Lisbon Stadium of Light

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One of the two most famous stadiums in Portugal

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Benfica vs Lexos

The super dark horse challenges the Portuguese Super League giants

There is no doubt that the focus of this round is the battle.

Before the game, Benfica has reached the most dangerous time, they have 33 points, 9 points between the top Rexos, and Porto, Sporting Lisbon are 6 points and 2 points respectively, and Guimaraes is only 6 points less than Benfica, they can't win this game, they will be eliminated from the title ranks, whether they can get the Champions League qualification is a problem.

This match can be called a life-and-death battle for Benfica.

Before the game even began, the 64,000-seat stands were already full, and the noise resounded almost throughout the Portuguese capital.

Standing on the pitch, looking up at the sky, Gao Xiaodong has infinite pride, before Lexus faced the three giants, two wins and one draw, if you conquer this stadium again, there should be no more fools to talk about Lexus and himself.

"Beep......

Gao Xiaodong was thinking nonsense, and the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game.

In the first round, Lexus played Benfica, Gao Xiaodong played as a marking midfielder, and after more than half a season, Gao Xiaodong has evolved from a blue-collar worker to a senior white-collar worker, and now the marking is Dior, who has just returned from the ban.

Christian Dior was keeping an eye on Rui Costa all over the field.

Dior's defensive skills are not weaker than Gao Xiaodong at all, his strength is not as good as Gao Xiaodong, but his speed exceeds Gao Xiaodong, it's just that Dior is too honest, he doesn't even have half of Gao Xiaodong's cunning, Gao Xiaodong taught him a song, he can't sing that tune, not to mention that this is still Benfica's home stadium, and the referee's law enforcement must be biased towards Benfica, otherwise the spittle of more than 50,000 fans at the scene will also drown the referee.

Dio's marking of Rui Costa was unsuccessful and Benfica had the upper hand throughout.

Without a lewd fat man by his side, Rui Costa's experience and consciousness were fully utilized, and often a shake and a look could shake off Dior's center of gravity, making Dior miserable.

After Rui Costa made several brilliant through balls and overheads and Dior received a yellow card, Oliveira knew that the man-marking tactics had failed completely, and if he continued to watch, Dior could be sent off.

Oliveira had no choice but to give up full-court marking, let Dior return to his position, and adopt a zone-to-man defensive tactic against Rui Costa.

Dio returned to Lexos' defensive system and played much better than his marking, and Lexus even saved a few points of disadvantage at one point.

However, although Benfica's state this season is poor, it is not something that Lexos can bully casually at the Stadium of Light, under the dispatch of Rui Costa, Benfica's offense is more reasonable, and the rhythm changes more, making Lexus unable to defend.

However, it was Benfica's left winger Di Maria who made Lexos most uncomfortable.

In the first round of Lexus and Benfica, Di Maria was a substitute, more than half a season has passed, and now Di Maria has firmly occupied the main position of the left winger, and his attack is becoming more and more reasonable.

In the first half, Rui Costa's through ball and Di Maria's breakthrough cross created a lot of shooting opportunities for Benfica.

However, Lexos' defenders kept a close eye on Benfica's forwards, and Gomez's absence had a big impact on Benfica, who had many chances in the first half, but they were unable to break through Lexos' goal.

In the second half, Lexos' Gao Xiaodong, Lopes and Robert's new trident came alive.

In the 47th minute of the game, Gao Xiaodong took the ball in the middle circle, Pereira grabbed it from behind, but did not cut off Gao Xiaodong's ball, and then Gao Xiaodong took the ball straight to the penalty area, and the midfielder pulled hard and did not leave Gao Xiaodong, and finally it was the defender Luis who made a flying shovel and put Gao Xiaodong down with the ball, which ended Gao Xiaodong's impact.

Although the referee didn't even give a foul, but Gao Xiaodong's breakthrough full of courage and confidence pulled up the horn of Lexos' attack, and in the next ten minutes, Lexus won a big offensive victory, Gao Xiaodong and Lopez, Robert, played a wonderful cooperation again and again, and completed three shots, but Robert and Lopez were not smooth, and no one was able to break the goal.

After 10 minutes of Lexus, Benfica recovered and then launched a counter-attack, again suppressing the friction in their own half.

In the 66th minute of the game, 20-year-old left winger Di Maria suddenly appeared on the right side, Rui Costa made a long pass, Di Maria won the ball and broke through left-back Newman, entered the penalty area, and scored on the right side of the goal on the left side of the penalty area.

Benfica took a 1-goal lead.

This is a difficult test for Lexos and Gao Xiaodong, if Lexus loses this time, the points will definitely be caught up by Porto, and Di Maria and Gao Xiaodong are strong contenders for the best newcomer in the Portuguese Super League season, if Di Maria defeats Gao Xiaodong in direct dialogue, the selection of the newcomer king later, Gao Xiaodong will definitely be affected.

Gao Xiaodong tried his best to reverse the decline, but after Benfica's state came up, they were not comparable to Lexus, every Lexus player tried their best, but they were still beaten back step by step, and finally could only fight with Benfica in the center circle.

In the 78th minute of the game, Lopes left the field injured under the opponent's flying tackle, Oscar replaced Lopez, and Gao Xiaodong played as a single back, which made Lexus even worse.

However, Benfica's attack was too strong, directly suppressing Lexus into the 30-meter area, which made Di Maria's speed advantage gone, and the breakthrough advantage was greatly reduced, although Benfica had more possession of the ball, the threat of attack was reduced.

Lexus defended desperately, suffering, in the 90th minute, they finally ushered in the opportunity, this is a clearance in the backfield of Lexos, the only Robert in front of the top to grab the landing point, the header in the space, at this time Gao Xiaodong suddenly out of the encirclement, when competing for a half of the ball, directly hit Rui Costa, drove straight into the ball, and Robert formed a two-on-two opportunity.

Benfica defenders Felipe and Luiz defended very steadily, keeping an eye on people, preventing Gao Xiaodong and Robert from cooperating, Gao Xiaodong had no choice but to force a breakthrough, causing Felipe's pull foul.

Rexos won a free-kick in front.

Without Lopes, Gao Xiaodong became the undisputed set-piece peniser.

Benfica knew that Gao Xiaodong's shot was powerful, and head coach Pinto deliberately discharged a tight human wall.

However, Xena and Gao Xiaodong played a tactical match, Gao Xiaodong ran sideways, and a powerful volley went straight to the back corner of the goal, Benfica goalkeeper couldn't save, and the ball grazed the post into the net.

1:1 draw.

In five minutes of stoppage time, Benfica were unwilling to take a point at home, they attacked desperately, but the time was too short, and they were still unable to score again in the end, so they had no choice but to shake hands with Rexos.

After this round, Lexus continued to lead with 43 points, despite being hindered and slowing down, with Porto in second place with 42 points, Sporting Lisbon in third with 35 points, Benfica in fourth with 33 points and Guimarães in fifth with 30 points.

The dark horse is still rampant, and the giants are still weak. (To be continued.) )