Beast King Costa

Chapter 204: Darkness to the end?
When Benfica, as the earliest training team in Europe, was training in its home city of Lisbon, the German World Cup stadium also ignited the passion of the fans.

Fans are looking forward to the final four!

Most importantly, the fans also want to know whether the coldness of the quarter-finals will continue to the quarter-finals.

The first game in the upper half.

Surprise defeat of the host "Vikings" Sweden team, against the "Pampas Eagles" Argentina team.

The old coach Lagerber used the same routine against Germany in the quarter-finals to deal with the Argentine team of Pekerman.

However, Pekelman made a relatively large adjustment to the lineup in this game.

在前面阶段的比赛比较常用的3-4-3阵型，被调整为了4-4-2。

On the front line, "Rabbit" Saviola sat on the bench, and Tevez, who was ridiculed as "Shanghai Disneyland spokesperson" by later generations, replaced him in the starting lineup.

In the backcourt, Luis Gonzalez started instead of Cambiasso, and full-back Coloccini started instead of Cosoloni.

It can be seen that Pekerman is still quite afraid of the striker combination of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrik Larsson, so it is necessary to strengthen the defensive hardness of the midfield and not allow Ibrahimovic to easily play in the center. opportunity for confusion.

At the beginning of the game, the Swedish team, which was at a disadvantage on paper, dominated the start.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrik Larsson and Ljungberg took turns attacking Argentina's defense.

The "Pampas Eagles" have never lacked talent in the frontcourt, but their backcourt has never been a place where strong people gather. Compared with the German team's defense line, Argentina's defense line is far worse.

Under Ibrahimovic's various impacts with the ball, the central defender combination of Heinze and Ayala fell to the ground one after another.

If it weren't for the referee Michelle of this game who was slightly blind and saw the Argentine defender fell to the ground, and called Zlatan Ibrahimovic for an offensive foul, Ibrahimovic would have already had a single chance to shoot a heavy shot , Beat Abendan Shelly in front of Argentina.

Of course, Argentina's frontcourt is not good either.

Known as "the last classic attacking midfielder", Riquelme repeatedly sent threatening and concealed diagonal passes to the feet of Crespo and Tevez.

The Swedish team's big and thick defenders have nothing to do with Riquelme's master-level passing.

Fortunately, not long after the start, Crespo and Tevez's feet were still very stiff, and they did not grasp Riquelme's various balls.

In the conference hall of the Benfica training ground, Fernando Santos also led the players to watch the live broadcast of the game, and constantly analyzed the tactical characteristics of the two teams for the young players to listen to - no way!The tactical quality of the young talents in the Benfica echelon is really not high, and Santos can only train them patiently.

Of course, Diego and David Luiz are not among the ranks of these "unworthy young talents" in the eyes of Fernando Santos.

In the training session, Fernando Santos was impressed by Diego's ball-holding impact ability, awareness of grabbing points in front of the goal, high-altitude bombing ability, David Luiz's one-on-one defense, positioning, and timing of shoveling.

Of course, when Fernando Santos brought these two youngsters from Benfica, he never doubted their ability.

After all, he is a signed player of the Gestifute International agency. As a veteran coach in Portugal, Fernando Santos has always felt that Jorge Mendes' vision in picking signed players is too accurate.

Since Diego and David Luiz had already been signed by Jorge Mendes before landing in Europe, it proves that they must have something special.

What's more, Diego had already handed over 8 games with 11 goals in Braga last season.

So, at this moment, Santos is "making up lessons" for young players, while Diego and David Luis are talking to Moreto, Beto, Nelson and other Benfica first-team players from last season. Talking about the progress of this game.

Obviously, the old Benfica players prefer the Argentine team.

What they mentioned were more of the stars of the Argentine team.

"Argentine No. 18 Maxi Rodriguez is amazing! Last season at Atletico Madrid, he scored 33 goals in 11 games. It is said that the Premier League teams are now looking for him."

"When Maxi first debuted, he directly played the main force in Newell's Old Boys. That is a giant team in the Argentine First Division! Moreover, Maxi was only in his early 17s at that time! The next day he brought Seeing that the Argentine National Youth Team won the World Youth Championship, this level, tsk tsk! Playing at Atletico Madrid seems to be burying talents."

"I think Javier Mascherano has a brighter future. He is only 22 years old, and he has played so calmly and sophisticatedly in the midfield. He will land in Europe next season and experience two or three years. Is that okay?"

"Oh? Where will Mascherano go next season?"

"West Ham seem to be the 'Hammers' of the Premier League."

"Why don't you pay attention to Luis Gonzalez? This guy is also very versatile."

Moreto was not generally impressed with the core player of last season's league rival Porto - Gonzalez broke through Moreto's ten fingers twice last season.

Regarding the atmosphere of this one-sided Argentine team, Diego struggled to intervene: "Hey! Why don't you pay attention to Zlatan Ibrahimovic? I think Ibrahimovic is even better!"

Just as Diego finished speaking, Zlatan Ibrahimovic once again singled out Heinze on TV and succeeded in facing Abundan Shirley with a burst shot, which directly hit the post!

This startled Pekerman on the sidelines.

Everyone in Benfica scoffed at the name Ibrahimovic.

"Ibrahimovic is crazy! I don't like it!"

"I don't like this kid either. It's fine if you don't play Serie B with Juventus, but you decide to move to Inter Milan?"

"Ibrahimovic is an idiot!"

"Haha! I think this trend will continue. After playing in Inter Milan for less than two seasons, he might switch to AC Milan."

"Uh……"

Diego murmured in his heart: You are so amazing, you even guessed that Ibrahimovic will go to AC Milan in the future.

Just as the old first-team players in Benfica were complaining, Ibrahimovic slapped them in the face with a goal.

In the 29th minute of the game, the Swedish team made a long pass from the backcourt and went directly to Henrik Larsson!

Although Larson is not tall enough, his ability to play the ball is top-notch.

"Living Fossil" carried the Argentine central defender Ayala, and after holding the ball, he split the side and gave it to Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who was attacking diagonally.

Sorin has tried his best to defend, but he can't resist Ibrahimovic's crazy impact with the ball!

After entering the penalty area with the ball, Ibrahimovic faced goalkeeper Abundan Shirley and shot a low shot directly, completing the deadlock of the game!

1 is better than 0!

The "Viking" Swedish team once again became the first goal!
(End of this chapter)