Midfielder

"This... Why do I feel like this list is like taking me to the back kitchen of a restaurant, full of all kinds of silk... Are Greeks born cutters? Why do parents love to use all kinds of silk when naming people?"

"Is this a tactic to confuse others? If the opposing coach assigns a defense task, it will take more than half of the time just to call out the names!"

When Lin Yi took the Panathinaikos team's lineup, his mind went blank, because there seemed to be only two people in the team whose names did not have all kinds of silk after them, and they were all foreign players. As long as they were Greek, their names would definitely be entangled with all kinds of silk.

"I didn't ask you to defend anyone one-on-one, so you don't have to remember these people's names. The task I gave you is actually very simple."

"In this area, you can dribble and pass if you can. I don't require you to pass the ball quickly in this game. When you can't tear open the opponent's defense with the pass, I need you to use the ball to find opportunities. You can even be selfish when attacking."

"I need you to use clever dribbling to find scoring opportunities in this area. If you can break through, that's the best. If not, I need you to understand what you should do. What the team needs now is to find the simplest way to knock open the opponent's defense."

Mourinho pointed to the area he drew on the blackboard and said to Lin Yi. Lin Yi saw that the position drawn by the uncle was within the range of about ten meters from the top of the opponent's penalty area. According to Mourinho, in this area, he can move freely and decide everything by himself.

"I give you absolute freedom, but I need you to disrupt their defense in front of the opponent's penalty area. Even if you can't break through, you need to win a free kick in the best position. Remember, when we are head-on with these Greeks, a direct free kick will be our best choice."

"Of course, if you can get past their entire defense like Maradona, I don't mind. I expect such a miracle to happen every day."

This is the task Mourinho assigned to Lin Yi. With the reminder of Dallei's complaint, he found the best executor to get the free kick, because he believed that no one in the Greek team could limit this little guy like a loach.

"We must let the opponent give up the idea of ​​defending and let them attack. Only by pulling them out of the dense defense in the half can we have a chance to win the game. I think you should be the key to solving these big guys. I need you to poke a hole in their defense line."

Mourinho's words made Lin Yi feel his importance in this game, but this task was nothing, because when playing football on the street, Lin Yi would always run into people who were stronger than him, and he had already learned how to deal with it.

It's just that this time the opponent will be more professional, but when it comes to the skills of a group of big guys over 1.9 meters tall, Lin Yi's grinning mouth has betrayed his thoughts. At least he doesn't think it's particularly difficult for him to pass those people.

Moreover, he doesn't have to use dribbling to get any fatal opportunities now. As long as he can make these people confused, his mission will be completed. As long as he can get the ball smoothly in front of these guys, everything will be easy.

If those people want to defend themselves, they will pay a certain price. Just like Mourinho explained, if they don't want to foul, they will take down Lin Yi. Even this little guy himself will not allow such a thing to happen.

Four days are enough for these Porto players who are already familiar with each other to adapt to Mourinho's new arrangement. Lin Yi, who just returned to the team, seemed excited during training, which forced Mourinho to remind this kid to keep his competitive state.

Don't be too excited during training, and then wilt again during the game. Leave the best meal for those Greeks.

Before the match with Panathinaikos, Mourinho arranged the most powerful lineup of Porto. He gave up the four defenders in the previous game and instead hoarded five people in the midfield.

Instead of competing with the opponent's center forward for space in the penalty area, it is better to set up two blockades in the midfield to keep these Greeks as far away from Porto's penalty area as possible. Killing the attack is always better than passive defense.

The height disadvantage is a loophole in Porto's defense line, but as long as the opponent's forwards are pushed out of the penalty area and their headers do not directly threaten the goal guarded by Baia, everything will be easy.

Mourinho moved Maniche's position to the defensive midfielder, letting him and Costinha guard Porto's midfield at the same time. Alenichev and Deco provided help behind Lin Yi respectively. Dalei and Kapshu's offense tried to use large-scale running to tear open the opponent's central defender defense.

Now Mourinho put Lin Yi in the front and let him find opportunities by himself, even if he deliberately made a foul.

And Maniche, this mad dog, wants to entangle the opponent's organizer in the midfield and not give them the opportunity to pass the ball in the midfield. Either you make a long pass directly from the backcourt, or you slow down the pace of attack. Want to organize an attack? It's best to give up this naive idea.

Do not give up the threat of wing attack, but Mourinho requires his players not to be stubborn and go to the bottom, but to make a fuss about the opponent's rib defense area, frequently interweave and run, and exchange positions between forwards and midfielders, and use flexible and changeable methods to deal with these Greeks.

Use fast ground interweaving to find opportunities, use flexible minds to fight against strong bodies, Porto team wants to teach these Greeks a lesson, tell them what it means to use technology to decide everything, and don't expect to rely on strong bodies to break through Porto's defense in the Dragon Stadium.

Just as Lin Yi promised Mourinho before the game, he also did this in the game, but when those unfortunate Greeks were still wondering where this kid who didn't appear in the last game came from, Lin Yi had already started under their noses.

Maybe Panathinaikos' Uruguayan coach Markarian has not remembered who this little guy who once made the Turks miserable is, but he will soon find that Porto is no longer the team a week ago, they are stronger.

However, Porto did not suppress the opponent's desperate attack at the beginning of the game. They just pushed forward steadily without being impatient, as if it was not them who were behind, but Panathinaikos.

