Chapter 644 It’s so heartbreaking, my friends!

It’s been almost six years since I left Sporting Lisbon in 2003.

When he left, Su Dong was just a little-known rookie in Europe, but now, he has become the number one player in world football and 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 changing too.

The young player Moutinho who was just promoted to the first team is now the captain of Sporting Lisbon.

Paulo Bento, Su Dong's teammate in the first team, is now the head coach of Sporting Lisbon.

What’s even more interesting is that the Brazilian striker Dellei, who played for Porto under Mourinho, is now attacking for Sporting Lisbon, which makes everything very interesting.

The person Su Dong is facing now is his former teammate, current Sporting Lisbon head coach Paulo Bento.

Strictly speaking, the two were not close back then, but time will slowly fade away many things, but it will also deepen many things.

For example, it can allow two people who are not so familiar with each other to find many common memories.

Because in today's Sporting Lisbon, there are very few memories of Su Dong.

After Bologna was sacked, Sporting Lisbon has had two head coaches, Santos and Peseiro, but the coaching results of both were not particularly ideal, and they were never able to lead Sporting Lisbon into the Champions League.

After Paulo Bento retired, according to traditional practice, he entered the youth training camp of Sporting Lisbon and began his coaching career. However, after coaching the youth team for one season, Peseiro was sacked in the middle of the second season. So he took over the Sporting Lisbon first team 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 established himself as the head coach of Sporting Lisbon, and has been the 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, which is also a pretty good result. After all, Sporting Lisbon is no longer the Green Lions that was once full of talented people.

With the departure of Sudon and Ronaldo, especially Pepe, the only one left for Sporting Lisbon is Moutinho.

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Paulo Bento was also very happy to see Su Dong. He shook hands and hugged him with a smile.

"Don't worry, I promise I have no such thoughts, because I know your character. You definitely want to let these 50,000 Green Lions fans 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 the Sporting Lisbon management.

According to pre-match speculation, Sporting Lisbon would not have much chance of winning against Bayern Munich, even at home.

Except for very hardcore fans, few people would come to watch such a difficult-to-win game.

Ticket prices are expensive, and fans will also be selective about the games.

In the fifth round of the group stage, they faced Barcelona at home. It was a crucial match for qualifying for the Champions League group stage. However, only 30,000 fans came to the scene, which was a good attendance.

But tonight, the Alvalade Stadium was packed with 50,000 fans.

This is the first time in recent seasons that the Alvalade Stadium has been full.

Su Dong smiled and nodded, "I know that too, you must have done a lot of preparation, just like when you played against Barcelona."

Sporting Lisbon faced Barcelona in the group stage and played both games quite well.

In the match at Camp Nou, they were two goals behind but they launched a crazy offensive and scored a goal, almost equalizing the score. But unfortunately, Iniesta assisted Xavi and completely crushed the Green Lions' fighting spirit.

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. But unfortunately, Mourinho was well prepared this time and took advantage of Sporting Lisbon's fierce attack to score two goals.

In the end, Sporting Lisbon suffered a 2-5 defeat 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 group top spot to the last round, forcing Barcelona to go all out, and finally qualified as the group top spot with a slight advantage of one point.

Looking at this season's Champions League group stage, there are only two strongest second-placed teams in the group. One is Atletico Madrid led by Aguirre, but unfortunately, Aguirre was sacked during the winter break. The other is Sporting Lisbon led by Paulo Bento.

It can be said that Paulo Bento's coaching career is now on the rise. In Portugal and even in European football, he is a highly regarded young coach. He is not even 40 years old. As long as he maintains his current momentum, his future is limitless.

Of course, Su Dong would be happy to see his former teammate become a famous coach in European football, because this also represents a network for him, but tonight, he must give it his all.

"Be careful, friend!" Su Dong stretched out his hand.

Paulo Bento held Su Dong's hand and reminded him, "You too."

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The opening of the game belonged to the Portuguese.

Sporting Lisbon played very bravely and proactively at home.

Obviously, they want to use their home court to put enough pressure on Bayern.

The knockout round consists of two rounds. If Sporting Lisbon cannot get a favorable situation at home in the first round, it will be in a very unfavorable situation in the away game in the second round.

