Lobonte plucked the ball out of the net and limp it kicked forward.

He looked a little frustrated, the goalkeeper relied on the defender, but when Porto sent a free kick quickly, Ajax's defence was a beat slow, which can be said to make the goalkeeper helpless.

The football that rolled to the outside of the box stopped there, and no one cared.

Galasek hugged De Jong and kept De Jong in his head.

At this time, the Ajax players were a little frustrated on the field, the frontcourt players bowed their heads slightly and walked towards the backfield, and the expressions of the backfield players looked unnatural.

It's too much pressure!

Champions League final!

There are more than 20 minutes left, and now it's behind!

There was only one exception.

Qin Xiong!

He trotted back into his own half, and this time Porto's counter-attack, he couldn't help it.

He had gone straight into Porto's penalty area, failed to make that attack with a cross from the bottom line, turned around, and Porto quickly launched an attack up front, and by the time Porto scored, he had just run to the halfway line.

He trotted past De Jong and Galasek, with a calm face, he walked to the football, picked up the football and turned around, and passed by De Jong again, he came to the kick-off point of the center circle, pressed the football on the kick-off point, slowly retreated, and stood in place after retreating to the outside of the center circle, slightly raised his chin, showing a very standard combat posture!

Qin Xiong was not surprised by De Jong's "explosion", and if you understand his character, you will understand that even if this kind of thing happens, it is understandable.

But since Galasek is appeasing De Jong, with the seniority of a veteran, there should be no big problem.

The rest. He couldn't help either. Do you want to take what Galasek will say to De Jong. Will he say it again?

Not necessarily.

He didn't know that it was he who picked up the football and put it on the tee at the moment, and the calmness and fighting spirit he invisibly showed made De Jong quickly calm down and grit his teeth to regain his strength!

It's just that his expression seems to be fierce, which is quite scary.

Qin Xiong can't remember which teammate once asked himself: A player with such outstanding ability as you, did he always win games in the past?

Qin Xiong smiled and shook his head.

And so it was, on the path of his upbringing. The coach who cultivated him was always making it more difficult for him, the number of players in the game was uneven, he always played more with less, and the coaches' intention was initially to require him to realize the importance of the team, because Qin Xiong was very selfish when he was very young.

Later, after cultivating a sense of teamwork and a vision of the overall situation, you need to give him "frustration education", football games are like this, you can't always have smooth sailing!

How to face adversity and difficulties is where the player's willpower is tested.

It often determines whether a player can go from mediocrity to vulgarity. From the best to the altar!

So when Qin Xiong is growing up, he will lose. Lost many times, but each time he made himself better at losing! And then don't lose! And finally, victory!

This process has been repeated to temper his willpower and good attitude towards the game.

If you lose, you don't lose!

No matter how difficult it is, he will not hang his head, he will always raise his chin slightly, as long as the game is not over, he will never give up!

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Qin Xiong let out a long breath.

He watched as the Porto players walked towards the back, they were cheering each other on, and the Ajax players were already in formation.

Qin Xiong looked at his teammates, he didn't realize what he had done and let his teammates quickly get rid of their frustration, and glow with a new round of high fighting spirit.

He just knew it was tougher than before.

In addition to the score behind and the race for the rest of the time, Porto was more defensive than after the opening!

It is undeniable that Qin Xiong does not like Porto's style of play, but he must also admire the opponent's young coach Jose Mourinho.

Before the game, Qin Xiong and his teammates thought that McCarthy would play as a striker, but Mourinho sent Alberto on the pitch and the youngster scored.

Mourinho's substitution had an immediate effect, with Alenichev scoring the second goal.

As far as the art of on-the-spot command is concerned, there may not be many managers who can impress Qin Xiong in this season, Mourinho must be the most impactful, maybe because it is the Champions League final, so it may be more impressive than AC Milan coach Ancelotti, even if Ancelotti is more famous.

It's no wonder that top clubs like Chelsea, Real Madrid, Liverpool are inviting him to coach.

When the game restarted, Porto did not let up because they were leading the scoreline, and they did not stop their plans to reshape the game with foul harassment.

Although the minutes were passing by the minute, Ajax did not press hard, they knew the power of Porto's counter-attack, and if they conceded one more goal, the game would be officially over!

Because Porto pays more attention to defense, it is difficult for Ajax to advance the attack into the opponent's penalty area in the positional battle attack, and even because the opponent is overly wary of Qin Xiong's possession of the ball in the front court, they do not hesitate to block Qin Xiong's pace at the cost of fouls, which leads Ajax's chances of getting long-range shots on the periphery are decreasing.

In the 73rd minute of the game, Deco was finally shown a yellow card by the referee after pulling Qin Xiong's jersey again.

After that, Mourinho made a second substitution, with striker McCarthy coming on for Delle.

Considering that Delley is also burdened with a yellow card, McCarthy can continue to keep the forward back pressing force against the midfield after coming on.

Koeman was a little helpless, and Ajax was mainly attacking football, so they were a little passive in the substitution process.

Because of the high requirements of the offensive football style on the team, the players on the bench are definitely not as good as the opponent.

From another point of view, if Ajax plays defense and has space, maybe Sottards, Sikora and Sonk who are sitting on the bench will all be useful, but in the current game situation, only Pienal can consider being replaced, but who to replace?

Such substitutions would not work better in an ideal design than the players on the field.

Qin Xiong began to hand over the task of organizing to Galasek.

Due to the importance that the Porto players attached to him, especially after McCarthy came on the court, the encirclement and pressing mode formed in the midfield made Qin Xiong's control of the ball in the midfield become less efficient, and he was even successfully tackled once.

If it weren't for Porto's poor starting position, that goal would have been a fatal mistake.

Qin Xiong began to take the initiative to move towards the frontcourt, allowing himself to start closer to the penalty area in the attack, so that the frontcourt players could connect.

The task of tandem attacking in front and back fell to Galasek, who was organised in the midfield area and was not too dangerous.

Qin Xiong can't retreat to the back area to organize, although that will definitely allow him to control the ball easily, but there are only three teammates in the front court, and they are scattered, and it makes no sense for him to just control the ball.

So he moved to the front court and increased the number of troops in the front court that directly threatened the opponent's goal.

As the clock ticked by, Porto were much more cautious on the counter-attack than before, and when Ajax didn't get out of the way, their counter-attacking efficiency also dropped.

But Mourinho on the sidelines was unfazed.

It seems that Ajax has exhausted his strength and cannot play a more subtle coordination on the offensive end, his on-the-spot adjustment is correct, compressing the space in the midfield and backfield, with the striker to rush back to press the midfield line, curb Qin Xiong's play in the midfield, and cut off the source of inspiration for Ajax's attack, Ajax is like a tiger with teeth extracted!

The Porto fans in the stands are getting more excited, and the worries of Ajax fans are becoming more and more obvious.

Mourinho looked up at the time on the big screen.

79:47

There are only ten minutes left in the game, and it won't take more than 15 minutes to include injury time.

The young marshal, who showed a confident temperament from before the game, began to prepare to play the last card and end the game!

He will not let the team die, he will always retain the threat of counter-attack, but will weaken a little attacking force to strengthen the defensive line, so that once Ajax has to press hard in the final moments, Porto get a counter-attack opportunity does not need three or four players to cooperate at all, maybe the impact of one or two players is enough to send Ajax into the abyss! (To be continued......) R1292