Midfielder

Lin Yi still has to stay in the hospital for a few days. The soreness in his calf muscles has not completely disappeared. In order not to leave any adverse sequelae to this little guy, Mourinho discussed with the team doctor and temporarily decided to let Lin Yi continue to observe and treat in the hospital.

But he didn't see Lin Yi's tears in his eyes. Now Lin Yi wants to leave this hospital full of aunts immediately even if he crawls.

However, the second round of the League Cup has been ignited. In addition to leaving a team doctor to take care of Lin Yi, Mourinho also has to lead the Porto team to Italy. There is still a revenge battle waiting for him at the Olimpia Stadium, but this time it is the opponent who wants revenge.

This is the second round of the League Cup final. No matter how many goals they won in the first round, Mourinho requires his players to remember that there are still 90 minutes before the end of the game. Before the referee blows the whistle, everything can happen.

Mancini is now in a desperate situation. He must fulfill his promise in front of tens of thousands of fans. As he said, this game is a battle to wash away the shame for him and Lazio. They can only win and not lose.

"I must admit that Porto performed better than us in the last game. We controlled the situation well at the beginning of the game, but then everything changed. Losing the game in this situation is indeed a shame, for both me and Lazio."

"We can control the beginning of that game, which shows that we can limit our opponents. At the Olimpia Stadium, Lazio will prove this." Regardless of whether Mancini is using such words to support the scene, Mourinho can feel that this away game is not so easy to play.

Although Mancini can bite his teeth and say these words in the media interview, such a battle declaration will not help him to deploy his troops. In addition to lagging behind his opponent by a large score, he must face the trouble of a large number of injuries and reductions.

In addition to Stam, who is still injured and unable to play, defenders Pancaro, Favalli and Castroman will miss the second round due to injuries or accumulated yellow cards. This is definitely another fatal blow to Mancini.

Including Lazio's old national goalkeeper Peruzzi, who also injured his back in the last game because of a sideways save of Deco's shot. After a week of recuperation without any results, he can only say goodbye to the second round with great help.

Now basically the entire Lazio team's defense line needs a major change. Only Mihajlovic and Couto are left as the main players in the last game. No one can guarantee whether the unlucky Couto has recovered from the own goal assist.

Anyway, Lin Yi, this little guy, hurt the Portuguese senior enough. After that game, Couto was given the lowest score of the game by the entire Italian media. Some people even began to doubt whether this guy was really letting the game go as the black-haired boy said?

In the last game, the Lazio defense line, which was defeated by the opponent's midfield pressure-style ball control, now has to face such an extremely passive situation, that is, no one is available, and their substitutes can't even make up a full-back lineup.

This is the trouble brought by the damn financial crisis. Too many personnel changes have made Lazio begin to taste the bitter fruit of poor management, but Mancini seems to no longer want to consider any defensive problems. He wants to use crazy attacks to justify Lazio in the game.

On the defensive line, Mancini temporarily uses Oddo to play as a full-back, while Mihajlovic and "undercover" Couto can continue to partner with the central defender, and Cesar, the wing forward, can retreat to defend the left. Such a combination can at least ensure that there will not be too many loopholes in Lazio's defense line.

Anyway, it's already like this. Losing one is a loss, losing two is also a loss. It's better to put the team's hope of advancing on the opponent's goal.

The forward line may be the biggest change for Mancini. Chiesa, Inzaghi, Lopez, Mancini has brought out all the forwards he can throw on the field. Now for him, using the combination of three forwards to implement a strong attack is the only option.

There is no need to retain strength now. If he cannot achieve a home comeback, then he and Lazio will be beaten to hell.

Attack with all his strength, regardless of any possible defensive problems, this is the desperate choice made by Mancini at the moment of life and death. At this juncture, he has no time to care about the balance of offense and defense. Offense is the most important thing.

Only by scoring quickly at home and quickly suppressing the opponent can Lazio win a glimmer of hope. He hopes that Lopez, who scored in the last game, can continue to play the role of Mourinho's creditor, at least like that game, to open the opponent's goal earlier.

This may be the last chance for the Blue Eagles, who are facing a financial crisis, to win an honor in the European competition. Even those radical fan organizations have stood on the side of the team this time, contrary to their usual practice. They want to use the most terrifying home atmosphere to put pressure on the Portuguese.

The crazy shouts of 60,000 fans, this is the welcome ceremony that the Porto team encountered at the Olimpia Stadium, but Mourinho did not care about the boos that sounded towards him. Here, he and Porto will enter the UEFA Cup final. place.

