Midfielder

Let an Italian team take the lead 1:0 after 6 minutes of the game, and now it is away from home, then how many situations will you encounter? There is only one, that is, you have to face a defense line as solid as concrete and fight to the end.

From the day when Italians started playing football, they have been obsessed with the game of building walls for their opponents. Whether their opponents are strong opponents like Brazil or third-rate teams, these Italians will first tighten their fences and then consider attacking.

The blood flowing in the bodies of Italians is defensive counterattack. No matter how fierce Lazio's attack at the beginning is, it is still the tradition of Italians in its bones. After 1:0, they must retreat. Excessive risk is not their habit.

Yes, Lazio has become the most entertaining team in Serie A this season, but this title has a premise, that is, Lazio is the most entertaining team in Serie A, not in the whole of Europe.

What is Serie A? Anyone who often watches football will first react to the strict tactics and uniform defensive counterattack mode. Even if it is an attack, it is based on midfield interception, and more often it is waiting for the opponent to make a mistake.

Don't forget how AC Milan created the 50-odd unbeaten record. It was not how many goals they scored with the Dutch Three Musketeers, but how many teams' offensive attempts were killed by their solid back line.

Defense is always the symbol of Italian football. Even when they are behind, they will not forget this premise, let alone now they are leading.

Any Italian team will not easily let their defense be penetrated by the opponent, nor will they let themselves be out of control on the field. This is Italian football. You can say it is rigid and stubborn, but their defense is definitely tough.

Perhaps Mancini is one of the most offensive coaches in Italian football. The Lazio team under his command often uses a strong attack to suppress the opponent's defense, just like the past 6 minutes, Lazio has been pressing Porto to attack wildly.

But such scenes don't happen often. Such offensive actions are just to suppress Porto's home advantage. When they successfully knock a gap in these Portuguese players, they will put themselves in a safer position.

Mancini's adventure is also very selective, especially in away games like this, and it's a bad rainy day. He still needs to let his team control the rhythm steadily after leading and not make mistakes easily.

On such a slippery field, with a 1:0 lead, there is no need to take risks, and defensive counterattacks are safer and easier to expand the score. Lazio's overall formation selectively retreated after leading 1:0, and did not continue to suppress fiercely like in the opening stage.

They let themselves withdraw from the front-court pressing mode and began to try to spend the game in the midfield consumption. This method is also the defensive counterattack strategy that Italian teams are best at executing.

Lazio left Porto enough space to control the ball. They wanted to draw out the Portuguese players, which gave Porto a chance to breathe. They finally didn't have to face the fierce Italians' pressing in the heavy rain, nor did they have to bear the stormy offensive pressure.

Perhaps Mancini trusted his team's defensive thickness too much. He believed that his midfield could effectively withstand the opponent's counterattack. Fiore and Simeone plus Stankovic's midfield blockade would definitely form an effective interception.

Such interception in the midfield seemed to be easy to cut off the connection between Porto's front and back fields, cut off Porto's attack from the middle, and once again made their front field lose the connection point, leaving their forwards isolated and helpless, and wearing out the opponent's patience in interception and midfield consumption.

Moreover, Lopez's counterattack ability is very strong. Although he is not the kind of forward with absolute speed, his sensitivity to counterattacks allows this guy to often gain something in the Italian arena. Now Mancini needs to use this guy's advantages.

Maybe this is the inertial thinking of Italians. They always look for a way that is beneficial to themselves in such a situation. Lazio is no exception. They are waiting for their opponents to make mistakes first, but they forget that they cannot give their opponents too much freedom.

Italians may like this style of play in their bones, and they have also made a name for themselves in this world because of this style of play. Mancini's idea is actually very simple. He just wants to control the rhythm of the game under the feet of Lazio.

There is no fierce pressing, no endless offensive, and enough ball possession opportunities, which gives Porto a chance to stabilize. Mourinho's roar on the sidelines is also reminding them to attack! Only attack is the only way to keep their hope of promotion.

At this time, Mourinho's suit was soaked, but he did not open the umbrella handed over by Brito, but stood on the sidelines in the rain, directing the players on the field with his loud voice.

Now it was the turn of the Porto guys to press forward. Mourinho knew that the space behind his team would be the route for Lazio's counterattack, but there was only one thing in his mind now, which was to regain the lost rhythm.

As for whether the opponent will seize such a counterattack opportunity, he no longer thinks too much about it. In addition to loudly reminding Carvalho and Jorge Costa to keep a close eye on the opponent's forward, he even loudly calls on his full-backs to press forward.

Behind the opponent at home, there is no other good way except to fight hard. If the opponent returns to Italy with an away goal, the outcome of the next game may be doomed. Mourinho now has only such a chance at home.

There are more than 80 minutes left, and his team still has a chance to turn the tables. Mourinho hopes that what he just said to Lin Yi can work. The two offensive cores he relies on most must carry the entire Porto at this time, with no way out.

While Mourinho's roar was still echoing in Lin Yi's ears, the black-haired little guy suddenly became fierce and stabbed a knife in the Lazio team's half. This fierce blow made Mancini feel that his heart seemed to stop beating in an instant.

After 6 minutes of heavy rain, Lazio gave up the right to attack actively. Mourinho's lecture on Lin Yi's ear aroused the boy's fierceness. His running back and forth in the front court caused a lot of trouble for Fiore and Stankovic.

