069 Predator Mendes
Braga actually performed well in the first half of the third round of the league, shooting 13 shots on goal and hitting 8 shots, just one shot away from the goal, while also limiting Setúbal's attack.
The missing goal came in the second half, and Lima also opened their goal account for the new season.
The team's overall performance is getting better.
Scoring goals always relieves tension and stress.
Setúbal won one and drew one in the first two rounds, playing against teams in the middle and lower reaches of the league, and the performance was acceptable, just looking at the same points as Braga, but they conceded three goals in two games, and the defense was really average.
Even after Braga scored, they still took the initiative on the field and were able to form a clear advantage.
It's just that the tempo has dropped slightly.
When Setúbal tried to fight back to equalize, Tang Hong had a lot more room to play.
The main change in Yaltim's new tactics for Braga is to put Viana up front, while the midfield is a trio of Barbosa, Amorim and Custodio, the defensive intensity has decreased slightly, but the control has been significantly improved, and the ability to create has also improved a lot.
To put it simply, it is for Viana in the midfield and forward line to create opportunities for the central striker Lima and the left winger Tang Hong.
Due to the slowdown of the tempo, Tang Hong also follows the team's control needs to pass more on the field more often, and will not rashly launch an offensive when there is no obvious good opportunity to avoid the attack being frustrated and the defense line has the risk of losing the ball.
However, in the 83rd minute of the game, when Setúbal stepped up the counter-attack in the midfield, the Braga midfielder made a quick pass, and midfielder Amorim received a pass from Ezigil in front of the center circle on the left and sent it away.
Tang Hong quickly cut inside to the left in front of the Setúbal penalty area, and as soon as he stopped the ball, he faked to the middle and cut cross, and the defender Ricardo Silva who defended him in front of him hurriedly moved his center of gravity to the middle, only to find that Tang Hong's center of gravity retreated and went forward to kill, which would cut directly into the left rib of the penalty area.
Veteran Ricardo Silva, who will turn 36 in less than a month, almost broke his old waist!
But he still hurriedly turned around and retreated to the left rib of the penalty area to block in advance, which can be regarded as a manifestation of experience.
But what he didn't expect was that his body just turned around and took half a step back, but Tang Hong retracted his center of gravity and slashed the ball in the middle direction!
Continuous fake shaking!
Didn't touch the ball!
Ricardo Silva's blood was surging, and the other party's feint had nothing to do with the work under his feet, so he completed the deception with the illusion of tilting the center of gravity of his body after sinking his shoulders!
After shaking Riccardo Silva, Tang Hong already has the angle and space to shoot with his feet, his left foot supports, and his right foot is the instep of the ball blast out!
A soccer ball like a cannonball flies straight to the bottom right corner of the goal!
Goalkeeper Diego made a save to the limit but missed the ball by a fraction of a second!
But the moment the football flew into the goal, Tang Hong turned around and rushed to the visiting fans' stands, opened his arms and raised his chin slightly, smiling.
Enjoy the enthusiastic cheers from the Braga fans!
Yaltium is not only excited, but also shocked!
Did he score again?
"The ball is in! Braga striker Tang Hong sealed the win for his team with a powerful long-range shot!
It was brilliant to get rid of Ricardo Silva and the subsequent shot showed his superb marksmanship!
The Chinese striker has scored for Braga in two consecutive league games and is now the top scorer in the Portuguese Super League!
It was also the third time in eight days that he had scored for Braga in a row, and each time he came off the bench in the second half, and he had already scored five goals for Braga!
Now we can say that Braga has indeed dug up for treasure!
World Junior Championship MVP Tang Hong set sail in Portugal!
Will he rise to the top of the world stage like Portugal did 500 years ago?
Let's wait and see!
Setúbal drew with Braga in both league games last season and are likely to taste the bitterness of defeat at home today. ”
Braga fans were so excited that they chanted "Hong! "Hong!" "Hong!"
A muffled thunder echoed through Setúbal's home stadium.
The home team fans were a little disheartened and couldn't help but envy Braga, the players signed for free were so good!
With goals from Lima and Tang Hong, Braga won 2-0 away at Setúbal, winning two and drawing one in the league this season.
After the game, the atmosphere in the locker room was pleasant, Tang Hong was bathing, and the Brazilian player Bayano was also taking a bath, and whispered to Tang Hong in the next room: "I'll go back to Brazil tonight, will you go with me?" ”
After this league game, it will enter the FIFA match day in early September, and the players who have been called up by the national team will report to the national team, and the players who do not have the national team match tasks will also take a short vacation.
Bayano obviously can't make it to the Brazilian national team, and he is expected to return to Brazil to reunite with family and friends for a short time.
Tang Hong shook his head with a smile and said, "No, I still have to learn to drive, I don't want to delay my schedule." ”
Bayano was not disappointed either, and said with a smile: "It's okay, your regrets." ”
Yaltim praised the team's performance after the game, and then told the players who did not have the task of playing for the national team to rest and stop playing and come back out of shape.
Basically, there are few players in the Braga team who have national team tasks, Nigeria's Eziegil, Portugal's Barbosa and Custodio, Libya's Mahamat, Brazilian players have not been able to be favored by the national team, and Portugal's side is also Custodio can play, Barbosa belongs to the marginal role of being inspected by the national team, while the Libyan and Nigerian internationals are really relied on by the national team.
Tang Hong did not receive a fax from the national team call-up, he was not surprised, after Portugal opened a new chapter in his career, he was very Buddhist about when the national team would recruit him, or whether he would be recruited.
When she returned home at night, it was already late at night, but Sun Rou didn't sleep, she was putting her suitcase in the living room, and when she saw Tang Hong coming back, she didn't give up and asked, "You really don't want to go home with me?" ”
Tang Hong shook his head honestly and said: "Just when I have obsessive-compulsive disorder, I will learn enough class hours as soon as possible when I sign up for a famous school car, and understand the exam questions, I don't like procrastination." ”
Sun Rou's shoulders collapsed, and she said in frustration: "Then do you have anything you need me to bring back?" ”
"You may have forgotten that I am a person with a cell phone."
"Okay, okay, then I'll sleep, I don't need you to send it tomorrow."
Tang Hong automatically ignored her last sentence.
The next morning, he took Sun Rou to the airport in Porto, where she left after she passed the security check.
She went home this time because she missed He Zhuqing, and she also went back for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Because the Mid-Autumn Festival was on September 12, Tang Hong would definitely not be able to leave Portugal at that time, so he gave up the idea of returning to China to visit relatives.
When he returned to the door of the villa in Braga, he unexpectedly saw a Mercedes-Benz S-class sedan parked outside the gate of the villa.
Two people got out of the car, a young man, a middle-aged man in a very mature suit and leather shoes, the middle-aged man gestured to the young man, and then walked towards Tang Hong alone.
Tang Hong's eyes showed a thoughtful look, he knew the identity of the other party, but he didn't expect to meet in reality one day.
"Hello Tang Hong, I'm Jorge Mendes, maybe you don't know me, I took the liberty to visit to discuss your career development with you."
Jorge Mendes.
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Tang Hong shook hands with the other party, said hello, and then opened the door of the villa and invited the other party to come in and talk.
No matter what you want to talk about, you can't leave guests out of the door, that's rude.
Mendes followed Tang Hong into the villa with a smile on his face, and the Mercedes he was sitting in was driven in and parked outside the garage.
Mendez quietly surveyed the interior of the villa.
Before he came, he was very confident that he would win the Chinese player who had caused a storm in Portuguese football in less than ten days, but when he came to the door of the villa, he had a hunch that things might not be as simple as he imagined.