Beast King Costa

Chapter 412 Lisbon Derby ([-])

"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!"

"Come on Lidson! Overturn Benfica! Lidson scored twice!"

"Leedson gets a hat trick tonight!!!"

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Although Sporting Lisbon has been kicked by rivals Benfica in the same city for almost 20 minutes from the opening to now, the audience at the Jose Alvalade Stadium is still very enthusiastic and cheering for the home team. The atmosphere of the whole game It has been kept very hot.

With such fanatical cheers from the fans, the Sporting Lisbon players seemed a little ashamed-this scene is really sorry for the fans cheering for them so frantically.

It has been 20 minutes now, and Sporting Lisbon has no shot data!

Although Nani, who is highly expected by the fans, is still trying to help the team break the stalemate on the counter-attack end, Nelson and Carter Solanis' double-teaming is really perfect, which makes Nani a little powerless , There is almost no way to get the ball to the frontcourt.

As for Lidson, who was hoped by the fans to score twice or even a hat-trick...

That would be even more bleak.

Lidson's technical and tactical characteristics are really limited. As a spot-grabbing striker, Lidson's only advantage is his speed and his sense of the first penalty kick in the penalty area. The ability of the center forward to play the ball with his back.

To some extent, after Fernando Santos abandoned Diego, the "unsolvable big center", the midfielders Pettit and Carter Solanis had only the embarrassment of passing the ball to the wing. It is easy for opponents to carry out targeted defense on the side.

Carlos Bruno on the right side played more impressively.

Although Carlos Bruno has always played in the Sporting Lisbon B team and has always played in the Portuguese League, very few fans in the Portuguese Super League know the existence of this player. The fans of Sporting Lisbon know that there is such an offensive player in the first team , but Sporting Lisbon fans rarely see Carlos Bruno playing in the Portuguese Super League.

In this Portuguese national derby in Lisbon, although Sporting Lisbon's opponent Benfica can be called the most powerful team in the Portuguese Super League this season, it can even be said to be one of them.But Carlos Bruno did not lie at all when facing the double-team defense of Assis and Petit. He even dared to be very relaxed when facing Petit, the main midfielder of the Portuguese national team. Doing movements, all kinds of flower work can fly.

Even in the 17th minute, when one person faced Petit and Assis double-teamed, he used the "Marseille roundabout" action to throw off the defense and smashed a broad road in Benfica's steel defense.

But Assis's foot was very fast. The first time Carlos Bruno got rid of the defense, he committed a tactical foul and stopped Carlos Bruno's progress.

For this reason, Assis also received a yellow card for a tactical foul.

But for the team, the yellow card of Assis is very worthwhile.

After all, if Carlos Bruno throws off the defense, then the open space in the backcourt becomes an amusement park for Carlos Bruno and Nani, two speedy wide players. For Lidson, who is almost invisible, it may become an excellent scoring opportunity for "the sword will see blood"!

"Hey! Lidson's problem is very big and very difficult!"

Paul Bento's assistant coach watched Lidson struggling in this game, and he sighed and shook his head beside Paul Bento helplessly.

Of course, Paul Bento's assistant coach can be regarded as a fair person, with both criticism and praise. He also named and praised another player who played quite eye-catchingly, Carlos Bruno: "Paul, I think after the winter window, we should Consider letting Bruno directly enter the regular squad of the first team, and stop letting Bruno go to the B team to play in the Portuguese League. He is already 26 years old, and it is time for him to have his place in the first team."

"Indeed, Bruno played really well in this game and was very active on the right wing. This also proves that we did not choose the wrong person. If Yannick Jallow starts this game, I think there will definitely not be so many players on the right wing. Opportunities created…”

Paul Bento nodded and said: "After the winter transfer window opens, our team is bound to make some major adjustments. If Carlos Bruno can maintain this positive momentum in the next games, then he will definitely be My next regular in the first-team 18-man squad."

Speaking of this, Paul Bento continued after a pause: "Our team's current problem is not as simple as Lidson's point! Lidson's technical and tactical characteristics are too simple, and now the opponents in the Portuguese Super League basically touch him. With the characteristics of Lidson, Lidson is getting more and more difficult to score. I'm like, we need a big forward player."

After the winter transfer window opened about the next signings, Paulo Bento also had a serious in-depth discussion with the assistant coaches around him: "Also, the midfielder Custodio's performance is indeed getting more and more impressive. Hurry up, we also need to make some adjustments in the midfield. If there is enough money to sign in at the central defender position, and there are suitable candidates, I think even Polgar will be adjusted to the first team! Goalkeeper position, Rica Do is also very unstable this season, if there is a goalkeeper with comparable strength who can compete with Ricardo in a healthy way, that would be even better!"

"Uh……"

Paul Bento's assistant coach was quite helpless about this. He lowered his voice and said: "Paul, we have to bring in a big center, a midfielder, a main center back, and even a goalkeeper...the club's top management Surely you won't grant so much money to the team? Maybe, we still have to continue the rhythm of internal potential?"

After being told the truth by his assistant coach, Paul Bento looked very melancholy: "Yes! It is impossible for the club to approve such a large transfer budget! I will be satisfied if I can approve the funds for the introduction of a big center forward Hey! Maybe! We still have to focus on internal potential. As for the midfielder, I have considered putting Padred on top of Custodio and pairing Padred with Leandro Romagnoli ——Joao Moutinho's main position is definitely unshakeable."

"Cough cough..."