Being short and low in center of gravity, this seems more like a disadvantage in physical fitness. In such a rainy day, Lin Yi is more flexible than his opponent. His sudden stop and transfer when dribbling made Fiore very uncomfortable. He even fell on the grass in a very embarrassing way.

Having a strong body but no way to stop the opponent, Fiore not only looked very embarrassed on the field, but he also became a breakthrough for Porto on the field, which made Mancini unable to sit safely in the coaching seat. He stood on the sidelines and shouted loudly to the players on the field.

Such an obvious defensive misalignment made Stankovic ready to make up for the defense at any time. He and Fiore had to pinch Lin Yi in the middle, but Deco was released at this time. After controlling the rhythm, the five midfielders of Porto began to frequently transfer and pull.

Maniche and Alenichev began to make vertical passes with their full-backs on the two sides, which forced Lazio's formation to open up more and not block the gap in the middle. Costinha in the middle also began to press forward behind Deco and Lin Yi.

The advantage in numbers was formed locally, and guys like Deco and Lin Yi, who had particularly fine technical skills at their feet, could always find gaps for interspersed running at such times, and could also find the most suitable route for passing the ball, which made Lazio's defense line begin to feel obviously tight.

The four midfielders of Lazio seemed a little distracted at this time. Mancini's idea of ​​​​squeezing Porto's midfield failed here with Lin Yi. The black-haired boy had become a big worry for the Italians.

His flexible running almost involved the entire Lazio team's central defense focus, which made Lazio, who gave up the fierce attack, play the role of Porto in the first six minutes. They themselves began to feel the pressure from defense.

Deco used Lin Yi's involvement to find his own rhythm of organizing the attack. He used his possession opportunity to deliver two very accurate straight balls to the forward line, but Dallei and Kapshu's shots failed to knock open the door guarded by Peruzzi.

In front of this Italian national goalkeeper known for its stability, the two most efficient forwards of Porto were frustrated. Their shots were tricky enough, but Peruzzi's sophistication in position selection and the effective cooperation of the entire back line still made them return empty-handed.

Lin Yi may be the most ferocious one now. He knows very well that if he does not equalize the score while the opponent is still a little dizzy, then when these Italians calm down from the panic, Porto will be the unlucky guy.

Seeing that Dallei and Kapshu had repeatedly hit a wall in front of Peruzzi, Lin Yi decided to make himself the key to open the situation. He made a very hidden gesture towards Deco, which was a secret code that the two of them often used during training.

Just now, Lin Yi had been in charge of the breakthrough role, but Deco started to press forward with the ball at the moment when Fiore and the others were completely attracted by Lin Yi. His change of direction directly shook off Stankovic who had been entangled with him.

A sudden change caught Lazio off guard. They had been attracted by the impact of the black-haired boy, but forgot that Porto had a very dangerous guy. However, Deco reminded them very humanely.

Deco's sudden forward insertion made Lazio's central defense line in a hurry. When Fiore was involved by Lin Yi and when Stankovic was broken through, Lazio could only let Couto, who was the central defender, step forward to stare at the Brazilian who suddenly rushed over.

However, when Couto made a fierce steal and was about to completely block Deco in front of the penalty area, the Brazilian strangely pushed the ball sideways, as if he had been prepared to do so from the beginning, and everything before was prepared for this moment.

When Stankovic and Couto saw the direction of the ball, they knew what the Brazilian was going to do, because a black-haired boy was running towards the ball, and behind him was Fiore who was desperately chasing.

Lin Yi did not give the guy behind him any chance to block him. The moment the clumsy guy tackled from behind, he had already adjusted his body and kicked the ball directly along the angle of Deco's pass.

A shot from the edge of the penalty area was not a fatal distance for Peruzzi, but when the former Italian goalkeeper saw the strange arc of the football after Lin Yi's kick, his body, which had already moved in advance, seemed to be frozen at that moment.

The black-haired kid did not make such a fierce volley as Peruzzi expected. Instead, he used the arch of his foot to make a curved ball on such a slippery ground and hung it directly to the upper left corner of the goal.

The football slid out a soul-stirring arc in the rain and flew towards the goal. Before Lin Yi was knocked down by Fiore's collision, he had already seen the flight trajectory of the football. He hoped that God would not play tricks on him again this time.

Peruzzi, who had already moved his center of gravity, had no way to forcefully retreat, and the rapidly falling football would not give him the time. He could only try to jump back on the spot, with his open hands as if to block the direction of the football.

But Lin Yi's tricky shot did not give him a chance to correct his mistake. The football hit the inside of the goal post and bounced into the net, leaving Peruzzi lying on his back in front of Lazio's goal, and the shaking net behind him.

"GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The live commentator, who had been suppressed for half a day, vented his crazy emotions in such an excited voice, and the tens of thousands of people in the entire Dragon Stadium shouted with him. At this time, no one cared about the fierceness of the rain.

Mourinho even threw the umbrella in his hand to the ground fiercely. The little guy did everything he asked. He used such a precision-guided shot to pull the Porto team back from the gate of hell!

The Italian commentator in charge of the live TV broadcast could only sigh helplessly at this time. The black-haired kid used his foot with a telescope to make a perfect shot, penetrating the Lazio team's goal. Peruzzi was also fooled by this kid.

When Lin Yi ignited the fire of Porto's attack in the heavy rain, it was time for the Portuguese to counterattack. . .

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