Therefore, everyone in the Green Lions was aware of the situation they were facing and tried their best.

Paulo Bento, who was originally a defensive midfielder, has a very concise coaching style and is full of pressing pressure. Through this high-intensity and fast-paced pressing pressure, Bayern was put into a passive position from the start.

Bayern has the upper hand in strength, but after all they are playing away and have no intention of engaging in a head-on confrontation with Sporting Lisbon.

One side took the initiative to attack, while the other side focused on defense. Needless to say, Sporting Lisbon had the advantage.

In the first twenty minutes or so, Bayern failed to organize an effective attack. Instead, the home team frequently created threats and even almost scored, but Pepe cleared the ball with a header on the goal line.

The players of Sporting Lisbon performed well and won applause from the fans in the stadium.

From the 20th minute, Bayern gradually adapted to the rhythm of Sporting Lisbon. The home team also needed to take a breather after a round of crazy pressing, but at this moment, Bayern suddenly attacked.

The threats posed by Ribery and Robben on the wing began to take effect. Bayern frequently played one-on-one games on the wing and got three consecutive corner kick opportunities. Although they failed to create enough threats, it also sounded the alarm.

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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 forward. After crossing the center line, he quickly passed the ball to Su Dong who raised his hand for the ball.

Su Dong ran to an empty space, stopped the ball, turned around calmly, and without waiting for the opponent's central defender to catch up, he took the initiative to dribble forward.

Sporting Lisbon's two central defenders, Toner and Polgar, were constantly retreating, while keeping a clamp on Su Dong on the left and right. But when the two retreated to the front of the penalty area, they found that they had nowhere to retreat, so they immediately pressed towards Su Dong together, trying to use their strength to restrict Su Dong.

Even if we can't steal the ball from him, at least we can force him to pass it.

Su Dong approached with the ball. He was very clear about the opponent's intentions and was well prepared.

Just as the two central defenders of Sporting Lisbon were approaching, he suddenly accelerated, first picking the ball through the gap between the two central defenders, and then rushed over closely behind them.

I knew Su Dong was fast, but I didn’t know he was this fast!

Su Dong suddenly accelerated and rushed towards them. The two central defenders of Sporting Lisbon were shocked. Before they could react, the ball was passed to them and Su Dong rushed between them.

Single Blade!!!!!!!

The entire Alvalade Stadium cheered.

After breaking through the defense of two central defenders, Su Dong caught up with the ball in the penalty area. Facing his former teammate goalkeeper Thiago, Su Dong shot the ball into the goal of Sporting Lisbon.

One to zero!

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"

"In the 28th minute, Su Dong scored the first goal for Bayern!"

“One to zero!”

"It was a very beautiful breakthrough with the ball in the middle. The two central defenders of Sporting Lisbon obviously didn't have a clear understanding. They were facing Su Dong!"

Su Dong excitedly turned around and rushed to the sidelines, and Alvalade's fans gave him warm applause.

They haven't seen Su Dong celebrating a goal in this stadium for many years.

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, and that they should treat him as a center forward when the ball was high, a technical genius when dribbling, and a speed player when breaking through...

In a nutshell, he is omnipotent and super strong!

Unexpectedly, the central defender of Sporting Lisbon was still rushed over by him, and it was so simple, direct and rough, but very entertaining and exciting to the fans at the scene.

Thinking of this, Paulo Bento couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Back then, many people were very optimistic about Su Dong, but they never thought that he would be able to grow to where he is today.

Even the Spanish star Luis Suarez, who was the first to be optimistic about Su Dong, now does nothing but make a fortune by going on TV to brag about how optimistic he was about Su Dong. But was he really that optimistic about Su Dong? Could he have imagined that Su Dong would be what he is today?

"Damn it!" Paulo Bento slapped the back of his head hard, feeling a little angry.

"It's fine that they conceded a goal in their own home stadium, but their own fans kept applauding them. It's so heartbreaking, my friends!"

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 are idolized by Su Dong?

Which young rookie doesn't dream of becoming the second Su Dong?

(End of this chapter)