Beast King Costa

Chapter 446
The Europa League game in midweek is also the last round of the Europa League group stage this season. Benfica's opponent Zurich Grasshopper is currently at the bottom of the group and has already been eliminated. Not even the head coach came with the team...

This made Rui Costa quite embarrassed.

Zurich Grasshopper came to Lisbon with an assistant coach and a group of substitutes and youth team players. Could it be possible to play with the main players?
Wouldn't that be too impolite...

However, Rui Costa wanted to put water on the formation, so there was no way!In the Europa League registration list, there are no youth team players. The two young players Yu Dabao and Diego Souza who have been used by Rui Costa have not entered the Europa League registration list. in.

Among them, Yu Dabao was unable to be registered in the Europa League squad because he arrived too late, and Diego Souza was because Benfica was training in Valencia, Spain before the start of the season. Because the performance was too eye-catching, Fernando Santos gave up directly.

Rui Costa himself admitted that Diego Souza's performance at that time was indeed too eye-catching. As a high center forward, it was difficult to accurately judge the first penalty kick, let alone give The team's tactical system assumes a fulcrum role, coupled with the existence of Francisco Fonseca, Diego Souza is completely a "immature version of Fonseca", so is there any Diego Sousa in the first team? Sosa didn't care at all.

But Francisco Fonseca, who has always been able to shine from the bench, was injured in the national team game as Diego Souza found the brave form of a talented Brazilian center forward in the Benfica B team. After that, Diego Souza's significance to the first team was very important.

however……

Rui Costa is also starting to have a headache now.

Francisco Fonseca is almost ready to train with the team. Judging from Francisco Fonseca's bravery, his game experience, and his performance in the Benfica first team before the injury, Rui Costa has no reason to give up Francisco · Fonseca to choose Diego Souza.

In this way, Diego Souza will be forced to face a choice-either continue to return to the Benfica B team to train, continue to be the top scorer of the Benfica B team in the Portuguese League, or seek to be loaned to the middle and lower reaches Portuguese Super League team!

Of course, if he goes to the Portuguese Super League team in the middle and lower reaches, Diego Souza needs to compete with the main shooters of other teams for the opportunity to work.If Diego Souza seems unaccustomed to go to other teams, it may be difficult to get a chance throughout the second half of the season.

It would be better to stay in the Benfica B team, secure a starting position to play games, and accumulate more actual combat experience. Even if Diego or Francisco Fonseca is injured or suspended , There is still a chance to return to the first team to make up for it.

To Rui Costa's surprise, after he talked to Diego Souza about the possibility of his career planning in the second half of the season, Diego Souza was actually strongly inclined to be loaned out for training , instead of staying in the Benfica B team and playing the main force safely?
"I just want to play in the Portuguese Super League! I don't want to stay in the Portuguese Super League to waste time! Even if no Portuguese Super League team wants to loan me, I will accept being loaned to other leagues! As long as I can stay in the top European leagues, I will be successful." I can accept Eredivisie, Swiss Super League, Swedish Super League and even Greek Super League! I don’t want to mention the second tier league, I really don’t want to!”

"Well... OK! I will make plans for the second half of your season according to your personal wishes."

Seeing Diego Souza, a young man with such a strong will to compete in the top league, Rui Costa actually felt delighted from the bottom of his heart—that’s how young people should be!Live in the sun without fear of all challenges!Instead of staying in the greenhouse and waiting to be hatched!
Of course, because of the Europa League match, Diego Souza was not included in Benfica's registration squad, and Rui Costa had no way to give Diego Souza a chance to play and exercise.

In this game, the starting lineup sent by Rui Costa is still a relatively conventional main lineup-no way!There are not many choices for Rui Costa to make!
Goalkeeper: Moreira.

Defenders: Leonardo Bastos, Luizon, David Luiz, Nelson.

Midfielders: Petit, Nuno Gomez, Beto.

Frontcourt: Calagonis, Diego Costa, Mantolas.

The choice on the bench means that they will be temporarily called up to the first team. After this game, they will return to the B team. All-rounder on the road, Manu, the fast horse on the side... Oh!And Rui Costa himself, the powerful head coach, was also registered as a substitute.

In itself, the strong teams of the Swiss Super League are placed in the Portuguese Super League, which is the upper-middle level. It's just a procedural cutscene, not to mention strength, even fighting spirit is loosely talked about.

In the 2nd minute of the game, Diego responded to Beto's long pass from the backcourt. He easily blasted away the two central defenders of Grasshopper Zurich by himself. A smash was passed, and then the ball was brought into the opponent's goal.

That's right!Not a shot!Instead, dribble the ball into the goal!
1 is better than 0!

Diego's brutal approach directly defeated the psychological defense of the Grasshopper players in Zurich. Originally, the young players in Grasshopper Zurich were thinking about whether they could resist for a while longer. Unexpectedly... the opening was only 2 minutes, and the Was directly defeated by Benfica, and was defeated by the ball into the goal...

After the psychological defense of the Zurich Grasshopper players was defeated by the Benfica players, their defense can be said to be useless, not even a tofu project.

In this game, the assistant coach of Zurich Grasshopper arranged a 5-4-1 formation, hoping to save a few goals.

But obviously, the defensive players of Zurich Grasshoppers have never played in a five-back formation at all, so the 5-4-1 formation of Zurich Grasshoppers played loosely and chaotically, and the positions of the defenders were due to the fact that they were at odds. This also made Benfica prone to offside opportunities.

