Beast King Costa

Chapter 417 Lisbon Derby ([-])

Watching Nani kick a perfectly curved ball and hit the goal, the diehard Sporting Lisbon fans at the Jose Alvalade Stadium stood up excitedly!
Nani's perfect arc has beaten Moreto, however!
"Boom..."

I don’t know whether Nani’s luck should be called bad or good.
The curve ball had bypassed Moreto's stretched out right arm with all his strength, but it hit the lintel impartially!

"Ah!!! Unexpectedly! Zhongmen Lintel!?"

"This ball! No!? My God!!!"

"What a great opportunity! I'll fuck it!!!"

Paul Bento and his two assistant coaches on the sidelines even wanted to get down on the ground and hammer the ground. This is simply... unspeakable pain!Chances have been created, but the ball has not been scored!It is so uncomfortable!

"Huh...it's okay!"

Paul Bento comforted his assistants: "It can be seen that after Padred replaced Custodio, our midfielder was immediately activated. Now, Joao Moutinho has been able to play very well. Breaking through Benfica's midfield defense line, holding the ball and going up to Benfica's defense line to organize, our chances will only increase! As long as Nani and Lidson can seize the opportunity, even once! We have a chance to score points in this game!"

Yes!

Paul Bento no longer has any hope for David's right wing. Paul Bento only hopes that Joao Moutinho can assist Nani on the left or Lidson in the center in this game. Score the goal, David on the right side... Although he doesn't want to waste a substitution spot to replace him now, Paul Bento has asked David to assist the midfielder's pass and control more, instead of rushing forward to participate in the attack.

As a result, Sporting Lisbon's formation has become a rather deformed 4-4-2. Although there are four players in the midfield, the positions will appear a bit messy, except that Padred and Joao are still in the middle. Moutinho, Leandro Romagnoli, David on the right retreated between the winger and the full-back.

In games where he takes the lead and needs to control the situation, Paulo Bento will let his wingers retreat to the position between the wingers and the full midfielders, turning the formation into a deformed 4-5-1. In this way, the wingers will Road players can not only participate in the pass and control of the center, but also can advance to the frontcourt at any time to participate in the defensive counterattack.

In this game, Paul Bento didn't even dare to think about getting 3 points...or let's try to get 3 points!

Since Benfica scored first, Paul Bento only hopes to score 1 point in this game!
After all, from the point of view of the scene, Sporting Lisbon suffered too much in this game.

Even after Benfica blitzed and scored in the second half of the game, Sporting Lisbon's scene was a little better, but from the perspective of various statistics, Sporting Lisbon's ball possession rate is only 41%, which is far lower than Benfica's 59%, and the number of shots is still low. Just 7 times, and Benfica has completed 14 shots, twice as many as Sporting Lisbon!
Sporting Lisbon has 4 shots on target and Benfica has 6 shots on target. Although the success rate of shots on target is almost the same, Benfica has already scored a goal!This is the most important.

Next, Paul Bento hopes that his team's first goal of the game will come sooner!
Only in this way can we strive for 3 points.

If Sporting Lisbon's first goal of this game comes too late, even if the second goal of this game is scored by Benfica... then this game will be very, very embarrassing, let alone Strive for 3 points, maybe 1 point is hard to guarantee.

Just after Sporting Lisbon played 2 substitution cards in this game, the leading Benfica also began to make substitutions on the sidelines.

Rui Costa greeted the players on the bench, and Paul Bento also took a glance from the corner of his eye to see who Rui Costa was planning to replace with his first substitution adjustment in this game.

To Paul Bento's surprise, Rui Costa's first substitution in this game was actually going to be used in the midfield, and he was replaced by a player who had been playing very sluggishly before. The Russian Kalyaka who generally exists in the defense line god pit!

"This……"

Paul Bento's assistant coach also saw who the first substitution adjustment Benfica was about to make was. He asked Paul Bento in amazement: "No way! Benfica is going to replace the central defender. Luisson and David Luiz played perfectly in this game! They actually want to change the central defender? Is it possible that Luisson or David Luiz is injured? If Benfica changes the central defender, then this game We have a great chance!"

"No! Ruy is definitely not planning to change to a central defender. It can be seen that Luisson and David Luiz are both in good physical condition..."

Paul Bento said in a low voice with a stern face: "I think Rui Costa is going to change the midfielder! Kaliaka came on the field, and he should be planning to replace Carter Solanis or Petit? But I guess, it should be more likely to replace Carter Solanis! After all, Petit is Benfica's unshakable midfielder and captain in the past few seasons."

