On the day after the peak match between Sporting Lisbon and Porto, the Portuguese Morning Post once again featured Su Dong as the front page cover, praising the 18-year-old center with a prominent headline.
In the news, the Morning Post first used a report to introduce this focus game that attracted national attention, emphasizing Porto's strong strength advantage, but at the same time, it also affirmed Sporting Lisbon's defense.
"In the past hour or so, Su Dong has been patiently waiting and looking for opportunities."
"Jorge Costa and Carvalho, the best central defender combination in the Portuguese Super League this season, have never left him any gaps. Their performance with zero mistakes is almost perfect, so Sudong can only create opportunities by consuming opponents.
."
"This is a tactic that can injure the enemy by one thousand and damage itself by eight hundred."
"Fortunately, Su Dong finally waited for the opportunity. First, he opened the scoring for Sporting Lisbon with a high-flying header. Then he retreated to defend, stole the ball from Jorge Costa, and then passed it to
Quaresma then scored with a high-speed shot, sealing the victory for Sporting Lisbon."
"The two goals reflect Su Dong's tactical value inside and outside the penalty area."
"Although he is only eighteen years old, his tactical role has far exceeded his age."
"At the Alvalade Stadium, Sudong reminded us of Kluivert back then, making us believe that he will be a superstar player in European football in the future."
In addition, the Morning Post also used a report to explain the importance of this game to both sides.
Comments stated that this is an important node in the battle for the Portuguese Super League championship this season.
"With Porto already leading by seven points, if they lose this game again and the gap widens to ten points, then the league title race will become unquestionable. This is unacceptable to all Porto opponents."
The Morning Post believes that Sudong scored twice at the critical moment and successfully attacked Porto, bringing suspense back to the Portuguese Super League championship. This is not only for Sporting Lisbon, but also for all Porto’s opponents and the entire Portuguese Super League.
All have produced important positive significance.
"For Sudong, these two goals bring his Portuguese Super League goals this season to eight, which is close to double digits. So far, he has scored two goals against Porto in two games.
, all scored goals.”
"Now, the biggest suspense in the Portuguese Super League is whether Porto can quickly come out of the shadows and reverse the situation after experiencing this heavy blow? And can Sporting Lisbon rely on this victory to continue to pursue Porto in one go?"
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The Portuguese public newspaper had the title "Eighteen-year-old supernova shines in the audience, the Green Lion wins the spotlight game", and the cover showed the scene when Su Dong jumped high and beat Jorge Costa to score with a header.
In the report, the Public Daily believed that Su Dong's two goals allowed everyone to see his strength and potential, and also created another grudge dispute in the history of the two teams' duel.
"If Porto ultimately misses out on the league title, the battle directed by Su Dong will be remembered by fans of both teams."
The report also stated that 18-year-old Su Dong represents the future of Sporting Lisbon. Coupled with 19-year-old Quaresma and 17-year-old Ronnie, Sporting Lisbon's frontcourt trident is very young and has unlimited potential.
"This is not an easy game, it is a peak matchup that represents the highest level of the Portuguese Super League."
"But in such an important game, Sudong, Ronnie and Quaresma all gave their best performances. Sporting Lisbon's frontcourt offense repeatedly created threats, and finally broke through Porto's goal twice."
The Public Daily believed that Su Dong, who scored twice, deserved to be elected as the best player of the game.
"Although many people recognize the performance of Andre Cruz and Albertini, in fact, throughout the game, Sudong's tactical role and threat have been restraining Porto, making this league leader unable to
Go all in on the attack."
"In the final stage of the game, his two goals caused Porto to suffer an unprecedented setback this season. This is not only reflected in the three points of this game, but also may lead to Porto losing in the Portuguese Super League.
The whole front was defeated."
"With these two goals, Su Dong's total number of goals in the Portuguese Super League this season has reached eight. This is not the most in the Portuguese Super League, but he is the youngest. More importantly, Su Dong has five more goals.
Assist."
The public newspaper also specially listed the statistics of the Portuguese Super League's scorer list and assist list this season.
Statistics show that Sudong currently ranks third among the top scorers in the Portuguese Super League with eight goals, behind Benfica winger Simao's ten goals and Brazilian striker Adriano of the Portuguese National Team, who scored
Nine balls.
On the current scorer list, Sudong is the same as Porto's Postiga and Santa Clara's Fabricio Chiara, who both scored eight goals. Farifaye from Beira Mar, Benfica
Thiago of Porto and Deco of Porto, these three players have scored seven goals and are tied for sixth place in the scorer list.
