Braga are not a weak team, and even in the mouths of their supporters, they call themselves "the fourth strongest team in the Portuguese Super League".

However, the top three in the Portuguese Super League: Porto, Benfica, and Sporting de Portugal are all recognized, but the "fourth strong" is somewhat controversial.

But in terms of results in these seasons alone, Braga can indeed be called the "fourth strong". They have finished fourth in the Portuguese Super League no less than Arsenal in the Premier League.

Even the colour of their shirt is very similar to Arsenal's.

So much so that there is a joke circulating in Portuguese football: the Portuguese Super League, that is, 18 teams play for a season, and then Braga wins the fourth league!

However, this season, the ambitious Braga want to break the fate of "fourth" and go to a higher position to see the scenery.

Their goal this season is clear: to finish in the top three!

And in the first game of the new season, they will take the Maritimo sacrifice flag!

The coach of Braga is only 37-year-old young coach Custodio, the former Portugal international, who has a brilliant resume when he played, and has become an important transitional figure between the "golden generation" represented by Figo and the "new golden generation" represented by B Fee.

Custodio would have been the youngest manager of the season, which made him quite complacent. But this limelight was stolen by Gao Yuan from China. And the other party is 12 years younger than him.

Before the game, Custodio was very unhappy and pondered: I have to give this hairy boy a taste!

Therefore, both public and private, Braga are eager to beat Maritimo away from home and win a good start to the season!

However, when the ambitious Custodio saw the players walking out of the players' tunnel, he was taken aback.

I saw that his players were either wilting, angry, or panicked, while the fullback Saigna was still holding his neck with a painful expression.

What's going on? The players who were still full of fighting spirit in the locker room just now, why didn't they see each other for a while, and they became this ghost!

What happened in the players' tunnel?

A confused Custodio stared at the demoralized players on the field and suddenly had a bad feeling.

Compared to the away team, the home team's players are high-spirited, high-spirited, and even ready to try, as if waiting for a feast to begin.

However, the home fans clearly have little confidence.

Estadio dos Barores is a professional course with a capacity of 20,000 spectators. Although there are not many seats, the sound effect is good, and the atmosphere of the home stadium is also very strong. On previous match days, the stadium was packed.

But today, despite being the home team's season opener, the attendance was not high, and the fans in the already small stands were sparse.

Some of the gathered fans, holding banners and slogans, were not to cheer on the home team, but to denounce and denounce the club's civil unrest.

Many of them pointed the finger at Gao Yuan, believing that his arrival was the source of all chaos, and told him to resign and get out of the house.

Gao Yuan pursed his lips disdainfully, before an official game was played, he was called out of class, and there was no one to be treated this way!

Do you understand "scraping bones to cure poison"? If I don't puncture the abscess on the club, I'll never recover!

However, as the coach of the team, everything depends on the results to speak, and winning is the last word.

If you win the game, you are right no matter how wrong you are; If you lose the game, you will be wrong no matter how right you are!

The referee blew the whistle and the game began.

Soon, Custodio panicked as he found out that the match was going in the opposite direction of his pre-match predictions.

It was the first league game of the season and it was an encounter for all teams. Due to the lack of sufficient information to back it up, the team can only prepare according to the performance of the opponent's lineup last season.

However, Maritimo has changed drastically, and there is no shadow of the underdog team that was bullied last season!

In the starting line-up, only Vukovic and Antonio started last season. The rest of the players are either new signings or youngsters promoted from the reserves.

He can't name many people, let alone the technical characteristics, playing habits, etc.

And even Vukovic and Antonio seem to have changed a lot. Especially Vukovic, who was originally known on the court as a submissive softie, actually hardened, dared to take the ball, dare to play, dare to make moves, and dare to fight on the field! It's like a rebirth.

Custodio simply suspects that this guy on the field is Vukovic's twin brother!

Compared to the change in personnel, the style of play of the team has also changed a lot.

In the past, Maritimo had a very inconsistent technical and tactical style because of frequent changes of coaches, one would play long passes and rush hanging, and the other would play ground coordination, some coaches advocated pressing on the offense, and some liked to stabilize the defense. As a result, the team became a four-off, giving the feeling of a ragtag army.

But now, the thoughts of the Maritimo players are highly unified, everyone is like a component in a precision instrument, relying on each other, cooperating with each other, cohesive, and cohesive together to form a precise and complete structure.

They gave full play to the characteristics of fast mobility and flexibility, and resolutely carried out defensive counterattack tactics. But the overall style is to attack and defend all the time, collectively press on when attacking, and recycle all when defending. The whole formation was full of elasticity, like a fist ready to attack, and immediately retracted after a heavy punch, ready for the next fatal blow.

When did Maritimo become so powerful? Custodio rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

Delusion, it must be an illusion!

It's easy for a team to play well for a certain period of time in a game, but it's hard to stick to the right style and style of play throughout the game.

Custodio thought to himself: the opponent just swung three axes at the beginning, and it would be good to survive the opening ten minutes and reach the critical point of physical fitness!

But unfortunately, the Braga team failed to carry the "three-board axe", and in the 15th minute, they lost "one blood".

Maritimo played a classic quick counter-attack.

Antonio broke the ball at the back, and then the whole formation of the team quickly opened up, and everyone rushed to their positions as if they had been pre-planned.

Antonio puts the ball at the feet of midfielder Joao.

Joao is given to Liu Yun on the left wing.

Liu Yun's speed is amazing, a simple bicycle feint, the ball forward, leaving behind the opposing full-backs who don't know much about his speed.

galloped all the way to the bottom line, and reversed the triangle backpass.

Wang Zi rushed to the ball, received the ball at the front of the big penalty area, and was about to shoot, attracting the attention of all defenders, but very covertly pushed the ball to the top of the arc of the middle penalty area.

And Vukovic was waiting there.

The Croatian played resolutely, shooting furiously at the ball and slicing a very fast slash to the ground.

The momentum is heavy, the ball speed is extremely fast, the opponent's goalkeeper can't make a save, and can only watch the ball fly into the dead corner of the bottom left of the goal!

1:0

Vukovic took the lead and scored the first goal for this new Maritimo team!

Custodio sat on the bench and knew it was going to be a bad game!

But as it turned out, his prediction of this match was not accurate enough, and next, the Braga people will face a baptism of storm!

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