Chapter 48: The Dilemma
After Lao Lei entered the training system of long passing, he came to an ordinary football training ground. A white circle about three meters in diameter and another smaller one was drawn on the court, and a strong white man stood on the side as a supervisor, not looking like a good person. After the supervisor saw Lao Lei coming in, he first beckoned Lao Lei to come to him. When Lao Lei came to the front and back, he first said: "Please feel the host's hands, I want to install some necessary training equipment." β
After listening to this, Lao Lei felt a little bad, rubbed his hands, and asked weakly: "Excuse me, is this equipment dangerous?" The question was answered firmly: "No, please rest assured." β
After receiving this answer, although Lao Lei was still uneasy in his heart, he finally let go of his heart slightly. After honestly raising his hands, the strong man suddenly took out something quickly, and then quickly put it on Lao Lei at a lightning speed, and clicked, and listened to a lock.
Lao Lei, who was in a trance by the supervisor's actions, came back to his senses, looked down, and his eyes suddenly opened as big as the eyes of Salted Egg Superman. Although Lao Lei doesn't know how to make the bomb, Lao Lei, who has watched a lot of popular Hollywood movies, can still see at a glance that the thing he is tied to his waist is a ** bomb, and the power is not small.
Lao Lei cried with a sad face, raised his head, and said with tears in his eyes: "Didn't you say that there is no danger, buddy, we don't lie." To this sentence, Lao Lei got a firm answer with a smile: "Of course, there is absolutely no danger to me." β
With me, I knew the way, but with a feeling of powerlessness, Lao Lei reluctantly slowly moved to a small white circle 15 meters away from the white circle with a diameter of 3 meters. After seeing Lao Lei in place, the white strong man raised his hand high, shook it at Lao Lei, and said, "Time 10 seconds, prepare, start." β
Lao Lei could see that there was a remote control in the hands of the white strong man, and he didn't have to guess to know that it must be the button of the bomb he was carrying. Blowing up doesn't mean that you won't be afraid of being bombed, and when the supervisor gives an order, Lao Lei doesn't dare to delay for a second, and it will start immediately. After the inhumane destruction of the system for a period of time, Lao Lei's current psychological quality can simply go directly to be a bomb disposal expert, and his heartbeat does not speed up.
Of course, good psychological quality is only software, and his own strength is hardware, and Lao Lei is obviously not qualified in the hardware of long passing. So all he got was a loud boom. This time, Lao Lei behaved very calmly, although his whole body was black, and he did not have a complete piece of clothing, leaving a sentence in vain: "My life, how can you be so sad." β
Due to Lao Lei's low starting point in terms of long passing, I have to say that after about 5 days of training, the improvement is still big enough, soaring directly from 20 to 45. However, this was far from Mourinho's goal, but time did not wait for Lao Lei to start the fourth round in Portugal. Leiria is away to take on third-division side Alcochetans. Alkchestan defeated the First Division team Nahua at home, which can be said to be a big upset. The Portuguese Cup, on the other hand, is somewhat similar to the FA Cup in England, which is a hotbed of upsets, and as a single-game game, it gives weaker teams a chance to upset. If you are not careful, there will be a story of dragon slaying legends, and there is no shortage of Super League teams in history who left humiliating scenes and were knocked out by teams in the first and even third divisions.
It's just a pity that the Portuguese Cup does not have the same domestic attention as England's FA Cup, it exists as a chicken rib competition in Portugal. There are many teams that have no hope of winning the league and are worried about relegation, and they have put a lot of passion into this competition as the only competition that can win the championship. So for the sake of a bigger goal, the Portuguese Cup is often abandoned when the giants need to give up some games.
However, Mourinho was not ready to give up so soon, after all, he was kicked out of the first round by a third-division team, and Mourinho still didn't want it to happen. And it can be used as an experience and test for Lao Lei, so that he can accumulate more experience as the core of the organization, and exercise his ability in the organization with actual combat.
Although Alcochetans is a team in the third division, this does not prevent its fans from enthusiastically supporting him. When Lao Lei and others came to the court, they were greeted with warm boos and some international gestures. Alkchesten's stadium could only accommodate about a thousand people, and the pitch was potholed, with no grass in some places, causing some problems for Leiria.
After the start of the game, Leiria's players still played the same way in the second half when they played Benfica, using the active running of Lao Lei to connect the team through short passes. However, the uneven field did not make Leiria's short passes go so smoothly, and the passes were often thumping, resulting in short passes and sometimes straight off the course. In this way, the rotation of the Leiria ball began with a series of mistakes, and the players of Alcochetans, who were already familiar with it, launched an aggressive scramble in the opening stages.
