After the brilliant victory on thursday night against the Italian team of Napoli, now becomes known the teams SL Benfica will face in the groups stage.
On last thurday Benfica received SSC Napoli and needed to win the game. After a first half where both teams were trying to know each other and trying to controll the game, came an enthusiastic second half. Quique knew then was the right time to resolve the game, so passed that message to the players. Benfica started playing good football, and the goal would appear sooner or later and it really occurred on the 57th minute. Reyes scored another great goal and left the 56500 spectators atonished. When Carlos Martins made the pass to Nuno Gomes score the second goal, on the 84th minute a sensation of relieve appeared in the Benfica players and in the red fans among the public.
Although the International great exibithion, last night Benfica returned to the Portuguese League making the habitual errors of the last long years. Every portuguese football lover kows that, there are only two main objectives in certain Clubs, Coaches and Teams from the Liga Sagres. The first one is to maintain their Football Team between the best Portuguese Clubs, in the first league. The second one, is that they all know, that unfortunately, the only moment they will be talked about seriously in the press is, when they play against 3 or 4 teams in Portugal. In this occasions the Stadiums are full, altough the ticket prices in these games become high and the TVs with their audiences and shares make the rest.
These are some of the reasons, why Quique Flores should know, that these opponent players will want to make their best perfomance in these moments. Respecting these Clubs and avoiding draws to one goal, like that occurred yesterday in Estádio do Mar agains Leixões Sport Club, the easiest solution is to make, as soon as possible, a two goals difference. After that our team will certanly become more solid, more strong and less tired. Probably the team will also have more spaces to explore in the opposit deffense. This may not be the solution for getting the 3 points, but one thing is for sure, the fans would enjoy watching the game.
On last thurday Benfica received SSC Napoli and needed to win the game. After a first half where both teams were trying to know each other and trying to controll the game, came an enthusiastic second half. Quique knew then was the right time to resolve the game, so passed that message to the players. Benfica started playing good football, and the goal would appear sooner or later and it really occurred on the 57th minute. Reyes scored another great goal and left the 56500 spectators atonished. When Carlos Martins made the pass to Nuno Gomes score the second goal, on the 84th minute a sensation of relieve appeared in the Benfica players and in the red fans among the public.
Although the International great exibithion, last night Benfica returned to the Portuguese League making the habitual errors of the last long years. Every portuguese football lover kows that, there are only two main objectives in certain Clubs, Coaches and Teams from the Liga Sagres. The first one is to maintain their Football Team between the best Portuguese Clubs, in the first league. The second one, is that they all know, that unfortunately, the only moment they will be talked about seriously in the press is, when they play against 3 or 4 teams in Portugal. In this occasions the Stadiums are full, altough the ticket prices in these games become high and the TVs with their audiences and shares make the rest.
These are some of the reasons, why Quique Flores should know, that these opponent players will want to make their best perfomance in these moments. Respecting these Clubs and avoiding draws to one goal, like that occurred yesterday in Estádio do Mar agains Leixões Sport Club, the easiest solution is to make, as soon as possible, a two goals difference. After that our team will certanly become more solid, more strong and less tired. Probably the team will also have more spaces to explore in the opposit deffense. This may not be the solution for getting the 3 points, but one thing is for sure, the fans would enjoy watching the game.
Uefa Group Stage
23 October: Hertha BSC Berlin – SL Benfica;
6 November: SL Benfica - Galatasaray AS;
27 November: Olympiacos CFP – SL Benfica;
3 December: Rest;
18 December: SL Benfica – FC Metalist.Kharkiv.
