Chapter 15 What you will take, you must give first

After losing two games in a row, coach Paulo Bento also felt the pressure from all sides, and the pressure on the head coach of the giants was not something that anyone could withstand.

At the pre-match press conference with Ferreira, reporters from all sides began to take turns attacking Bento, some questioning his tactics, some questioning his personnel, and some conspiracy theorists rounding around the bush to ask whether the club's top brass interfered with the manager's tactics and personnel, after all, it was enough to have a shitty postiga still on the pitch to make many conspirators think about it.

Bento denied everything, although Mr. Chairman did talk to him about Postiga, and when he was about to come to the team, he told him to make good use of the "invaluable" striker. Bento would have told reporters the truth if he had been kicked in the head by a donkey, but Bento knew what he wanted.

'It's not something I've brought in, but the whole club thinks he's unbeatable, so maybe it's been a little bit difficult for him, but of course it's just a little tweaking for a player like him to get everything back on track. Bento also spoke about Edelpostiga, who has been criticised lately: "This game is an opportunity for him, yes, he needs to change, he is still a player of great quality. ”

'I want to apologise to the supporters, the first two games have been very disappointing for everyone, obviously, the team needs to change, and please have a little more confidence, the season has just started, and I believe we can get back on winning track.'

The press conference ended with Bento's low-profile words, and the match that all parties were concerned about was finally approaching.

The home team is not strong, and it is a good target for Sporting Lisbon to take points. The visitors continued their previous formation and style of play, and the recently questioned Postiga continued to start, and unlike before, Wu Xiaomu, who had been continuously excluded from the squad, finally entered the squad again, which made some Chinese fans very happy.

"Be careful of the old guy Del Lai on the opposing front line in this ball, this old guy is poisonous, as for that Postiga, press him more, many of you know him, and I don't need to say more, you will definitely be able to taste the sweetness from him, but boys, I can remind you, Postiga has only recently made a mistake in his head and has not been able to do anything about himself, if anyone dares to despise him, I don't mind replacing him at any time!" Coach Ferreira reminded his players: "You can try to provoke Postiga, use this point, I want us to get at least one point in this game, not to disappoint me, not to disappoint the fans outside the stadium!" They don't spend money to watch the game to see the team they support lose without any suspense, okay, it's almost time, let's play! ”

At the same time, in the away dressing room, Bento is also making the final arrangements.

"We didn't score in the first two league games, even though our opponents are very strong, I hope you can recognise the situation of the team, adjust yourself, this game must be won, I believe you can do it, all right gentlemen, cheer up and get ready to play!"

He paused for a moment, as if thinking about something, and finally spoke, and said to Postiga: "Eder, you need to strengthen the connection with your teammates, so that you will be less surrounded by the other party, and your abilities can be better displayed, okay, I look forward to your performance." ”

In fact, he doesn't want to keep what so many people say, the relationship between Postiga and himself is now only limited to the relationship between the coach and the players, the two of them basically have no communication, except for games and training, it is difficult for the head coach to meet Postiga, and now the manager can only do a kind reminder.

The stage is set, everything is ready, yes, for some.

Postiga has realized his current situation, compared to the recklessness in North London, with the growth of age, his edges and corners have been smoothed out a lot, he feels that he can cooperate with his teammates appropriately, but his teammates should realize that he and his teammates will eventually serve his own goal, and after reaching an agreement with his teammates, Postiga confidently walked onto the home team's pitch.

However, he will soon be disappointed...... and anger.

The two teams started a slightly dull game, and the game went on for more than ten minutes, and there was no panic on the field, and Postiga had a feeling that he received very few passes today, although not very noticeable. The game had been going on for a while, and he hadn't even sweated a few drops.

Moutinho broke the ball in the midfield, and then quickly found Postiga, I have to say, Postiga's running position is still very sensitive, he pulled to the gap to catch the ball, found that the other two came to force the ball, slightly reluctant to knock the ball to the unguarded Dellai, after the ball was passed, the quality was not bad, there was a advance amount, but Delle did not start, he didn't seem to expect Postiga to pass the ball to himself, turned his head to Postiga and smiled.

The smile made Postiga uncomfortable. Seeing that his pass was wasted, Postiga thought disdainfully, "You all say I'm Eder alone, and you don't look at who my teammates are?" If my teammate were Cristiano Ronaldo, would I not pass the ball? These current teammates are also wasted if I pass them! The team still has to rely on me, and if it had revolved around me from the beginning, the team wouldn't have lost two in a row! ”

As the game progressed, Postiga soon became sure that his teammates rarely passed the ball to him, and that there were a few who simply didn't pass the ball to him under any circumstances. As he gets the ball less, his threat on the pitch becomes even weaker, and there are really not many opportunities for a striker who has no ball at his feet to play.

Thanks to Ferreira's own lack of strength, Lisbon would have been behind before half-time, and neither team scored at half-time.