Through the scramble, Alkchestan got a lot of attacking opportunities, but because the strength of the players themselves was too poor, they did not seize these opportunities, but they also surprised Leiria's players in a cold sweat. However, this state is too dangerous, after all, the opponent also plays professional football, as long as you seize a good opportunity and add a little luck, the goal is just around the corner.
In the 5th minute, Antonio will give a pass to Lao Lei, but on the way he encountered a protrusion and suddenly jumped. The striker of Alcochetans, who was next to him, appeared alertly, stopped the jumping football with one foot, and took two steps into the penalty area of Leiria. Seeing that they had lost the ball in such a dangerous area, Lao Lei and Antonio immediately pressed forward one after another. And this Brazilian-born Alcochetans striker still has the characteristics of a Brazilian player at his feet, the ball is firmly controlled by him, and Lao Lei and the two can't find any opportunity to break the ball with their feet for a while.
The Brazilian striker named Willian suddenly knocked the ball back at this time, and Lao Lei didn't expect the opponent to handle the ball like this, and he couldn't cut off the heel pass.
Outside the penalty area, a player from Alcochetans picked up and received a ball from Willian, which was aimed at the door of Leiria with a powerful long-range shot. Thankfully, the Alcochetans player's long-range shot was powerful, but not from a tricky angle, and hit the middle of the goal. Lemato didn't have much effort to crush the ball under him. This time, Alcochetans' attack was well organized, but the quality of the shot was slightly worse. This made Mourinho on the sidelines very unhappy, and he felt that even if the team was not used to the field, it was by no means a reason for the team to perform the way it did. He reminded his players loudly that they would not give away the victory if they were to be careful.
After Leiria's players had 120,000 points of attention, Alcochetans retreated en masse as soon as they saw that they couldn't do anything, and the lineup became a typical 4-5-1 lineup, and the defense line was extremely deep, compressing the half-court space to a minimum. This caused a lot of problems for Leiria's attack, especially without AndrΓ©'s long pass. The penetration of short passes against Benfica was useless in front of Alcochetans' turtle shell defence, and after hitting the hinterland, the dense personnel made it difficult for Leiria's short passes to move forward. Fortunately, the defensive hardness of the midfield led by Calaba and Lao Lei was guaranteed, and Alcochetans did not give Alcochetans any chance to launch a counterattack directly from the back, and the scene was a little anxious.
Unlike Leiria, who were a little restless, Alcochetans fans were already very satisfied with the team's performance, after all, they were playing against the current leaders of the Portuguese Super League. They started singing loudly to cheer their players on. Alcochetans' players, encouraged by the fans, played more energetically and defended more aggressively.
Unable to attack, the restless Leiria was the first to make a mistake. Leiria's backline was already pressed close to the centre circle, and at this time, Hugo made an irrational breakthrough choice in a frustrated mood, and the ball was cut off by two Alcochetans players. Due to the huge space up front, Alcochetans' players don't have to worry about where the ball will land, and they drive directly into the front court with a big foot, allowing their strikers to race against Leiria's defenders.
Although he is a player of the third division team, William's absolute speed as a striker is still faster than these defenders in Leiria. After a few men had sprinted forward for 30 metres, it was Willian who got ahead of Ben and Raio and got the ball first.
With the ball, Willian headed for Leiria's penalty area, and he was already facing Leiria's goalkeeper Lemato. When he stepped into the penalty area, Lemato attacked directly, and he could see that even if Ben and Laio were only about 1 meter away from William, it would hardly hinder William, and he could only rely on himself at this time. It's a heads-up between goalkeeper and striker, and it's the most manly and exciting duel in football, like a Western cowboy duel, a life-or-death affair.
There was a sudden silence on the pitch and the Alcochetans fans craned their necks and waited for the result, a godsend that would change the scoreline.
At this time, Willian once again showed the Brazilian's superb foot skills, maybe Willian is not a good striker, but his foot skills are still skillful. Seeing that he first raised his right foot to make a shooting gesture, Lemato immediately fell to the ground and reached to block the angle of William's shot.
Unfortunately, it was a feint, and after Willian put his foot down, he didn't shoot, but flicked out with the outside of his right foot to avoid Lemato's remedy. In front of Willian was just an empty goal, and at this time Willian pushed the ball with the arch of his foot.
Laio, who wanted to save the ball with a long sliding tackle, did not touch the football, which rolled into the goal from the far corner.
Suddenly, the home stadium of Alcochetans resounded with loud cheers.
Division C's Alcochetans lead 1-0 at home and are currently the Portuguese league leader Leiria.
Leiria is in trouble.