Chapter 119

After the game, Porto's 4-0 victory over Lazio sparked a new round of media praise for Porto. This score has already allowed Porto to qualify directly for the final, and in their eyes, Porto has become the biggest favorite to win the Europa League this season, and the major bookmakers have once again lowered Porto's odds to win the championship. Porto's excellent performance so far this season has also made the value of Porto's players rise again. And Lao Lei is undoubtedly the highest among them, and the media has estimated his worth to 20 million euros so far. For a 21-year-old player who has raised a midfielder, it is undoubtedly a high enough price.

The President of Porto, Mr. da Costa, was undoubtedly happy during this time. The team's triumphant progress on all fronts made his decision to bring in Mourinho and Lao Lei extremely wise, and Porto ushered in glory again. However, with the team's excellent record, the players in the team have also attracted more peeping eyes, and Lao Lei has been targeted by many giants. Whether or not he can keep these players this summer has undoubtedly become his most troubled question at the moment. He also knows that a talented player like Lao Lei is not something Porto can keep, but he still wants Lao Lei to stay in Porto for a little longer. As one of the greatest presidents in Porto's history, Porto's results this year are good enough, but they are still a little lacking.

Despite Da Costa's troubles, the Porto team had a very easy time, especially the main players. Compared with the busyness of the whole season, at this time, it is indeed a lot more leisurely. Now there are two rounds left in the Portuguese Super League. Jose Mourinho has been completely used to train the substitutes and newcomers, and the main players can play for a maximum of 20 minutes. It's used to stay in shape and prepare for the last two finals. At the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. The second leg against Lazio ended in a draw. Lazio, who had no hope of turning the tables, abandoned the game and decided to focus on the league, sending on a substitute and Porto's substitute to play 90 minutes, and the two sides drew 0-0. In the end, Porto won the Europa League final with a score of 4:0.

And Porto's final opponent has also come out, which is the Soviet Super League giants Celtic. Another season is coming to an end, and European football is about to usher in the final climax of the year. Before the UEFA Champions League, the Europa League final is undoubtedly the most attractive. Before this game starts. Porto and Celtic first started a celebrity battle. The Celts were supported by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Archbishop Antonio Conte, both of whom wrote to Celtic to express their support for them and said that they had returned to Spain to cheer them on. And Porto is not weak at all, with the support of the Portuguese president and his wife. This is also a warm-up for this Europa League final.

However, Porto did not bother to pay attention to these ups and downs, as they still have a Portuguese Cup final to play before the Europa League final and claim a second title on their goal of a treble this season. Their opponent in the final will be the Ferreira team. Although the players are full of confidence in winning the game. However, Mourinho will not make such a mistake as underestimating the enemy, and after beating the players well, they don't know where they will fly with the mentality of underestimating the enemy.

On May 13, the match between Porto and Pacos Ferreira will start on time at the National Stadium. Although Ferreira has always been talking. We're going to fight for the title. But no matter what, the outside world is unanimously optimistic that this Porto team can win the Portuguese Cup and win their second trophy of the season. As the only Portuguese team with a chance of winning the European championship at this time. Many media outlets in Portugal are hoping to see Porto achieve the feat of treble, although the Europa League is much less influential than the Champions League. However, it will still be the best result for the Portuguese team in recent years.

At the same time, there are also Portuguese media predictions: "If this Porto team can maintain their squad in the off-season, there is no doubt that Portuguese football will usher in a dominant team." The Portuguese Super League will once again be overshadowed by the dragon of Porto. And the "if" in this sentence is undoubtedly the most intriguing, because the transfer scandal about Porto players during this period is often in the newspapers, among which the one about Lao Lei is undoubtedly the hottest. Although both Da Costa and Mourinho came out to say that no one would leave and that everyone was not for sale in Porto, everyone knew that this was just an official answer. If they do want to keep these players, Porto will undoubtedly have a lot of work to do in the summer.

Mourinho also issued a ban on the players again during this time, in order to minimize the impact of the outside world and concentrate on preparing for the game. Fortunately, there are no white-eyed wolf players in this Porto, and there have been no problems due to transfer rumors, and the players' energy is still focused on the game and they are not distracted by these things. In fact, the spread of these news, Ferreira's media undoubtedly spent a lot of effort, wanting to increase Ferreira's chances of winning and influence Porto.

Such tactics are also common, and sometimes they can be very effective, but it is clear that this time Ferreira's media did not hit the mark. In the final of the Portuguese Cup, Porto used their excellent performance to beat Ferreira without the slightest temper.