In the 9th minute of the game, Karagonis on the left had a single-handed chance for offside due to the position of Zurich's Grasshopper's back line!
Since there is no longer any defensive player in front of him, Karagonis did not go to play the ball to Diego who followed up or Mantolas who caught up from the right to the middle, but he kicked himself. The shot from the far corner directly beat the goalkeeper of Grasshopper Zurich!
2 is better than 0!

It has to be said that Calagonis's shot from the far corner caught Rui Costa's eyes on the sidelines: this kind of shot from the far corner is the conventional offensive weapon of the inside winger. It is obvious that Calagonis is working hard to transform into an inside winger, and he has been secretly working hard to change his technical and tactical playing style.

In the 18th minute of the game, after Mantolas threw away two defenders from the right side, he quickly made a direct pass from the bottom, and the high ball was passed to the area above Diego's head in the middle. Diego overwhelmed all three defenders Player, headed the ball into the net!
3 is better than 0!

In the 30th minute of the game, Diego single-handedly entered the penalty area with the ball. The defensive players of Zurich Grasshoppers were already scared by Diego. When Diego entered the penalty area with the ball, they were all in a hurry. Looking at it, I didn't know if there were any 18-year-old players who shoveled directly at Diego.

Although the movement was not big, since the opponents fell down and shoveled and failed to shovel the ball, Diego just fell to the ground indifferently.

"Beep..."

The referee whistled a penalty very decisively!
And it's a red dot set! ! !

Because the direction in which Diego is holding the ball is the direction of Zurich Grasshopper's goal, and the young central defender of Zurich Grasshopper who shovels Diego is the last defensive player, so!Red card penalty no doubt!

In this regard, the young central defender of Grasshopper Zurich was so frustrated that he almost cried. His teammates rushed up to comfort him and took him off the pitch.

This scene made Diego even feel a little sad and guilty—why did he fall to the ground just now? If you shoot, the goal is actually scored.

But now that things have happened, Diego can't say anything.

Given the chance of a penalty kick, Diego naturally took the [-]-yard point by himself!
Although Diego is now ahead of the second-placed Roberto Soldado in the UEFA Cup scorer list by as many as 7 goals, Diego still dare not slack off and tries to score as much as possible. The goal gap between myself and Roberto Soldado has widened to double digits, so that I can play the next game properly.

It is naturally impossible for Diego to miss the penalty opportunity created by himself.

Diego didn't even need any feints anymore. The Zurich Grasshopper's goalkeeper was already afraid of Diego, a murderous god-like existence from the bottom of his heart, and Diego easily accomplished it overnight!

4 is better than 0!

Diego, easily staged a goal hat-trick!
After the score expanded to 4-0, Rui Costa helplessly signaled to his players to play a little more Buddhist style on the sidelines.

otherwise……

This situation is heading for 10-0.

The Zurich Grasshopper lineup is here to surrender and just go through the motions. If the score is too high, it will be too unfriendly.

Even, Rui Costa deliberately called Diego to the sidelines, and whispered: "Diego, this score is almost the same. The Zurich Grasshopper has not shot a goal until now... Well ! Since this lineup is coming to the away game, it is purely a formality, we must not make the opponent too ugly."

"Uh... I know what to do!"

Now that three goals have been secured, and the team's big brother Rui Costa also opened his mouth to explain, don't kick Zurich Grasshopper to death, then Diego must understand what he should do.For the rest of the first half, Diego began to enter the state of paddling. Even if there was an offensive opportunity, Diego would pretend not to see it, and even "acted out" various very low-level mistakes.

The Grasshopper players in Zurich naturally understood that Diego was letting the water go, but they were still very grateful that Diego didn't continue to beat them to death.After all, they are still very young. If Diego beats them to death, the Zurich Grasshopper players are very worried. Will they lose the confidence to play games in the future...

Because Benfica took the initiative to release water, the first half ended 4-0.

After the halftime break, Rui Costa replaced Diego very simply. Although Diego did not have Diego Souza to match, Rui Costa could replace Diego with Manu. Let Manu serve as the left winger position, and then let Karagonis top the center forward position.

Finally returned to his familiar center position, Calagonis played very excitedly in the second half of the game.

Even, Calagonis completely forgot about not being able to beat Zurich Grasshopper to death in the second half of the game.

In the 55th minute of the game, Calagonis responded to Nuno Gomez's through ball, got rid of two defensive players in the frontcourt, sprinted directly towards the penalty area of ​​Zurich Grasshopper, and created a one-handed ball opportunity by himself. Burst completed his first goal after returning to the center position this season!
5 is better than 0!

In the 63rd minute of the game, Calagonis scored in almost the same way. As a center player, he showed his offensive sense of the center and individual combat ability. broke!

6 is better than 0!

Following Diego, Calagonis also completed a scoring hat-trick in this game!

Seeing Calagonis playing so ecstatically, the helpless Rui Costa could only decisively play a substitution card and replace Calagonis after Calagonis scored a hat-trick.

Rui Costa chose to let Kaliaca and Joao Kumbra, two midfielders who were temporarily sent to the B team, come on as substitutes!

Replaced the two main players of Calagonis and Petit, and changed the field formation to 4-4-2, let Manu and Mantolas partner with double centers, let Beto, Nuno Gomez, Kaliaca and Joao Kumbra dominate the rhythm control in the midfield, slowing down the rhythm for the rest of the game, scheduling backwards, and dragging through the rest of the game.

finally! 6 to 0 also became the final score of the game!
Benfica ended this season's Europa League group stage journey with a 6-goal victory!

(End of this chapter)