Chapter 267: 6th Week of Recovery

Chapter 267: 6th Week of Recovery

Chapter 267: 6th Week of Recovery

The match between Boavista and Porto began at 9:00 pm sharp and less than ten minutes into the match, Porto had stamped their superiority in everyone’s face.

Despite not yet getting a goal, Porto had fully controlled the game and the Boavista players had hardly been able to step foot into Porto’s penalty box during the few times they had been in possession of the ball.

By the tenth minute, Porto had already registered three shots at the Boavista team with one of them being on target, but the Boavista hadn’t yet been able to register a single shot at the Porto team.

As a team with the qualifications to be in the top-flight Portuguese league, Boavista had slowly upped their efforts and were soon matching the Porto team in the later minutes of the first half as opposed to the first ten minutes of the game.

Every minute that passed, the end of the first half drew nearer but neither Boavista nor Porto had managed to get the better of each other’s goalkeepers.

After a few more minutes, the referee’s whistle blew loudly, bringing an end to a goalless first half.

Despite Porto having the upper hand for most of the first half, they hadn’t been able to convert their chances into an advantage for themselves and had ended the first half without registering a goal on the scoreboard much to the surprise of the viewers of the game and the dismay of the Porto fans.

After fifteen minutes of rest and reshuffling of game plans by the managers of the two teams, the second half finally began with another blast of the referee’s whistle.

Porto kicked off the second half and launched an attack.

The Boavista players were slow to react and couldn’t stop the Porto team who cruised past them and soon a grounded cross from the left of Boavista’s 18-yard box found Jesus Corona in front of the goal and he didn’t disappoint everyone’s expectations.

He quickly slotted the ball past the Boavista goalkeeper and ran off to celebrate his goal with his teammates.

The Porto fans couldn’t be more ecstatic with the current state of things and even Sergio Conceicao had a rare smile on his face as he nodded while he watched his players celebrate their third goal.

Not stopping with a smile, he called Mylo who was on the bench, and told him to warm up and prepare to get into the game.

Normally, he wouldn’t make a decision to bring on a player like Mylo whose abilities weren’t clear yet in a match when it was more beneficial to rack up the scoreline, but this time, Sergio Conceicao was willing to let things run their course and use this chance to give Mylo some minutes on the pitch.

Of course, this was also a calculated decision on his part and wasn’t done out of frivolity.

The team’s line-up was a limited resource and he would only pick the best players that had the capability to lead the team to a win thus he could not keep giving Mylo a place on the team just because he did well in a few pre-season games.

The team was no longer lacking strikers and now the fight for a striker position was a survival of the fittest battle.

Mehdi Taremi had already started proving himself in the last match and though he had put Mylo on as well in the previous match, Mylo hadn’t been able to do much with the ball apart from get a few shots at goal, but Sergio Conceicao was willing to give him a few more chances to prove himself as he was still a greenhorn, hence his decision to bring Mylo on.

On hearing the head manager call for him, Mylo quickly warmed up, put on his jersey, and adjusted his laces before going to the manager.

Sergio Conceicao quickly gave him a few instructions while the match went on.

Soon the ball went out of play and an assistant referee held up the board to signify a substitution.

On the board was the number 27 in red and the number 20 in green.

Sergio Oliveira soon came running over and high-fiving Mylo before stepping off the pitch while Mylo ran onto the pitch.