On the day of Porto's match against Deportivo La Coruna, the grouping for the Asian Cup was also announced.

This Asian Cup was held in China, and the grouping that had just been released at this time was not good or bad for the Macau team, because similar to Porto's situation in the Champions League last season, the Macau team was also divided into the fourth tier of teams in Asia.

So, whoever is in a group with them is a complete unlucky one, and this group will most likely become a group of death!

The final grouping result is similar -

Group A: China, Qatar, Indonesia, Bahrain.

Group B: South Korea, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Jordan.

Group C: Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan.

Group D: Japan, Iran, Thailand, Macau.

What to say about this grouping, first of all, to avoid the first team of China and the second team of China to meet in advance, because the teams in the upper and lower half of the region can only meet in the final, so theoretically if the Chinese derby can appear, it means that the champion is in the shape of China.

So the question is, is there an artificial factor in this grouping?

It's not a long word, anyway, Japan and Iran want to scold their mothers!

They are already in this group, and the two teams in the top three in Asia are in the same group, which is simply outrageous!

Now that this group has another one more Macao, which can at least enter the top ten in Asia, then it will not kill the red eye?

As for Thailand, when they saw themselves in this group, they were stunned at first, then smiled and became Buddhas on the spot.

Zhang Desheng also thinks that the first team has an opinion on them?

If they are put in Group C, isn't that hello and me?

But now that he is in Group D, even he is not confident enough to lead the Macau team to qualify.

Japan and Iran are indeed among the top three teams in Asia, and it is nothing for them to be in the same group, at most there is nothing to do with the third party.

But now that Macau is also in this group, the whole format is complicated.

Japan and Iran are even more painful, because it means that after the three teams are in a mess, no one may be able to qualify.

At this time, many people even thought of the World Cup qualifiers after the Asian Cup, and it is an indisputable fact that the overall strength of the Macao team has improved by leaps and bounds after the introduction of Zhang Desheng and a group of powerful A players.

However, there are only 4.5 places in the Asian zone of the next World Cup, and the emergence of the Macau team will undoubtedly make many Asian powerhouses uncomfortable, and even Japan, South Korea and Iran no longer feel that it will be easy for Asia to qualify.

The Asian Cup will be held from July 17 to August 7, which coincides perfectly with the European Championship in June.

Of course, this is not a good thing for the players in Europe, because any team that wants to do well will have to use June and July to train intensively, and everyone's vacation will have to be cut by at least half.

The Macau team only gave the players half a month off, and everyone had to go to Zhuhai to report on June 15, and then the training camp was closed until July 15.

In this way, after playing the Asian Cup and then resting for a week, you will have to go back to Europe, and the major European leagues will kick off in late July and early August.

"It's okay, at least it's fulfilling!"

Zhang Desheng originally wanted to go to the Asian circle in the summer to have a wave of gold, but now it seems that there is no such time, after all, even Zhao Yuting took the initiative to exclude him from the summer gold rush trip in order not to affect the preparation of the Macau team.

But after such a fulfilling summer, he felt that he would not have a chance to break through the 9 series after playing.

He never felt that there was anything difficult about this level, how could that idiot of Deco take two whole years to break through?

After confirming the summer schedule, Zhang Desheng returned to Porto to focus on the side.

He is in dire need of a Champions League winner as a boss right now, and such a hard accolade is enough to make him more open at all times.

In the last round against Buffon, he was a little too cautious.

But that's not because of cowardice, but because of the ambition to win this Champions League!

On his current team honor book, there are only third-rate honors such as the Portuguese Super League championship and the Portuguese Cup champion; On the personal honor book, there is also a Portuguese Super League Golden Boot and a Champions League Golden Boot.

This honor is really unacceptable!

Therefore, he can't afford to fail under those risky choices, and many times he will seem to be too goal-oriented.

If football is converted into a MOBA game, then the most he says in each game must be the phrase "point the tower, point the tower".

Today's match against Deportivo La Coruna, Zhang Gongzi also takes "upper points" as the first priority!

In this respect, he is completely in line with Mourinho, and if it were not for his utilitarian character, he would not have optimized the defensive counterattack to the extent of being unique in Europe.

Deportivo La Coruna is much better than Porto in this regard, and they have always achieved the title of "Super Laco" with their ferocious attacking firepower and unrestrained attacking style.

"Then you can attack it and let me see!"

Jose Mourinho has a lot of respect for any opponent in the knockout rounds, and today he did not choose to play against Deportivo La Coruna even at home, but was ready to play directly on the defensive counter-attack from the start.

This is the team that beat Manchester United to qualify first in the group, and in the last round, they lost 1:4 away to AC Milan, and returned to their home stadium to stage a super comeback and played a 4:0 to eliminate the defending champions.

Zhang Desheng gloated about Kaka for a while at that time, and secretly said in his heart: Let you not choose Porto, lose to death!

