For many people later, this game, as the first official meeting between Dick and Mourinho, made many people talk about it - as the only one who could occasionally compete with Dick in terms of record in the later period, and can be called the last bastion of European coaches against Dick, Mourinho, his first meeting with Dick was enough to become a legend under the retirement of time, and the legend became a myth.

However, in fact, for many people who study this game, this game does not have much value, they think that Mourinho at this time is far from excellent in terms of tactical adjustment and team thinking, and Dick's tactical literacy and ideas have begun to mature, but limited to the lack of strength of this Dortmund team, and did not show too much.

However, for this match, from the very beginning, it was very intense.

Borussia Dortmund, who were the first to kick off, attacked, and instead of pushing slowly through the midfield, they launched a quick attack.

"Porto don't have any unknown players on the surface, but their midfield control is quite good...... We can't feel like we can hold our opponents down just because we're Champions League winners...... Play fast, play their backline, let them organize the attack slowly, we want speed. ”

Dortmund quickly passed the ball to the front, Gomez took the ball, Carvalho pressed up from behind, feeling the tough pressing behind him, Gomez did not choose to turn and break through, but passed the ball out.

Rather than stop the ball, he shot straight from outside the box, and Baia made a brilliant save when he flew sideways to keep the ball out and Ferreira immediately cleared it.

Borussia Dortmund's midfielder began to quickly return to the defense, Deco was entangled by Klinger as soon as he got the ball, and he didn't dwell on the opponent too much, but raised his foot to send a ball behind him, trying to send a through ball to McCarthy.

McCarthy started to kick in, but Metzelder made a nice back-up break that he could get hold of before McCarthy could get the ball and then handed it to the retreating Borowski.

Some of the Dortmund players who had just pressed up had not returned, so Borowski quickly found the spot, and he raised his foot to pass the ball to Arshavin on the right.

Arshavin began to dribble the ball, and his Russian compatriot Alanichev, who rushed from the side to stop him, was a step too slow to catch him, Ricardo Costa met him hard, Arshavin made a feint to dribble inside, and when his center of gravity shifted, he quickly dunked the ball and killed it towards the baseline.

Costa desperately tried to defend back, but still couldn't stop Arshavin from passing the ball out of the middle, the ball was passed to the middle, Gomez was about to follow up the shot, but Carvalho preemptively went around and cut the ball away.

"Carvalho is a really good centre-back...... Dick thought off the pitch, Porto have won this season's title in their history, it is indeed not a fluke, they do have a group of good players.

It's just that they won the championship of the Champions Cup, and they also fought all the way to grow and gradually get up, and at this time, they are far from being strong in the future.

Carvalho cleared the ball with a big foot, the ball flew to the front, in the high ball, Dortmund still has a big advantage, Warnes in front of Delrey to top the ball, Deco behind the pressure Klinger almost made Klinger make a mistake, but Klinger still relied on his height to protect the ball, and then passed to Metzeld who came up to answer.

Metzelder quickly split the ball down the right flank, and Alves received the ball and began to attack along the flanks - Porto's line-up was very thick in the middle, both in attack and defence, but on the flanks it was a bit worse, especially on their left.

It just so happens that Dortmund's attack on the right side is very good - this is one of the reasons why Dick is confident, just grasping this flaw, it is very likely to score, and with Porto's attack, if Dortmund defends, it will be difficult for them to win from Dortmund's defense.

In the case of being at a disadvantage, there are many ways to win, and in the final analysis, it is how to use the opponent's weaknesses and play to their strengths - for this, Dortmund, which seems to be in the light on the surface, is actually in the dark, and is familiar with this Porto, Dick, and the current Dortmund, Mourinho has not been familiar with it for long, this is his advantage.

Although it seems a bit unorthodox to bully an opponent in such a situation, Dick doesn't care - now Dortmund is of such strength, he can try to win as many championships as possible, this is his ability, and no one can say anything.

Alves dribbled forward very quickly, and Arshavin was next to him to answer, Costinha intended to intercept Alves's advance, he just came, Alves passed the ball to Arshavin, and by the time Costinha was ready to return to the defense, Arshavin had already accelerated and left him far away.

The speeding Arshavin seemed to let the ball out of his control, Ricardo Costa was about to come up and cut the ball off, but Arshavin's speed increased by one gear, and he stabbed the ball towards the edge of the penalty area in front of him, and the ball flew directly over, Arshavin was short, rushed past Costa, and then caught up with the ball, looked up at the penalty area, raised his foot and passed the ball into the penalty area!

