Beast King Costa

Chapter 236 Unexpected

When the Shandong Luneng team's starting list was released, Diego deliberately paid attention to Tubakovic's formation in this game.

In this game, Tubakovic played a 4-4-2 formation, which is relatively satisfactory.

The goalkeeper position is Shandong Luneng's national goal Li Leilei.

All-rounders Yuan Weiwei, Liu Jindong, Bulgarian foreign aid Basin and Shu Chang are on the back line.

In the midfield position, the foreign aid Serbian black Rikov, Zhou Haibin, Zheng Zhi, and Song Lihui.

The striker is Igor from Montenegro partnered with Li Yinyu.

In the critical period of competing for the league and cup double crowns, three foreign aids were still sent to catch up with many national players!
It can be said that Tubakovic played his best in this friendly match, which shows that the Serbian coach still attaches great importance to this game.

Naturally, it is impossible for Benfica to have all the main players-the absolute main players are basically still on vacation at the moment. The main players who came to China, except for Moreto who was the absolute main force of the team last season, the others People can only be called the regular main players of the team.

However, Fernando Santos still started all the regular players of the team.

It's just a pity, because without Nuno Gomez, the absolute core of the offensive end, Fernando Santos only formed a 4-5-1 formation.

But Diego doesn't care if he is alone in the frontcourt.

When I played in Braga before, I was alone on the front line for a lot of time. Wende and Matthaus on the left and right flanks basically participated in the defensive press in the midfield. When he is physically fit, he will rush forward to participate in the offense.

Once the physical fitness reaches the bottleneck, it will be a battle against the opponent's entire defense line alone.

Therefore, even if Fernando Santos' regular tactics are 4-5-1, Diego doesn't care. Anyway, he can adapt to the "father and mother" playing style in the frontcourt-of course, the premise is that he has He must be the only main force on the front line!
Unlike the deserted Tiantai Stadium, the Shandong team had obviously done mobilization and publicity for this game, and there were quite a lot of spectators present to watch the game.

Although the entire Jinan Olympic Sports Center is not fully packed, the attendance rate must be over [-]%.

After the entrance ceremony, Li Yinyu, the captain of the Shandong team, exchanged souvenirs with Moreto, the captain of Benfica, and shook hands and took pictures with them.

15:30 exactly.

"Beep..."

With the referee's long whistle, the game officially begins!
Although it was a friendly match with insignificant results, the audience at the Jinan Olympic Sports Center still gave the home team very enthusiastic support.

More than 3 spectators sang and shouted for the Shandong team. Even across the track and field track, they could feel the ardent passion of the audience like the scorching sun.

With the support of the audience, the Shandong team also played very actively at the beginning.

Even though they faced a regular Champions League team and a wealthy Portuguese Super League team, most of the players did not have stage fright. Under the control and scheduling of the powerful midfield configuration of Zhikov, Zheng Zhi, Song Lihui, and Zhou Haibin, even Shandong The team's formation continued to press upwards, putting pressure on Benfica's defense.

"Oh???"

Fernando Santos on the sidelines was very surprised.

He didn't seem to have expected that the Shandong team could play so proactively after the start, and even the Shandong team's midfield control was greater than he expected.

In the 3rd minute of the game, the frontcourt Li Yinyu completed the first shot of the game!
Midfielder Zheng Zhi passed a long diagonal pass into the penalty area. Li Yinyu sprinted out from behind David Luiz and completed a spot-on shot!
It's a pity that Li Yinyu's shot was too straight, sending the ball directly into Moreto's arms.

In response, Li Yinyu held his head helplessly: "Ah! This ball doesn't exist!"

As a goalkeeper with a height of over 190 centimeters, Moreto is like a gate in front of the goal, which makes Li Yinyu sigh.

If this ball is in the Chinese Super League, then nine times out of ten it can be converted into a goal.

After all, the Chinese Super League prohibits the introduction of foreign goalkeepers. In the goalkeeper position, only local players can take charge.

Except in international competitions or intercontinental club competitions, Li Yinyu will never encounter a super goalkeeper like Moreto, who is world-class in both physical talent and goal-line skills.

Li Yinyu's kick almost knocked open his own goal, making Fernando Santos on the coach's bench of the visiting team unable to sit still.

After the opening, Benfica's young players looked very lazy.

Each of them played like the old man, which gave the Shandong team an easy way to push up the formation and create opportunities for threatening offenses.

This made Fernando Santos very dissatisfied. His players were obviously paralyzed by the match against Qingdao three days ago. They would feel that the Shandong team was about the same level as the Qingdao team, so their attitude was very lax.

At this time, the head coach needs to step up and take action.

I saw the old coach Santos walked to the sidelines, frowned and shouted at the players: "Pay attention to defense! The opponent is almost pressing to the front of our penalty area to control the ball! Actively fight in the midfield, don't stand still! Otherwise Just come down and give others the chance to play!"

After Li Yinyu's threatening shot, coupled with the head coach's repeated reminders, the young people of Benfica just woke up like a dream-the Shandong team is obviously not the same as the Qingdao team, the strength of this team Far above the opponent Qingdao team three days ago, more importantly, the attitude of this team is very correct, and they are extremely eager to win this game.

After correcting their attitude, Benfica finally took back the initiative on the field.

After all, it is a wealthy team in the Portuguese Super League. Even if it is only a mix of half of the regular main force and the youth team, but the rich background is there, and the strength is indeed higher than that of the Shandong team. Their control over the initiative on the field , is still very easy to say.

In this way, the Shandong team did not insist on competing with Benfica in the midfield.

Under the command of Tubakovic, the entire Shandong team began to retreat, giving up the initiative on the court to Benfica, and they retreated to defend and fight back.

Tubakovic has done a good job in the defensive training of the Shandong team.

After the team retreated to counterattack, the defense in the backcourt and midfield was very layered, and the distance between the players was also kept very good, and there would be no repositioning or being too far away.

Even Igor and Li Yinyu in the frontcourt also retreated to participate in the defense.

This made Benfica's midfielder only able to fall on the outside, pulling the Shandong team's defense, hoping to force the opponent's defense to show flaws.

(End of this chapter)