It has been almost six years since I left Sporting Lisbon in 2003.
When he left, Su Dong was just a slightly famous rookie in Europe, but now, he has become the number one player in world football, a superstar who has won the double Footballer of the Year award three times.
He is changing, his former friends are changing, and Sporting Lisbon is also changing.
Moutinho, the young player who had just been promoted to the first team back then, is now the captain of Sporting Lisbon.
Paulo Bento, Sudong's teammate in the first team, is now the head coach of Sporting Lisbon.
What's even more interesting is that the Brazilian striker Delle who was at Porto under Mourinho is now attacking for Sporting Lisbon, which makes everything very interesting.
What Su Dong now meets is Paulo Bento, his teammate back then and now the head coach of Sporting Lisbon.
Strictly speaking, the two of them were not close friends at the time, but as time goes by, many things will be forgotten, and at the same time they will deepen a lot.
For example, it can allow two people who are not so familiar with each other to find a lot of common memories.
Because in today's Sporting Lisbon, Su Dong's memories are too few.
After the dismissal of Bologna, Sporting Lisbon had two head coaches, Santos and Peseiro, but neither of their coaching results were particularly satisfactory and they were never able to lead Sporting Lisbon into the Champions League.
After Paul Bento retired, according to traditional practice, he entered the youth training camp of Sporting Lisbon and began his coaching career. However, after leading the youth team for one season, Peseiro resigned midway through the second season.
, so he took over the first team of Sporting Lisbon in October 2005, and led the team to second place in the Portuguese Super League that season and entered the Champions League.
Since then, Paulo Bento has firmly established himself as the manager of Sporting Lisbon, ranking second in the Portuguese Super League for several consecutive seasons.
So far this season, Sporting Lisbon has the same points as Benfica, ranking behind Porto, and its results are also pretty good. After all, Sporting Lisbon today is no longer the Green Lions that had so many talents back then.
With the departure of Sudong and Ronnie, especially after Pepe left the team, Moutinho is the only one left at Sporting Lisbon.
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Paul Bento was also very happy to see Su Dong, shook hands and hugged him with a smile.
"Don't worry, I promise I don't have any thoughts in this regard, because I know your character. You definitely want these 50,000 Green Lion fans to see your progress and achievements over the years. You will definitely not hold back."
The Alvalade Stadium was packed tonight, which was far beyond the expectations of Sporting Lisbon management.
According to pre-match speculation, Sporting Lisbon has little chance of winning against Bayern Munich, even at home.
Except for very die-hard fans, few people would come to the scene to watch such a difficult-to-win game.
Tickets are expensive, and fans will choose the show.
In the fifth round of the group stage, they faced Barcelona at home, which was already a key match to qualify for the Champions League group. As a result, only 30,000 fans came to the scene. This attendance rate is considered good.
But tonight, a total of 50,000 fans came in at Alvalade Stadium, and the seats were packed.
This is the first time in recent seasons that the Alvalade Stadium has been full.
Su Dong smiled and nodded, "I also know that you must have done a lot of preparations, just like you did when you played against Barcelona."
Sporting Lisbon met Barcelona in the group stage and played quite well in both games.
In the battle at Camp Nou, when they were two goals behind, they once launched a crazy offensive and got a goal back, almost equalizing the score, but unfortunately, Iniesta assisted Xavi.
Completely shattered the fighting spirit of the Green Lions.
In the fifth round, at home, after trailing 0-3 in the first half, they scored two goals in two minutes in the second half and almost equalized the score. However, it was a pity that Mourinho was well prepared this time and took advantage of Sporting Lisbon's offensive.
What a great opportunity and scored two goals in a row.
In the end, Sporting Lisbon lost 2-5 at home.
Although they lost both games against Barcelona, Sporting Lisbon won all the remaining four games in the group stage, leaving the suspense of the top spot in the group until the last round, forcing Barcelona to go all out and finally win with one point.
With a slight advantage, the group leader qualified.
Looking at the Champions League group matches this season, there are two sharpest teams in the second place. One is Atletico Madrid led by Aguirre. But unfortunately, Aguirre dismissed get out of class during the winter break, and the other one is Atletico Madrid.
Sporting Lisbon led by Paulo Bento.
It can be said that Paul Bento's current coaching career is on the upswing. He is a highly promising young coach in Portugal and even European football. He is not yet 40 years old. As long as he maintains the current momentum, he has no future.
Can be limited.
Of course, Su Dong is also happy to see his former teammates become famous coaches in European football, because this also represents a network for him, but tonight, he must go all out.
"Be careful, friend!" Su Dong stretched out his hand.
Paul Bento held Su Dong's hand and reminded: "You too."
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The start of the game belonged to the Portuguese.
Sporting Lisbon played at home and performed very bravely and proactively.
