Beast King Costa

Chapter 239 Tactical Discipline

After Diego's header broke the deadlock, the spectators at the Jinan Olympic Sports Center did not reduce their cheers for the home team.

Perhaps, the fans have already had a correct understanding of the strength gap between the Shandong team and Benfica, a Portuguese super giant?

Therefore, they don't care what the result of this game is.

As an insignificant friendly match, it was played wonderfully and scored enough goals for the fans and spectators to have a visual feast, that's enough.

Benfica also intends to make the game more exciting.

After breaking the score deadlock, Benfica did not slow down the pace of attack.

Head coach Fernando Santos still signaled to the players on the sidelines to continue to exert force on the offensive end, and asked the three young players in the midfield to boldly press up and participate in the attack.

Anyway, it is enough to have two regular main players of last season, Beto and Nelson, in the midfield to control the rhythm.

The three youth echelon players, under the continuous pressure of the Shandong team's central and frontcourt players, could not hold the ball to participate in the midfield scheduling organization, so they might as well press up boldly and participate in the frontcourt attack.

如此一来，本菲卡的阵型也由首发的4-5-1变成了4-2-3-1，甚至是4-2-4。

However, in this 4-2-4 formation, except for Diego who has enough sense of participation in the frontcourt attack alone, the other 3 youth team players are more often running dryly, and they do not know what to do...

In this way, the midfield connection between Beto, Nelson and Diego was indeed effective, but because there were so few people involved on the offensive end, it was difficult to convert these offensive opportunities into goals.

"Hey!"

Fernando Santos also sighed helplessly.

Judging from the inspection of Benfica's youth echelon by the China trip this time, there are basically no young players who can be recruited to play in the first team.

Those with body have no footwork, those with footwork don’t know how to read the game, those who are conscious are afraid of confrontation, those who are not afraid of confrontation play frizzy, all kinds of low-level mistakes get cards and give points...

Regarding the level of these young talents, it is probably: nothing to see!
Fernando Santos even considered asking the Benfica club to replace all the coaches of the youth team, change a new batch of coaches, and rebuild these young people to see if they can be saved.

Also because the young people of the Benfica youth team are unusable, Fernando Santos also decided: After the trip to China is over, after returning to Europe, he must discuss with Chairman Felipe Vieira and continue to sign up for immediate combat power thing.

Since it is going to be overthrown and rebuilt, if there is no strong support to join, then it will not work!

It is gratifying that the maturity and sophistication shown by Diego and David Luiz, two young signing players under Jorge Mendes, really made my eyes shine.

But Fernando Santos still felt that the two of them were too young.

I need more players who have many years of experience in the Portuguese Super League and have proven themselves many times in the European arena to support my 4-4-1-1 tactical system.

However, is youth really a problem?

Neither Diego nor David Luiz think so!

In the 41st minute of the game, Diego scored again, proving that young people can be as precocious as old people!
This time, it’s entirely Diego’s personal ability!
Nelson's midfield long pass to Diego's head.

After Diego received the ball, although he faced the double-teaming of Zhou Haibin, Liu Jindong, and Bassin, this time, Diego successfully turned his back to get the ball and completed his turn!
For Diego, being able to take the ball to complete the turn basically breaks [-]% of the opponent's double-team!

Considering Diego's tyrannical physical quality, coupled with his fierce impact, even if four people double-team, Diego is not afraid.

Zhou Haibin tried to continue to use his hands to prevent Diego from going forward, but this time, Diego did not give him a chance for a tactical foul.

I saw Diego go straight to the left foot and accelerate with all his strength. Zhou Haibin reached out, but he could only grab the corner of Diego's clothes, but he couldn't hold Diego's forward pace.

After throwing off the three defensive players, he entered the Shandong team's penalty area and faced goalkeeper Li Leilei, Diego didn't need to make any fake moves.

Diego didn't need to get into the penalty area at all, so he kicked up his right foot on the left side, swung towards the far post, and sent the ball into the net behind Li Leilei!
2 is better than 0!

To some extent, Li Leilei's height and slightly fat figure are flawed. This kind of far corner kick is Li Leilei's difficult way to score goals!
"Good shot!!!"

"This ball is so beautiful!"

"It's completely a manifestation of personal ability!"

……

Benfica's coaching staff stood up excitedly to celebrate.

Obviously, Diego's super personal ability really amazed the members of Fernando Santos' coaching staff.

However, Fernando Santos was not as excited as his team members. He stood up and applauded without changing his expression, and then sat back down.

Diego didn't know that coach Santos didn't agree with Diego's goal because Diego's goal was out of his tactical system!

Fernando Santos is very particular about tactical discipline.

The old coach asked the players to play rigidly according to their own tactical system on the field, and not to rush forward with the ball alone. Even though Diego scored the ball in the end, Fernando Santos still did not I think Diego is doing the right thing.

In the old man's opinion, after Diego catches the ball, he should distribute it to the teammates behind him, and then get rid of the direction and go forward, let the teammates behind him drive the ball forward, and then distribute the ball to the middle, so that the second in the middle After the point is completed, plug in the door.

If Diego, who was celebrating with Beto and Nelson at this time, knew that Fernando Santos's psychological activities were like this, he would definitely run to the visiting team's coaching bench and "theory" with this willful and nepotistic coach for half an hour. That’s it!
After the score became 2-0, Benfica deliberately slowed down the pace.

After all, there are only 3 minutes of regular time left before the end of the first half, and there is no need to continue to force a third goal at this time.

Seeing that Benfica started to fall in the midfield, the Shandong team did not continue to grab.

In the end, the two sides entered the locker room with a 2-0 score.

The head coaches of the two sides also had some communication before returning to the locker room, apparently negotiating the formation of the second half of the game.

After all, Batukovic has to give the young players of Shandong Luneng Football School a certain amount of playing time for Fernando Santos to investigate whether he wants to introduce him to the Benfica echelon for further study.

(End of this chapter)