Chapter 341 Accidental goal loss
After 10 minutes of amazingness in the first half, as Porto contracted his defense, he gradually became mediocre.
Atletico Madrid's offense was very fierce, but they could not break through the midfield defense of Porto's five people. Simon and Maxi occasionally broke through on the side, but they could not form a big threat and could not open Porto's defense line. Aguero and Fran in the middle were watching. Not to mention breaking through, they had no route even if they wanted to pass the ball.
Forty-five minutes passed quickly, and the fourth official raised the flag of stoppage time for one minute. Fans on both sides believed that the scores in the first half would not change any more. Some people held them for a long time and were ready to go to the toilet. Some people shouted for more than 40 minutes, drank the water and their voices were hoarse, so they were ready to buy something.
At this moment, Atletico Madrid suddenly launched a fast attack on the wing. Maxi broke through Hulk and headed straight for Fucile. Meleres quickly moved to the wing to assist in defense.
Maxi quickly crossed the middle to find Aguero.
Fernando knew Aguero's excellence, and now he was close to Aguero. As soon as Aguero got the ball, he immediately pulled Aguero's jersey. He would rather foul than give Aguero room to get the ball easily.
Aguero felt the pressure of defense. He didn't get the ball, rubbed the ball with his outside instep, and the ball rolled in an arc towards Fran.
Fran was also watched, and Alves was inseparable from him.
However, although Fran, 30, is not as spiritual as Aguero, he is much better than Aguero, who is 21, in getting rid of his opponent's defense.
Fran found that it was a curved ball, and he did not stop. When the ball came in front of him, Fran turned around and surrounded Alves.
Alves was ready to stick to Fran, not letting him turn around, nor to let him shoot, but his attention was on Fran and he didn't notice the change in the ball arc. When Fran suddenly turned around, it was too late to go with Fran again, and the ball was bypassed by him.
This was a very clever escape, and a burst of fierce cheers and applause broke out in the stands.
Fran would not pay attention to the applause in the stands. He passed the Alves who was guarding him, but the players who assisted the defense were not far away, and he handled the ball very short.
But that's enough for Fran to shoot.
After catching up with the ball in two steps, Fran pulled his feet and shot hard from the front of the right side of the penalty area.
The ball flew quickly against the turf, but the angle was very straight. Helton turned slightly and was about to kneel down and hold the ball with both hands.
This was a pretty save move, but the ball was too fast, and the opponent didn't shoot much in the first half. Helton was not excited enough. Before he finished his move, the ball broke his palm and flew into the net from between his legs.
2:1
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Fran didn't even expect to enter. When he saw the ball rolling into the net, he ran to the stands cheerfully.
Did this goal go?
Atletico Madrid fans did not expect it at the first time, and when they realized that the ball had really entered, they stood up and cheered at the stadium.
Porto fans were silent, while Porto players were even speechless. They saw the goalkeeper making defensive moves and thought it was okay, but they never thought that Helton was penetrated into the crotch.
Hulton shook his head repeatedly, ashamed. He had just become the captain and gave his opponent a big gift. This was so shameful that he would raise his head in front of his teammates in the future.
There was only one minute of stoppage time, and after Porto concedes the goal, the first half ended soon.
When he returned to the locker room to rest, Ferreira did not blame the players. He played very well. If it weren't for Helton's mistake, 1:1 away game would be a score worth celebrating.
However, Ferreira pulled Helton aside and chatted alone for a while. Ferreira was an old coach. He knew that he could not blame Helton at this time. He comforted Helton, meaning that 1:2 was not a bad result. There was still a chance in the second half, so he didn't have a psychological burden and performed well in the second half.
Ferreira's psychological massage is still very effective. He is more likely to accept this communication method for non-genius players like Helton.
After the second half of the game started, Porto was not in a hurry to attack. As Ferreira said, 1:2 is not an unacceptable score. They still played according to the established tactics, fighting for the midfield, intercepting the ball to counterattack, combining the side and the middle. If there is no chance, they will fight tenaciously, and boldly invest their troops if there is a chance.
Compared with the calm Porto, Atletico Madrid, who entered the Champions League for the first time in ten years, is a little frivolous.
Head coach Resino was an excellent goalkeeper in his time as a player. As reported by him was "classic". "Classic" means that Abel never participates in the offense and stays in front of the goal line almost all 90 minutes in the game.
As the head coach, Resino has been the goalkeeper coach since retirement. In the 2004/05 season, Ferlando, who believes in one-to-zeroism, coaches Atletico Madrid. Resino is his assistant coach. In the 2006/07 season, Resino coaches Levante, who scored the least goals in La Liga.
After the team led 2:1, Resino hoped that the team would defend and maintain a 2:1 victory, but offensive players such as Aguero, Fran, Maxi, and Simon believed that they should take the opportunity to expand the victory and strive to score more goals at home. Otherwise, with the combat effectiveness and defensive ability shown by Porto today, the score of 2:1 is very dangerous.
If it is a senior coach who has coached the team for many years, even if the player has other ideas, he may succumb to the authority of the head coach. However, Resino is just a firefighting coach who has coached for less than a month. How could players such as Aguero and Fran listen to him completely?
Atletico Madrid's thinking was not so unified in the second half. There were few players who obey Resino's orders and equally conservative players who pressed forward, and few offensive players returned to defense, and not so deep, which brought more opportunities to Porto's offense.
In the 54th minute of the game, he suddenly pulled the wing from the middle, and Meleres passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong, who passed the Greek defender Setaridis from the wing.
This is the first time that Setaridis has faced Gao Xiaodong. He did not adopt a foul tactic and wanted to use his body to fight Gao Xiaodong.
As soon as the two of them touched each other, Setaridis found that the Chinese player, who was not tall, was simply a small tank. His body did not squeeze out Gao Xiaodong, and his speed was completely exploded. Gao Xiaodong threw away Setaridis and passed the ball into the penalty area.
The three Porto strikers had different relationships with Gao Xiaodong, but they were all very confident in him. They knew that the old Setaridis would find it difficult to defend Gao Xiaodong, so they all entered the penalty area and grabbed the spot immediately.
Falcao was most closely guarded, but he still got the landing point, but under the interference of Uyfalusi, the ball flew out of the bottom line.
Referee Weber gave the goal.
Atletico Madrid continued to attack after serving, but the ball was blocked again when it reached the midfield. The full-back did not dare to assist in the halftime. With the midfield alone, neither Simon nor Maxi could pass the ball to Aguero and Fran.
Raul Garcia in the middle took the risk of driving forward, trying to open up some space for her teammates, but Gao Xiaodong caught up from behind and shoveled to Fernando.
Fernando made a long pass and a fast break to Hulk. Hulk dribbled the ball and cut in, and rushed to the junction of the full-back and central defender.
Atletico Madrid's full-back and central defender quickly closed the ball, trying to block Hulk from the outside of the penalty area. Hulk did not wait for the opponent to join the ball and directly shot the goal close to the corner.
Atletico goalkeeper Franco is in a better form than Helton, and he held the ball out of the baseline with both hands.
Porto got another corner kick opportunity, Gao Xiaodong and Sapruna played tactical cooperation, and Sapruna passed the ball into the penalty area again.
Rodriguez hit the ball to the front of the penalty area from the back point, and Merreles followed and shot hard, and the ball flew out of the baseline against the crossbar.
Under Gao Xiaodong's command and dispatch, Porto's attack went higher and higher, causing war in front of Atletico Madrid to be full of soldiers.
The applause and cheering of Atletico Madrid fans in the stands became less, and the fans were worried, and there was no mood to cheer.
Chapter completed!