World's No.1 Football Manager

Chapter 442 The world of genius, you don't understand!
Amorim's expectations were good. As the score was equalized, Sporting Portugal's situation became more and more passive.

The materialist worldview says that matter determines consciousness, but consciousness also has a huge active role.Before conceding the goal, the players of Sporting Lisbon still held their breath and could still see the hope of victory, but after conceding the goal, that breath was also vented.

The players, who were already exhausted and in poor condition, felt more and more tired. Not only was it difficult to move their bodies as if they were filled with lead, but even breathing began to be difficult.

And this hypoxic state temporarily stopped their brains from thinking, and they just played football with their body's instincts.

And soon, they paid the price for their unconscious actions.

Just 5 minutes before the equalizer, Maritimo formed consecutive shots and finally won a corner kick.

Wang Zi took the penalty.

The exhausted and panting Portuguese players in the penalty area were like walking dead, mechanically sticking to the players who needed to defend.

It seems to be one-on-one marking, but if you look closely, you will find that they are just guarding the offensive player's side, the defense is weak, and they can't keep up with the offensive player's footsteps.

The offensive players of the Maritimo team are full of energy, their eyes are like copper bells, gearing up and eager to try.

The easiest way to measure whether a team is well-trained is to look at their set-piece routines, which are the easiest training subjects to achieve results.In Gao Yuan's daily training, setting the ball is almost a daily training subject, and he has designed many rich offensive and defensive routines.

Before Wang Zi took the penalty, he raised his hands high and made a special gesture. Obviously, he was directing his teammates in the penalty area to run tactical routines.

Wang Zi observed, approached, kicked, and passed.

The ball was finely penalized, the ball was fast, the arc was smooth, and the landing point went straight to the middle of the penalty area.

The Maritimo players in the penalty area, after seeing Wang Zi's gesture, began to move and prepare tactically.

Dzeko is the opponent's key target, and there are two defenders standing next to him.

But Dzeko was not flustered. He first took a few steps back slowly, and when the opponent's defender ran towards him, he suddenly took two steps outward, widening the distance from the defender, and then rushed forward fiercely, heading towards the middle of the penalty area.

Borja, who was in charge of defense, was left behind by Dzeko's coquettish movement and lost his position.

The other player in charge of defense is central defender Coates. He is experienced and skilled in defense. He was not confused, but in the process of following up, he was suddenly blocked in front of Maritimo's midfielder João.

And Dzeko also took the opportunity to get rid of the two defenders' sticking defenses and became unguarded.

Dzeko, who is unguarded, leaps in a wide sea and flies high in the sky. He sees the ball's landing point, leaps up to meet the ball and rushes to the top.

It was too late to say it, but it was too fast, all of this happened in a flash, and it was so fast that it was dizzying.

The ball hit the net hard again.

1: 2!

Maritimo overtook the score!
Amorim slumped on the coach's bench. He knew that this was the final goal, declaring that Sporting Lisbon lost the game.

But he was not reconciled to failure and decided to give it a go.

He gritted his teeth and replaced 3 players in a very unreasonable breath. The 3 new recruits were all players who had not participated in the training camp of the national team and maintained good physical fitness and condition.

However, football is an 11-person sport. When the overall morale is sluggish, the three newly added players disappeared without a trace, as if a stone was thrown into the sea.

Sporting's offense has not improved.On the contrary, Maritimo's morale was boosted after taking the lead, and his momentum was like a rainbow.

The onslaught continued towards the restricted area of ​​​​Sportsports.

In the 84th minute of the game, Maritimo relied on active running to form repeated penetrations in the opponent's defense line, piercing the opponent's defense line full of holes.

The ball was hit from the left to the center, passed from the center to the right, and then transferred to the left in a wide range...

Going back and forth like this made the opponent's defense very chaotic.In the end, the ball reached the feet of Liu Yun on the left. With a sudden sprint, he broke through the defense of full-back Borja and made a pass from the bottom.

In the penalty area, it was Dzeko again, leaning over and diving in the crowd, first touched the ball, and smashed the ball into the opponent's net again.

Dzeko scored a hat-trick!
Maritimo scored three goals in a row!
The last trace of spirit of Sporting Lisbon seemed to be taken away.

As the ball hit the net, many players collapsed on the turf, and their eyes were full of exhaustion. At this moment, most of them were not thinking about equalizing the score, but looking forward to the end of the game soon.

The referee also seemed to understand the mentality of the Portuguese sports players. After only 1 minute of stoppage time, the whistle for the end of the game was blown.

Sporting Portugal 1:3 Maritimo.

Although everyone knew that Maritimo was very capable, some people still said sourly that they were just upstarts and had not accepted the real test.

But the process and result of this game made all doubters obediently shut up.After all, they beat Sporting Lisbon, one of the top three in the Portuguese Super League, in an away game!

Since then, Maritimo has been truly regarded as a dark horse with full appearance!

Only the coach of Sporting Portugal, Amorim, seemed a little unconvinced.

At the press conference after the game, he said unconvinced: "Congratulations to Maritimo for winning. However, I don't think my team is inferior to Maritimo, but we are more affected by the FIFA virus! I am now very much looking forward to the next contest with Maritimo! I will show them my true strength!"

Gao Yuan, who was waiting aside, put on a mocking smile when he heard this.

When he attended the press conference, the reporter threw Amorim's words to him just now, seeking his evaluation.

Gao Yuan said indifferently: "Status adjustment is also part of the football game. I think what Mr. Amorim means is that we have admitted that our resistance to the FIFA virus is better than that of the other teams. This is a compliment to our strength!"

"Then, Mr. Gao Yuan, why is your team able to withstand the invasion of the FIFA virus?"

"On the one hand, it depends on our training adjustments, and on the other hand, the players' self-adjustment and adaptability! That is their talent!"

In the locker room of the home team, Amorim watched the post-match news interview on TV.

"Talent?" Amorim murmured, thinking about the word carefully.

Luis Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo have said the same thing to himself, and he scoffed at the time, but this time, when he heard it again from the opponent he had just defeated, he was lost.

Could it be that there really are geniuses in this world, and ordinary people don't understand the world of geniuses!

(End of this chapter)