Carvalho followed Gomez and Jorge Costa was in the middle of the pitch, but as they were ready to clear, the ball flew in a high arc, straight down the middle, and then towards the back post......

"Oops!" Mourinho chuckled in his heart under the field, and before he could scream, the ball had already begun to fall downward, and Olic in the back row shook off Ferreira, and before he cleared the ball, he shook his head at the falling ball!

Baia couldn't make a save, and the ball flew into the Porto goal before he could save it!

"The ball is in! Arshavin assists, Olic shakes his head to the goal! This attack Dortmund made full use of the offensive on both flanks and broke through the gate of Porto! Last season's Champions Cup was the winner! ”

Seeing Olic put the ball into the gate guarded by Baia, Dick shook his fist hard, and this goal, which was launched from the right and scored from the left, bypassed Porto's defensive midfield, and scored from both wings...... With a goal like that, the rest of the game is easy to play.

Dick doesn't plan to play any big game with Mourinho right now, he just wants to win this game, and now that he is ahead, the next step is to ......

Immediately after seeing the players finish celebrating, Dick made a gesture to the players who ran back.

Mourinho looked at his gesture with some confusion - what will Dick do when he takes the lead? This made him a little confused, but soon, his doubts were answered.

Defend! Dortmund immediately went on defense after taking the lead!

"If you have the ability, let's break our defenses...... Although we seem to have conceded a lot of goals in the league and the League Cup, it is because we have always played fast attack, our backline has not lost anything, and after the baptism of last season's Champions Cup, our defense is still strong! Dick smiled.

And when he saw Dortmund start to defend, Mourinho was stunned for a moment, and then sneered.

It is true that the strength of Dortmund's backline has not declined, but their goalkeeper is no longer the same goalkeeper as last season, and the goalkeeper, who has made several mistakes in the Carabao Cup, can support such a defense? Had it not been for Lehmann last season, would you have dared to use that tactic in the Champions League final? Want to intimidate us with such defense? No way! I'm not going to let the team press like crazy and give you a chance to counterattack, but with our attacking players on the field, they are definitely capable of scoring goals!

Dortmund's defense is indeed quite solid, with four defenders and a midfielder with good defensive ability in front of him, they make it difficult for Porto to find any opportunities to shoot, but Mourinho is not in a hurry, because he believes that the attacking ability of Deco and others must be able to find opportunities.

However, as time went by, Mourinho's brows began to wrinkle gradually - because Porto's attack almost couldn't create any chances, not even the space to shoot, Porto is not without attacking players, almost all four midfielders have a pretty good long-range shot, in this case they can't create a chance to shoot, which shows how much pressure Dortmund creates on defense!

Of course, to be able to do this, Dortmund players also have a lot of fouls, they give full play to their physical advantages, and use to run back and forth and fight to block Porto's attack, although Porto's players are not bad at confrontation, but under such pressure, they can't even find a chance to shoot from a distance!

On the contrary, when the game was nearly thirty minutes into the game, a counterattack by Dortmund almost scored again, Alves made a long pass directly to the left side of the backfield, Olic grabbed the ball in front of Ferreira, and then raised his foot to pass the ball to the middle, and the follow-up Arshavin shot directly from a distance, and the ball flew out of the bottom line against the post, shocking Baia in a cold sweat!

Two minutes later, Borowski broke the ball in midfield, suddenly chose to dribble forward, attracted the attention of the opposing player, and passed the ball to Arshavin, who broke through with the ball and distributed it to Olich, who sent a through ball, Gomez, who burst into the penalty area, received the ball from a small angle and turned to shoot, and the ball hit the side netting.

After two consecutive counter-attacks by Borussia Dortmund to almost score, Porto's attack began to become more cautious - it was not until the 37th minute that Porto had their first shot of the game, Delrey received Deco's pass and returned the pass, followed by Maniche who was 20 yards out of the goal, and the ball skimmed the crossbar.

It was also Porto's only shot on goal in the entire first half.

When the whistle blew at the end of the first half, Mourinho walked into the tunnel with a frown, if they can't solve the attacking problems, then the whole second half, Porto probably won't change much, they can only pray that their luck is a little better and they create a little more chances......

Mourinho is not willing to do this kind of thing that puts all his hopes on luck, and he, like Dick, is more accustomed to taking everything into his own hands than relying on some illusory luck.

"By all means...... There will be a way. Mourinho thought to himself as he walked.