In fact, the coaching staff of Sporting Lisbon guessed wrong.

Although Kalyaka is indeed a midfielder, the Russian defensive midfielder is not replaced by the core midfielder of the Greek national team, Kater Solanis.

Rui Costa was very bold. He asked Cagliaka to replace Benfica and the Portuguese national team's double midfielder, Benfica captain Petit!

Like Custodio, watching the substitution on the sidelines is preparing to replace himself, Petit also has a stunned expression on his face. You must know that whether it is the Ronald Koeman era or the Fernando Santos era, unless it is because Troubled by injuries, otherwise neither of these two famous coaches would have used their substitutions to replace themselves.

In the second game of Rui Costa coaching Benfica's first team, he actually used the substitution quota and strategically replaced himself as the captain of the field?

But Pettit didn't think too much negatively. After all, Pettit himself could feel it in this game. Because of the presence of Joao Moutinho, he sacrificed more on the defensive end. Energy, since Benfica needs more midfield defense at this moment, it would be more practical to replace it with a defensive midfielder.

Pettit himself is willing to admit that his midfield defensive ability is not as good as that of Carter Solanis, an all-round midfielder with strong physical confrontation.

After completing the substitutions, the Russian defensive midfielder comfortably returned to his best defensive midfielder position. His goal is to entangle Sporting Lisbon's midfielder for the rest of the game. Midfield core Joao Moutinho!
This began to make it difficult for Joao Moutinho to cooperate with Padred in a small area, and the offensive momentum that Sporting Lisbon had ignited suddenly went out.

"Pettit, you've worked hard!"

After Rui Costa gave Petit a hug, he explained seriously: "After Sporting Lisbon replaced Padred, their midfield began to change. Padred and Joao Muti Nuno is calling. After all, Nuno is not a defensive player. It is difficult to withstand Joao Moutinho's forward impact, so he can only sacrifice you strategically and replace him with Cagliaca to keep an eye on Joao. Moutinho."

"Boss Rui, I understand."

"OK! Take a good rest. We still have a hard match against Sevilla in the middle of the week. Then you have to hold on for 90 minutes."

After listening to Rui Costa's explanation, Petit also heaved a sigh of relief.

At least, he wasn't replaced because he didn't play well. It was just a strategic substitution adjustment.And to a certain extent, it can be regarded as a rotation substitution adjustment made for the tough battle in the Europa League next week. After all, Carter Solanis' physical condition may be the best in the Benfica team except for Diego. There are no more players, and he doesn't need to rotate much.

After Rui Costa played the first substitution card of the game, he also began to prepare for subsequent substitution adjustments.

Mantolas, Paulo Jorge, Diego Sousa, and Yu Dabao were all called to the sidelines by Rui Costa to prepare for warm-up. Obviously, Benfica’s second substitution adjustment was made among these four people .

To the surprise of fans in Lisbon, Yu Dabao, a young player from China, seems to have received a lot of attention from Rui Costa. Since Rui Costa entered the coaching staff of Fernando Santos, he has become a After Benfica's veritable head coach, Yu Dabao has already snatched the position of Joao Kumbra, and Joao Kumbra was transferred to the Benfica B team to play in the Portuguese League.

But many people are not optimistic about Yu Dabao's prospects in Benfica.

Not only because Yu Dabao is very young, not yet 19 years old, but most importantly, Yu Dabao is Chinese.

The yellow-skinned players in East Asia have begun to play their part in the European arena, but there are more Japanese players and Korean players-Hidetoshi Nakata in Serie A, Shunsuke Nakamura in Serie A, Cha Bum-geun in Bundesliga, Park Ji-sung in Premier League , Junichi Inamoto...

However, there are only two Chinese players who can make an impression on the European arena.

Yang Chen, a striker who once played for Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga.

Full-back Sun Jihai currently plays for Manchester City in the Premier League.

Apart from this, no other Chinese player has been able to succeed in the European arena.

Moreover, when Yang Chen and Sun Jihai were remembered by people in the European arena, they were already members of the Chinese adult national team. Even the Chinese teenager Dong Fangzhuo, who has already started to pay attention to Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, has already been selected. China's adult national team, and Benfica teenager Yu Dabao is just an ordinary player of the Chinese national youth team, not even a core player, what ability does he have to gain a foothold in the Benfica first team?
(End of this chapter)