Beast King Costa

Chapter 411 Lisbon Derby ([-])

"Beep..."

The referee's long whistle sounded!

The game officially begins!
"Sporting Lisbon! Come on! Sporting Lisbon! Come on! Sporting Lisbon! Come on!!!"

"Come on, giant lion! Come on, giant lion! The giant lion will win!!!"

"Come on, Nani! Nani beat them to Benfica!"

"Spicy Chicken Flying Eagle! Just wait to be torn to pieces by our giant lions! You will lose this game!!!"

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After the game started, the entire Jose Alvalade Stadium went crazy, with all kinds of cheers and cheers everywhere. As expected by Benfica, the visiting team accounted for about 15% of the ticket sales for this game. Sporting Lisbon It is estimated that there are less than 2000 Benfica fans who came to the Jose Alvalade Stadium, and there are at least 6 Sporting Lisbon fans.

More than 65000 people entered the venue!
The entire Jose Alvalade Stadium was packed!
Even if Sporting Lisbon is playing home games in the Champions League, they don't have such a high box office!
It can be seen that the Portuguese national derby in Lisbon is an exciting thing for the fans of the city of Lisbon!This is even more important than the Champions League.

however……

To the disappointment of the Sporting Lisbon fans, after the game started, Benfica, who was a guest, quickly took the initiative on the field.

Although the two main players, Miguel Garcia and Leandro Romagnoli, returned to the starting lineup from injury, the players of Sporting Lisbon seemed to play more nervously, or should be called cautious, and they did not follow up after the start. Benfica played against each other, and never thought about trying to start the game with "three tricks". They caught Benfica by surprise first, but instead gave up the ball, allowing Benfica to directly occupy the initiative on the field.

Benfica is happy to see that Sporting Lisbon played conservatively in this game.

After all, Benfica has always played a more active way this season, especially in the league, even against Porto, it is also active to the end, not to mention that the opponent in this game is the rival team in the same city, Sporting Lisbon.

In this game, the midfield trio of Pettit, Carter Solanis, and Nuno Gomez all started. Of course, the most important thing is that the striker Diego returned to the starting lineup!
That leaves Pettit and Carter Solanis with more passing options.

In the previous two games, Diego was abandoned by Fernando Santos, which made it impossible for the midfielder to directly hit the high ball to the frontcourt.

After all, Diego Souza, who replaced Diego, is too young. Although he is a high center forward, his "high" is limited to the header and header. He has certain advantages. Taking the ball out of the field, one-on-two in the frontcourt... The technical and tactical abilities that the core of the offense should possess, Diego Souza still seems too immature. Although he is also trying to get the ball with his back in the frontcourt, the success rate is too high. Low.

As a result, Petit and Carter Solanis can only give more balls to the two wingers, Karagonis and Simao. There are very few ball options.

Not to mention changing the striker arrows to Mantolas...

Mantolas is similar to a point-grabbing forward player with strong speed and impact, and he is not a big center with a back and the ball at all.

After Rui Costa entered Fernando Santos' coaching staff and occupied more right to speak, Nuno Gomez's position on the field also changed to a certain extent.

In this game, Nuno Gomez is no longer as usual, hiding behind Diego to become a second-tier player on the offensive end, and then plugs in to participate in the attack or grab the second penalty kick, Nuno Gomez As he dropped deeper, he started to play more like a midfielder, getting more involved in the crossings between Pettit and Carter Solanis.

尽管战术阵型依旧是主打费尔南多·桑托斯那套4-2-3-1，但在努诺·戈麦斯回撤得更深之后，本菲卡的战术阵型开始有所改变，根据努诺·戈麦斯与佩蒂特、卡特索兰尼斯的站位情况，可以变成4-2-1-2-1前场菱形站位，或者是4-3-3的双箭头冲击阵！
Also because Nuno Gomez's position was withdrawn, this made Paul Bento in front of the coach of the home team on the sidelines very confused.

Paul Bento frowned and muttered to himself with a puzzled face: "Is this formation meant by Fernando Santos? Or by Rui Costa? I don't understand! Let Nuno Gomez has dropped deeper, what does that mean?"

Ok……

From the opening to the present, after studying for a full 5 minutes, Paul Bento still hasn't fully understood what Nuno Gomez's position change means.

Because, from the beginning of the game to now, Nuno Gomez will only participate in the pass scheduling of the midfielder, and there are not many actions-not only did he not participate in the offensive organization, but he did not participate in the forward movement. It may take more time to understand the tactical significance of Nuno Gomez's position change, right?

Although Sporting Lisbon has been under pressure from Benfica since the beginning of the game, their midfield configuration is still quite good, at least the contribution on the defensive end is very good, so that Benfica's offense is not so easy to penetrate in front of the back line.

Although the young Joao Moutinho is expensive as the new No. [-] player of the Portuguese national team, Joao Moutinho's defensive awareness and defensive ability are above the average line of midfielders. Tinho's awareness of tireless running and participation in defense, even if Paul Bento arranges him in the midfielder position, there is no problem at all.

"Joao Moutinho is really good!"

Rui Costa, who was standing next to Fernando Santos in front of the coaching bench of the visiting team, said with emotion: "Benfica did not sign Joao Moutinho from Sporting Lisbon in the summer transfer window. It is very regrettable. Otherwise, our current midfield control can be comparable to that of the mid-upstream teams in the five major leagues."

In this regard, Fernando Santos responded calmly and indifferently: "Ahem, I don't think our team plays a pass-and-control style tactic, so Chairman Vieira did not introduce Joao Moutinho." .”

Rui Costa did not have any emotional changes because of Fernando Santos's unsalty mood. Rui Costa still maintained an elegant smile.

