In the second round of the Champions League, although Porto lost to Arsenal 2:4 away, Fenerbahce and Dynamo Kyiv also played a draw, so Porto was lucky to be in second place in the standings with 3 points. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Before playing Arsenal, Porto was hailed by the media as the only team in Group G that could challenge Arsenal, and after the 2-4 loss, Porto immediately became a second-rate powerhouse in Europe, a general selected by the lame.

The Portuguese media are also a little unhappy with Porto's 11 winless attempts at England, and even the pro-Porto newspaper Record joked that perhaps only in the League Cup can Porto break the record of winless in England.

Gao Xiaodong was widely optimistic before the game, thinking that the offer of 30 million euros was definitely worth it, after this game, some media still believed that Gao Xiaodong was both offensive and defensive, and a long-range shot kicked off the prelude to Porto's counteroffensive, which was the highlight of Porto's game, and the transfer fee of 30 million was not outrageous, and the other part of the media thought that Gao Xiaodong's skills were rough, his height was too short, and he had no ability to break through, and he would only shoot a long shot, 20 million was too much, which was obviously hyped up by the black store Porto.

The news of a strong team beating a weak team is never hyped, and after Belarusian side Borisov Bart drew 2-2 with Juventus, the European media and fans immediately put the Arsenal vs Porto game behind and turned their attention to Juventus. After Rexos' defeat to Basel, the Portuguese media also focused on last season's big dark horse Rexos, and no one paid attention to Porto except Porto fans.

In the days when there was no media attention, Porto's style of play was slowly changing. In the fifth round of the league, Ferreira tried a 442 formation, strikers Lisandro and Hulk partnered, midfielders Gao Xiaodong, Lucho, and Merreles were the mainstays, and Guarin, Fernando, and Rodriguez took turns to play; In the sixth round of the league, Ferreira changed the formation to 4312, Gao Xiaodong, Meireles, and Fernando partnered with three backs, and Lisandro and Rodriguez played forwards, and Hulk, Farias and Risandro partnered in the middle, and Gao Xiaodong and Lucho swapped.

Porto won both league games, but the Portuguese Super League opponents were too weak to really test the quality of the formation and personnel until the arrival of their third Champions League opponents, Dynamo Kiev.

In the first two rounds, Dynamo Kyiv drew both games, ranking third with two points, although there is a home factor of ice and snow, but if its own strength is not good, no matter how good the venue is, it will not be able to help the team draw a strong team like Arsenal.

In the face of the Ukrainian squad that came from thousands of miles, Porto did not dare to be careless, nor was he qualified to be careless, and the head coach Ferreira discharged the 4312 formation of three backs.

The goalkeeper is the thunderous Helton, the back four is Fucile, Rolando, Alves and Sapruna, the midfielders Gao Xiaodong, Guarin and Meireles, the midfielder Lucho, and the forwards Hulk and Ris Sandro.

Dynamo Kyiv started in a 4-4-2 formation: goalkeeper 31-Bogush, back four 3-Betao, 15-Diacut, 32-Assadiani, 30-Cadori, four midfielders 11-Eremenko, 5-Vukojevic, 4-Giojani, 8-Aliyev double strikers 25-Milevsky, 10-Bangura

Dynamo Kyiv's starting XI was exactly the same as the start of the home draw with Arsenal, while Porto's starting line-up was only one midfielder compared to the starting XI against Arsenal, with the more attacking Guarin replacing the more defensive Fernando.

After the start of the game, Gao Xiaodong, who was in charge of the back midfield, was more excited than the rest of his teammates, running tirelessly, as if he was a perpetual motion machine.

Fans and teammates thought that Gao Xiaodong was stimulated by the last game, and this one was eager to win, but in fact, Gao Xiaodong was so excited because he could be promoted to a professional C-level player by winning this game.

Before playing Arsenal, Gao Xiaodong accumulated 42 points, if he won against Arsenal and got another 4 points, Gao Xiaodong could be promoted after winning the last round of the league, but the loss at the Emirates Stadium delayed Gao Xiaodong's promotion time, until this round against Dynamo Kiev, won two games in a row, and Gao Xiaodong, who accumulated 46 system points, reached the critical point of promotion, as long as this game beats Dynamo Kyiv, Gao Xiaodong will be promoted to a professional C-level player.

Playing against Arsenal, Porto, who has no technical advantage, looks like a rough brother, and only got two away goals by relying on physical confrontation.

But playing with Dynamo Kyiv, Porto's technical advantage is obvious, after the opening, the ball is basically controlled at the feet of Porto, and the passing and cutting coordination is very smooth, while Dynamo Kyiv can only run after the ball.

However, the advantage is not equal to the victory, the victory is not the same as the victory, although the Kyiv Dynamo is passive, but the defense is very solid, after the consecutive draws against Arsenal and Fenerbahce, Kyiv Dynamo has accumulated experience in dealing with the technical flow and the blood flow of the two teams, that is, to defend the 30-meter area, in the half of the game to fight hard.

Moreover, Dynamo Kyiv has done a very detailed study of Porto, and has targeted defense against Gao Xiaodong, Lisandro, Lucho, Hulk and others, so that Porto's attack can only spin outside the penalty area and cannot form a threatening shot.

Dynamo Kyiv adopted such conservative tactics that Porto's three backs had no use, Gao Xiaodong couldn't run to the forward position, it was too far away from his defensive position, Gao Xiaodong naturally ran to the front waist position, here, attacking and retreating, it was Gao Xiaodong's favorite.

But it was the captain Lu Qiao who played this position, which made Lu Qiao very dissatisfied and felt that Gao Xiaodong was here to grab his position.

In the 20th minute of the game, Porto midfielder Meleles turned around and passed directly to Gao Xiaodong, when Gao Xiaodong received the ball, Dynamo Kiev midfielder Aliyev pounced on it, Gao Xiaodong hit his shoulder when Aliyev pasted it, and his hand secretly pushed, knocking Aliyev to the ground, although the referee saw it, he ignored it.

The opponent's players who assisted in the defense had not yet arrived, Gao Xiaodong finally got the space to get his feet, he took a step forward, regardless of the opponent's players, and picked up his thighs to shoot.

This is Gao Xiaodong's third shot after the opening, the first kick hit the plane, the second kick was interfered with by the opponent, the ball missed, this time, Gao Xiaodong found his senses, and the ball whistled straight into the upper right corner of the goal.

After the ball flew out, Gao Xiaodong was also tackled to the ground by the opponent.

Dynamo Kyiv's goalkeeper Bogush was prepared, and he flew and poked the ball out with his fingertips.

Bogush is 25 years old this year, 1.92 meters tall, is the golden age with the fastest reaction, in the first two games, Arsenal and Fenerbahce shot a lot of times, Bogush's state has also been practiced, plus he is very vigilant about Gao Xiaodong's long-range shot, such a tricky and powerful shot was saved by him.

"Ahh

"I pounced!"

"God saves!"

"The goalkeeper is on the hook today!"

……

The Porto fans in the stands sighed, while the more than 1,000 Kyiv Dynamo fans who came from afar secretly wiped a cold sweat.