Chapter 23 How difficult is it?
In April, Porto has a very intensive schedule. In addition to five league rounds, there are also two Portuguese Cup games.

Mourinho is ready to let go of any of them. The Portuguese Cup is the only championship he is sure of this season, and the league means whether he can qualify for the Champions League next season.

Porto is now in third place with 59 points. The top two are Boavista with 61 points and Sporting Lisbon with 65 points. The fourth place is Benfica with 57 points.

With this points situation, it is only theoretically possible to win the championship, but there is a good chance of snatching a Champions League seat from Boavista.

Therefore, Porto cannot let go of either cup competition or league competition.

Zhang Desheng also wanted to have it all, because the system also issued a task to him the day before to "obtain a Champions League seat for next season."

Porto, originally on the same level, will participate in the UEFA Cup next season.

Zhang Desheng definitely doesn't want to play in the second-level European Cup. Besides, the system has also issued tasks to him, so he has no intention of playing in the bullshit UEFA Cup.

On April 4, Porto returned home to face Braga again.

Zhang Desheng received good news before the game. Hiroyuki, the Japanese wing star, sprained his ankle after being knocked down by him in the last game. The diagnosis was finally revealed a few days ago, and it turned out to be a third-degree ankle ligament injury.

This level of ankle ligament injury basically means a complete rupture of the ligament and requires surgical treatment to recover well.

It will take at least three months to recover, and based on the medical standards of this era, there will probably be some damage to athletic ability after recovery.

So after the news reached Japan, Zhang Desheng had already begun to be criticized by the Japanese media and fans.

For this reason, Mourinho did not bring him to attend yesterday's pre-match reception. Yesterday, several Japanese media did come to the scene, probably because they wanted to deal with this guy who had almost eliminated the main winger of their national team.

Even if Hiroyuki recovers well, he will definitely miss the World Cup in one and a half months. This will definitely be a huge loss for the Japanese team, which is not rich in talent.

Of course, after the news spread back to China, he finally got some praise in various forums!
After all, the players he eliminated this time were Japanese players, and they were injured in the most shameless way of being "knocked down."

It is indeed worth having a few more drinks to celebrate Japan's bad luck in football.

Braga was not affected by this. Guangshan Wang has not really established himself as a starter in their team, and he was a glass man before this injury, so the team did not take him very seriously.

But Braga was still beaten hard in this game. There was a clear gap between the two teams in terms of hard power.

Mourinho returned to his home court and sent out his full lineup to fight. Porto, led by Deco, bombarded Braga in the first half and successfully led 2:0.

Zhang Desheng was sent out in the second half again, and at this time Braga had already lost all his morale, and he only had half a breath left at most. In fact, it would have been a huge defeat with or without him!

But our lucky guy didn't care about all that, and once again used ruthless and brutal methods to beat food, and once again staged a good show of clearing the level alone on the left.

The final score was 4:0. In the second half, Zhang Desheng took advantage of his teammates to conserve their energy and his opponent had no chance to fight. He went on a killing spree and almost won the best player in the game with every pass and shot.

"Four appearances in the Portuguese Cup, 3 goals and 3 assists!"

"How cruel!"

"It's so enviable!"

The other three people in dormitory 303 were all watching the game today. At this moment, in addition to envying Zhang Desheng's good luck, they were also imagining that they would have such a day in the future.

"Hey, if I play a few more games, I'll be even better than Pele in my first season at the age of 16!"

After the game, Zhang Desheng was naturally thinking about how to take advantage of the last three league games and a Portuguese Cup final to get more playing opportunities and collect more data.

He knew he would definitely have this opportunity because the World Cup was about to start.

There are many members of the national team in the Porto team. Most of them will not go all out in the last few games, otherwise it will be all over if they get injured before the World Cup like Hiroyuki.This is also the reason why Porto failed to surpass Boavista in the original position, but it also means that the young players in the team will have more opportunities.

Among them, Zhang Desheng, who is the "lucky star", must be the first substitute in everyone's eyes.

This is indeed the case, but it is not just the attribute of "lucky star", but his performance after coming off the bench in the second half, which is always satisfying!

In the 31st round of the league, Porto played away against the Portuguese Super League underdog Gavicente Football Club.

Zhang Desheng came on as a substitute in the second half again, but what he didn't expect was that this time the substitute was Deco.

This substitution made many people sweat, but Zhang Desheng, who was 99++ calm, was not nervous at all. Instead, he played the ball faster, ran more actively, and played a completely different game from Dirk. organizational style.

The players at Gavicente all know that Zhang Desheng has a visibly weak body. As long as he uses a lot of physical confrontation, he will definitely be unable to even hold the ball.

But Zhang Desheng, who seems to have opened up a "radar perspective", almost always makes seemingly random kicks after coming on the court, but with hidden murderous intent.

Finally, in the 69th and 80th minutes of the second half, he directly sent two single-handed goals to his teammates on the front line without stopping the ball!
At this time, McCarthy and Postiga, who had become his best partners on the front line, each caught one, adding two more assists to his statistics.

After the game, even Porto's media noticed that their lucky star seemed to be more than just luck?
"This is Zhang's fifth league game, right?"

"Yes, but he has already contributed 1 goal and 5 assists in the league!"

"Oh my God! If you include the Portuguese Cup, he has a total of 9 goals and 4 assists in 8 games?"

"What the hell, is he really only 16?"

"There is no doubt about this. His bone age was measured just last month, and his height is a little longer than two months ago. He is now 181cm. It is said that the internal bone age test report predicts that his height has a chance. Grows to 185cm."

"Wait, a question suddenly occurred to me... Do you know who at this age performs better than Zhang?"

"This... Pele? Maradona? Ronaldo?"

"..."

At this time, a group of Portuguese reporters thought for a long time, but they couldn't think of anyone who had performed like this in the top league at the age of 16.

When Pele was 16 years old, he actually didn't play a few times in the Brazilian League. He didn't really become famous until he was 17 years old.

Maradona started playing in Argentina's top league at the age of 16, but like Zhang Desheng, he only started playing in the second half of the season, but his performance and statistics were not as good as Zhang Desheng.

The current No. 1 player in football, Ronaldo, also played in the Brazilian top league at the age of 17.

Other superstars, like Zidane, Ballack, Henry, Figo...

They became famous even later. It seems that no one like Zhang Desheng has contributed such amazing data performance under the age of 16.

Also, although the overall competitiveness of the Portuguese Super League is not among the top five in Europe, it is really not a rookie league. Their overall strength and level are actually quite high, and they can even compete with the Dutch Eredivisie for the sixth league in Europe.

An example can illustrate the level of the Portuguese Super League. More than [-]% of Brazilian players who play overseas consider this place as their first stop. This shows how valuable the Portuguese Super League is.

At this time, think about Zhang Desheng's foot skills. It has been almost ten games. It seems that he has never been worse than those Brazilian players with superb foot skills?
In this game, he even showed his astonishing court vision and rare one-touch ability.

If you think about it carefully at this time, there are only a handful of players in Europe who are as good as him in passing, stopping and shooting, and who also have top-notch overall vision, field vision, and the ability to quickly move the ball!
"This...could he be a real genius with superstar talent?"

At this moment, a group of Portuguese reporters started to think something was wrong. Many people couldn't help but have an idea in their heads that they didn't want to admit, but they couldn't help but confirm it.

(End of this chapter)

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