Porto coach Santos sat in his office, read two newspapers with relish, and after reading them, he dragged his chin and thought.

These two guys, who said more practically?

It seems that Mourinho's statement is a little more plausible.

Attack?

It's no fun. Against the battle, it is still Bayer Leverkusen who will have the last laugh, and Porto's players are not enough to play 90 minutes against them.

Even physical fitness may not be their opponent.

Since the night of reaching the last four of the Champions League, Santos has studied Leverkusen more deeply, and he even believes that Leverkusen's players have better physical reserves than Porto.

It's brutal. Although Porto is a third-tier battle, there is no hope of winning the league title, and there is only one Portuguese Cup to fight for, and the most important goal is now to put it on the Champions League, and many players are resting well for the Champions Cup. But even so, Santos still doesn't think his players' fitness reserves are better than those of Bayer Leverkusen.

The extremely subtle preparation also brought his attention to two articles published in the media by German Jurgen Klopp and Portuguese Mourinho two weeks ago. He had watched it carefully many times, and both tactics were extreme, but in the end, based on Porto's configuration, he still favored Mourinho's point of view.

Then he contacted the Portuguese newspaper Record, found Mourinho's contact information, decided to have a good chat with Mourinho about his tactics, and invited Mourinho to guide him.

Mourinho studied under Bobby Robson and spent two years under Louis van Gaal, so doesn't Santos take such a talent seriously? The humble Santos ended up sitting in Porto's tactical study room with Jose Mourinho to discuss the possibility of beating Bayer Leverkusen.

"If it's you, how do you beat Bayer Leverkusen?"

"Away?"

Mourinho raised his eyebrows, "It's too hard. ”

"Almost unlikely."

"But Porto have an advantage as a home and away. If there is no big rout away from home, just a goal lost, and you have an away goal, then there is still a chance to go back to home. ”

Although he hit Santos as soon as he opened his mouth, Mourinho's words still contained confidence.

"The probability of promotion is about 35%."

Santos frowned slightly, the young man in front of him was more confident than himself, 35%? I didn't even dare to think about it myself.

"How exactly is the away game played?"

"Defense, defense, defense, counterattack, counterattack, counterattack, counterattack?"

"The first thing we have to do is find out what lineup they will put out. From my point of view, the other big man in their squad, Michael Ballack, is definitely going to return, and he has been well rested for two weeks in a row, in fact he recovered two weeks ago, but Worrall has not let him play. So, I conclude that they will definitely go back to the 451 formation. ”

As Mourinho spoke, he had habitually walked to the tactical board and began to list Leverkusen's 451 formation.

'Bayer Leverkusen's goalkeeper is definitely Mattyk.

"There's no doubt about that."

"This goalkeeper is very ordinary, many teams don't know him well enough, but I still know him well, I don't like to attack, I have a small range of control, I am more afraid of long-range shots, and I often save the ball. I say this, you know, you can step up your long-range shots appropriately. ”

"In the right-back position, Kovac is still injured, and Hofmann's position is definitely Leverkusen's biggest weakness, and Barcelona has actually noticed this before, and Rivaldo has done a very good job. But the Chinese have been protecting this side, making Barcelona's offensive effect much weaker. But Porto still has to continue to make a fuss here this time, because this can contain Zheng Zhi. ”

"In the central defender position, no surprise, it must be Novotny and Lucio starting at the same time, Lucio is too fierce, the key is to grasp the point of Novotny, although this guy is experienced, but the turning speed is slow, you know? Pull Lucio away with a center forward and use the fast player to face Novotny. ”

'The left-back has to be LaMelo and Worrall is too conservative to use Gresco, who has more assists.

Mourinho has really done his homework and can tell the story in any position.

"Midfielder."

"It's too powerful."

"The right midfielder must be the French teenager Francois Franco, this guy is too hard, the speed and technique are very good, the defensive ability is actually average, but he is very good at grabbing, the attitude is quite good, and the growth rate is quite fast. What is lacking is the crosshairs and game experience, he must be closely defended to prevent him from using his speed to hit the back, and when necessary, he must be full of tactical fouls in time, do not let him rush over, of course, the action should be small, so as not to eat cards. ”

"I'm talking about the left, Brazilian Ronaldinho. This guy is such a super talent, the most talented young man I've ever met since Ronaldo. Really, I've seen Ronaldo play at Camp Nou and now I've seen another one. ”

Mourinho's eyes narrowed, and his mind seemed to go back to 1997, the crazy year when aliens crushed the world......

"Someone has to surround Ronaldinho at all times, don't give him any space to dribble and sprint, wrap Ronaldinho like a blanket."

'It's still possible to stop Ronaldinho, I think he's probably involved in 80 per cent of Bayer Leverkusen's goals recently. If you try to defend him with man-to-man and just send one player to guard him, then don't even think about it, Ronaldinho will still find space and dominate the game. ”

'So Porto have to be compact and have to surround Ronaldinho whenever he gets the ball. Working together to restrain Ronalnidio would make Porto a little safer. ”

'To do that, you need to have a lot of focus on the whole team, you can never control Ronaldinho, he always has some good performances, but you have to try to give him fewer opportunities to perform.'

"One more point, it's fouls."

"This guy is afraid of being violated, and in the last few games, he has deliberately reduced his dribbling, and his mental quality is still not strong enough, and I think that is his biggest shortcoming at the moment."

Santos didn't speak, quietly listening to Mourinho's analysis.

"Ballack, Emerson and Zheng Zhi, this is the iron triangle of Bayer Leverkusen's midfield."

'Their presence gives Bayer Leverkusen a huge dominance on the ball, so Porto are estimated to have only around 30-40 per cent of the ball.

