Midfielder
Chapter 169
The battle between Benfica and Porto should have been full of blood, especially when competing for the championship title.
You know, the hatred between the two clubs is only slightly worse than the old grudge between Benfica and Sporting Lisbon.
As one of the top three Portuguese clubs, they have been in a hostile relationship for at least decades, especially in the past ten years. The hand-to-hand combat between them is staged almost every season. Even if the opponent is stronger than themselves, they will fight to the death with their opponents.
The reason is that they don't want the opponent to win the game. This is related to their honor. Anyway, no one wants to bow their heads and admit defeat in front of their opponents.
This is especially true for direct competitors in this league. There have been decades of hatred, and no one wants to be stepped on by others.
But this time, Benfica has lost its blood before the game. The lineup is not complete, the morale is low, and even they have no confidence.
The most important thing is that in the past two seasons, when they met Porto, they never won their opponents at all, which is fatal.
This season, whether at home or away, they suffered a big loss from Porto, and were defeated by their opponents twice.
And that was not an unexpected result, but a real contest, with no casualties, and both sides fielded the strongest lineup.
In the tit-for-tat match, they were pressed to the ground and kicked hard on the buttocks several times by their opponents. Even if they were a stick, they knew their own weight.
This psychological disadvantage caused the game to start to tilt before it started, not to mention seeing Braga being bloodbathed by Porto.
Although Benfica has been recruiting troops this season, it can be regarded as the most willing club to spend money in the Portuguese league, but such a big money-spending has not greatly improved their strength. These guys are still tragic and can only be the second place for a long time.
Villalinho, this damn guy, has almost been fixed by all media as the most failed club chairman in the history of Benfica.
He almost spent all the wealth accumulated by the previous presidents, but the best result he could achieve was to compete for the runner-up in the league and cup.
This time, this guy was able to boast before the game that they were going to win the final, which was nothing more than this fat guy giving himself a way out.
Because the entire Benfica team's top management has begun to spread the news that they want to abolish him, and Villalinho knows that this is not groundless.
If he can't let the team win a championship title this season, then the position of club president will be replaced.
Azevedo, who was driven out of office by him using behind-the-scenes means, is now planning to fight for election restoration, which is definitely not good news.
But Villalinho now has no results and no benefits, and even his allies are about to give up this fat guy.
In fact, the biggest sin of this unfortunate guy is not to keep Benfica away from the championship, but that he personally left the chance to win the championship to those Porto people.
"That's a damn traitor." When those Benfica fans saw Lin Yi and Mourinho leading the Porto team to advance triumphantly in various competitions on TV, they wanted to take out their pistols and blow the fat man Villalinho into a pile of scum.
100,000 euros gave the assist king of this league to someone else, and it was given to his opponent! Only an idiot can do this!
Although the players of the Benfica team really had no hope for the Portuguese Cup final before the game started.
But before the team came on the field, the fat man Villalinho used his poor eloquence to motivate the team to continue to fight with the opponent in the locker room. However, even Gomez, who has been in good form and scored many goals recently, has no confidence to kill the Porto team.
"We must learn to face the facts and admit the gap. This season, Porto is one era behind all its competitors."
Although Gomez was just chatting privately with a reporter he was familiar with when he said this, it can be heard that this represents the views of many people.
This is not a statement of self-abandonment, but those competitors are speechless about Porto's abnormal multi-line combat capability.
Damn, three-line combat did not kill these crazy beasts! Mourinho's ability to control the team and his keen sense of personnel rotation made those head coaches melancholy, especially the head coaches of Benfica and Sporting Lisbon.
Look at Porto, damn, even with eleven substitutes, they can guarantee a win in the game. How can we compare with them!
Anyway, Mourinho has almost become the public enemy of the Portuguese coaching community, even his father is included. This son is really awesome.
Now when people call Jose, they are talking about Mourinho, not his father, which makes Mourinho's father a little melancholy.
Even those team owners and club chairmen ruthlessly say when they fire the head coach, "If you have the ability, you can lead me to a Porto!"
This trick works every time, and any coach who encounters this sentence will be speechless. How to distinguish? Who is it that you really can't lead such a team?
It has been like this since the beginning of the season. Porto has almost left the others far behind. The blue and white army led by Mourinho has never left anyone a chance.
Those crazy Porto people's desire for victory has reached a perverted level. There is no one who doesn't want to win the game.
From the number of fans who arrived at the game site to watch the League Cup final, it can be seen that Benfica has long been desperate for this game.
