Beast King Costa

Chapter 259 First Warm Up
Tenerife is the largest of Spain's seven Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa.It is also the most populous island in Spain.

As a small island dominated by the tourism economy, there are quite a few Spanish-speaking players who go to Tenerife during the offseason. "Lift" club, but the training facilities of this historic club are very complete.

Therefore, during the offseason, Tenerife simply rented out the club's training sessions, while the team went to the Iberian Peninsula to prepare for the game.

Of course, going to the Iberian Peninsula to prepare for the game has a huge advantage - Tenerife can warm up with more high-level teams instead of training alone within the team.

In preparation for this war, Tenerife came to the seaside in the Valencia region.

According to Fernando Santos, this summer, there are a lot of teams training in Valencia or Catalonia to prepare for the new season, so Benfica does not lack warm-up opponents.

This game was arranged to be played at the Valencia B team's competition venue.

Because Benfica is a Portuguese super giant that has been fighting in the Champions League all year round, this game even attracted more than a thousand spectators to the stadium to watch the game.

Players including Valencia B team and Valencia youth team also watched the game from the sidelines under the leadership of the coaching team.

Tenerife's head coach is the 49-year-old Austrian Bernd Krause.

The Dortmund star has already been naturalized in Germany and has been coaching in the German league after retiring. In April this year, when Tenerife was on the verge of relegation in the Spanish third division, the club went to Germany to invite him to Spain to put out the fire. Once went to coach a club outside Germany.

Bernd Krause's coaching ability is also quite satisfactory. He brought the German's best overall style of play to Spain and transformed Tenerife's defensive system in a short period of time. Scooping 10 points wildly, finally completed the relegation without any risk.

In the new season's La Liga, the Tenerife club has placed high hopes on Bernd Klaus. The club's executives have retained the Dortmund star with a three-year contract to help the team return to La Liga.

Not only that, but Tenerife's transfer moves during the off-season are also quite large.

They first introduced the Argentine defensive midfielder Andre San Martin from Vallecano, and the transfer fee was as high as 240 million euros!
Then the central defender Sicily Pablo was loaned from Atletico Madrid. The 24-year-old central defender entered the first team squad of Atletico Madrid in the second half of last season and made a start in the Copa del Rey , and received high ratings.

Then there was another transfer operation that shocked the entire West C.

In the English Championship, the Wolves introduced Polish high center forward Tomas Frankowski. This transfer created a new record in the history of the Tenerife team-a transfer fee of 330 million pounds, even if it is placed in the second division, it is a local tyrant Handwritten.

Although the new season of West C has not yet started, the vast majority of fans have confirmed that Tenerife will win the new season's West C champion and return to West Second!

This warm-up match with Benfica is not the first warm-up match in Tenerife's preparation period.

They had already played warm-up matches with two local Spanish C teams in the Valencia region before, and achieved 4-0, 6-0, two big victories.

This time Bernd Klaus faced Benfica, his attitude was very humble.

"Tenerife and Benfica, the Portuguese giants, and the regular teams in the Champions League can't compare. In this game, we played more with a learning attitude. I hope my players can learn from high-level teams. , so as to gain more game experience.”

Of course, being humble doesn’t mean he doesn’t want to win—although it’s just an insignificant warm-up match, if he can lead a West C team and defeat the Portuguese Super League giants, it will be a big deal for Bernd Krause That said, it was quite a rewarding achievement.

and so!
In this game, Bernd Krauss did his best without any reservations.

Goalkeeper: Dominguez.

Defenders: Clavi, Colebra, Sicily Pablo, Bertrand.

Midfielders: Ayoz, Andre San Martin, Leon, Luiz.

Forwards: Sanchez, Tomas Frankowski.

This 4-4-2 parallel midfield formation, coupled with a tall and fast double forward, can be regarded as a fairly balanced lineup and technical and tactical play.

For this game, Fernando Santos' attitude is quite indifferent to the outcome. His formation is mainly based on training, so he has played a lot of young players, including a large number of new players.

To the surprise of Diego and David Luiz, they did not enter the starting lineup.

In this game, Fernando Santos' starting lineup is quite young and immature.

The goalkeeper position is Rui Nenos of the Benfica youth team.

Defender: Miguelto, Alcides, Ricardo, Paul Jorge.

Midfielder: Kaliaka, Joao Kumbra, Marco Ferreira.

