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As the saying goes, luck can’t stop the mountains. Good luck and bad luck are the same. After being tied by the Portuguese in the last round, Lexos’s sixth-round opponent, Coimbra, was a bit silly and wretched. He also fought a defensive counterattack at home.

If Lexos also defended and counterattacked, this game would be difficult to say, but Lexos is currently ranked third. They still want to win, so they attacked away and were repeatedly counterattacked by the University of Coimbra. Captain Evis scored an own goal, and then Lexos was impetuous, rushed, and was hit by a counterattack. In the end, Lexos lost 0:3 away.

The focus of this round is the Porto Derby of Porto and Boavista, Sporting Lisbon and the Lisbon Derby of Benfica.

In the end, Porto defeated Boavista 2-0, and Sporting Lisbon was tied by Benfica. Porto had a 6-game winning streak leading the second place Sporting Lisbon by 5 points. The relegation zone.

The two focus battles concealed many things, such as Lexos’s big defeat, such as Guimarães’ winning streak. After defeating Braga in this round, Guimarães has won three consecutive victories, only with One point is behind Rexos.

The first Portuguese League Cup was eliminated by Leiria, the league was tied by the Portuguese national team, and then defeated by the Coimbra team. Rexos, who has been regarded as a dark horse by the media and fans, has gone downhill.

Reporters no longer call Rexos as a dark horse, and their name in the newspaper has once again become the newly promoted team in Porto Norte

The other newly promoted Guimarães became the new dark horse in the eyes of the media and fans after three consecutive victories. The original praise for Lexus was added to the Guimarães team.

Winners and losers, competitive competitions have always been so cruel.

After the game against Coimbra, Oliveira called all the players and coaches together and held a discussion meeting to analyze what happened in the two games and why the team suffered repeated setbacks.

Captain Evis first apologized to his teammates, saying that his own goal made the team passive.

Oliveira said: "Don't apologize. What's the use of an apology? You don't want to score an own goal. Just talk about your views on our current situation."

Evis thought for a while, and said: "I think our offensive power is not strong, oh, I don’t mean our defense is strong, but when the opponents counterattack defensively, we can’t break the goal. I think this is a big one. problem."

Oliveira said: "The offense is a problem. Our offense is still too rough, and we can't tear off the opponent's dense defense if it is not delicate enough."

Pointing straight at the front line, the striker is unhappy, Brandi said: "I don't think it is good to rely on the forward passing the ball to cooperate. People will focus on one by one, and there will be a defense. How to cooperate, I think the positioning is very important. If we can pass Setting the ball to break the opponent’s goal will not be so passive."

Midfielder Lopez said: "I think we have to buy people during the winter break. It is difficult for us to improve offense."

Assistant coach Kawu said: "There are still 10 rounds before the winter break. It's too early to buy someone."

Gao Xiaodong said leisurely: "I think our positioning is still a bit problematic."

Oliveira said, "Why do you say that?"

Gao Xiaodong said: "In 6 games, we won three, tied two, lost one, and ranked fourth. Against a newly promoted horse, this result is not bad, we are away from Coimbra. In the game, the opponent actively showed weakness, defensively counterattacked, we attacked, the result was counterattacked, and we lost. I was thinking at the time, can't we get a point for the difficulty? We are better than Coimbra? If we also counterattack, we won’t sink. I guess it’s Coimbra. After all, they are at home. They are the old Portuguese Super League. We are new recruits. The same is true of the Portuguese national team. Think about it."

After hearing this, everyone was shocked and felt that Gao Xiaodong’s words were reasonable. Indeed, if they were also playing defensive counterattacks at that time, although it was a bit trivial, they would probably not be able to lose. With three midfielders and a defensive counterattack, they defeated Benfica.

Although such meetings generally do not have a place for newcomers like Angulo to speak, it was Gao Xiaodong who spoke just now. Angulo still said: "I think Gao Xiaodong's words are reasonable, because the previous results are better, and in our hearts I still put ourselves in a higher position. If we play defensive counterattacks no matter who we are against, I think our results should be better."

Zina said: "I think we did not buy people on a large scale in the summer transfer. Our advantage is unity and tacit understanding. We must play this point instead of fighting for technical awareness with those old Portuguese super teams."

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Afterwards, everyone expressed their opinions more or less, and finally Oliveira made a concluding statement.

"I think their speeches are very good, they have all thought about it, and they all said that we have shortcomings and advantages. I think Gao Xiaodong's words are reasonable. We positioned ourselves right at the beginning of the season, and we are the weakest. Yes, we have to fight every opponent, but now, although we are also positioning relegation, deep down we don’t think so. We feel that we are now fourth, stronger than a relegation team like Coimbra, so they defend When we counterattack, we have to attack. In fact, we are wrong. No matter who we face, as long as the Portuguese Super League team is better than us, we should defend and counterattack instead of attacking."

Oliveira discussed with assistant Kau. Let the players digest their own words for a while, and then continue: "I think we have to change our concept from the next round, facing any team in the Portuguese Super League, our goal is not to lose. I'm happy if I can score one point, and I'm even more happy to get a three-pointer. We play defensive counterattacks against every team. It doesn't matter whether they play defensive counterattacks or not."

Oliveira looked at Gao Xiaodong who was hesitant to say something, and said, "Gao Xiaodong, just say whatever you want."

Gao Xiaodong grinned and said: "If we fought a defensive counterattack and the opponent also fought a defensive counterattack, we would ignore them, just ignore them, and see who can hold it. If they can hold it, we will get a 1 point. If they want to be wretched, we will be wretched, let's see who is more wretched, anyway, we are newly promoted."

When talking about this, Fatty’s heart is dripping blood. This is not only the league points, but also his system points. If the national team and the Coimbra team win the game, his own system The points are 20 points, 3 points less, my god.

Oliveira smiled. In this case, he can't say to find a coach, but he agrees. As a person who has been promoted to the Portuguese Super League five times and was beaten down several times, he knows the cruelty of the Portuguese Super League.

"Xiaodong's words are also reasonable, we should be flexible and adaptable when the time comes, but according to our personnel characteristics and the characteristics of playing style, in the following season, we will insist on defensive counterattack, so that we should have no problem in relegation."

If Oliveira said something like this before losing to Coimbra, even if the players didn’t say anything in person, they might not agree with them in their hearts, and they might not follow the coach’s instructions on the court. But now, they think it might be defensive. Fighting back is really their only choice. (.)