Beast King Costa

Chapter 263 Almighty "Puffy Head"

In this game, the lineup sent by Real Zaragoza coach Victor Fernandez is quite young.

Except for the 34-year-old goalkeeper Cesar Sanchez, there are basically no players over 24 years old in other positions.

Like Fernando Santos, Victor Fernandez also plays a 4-4-1-1 formation. Perhaps this is the reason why Fernando Santos played a warm-up match with Real Zaragoza?

On the back line, of course, there is no future Barcelona center back combination of Pique and Gabriel Milito. These two future Barcelona players are sitting on the bench.

The back four are: Juanfran, Hermera, Sergio, Carlos Diogo.

The most famous person in this lineup is right back Carlos Diogo, who was born in the Real Madrid youth training and appeared on the Real Madrid first team roster last season.

The Mexican right back did not appear in the Mexican national team's lineup for this summer's World Cup in Germany.

However, the reason why he was not selected was not because of his lack of competitive level, but because he was troubled by injuries, so he reluctantly missed the last train of the World Cup.

Four midfielders: Enieco Fernandez, Leonardo Ponzio, Antonio Longash, Eveton.

The midfield position can be regarded as half of Victor Fernandez's main lineup configuration.

The Argentine Leonardo Ponzio made his debut in the Argentine League giants River Plate. His offensive and defensive abilities are quite balanced. Although he is not yet 24 years old, he is already the core of Real Zaragoza's midfielder.

In the frontcourt, high center Sergio Garcia partners with second forward Gonzalez.

If this is true, Victor Fernandez's main frontcourt configuration should be Diego Milito partnering with "Joker" Pablo Aimar.

However, both of them and midfielder Alessandro are sitting on the bench, and it is not known how much playing time Victor Fernandez will give them in the second half of the game.

After the game started, Benfica with a stronger lineup took the initiative on the field.

In this game, Assis was pushed from the full-back position to the full-back position, but an all-around winger like Assis doesn't care whether he is in the front or back.

Although João Kumbra is still unable to adapt to high-intensity confrontation, various mistakes will still occur when passing forward.

But after all, this game played four midfielders, which gave João Cumbra more choices-he could pass a cross to Assis on the left, or a diagonal pass to the right. Quick Manu, let Manu insert behind the ribs of Real Zaragoza's defense.

Joao Kumbra tried hard to become the brains of Benfica's midfield, but it backfired. Victor Fernandez ordered Ponzio and Antonio Longache to surround Joao Kumbra in just 8 minutes. Pull, don't give him a chance to play the ball easily.

Under the siege of Ponzio and Longash, the Benfica players didn't even dare to give the ball to Joao Kumbra, and could only distribute more possessions to the wing.

"Tsk..."

Fernando Santos on the sidelines saw Joao Kumbra being so easily restrained by his opponent's double-teaming, and he suddenly shook his head helplessly.

After all, these young new aids are really useless!

In the new season, we still have to rely on Pettit, Beto, and Carter Solanis.

However, something happened that really surprised Fernando Santos.

After Joao Kumbra was restricted by double-teaming by his opponent, he thought that the team's offensive organization in the middle of the midfield was restricted.But what I didn't expect was that David Luiz in the backcourt actually stood up!
In this game, David Luiz, who partnered with Alcides as a central defender, began to hold the ball more towards the midfield without any threat from the team's backcourt. This was more like a midfielder. style.

At first, Fernando Santos thought it was David Luiz who was getting hotheaded, thinking that he was a forward player who was going to drive the ball forward.

When he was about to shout to David Luiz on the court and ask David Luiz to retreat, David Luiz suddenly made an unexpected long pass and directly penetrated Real Zaragoza's midfield defense. , directly found Francisco Fonseca who was at the forefront of the frontcourt!
Fonseca's height of 1 meters and his physical confrontation ability developed through years of hard work in the Mexican Super League make it very difficult for these technical central defenders in Spain.

Even, Real Zaragoza's starting double central defenders Hemera and Sergio have double-teamed Francisco Fonseca, but they still failed to prevent Francisco Fonseca from holding the high ball , and complete the turn around and hit the direction of your own goal.

But fortunately, Real Zaragoza's old goalkeeper Cesar Sanchez was very focused. He made a decisive attack and confiscated the ball at the feet of Francisco Fonseca, which ensured that the goal was not lost.

"Wow! David's long pass almost resulted in an assist!"

Beto was a little uneasy off the court. He really didn't expect that David Luiz's defense was so strong, and he actually had such a precise long pass ability: "David, this kid is too versatile. ?”

Moreto also nodded in agreement and said: "Yes! Is it possible that David is planning to switch to playing as a midfielder? This defensive ability, this header ability, coupled with the accuracy of long passes, is completely a world-class midfielder. standards!"

"Hey, this guy didn't practice long passing during the offseason."

Diego smiled knowingly.

Of course, Diego has not disclosed for the time being that when he was training in the Azores, he and David Luiz often practiced this kind of long ball directly from the backcourt to find the center.

The two of them have developed a tacit understanding of knowing each other's position and when to play the ball without basically shouting or making gestures.

What a pity!

The starting big center in this game is Francisco Fonseca. If Diego comes on, maybe David Luiz's long pass just now will become an assist.

Not only did he show Fernando Santos a flash of inspiration in the long pass, but David Luiz still did his best and dedicated his duties on the defensive end, without any loopholes.

The high ball that Real Zaragoza went to the midfield was basically pushed back by David Luiz.

Sergio Garcia didn't even have the data for a successful header fight, which made him so helpless that he could only look at the "shaggy head" and sigh.

The big center can't even catch the ball, so Real Zaragoza's offense is basically impossible to organize.

and so.

At the 25th minute of the game, it was still a stalemate, and neither side took advantage of the offensive end.

(End of this chapter)