Obviously, they just want to use their home court to put enough pressure on Bayern.
The knockout rounds are two rounds. If you cannot get a favorable situation in the first round at home, Sporting Lisbon will be in a very unfavorable situation in the second round away from home.
Therefore, everyone in the Green Lions knew the situation they were facing and tried their best.
Paulo Bento, who is a defensive midfielder, has a very concise coaching style and is full of pressure. Through this high-intensity and fast-paced pressure, Bayern was put into a passive position from the beginning.
Bayern has the advantage, but after all it is an away game and has no intention of playing against Sporting Lisbon.
One side takes the initiative and the other focuses on defending. Needless to say, Sporting Lisbon has the advantage in this situation.
In the first twenty minutes or so, Bayern failed to organize an effective attack. Instead, it was the home team that frequently created threats and even almost scored, but was saved by Pepe's header on the goal line.
The players from Sporting Lisbon performed well and won applause from the fans in the stadium.
Starting from the 20th minute, Bayern gradually adapted to the rhythm of Sporting Lisbon. The home team also needed to take a breath for a while after a round of crazy pressing, but at this moment, Bayern suddenly attacked.
The threat of Franck Ribery and Robben on the wing began to show its effect. Bayern frequently played one-on-one on the wing and got three corner kick opportunities in a row. Although they failed to create enough threats, they still sounded the alarm.
Alarm bell.
In the 28th minute, Moutinho tried to get rid of Mascherano, but the Argentine midfielder poked the ball away.
After Modric got the ball, he turned around and dribbled the ball forward. After crossing the center line, he quickly passed it to Su Dong who raised his hand for the ball.
Su Dong ran to the gap to stop the ball, turned around calmly, and took the initiative to dribble the ball forward before the opponent's central defender could catch up.
Sporting Lisbon's two central defenders, Tonel and Polgar, kept retreating, while maintaining control of Sudong on the left and right. But when they retreated to the edge of the penalty area, they found that they had no way to retreat.
But after retreating, they immediately rushed towards Su Dong, trying to use the strength of the two of them to restrain Su Dong.
Even if you can't steal the ball from him, you can at least force him to pass it out.
Su Dong approached with the ball. He knew the opponent's intentions very well and was well prepared.
Just when the two central defenders of Sporting Lisbon were approaching, he suddenly accelerated, first picked the ball through the gap between the two central defenders, and then rushed over after him.
I knew Su Dong was very fast, but I didn’t know he was going to be like this!
When Su Dong suddenly accelerated and rushed towards him, both Sporting Lisbon's central defenders were shocked. Before they had time to react, the ball was thrown over and Su Dong also rushed between the two of them.
Single sword!!!!!
The entire Alvalade stadium cheered.
After Su Dong broke through the defense of the two central defenders, he caught up with the ball in the penalty area and directly faced his teammate goalkeeper Thiago. Su Dong fired an angry shot and sent the ball into the Sporting Lisbon goal.
One to zero!
"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"
"In the 28th minute, Su Dong opened the scoring for Bayern!"
"One to zero!"
"A very beautiful dribbling in the middle forced a breakthrough. The two central defenders of Sporting Lisbon obviously did not have a clear understanding. What they were facing was Su Dong!"
Su Dong excitedly turned around and rushed to the sidelines, and the Alvalade fans did not hesitate to give him warm applause.
It has been many years since they saw Su Dong celebrating a goal in this stadium.
Paulo Bento scratched his chin on the sidelines and cursed angrily.
He had repeatedly reminded his two central defenders before the game, telling them that Su Dong was very fast. Use him as a high center when playing high balls, use him as a technical genius when dribbling, and use him as a speed type when breaking through.
Players…
In a word, he is almighty and super strong!
Unexpectedly, Sporting Lisbon's central defender was still rushed by him, and it was so simple, direct, and rough, but it was very entertaining and exciting, and the fans at the scene were excited.
Thinking of this, Paul Bento had to sigh inwardly.
At that time, many people were very optimistic about Su Dong, but they never expected that he could grow to the point where he is today.
Even Luis Suarez, the Spanish star who was the first to be optimistic about Su Dongpo, does nothing now. He just makes a lot of money by going on the TV station to brag about how he was optimistic about Su Dongpai back then. But
Was he really that optimistic about Su Dong back then? He could have imagined that Su Dong would be where he is today?
"Damn it!" Paul Bento slapped the back of his head hard, feeling a little bitter.
"It doesn't matter if someone scores a goal in your home stadium, but your own fans keep applauding. It's so heartbreaking, fellow fans!"
But what can he do?
Not to mention the fans of the first team, even in the youth team of Sporting Lisbon, how many young players is Su Dong the idol?
Which young rookie is not dreaming eagerly that he can become the second Su Dong?