Forwards: Mantolas, Diego Souza, Manu.

The average age of this lineup is less than 23 years old, except for the goalkeeper Ruy Nienos who is a youth team player, Ricardo and Marco Ferreira are the players who have been promoted to the Benfica B team, and Mantolas and Kaliaca are the players who have been promoted. Except for the players of the first team this season, the others are all new aids introduced by the team in the new season.

最重要的是，费尔南多·桑托斯踢的并非是自己战术板上第一选择的4-4-1-1阵型，而是踢一个4-3-3阵型。

It can be seen that Fernando Santos led the Benfica team's first non-commercial warm-up match, and still hopes that young people can do their best and not be bound by rules and regulations.

Since the core players of the team, such as Luisson, Pettit, Simão, Nuno Gomez and Rui Costa, have not entered the starting lineup, Diego and David Luiz are quite bold. reverie.

Diego lowered his voice and asked David Luiz tentatively: "Could it be that we are already the main players in coach Santos' mind?"

"I think I am! After all, I'm so good, but you..."

David Luiz shook his head lightly: "I think you should have been abandoned by Coach Santos, and you are going to play for the Benfica B team in the new season."

"I bother!!!"

Diego rolled his eyes on the spot: "If you ask me to play for the Benfica B team, then I might as well just go back to Braga on loan! I don't want to go back to play in a low-level league like the Portuguese Liga."

"Oh???" David Luiz was quite surprised: "Have you ever played in the Portuguese Liga?"

"That's right! I'm the one who scored a hat-trick in my first show."

"Oh... then come on in the new season, represent Benfica B team, and go to the Portuguese League to perform your second hat-trick."

"Fuck off!!!"

……

Since it was just a warm-up match, there was no opening ceremony at all. The players from both sides didn't even shake hands, and they took their positions directly on the field.

The head coaches of both sides have negotiated, and Tenerife will kick off the first half and Benfica will kick off the second half.

"Beep..."

As a referee who didn't know where he came from blew his whistle, Benfica's first non-commercial warm-up match of the new season officially began!
Tenerife played very proactively after the start, not at all like the Spanish C team playing the Portuguese Super League team.

Thomas Frankowski, who played for Wolves in the English Championship, played very proactively. With Alcides and Ricardo in the frontcourt, he directly turned around with the ball.

If Paul Jorge hadn't made up for it from the side to the center in time and directly destroyed the ball at the feet of Thomas Frankowski, otherwise, Benfica might have been scored by Tenerife within a minute of the opening.

Fernando Santos reluctantly walked to the sidelines and shouted to the defensive players on the field: "Pay attention to your defensive position! Don't get so close to each other! You need to maintain a better sense of position!"

Obviously, Fernando Santos is not at all at ease with Benfica's current defense. Whether it is during the World Cup, leading the team to China to play two commercial friendly matches, or during physical training, Fernando Santos has always emphasized to the defensive players Defensive positioning issues.

However, the problem of sense of position cannot be solved in a few words.

This is also inseparable from the youth training period of the players and the teaching of the youth training coaches.

At least, judging from the start of the game for about 10 minutes, the young defender Ricardo of the Benfica B team is completely incapable of performing the duties of a central defender. Wipe your ass", otherwise the Polish high center in Tenerife would have ruined Ricardo.

"Hey! This defense is really terrible! How did the young people in Benfica become like this?!"

Diego looked in the direction of the sound, and standing on the sidelines feeling helplessly at this time was Benfica legend Rui Costa.

From the place where AC Milan returned to the dream, Rui Costa signed a one-year contract with Benfica and confirmed that he will retire as a Benfica player after the contract ends.

Rui Costa, who returned to Benfica, the club does not hope that the veteran can lead the team to re-roll in the Portuguese Super League. What the club hopes more is that Rui Costa can play the role of "passing on". Help the young people of the team grow rapidly.

Therefore, although Rui Costa is still a player in the team, he performs more of the responsibilities of a coach.

He can even be said to be a member of Fernando Santos' coaching team.

It's just that Rui Costa's salary is much higher than that of Santos' coaching staff.

In this warm-up match, Rui Costa will definitely not play. He even wore sportswear directly and stayed with the coaching team to record how the players on the field performed.

The members of Fernando Santos' coaching staff, like Rui Costa, shook their heads helplessly watching the performance of the players on the field.

(End of this chapter)