Chapter 167: Porto Away
In the second round of the Champions League group stage, Costa had to continue to be suspended, Simeone asked Baptis Tang to partner with Ringer, and Adrian, who did not perform well in the last round of the Champions League, was abandoned.
When the two teams played, Yang Ma, who broadcast the Champions League, was telling the two teams about the historical record: "Atletico Madrid and Porto, they have met four times in the history of the Champions League, all in recent years, and the overall record is that Porto has 2 wins and 2 draws. ”
"The 08/09 Champions League, that was the last time Atletico Madrid could reach the knockout round of the Champions League, Atletico Madrid met Porto in the round of 16, Atletico Madrid drew 2:2 at home and 0:0 away, and was eliminated because of away goals."
"The 09/10 Champions League, that was the last time Atletico Madrid played in the Champions League, they were in a group with Porto in the group stage, and they were beaten home and away twice, which directly led to Atletico Madrid being eliminated from the group stage of the Champions League that year."
'They met again in the Champions League this year, and while Atletico Madrid were the better overall player, Porto had more Champions League experience.
Porto are playing out a 433 formation at home, and they have sold a lot of good players in midfield in the summer, but the players at the back are a lot of quality.
Brazilians Alex Sandro and Danilo form the two wing-backs, while Frenchman Mangala and Argentinian Otamendi form a centre-back pairing.
In the first 10 minutes, both teams were engaged in some tentative work and did not attack too substantially. Atletico Madrid had just finished a hard-fought derby at the weekend, beating Real Madrid, but it was a lot of consumption for everyone.
On Porto's side, although they are a first-tier team, they know in their hearts that Atletico Madrid's strength is stronger than theirs, and they don't dare to rashly attack as soon as they come up.
In the 12th minute, Porto's Josue crossed from the right and Barella headed in the middle, the first time of the game, but it was a qualityless head under Godin's defence, and Courtois easily won the ball.
The opposition's attack looked unthreatening, but who knew that soon there was a change on the field.
In the 16th minute, Barella won a free-kick for Porto on the left, and Ringer also returned to the box to help defence, and he was flanked by the dark and hard Colombian Jackson Martinez.
The opponent's Josue drove the ball out, it was a pass and shot towards the small penalty area in front of the goal, and the landing point was quite good, just more than 3 meters in front of the goal, just so that Courtois could not get out. Everyone is desperately rushing inside, Atletico Madrid's wants to clear, Porto's wants to attack, such a well-positioned free kick, as long as the attacking player touches it, there is a high probability of scoring.
Ringer found that Martinez, the black and hard thing next to him, reacted the fastest, and rushed out at once, unable to keep up at all. In a hurry, Ringer even wanted to pull people, but the people were a step slower, and when Ringer raised his hand, the opponent had already jumped to the top of the ball, and at such a close distance, Courtois was not a god, and he couldn't save it at all.
"Wow~~~"
There was a huge cheer inside the Dragons Stadium as Martinez knelt on the sidelines in celebration.
They all know that this time they are facing a team that has just beaten Real Madrid at the Bernabeu, a team that competes with Barcelona in the La Liga standings, this Atletico Madrid is no longer the team they could slaughter at will a few years ago, and they can break through the opponent's goal in the opening ten points, and the Porto fans are quite excited and are cheering and celebrating.
Ringer was heading back, and although he wasn't a full-time defender, it was a bit of a disappointment that the opponent scored goals under his defense.
"Next time, if you can't keep up, you can start early, and a lot of people gather together in the free kick defense, and the referee doesn't see it every time." Uruguayan Godin came over and said to Ringer: "Judging from the situation just now, their attacking ability is not strong, we are confident that we will not give them another chance, as for whether they can win or not, it depends on you." ”
Ringer knows what Godin means, and then they can hold it at the back, but now that the score is behind, what the final result of the game will be depends mainly on the attacking players in the front court led by Ringer.
Relying on the momentum bonus of the goal, the opponent attacked for a while.
In the 19th minute, Martinez's pass, the opposing captain Lucho González's shot was blocked by Brazilian Miranda.
In the 25th minute, Fernando's cross was deflected wide by Martinez's interference.
