Beast King Costa

Chapter 171 Taking Back the Initiative

"Be careful of Braga's No. 88! The central defenders have to attack! Don't be easily wiped by this kid after holding the ball!"

Paulo Bento also discovered the importance of Diego in Braga's offensive system. He kept reminding his double central defenders Abel Ferreira and Canela, asking them to have more "discipline" for Diego. take care of".

Not only that, the defensive midfielder Coustodio also followed Diego tightly, not giving Diego too many opportunities to catch the ball.

After all, he is a black player, and Custodio will not suffer too much in physical confrontation with Diego, but he can still clearly feel that Diego's physical confrontation ability is superior to his own.

It is also because Custodio has become Diego's "follower", which has led to Sessin in the middle often being able to swim out of space, breaking out between Sporting Lisbon's double central defenders Abel Ferreira and Canela, and completing the opposite side. Lu pass the ball to grab the spot.

Seeing that Sessin was able to find an opportunity to go forward from the middle to grab points, Diego simply stopped going forward - anyway, he stayed in the midfield and fought with Sporting Lisbon's midfielders and central defenders, and did not let them follow up. Chances of tonic against Sessin.

During the intermission, coach Jesualdo Ferreira deliberately explained the cooperation between Wende and Sessin on the offensive end, and Sessin's state is indeed good today.

In less than 10 minutes of the opening of the second half, Sessin has completed 3 threatening shots, and he is only a little luck away from knocking on the goal of Sporting Lisbon.

After the start of the second half of Braga's dominant attack, Sporting Lisbon's goal can be described as jittery.

If it wasn't for Ricardo in front of Sporting Lisbon's goal, who was like a divine soldier, denying Sessin's shots many times, otherwise, the score would have been equalized by Braga long ago.

Seeing Braga occupying the initiative on the court for so long after the start of the second half, the "fancy blower" in the Portuguese national sports studio was a little restless.

"From the start of the second half to the present, Braga has been playing hostile! Their ball possession rate has been as high as 69% since the second half! The number of shots is 5 to 0! My God, this is what we know The Minho arsenal with the strongest defense in the Portuguese Super League?! Coach Ferreira's team was able to beat Sporting Lisbon after taking the initiative to attack, which was unexpected by everyone before the game!"

Although Braga is besieging Sporting Lisbon at this moment, all kinds of bombardment are endless, but Braga has never been able to knock on Ricardo's ten fingers in front of Sporting Lisbon. Temporarily ask the director to cut the scene to another venue.

"Okay! Let's take a look at what's going on at the Stadium of Light for now... Oh! The score has come to 5-0!"

Looking at the crowded scene at the Stadium of Light, the players on the Benfica field passing, holding and distributing the ball calmly, "Fancy Blowing Brother" can see that Benfica is taking advantage of the last home game of this season. The game, using various goals to give back to the audience who supported them for a whole season.

"According to technical statistics, Benfica's two goals against Ferreira in the second half of the game were born in the 49th minute when Simao assisted, Manduka completed the front goal and scored twice. And the score was expanded again in the 57th minute, this time It was Simão's one-handed goal! Leading 5-0, Benfica can basically say that there is no problem! They hold their fate tightly in their hands, and everything depends on the final score at the Jose Alvalade Stadium !"

Soon, the TV station switched the screen back to the Jose Alvalade Stadium.

However, when the screen switched back, the situation on the field changed again.

As the home team, Sporting Lisbon has regained the initiative on the field. Braga, who was a guest, retreated back to his own half to counterattack as before.

Seeing that Joao Moutinho has already caught the ball, "Fancy Blowing Brother" is relieved-if Sporting Lisbon dominates the field, and then seizes the opportunity to score a goal in Braga in the second half of the game, Then Benfica's entry into the Champions League next season will be stable.

"Okay! At this time, the game time has come to the 62nd minute. Braga, who still failed to score after many violent attacks, began to return to their most familiar defensive counterattack style. In this way, Sporting Lisbon also regained the field The initiative! We can see that the two technical midfielders, Joao Moutinho and Rodrygo, have already held the ball, and the formation of Sporting Lisbon is also slowly pushing up."

However, the "Fancy Blooper" did not notice one detail: Diego, who was chasing Joao Moutinho for physical confrontation in the first half of the game, did not return to the midfield to participate in defense.

At this moment, Diego was swimming between Sporting Lisbon's two central defenders, Abel Ferreira and Canela, waiting for the opportunity to steal the ball in the backcourt and launch a counterattack.

Those who stared at Joao Moutinho were replaced by Sessin, who had just been replaced in the second half of the game.

Sessin does not have the terrifying physical confrontation ability of Diego, and he is not as domineering as Diego in defending Joao Moutinho.

But Sessin only came up in the second half of the game. Not to mention his physical fitness, he also has delicate footwork. He can use all kinds of ingenious little techniques to force Joao Moutinho to only follow Custodio, Rodrigo's various useless cross-passes were unable to directly kick the ball to the side, or pass it to the feet of Leadson in the middle.

Rather than saying that Sporting Lisbon took the initiative on the field at this moment, it would be better to say that Braga voluntarily gave up possession of the ball and let Sporting Lisbon's luxurious midfielder do useless pass control.

At least, Jesualdo Ferreira on the sidelines is quite relieved about the situation on the field at this time-as long as the midfielder of Sporting Lisbon can't launch an effective organization, then let Paul Bento's front trident Nani, Lidson and Devi are paper tigers no matter how lethal they are.

Regarding the blocked midfield organization, Paul Bento also saw some clues, but he didn't have a good way.

Lisbon's offensive organization particularly relies on Joao Moutinho's ball-holding point. Once Joao Moutinho is in poor condition or is "taken care of" by the opponent, it is useless to make substitutions and adjustments.

But fortunately, my team leads by one goal, so it doesn’t matter even if the offensive end can’t be played in the next half an hour-holding this 1-0 score until the end of the game, then the mission of the club’s top management to the team will be completed up.

I saw Paul Bento walking to the sidelines, clapping his hands and yelling to his players: "Steady the rhythm, everyone stabilize the rhythm! Keep possession of the ball!"

(End of this chapter)