You know, the venue of this final is set in Lisbon, but it is the home stadium of Benfica's mortal enemy Sporting Lisbon.
Originally, the Dragon Stadium and the Light Stadium were both good venues for the game, but considering the two sides of the final, they had to choose another venue for the game.
The Alvalade Stadium has a capacity of more than 50,000 people. At least two-thirds of them are Porto people this time, while Benfica people seem to be very few.
Indeed, after all, no one wants to watch their team being ravaged by another enemy in the stadium of their mortal enemy. This is related to the issue of face.
This time, even those fans who are loyal to Benfica chose to watch the paid TV broadcast at home instead of shouting at the scene.
The most important thing is that they don't want to be dumb at the scene or be ridiculed by the supporters of the competitive team, because even they themselves don't believe that Benfica can win.
It's not that these fans are self-deprecating, but they have been beaten by Porto in the past two seasons. It's too difficult to beat them.
Mature style of play and high morale are the threats that Benfica sees from their opponents. This game did not belong to them from the beginning.
Facts also proved the idea of Benfica. When the whistle of the Portuguese Cup final sounded, Porto set off a wave of attack.
All that appeared on the TV broadcast were the blue and white uniforms of the Porto team, and the red uniforms of Benfica were completely submerged.
Supporting role, absolute supporting role, this is the fate of the Benfica team. I don't know what the fat guy Villalinho feels in the stands now.
Anyway, Da Costa can now open his mouth and laugh unscrupulously, especially after McCarthy scored the opponent's goal just three minutes after the start.
With the current defense of the Benfica team, it is not that they can't defend the goal, but the entire Benfica team has long lost the spirit to continue to compete with the opponent.
So when Deco passed the ball low to McCarthy in front of the penalty area, the Benfica defenders were even a little distracted.
McCarthy's attack this time was almost a one-on-one shot facing the goalkeeper. The only preparation he had to make was to choose the angle when shooting.
The final of the Portuguese Cup was over from the moment Porto scored. The Benfica people could not organize an effective counterattack at all.
From morale to personnel backwardness, they began to choose to give up after the opponent scored, even if their coach was roaring on the sidelines.
No matter how confident the head coach was, he couldn't awaken the courage of his team. This damn season has come to an end for them.
Their extravagant hope for the final only lasted three minutes, and then the Porto people ruthlessly extinguished their fantasy of the championship trophy.
1:0 is not the goal, but a goal can destroy the opponent's confidence. This is the fatal threat that the Porto team brings to all opponents now.
When the game is included in their rhythm, no matter who it is, they can't easily take back the initiative of the game. All they can do is wait for death quietly.
This season's Portuguese Super League is the same. As long as the Porto people can knock on your goal, then the game has been taken over by them.
The only game that Porto lost was because they annoyed the god of luck. They failed to break the opponent's goal throughout the game.
Facing their old rivals this time, the Porto team did not want to repeat that tragic afternoon, so they had to destroy the opponent's confidence as soon as possible.
These crazy people in Porto did it, and it only took three minutes. Benfica didn't even last a round.
Before the end of the first half, Dalre once again grabbed Maniche's low cross from the side in the crowd and shot it into the net.
None of the three Benfica defenders could stop the Brazilian from grabbing the ball, and Maniche unexpectedly cut inside from the side this time.
This confused the guests from France, because in their information, the guy who had always been rough had never been so delicate. But this time, Maniche used his suddenly delicate footwork to kill out of the crowd under the double defense of two people.
If this guy hadn't dribbled the ball a little too far at the last moment, maybe he could have slipped along the bottom line and faced the goalkeeper of the Benfica team directly.
However, this low ball from the bottom line to the middle of the penalty area still gave Dalre a chance to make a fatal blow, and the Brazilian's shot did not disappoint.
The unlucky goalkeeper of the Benfica team didn't even have time to lower his body. He just stood there helplessly and waved his hand.
Then the ball went into the net two meters away from his fingertips, causing the net to tremble and Benfica's confidence to collapse.
When the Porto people cheered wildly for this goal, even Villalinho had already shut his big mouth in the VIP box.
After 45 minutes, the game was over, and even the diehard fans of Benfica began to leave the field in disgrace.
Of course, they were accompanied by the boos of the supporters of the Atlético team who were watching the excitement. This group of mortal enemies in the same city would not miss the opportunity to humiliate their opponents.
The second half of the game had become a formality. The unlucky Benfica team was just helpless to accompany their opponents on the field.
Porto firmly controlled the football and the rhythm on the field, and would launch an attack from time to time, each time so threatening.
