Chapter 457: Miserable

For the next two days, Juventus trained at a dedicated training facility in Lisbon, and due to the very different environment here, Juventus training was not disturbed by the outside world at all, and the players were still training quite well. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

This time away to Benfica, Juventus's personnel are still basically intact, but the key player Vidal is missing, Vidal did not follow the team to Lisbon, on the eve of leaving Turin, Conte informed in the pre-match press conference that Vidal was unwell and could not travel to Lisbon.

His absence has a great impact on Juventus, and there is still room for swapping and reconciling the positions of Marchisio and Pogba, but Vidal's position is not possible, especially in the strong dialogue, Vidal's role is very crucial.

Against Benfica, Conte had to resort to a trio of Andrea Pirlo, Marchisio and Paul Pogba, a combination that has proven difficult for Juventus to control in the league if the opponents are sufficient.

However, Benfica manager Jorge Jesus still gave Juventus a very high rating.

"Juventus is very strong, there are a lot of commendable players in the team, Zhang Yuan has a strong ability to finish goals, Pirlo still maintains a very high standard, don't forget that they still have Buffon, you must know that it is difficult to break his goal!"

"We're going to try to attack on our home turf and we want to score goals and win! because Juventus Arena is not such an easy place to win!

Gabriel Jesus is a well-known coach in Portugal, not only in Europe, but also a well-known coach, taking over Braga in 08, defecting to Benfica in Lisbon in 09, and then he brought Benfica to win the league title the following year, and since then he has led Benfica to become a new force in challenging Porto.

If you want to say who has won the most league titles in the Portuguese Super League, it is Benfica, not Porto or Sporting Lisbon.

But if you want to talk about the most glorious team in the Portuguese Super League in the last 30 years, it has to be Porto and not the other two.

In the past ten years, Porto has been the protagonist of the protagonists, but in recent years, because of the existence of Jesus, Benfica began to form a strong challenge to Porto, winning the first title to end Porto's four consecutive titles, and in the following seasons Benfica was closer to Porto in the title race, but unfortunately failed to win the championship.

However, this season they finally pressed Porto under them and won the league title again, you must know that Benfica is not doing very well, and they have to sell core players every year, which is worse than Porto.

It has been home to very famous players such as David Luiz, Coentrão and Di Maria.

It is not easy to break Porto's monopoly when the depth of the squad is not enough to be compared with Porto.

But Jesus is full of confidence, Benfica is not bad, last season also in the Europa League, they reached the final, but once again failed to break the Gutmann curse, relegated to the runner-up, and this season even against Juventus, Benfica still want to get another chance to break the Gutmann curse.

Gutmann is a famous coach of Hungarian nationality, Hungary was quite famous for a long time after the war in the last century, Gutmann is a disseminator of advanced tactics in Hungarian football, he coached all over Europe and South America, and also stayed in Italy, coached the giant AC Milan, and won the league championship, but he was fired shortly after winning the championship due to conflicts with the Milan board of directors.

His most glorious period was at Benfica, where he not only went on a domestic streak but also ended Real Madrid's fifth consecutive title defence in Europe, before Gutmann cursed Benfica.

In 1962, Benfica coach Gutman, who had just led the team to defeat Real Madrid to complete the Champions League defense, proposed a salary increase to the team and was rejected, Gutmann resigned in anger, and the Hungarian cursed when he left: "Benfica will not win the European championship in 100 years!"

And then now, half a season has passed, Benfica has never won a European championship again, they have reached the Champions League final five times since then, all of them have lost, and they have reached the final of the Europa League twice, and they still lost!

They and the previous Juventus and Bayern Munich are the most unlucky final participants in the history of the Champions League, and they have lost five times and failed to win the Champions League once.

A new opportunity has arrived, Jesus is really full of energy, he really doesn't believe in this evil, and vows to break the curse of Benfica's meritorious manager!

The 24th soon arrived, Benfica's home stadium of the Stadium of Light is located in the northwest of Lisbon, not in the center of the city, in the parish called Luz, which means bright in Portuguese, because everyone is used to calling him the Stadium of Light, also known as the Luz Stadium.

Benfica's home stadium is just over 2 kilometres away from the Alvardella Stadium, home of rivals Sporting Lisbon.

The match against Juventus attracted a lot of Benfica fans, and the Stadium of Light, which can accommodate more than 60,000 people, was already full today.

Benfica fans put up the eagle logo in the stands, Benfica club also has the nickname "Eagle" because of the eagle on the team emblem, they are also powerful enough, in the club raised an eagle, before the game started, the keeper brought the mascot to the stadium, the eagle has been tamed.

Rising from the keepers, they circled and danced in the stadium of light, causing bursts of cheers from the fans.

Anyway, they are eagles, and Juventus wants to raise a mascot and a zebra, sorry, this is really not the condition to take it out for a walk, so every home match day, you can only let a zebra dressed as a person!

Of course, there are not a few teams with living creatures as mascots, Zhang Yuan knew that the Cologne team was called "goat" in the Bundesliga, and their mascot was a sheep, and they had to come out to meet everyone whenever they played at home, but the goat was docile!

This eagle, after all, is a carnivore and a bird, and it looks domineering!

Speaking of Zhang Yuan and his teammates, in the locker room at this time, listening to Conte's full mobilization, they couldn't see the eagle.

The two days of relatively relaxed environment have made the Juventus players feel a lot more relaxed, and everyone is gradually forgetting the future speculation, Conte is now talking about the importance of this game, the importance of the Europa League title, what he wants to do is to make the players have a certain sense of tension.

Benfica, like Juventus, were eliminated from the Champions League group stage, but the results of the two teams after the transfer to the Europa League were surprisingly consistent, both unbeaten in six games, and both have a record of five wins and one draw, but it will certainly not be easy for Juventus to take a win away from here, after all, Benfica have not tasted defeat at home this season (12 wins and two draws in the league).

As Barzagli suffered back discomfort during the two days of training, Conte rotated him with Cáceres for this game.

Juventus' starting XI looked like this.

Goalkeeper: Gianluigi Buffon

Defender: Cáceres Bonucci Chiellini

Midfielders: Lichtsteiner, Pogba, Pirlo, Marchisio, Asamoah

Forward: Tevez Zhang Yuan

Juventus' formation and starting XI are almost constant, and there are no secrets to Gabriel Jesus' predictions.

On Benfica's side, Gabriel Jesus sent out a 433 formation.

Goalkeeper: Artur

Defender: Luizon Pereira Garesqueira

Midfielder: Markovic, Gomez Pérez

Forward: Suleimanica Doso Rodrigo

Jesus himself is a more attacking coach, Cardoso is 1.94 meters tall in the center forward position, is a typical high school striker, but his foot skills are also good, after the transfer to Benfica, the goal efficiency has not been low, but he came to Europe a little late, and now he is in his 30s, otherwise he would have been poached by other teams.