Chapter 249: A True Giant

Benfica's strength has made their other competitors in the Portuguese Super League fall behind a lot, among them, Benfica has taken away last season's championship, and the gap with Porto, which is also a domestic giant, has even widened to as many as 13 points, which is almost an insurmountable barrier, and it is clear that this season, poor Porto will be taken away by Benfica what they think should belong to them. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

Benfica have been able to focus on the Champions League with little to no opponent in the league, and they have done the same in recent weeks, continuously rotating in the league to allow the main players who continue to play at high intensity to rest, but this approach has not received much effect, at least compared to their opponents, there is no obvious advantage.

Although it is only the beginning of the league, you must know that the teams participating in the Champions League, basically have a lot of players who have participated in the national team games, and almost have not been rested this summer, which can be described as physical and mental exhaustion, even if there are not too many games this season, these players are also very tired if they are not properly rotated. But if you want to rotate as easily as Benfica, it will be difficult for other teams to do it. However, Boavista is an exception, perhaps on the one hand, there is not much difference between the strength of their main force and the substitutes, or it may be that Govia is well adjusted.

Like the last game between Boavista and Porto in the Portuguese Cup, Boavista actually took advantage of this in the second half, Porto's main players did not get enough rest due to continuous league and Champions League matches, and in the second half of that game, it was obvious that they could not keep up with Boavista in terms of physical strength, which made them unable to recover their disadvantage at all, but Boavista grabbed the opportunity and scored another goal. While this was not the main reason for their defeat, it also limited the performance of the Porto players to a large extent.

This time, before the game against Benfica, Boavista once again used this method in the match against Setúbal FC, and rotated the team.

This time Boavista did even better, even rotating the central defenders, only retaining goalkeeper Pedro Ferreira and the two physical maniacs Chen Jianhao and Chen Jinwu, posing as if they looked down on Setúbal completely, but even so, they still managed to achieve a big victory.

Even after all the rotations were like this, Philippe Govia still didn't feel enough, so before the 70th minute of the second half, Chen Jianhao and Chen Jinwu were also substituted, of which Chen Jianhao simply only played 55 minutes, which was the least game he played since becoming a starter. Otherwise, he wouldn't have scored just one goal against a team like Setúbal.

Such a large rotation not only did not affect Boavista's record in the league, but it was also very effective in giving the players a rest, which was the envy of their opponents. In contrast, Benfica is not good at this.

Due to the pressure on Benfica from the Champions League, manager Giorgio Jesús did not dare to change the main squad casually, only occasionally making changes in a few positions. It is completely impossible for a few key players to have a break, especially the cornerstones of the team such as Javi Garcia, Nolito, Cardoso, Gala, Nicolas Gaitan, Luizao and Nelson Oliveira, who have started almost every game, most of them have to play the full 90 minutes, and Xavi Garcia has done full attendance - of course, thanks to the fact that he has not received a red card so far this season.

As a result, Benfica's main players are a little tired, especially since a large part of the main players have participated in the European Championship, except for a few who have been given a little more rest due to the team's early exit, the rest have hardly been rested.

But fortunately, this is only the beginning of the season, and the overall physical condition of the players is not too bad, so they can hold on. However, once they meet a stronger opponent and are dragged into a tough battle, Benfica will inevitably have the same situation as Porto did in the last game, with physical problems in the second half.

This is a good opportunity for Boavista, although Benfica is very strong, but if they can make full use of various favorable factors, Boavista is still very promising, on the football field, sometimes just a seemingly inconspicuous factor can make the whole situation change, let alone such a favorable condition.

However, after all, Benfica's strong strength is there, and Boavista is far from being able to compare with such a giant-like team in terms of personnel allocation and fame. The players in other teams, take out a world-class star, put together is called a star, and Boavista, compared with the other party in this aspect, is simply cold!

Yes, that's right, it's Hanjing! Don't look at today's Boavista with the eyes of later generations, because those people in the current Boavista team who became popular later are now just stars and nothing at all.

Looking at the current Boavista, the whole team can get a hand, can let the other party know the name, and have a little impression, that is, Chen Jianhao and Andrés Madrid. Edinho da Silva? It's barely one.

However, these three people are much worse than others.

Chen Jianhao is still only known as a superstar of tomorrow, and he is fundamentally different from a real superstar, although in terms of strength, he is not inferior to people like Nolito and Javi Garcia, and even more powerful than them, and has made a name for himself in the past two years, but in terms of influence, it is still completely insufficient. Despite this, he is also the most influential person in Boavista, and he can barely be mentioned.

And Andrés Madrid, although he is also known as one of the top stars in the Portuguese Super League, but here in European football, he can only be regarded as excellent, and can only be called "a figure to pay attention to" by the managers of various teams, and even many less professional fans don't know who he is at all, that is, in Portugal, his influence is a little bigger, and it is nothing at all in Europe.

Not to mention Edinho da Silva, although he is favored by many connoisseurs, many big clubs have taken a fancy to him before, and he was often called an extremely good rising star when he was young, but now he is just a small Portuguese Super League star, and his influence is even more unbearable, and the little light on his body is not at all the same as none compared to the Benfica stars.

Not to mention the other players, as mentioned earlier, some of them are still just "billets", not even "balloon stars" like Edinho da Silva. Although these "blanks" were or will be the most influential figures in football, and their achievements are not much lower than those of Benfica now, they are not comparable at all.

In terms of influence, the gap between players is not small, and in terms of teams, the gap between Boavista and Benfica is even greater, so big that it is not a level at all.

Look at Benfica, they are an authentic European giant, they have countless fans and supporters, they have a certain reputation in the whole world, and if they put forward their names, as long as they know a little bit about football, they will know, and they will also say that Benfica is a strong team, they are great.

And what about Boavista? Oh my God, I didn't know, I thought Boavista was a pretty good team, but compared to Benfica, it's nothing! This team is a small club in a small town, there are very few fans, many people have not heard of the name of this team at all, so that after winning the Portuguese championship in Boavista last season, many fans in China are still asking, which is Boavista?

Although the number of supporters of Boavista has increased a lot this season, the so-called supporters from China are not for the club itself, they are basically attracted by Chen Jianhao, so they pay attention to Boavista, which is really not sure whether to be happy or depressed for Boavista.

From this point of view, there is no need to say that the influence of the two teams is simply 108,000 miles, and it is completely incomparable.

If you look at it this way, you will find that Boavista, which originally looked extremely powerful and beautiful in the Portuguese Super League, compared with the real giant teams, the gap is really not ordinarily big, so big that it makes people feel a little inferior!

Although it is the same last season's champion of the Portuguese domestic league, there is a difference between this championship and the championship, even if Boavista holds the title of the defending champion of the Portuguese league, it will definitely not be on an equal footing with Benfica, the champion of the Portuguese Super League. It can also be seen that there is really a huge gap between the Portuguese League and the Portuguese Super League, which sounds like a very glorious thing, but in fact, no matter which aspect, the Portuguese League, which ranks second in China, is far from the Portuguese Super League.

The influence of players, teams and the league, Boavista is in a complete defeat, and from these alone, it can be seen how different the status of the defending champion of the Portuguese league is from the hegemony of the Portuguese Super League last season.

Unlike the last game against Porto, which was aggressively promoting Boavista, this time, the Portuguese media has obviously stopped a lot. Ahead of the match between Boavista and Benfica, they only gave a brief mention of the upcoming clash between the defending champions of last year's two leagues, and did not say much about the game. (To be continued.) )