At the very beginning of the game, Porto completely mastered the situation of the game. Ferreira also retreated in formation, with a posture of dragging the game into a penalty shootout. For Ferreira's attitude, Porto has long been mentally prepared. The key to this game is whether Porto can score as much as possible, and the sooner they score, the sooner the outcome of the game will be determined.

In the face of Ferreira's big bus formation, Lao Lei, Deco and Maniche in the Porto team showed their long-range shooting skills and bombarded their goals at the edge of Ferreira's big penalty area. In the 23rd minute of the first half, Lao Lei shot directly from 40 meters away from the goal. The ball was fully powerful and arced straight into the far corner of the goal. Ferreira's goalkeeper tried his best to stretch his body in the air, but the ball still bypassed him. Flew into the goal. 1:0, Ferreira's bucket formation was broken in the 24th minute of the first half.

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!! Thunder-Horse! Godzilla Cannon!! Remair was once again the first to open the door to victory for us. I have a hunch about this transfer of Remayar. It will definitely go down in the history of the club. This young man will write his own history in Porto. Won't go anywhere. The Porto commentators, while celebrating the goal, also refuted the predictions that the old Lei would leave, and this undoubtedly hit the hearts of the Porto fans. Although Lao Lei is not Porto's own soldier and has only been in Porto for a year, he has become the flag of Porto in the hearts of fans. For them, any remarks that exaggerate Lao Lei's departure are nonsense. In order to show his support for Lao Lei, after the goal, the cheers of "Godzilla, Godzilla..." were also in the sky above the National Sports Stadium for a long time.

And after the goal, Lao Lei also rushed to the sidelines excitedly. He took off his jersey and revealed a T-shirt with the words "Love You" printed on it. And the scene shot was also timely to Kayla with big sunglasses in the stands, and the girl obviously liked the man's show of love and responded warmly to the fragrant kiss. The move of the two people also won the applause and whistles of the Porto fans at the scene, covering up the boos of the Ferreira fans.

Lao Lei's goal boosted the morale of the Porto players and the attack became more violent. In the 34th minute of the first half, Lao Lei played a subtle small-scale cooperation with Deco and others in the frontcourt. Completely penetrated Ferreira's defenses. At the edge of the penalty area, Lao Lei made a dashing backheel pass that didn't look at people, and gave it to the feet of Maniche, who was in front of the penalty area. Ferreira's defence collapsed and Maniche faced the onrushing Ferreira goalkeeper. A light pick-up to score again.

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!! Unbelievably beautiful! Wonderful passes, stylish assists. What a sexy goal. Ferreira's defence is in vain, their penalty area is undefended against us! ”

The score was 2:0 in the first half. It was undoubtedly satisfying for Mourinho. Porto have never been overturned since taking a 2-0 lead this season. And Ferreira won't be the team to break that pattern. By the time Ferreira had to press it out in the second half, Porto's quick attack left them overwhelmed, and the wolves were overwhelmed. And this is also the reason why the outside world thinks that this Porto team is strong, there are no obvious shortcomings, and all aspects have good performances.

In the 53rd minute of the second half, Lao Lei used a ferocious tackle in the midfield to successfully cut off the football at the feet of the Ferreira player, and then played a one-two with Kostiani, successfully getting rid of the Ferreira player who came up to counter-rob. Then he continued to move forward quickly with the ball, in the front court Lao Lei was quickly caught by Ferreira's 3 people, if usually Lao Lei would definitely choose to divide the ball, but today he put forward the interest, but he wants to be alone.

The right foot feints the ball, then suddenly kicks back, followed by a left-footed ankle turn outward, allowing the ball to roll forward between the two Ferreira players. Immediately after that, Lao Lei exerted his right foot, directly accelerated from the acceleration and inserted it through this gap, and successfully broke through. This small range of flashing and moving, the Porto fans who saw the scene exclaimed in enjoyment. After breaking through the three-man defense, in front of Lao Lei was already an empty Ferreira penalty area.

Facing the only defender of Ferreira in the penalty area, Lao Lei attracted his attention after an acceleration, and immediately split the ball, allowing McCarthy on the side to get an easy one-on-one chance. After he easily smashed into the far corner, Porto already had a 3-0 lead.

Looking at the eyes of the Ferreira players who have lost their fighting spirit, they know that this Portuguese Cup final has been won or lost.

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!! Thunderhorse! Reima's brilliant individual performance gave Benny an easy chance to score. 3:0! 3:0!! I declare that the 02-03 Portuguese Cup is Porto! Soar the dragon!! ”

The National Stadium is above the sky, and the song of "We are the champions" has begun to waft. (To be continued......)