Porto is good at defensive counterattacks, which does not mean that they cannot fight positional wars.︾

But the routines in positional warfare are nothing new.

When the offensive space becomes narrow, their offensive players do not appear to be better than the Ajax attack group in terms of running positions.

Maniche on the left, Alenicev on the right, and forward McCarthy. Behind them is Deco who conducts an offensive organization, which is a very common offensive configuration.

In the 85th minute, Alenichev's cross quality after breaking through the right side was average and was directly confiscated by Lobant.

Ajax continued his long pass and hoisting tactics, and his offense did not improve much.

Qin Xiong seemed to have lost his amazing halo and was doing ordinary passes. Even if he looked for Ibrahimovic's passes in the front court, because Ibrahimovic was caught in double-team, coupled with the long flight distance of the football and the slow ball speed, Porto not only could well resolve Ajax's simple attack, but also could launch a fast attack immediately.

Although Mourinho still maintained a calm expression on the sidelines, he always felt that the situation of the game had become wrong in his heart!

This feeling is mysterious.

Ajax's substitutes are still warming up, Koeman doesn't know what he is waiting for, or is preparing to send him to the extra time before being dispatched?

have no idea!

On the scene, Porto's defense line did not frequently sound the alarm. Ajax seemed to take the initiative to retreat. From this perspective, it should be beneficial to Porto.

At least they can continue to use positional battles to challenge Ajax's defense line without worrying about the defense line.

But Mourinho just thinks something is wrong!

When Deco swung away the horizontal wheel in the frontcourt in the 87th minute of the game, Qin Xiong made a long shot hitting the goal frame, the Ajax fans at the scene exclaimed. Fortunately, Lobont was focused and prepared and hugged the football steadily. Otherwise, Deco might have the final say in the final victory of Ajax.

Even after seeing this scene, Mourinho frowned.

Porto can fight positional wars, but the greatest power of the attack comes from counterattacks!

If positional battles were used as the main offensive method, they would not have reached the final.

Now they are defense lines that seem to have not been challenged and appear to be very safe, but in the same way, they have lost space to fight back.

Mourinho scored Ajax to the equalizer goal and the change in the situation on the court was quickly reviewed in his mind once, twice, three times.

When the fourth official of the stadium held up the sign of injury stoppage time on the sidelines after 90 minutes of time on the big screen, Mourinho was shocked. He walked to the sidelines quickly, his eyes showing a sharp light, and with a wave of his hand, he ordered the entire team to retreat!

Even forward McCarthy has to go back to defend!

Must go back and spend your time!

Mourinho, who had been calm in the 90-minute game, is now making a thunderous sound in his heart.

As he repeatedly reviewed the changes in the game situation in the past 10 minutes, he was shocked to find that as Porto's defense line was comfortable and the midfield could instigate a positional offensive, their overall formation was slowly pressing forward every minute. Perhaps it was not obvious, and the change was also extremely slow.

Among them, Ajax retreated and dragged back. Porto's position rushed forward in front of the battle. At the same time, the offensive players found that they did not need to return to defense. Ajax did not make any threatening attacks at all, and they used the long-passing style, so the frontcourt players could not return to defense as soon as possible.

This led to their Trident and midfield commander Deco not retreating like a tide immediately after the offense was not completed.

Another point is that Ibrahimovic was at the forefront at the front line at first, and he was also constantly retracing, but each retracement was not large, and it drove the Porto defense line forward bit by bit.

The defensive problem before Porto is very simple: block Ibrahimovic and Ajax's offensive is eliminated invisibly.

On the contrary, if he lets go, the back line stays honestly in the penalty area, and Ibrahimovic retreats to respond, with his technical ability, it is possible to get rid of a defensive player. Then, who can guarantee that he will not ruin Porto's efforts with a long shot in front of the penalty area?

So there is nothing wrong with Porto's defense player choice.

But in Mourinho's opinion, the choice of defender is fine. The problem is that even if Ibrahimovic retreats to respond and harasses the players defending Ibrahimovic, it should not be the defender, but the contraction of the midfield players.

This can ensure that Porto always guards its own defense zone, and at the same time compresses the defense space, without giving the opponent any chance.

The current situation deviates from the initially envisioned track.

Porto's defense line seems to be stable, yes, they absolutely limit Ibrahimovic to death!

But there is a big premise: Ajax's midfield line is not pressed to attack!

Sneider and Van der Fate did not attack either.

What is Porto’s real defensive quality?

Haven't been under the real test in the last 10 minutes!

A calm and quiet waves are not enough to represent a stable defense line.

Just as Mourinho waved his arms slightly excitedly on the sidelines to let the players on the field retreat, Porto was making an attack, and the players' attention could not directly observe Mourinho's on-the-spot adjustment.

Maniche dribbled the ball on the left and tried to cut inside and passed Griguera, but he failed.

After Griguera successfully made a steal, he quickly passed the ball directly to Qin Xiong in the middle.

Qin Xiong received the ball with his back. Deco, who was preparing to harass him, failed. Qin Xiong shot the ball and gave it back to Galasek, then turned around and ran forward!

When he ran, Deco turned around and chased after him, obviously his speed could not keep up.

Porto seemed a little inadequate to deal with this defense, and they had no time to pay attention to Qin Xiong.

They put all their attention on Sneider!

Galasek passed the ball diagonally to the side, and the ball reached Sneider's feet. He decisively wades and started. After a brief breath, he accumulated enough physical strength.

Porto's defense line problem was clearly exposed at this moment. Alenicev behind Sneijd was far away from him and could not interfere with Sneijd, and could not delay Ajax's offensive speed!

When Sneider dribbled the ball to the frontcourt on the wing, Porto's defensive players realized that they were unknowingly away from the penalty area, so they retreated in an overall consistency.

Sneider dribbled across the midfield line and headed towards the middle.

Ibrahimovic did not retreat immediately, but stayed in the middle of the penalty area to wait for an opportunity. Mendes and Costinia were blocked by Ibrahimovic.

Sneider did not pass the ball to Ibrahimovic, but to his compatriot Van der Fate.

The Dutch Golden Boy may have exhausted his last physical energy and made a high-quality speed explosion, and rushed up from the right side at a speed.

After Sneider made the ball, he quickly cut into the penalty area, forming a left winger's running threat to the goal and will wait for his teammates to pass the ball.

His running shocked Porto's defense line, and Ferreira immediately returned to the penalty area, trying to form a close-fitting guard on the line Sneider was inserted in front.

Mendes saw Van der Fate's ball control at the moment when he was in the wing, and he used rhythm pause to get rid of Valente's robbery horizontally. He moved decisively to press Van der Fate.

Van der Fate then took the ball back one step, dodged the angle and passed the ball straight to Ibrahimovic.

After passing the ball, Van der Fate rushed past Mendes and rushed to the right area in the penalty area, where the right winger should pose a threat to the goal.

Valente followed Van der Fate again, but he was left on the outside by Van der Fate, which made Valente unable to intercept Van der Fate once Van der Fate can get the ball under his feet.

Carvalho had to retreat to block Ibrahimovic's pass to Van der Fate, and Costa also had to prevent Ibrahimovic from sending shells to Sneijder. The two central defenders slowly retreated, hoping that Costinia could successfully press Ibrahimovic one-on-one!

Ibrahimovic stopped the ball very steadily. He used his body to block Costinia's harassment. After observing that the opponent's back line was restrained by Sneijder and Van der Fate's forward insertion, Ibrahimovic made a fake pass!
Chapter completed!