Beast King Costa

Chapter 397
"Fiasco!Benfica lost 1 to 5 at home! "

"The biggest upset in the Europa League!Alkmaar overturned Super Benfica away! "

"Sevilla Goodbye Team No. [-] Hope!"Benfica is dying! "

"First defeat of the season!Lost 5 goals in a row!Benfica may miss out on first place in the group! "

"Suspected locker room problem!Diego and many other main players were refrigerated, and the conflict between the Benfica generals was on the verge of breaking out! "

"Switching to Porto soon!Benfica super center Diego Costa is no longer in Benfica's plans! "

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After losing 1-5 to Eredivisie powerhouse Alkmaar in the fifth round of the Europa League, Benfica has also become the focus of world football because of this super upset.

You know, the current schedule of major European leagues is almost halfway through, and the teams that can maintain an unbeaten season are Istanbul Puyeshe Hill in the Turkish Super League, Barcelona in La Liga, Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, and Ahmedabad in the Eredivisie. Jaques, and Benfica in the Portuguese Super League!
however……

Last night's disastrous defeat to Alkmaar, which is only sixth in the Eredivisie league this season, broke out after a super upset, and this season's European mainstream leagues still have one less unbeaten team.

Also because Benfica, which ranked first in the Portuguese Super League this season, lost to Alkmaar at home, the Dutch sports media also began to advocate: Alkmaar can beat Benfica away, so if Benfica meets Aja In the case of Alex, maybe they will lose to 0 to 10!
Of course, the main reason why this game was a super upset and why Benfica suffered such a disastrous defeat is that it has a lot to do with Fernando Santos.

Fernando Santos is now stubborn, but he is no less stubborn than the conservative Jesualdo Ferreira...

In the first half of the game 0 to 4 behind, Fernando Santos still did not listen to Rui Costa's persuasion, and replaced Diego, a super center who can turn the game around by himself, and continued to rely on the second half of the game. This set of starting lineups with many problems will be kicked out.

But in fact, after Kaliaca shoveled Averazze in the penalty area and was punished by the referee with a red dot package, the outcome of the game basically lost suspense, even if Fernando Santos stopped Lu in the second half In the first half of the game, I Costa's persuasion when he fell behind by 2 goals, replaced Diego to fight for a chance to defend and counterattack, and it would be difficult for Diego to help the team score points.

In the 55th minute of the second half of the game, when Benfica had only Louison in the middle of the backcourt, Jomo stepped in again and scored a goal, easily completing a hat-trick.

After taking the lead to 5 goals, Louis van Gaal was finally satisfied and said that he could withdraw his troops with money, and began to use substitutions to adjust the formation on the field to a 4-5-1 formation that mainly controlled the rhythm, and did not continue To suppress Benfica's onslaught kicked.

After Alkmaar withdrew his troops, Fernando Santos gradually let his midfielder press up and attack-although there was basically no chance of winning this game, but he couldn't be defeated by Alkmaar. A mid-range team in the Eredivisie has a clean sheet in their holy place, the Stadium of Light, right?No matter how you have to strive for a goal, it won't be too embarrassing, right?

But Fernando Santos didn't seem to think that losing to Alkmaar at his own gate was already a very, very embarrassing thing...

Under the determination of Fernando Santos that he no longer cares about conceding goals, Benfica's offense is still very inefficient-Benfica's broken goal in this game did not come until the 82nd minute, and it was already Benfica 9th shot attempt of the game...

Helping Benfica complete the goal is the starting right back Paul Jorge in this game!
This time it was a completely missed goal.

In the penalty area, Nuno Gomez responded to Mantoras's return shot and was saved by the Alkmaar goalkeeper. Paul Jorge inserted diagonally from the right into the penalty area and followed up with a follow-up shot, which happened to be a goal. The world wave that a foot is beautiful!
This helped Benfica complete the face-saving goal, so that it would not even be said that the "fig leaf" was pulled off by Alkmaar.

After scoring the goal, although Paul Jorge was excited, he was also bitter about the team's 1-5 defeat and did not dare to celebrate - Paul Jorge's wing defense in this game was very good Not good, the Dutch wingers play too aggressively, Paul Jorge's inexperience in defense is a big problem, and it was very obvious in this game.

After Paul Jorge ran into the Alkmaar goal and fished out the ball, he gave a simple high-five to his teammates, then ran back to the center circle, put the ball on the center circle point, and hurried back When it's time for one's own half, they are ready to continue the game at any time.