"Intercept, start near the center circle, do not leave an opportunity for the opponent to easily enter the half, and at the same time, we must pay attention to protecting the two wings." This is a point Mourinho has repeatedly emphasized in the past few days of training. He knew whose territory this was and that Porto couldn't be as free as they were at home.

"In this game, we need to resolutely defend and counterattack, and give up the way of looking for opportunities in the opponent's hinterland. We need to set the interception line in the midfield, leaving only Dallay, Kapushu and Deco in the frontcourt. What I need is Control the football as much as possible and then look for opportunities. We are the leading side. It is the opponent who needs to take risks, not us. Don’t make mistakes in front of the Italians. This is what I ask of you.”

Without Lin Yi's smart penetration in the frontcourt, Mourinho must change the Porto team's offensive method. Especially when leading, he needs to be more stable and take the lead. He readjusted the Porto team's formation back to 4 -4-2, all the main players played, but the playing style was adjusted accordingly.

Deco regains the position of attacking midfielder. Mourinho needs his stability to keep his team from panicking in this depressing stadium. What they are playing now is not a tough battle, but a game where they must focus on defense. , even if Lin Yi is not injured, Deco will still be the commander on the field.

Compared with the little guy's flexibility and cunning, Deco's stability is the most important at this time. Lin Yi is sometimes too young. His risks can bring huge rewards to the team, and he will also be in such a game. Here he plants bombs for the team that can explode at any time.

At least Mourinho is not naive enough to think that the kid has adapted to the adult football world. He still needs to learn too many things, especially in terms of on-field experience. Maybe the next holiday will be a good time for this kid. Nice opportunity to recharge.

The Lazio team was just as Mancini envisioned. They put up a 4-3-3 attacking lineup that seemed very fierce, and most of the personnel were invested in the attack after the opening. It is obvious that these The Italians wanted to take the lead as quickly as possible.

However, Mancini's arrangement did not see immediate results. After the three forwards he arranged on the field rushed through the half-court, they ran into the defensive position built by the Portuguese. Four defenders plus one Kos Tinia, a defensive formation of 5 people tightly surrounded them.

Porto did not give Lazio any chance to calmly organize the attack, but tightly entangled their progress near the midfield.

Not giving the opponent space and gaps to sprint, and not allowing the opponent the opportunity to observe the loopholes in the defense when organizing the offense, fierce pressing and tackling became the tone of the first 30 minutes of the game. The 60,000 fans at the Olimpia Stadium witnessed this with their own eyes. What do you mean by the barbaric Portuguese?

From the midfield to the backcourt, physical confrontations and tackles, and even tactical fouls, this is the response of the Porto team to the fierce attacks of the Italians. These Porto people now have absolutely no temperament of the European Latins. They are more like a group of bandits. .

Hand-to-hand combat and destructive interception are what they have to do. Smart passes and passes in a small area and clever ball distribution are completely missing. As for technical activities such as elegant dribbling and interspersed running, they can only be played when football enters the scene. It wasn’t until half-time for Lazio that we could see it.

Mourinho prepared a muddy swamp for Lazio in the midfield. He trapped guys like Stankovic and Gianni Keda in it, leaving no ball possession for them at all. opportunity, let alone giving them a chance to organize an offense.

Even a guy like Deco, who is not strong, will return to the midfield to make ferocious interceptions when others are not paying attention. Gianni Keda has suffered losses from the Brazilian once or twice. Such situations have caused those The Italians looked confused, they were confused now.

Who is the Italian team? How come these teams, which were small, fast and clever in the last game, are now playing a fierce pressing game? Moreover, their formation was too compact and did not give Lazio any chance to penetrate the defense.

Mancini's defense and accusations against the referee took up almost all of his time in the first half. He kept complaining about his opponent's rough fouls and brutal interceptions, but Mourinho's order to the Porto team was to give him a penalty at all costs. The opponent stopped 40 meters away from the goal, allowing the flames of war to burn in the midfield.

This may be the quietest game Mourinho has ever played on the sidelines. He just watched the time pass by quietly, watching his opponent slowly become impatient, and he knew that he had gradually touched it. Another half ticket for the final.

The more confused the Lazio players are on the court, the more irritable Mancini is on the sidelines, the more Mourinho feels that there is nothing wrong with his choice. What he wants is definitely not elegance on the scene, what he wants is victory, and he can even feel it The anxious mood of Prince Samp not far away.

