The game had been played for about 10 minutes, and Portugal had an absolute advantage in terms of possession, with 60% possession. Oliveira is happy to see such a situation, with absolute possession, it can not only reduce Germany's attacking opportunities, but also use possession to consume Germany's physical advantage, killing two birds with one stone. Against such a difficult bone of the German team, Oliveira has never had the idea of winning it in one fell swoop.

In his strategic plan, Portugal should adopt the strategy of boiling frogs in warm water against the German team in this game, gradually weakening its combat effectiveness, and when it is powerless to resist, it will carry out a fatal blow. Of course, this is only the script for the most perfect game course that Oliveira has conceived, and the German team will not be willing to play according to the script set by the Portuguese team. For Oliveira, Germany's most capable weapon at the moment to break that situation is their set-pieces and counter-attacks.

If they want to find opportunities in positional battles, the German team does not have such ability at the moment. Even if they have the hottest midfielder in Europe this year, Ballack, the world's top midfielder who led Bayer Leverkusen to the Champions League final and lost to Zidane. However, the biggest strength of this German team is the physicality of its players, their height, their strength and their speed.

The situation in this game looks like Portugal is running with a pass to the German player, but Portugal itself does not press forward easily, but more in the transmission back and forth between the midfield and the back, to control the situation. This is of course quite boring in the eyes of the fans, and for the fans, the most exciting thing on the football field is of course the two teams fighting each other. However, they can only accept this situation, because it is relatively good to look at. They would prefer their team to qualify for the final.

In the 15th minute of the game, Portugal formed continuous possession again in a row. Finally, the first wave of threatening offensive was launched. Germany's 3-4-1-2 formation changed to 5-3-2 when defending. The forwards on both sides will defend the back line. However, in any case, the tall stature brings with it the weakness of turning relatively slowly. Oliveira's attacking strategy for Portugal's players is to find gaps and use through balls to break down Germany's steel defence with their own speed after passing the ball continuously.

At this time, Lao Lei pressed and formed a cooperation with Rui Costa in the front court. Both of them have the ability to pass the lethal threat ball with one kick, and let Lao Lei come up, just to confuse and disrupt the Germans' defensive arrangement and create a lethal pass route. After a series of wall collisions with Rui Costa and Figo. Lao Lei broke through the first line of defense laid out by the Germans, and threw off Barak, Hamann and others.

In this way, Lao Lei attracted the attention of the German defence, and at this time, Metzelde, one of the three central defenders on the German back line, forced out. This is one of the characteristics of the 3-4-1-2 formation, and due to the weakness of the midfield, the three central defenders will have a larger defensive area than usual. In addition to Metzelde, Barak has also bitten up again. Lao Lei's eyes looked at the left side where Figo was, and his body was also slightly towards the left.

When Ray felt that the forces around him were sufficient, he suddenly flicked the outside of his right foot to the right, and there was already Rui Costa, who had thrown off Frins, into place. This routine Lao Lei was training a few days before the game. I deliberately rehearsed with Rui Costa. Lao Lei's idea is that since he can't play as he wants and pass the ball without watching people, why don't he play some fixed routines first. This idea was also accepted by Oliveira, and there was nothing to lose anyway, and it was not possible to make this kind of small move when the situation was deadlocked. It can work wonders.

This time it worked out well, as Rui Costa was on the left side of the box and was given a gap. At this point, the German defence had to pull out another centre-back. Rui Costa will not let go of such a gap. A scalpel-like straight plug came into being. Pauletta smartly runs forward. Although the German defender raised his hand for offside, the linesman remained unmoved.

Portugal fans in the stands. They all stood up and craned their necks. They will be hoping that the team can take advantage of this good opportunity to break the deadlock. And this time Kahn once again saved the German team and struck decisively. When Pauletta had just caught up with the football, Karn was already a flying pounce holding the ball firmly with his own hands. Pauletta tripped over Kahn's body and fell helplessly in the box, missing a good chance.

The fans have different emotions, regrets, and rejoicing, forming a stark difference in the stands. However, the old Ray did not have the mood of the fans, Kahn quickly kicked the football, and the Germans fought back. Lao Lei desperately chased back, running while paying attention to the route of the air football. Bird, who had come on in place of Jankel in the frontcourt, beat Couto in the aerial duel and gave the ball back to Ballack, who was in front of him.

At this time, Lao Lei, who was faster than Barak, had already chased behind Barak, gritted his teeth and sped up again to come to Barak's side, wanting to stretch out his foot and break the ball. However, Ballack, who knew that it was not his strong point to move forward with the ball, took two steps, and before Lao Lei stretched over, he had already given a kick to Schneider, who was crazy to accelerate forward, on the right.

