football dynasty

After the match against Sunderland, Liverpool went to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, the next day.

There are two Portuguese giants, or black shops in Europe, one is Sporting Lisbon, which produced C Ronaldo from the youth training, and the other is Liverpool's European opponents on this trip - Benfica!

When Li Weiguang looked at Benfica's roster, he had the urge to pack Benfica.Benfica really deserves the nickname of the European black shop.

Benfica settled in 2010 with many stars.

David Luiz, who later broke the transfer fee record for a central defender.

Aimar, the Argentine superstar nicknamed "Joker".

Argentine superstar Di Maria nicknamed "Angel".

Argentine superstar "Rabbit" Saviola who played for Barcelona and Real Madrid respectively.

Brazilian star Ramirez who will play for Premier League giants Chelsea and Chinese Super League Jiangsu Suning in the future.

In terms of the head coach, although Benfica's head coach is no longer Mourinho (who once coached briefly), it is clear that the head coach Noge Jesus is not bad.

The 55-year-old Portuguese head coach is a Portuguese local coach who has only emerged in recent years. In 2008, he was still coaching the Portuguese Braga Football Club, but in June 2009 he had already taken the post of head coach of Benfica.

And under his coaching, Benfica performed very well. In the league, Benfica has already led the opponent behind by six league points. If there is no accident, it will win the league championship this season.At the same time, his team reached the Europa League quarter-finals for the second time. If he can beat Liverpool in the two rounds, then Benfica will have a good chance of encroaching on the Europa League trophy.In addition, Benfica still hopes to win the Portuguese Cup.

If all of this can be achieved, then this season Benfica will be able to become a veritable triple crown!

And this was also a step towards Mourinho's success.

(Note: Mourinho first won the league championship, domestic cup championship, and Europa League championship in Porto, and then won the league championship, domestic cup championship, and Champions League championship. Favored, heavily hired to Chelsea.)
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What Li Wei is most worried about in this game is the problem of the defense line. Since Boateng performed well against Manchester United, he has gradually replaced Agger as Liverpool's main force.

In the last match between Liverpool and Sunderland, Li Wei finally chose Carragher to partner Boateng. However, three days after the match against Sunderland, Liverpool had to go to the Portuguese capital, [-] kilometers away. Lisbon is participating in another game, which requires a lot of physical fitness from the players.

In the end, Li Wei did not let Boateng play, and chose Carragher to partner Agger. Even in order to let the tired Boateng rest, Boateng did not even enter the 18-man squad. The central defender on the bench was "Jailbreak Brother" Scott.

Fortunately, Benfica's former Barcelona striker "Rabbit" Saviola missed the game with a toe injury.

Playing instead of Saviola was Paraguayan high center Oscar Cardoso. He is 1.9 meters four. In addition to his weakness in speed, he has excellent header and shooting skills.

And this season, Oscar Cardoso's performance in the league was mediocre, but in the Europa League, it seemed that he had been beaten.At present, he has played ten times in the Europa League, but he has helped Benfica score seven goals!
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When the game started, Liverpool decisively turned on their high pressing mode, with the frontcourt of Dirk, Lallana and Gareth Bale.For Torres' body, Levi let him sit on the bench.

These three players are all known for their ability to run, and their running can greatly help Liverpool to press the opponent, so that the frontcourt steals the ball and quickly launches an attack.

Sure enough, in the 9th minute, Liverpool's chance came.

Lallana intercepted the ball in the frontcourt and passed it to Gerrard. There were not many Benfica players in front of Gerrard.

Gerrard took the ball, the Benfica players were in a hurry, and the central defender Maxi Pereira pulled a foul in a hurry.

The referee decisively awarded a free kick, but did not show Maxi Pereira a yellow card.

Before the Benfica fans felt that they had escaped, Gerrard made a free kick from the left. Benfica central defender Luiz went over the top, which interfered with goalkeeper Cesar's judgment of the ball. Fantastic back-heel shot, the ball flies in from the bottom left corner of the goal.

Seeing the cheering cheers of the Liverpool players, Benfica goalkeeper Cesar realized that he had been scored by the opponent.

But in the second half, what Li Wei was worried about happened. In 6 minutes, the Danish iron guard Agger fouled in front of the penalty area. "Angel" Di Maria took a free kick. After observing, Di Maria took a free kick. The ball was shot directly, and the shot was very exciting. The football hit the post in the middle and far corner, which scared the Liverpool players into a cold sweat.

But the crisis was not over yet, the football bounced back, and goalkeeper Mattia Perrin dared not strike at will.

Players from both sides fought in front of the penalty area in order to compete for football. During the chaos, Insua kicked down Aimar. The referee sentenced him to death. He did not say a penalty kick, but also showed Insua a red card.

Benfica's leading striker Oscar Cardoso took the penalty.

Italian goalkeeper Mattia Perrin was right, but the Paraguay striker's shot was so powerful that the ball rushed into the goal before Mattia Perrin could touch it.

Benfica 1:1 Liverpool!
The worst thing is that Liverpool is in the position of left back and has no substitutes.

In the end, Levi had to let Mascherano play temporarily at left back, and Gerrard would return to strengthen the protection of the center.

Benfica coach Noge Jesús saw the problem of Liverpool's left defense and let the players attack the left.

In the 709th minute of the game, Liverpool's left defense finally collapsed. Di Maria forced a pass from Mascherano. As a result, the football hit Carragher in the penalty area, and the referee awarded another penalty.

Benfica's leading striker Oscar Cardoso scored twice from the penalty spot to score his ninth Europa League goal.

Once again Liverpool paid dearly for their poor defense.

Li Wei had no choice but to withdraw Lallana and replace him with Scott, and the team played five defenders to strengthen the offense.

And replaced by Dirk, replaced by Torres partner Gareth Bell counterattack.

Benfica coach Noge Jesus saw through Li Wei's intentions at a glance. He did not expand the score, but let his disciples strengthen the ball.

Li Wei also didn't attack. Now that the team's defense line is unstable and there is one player missing, wouldn't it be self-defeating to attack?

What's more, the current score of 1:2 is not an unacceptable score for Liverpool.

Although Liverpool is one goal behind the opponent in the total score, isn't there still a next round?What's more, Liverpool also scored a valuable away goal.

In the next game, assuming that Liverpool will not be broken by the opponent, Liverpool only need to score one goal, and they can eliminate Benfica by virtue of having more away goals than the opponent.

Strictly speaking, the current score should be 1.5 goals for Liverpool than 2 goals for Benfica.

In the end, because both sides were unwilling to take risks, Benfica beat Liverpool from the expedition 2:1 at home.