"Be bolder when you fight back."

"You can't just focus on defense, you have to try to attack the Leverkusen defence."

"Bayer Leverkusen will put a lot of players in the attacking front line, and that's where the opportunity lies. When Porto break the ball, you have the pace and impact to counter-attack, taking advantage of the chaos at the back when Bayer Leverkusen switched from attacking to defending. ”

'It's also a matter of belief because if you want to beat Bayer Leverkusen, you have to believe that you can do it.

'When Bayer Leverkusen won dominating possession, they couldn't panic, they kept in shape, waited for their opponents to make mistakes and then hit the counter-attack.

'So, up front, Jadel shouldn't be your first choice. As far as I know, his speed in 100 meters is only 15 seconds per 100 meters? God ......"

'I'm talking about counter-attacking and you have to need a fast striker, as for Jardel? He's there to be chances in front of goal, he's a great striker, otherwise he wouldn't have scored as many goals now, he's scored 10 goals in the Champions League, but you still can't be obsessed with him, you have to be more targeted. Capjo is more suitable. ”

Jadel, Porto's most important player right now, is now being given up by Mourinho? Santos was in a really depressed mood. Porto can come so far because of Jardel's magical play, this Champions League scorer has scored 10 goals, ranking first, even Raul has been suppressed, but now Mourinho said that he can't rely on him.

mmp~

However, Mourinho is right, Jadel is too slow, in such a game, Porto does need faster players, Jadel is really not good, can only play support......

Mourinho didn't stop talking and continued to talk.

"Deco,"

"This guy is the hub for your counterattack. Whether he can play a quick counterattack, he is too important. ”

'This Brazilian is not very impressive, but he is really good and, as far as I know, Barcelona have been looking at him.

Speaking of Deco, Santos's heart immediately chuckled.

Shameless Barcelona, why is it eyeing Deco......

Yes, without Deco, Porto would not have been so good. But Barcelona wants to buy? Be willing to pay for it.

At this time, Porto is already a bit of a European black shop, people can sell, but you have to be willing to pay for it.

"Other than that,"

'We have to be aggressive defensively.

"When Zheng Zhi, Ronaldinho and Ribery get the ball, they have to be resolute."

"Cut!" Mourinho made a 'chop' gesture.

"If you can't get the ball, you cut them down, and you can't let them kick them well."

"Barcelona can't do it, but I think Porto can do it. The guys in Barcelona are too pretentious, and Porto won't. ”

Perhaps, it was from this time that Mourinho, who came from Barcelona, began to 'oppose' Barcelona, which was really the opposite tactically......

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"Jose, since you don't have a job for the time being, why don't you follow Porto?"

Santos threw an olive branch to Mourinho.

"You are my teaching assistant, and I like your tactical thinking."

Mourinho's eyes lit up, but they quickly faded.

"Thank you for having me,"

"But I'm not thinking about that for now."

"I need to make a decision after this summer."

Just left Van Gaal, he doesn't want to be someone else's assistant coach again, before Van Gaal also put the responsibility of Barcelona losing the game on him, he doesn't want to carry another pot now, to carry the blame, but also to carry the blame, not to others.

This time it was Santos who invited him to Porto, not on his own initiative, and the result has nothing to do with him Mourinho.

And to arrange tactics, you still have to go into battle yourself, and others may not be able to really understand it, right?

Santos sighed.

"That's a shame, I thought we could work together."

"I've read the Spanish media reports that mention you, question you, and want to put the blame on you. And I think it's Van Gaal's problem, it's also a problem of poor tactical execution, and I don't actually see the shadow of your tactics in that Barcelona team. ”

"I think now that I can't find any other way to beat Bayer Leverkusen than this tactic."

"Trust me."

"Regardless of the outcome this time,"

"I'm the first person responsible."

Mourinho loosened slightly......

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Zheng Zhi would have gone crazy if he knew that Mourinho had gone to Porto to fool around with future Portuguese national team coach Santos.

A Santos with Porto is not terrible, but if you add in a Mourinho, maybe it will be very different and weird.

When the Porto squad arrived at Bayer Leverkusen on Tuesday afternoon, he saw Mourinho in front of the television.

Walking in the middle of the team, he walked into the hotel with his head half-bowed.

But he was still recognized by Zheng Zhi.

"Mourinho?"

"Why is he in the Porto team?"

"Could it be that he joined Porto?"

Zheng Zhi immediately became vigilant.

Nothing is on the Three Treasures, Mourinho will not be in Porto's team for no reason, and now that Porto have come to Bayer Leverkusen, there is definitely a problem that Mourinho can appear here.

Most likely, he played for Porto.

Mourinho + Santos?

This combination made Zheng Zhi fall into deep thought.

Both are defensive specialists and both have gone on to achieve great success in football, with Jose Mourinho at club level and Santos at national team level.

Not good. Zheng Zhi thought to himself.

You have to be careful with Mourinho in the spotlight.

He would disrupt Leverkusen's tactical deployment. They're definitely going to fight back defensively! We have to make some adjustments to our tactics. But how do you talk to Worrall about this? Can't we just run and tell Worrall that Mourinho is coming, we have to be more careful, we have to change our tactics? Are we going to watch out for him?

What kind of green onion is Mourinho now? It's just Van Gaal's backer, far from being taken seriously, and he hasn't even been a manager. What does such a guy need to pay attention to?

However, Zheng Zhi still turned out the previous article published by Mourinho in the newspaper, and he was going to take it to remind Worrall, believing that Worrall would not be uncareful. Klopp and Mourinho's articles have been reprinted by The Kicker, and it is believed that Worrall has also seen it.

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