Ballack gave Schneider enough advance to allow him to accelerate all the way to his maximum speed. After Schneider chased the football, he went straight to the bottom and started a speedy battle with Jorge on the side. In the end, before the football is about to go out of the bottom line, it is directly a cross to pass the football into the penalty area. At this time, the two German strikers in the penalty area were already in place, fighting for positions with the Portuguese players in the penalty area, ready to fight for the top. The German team's counterattack happened to be what Oliveira reminded his disciples to pay attention to before the game.

That's when Baia jumped up and struck the ball out of the box with both fists above Klose's head. Outside the box, Ballack grabbed the second spot. He was about to show his long-range shooting skills, but Lao Lei, who caught up with him again, didn't give him this opportunity. Grabbed a position in front of him and was the first to touch the football. Then in Ballack's counter-attack, the ball was distributed to Bento, which was considered to terminate the German counterattack.

Although there is no advantage in the situation. But the German tanks used this very threatening and quick counterattack to surprise the Portuguese in a cold sweat. After Oliveira on the sidelines relieved. Coming to the sidelines to express his dissatisfaction with the team's defense this time, the German frontcourt player actually controlled Kahn's big foot pass. In Oliveira's view, this was an inadmissible mistake. He had repeatedly told him before the game to carefully control the first drop point in the German team's big-footed counterattack. And this time the performance of Cuto and Costa clearly did not meet Oliveira's requirements.

Portugal once again controlled the ball, unleashing a continuous transmission in the midfield and penetrating the ground step by step. However, the Germans are known for their tactical execution, so their players are still very good on the move when defending their positions. The distance between them is well controlled, and there is no room for Portugal to play their own subtle small area of cooperation. Portugal had a big difficulty pushing forward with a short pass. Had to pass the ball back more.

Under such circumstances, Lao Lei had to increase his running range. In this way, the Portuguese team can gain a numerical advantage on a larger scale, and play more and less to ensure that the short pass can penetrate forward. This kind of running range is Lao Lei's running range in Leiria, and it is precisely because of Lao Lei's running that Leiria, who is not up to par in the Portuguese Super League, was able to play the kind of controlled football that made Portuguese football amazing last season.

However, in the Portuguese national team, Lao Lei has never run like this. Because in the Portuguese team, Rui Costa is still a solid command center. This style of play requires the support of all players, and Lao Lei, as a newcomer, does not enjoy such treatment. Fortunately, with the credibility accumulated by Lao Lei in the previous game, otherwise Lao Lei would have done useless work today.

Gradually. For the first time, Lao Lei completely took over the position of Portuguese commander on the field, and any Portuguese player on the field was connected by Lao Lei, like a spider web. Fortunately, Rui Costa has a good personality. Plus he saw that the effect of such a kick was good, otherwise there might be a possibility of infighting in Portugal. Oliveira on the sidelines. Looking at the situation on the field, of course, he also discovered Lao Lei's move to take the baton. When it first started. He was a little frowning and unhappy, and there was no player who liked to change his tactics at will.

Fortunately, Oliveira is not an iron-fisted manager like Capello, and has a relatively mild personality. After seeing that Lao Lei's style of play brought good results, he also accepted Lao Lei's change, of course, if the effect is a mess, I believe Oliveira has gone to the sidelines to scold Lao Lei.

At this time, no old thunder came to his senses, this is not in Leiria. He had just kicked smoothly, and before he knew it, he had changed to the rhythm he had when he was in Leiria. But now he can only kick hard, after all, if he changes suddenly, there will be a danger of being caught by Germany and counterattacking.

It is said that the authorities are fans, and the German players still have most of their attention on Rui Costa. In such a situation, Lao Lei was like a fish in water and did not come under much defensive pressure. Through Lao Lei's Leiria-style playmaking, the German defence found that they gradually lost control of Portugal's short passes. It's like holding water with both hands, no matter how tightly you close your hands, there will always be droplets of water coming out of the cracks.

Portugal's short pass penetration is gradually becoming more and more frequent in Germany's threatening zone, and even fans can find that Portugal is slowly overpowering Germany on the field and gaining more and more advantages. At this time, the German coach Worrall finally couldn't sit still, and he only now woke up to the fact that the commander of Portugal at this time was not the famous AC Milan No. 10, but the young player who became the No. 13.

He turned his head to look at Oliveira, who was expressionless next to him, and said to himself, I really didn't expect you to have such great courage. In such an important game, a superstar was used as a bait and a young player was used to take the lead. He was trying to remind his disciples to make a change in the center of gravity of the defense.

IT'S TOO LATE, "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! It's a treat like art! The Germans looked so clumsy and powerless in the face of this attack. A series of short passes in front of the penalty area completely broke this steel defense. Figo's deepest cross allowed Pauleta to simply touch the ball into the empty net, which was almost like a football into the goal. ”

1:0, in the 22nd minute of the first half, Portugal took the lead in breaking the deadlock on the field and taking the lead with a wonderful team cooperation. (To be continued......)