If Deportivo LaCoruna's offensive is still ferocious today, then Mourinho is even ready to escalate the defensive counterattack into a bus!

This is already the Champions League quarter-final stage, and Porto will first aim to not concede a goal at home, rather than scoring first at home.

Today's Deportivo starter -

Front: Tristan (87, 1976), Pandiani (88, 1976)

Midfielders: Luque (87, 1978), Belleron (88, 1975), Douscher (84, 1979), Lionel (84, 1978)

Back: Romero (85, 1971), Andrade (84, 1978), Cesar (84, 1977), Capdevilla (84, 1978)

Goalkeeper: Molina (84, 1970)

After Zhang Desheng saw Deportivo La Coruna's starters, he wondered why a team of this level could reach the semi-finals in the original plane? How can they turn AC Milan around? Did you really receive the task of "the reversed king"?

"Could it be that a good coach, a lineup that gives full play to the chemistry, and is supplemented by a suitable tactical system, can skip the level and kill the enemy?"

Zhang Desheng really doesn't understand how Deportivo La Coruna, a lineup that has no supergiants in the 9 series, managed to enter the knockout round of the Champions League for several consecutive seasons?

In the end, he can only put the blame on coach Iruetta.

The low-key Spanish coach has tailored a tactical system for this team and the fit between the players, just as Porto's players have also exploded in compatibility with Mourinho's tactical system.

But the big teams are chasing top players, but the problem is that these players are not necessarily compatible with each other.

And once the team's chemistry is not good, it is naturally easy to have the opposite effect.

Even if they are coached by top coaches, it is impossible to forcibly glue together stars from all walks of life with different styles and completely different personalities.

Therefore, the coach is not important, there are too many factors for the development of a championship team.

As soon as Zhang Desheng came on the pitch today, he felt that Deportivo La Coruna was indeed different from Juventus, which they had played before, and even Bayern and Inter.

The difference is not in the individual, but in the whole attack and defence, and he can clearly feel that he is playing against a whole, rather than just focusing on one or two opposing players in front of him.

The difference here is very big, when he faces those giants who have pulled his hips, he can often feel that he is facing a very strong point, but at the strong point, as long as he runs him over, the battle will be over.

But against a Deportivo team, he felt like he was facing a moving wall, and his opponent was no longer a strong point, but a very tacit whole.

Today's Deportivo La Coruna is using zone defense, as long as Zhang Desheng takes the ball to attack, he can definitely hear the opposite side shouting in Spanish, "I'll leave it to you", "No problem", "I'll defend him", "Stop him", "It's over" and so on.

That's right, that's how Deportivo defended today......

In the first half, Zhang Gongzi simply did whatever he wanted, and kept using his personal ability to stab through Deportivo La Coruna, which looked perfect, but in fact there was no regional joint defense!

"I'll leave it to you, okay?"

Zhang Desheng was excited when he heard this, he wanted to see if it was really okay.

In the 28th minute of the first half, after he completed a delicate pass and cut with Deco after retreating, he directly forced Cesar head-on, even if Andrade's defense was very timely, he still used his cadence advantage to complete consecutive breakthroughs, and the whole process was - huh...... Past a ...... Swish...... Another one passed.

Andrade had no choice but to kick out from behind and directly hooked Zhang Desheng, who had completed the breakthrough and was about to form a single knife.

The referee was very hesitant about this foul, because Zhang Desheng almost formed a single knife state after breaking through, and at this time, he could theoretically give a red card from behind, because this situation has been written in the rules.

The only basis for this to reduce the sentence is whether the foul behind it is egregious?

If it is not a bad hurtful gesture, then a yellow card can be given at discretion.

Of course, considering that the act of "tackling in the back" has been clearly classified as a dangerous tackle in the new rules of '04, a completely fair decision is still a red card.

However, with such a verdict, Deportivo La Coruna, which was already at a disadvantage, was basically GG in this game.

So the referee finally took out a yellow card on the grounds that Andrade didn't exert his power and raise his leg during the tackle.

Of course, Zhang Desheng stepped forward to protest reluctantly, regardless of whether he guessed in his heart that this foul was most likely not a red card.

But he must do enough in this gesture, otherwise the referee will judge like this next time when he sees him talking so well, and may even give a lighter sentence.

But then again, he's really in time for a good time.

FIFA's new rules in 2004 made the sentencing for many fouls clear.

Just like this foul, if it was in the eighties and nineties, if the referee didn't take out the cards, you could only be incompetent and furious!

But now the referee is at most flexible in the scale of sentencing, so in order not to let Deportivo directly bury the whole round of the game in the first half, he opened the net at the time of settlement.

This kind of flexibility will make the game more exciting if it is used well, but no matter how flexible it is, it can't hack you like in 02.

Now those fouls that have a clear penalty level, if you really don't even pay a yellow card, then you can't talk about the rules in the first place.