Porto continued to attack, and Atletico also had a chance to counter-attack.
In the 28th minute, Atletico Madrid's counterattack, as soon as Ringer got the ball in the midfield, he was brought down by the opponent's Josue.
Three minutes later, Ringer was brought down on another counter-attack, although this time Josue received a yellow card for bringing down Ringer twice in a row, but Ringer frowned a little, it seems that the opponent intends to use foul tactics to stop Atletico's counterattack.
In this case, there will be fewer opportunities to counter-attack the goal, but there will be more set-pieces.
Set-pieces are often driven by headers, and Ringer is currently Atletico's most threatening point, but his header ability is not strong, and Porto's foul tactics inherently limit Ringer's attacking ability.
"Red card~~ Give that bastard a red card!!" Simeone shouted louder from the sidelines, knowing that the team had just gone through a tough derby and that the whole team was not in great shape right now.
Obviously, the opponent also knows this, so they use fouls to interrupt their team's offense, trying to make their players worse in shape.
In the 35th minute, Raul Garcia crossed back from the right side, and Ringer rushed up as if to get the ball, but he skipped over the ball and leaked it to the back post. The Porto players, who were about to foul Ringer, were caught off guard, but Turan at the back point was also caught off guard, so that when no one was marked, Turan hit the ball with a plane.
"Oh~" Simeone and Fat Boggs on the sidelines hugged their heads and sighed together, this is a rare opportunity to score directly.
With a lot of fouls, Ringer could only shoot more from the perimeter, but his long-range shooting form today was not very good.
In the 42nd minute, Ringer's long-range shot from the left side in front of the penalty area hit the goal range for the first time and earned a corner for the team.
Gabi was in charge of the corner, with Ringer and his team-mates scrambling in front of goal. Since Ringer is not known for his header ability, the Porto players mainly follow Thiago, Raul Garcia and other strong headers, and Ringer is followed by Porto captain Lucho Gonzalez, who is just 1.8 meters tall.
Although corners are tactical, and the kick-off player will also know the gesture better than his own, but that gesture only means where the kick-off player wants to drive the ball, and it is difficult to say whether the ball can actually fly to that point.
If every corner kick, the kick-off player can accurately drive the ball to the desired point, then the corner kick goal rate is probably quite terrifying, becoming the only penalty of the horror existence, because the header is too close to the goal, the goalkeeper is difficult to react.
Gabi also gestured that he was going to drive the ball to the back post, so Raul Garcia, Thiago and others were ready to rush to the back post.
The corner kick came out and crossed an arc in the air, Raul Garcia and others were squeezing backwards, and the Porto defenders knew what it meant, and the ball was more likely to fly to the back point, so they also squeezed to the back point to participate in the defense.
Ringer was at the front point, but found that the ball did not go exactly to the back point, but fell very quickly, towards the front point.
Ringer jumped his feet, first jumped to hold down Gonzalez next to him, and then flicked his head at the speeding ball.
"Lin~~ beautiful head-shaking attack!!"
Bang~
After the ball made contact with Ringer's forehead, it was pulled by the force of his swing head, and there was a clear refraction, and it flew towards the top corner of the goal.
Porto goalkeeper Hayden didn't react at all, only a deflection of the ball flew past him.
Bang~!
There was another bang, and the ball hit the back post and bounced into the back of the net.
“Gooooool~~~~~”
"Lingoal~~Lingoal's header scored to help the team equalize!!"
"Ringer~~ Ringer's header scored, a look back at the moon to help the team equalize, if memory serves, this should be Ringer's first Champions League header." Yang Ma's commentary also has a lot of records for Ringer.
"Atletico Madrid's header tactics this time are quite good, first let a group of players go back to attract the attention of the defense, let Ringer get a one-on-one opportunity at the front point, with the tactical cooperation of his teammates, Ringer lived up to expectations and finally helped Atletico Madrid equalize!!" Ringer was already celebrating with his team-mates on the sidelines, and the commentators were still explaining the header just now.
A lot of times that's the case, some goals scored by mistake on the pitch will be perceived as a deliberate tactical combination.