Five minutes before the end of the game, Deco cut in from the ribs of the penalty area again, and in the desperate eyes of the opponent's goalkeeper, he shot lightly.
3:0, Porto used the most powerful way to completely nail Benfica to the pillar of shame, and they left a mess for their opponents.
Perhaps the fat man Villalino should now thank Deportivo La Coruna the most, because they let the more fierce boy miss the game.
If Lin Yi was on the field at this time, then this score would definitely not be the final result, he would definitely make the game even crazier.
The double-line suppression of the league and the cup, when Porto lifted the final trophy, they could cheer at the loudest volume in the opponent's city.
This is Porto's domination of the Portuguese league. They completely suppressed the determination of the other two strong teams to compete for the championship with their strong results, and even destroyed them.
I really don't know what kind of mood the fat man of Benfica would be in when he looked at Da Costa's bright smile from a distance at the end of the game.
Maybe at this moment he really regretted letting Mourinho and Lin Yi go, because he had missed the opportunity to create Benfica's history.
But no one really foresaw that the pace of those two guys would be so fast. When everyone's eyes were still limited to the league, those two guys had already led the Porto team to the Champions League final in an extremely fierce manner. The master and apprentice were really a pair of crazy people.
When the Porto team was still cheering for their double crown, the French who were spying on all this in the stadium had quietly left.
For them, the gains from this cup final were really limited, because the black-haired boy they cared about the most did not show up.
As for the other members of the Porto team, they have studied them very thoroughly, but the opponent's hot state in recent games is really scary.
Doesn't the coach of the Porto team know that he should try to adjust the team's state before the big game? Consecutive big wins and competitive state so early are not good things. Once they fall into a competitive slump in the Champions League final, it will be a very bad situation.
However, Mourinho doesn't seem to care as much as they do. This is the case in both games. He did not choose a large-scale rotation of personnel.
Even when playing against Braga in the league, it was the same. Such a game was fun enough, but the French thought it was meaningless.
Compared with the Champions League final, the Portuguese Super League trophy is still too small. For example, Monaco has recently been rotating some players.
Even if they ushered in a defeat in the league, Deschamps' rotation method did not change. That guy obviously wants to win the Champions League trophy more.
As for how the French evaluated him, Mourinho was in no mood to know. He just took out his phone after the celebration of the double crown.
"Boy, are you ready?" In the empty player tunnel, Mourinho asked the guy on the other end of the phone in a quiet tone.
No one could hear what was said on the other end of the phone, but when Mourinho turned off the phone, there was a satisfied smile on the corner of his mouth.
At this moment in Porto's training base, a sweaty little guy was throwing the phone back to Faria who was standing beside him.
"It's that super wretched uncle. It seems that he cares about the game in a week as much as I do." Lin Yi said while wiping his sweat.
"I'm afraid no one will say they don't care about the Champions League trophy." Faria glanced at Lin Yi who was still playing with the fitness equipment and replied.
"So, I don't want to miss the feeling of holding the trophy in my own hands." Lin Yi used his injured foot to do stretching exercises vigorously.
"You still have a week. Judging from your current recovery, it shouldn't be a problem to play in the game." Faria's answer was very direct.
"NO, Faria, I don't want to just make sure I can play. That's my stage. I don't want to make any mistakes."
Faria looked at the always confident little guy in front of him, just smiled slightly beside him, and didn't respond to Lin Yi's words.
Because Faria believed that this kid, if he said it, he would do it, just like Mourinho, they all like to create miracles.
And Lin Yi vigorously moved his body that had been stiff for more than two weeks. He knew that the game left him little time to recover.
This was his first Champions League final. He didn't want to let himself appear in Schalke in a mediocre state. He wanted to make a perfect resurrection.
"That's my game! No one can take away the final trophy! Schalke on May 26 is the stage for Porto and himself!"
Damn it, let's play for our lives. In Porto's training base, Lin Yi's heavy breathing sounded again, and the air was filled with his evaporating sweat.
There is still a week left, and the decisive battle between Porto and Monaco will kick off the Champions League final in Gelkirchen. . .
Who is the winner? Porto? Monaco? Let's wait until the 90 minutes of the game are over before we see the result. . .
At least one kid is ready to come back. . .
(The 18 wild donkeys of FD (you know), now know to kneel down and pay tribute? What were they doing before? Weren't they busy seizing power? Weren't they busy controlling the media? Weren't they talking about crisis public relations? Apologizing now? Why do we need the police if apologies are useful? 18 harmonious self-contained (you know), I'll give you four big words, damn! Why didn't you die!)
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