Chapter Twenty-Three: Trouble?

In April, Porto have a busy schedule, with two Portuguese Cup games in addition to five league games to play.

Jose Mourinho is ready to let go of either of them, with the Portuguese Cup being his only sure title this season, and the league means qualifying for the Champions League next season.

Porto are now in third place with 59 points, followed by Boavista with 61 points, Sporting Lisbon with 65 points, and Benfica in fourth place with 57 points.

It's only theoretically possible to win the title in this points situation, but there is a good chance of snatching a Champions League place back from Boavista.

So the cup and the league, Porto can't let go of any of them.

Zhang Desheng also had all the thoughts in his heart, because the system also issued him a task of "getting a place in the Champions League next season" the day before.

Porto, who was originally on the plane, will participate in the UEFA Cup next season.

Zhang Desheng definitely didn't want to play in the second-class European Cup, and besides, the system also issued a task to him, so he didn't have the heart to play the bullshit League Cup.

On 20 April, Porto returned to their home stadium to play Braga again.

Zhang Desheng got a good news before the game, Guangshan Wang, a Japanese side star, sprained his ankle after being shaken down by him in the last game, and the diagnosis result was finally exposed a few days ago, and it was actually a third-degree ankle ligament injury.

This level of ankle ligament injury basically means that the ligament is completely ruptured and requires surgery to recover well.

It takes at least three months to recover, and with the level of medical care in this era, most of the recovery will have some impairment in athletic ability.

So after the news reached Japan, Zhang Desheng had already begun to be gossiped by the Japanese media and fans.

Mourinho also did not take him to yesterday's pre-match reception because of this, and several Japanese media did come to the scene yesterday, probably to get a touch of this guy who almost abolished the main wing of their national team.

Even if Hiroyama can recover well, he will definitely miss the World Cup in a month and a half, which is definitely a great loss for the Japanese team, which is not rich in talent.

Of course, after this news was transmitted back to China, he finally got some praise in various forums!

After all, it was a Japanese player who was abolished by him this time, and he was injured in the most faceless way of "being shaken down".

It's really worth having a few more drinks and celebrating the bad luck of Japanese football.

Braga was not affected by this, Guangshan Wang has not really sat in the starting line in their team, and he belonged to the glass man before this injury, and the team does not think much of him.

But this game Braga was still pressed to death, who made the two teams have a clear gap in hard power.

Jose Mourinho returned to the home stadium and sent a full squad to meet the game, and Porto, led by Deco, surrounded Braga in the first half and managed to take a 2-0 lead.

Zhang Desheng was sent out in the second half, and at this time, Braga had already lost all morale, at most only half a breath left, in fact, it was a big rout with him or not!

But our lucky ones didn't care so much, and once again took out the ruthless and murderous methods of abusing vegetables, and once again staged a good show on the left side.

The final score was 4:0, Zhang Desheng took advantage of the fact that his teammates began to retain their physical strength in the second half, and the opponent had no fighting spirit.

"Four appearances in the Portuguese Cup, 3 goals and 3 assists!"

"It's so ruthless!"

"It's so enviable!"

The other three people in the 303 dormitory were all watching the game today, and at this moment, in addition to envying Zhang Desheng's good luck, they were also fantasizing that they would have such a day in the future.

"Hehe, a few more games, my first season at the age of 16 will be even better than Pele!"

After the game, Zhang Desheng naturally thought about how to take advantage of the last three league games and a Portuguese Cup final to get more opportunities to play and brush up on more data.

He knew he had that chance, because the World Cup was about to start.

There are a lot of national team members in the Porto team, and most of them will not give their all in the last few games, otherwise they will be injured before the World Cup like Hiroyama.

This is the reason why Porto have not been able to overtake Boavista in their original position, but it also means that there will be more opportunities for the young players in the squad.

Among them, Zhang Desheng, as a "lucky star", must be the first substitute in everyone's eyes.

This is true, but it is not just the attributes of the "lucky star", but his performance after coming off the bench in the second half, which is indeed always satisfying!

In the 31st round of the league, Porto played away against the Portuguese Super League underdog Gil Vicente Football Club.

Zhang Desheng came off the bench directly in the second half, but what he didn't expect was that this time it was Deco's position as a substitute.

This substitution made many people sweat, but Zhang Desheng, who was calm 99++, did not feel nervous at all, but used faster ball and more active running to play a completely different organizational style from Dirk.

Gil Vicente's players all know that Zhang Desheng's weak body is visible to the naked eye, as long as he uses a lot of physical confrontation, he will definitely not be able to hold the ball.

But Zhang Desheng, who seems to have turned on the "radar perspective", almost always seems to be casual after he comes on the court, but he hides a killer kick.

Finally, in the 69th and 80th minutes of the second half, he directly sent two one-on-one balls to his teammates on the front line without stopping the ball twice!

McCarthy and Postiga, who have become his best partners up front, grabbed one each to add two more assists to his stats.

After this game, even the media in Porto found out that their lucky star seems to be more than just lucky?

"This is Zhang's fifth league game, right?"

"Yes, but he's already contributed one goal and five assists in the league!"

"Oh God! If you count the Portuguese Cup, he has a total of 4 goals and 8 assists in 9 games? ”

"What the hell, is he really only 16?"

"There will be no doubt about this, he only measured his bone age last month, and his height is a little longer than two months ago, now it is 181cm, and it is said that the internal bone age test report predicts that his height has a chance to grow to 185cm."

"Wait, a question popped into my mind...... Do you know who is performing better than Zhang at this age? ”

"This ...... Bailey? Maradona? Ronaldo? ”

“……”

At this time, a group of Portuguese journalists thought for a long time, and they couldn't think of anyone who played this kind of performance in the top flight at the age of 16.

When Pele was 16 years old, he actually didn't make a few appearances in the Brazilian league, and he didn't really make a name for himself until he was 17.

Maradona started playing in the Argentine top league at the age of 16, but he only started playing in the second half of the season like Zhang Desheng, but his performance and statistics were not as good as Zhang Desheng.

Ronaldo, the current number one in football, also played in Brazil's top league at the age of 17.

Other superstars, like Zinedine Zidane, Ballack, Thierry Henry, Figo......

They became famous even later, as if no one else contributed such amazing statistical performance as Zhang Desheng who was less than 16 years old.

In addition, although the overall competitiveness of the Portuguese Super League is not a permanent five in Europe, it is really not a rookie league, and their overall strength and level are actually quite high, and they can even compete with the Eredivisie for the position of the sixth league in Europe.

An example can illustrate the level of the Portuguese Super League, with more than eighty percent of Brazilian players playing overseas taking this place as their first stop, which shows the value of the Portuguese Super League.

At this time, thinking about Zhang Desheng's foot skills, this is almost ten games, it seems that he is really worse than those Brazilian players with superb foot skills?

In this game, he showed a staggering vision of the court and a rare ability to kick the ball.

At this time, if you think about it carefully, there are only a handful of players in Europe who are good at passing, stopping and shooting, and who also have a top-level overall view, on-field vision, and the ability to move the ball quickly!

"This ...... Could it be that he is a true genius with superstar talent? ”

The more Portuguese journalists think about it, the more wrong it becomes, and many people can't help but have a thought in their heads that they don't want to admit, but can't help but confirm it.