is the Portuguese Cup championship. I don't want it to fall into someone else's hands."

This is Mourinho's response to Villarinho. Didn't the fat guy say that Porto would wait for Benfica in the final of the cup?

OK, no problem, we will wait for you with all our strength. Porto has plenty of energy to play with you. If we can't kill you by then, we will take your last name!

Compared with Porto, Villarinho will obviously regret why he said so much nonsense at the beginning. It was purely looking for trouble.

Benfica is now only one point ahead of the third-placed Sporting Lisbon. Who knows how long this slight advantage will last, maybe the last round. The main players like Simao and Gomez will not get enough rest time at all, and they must fight hard for every game.

Porto now has the confidence to say that they have six rounds of rest time. By then, how much chance will Benfica have of winning in the cup final?

Villalinho, the idiotic fat man, always provokes when he should not speak, and this time, the same is true.

Although Porto cannot win the League Cup yet, their outstanding performance in the Champions League is already dazzling enough.

This may be the best result achieved by a Portuguese club in the Champions League in the past decade. They are now only one step away from the semi-finals.

In fact, it is not only Benfica that is being dragged down by the league schedule. Even Lyon has encountered the same trouble in the French Ligue 1.

Before the away challenge to Porto, Lyon was still in the leading position in Ligue 1, and they were five points ahead of the second place Monaco.

But no one expected that they would lose away games, Monaco lost to Real Madrid 2:4, and Lyon lost to Porto 0:2.

From the score point of view, there is no difference, both lost, but Monaco scored two more away goals, but both were on the edge of the cliff.

But back in the league, Monaco won two consecutive victories very neatly, but Lyon fell into an inexplicable trough and suffered two consecutive losses.

Not only did Lyon lose the game, but they also lost a wing attacking stalwart like Gove in the game, which is what makes Le Guen most angry.

Originally, in the match against Porto, Gove was the only player who performed normally, but now, even this normal performance is gone.

They were also overtaken by Monaco in the league standings by one point, and even Paris Saint-Germain, which ranked third, was only two points behind them.

What made Lyon most depressed was that after they lost to Marseille in the second game, the tens of thousands of Marseille fans at the Velodrome Stadium kept humiliating the defending champions of Ligue 1 with songs, "You are nouveau riche, you will never become a wealthy club, you are just a bunch of poor people."

This kind of singing filled every corner of the stadium. Marseille, the former overlord of Ligue 1, was completing its revenge by humiliating its opponents in this way.

Can't win the league championship? It doesn't matter, as long as those Lyon people can get out of the Velodrome Stadium in a mess.

"You will never win three consecutive championships, and the Champions League will soon close its doors to you!" This was the roar of the Marseilles after the game.

This is a naked humiliation and hatred. After Lyon won two consecutive championships, the relationship between them and Marseille has long been like fire and water.

Even if Porto had ravaged Marseille in the group stage, compared with this kind of hatred in the league, it is no longer important at this moment.

It is not surprising that Lyon suffered such treatment when they lost the game away from home, but they did not expect that they would lose so badly.

0:3, basically a complete defeat, and just over ten minutes after the start of the game, Gove was injured in the knee by the strong Drogba when pressing.

When Gove was limping off the field, Le Guen realized that their situation had become very dangerous, and the opponent's attack was like a tide.

Lyon completely lost the ferocity of sweeping the opponent 4:1 at home in the first round of the league. They did not even organize a decent attack throughout the game.

Juninho's two long shots may be the strongest counterattack of the Lyon team, but such a counterattack looks more like a futile struggle.

Drogba was even more stubbornly attacked by Edmilson twice in the attack. Both of his headers were completed under Edmilson's defense.

Coupe no longer had the superman performance at the Dragon Stadium. Both headers flew into the goal by rubbing his fingertips. Coupe was helpless.

Drogba's toughness has attracted too many people's attention. There is basically no suspense that this Ivorian elephant will leave Ligue 1. Now it's just a countdown.

However, even if he is destined not to appear in the Marseille team's lineup next season, he also used his tusks to pick up the Lyon team before he left.

And Edmilson has become the most tragic figure in three consecutive weeks of games. This back gate has now completely become a big sieve.

Aulas may be the first time to criticize the team's performance after the game. In his opinion, this is the worst performance of Lyon this season.

However, the club president's criticism cannot bring a high morale to the Lyon team. Including the Champions League, they have lost three games in a row.

For Le Guen, this is the most depressed period for Lyon in more than a year since he coached, and the beginning of this failure was in the Champions League.

It can be said that the battle at the Dragon Stadium completely destroyed the prestige of the Lyon team. They were hit back to their original form by the blow of Porto.

In the subsequent games, they never got out of the frustration of the defeat. It was originally a good situation, but now it has all changed.

Now Le Guen is not only worried about the Champions League game in a week, but he is also depressed because he is behind Monaco in the league standings.

They have been eliminated in the French Cup. If they lose the league championship again at the end of the season, then Le Guen's life will be very sad, especially losing to Monaco will push him to the edge of dismissal. These two southern clubs will become the new leaders of Ligue 1 and rivals for a while.

If they lose to their direct competitors, then Aulas is definitely not a generous guy, and Le Guen may have to worry about his job.

Unlike Porto, which won the league championship in advance, Lyon now has too many things to worry about, and it is far less relaxed than those Portuguese.

Mourinho doesn't care how embarrassed the opponent is. The more the opponent loses, the better life will be for Porto, so why not.

Anyway, when Porto arrived at Lyon's Gerland Stadium in full force, Mourinho made a request to his players.

"The 90-minute game starts at 0:0. I don't need you to consider the result of the last game. Here, at the Gerland Stadium, beat the opponent!"

When he arrived at the game, Mourinho would no longer consider who he would face in the next game. Winning the game in front of him was the most important thing.

As for how many noisy Lyon fans there were in the Gerland Stadium, he didn't care at all. Anyway, he would not give the opponent any chance in this game.

Reversal? Mourinho has a standard answer to this hypothesis, NO! In the minds of the Porto team, they were the only ones who could reverse the situation.

When Lin Yi stepped onto the grass of the Gerland Stadium, he had only one thought in his mind: to defeat the French here and win the ticket to the Champions League semi-finals.

As for who the next opponent will be, that is not a question for him to consider, but even if it is those Italians, he will show his toughness.

Just like what he did in the Dragon Stadium, Gerland will also tremble under his feet tonight. . .

Comeback? Ask those Frenchmen, do they believe it?

(Alas, watching the Celtics play now, they are so stable, even a little desperate, a little effort, the game is over.)