This can be regarded as a tight hoop for the black whistles, speaking of which, it is still thanks to the Koreans in 02 to let the world see how dark the black whistle can be, so FIFA has set the sentencing of the penalty more clearly, so that the referee's penalty scale can only be narrowed to a certain range.

In addition, it is also to encourage technical players to play their abilities boldly and without worrying about being greeted with dangerous actions, but they can't even get a yellow card afterwards.

Of course, it's a lot of commotion, and it's still easy to break your legs!

Zhang Desheng chose to take the penalty himself, but this time the free throw was still a little close, and his elevator ball had already kicked a very perfect falling arc, but before it could completely fall, the football flew over the top of the door frame first.

This made him understand that he had to practice the curling free throws that were more suitable for the middle and close range, otherwise the one-shot lift ball would still be a bit monotonous.

Deportivo La Coruna did not die in this wave of disasters, and then it was still a situation of being constantly beaten.

Mourinho looked at Porto who was constantly attacking, and he didn't expect Zhang Desheng to change the tactical deployment of the two sides before the game.

Today, this little guy is like taking medicine, all kinds of breakthroughs that can be completed in one face, and the sudden Deportivo can only return to the iron bucket formation to deal with it, but Porto began to kick around Deportivo in a circle.

Zhang Desheng didn't expect him to be so efficient in dealing with pure regional joint defense, even if the opponent's supplementary defense and pinch attack were already very fast, but in front of him, it was still like queuing up to send them one by one.

But there is no way, this is not only because of the lack of individual ability of Deportivo La Coruna's backline, but also because the joint defense proficiency is not high enough......

Wait a minute, that doesn't seem right!

Even against Real Madrid and Barcelona, including Manchester United and Ac Milan, they were very comfortable against the Portuguese kid and the handsome Brazilian guy.

This is also the reason why Irueta wants to continue to use this set of zone defense against Zhang Desheng, but today facing this Chinese seems to be completely different?

Irueta had been watching from the sidelines for a long time and found that the problem was that his first line of defense had fallen too quickly, and the second line of defense could not form a combination with the previous one.

This led to Zhang Desheng turning Deportivo La Coruna's originally layered defense into a continuous one-on-one, and the final result was one after another.

Before this free kick, Zhang Desheng had already had two dangerous shots on goal, and also made several threatening passes to his teammates.

It wasn't long before he threatened a free-kick before he single-handedly slotted into the heart of Deportivo La Coruna before being brought down with his kick again.

"Toot!"

The referee actually felt that there was an element of diving when he fell to the ground this time, but the problem was that the rules were written in black and white.

This time, the Deportivo player knocked him down from the side and back, and he kicked him first, without touching the ball at all.

As for whether the kick is light or heavy, this is not written in the rules.

In addition, the rules do not stipulate that a player who has been fouled cannot defend himself with diving!

So, how can he judge?

Naturally, he showed another yellow card to Duscher and then gave Porto a free-kick 26 yards out.

This free-kick is 3 meters away from the one just now, but don't look at this distance, if the goal just now can be moved back 2 meters, it will end up grazing the crossbar and flying into the goal.

This time, I saw Zhang Gongzi taking a deep breath continuously, his eyes were resolute, his eyes were firm, and after glaring at the Deportivo player who had no complaints and no hatred for a while, he rushed up and knocked on the door of Deportivo with a perfect falling arc.

"Dragon!"

At this moment, victory fans around the world are shouting this sentence, because "You Long" is a general name that Zhang Gongzi gave his free kick.

At this time, the close-up shows Molina, the testicular goalkeeper of Deportivo La Coruna, who is kneeling on the ground and hammering the turf!

This time he was actually a little wary, but in the face of this football that fell well and at such a fast speed, it was really like a cannonball, and he still failed to make a world-class save in the end, who let him have a regular combat power of 84.

"Haha, who can find fault with me now! Lao Tzu has scored! ”

After Zhang Desheng entered Youlong, he finally made the long-lost "Siu" celebration in the Champions League!

He's celebrating too much now, so even "Siu" appears less and less.

But at this moment he smiled more happily than usual, because he attacked so fiercely in the first half, in order to seize the holes that Deportivo Deportivo defended against him as much as possible before the opponent's midfield made a new response, and won the team first!

Now that he has done it, one need only look at Mourinho, who can't help but kneel on the sidelines, to see how important this goal is for Porto.

The score is 1:0, which means that Porto can play boldly on the counter-attack.

Juventus had preferred to return to their home stadium with a 0-1 deficit rather than launch a full-scale attack at the "Dragon Stadium".

Will Deportivo dare to try something that Juventus will not dare to do today?

But no matter how Deportivo plays, Porto won't feel like Real Madrid have the same chance as Ac Milan, and they don't want to be the unlucky third epic comeback in a tournament.

(End of chapter)