A dynamic game happened last weekend in Braga. Fortunately to Benfica the errors committed by the Braga players opened the doors to the secure the 3rd place in the Portuguese League.
Cardozo scored again and the other two goals belonged to Di Maria and Urreta. It is true that the goals occurred on Braga failures, but if there was no pressing those mistakes wouldn’t have occurred.
Quique Flores must have heard the press rumors about an eventual transfer from the Braga coach Jorge Jesus to Benfica to occupy precisely his place, and decided to mixture some “cards”. One of the options was giving the right side of the defense to Miguel Vitor and Maxi Pereira would play on his natural position in the right wing. That worked well but David Luiz suffered a lesion early and the team changed again not giving the chance to everybody who went to the stadium to watch correctly the players playing on that positions. Nevertheless the opportunity to watch Jorge Ribeiro playing on the left appeared and on a well obtained exhibition.
Some people say that Jorge Jesus will be the next SL Benfica coach. Before the game, J. Jesus guessed witch players would play against Braga. If Jesus take Quique’s place, one thing he should avoid is that, the future opponent coaches he might face, dream with the players and tactics he intends to use.
Jorge Miguel de Oliveira Ribeiro (1981/11/09)The twenty seven years old, Portuguese defense, Jorge Ribeiro started playing on the Benfica youth teams. His talent made he repeatedly represent the Benfica B team, until 2002, in between aseason representing the Azores island Clube Desportivo Santa Clara.
The experience was positive and he returned but to the first Benfica team on the following season. The fourth place obtained by the Benfica on that League was probably one of the reasons that didn’t let him continue with the team. The northern Varzim Sport Club seemed a good opportunity to show his qualities and Jorge moved there to play on the following two seasons.
The return to Benfica proved that he his now more mature and a more experience player but he had to play for Gil Vicente Futebol Clube, FK Dynamo Moskva, Málaga Club de Fútbol and Clube Desportivo das Aves to achieve that.
Will Jorge Ribeiro have more opportunities?