In addition to the scorer list, in the assists list, Su Dong tied for the top of the assists list with five assists.
The same number of assists as Sudong is Deco, the core midfielder from Porto, who also has five assists.
After listing this data, the Public Daily expressed its affirmation of Su Dong's performance this season with an exclamation tone.
Deco is considered to be the best and most stable player in the Portuguese Super League in the past two or three seasons. Many people even believe that Deco is the best player in the Portuguese Super League this season.
"But from the data point of view, Su Dong's performance is not inferior to Deco at all, with eight goals and five assists, even one more goal than Deco. What everyone must pay attention to is that in addition to Deco's absence,
Except for the first round of the league, all other games were played for the entire game, but Su Dong missed many games or was reduced to a substitute."
The Public Daily believes that Su Dong's playing time is far less than Deco, but the data provided and the performance on the field are not inferior to Deco. This undoubtedly proves Su Dong's value and role.
"He is vastly underrated."
"Everyone, including us, seriously underestimated Sudong's importance to Sporting Lisbon."
"Perhaps Boloni should reconsider his positioning of Su Dongpo."
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Long reports in the Morning Post and the Public newspaper spread throughout Portugal at extremely fast speeds.
Especially the data analysis by the Public Daily shocked everyone.
Before this, no one had even thought that Su Dong had unknowingly been compared with the top star of the Portuguese Super League, Deco. What an incredible thing it was.
But now, the data and performance he has produced are no less inferior to Deco.
As the Public Daily said, Su Dong's role and performance were seriously underestimated.
Because of his age, because he was suppressed by Bologna, because he was not taken seriously.
But now, with the performance against Porto, Sudong's importance has become very obvious.
Sporting Lisbon midfielder Albertini was full of praise for Su Dong's performance in an interview with the media.
"He is already a vital core player for the team. He is growing at an incredible rate. He is improving every game. The future is simply unimaginable."
"I have sent information to Milan's scouting team. I told them that he will be the most promising center player in European football in the next ten years. They should seriously examine this player."
In addition to Albertini, Porto coach Mourinho also publicly expressed his interest in Sudong at the post-match press conference. He also said that if Sudong could be introduced during the winter break, it would be a great thing.
Wonderful thing.
"There is no doubt that he will be the last piece of the puzzle on our tactical board!"
"I believe he will make us stronger and more aggressive!"
The solicitation from a mortal enemy made Sporting Lisbon fans feel an unprecedented threat.
Many fans called the club management and demanded that they not sell Su Dong under any circumstances.
"Without Sudong, what can we do to compete with Porto for the championship?"
"This is Porto's conspiracy. They just want our stars and the Portuguese Super League champion!"
"We must keep Su Dong, he is the team's hope for the Portuguese Super League championship!"
When interviewed by the media, Sporting Lisbon fans were worried about the team's decision-making.
Some emotional female fans even threatened, "If you dare to betray Su Dong, I will die in front of you!"
Due to pressure from fans, technical director Aurelio Pereira immediately publicly accepted an interview and said, "The club has no intention of selling Sudong. He is one of the most important players in our team. We have no reason to sell Sudong in the winter."
Selling our best and most promising players during the break."
Public opinion soon followed.
The Morning Post interviewed an anonymous source within Sporting Lisbon who said that Sporting Lisbon will not sell Sudong during the winter break.
"When Nikolai's performance is sluggish, selling Sudong is tantamount to committing suicide. No one would do such a stupid thing."
But the anonymous person also revealed that he would not rule out selling Su Dongpo this summer.
"We all know that the team needs to raise more funds to renovate the stadium and operate the team. It is difficult for us to retain outstanding young players like Su Dong. This has been the case for so many years."
The club's public statement gave fans reassurance.
As for summer transfer sales, this is something they can't control now.
Su Dong did not make any statement on this. He did not even accept interviews with the media, and his agent Mendes did not make any public statements. This made the rumors of Su Dong's transfer during the winter break quickly subsided.
But everyone knows that as Su Dong's performance becomes more and more outstanding, he begins to attract more and more teams' attention and favor.
Porto is just the beginning.
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No one knew that when the outside public opinion gradually subsided, somewhere in Madrid, Javier Subirac, who had met Su Dong on several occasions, handed over a piece of player information.
This thick collection of player information is all players that Subilac has been inspecting recently.
And the one at the top of the information is surprisingly Su Dong of Sporting Lisbon.