In the end, the game ended with a score of 1 to 5!
For the home team Benfica, Fernando Santos made three substitutions to adjust the quota, none of which were used.

The seven players who were demoted to the bench just sat on the bench for 7 minutes in such a boring manner.

In fact, the 7 people on the bench basically knew that Fernando Santos would most likely not make a substitution in this game—after 60 minutes in the second half, Fernando Santos still did not consider making a substitution. The human card is going to adjust the situation on the field. Everyone doesn't need to warm up at all. They all returned to the bench and continued to laugh and gossip. All they need is a bag of melon seeds and a bottle of happy fat house water...

After the game, Fernando Santos was so angry that he refused to attend the post-match press conference. Only captain Pettit went to the press conference room alone to deal with the media reporters present.

Pettit felt a pain in his heart.

The media reporters present frantically asked Petit about this game. Rui Costa, who should have started, sat on the bench, and Diego and David Luiz, the two main players of Benfica this season. , This game is also a matter of sitting on the bench.

Even, some media reporters bluntly asked Benfica's locker room general conflicts, including whether Diego will leave Benfica in the winter transfer window and go to Porto to reunite with Jesuardo Ferreira.

"It is said that coach Fernando Santos has recently had disagreements with many of the team's main players. Is this true?"

"Also! It is said that the Porto executives have entered into substantive discussions with the Benfica executives on the issue of Diego's transfer. Diego will soon leave Benfica and go to Porto to reunite with coach Jesúardo Ferreira. ? May I ask what stage the transfer negotiations have entered?"

"As the captain of the team, Petit, will you stand up and help Fernando Santos solve the conflict in the locker room?"

"Yeah! With the score behind in this game, Fernando Santos still didn't let Diego, Rui Costa and other midfielders play. Does it mean that Fernando Santos and the absolute main players of these teams Has the contradiction deepened to an irreconcilable level?"

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Pettit was also quite embarrassed by reporters' blunt questions that "cut straight to the soul."

But fortunately, as Benfica's captain candidate for the past few years, Pettit's emotional intelligence is still quite high.

I saw Pettit very calmly told the media reporters: "The conflict in the locker room is pure nonsense. This game is just a tactical adjustment and a rotation for the subsequent crowded schedule. Everything is fine for the team. The top and bottom are very united, and the goal of this season is still the Portuguese Super League and Europa League champions! As for Porto's pursuit of Diego... I think you should ask Porto! At least, we have not heard that Diego is about to The matter of leaving the team. Diego played very happily in Benfica, he still has a contract with Benfica for 4 years, how could he leave? "

After leaving such a string of answers, Pettit chose to leave the press conference room first.

After all, Pettit is also worried that if he continues to be "soul tortured" by the media reporters, will he say something wrong and bring unnecessary trouble to the team?

however……

Subsequent developments caused Pettit even more headaches.

Fernando Santos quickly slapped Pettit's so-called "tactical adjustments and rotations for the subsequent crowded schedule".

In the 2006th round of the Portuguese Super League in the 2007-11 season, Benfica will play at home against Madeira giants Maritimo, which has a very strong momentum this season!
This game must be a tough one for Benfica.

Not only because Maritimo has a very strong momentum this season, but more importantly, he played in the Europa League in the middle of the week, and the players in the starting lineup all played a full 90 minutes of the game, and even suffered a 1-5 disastrous defeat. It is necessary to fight against a tough team in a state of physical and mental exhaustion.

The most important thing is that after Fernando Santos ended the disastrous defeat with Alkmaar, he told the media he was familiar with early in the morning: "The game against Maritimo! Benfica will still use the game against Alkmar. Most of Kemar's starting players! Three players, Diego, Rui Costa, and David Luiz, will be excluded from the 18-man roster! The reason is: disrespect for the head coach's technical and tactical arrangements! Immediately discarded !"

As a result, the outside world can be described as an uproar.

Fernando Santos's outspoken remarks basically confirmed to the outside world the discord between the generals in the Benfica locker room.Even more so is the news that Diego is about to leave Benfica to join Jesúardo Ferreira in Porto.

Fernando Santos said these words to the media, which also made Felipe Vieira, the chairman of the club, very angry. In the afternoon, Felipe Vieira notified Fernando Santos to talk to his office. He must immediately resolve the increasingly intensified conflict between Fernando Santos and the main players of the team.

(End of this chapter)