The half-time game ended with a score of 0:0, leaving only the last 45 minutes for Lazio, but they were still 3 goals away from qualifying for the UEFA Cup final. Perhaps even the most loyal Lazio fans At this time, I started to become desperate.

Perhaps it was Mancini's roar during the halftime break that worked, or the oppressive atmosphere at the scene that made the Lazio players explode. At the beginning of the second half, the Blue Eagles suddenly became more fierce, and their attack began to press into Porto's half.

The comfort of the first 45 minutes made the Porto players relax their vigilance. The frustrated expressions of the Lazio players at halftime paralyzed them a little. Faced with the sudden outbreak of ferocity, the Porto players did not react for a while, and the precision of the Italians once again caused trouble.

The Argentine bug that gave Mourinho the most headaches found an opportunity to make Mourinho hit the roof of the coach's bench with his fist in the third minute after the start of the second half. He accelerated horizontally and cut into the penalty area under Carvalho's close pressure. A light change of direction made Carvalho deceived in defense. Then the guy recklessly stretched out his foot, and the Argentine immediately fell to the ground.

Penalty! This might be the first time that Mourinho complained loudly to the referee in this game. In his opinion, this action was a complete performance of a fake fall. Carvalho did not even touch the damn Argentine bug, but the referee was not affected by him and still awarded a penalty.

If this ball had been scored, perhaps the madness of the Lazio team would have been more intense, but this time God did not stand on the side of the Italians, just as they were never good at winning in penalties. Porto's goalkeeper Baia became the guy who blocked Lazio's hope.

A standard side dive, a left hand blocking the football, when Baia let the damn football bounce directly to the bottom line, Mourinho's fist was completely clenched. He knew that this revenge game for the Italians had been declared over in advance from this second.

Missing the best scoring opportunity, Lopez, who had scored 9 goals in the game against Mourinho's team, fell on the simplest shot this time, and his failure also made the courage that the entire Lazio team had just gathered disperse in a second.

The penalty missed, for the Italians at the scene, it was God who abandoned them, and the sky no longer needed the blue eagle to fly.

Manic's roar and substitutions had no effect, and Lazio was entangled with Porto in the midfield again, but this time they even lost the courage to move forward, and the missed penalty made the morale of these people fall to the bottom.

Porto's persistence made time pass little by little, and Lazio, who was not in high spirits, slowly lost their fighting spirit. For them, the rest of the game was more like a formality. Perhaps these Italians were looking forward to the referee's whistle.

Fighting, mistakes, and then continuing in this cycle, the last 45 minutes of the game had no meaning for Lazio fans. When there was about half an hour left in the game, some blue eagle fans had chosen to leave early.

Lazio's inability to resist allowed Porto to have time to counterattack once or twice in addition to defending. Two straight passes between Deco and Dalray threatened Lazio's goal. If Lazio's substitute goalkeeper had not been focused, Porto might have scored.

But at this time, whether they could defend the goal was no longer important. Even Mancini had begun to sit silently in the coaching seat. For the first time, this guy who lives for offense watched his team being worn down by others in such a quiet way, in the most Italian way.

0:0 This was the final outcome of Lazio. When the referee blew the whistle to end the game after 90 minutes, the entire Porto team began to cheer and celebrate. The door to the UEFA Cup final was open to them. Now they were only one step away from lifting the trophy.

No one cared that this was in Italy, and no one cared how many radical Lazio fans were still roaring in the stadium. Anyway, the Porto players were already celebrating their entry into the final.

The Porto coaching staff who had been standing on the sidelines waiting for this moment had gone crazy. Assistant coach Brito had even lost his usual calmness. He shouted at Mourinho, "Jose! We still have one game left to win the double crown! There are still 90 minutes left! We are creating Porto's history! We killed those Italians! We won! You great guy!!!"

Yes, that's right, there are still 90 minutes and one more game, and Porto will have the opportunity to create another historical moment in the European war.

Mourinho was not as excited as others. Now he just entered the final, not the final championship trophy. For him, even if he celebrated, he had to wait until the next 90 minutes. Mourinho swore that he would definitely bring the trophy back to Portugal.

And Lin Yi was already waving his fists in celebration on the hospital bed at this time, "Go to Seville! I want to win the championship!!!"

The first European final stage has kicked off for him. In the next 90 minutes, this black-haired kid will make everyone pay attention to him.

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