Postiga returned to the locker room in a rage, ready to question his teammates who didn't have long eyes. As soon as he returned to the locker room, he saw that no one was paying attention to him at all, and he was about to get angry, when the head coach came in, and he had nowhere to vent.

Now Postiga took aim at the manager, and his tone tried to calm himself as much as possible, "Coach, I lack effective support on the field, I need the pass from my teammates!" ”

As head coach, Bento showed great tolerance and did not get overly angry at the disrespect of the players, only telling Postiga "You need to calm down. ”

As if out of professional instinct, Bento still kindly reminded his disciples to "pass the ball more, cooperate more", and the players assured "Okay, coach, no problem!" ”

On the field, the home team's attack began to strengthen after the start of the second half, and there were several times to send the ball into the away team's defensive penalty area and form an attack, but unfortunately Ferreira striker Tatu's shooting skills were not superb, plus Lisbon goalkeeper Patricio's excellent performance to keep the goal intact, the score on the field was still 0-0.

The fans of the home team Ferreira saw that their own offensive gradually rose, and they also worked hard, cheering and cheering endlessly, and for a time the atmosphere in the small stadium was particularly warm, in this cheering and cheering, the rise of the home team's killing, and the away team had to stand on defense to ensure that the city gate was safe.

Postiga did change a bit from before, getting involved in the defense, although he doesn't admit that he is going to defend, he has his philosophy and pride.

Postiga did receive more passes than before, but unfortunately he lacked the support of the striker, and more often appeared to be alone, which is different from the previous singles, if there were players in a better position this time, Postiga would have cooperated, but no.

After surviving a wave of offensive from the home team, attacking and defending aliens, Lisbon launched an offensive from the backfield, Tonel held the ball and inserted the attack in the back row, Ferreira player Dede stepped forward to force, Tonel handed the ball to Roshenbach not far away for insurance purposes, saying that it was too late and that was fast, most of the Ferreira players overkill, many did not have time to return to the defense, and there was a large gap in the rear. Postiga was in a prime position on the right side of the penalty area, and he raised his hand to ask for the ball to be given, and with Postiga's excellent ability to grasp the ball in front of goal, he was confident that he could pose a threat. But Roshenbach took one look at him and was stunned not to pass the ball to him, but to the veteran Dellay in the middle, who was not in a good position and wasted the opportunity with a kick from outside the box.

This made Postiga very unhappy, with nowhere to vent, and the anger in his heart was like a pressurized pressure cooker, accumulating countless tempers, about to explode! He even felt the disdain in Roshenbach's eyes when he looked at him, and he didn't suppress his anger for a while, and rushed forward to find Roshenbach's theory.

"My position was so good just now, you also saw why didn't you pass it on to me?!"

"Get out, I'm too lazy to take care of you" Roshenbach showed no weakness.

This immediately angered Postiga, and he ran up to Roshenbach with an arrow, pointed at his nose and roared, "What the fuck are you talking about!!" ”

Roshenbach didn't reply to him, spread his hands and smiled.

"Our chance, Roshenbach with the ball, the front court is very open, Postiga asked for the ball on his right side, he raised his hands high, he raised his hands and waved them in mid-air, Roshenbach didn't pass the ball to him, it was given to Delle's feet, Delle shot on goal!! …… Dellai's location is not good, unfortunately, there is no threat, what a hard-earned opportunity......"

"Wait, what's going on at the scene, Ao~! BIG NEWS!! There was infighting among the Lisbon players on the field! Postiga! Roshenbach! You know what you're doing?! ”

"Looking back, it seems that Postiga was dissatisfied that Roshenbach did not pass the ball to him, and wanted to find Roshenbach theory, Roshenbach ignored him at first, and I don't know why our lone wolf striker rushed forward again, wow! Let's see, Roshenbach spread his hands helplessly! Postiga is still holding on! Postiga, Postiga, do you know what you're doing? Players like this are a disgrace to our Lisbon! He doesn't deserve to wear our Sporting Lisbon shirt! ”

The dramatic scene on the field made Sporting Lisbon's supporters feel embarrassed, and the commentators did not hesitate to vent their dissatisfaction, and they hated Postiga even more, and what made them even more helpless was that the referee gave each of them a yellow card to calm them down.

Although this kind of joke cannot be said to be unprecedented, it is rare enough, and isn't it an extremely difficult joke to appreciate when the players of your own team argue with each other and almost get a yellow card each?

Postiga was pulled away by his national team team-mate Jose Moutinho and he was replaced by the manager. He couldn't stay on the field anyway.

"Eder, you have to calm down, listen, you calm down first, don't think about anything else in this game, talk about what is done after the game......" Moutinho was advising Wieder Postiga.

Postiga had recovered a little from his anger, and tears began to swirl in his eyes, and he walked down quickly with the unwillingness that a discerning man could see.

He also knew he couldn't be on the court. He didn't shake hands with Wu Xiaomu, nor did he pay attention to the head coach, and went straight into the players' tunnel. Nobody cared about him, and the game went on.

After getting a couple of illusory workhorses, Postiga was forced to give more!