In the first five minutes of the game, Panathinaikos' Uruguayan coach Markarian had not yet felt how fierce the Porto players were. He even doubted whether his tactical arrangement was too conservative. After all, leaving 8 people in the backcourt defense was a bit crowded.

Moreover, his frontcourt attack was not smooth because of the lack of midfield support. Even if the tall forward line could get the first point of the backcourt pass, it was difficult to control the football. The double defensive midfielder protection of Maniche and Costinha made Porto's back line much safer.

Should these guys be encouraged to press forward? But he soon gave up the idea because the appearance of a black-haired boy made his nerves tense immediately. He even started to call his players loudly on the sidelines to concentrate.

After Lin Yi had been roaming in the front court for nearly five minutes without any special movements, he suddenly moved in a frightening way.

This was a battle of great height differences. Lin Yi's current height was less than 1.75 meters, while his opponents were a group of giants about 1.9 meters tall.

However, when Lin Yi controlled the ball and broke through quickly, those seemingly extremely tall guys clearly felt a sense of crisis.

Deco, who was originally regarded as the most dangerous by them, was now a little far away from the dangerous area of ​​​​the Panathinaikos team, while the black-haired boy rushed in and started to run rampant in front of their penalty area.

Panathinaikos' defensive midfielder Setartis was the first to feel the danger, because Lin Yi was silent in the previous few minutes, and he did not pay too much attention to the black-haired boy who had been moving below his shoulders.

But when the boy started to move, he clearly felt the pressure coming from the front. Setartis, who was 1.89 meters tall, was the toughest point in the entire Panathinaikos defense, but he was shaken by the boy with a fake move when he first came into direct contact with Lin Yi. Even when Lin Yi slipped past him, he couldn't react to what happened.

"The most unbearable thing about that boy is that his shaking speed is very fast when his body center of gravity is very low. This is a disaster for a group of big guys over 1.9 meters tall." Mourinho looked at everything that happened on the court and said to Brito beside him.

Brito is now completely immune to Mourinho's praise for the boy, because he always hears Mourinho's evaluation of the boy, although Mourinho has never said these words in front of Lin Yi.

But it is indeed as Mourinho said, as long as the little guy is allowed to play, he will perform every assigned task very beautifully, and he will always surprise others on the court and give opponents a headache. That is a magical little guy.

A very fast-paced fake move allowed Lin Yi to tear a passage directly in the hinterland of Panathinaikos. When Setartis turned back to grab the ball, Lin Yi was directly blocked by him and the central defender of Panathinaikos outside the penalty area.

But the referee's whistle had already sounded. At the moment when the unlucky central defender came up to defend, Lin Yi poked the ball with his toes, and he had already rushed out on the grass. The opponent's kick could only kick on his shin guards, and the result of this kick was that Lin Yi lay on the ground.

Anyway, Lin Yi's best choice at this time was to lie on the grass and act in pain. As for the referee's yellow card punishment for the unlucky central defender, it had nothing to do with him. Who made this guy's foul location right under the referee's nose? This can't be blamed on others.

Anyway, I didn't fake the fall, I was just a little deceptive. It is said that women with big busts tend to be stupid, it seems that men with big stature also tend to be stupid, such as these two idiots from Greece, they fell into the trap designed by Lin Yi for them.

A direct free kick opportunity only 20 meters away from the goal, and almost facing the goal, which may be the best distance preferred by all those who are good at free kicks. It is just within Deco's range. Now it is the turn of the Panathinaikos goalkeeper to be scared.

Taking a deep breath, Deco carefully looked at the position of the goal and the wall, and then began to run up. He stretched his instep hard and almost used all his strength to kick. The football made a painful sound because of his volley.

Deco's fierce volley did not hit a curve ball as the Greeks expected, but passed directly under the feet of the wall, which deceived all the Panathinaikos players who jumped up, and they also successfully blocked their goalkeeper's sight.

When the football rushed directly into the net along the grass, the poor goalkeeper did not even react to what happened. 5 minutes later, Lin Yi's first assault gave Porto the opportunity to equalize, and they pulled the two teams back to the same starting line.

Those crazy Porto players hugged the black-haired little guy together. His lightning strike brought everything back to the starting point. The entire Dragon Stadium also burst into the loudest cheers in silence. 1:1, the score has been tied.

Don't forget whose home court this is. The Porto team's offense will burn from this moment. The tie is just the beginning, definitely not the end.

And from this moment on, Lin Yi almost became a nightmare for the Panathinaikos defense line. His ghostly figure gave all defenders a headache. He was always reminding those guys of his existence with his actions.

Especially in a one-on-one situation, Lin Yi didn't consider the possibility of passing the ball at all. No matter how fierce the Greek in front of him was, Lin Yi was looking for a breakthrough opportunity with a quick and flexible change of direction.

Either the opponent fouled, or Lin Yi would never pass the ball easily. His low-center-of-gravity dribbling always seemed so easy when dealing with these big guys.

A bayonet with a sharp blade was poking back and forth at the Greek defense line, and the defense line of Panathinaikos began to crumble.

The Dragon Stadium, on this night, was definitely not a blessed place for these Greeks. The Uruguayan head coach of Panathinaikos could clearly feel that he was sweating on his head, and it was cold sweat.

A guy twisting his waist wildly in front of his own penalty area was destroying his confidence. . .

(The second update is here... Um, can I ask for a leave? I blistered the keyboard... I'll see if I can go out and buy a keyboard... Now typing is almost out of order... If it doesn't work, I'll make up for it tomorrow... Continue to ask for collection, click, and recommendation... Yeah, and rewards...)