225 Surprise Attack
In the 62nd minute, Porto were the first to make a substitution for the Champions League final.
'Porto's goal-scorer Alberto was replaced by Alechaniv and manager Jose Mourinho greeted Alberto on the sidelines.
Mourinho's decision to make a substitution was partly unsettling to him by Ajax's attacking talent, and partly because Alberto was too young to be flexible in attack.
When Ajax has been successful in defending him one after another, the youngster loses his role as a surprise soldier and he can't make new changes, so he will always be limited.
At the same time, in order to activate the attack on the right side, the main player Maxwell assisted behind him, and Mourinho sent the Russian fast horse Alenichev into the battle, hoping to achieve a better counterattack.
After this substitution, Porto's formation also quietly changed.
Mendes and Costinha form a double midfield!
Strengthen the defense in the middle!
Jose Mourinho wants to make such a change to further limit the play of Qin Xiong, the brain of Ajax midfield.
There is no doubt that when Qin Xiong was able to stage three consecutive dribbles to disappoint Porto's midfield defensive system, no manager could ignore his survival.
As a result of this change, Qin Xiong's space to move up front has become narrow, while Porto's fouls continued.
Even more annoying than in the first half.
When Deco pulled him covertly before he touched the ball, Qin Xiong finally had some annoyed posture, his back to the ball was unstable, and after a kick out of the ball, he swung away the hand that was grabbed by Deco.
He turned and looked Deco in the eye. It is not intended to cause conflict. Just asked in a cold voice, "Does it need to be like this?" ”
Once or twice. Countless times!
Now even the harassment without the ball has become blatant!
The referee's whistle blew, signaling for a foul on Deco and warning Deco with three fingers.
It means that he has already committed three such fouls, although they are not enough for a yellow card, but if he repeats the foul, he will have to pay the price next time!
While admitting his mistake with a good attitude towards the referee, Deco said backwards to Qin Xiong: "You are still young, you don't understand!" ”
Qin Xiong stood in place and was about to take the free kick, he turned his head and smiled disdainfully.
Not again?
Young and ignorant?
If you grow up to play like you do. Okay, I'd rather be young forever!
Growing up, I only had football, and I wanted to play good football and run around the pitch to the fullest, rather than studying the rules and studying the psychology of the referee to make a good impression and get a lighter sentence.
In this confrontation between offensive football and utilitarian football, it is actually a-for-tat contest between creation and destruction on the green field.
So far, Porto's "destruction" is escalating, but Ajax's "Chuangzào" seems to be in a bottleneck.
Because "creating zào" is much, much more difficult than "destroying".
66th minute of the game. Qin Xiong took the initiative to run to the left wing and tried to meet Sneijder. In addition, Maxwell created a better attacking opportunity on the left flank.
The skillful triangular pass between the three made Qin Xiong move to the left winger position after the switch, and he once again used the dribbling method of cross-cutting on the side, but the Porto defenders who had been broken down once like him were more cautious and vigilant, they did not hand over the center of gravity of their bodies lightly, and mainly narrowed the angle of Qin Xiong's shot head-on before forming a sandwich defense.
But Qin Xiong decided to change 90 degrees to the bottom of the straight line after taking two steps to the middle of the ball!
Costa couldn't keep up with Qin Xiong's explosive power in the first shot, Qin Xiong took the ball to the bottom line but there was no room to shoot, he chose to pick up the ball at the back of the goal.
With such a cooperation, he and Van der Vaart also played from time to time, but unfortunately this time Van der Vaart fell into the predicament of being closely opposed by Valente, and his speed was slowed down.
Qin Xiong's pick pass was finally kicked to the left by Carval with a conscious big kick.
Maniche dribbled forward after stopping the ball on the left side of the retreating midfield.
Porto strikes back!
He made a wide lateral shift quickly after half-time, with Alenichev on the right running down the middle to receive his pass.
