Beast King Costa

Chapter 438
After double-killing Sevilla at home, Benfica confirmed in advance that they will qualify as the first in the group. However, after entering the knockout round, they have to draw lots to determine their opponents, so Benfica does not know them yet. Who will be the opponent in the next stage of the game.

But the Europa League knockout is after the winter break, so now, Benfica doesn't need to worry too much about this and that, it just needs to play the league before the winter break, the Portuguese League Cup, and the Europa League in a procedural manner. In the final round of the Cup group match against Grasshopper Zurich, they can breathe a sigh of relief.

However, for Rui Costa, there is still no way to relax.

Although the team's old injury number Francisco Fonseca already has medical clearance, he can participate in lightweight training sessions, go to the gym to do some jogging, weight-bearing, and even light exercise with ball training, probably at the end of the month You can come back, but now Benfica has a few more injuries.

Beto has missed the game against Sevilla, but the Benfica medical team is not optimistic about Beto's recovery, and suggested that Rui Costa let Beto rest for a period of time before observing, at least get the next step Weekend games will be able to come back.

Kate Solanis, the "iron man" core midfielder of the Greek national team, had a slight fracture in his ribs in the last game due to a direct physical confrontation with Duda. The chest will involve the lungs and affect breathing, so Carter Solanis needs a period of recuperation. The expectation given by Benfica's medical team is that Carter Solanis will need to rest for about 3 weeks.

This means that in the next game before the winter break, the core of the Greek national team, who is driven by the dual-core midfielder with Petit, will directly raise the exemption card.

On top of that, Carter Solanis isn't the only new injury.

Assis's last game was too intense because of the direct physical confrontation with Daniel Alves under high-speed sprints many times, which caused Assis to suffer a groin strain.Moreover, Assis was strained in the middle of the first half of the game. In order to drag Daniel Alves, he had no choice but to hold on, which also made the strain worse.

You know, normally, a player with a groin strain cannot continue to play the game. Although Assis insisted on finishing the first half of the game and did not disclose his injury during the game, after the game, Benfica After careful examination by the medical staff, it was judged that Assis needed to rest for at least a month.

This also made Assis quite frustrated.

After all, the problem of groin strain can be big or small. If you continue to invest in training or play games without proper cultivation, it is likely to lead to habitual strain in the future, which will greatly affect the future career of the player. prospect.

Since it won’t take a month, it will basically enter the winter break, so because of the groin strain this time, Assis basically announced in advance that he will enter the state of vacation, but Assis does not plan to return to Brazil , Instead, let the agent arrange to go to Germany for physical therapy, and by the way, he will deal with his previous ankle injury again, so as to ensure that he can return in the strongest state after the winter break.

Another injured number made the whole team very helpless, because his existence has irreplaceable significance for Benfica's current wing attack!
Simon!

The main player on the wing of the Portuguese national team suffered a sprained right foot in the game against Sevilla. The most frightening thing is that Simao's ankle bone even had a little fracture. This will also lead to Simao going directly to the recuperation room before the winter break to treat the ankle injury.

When Simao will be injured for the next one and a half months, whether he can come back after the winter break depends on the healing of Simao's ankle bone fracture - what is certain now is that before the winter break Simao will definitely not be able to keep up with the competition, including the national team competition during the winter break.

The front, middle and back three lines have main players injured. This is definitely an extremely difficult and extremely headache special situation for Rui Costa-if these main players cannot recover, it will affect the second half every minute The journey of the season.

But what is gratifying is that the next games will not be tough battles.In the 13th round of the weekend, they played away against Navarre, the "elevator" relegation team of the Portuguese Super League. Next week, the opponent of the China-Portuguese League Cup is the Portuguese C team. This is not worth mentioning. Next weekend, in the 14th round of the Portuguese Super League, Benfica The home game against Setubal, and then the last Europa League group stage game against Zurich Grasshopper at home in the middle of the week, the 15th round was completed before the winter break, and the away game against the University of Coimbra.

Naval, Portugal C team, Setubal, Grasshopper Zurich, University of Coimbra.

These five opponents are unlikely to cause any trouble to Benfica, and in terms of league formation, Rui Costa and Chinese teenager Yu Dabao and Benfica B team striker Diego Sosa are two young players. Players can make choices, but it is not too stretched.

As for the Portuguese League Cup against Portuguese C teams, it is almost possible to directly use the full substitute lineup to mix and match outstanding players from the B team and the youth team. Rui Costa is confident that he can easily pass.As for Grasshopper Zurich, they have given up the Europa League front a long time ago, and they will still play away games. Zurich Grasshoppers must be a very young lineup to Lisbon, and they will finish their Europa League this season in a procedural way. It's the last game of the Cup, so there's nothing to worry about.

After finishing the tough battle with Sevilla, Rui Costa transferred Yu Dabao, Diego Sosa, Manu and Joao Kumbra from the Benfica B team. The players were called back to the first team and it was confirmed that all four of them would remain in the first team until the winter break.

This made the coaching staff of the Benfica B team so angry that they almost cursed...

Now the Benfica B team has slipped to No.12 in the Portuguese League. Rui Costa has recruited four players who are fully capable of playing in the Portuguese League. This makes the Benfica B team still play wool. Where's the ball?
Although the senior management of the Benfica club does not have any performance requirements for the establishment of the Benfica B team, they only need the B team to provide talents for the first team and undertake the continued training of players who graduated from the U19 youth team. I will not complain about the coaching staff.

but!

Even if the club's senior management does not have any performance requirements, the coaching staff of the Benfica B team still hope that the team will not be relegated!In Portugal, at least they can have some exposure. If they are relegated to Portugal, then no one will pay attention to their coaches, and naturally no one will come to poach them.

(End of this chapter)