Chapter 458: A bad start

Many teams in the Portuguese Super League attach great importance to wingers, Ronaldo was also a winger debut in Sporting Lisbon, saying that the Portuguese Super League has a unique feature in winger training is no problem, the style of the Portuguese Super League is more inclined to South Americanization, technical flow, so many South American players take this place as the first stop in Europe. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the wingers on both sides standing behind Cardoso today are not South American players, Rodrigo has Brazilian roots, but he is a Spaniard, a product of Real Madrid's academy, and on the other side Suleimani is a Serb, he is a typical example of a young fame, when he was not yet 20 years old and joined the Eredivisie giants Ajax from Heerenveen for 16.5 million euros.

It is a pity that he has a little bit of an injury and gradually fails to play in Ajax, Zhang Yuan played against him when he was in Real Madrid, and only came to Benfica on a free transfer last summer.

In midfield, Markovic, who is also a Serb, is only 19 years old and also came to Benfica last summer, spending Benfica 8 million euros, and in the second half of the season he has become more and more solid, and he has played quite well.

Enzo. Perez, the Argentinian, is a central midfielder with plenty of energy, good interception ability and good dribbling skills.

Andre. Gomez, Portugal's young talent, made his debut in Porto in his early years, and later came to the youth academy of Benfica, he really didn't play much in his home league, but Jesus gave him a chance in the Europa League, and his starting position was his.

Speaking of this, I have to say that the third-party ownership that is common in the Portuguese Super League, Gomez's ownership is no longer in the hands of Benfica, strictly he is not Benfica's person, he has attracted the attention of many European giants earlier, which is also the reason why Jesus is not active in using him, this is also the case with Rodrigo produced by Real Madrid's academy, in fact, in the Europa League, Jesus is willing to give them a chance, and in the league, there are not many opportunities for the two, Rodrigo has more playing time.

There are many giants in the Portuguese Super League, don't look at the black shops, the players are very expensive, but there are not many in the club's account, which is why they keep selling people, because they are still poor!

Goalkeeper Dortur is a veteran, Italian, who has been in the lower leagues for a long time before playing for Roma.

Right wing-back Andreas Pereira, a native of Uruguay, arrived at Benfica in 2007 and is a long-time Benfica courtier.

Garay, Zhang Yuan's former teammate, after the injury, Real Madrid could not stand on his feet, and he could only succumb to the Portuguese Super League.

Luisson, a Brazilian, has been at Benfica for 10 years and is the core of the defence, captain of the team, and a former Brazil international.

Left wing-back Kesla, Brazilian, from Granada.

At the beginning of the game, Benfica relied on the advantage of the home field to actively press the attack, without mercy.

Since Benfica wants to attack, Juventus will naturally shrink its formation, first seek to resist the impact of Benfica in the early stage, and then slowly reverse the momentum.

Just over a minute after the opening, Benfica unceremoniously kicked to the front, many wingers in the Portuguese Super League have a relatively high degree of freedom, and the head coach doesn't care much about this, to put it bluntly, he is willing to let the wingers impact and break through.

After Soleimani got the ball, he was not timid in the face of Marchisio and Asamoah's defense, and directly wiped it from the outside of Asamoah, Marchisio made up for the tackle and shoveled Suleimani's ball out of the bottom line, and Benfica got a corner kick opportunity.

And then they scored! Soleimani took a corner kick from the left and crossed into the penalty area, Garay squeezed away Bonucci and jumped up near the penalty spot to head the goal, the ball went into the net from the bottom right corner of the goal, Buffon made a save but the whip was too long, Benfica led 1-0!

Gary was not much shorter than Bonucci, and Bonucci was obviously not focused enough on marking to interfere with Garay.

The fans at the Stadium of Light cheered and shook the sky, not only did they not expect to score so quickly, but also the two teams involved did not expect it.

But having said that, Conte has criticized the team's set-piece defense more than once, and set-pieces are the only way for many teams in Serie A to break through the door of Juventus.

Zhang Yuan also returned to defend in the penalty area, he defended Perez, Benfica was seriously polarized, or Luisson, Garay, Cardoso three extremely tall players, the rest are not very tall, more players are not even one meter eight, I thought it was not difficult to defend set-pieces, but I didn't expect it to be one of these key targets to score!

Zhang Yuan spat on the ground fiercely, this day is sad! Conceding a goal in this opening game is equivalent to Juventus playing again with a score of 0:1, how not difficult!

The attack at the beginning of the game was also deliberately done by Jesus, for him he knows very well the advantages and disadvantages between the team and Juventus, Juventus lacks the midfield interception of the fierce Vidal, but he will not fail to understand that Benfica under his control is a team that is good at attacking, in order to attack, it can be said that he sacrificed the interception ability of the midfield, Gomez or Perez is not the kind of player who is particularly good at defense, not to mention Markovic, the interception ability can only be worse than Juventus.

So what to do?! Regardless of three-seven-twenty-one, let's throw out the offensive three-board axe in the opening first!

It works great! That's the goal!

After the game restarted, Jesus kept reminding the team's formation position, for the shortcomings of the individual interception ability, he can rely on the formation position to make up for it, followed by the team in terms of ball control, Benfica midfielder interception is not good, but their players have good foot skills, and the ability to control the ball is still good.

Juventus' characteristics today are actually the same as Benfica's, but they are also a little weaker in midfield interception, and possession is a strength.

So the two sides entered a fantastic state, when Juventus were in possession, Benfica's entire formation was recycled, and then relied on the formation position to make up for the shortcomings of the weak interception ability, and vice versa, and the same was true for Juventus.

The slight difference is that Juventus's attacking style is different from Benfica's, Benfica ball to the front, more rely on two wings or the middle of the individual breakthrough, in order to tear open the gap in Juventus's defense, and Juventus although conceded a goal first, but the players quickly adjusted their mentality to tear apart Benfica's defense by passing the run.

Because of this, Juventus are obviously a much more dangerous man, while Benfica have repeatedly fallen into the trap and lost possession due to their attacking focus on individuals.

Therefore, statistically, Juventus have more possession.

In the 18th minute, Juventus produced the first threat in the transmission, Juventus controlled the ball to the front, Benfica was waiting, Tevez retreated to receive the ball, suddenly a straight stopper, Zhang Yuan suddenly accelerated, anti-offside success, on the left side of the small penalty area, shot at a small angle, and was bravely blocked by Dotour, this is Juventus's best opportunity so far.

If Zhang Yuan chooses another angle, it will be a completely different result, but there is no regret medicine in the world.

Zhang Yuan hugged his head and regretted, the opportunity is rare, not every time Tevez can find such a space, not every time the two can think of going together, of course, it is not Benfica's backline that will fail to create an offside position like this.

The bold offside is also one of the tricks Jesus uses, and his offside is not blindly advancing the backline, but a trick in the attack of Juventus' position, when Juventus runs the ball up front, Benfica's formation is flattened.

Their defenders will never get too close to the goalkeeper, but keep a certain distance, creating offsides in this place, and dealing with the fast Zhang Yuan.

At this distance, even if Zhang Yuan succeeded in anti-offside, the distance between him and the goalkeeper was already close, and the goalkeeper could choose to block it, if Juventus passed the ball to the wings, it would be better, and the angle of the shot was smaller.

It looked like Benfica failed to make an offside position just now, but how big is the shooting angle left for Zhang Yuan?!