Dellai has the nickname "The Pitch Tramp" because he is a free man up front in Mourinho's counter-attacking system.
Instead of running into the box like a traditional striker, the Brazilian ran outside the box and dropped back to receive a pass from his team-mate.
Alenichev's pass was at the feet of Delley, who was kicked from behind as soon as he took possession of the ball.
De Jong!
He did kick Dellay in the calf, but he rushed to the ball, he wanted to destroy the football at Dellai's feet, not a malicious kick, he saw Dellay fall to the ground and screamed exaggeratedly, and immediately became angry.
There is a bit of force in the lower foot, and De Rong knows it in his heart.
The referee's whistle blew, and before De Jong could find Del Lai to theorize, Del Lai quickly got up on his own, no longer screaming, and his expression was no longer painful.
De Jong shouted at the referee: "He was performing!" ”
But the referee ignored him, and the Ajax fans in the stands jumped in horror.
At the foul site, someone quickly trotted up from the midfield, bent down to put the football on the foul spot, and then straightened up and kicked the ball straight out!
Cunning Brazilian Deco!
Free kick fast!
Mo said that De Jong's hand to the referee had not yet fallen, and even the other defenders were just stepping back.
Before Deco took the quick free-kick, Porto's three counter-attackers were already activated!
The ball rolled directly behind De Jong a metre away, and De Jong looked back to see that it was he who had been accusing Del Lai of answering Deco's pass.
Delley slashed the ball into the left side of the box, and Maniche, who started first, bypassed Griguera and crossed the ball in front of the baseline!
Grigra, Heitinga, Escud and Galasek all retreated, with Galasek running to block Dellai in the middle but ignoring Alenichev, who was a step back in front of the line.
Maniche's cross was the return of the ball from the baseline to the right of the penalty line.
The unmarked Alenichev stopped the ball and aimed at the goal angle and volleyed on the spot!
Escude, who had taken a step to block him, subconsciously stretched out his foot to block, but his foot was not long enough, and the football grazed the surface of his foot and produced a slight refraction, and the already unprepared Lobon save was completely in the wrong direction, and the football flew into the Ajax goal under the surprised gaze of the audience!
Mourinho on the sidelines showed a rebellious look, still without a hint of a smile, and waved his right hand into a fist twice before making a gesture to press down on the pitch, allowing the players to calm down and restrain their instructions.
"Porto are leading again! 2:1, many commentators before the game thought that Ajax's youth and lack of experience would be a hidden danger, and it seems that this concern has come true. Porto's quick free-kick caused a big problem for the Ajax defence, and they looked flustered and passive in their marking, and most importantly, how could they follow the others? Alenichev scored the crucial goal, he was Mourinho's surprise substitution, it was an amazing substitution, it played an important role in the first time he came on! ”
The Porto fans in the stands were excited, while the Ajax fans were worried.
There is about 1/4 of the game left.
Ajax were behind the score.
De Jong became extremely excited after seeing his team concede the goal, and he tried to rush to the referee.
He pointed to his temple with a look of rage!
He wanted to question whether the referee had a brain?
Can't you see Delley's obvious performance?
Of course, he may have some grievances and self-blame, and he needs to vent a little, in fact, whether or not Del Lai fell to the ground and exaggerated to win the referee's sympathy, the kick that De Jong kicked at his foot was a foul, no problem.
But De Jong didn't just "explode" because of this!
There is also Porto's foul on the Ajax players throughout the game, small actions harassment, although the referee showed yellow cards to some players on the other side, but in the eyes of De Jong is not enough!
It wasn't a fluid game, at least compared to the Eredivisie's massive battles against the flow of attacks.
The veteran Galasek rushed over and hugged De Jong at the first time to prevent him from rushing to the referee to make any irrational behavior.
De Jong was angrily protesting and Galasek was trying to reassure him, when De Jong suddenly calmed down because he saw one of his teammates.
Qin Xiong. (To be continued......) R1292