Chapter 509 The two heroes of the Portuguese Super League meet in the final
However, the surprises that the Portuguese Super League has brought to the world of football this year do not stop there.
Just the day after Sporting Lisbon reached the Champions League final, good news came from Porto, another giant in the Portuguese Super League.
Mourinho led Deco and Jardel to defeat Bundesliga giants Dortmund and reach the UEFA Cup final.
Tomas Rosicky, Jan Kohler, Marcio Amoruso, Torsten Friens and others shed tears on the field.
These players will become famous players now or in the future, and they are full of gold.
This Dortmund team has played very fiercely this year and is currently competing fiercely with Bayer Leverkusen for the Bundesliga title.
Bayern, which was sharp in previous years, can only sit in third place in the league this year.
However, Bayern previously reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, which saved their face to a certain extent this season.
But everyone knows that this aging Bayern team has reached the point where it can no longer survive without a replacement.
This is also the first time in history that a Portuguese Super League team has reached the UEFA Cup finals for two consecutive years.
For a time, people not only remembered Mourinho's ambitious ambitions at the beginning of this season.
At the beginning of the season, Porto, who defeated Sporting Lisbon, once said that the triple crown and quadruple crown had fallen.
Mourinho even dismissed Sporting Lisbon's UEFA Cup last season, saying bluntly that if Porto played in the UEFA Cup, they would also win the championship.
This sentence is more like showing off, because Porto plays in the Champions League every year.
Sporting Lisbon has failed to qualify for the Champions League in the past many seasons.
However, this season, Porto went from being eliminated from the Champions League to the UEFA Cup, and actually made it all the way to the final.
This is a bit too casual.
Of course, the media was not particularly optimistic about Porto's final match.
"Bild" believes that Porto's opponent in the final, Feyenoord, is even better this year.
Although Feyenoord failed to shake Ajax's top spot in the Eredivisie, their players really shined this year.
The young player Robin van Persie on the front line is remarkable, and as expected, he is also a dominant striker.
There are also Shinji Ono, Thomasson, Van Hoeytangk and others, all of whom also performed at star level.
In comparison, except for Deco and Jardel, Porto's players are not outstanding.
In fact, Dortmund is more competitive than Porto.
Porto's ability to defeat Dortmund is as unexpected as Sporting Lisbon's ability to defeat Manchester United.
It’s hard for a dark horse to stay dark all the time.
It is difficult for two dark horses to win at the same time.
But "Knowing the Football Emperor" doesn't think so.
Jiang Yunzhu released an in-depth analysis, focusing on the counterattack journey of the two giants in the Portuguese Super League.
"Porto and Sporting Lisbon have two completely different styles of play. Porto pushed defensive counterattacks to the extreme. They used defense to reach the UEFA Cup final."
"Most of their games were 1-0, 0-0, 1-1, 1-2."
"Sporting Lisbon adopted a rare style of play, and they fully unleashed their offensive talents. Almost every player made a contribution on the offensive end."
"They don't have a world-class defense, but they have a world-class offense. They used their offense to reach the Champions League final."
"It's hard for you to imagine that in a secondary league like the Portuguese Super League, there are teams with these two extreme styles at the same time. I now sympathize with other teams in the Portuguese Super League. It is not difficult to face a terrible opponent.
But facing two..."
CCTV anchor Huang Jianxiang also registered and verified his account on "Knowing Football Emperor" and agreed with Jiang Yunzhu: "The match between Feyenoord and Porto is a battle of contradictions."
"Whether Feyenoord can score a goal is the key to this game. The young Van Persie has done a good job, but there is obviously still some gap between him and Ronaldo last season."
Ronaldo himself is very satisfied with this report.
If he remembers it well, when he and Deng Kai met Van Persie in the UEFA Youth League, they were nothing, and Van Persie was already the pride of heaven.
The same situation also occurs with Robben, Van der Vaart, Sneijder and other players.
Moreover, most of these players were around 1983, two years older than Cristiano Ronaldo and Deng Kai.
Cristiano Ronaldo feels very happy when he thinks that he, who was initially evaluated as mediocre, has now become the target of those former geniuses.
Huang Jianxiang: "Of course, in the final between Real Madrid and Sporting Lisbon, I think the more critical players are Zidane and Deng Kai."
"Those who win the midfield win the world. With the support of Kaka, Ronaldinho, Drogba and other players, Deng Kai already has the ability to compete with the world's top midfielders."
"But Zidane is different. Zidane is the best midfielder in the world."
"Some people may wonder why I didn't mention Ronaldo. That's because Ronaldo has almost no support for the midfielder. He can't help Deng Kai. He can only seize every opportunity Deng Kai assigns to him.
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"In fact, it's just like the relationship between Ronaldo and Van Persie. There was a huge gap between Deng Kai and Ronaldo at the beginning. Deng Kai was far less dazzling than Ronaldo at that time."
"But in three years, Deng Kai has become the leader of Sporting Lisbon. When people evaluate Ronaldo and Deng Kai, they will put Deng Kai ahead of Ronaldo."
"This shows how great progress our Deng Kai has made, and he deserves to be the light of the Chinese people!"
Grass!
Cristiano Ronaldo canceled his follow on Huang Jianxiang.
What a bastard.
Hey, wait...
Cristiano Ronaldo found an account called "Kai Lao Pa" on "Knowing the Football King", and his words were very pertinent.
Kai Laopa: "Deng Kai is indeed good at passing the ball quickly, but that is based on the premise of facing ordinary midfielders. Maybe many fans who do not understand football skills are easily deceived by Deng Kai's technical moves."
"Actually, football skills and basketball skills are the same. Facing different opponents, the results are very different."
"Some players who are very good in front of ordinary people are useless in front of professional players. Speed, range of movement, core strength, confrontation intensity, opponent's vision ability, etc., all affect a player's performance."
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"So some players are not as weak as we seem, such as the national football team. Some players are not as strong as we seem, such as Deng Kai."
"He will face the best midfielder in the world and the most gorgeous lineup in the world!"
"Really speaking, the most threatening person in Sporting Lisbon should actually be Cristiano Ronaldo, who has explosive scoring ability. He has scored 30 goals in the league for two consecutive seasons. This is definitely not a joke!"
Cristiano Ronaldo gave Kai Laoba a thumbs up. He thinks this person knows football very well.
Similarly, He Wei was excited about the likes his comment received.
In this harsh environment where everyone in the mainland is boasting of glory, he finally found a like-minded ally.