Paul Bento's assistant coach is so real, he continued to debunk another fact silently: "Joao Moutinho's words, I think his agent Jorge Mendes estimated one or two After two seasons, he will play in the five major leagues, right? After all, Joao’s current development trend is about to replace Pettit or Nuno Gomez in the national team. The specifics depend on the Where does Coralie want Joao to play."

"Okay, don't say it, don't say it..."

Paul Bento's head was not ordinary when his teaching assistant broke his beautiful ideals again and again... Paul Bento waved his hands quickly: "If you continue, my head will probably hurt very much. Then there is no way to coach on the spot.”

"Ahem, Paul, you should learn to accept reality."

Paul Bento almost wanted to push his practical teaching assistant back into the locker room: "Don't worry... I will accept it, but it's not like accepting reality in a tough battle like this!"

The game is still on!
Paulo Bento still needs to get his attention back on the court quickly.

When Paulo Bento and his assistants were looking forward to the signing adjustments during the winter break, the scene fell into a state of silence for a period of time.

Benfica obviously took turns to attack and still failed to score a goal. They began to take back to control the situation, using the midfield iron triangle of midfielder Pettit-Carter Solanis-Nuno Gomez to pass control, To pull on Sporting Lisbon's defense.

But after all, Sporting Lisbon's defense has Tonell, the main central defender of the Portuguese national team, sitting in the backcourt, and Polgar and Miguel Garcia can also be regarded as standing candidates for the Portuguese national team. The tacit understanding of the defense line is quite good, and it will not mess up the position because of Benfica's pass scheduling, so that Benfica can take advantage of it.

Before Benfica switched to pass control to adjust Sporting Lisbon's defensive position, Benfica had already completed 8 shots!
But Benfica's shooting efficiency in this game is very, very low!
8 shots, 2 on target!
These two shots were both completed by Diego. In addition to the turning shot in the first 2 minutes of the game, in the 10rd minute of the game, Diego received a curve ball from Simao and passed from Polgar and Togo. Nell fought out and took a shot, but the ball hit Ricardo's abdomen with "lucky luck"...

This caused Ricardo to lie down on the grass for a full 3 minutes before he came back with lingering fear—Ricardo could feel that if Diego's ball was lowered by 5cm or 10cm, it might fall in that minute. Smash Ricardo's majestic man symbol...

In fact, Diego didn't get many chances in this game, even if he wanted to smash Ricardo's man symbol, it would be quite difficult.

So far in the game, Benfica has 8 shots, 3 of which are from Diego, and 2 shots are on target. This kind of offensive efficiency can already score 80 points. If it can bring a goal to the team, then It's basically a perfect rhythm.

The main reason for Benfica's low shooting efficiency in this game is that Rui Costa hopes that Calagonis and Simao on the wing will start to try a style of play that is currently emerging in European football-the winger cuts in and shoots!
Simao is fine. As a "sword on the side" who has experienced countless world competitions and European wars, Simao can fully integrate into the style of kicking in from the side. However, in this game, Simao The state is slightly worse, and the crosshairs of the in-cut shots deviate greatly.

The efficiency of inward shooting from the left side where Karagonis is located is really horribly low.

As a forward player who used to play the arrow position, it is very rare and valuable for Karagonis to be able to send a relatively tacit cross to Diego after pulling out to the side. If Karagonis is allowed to play as an inside winger, That's really too difficult because this talent can only be regarded as an average Greek international.

In this game, Calagonis made a total of 3 inside cut shots!

result……

All without exception turned into sky cannons...

Fortunately, Lisbon's airport is in the suburbs, not in the urban area. Otherwise, all the passing planes might have been shot down by Karagonis.

Seeing Calagonis' in-cut shot so efficient, the diehard Sporting Lisbon fans at the Jose Alvalade Stadium also taunted Calagonis unscrupulously.

"Oh, let me choke you! Are the Greek international players giving us a live performance of masturbating?"

"It's all right! Ouch! It's so slippery! It's the first time I've seen someone play football like this."

"Hey! The strength of Benfica's wide players is just like this, let's not talk about them."

"That's right! What if Calagonis is crying in our Jose Alvalade stadium?"

"Hahahahaha!!!"

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To some extent, Calagonis played extremely inefficiently because Rui Costa asked him to attack more inside, coupled with all kinds of ridicule from the diehard Sporting Lisbon fans at the Jose Alvalade Stadium , which directly led to the very low performance of this game.

Just 10 minutes before the opening, except for a pass to Diego that was not bad, the rest of the time, he was basically running dryly on the side.

"Hey! Karagonis still can't adapt to the playing style of cutting in from the wing!"

Rui Costa watched Calagonis play so lowly from the sidelines, and he couldn't bear it, and even wanted to directly order the side to return to the traditional way of crossing from the side.

But after thinking about it, Rui Costa still didn't do it.After all, judging from the scene of the first half of the game, Sporting Lisbon still failed to create any threatening offense. It would be better to follow the original plan and try this kind of side cut in the first half of the game.

Since it is so difficult for Calagonis to adapt to this technical and tactical style of play, it is enough to adjust in the second half of the game. Rui Costa believes that in the second half of the game, Calagonis and Simao returned to the traditional way of playing from the side. Diego will definitely be able to score goals in the game!
Moreover, during the winter transfer window, Gustavo Manduka is about to return to the team from the Greek League. It is used in the center position, but with Gustavo Manduka's technical and tactical characteristics, he can play a very beautiful inside attack on the left.

At that time, if Gustavo Manduka and Simão are allowed to play in-cut attacks on both sides, the two full-back players can significantly advance to participate in the frontcourt offense, then Benfica's The frontcourt attack will also become picturesque because of this!

(End of this chapter)