Chapter 379 Coimbra is not a fish belly
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon on April 20, the Porto Club's luxury bus arrived in Coimbra, the third largest city in Portugal. More than 4,000 Porto fans arrived with Porto.
Although there is no suspense about Porto, who is 17 points ahead of the second place, after the league championship was accidentally snatched by Rexos last season, Porto fans are always a little uneasy, and they urgently hope that Porto will quickly win the second championship of the season.
Porto is one of the teams with the largest number of fans in Portugal. This possible championship game has attracted many Porto fans, hoping to see the team create new history with their own eyes.
After resisting Coimbra Stadium, the Porto players adapted to the venue, did half an hour of warm-up training, and then returned to the locker room to wait for the start of the game.
Monkey, Xiao Le, Chen Qiang and others brought the fat fan group to Coimbra in the morning. They visited the University of Coimbra, which has a history of more than 700 years, ate the fried sturgeon from Coimbra, visited the Santa Clara Church in the afternoon, and then came to the stadium to wait for the start of the game.
The game was held at four o'clock, and around three o'clock, one-third of the seats were already filled with seats in the stands at Coimbra Stadium. Most of them were Porto fans who came from afar.
The fans of Porto and Coimbra both looked relaxed. Porto did not think that Coimbra could really defeat Porto, and Coimbra fans did not regard defeating Porto as a mission.
At 4:20, the players of Porto and Coimbra came out of the locker room. Ferreira and Domingos were old acquaintances, but they just greeted each other and did not communicate more.
The players that Porto and Coimbra knew also greeted each other. The players that Gao Xiaodong did not know were talking to Hulk and walked forward, but a thin black man called Gao Xiaodong.
"Xiao Donggao, I think I can exchange jerseys with you after the game? I heard that it is necessary to make an appointment to exchange jerseys with you, but I said it's not too late."
Gao Xiaodong scratched his head. Since qualifying in the Champions League group, there have been more and more things to exchange jerseys, and it seems that there will only be more in the future.
"It's not too late, what's your name? How did this head grow? Pass on me some experience." Gao Xiaodong joked with this big black guy.
"You are really good at joking. You have no experience in your life. My name is Edelcito. You can call me the nickname Edel, Xiao Donggao. You are my idol. The miracle of your growth from an amateur player to a star is really touching. Unfortunately, as a striker, I have not scored a goal for Coimbra so far."
"It's the striker who will score sooner or later. I just hope you don't score today. Oh, you can score a goal, just don't win."
"No, I would rather not score a goal than beat you."
The big black Edel seemed to have found a close friend and chatted with Gao Xiaodong while walking.
Coimbra head coach Domingos saw his stupid forward chatting and laughing happily with Gao Xiaodong, and secretly sighed, "It's a pity, if I have geniuses like Gao Xiaodong, Falcao, and Hulk, I can be as glorious as Oliveira and Ferreira. Unfortunately, I only have players like Edel and Sugu."
Seeing the players from both sides come out, warm cheers burst out from the stands, and one-third of the fans were shouting the name "Gao Xiaodong".
Since Porto eliminated Manchester United, Gao Xiaodong's popularity has increased sharply. Now he has become the leading star in Portugal, throwing out a lot of new players such as Moutinho, Veroso, Di Maria, and Cointran, who were originally as famous as him.
The live commentator of Coimbra sighed: "In terms of technology alone, Gao Xiaodong is even worse than Moutinho Veroso and Di Maria, but Gao Xiaodong can always play a huge role in key battles. This is the potential of the star and the reason why Gao Xiaodong quickly became famous."
At 4 o'clock, with the referee's whistle, the 25th round of Portugal finally kicked off.
Coimbra, who played at home, was not afraid of Porto, who had just reached the Champions League semi-finals. After the game, he played at an extremely high level. His offense was like flowing and his defense was like a wall of iron. Porto made him retreat step by step and he didn't react for a while.
Ferreira frowned on the sidelines. Although he had been telling the players before the game, don't be careless, don't underestimate the enemy, win Coimbra and prepare for Arsenal with all his heart, the players still couldn't help but underestimate the enemy psychologically.
There is nothing we can do about this. After all, after just playing the defending champion Manchester United, Manchester United was eliminated. It is impossible to make Porto players pay attention to the Portuguese mid-range team.
In the first ten minutes, Coimbra beat Porto and the fans of Porto didn't care. They all looked relaxed, thinking that this was Coimbra's home court, and they must show it. They didn't believe that Coimbra could beat Porto.
In fact, the players in Porto also think so.
However, twenty minutes passed, and Coimbra still beat Porto.
Thirty minutes passed, Porto had fewer personal performances, more active running, and more cooperation, but Coimbra still had the upper hand.
Coimbra's playing style is very technical, focusing on the offense of the two sides, and not giving up the passing and cutting penetration in the middle, which is also related to Domingos's football tradition of advocating football to return to Portugal.
Faced with Coimbra's overall counter-attack and fast passes and cuts, Porto played a bit impatiently, the players couldn't calm down and organized the attack. The midfielder wanted to pass the deadly ball, Rodriguez and Hulk wanted to pass everyone to score. Falcao shot no matter whether the time was good or not. Even Meleres and Gao Xiaodong couldn't help but want to use long shots to solve the problem.
Coimbra is not a bad guy in Portugal. Domingos knows Porto again. It is not that easy for Porto to defeat Coimbra simply and roughly.
Ferreira shouted on the sidelines for a while, but the company captain Alves and the team's deputy Gao Xiaodong were both in a restless mood. Nothing could be changed by just shouting a few words on the sidelines.
Seeing that the time was 35 minutes, Ferreira also gave up shouting and went back to the coach's seat. He wanted to wait for the halftime break and adjust it well, and he could not break the opponent's goal in half. At that time, the players in Porto should also understand what the problem was. Take a step back and say that the game between Guimaraes and Sporting Lisbon was still o:o. Even if Porto loses in this game, he can still win the championship.
Coimbra is more confident the more he plays. At 40 minutes of the game, they finally found Porto's defensive gap through patient passes and cuts.
Coimbra's continuous impact on the flank caused the emptiness of Porto's middle. When the ball was passed to midfielder Miguel Pedro, Pedro suddenly passed the gap between Porto's central defender Rolando and Alves.
Coimbra forward Sugu quickly passed through Fernando's side, catching up with the ball in the penalty area was like a push shot.
Porto goalkeeper Helton reacted quickly. He subconsciously blocked the ball with his feet and blocked it out.
But before Porto's fans could applaud Helton's save, forward Edel, who joined Coimbra, stretched out his long legs and shoveled the ball into the goal.
1:o
Coimbra led Porto at home.
Chapter completed!