After all, Rui Costa can also understand that Fernando Santos is the "helm" of the old-school Portuguese football coaches. At this moment, his rights have been emptied by the top management of the Benfica club, so that he is only a registered head coach. It is really unacceptable to assist a young man like him who has no coaching experience.

Although Fernando Santos chose to stay, in fact, Fernando Santos' attitude towards the team has undergone a 180-degree change.

Now, Fernando Santos is no longer as usual, he treats the training class conscientiously, and more often just watches from the sidelines, letting Rui Costa lead the training by himself, and he has not even put forward his own opinions on the tactical arrangement , Although the senior management of the Benfica club still let Fernando Santos perform most of the duties of the head coach, Fernando Santos has completely emptied himself.

It can be seen that Fernando Santos may already be looking for a next home. As long as the next home is confirmed, he will soon ask the top management of the Benfica club to terminate the contract, and then leave this head coach who has been like a puppet before him. .

But these things belong to the game between Fernando Santos and the top management of the Benfica club. Rui Costa does not want to participate in it, so even if he sees through Fernando Santos' ideas, Rui Costa also chooses not to mention these things .

I saw Rui Costa continue to say seriously: "But Joao Moutinho, it is true that not only has a strong pass and control ability, but Joao Moutinho's offensive ability is also a midfielder. There is a leader in the middle. It is absolutely no problem to let Joao Moutinho succeed Nuno Gomez in the No. 10 position."

"Successor Nuno's No. 10 position is no problem. But judging from Nuno's current state, he can play until 2010, so it is completely meaningless to find a successor for Nuno at this moment."

Speaking of this, Fernando Santos couldn't help but have some complicated emotions: "And I would think that with Joao Moutinho's upward momentum, after about one or two seasons, he will land in the five major leagues. If it is correct , Joao Moutinho is a signed player under Jorge Mendes. Jorge Mendes will not let his signed players stay in the Portuguese Super League for too long."

"The signed players of Jorge Mendes... indeed! The signed players under Mr. Mendes will soon land in the five major league teams with a high transfer fee after the Portuguese Super League starts. Most of the players still play for the giants. I have to admire Mr. Mendez's contacts in European football!"

When Rui Costa said this, he suddenly thought of a question - Benfica also has many players signed by Jorge Mendes!

E.g!

Benfica is currently the hottest two young demons - Diego Costa, David Luiz!

"This... If David and Diego leave Benfica at the same time and are managed by Mr. Mendes to play for the giants of the five major leagues, then our main frame of Benfica will have to be rebuilt? And, now Luisson Regarding the matter of going to Chelsea, it has not yet been determined whether he will leave in the winter window or leave after the end of this season's games."

Speaking of this, Rui Costa couldn't help feeling a little melancholy: "This is really a headache! Perhaps, the current main frame can only finish this season. After all, the current performance of Diego and David , completely matching the giants that have landed in the five major leagues."

After hearing Rui Costa's words, Fernando Santos showed a rare smile full of meaning: "Rui, you have found the right question! So, exclude those players who are about to land in the five major leagues The main frame of the team, what kind of strength can be played, this is the real strength of the team!"

"This... Coach Santos! Then I..."

Rui Costa seemed to understand something.But when he still wanted to continue the discussion with Fernando Santos, Fernando Santos turned his head and went back to the coaching bench without any intention of continuing the discussion with Rui Costa.

"Ugh!!!"

Since Fernando Santos didn't want to give Rui Costa some coping experience, Rui Costa didn't bother to ask.

After all, Rui Costa is a famous player in Serie A, and he knows too many famous Italian coaches. He can discuss this issue with the old Italian coaches, and he doesn't need a hot face to stick to Fernando Santos' cold ass.

and so!
Rui Costa turned his attention to the pitch.

At this time, the game has come to the 10th minute, and Benfica has an absolute advantage on the scene!
Whether it is the ball possession rate, the number of shots, and the success rate of passes, they are far ahead of their opponents Sporting Lisbon.

You know, Benfica's current possession rate exceeds 70%, and the number of shots has reached the fourth time, while Sporting Lisbon's shots are still 4!

However, Benfica's offensive success rate so far in this game is still a bit low, with 4 shots and only 1 shot on target-in the 6th minute of the game, Diego received a long pass from midfielder Carter Solanis, relying on one person Sporting Lisbon's central defender Polgar was caught, and after turning around with the ball, his explosive shot made Ricardo in front of Sporting Lisbon's goal flustered.

To Paul Bento's great relief, although Ricardo was flustered by Diego's explosive shot, he still managed to save the ball over the baseline, at least not to be scored by Diego.

In the current situation, Sporting Lisbon has no room to counterattack at all.

Because after Nuno Gomez's position was withdrawn, Petit and Carter Solanis' positions were also withdrawn by two positions, getting closer to the defense line.

To some extent, Petit and Carter Solanis retreated, which will compress Sporting Lisbon's defensive counterattack space.

The worst thing is that Benfica's two full-backs, Assis and Nelson, didn't step up to the frontcourt to participate in the attack. They stayed at the back line, waiting to intercept Nani and Carlos Bruno's defensive counterattack. Side attack.

In the 8th minute, Sporting Lisbon originally got a rare chance to defend and counterattack. Joao Moutinho also sent the ball to Nani on the left at the first time, but Nelson and Carter Solanis came first. For a while, Nani double-teamed and forced Nani to take the ball out of the sideline. This also made Sporting Lisbon regretfully miss the opportunity of this defensive counterattack.

It can be said!
From the start of the game to the 12th minute now, Benfica's tactical design against Sporting Lisbon has been very successful. It can be said that Paul Bento is like an ant on a hot pot, helpless.

(End of this chapter)