Beast King Costa

Chapter 359 Modifying the Target
In order to prepare for the key battle of the Europa League, the entire Benfica team went to Seville, Spain three days in advance, and contacted Real Betis, the team with the longest history in Seville, in advance. The training ground of Real Betis was used for preparation.

Real Betis exists as the deadly enemy of the same city team Sevilla, of course they hope to see Sevilla deflated in the Europa League.

Real Betis officials generously lent the training ground to Benfica to prepare for the game, and happily told the Benfica club executives: "I hope Benfica can double beat Sevilla in the Europa League, and I wish Benfica can go smoothly." The new season's Europa League title."

Ok……

After all, Real Betis just doesn't want to see Sevilla successfully defending the UEFA Champions League. They even wish that Sevilla has high goals in the third-line battle in the new season. In the end, there is no harvest, and they even go straight to relegation. It's even better to go!Only the teams from Seville are left in La Liga!

After all, Sevilla won the UEFA Europa League last season, defeated Barcelona in the new season, and won the UEFA Super Cup. Now Sevilla is already the most prestigious team in Seville. Completely stole the limelight of the oldest Real Betis.

Because of the results in La Liga because they are struggling on the edge of the relegation line every season, and after Juand Ramos left Real Betis, Real Betis has completely missed the European war. The number of fan members can be said to be less every season than every season.

If this goes on, Real Betis doesn't know if there are any fans watching their games in a few years.

Because the fans are the "parents of food and clothing" of the club, the decreasing number of fans means that the financial income of the club is getting worse and worse. If there is no money, then there is no way to introduce powerful stars, and there is no way to compete with the team's powerful players. After completing the contract extension, they naturally rushed to relegation in the end... After the relegation, there will be fewer fans, and then it will be a complete endless loop, and they will never even think about playing back in the future.

How many British clubs with a long history have fallen into the British Championship and even League One in this way, and then completely said goodbye to the Premier League with huge commercial dividends.

In order to restore competitiveness in the Seville area, Real Betis has also tried to make relatively large investments in the transfer market in the past two seasons.

however……

Because Real Betis has no European games to play in, and because the team’s prestige and financial strength are not getting better year after year, powerful stars will basically not choose Real Betis—think of playing in Seville , Basically, the "Europa League King" Sevilla will be regarded as the first choice.

……

When the Benfica team arrived in Seville, Spain, and arrived at the hotel near the Real Betis training ground, Fernando Santos asked the players to pack their luggage non-stop, and hurried to the hotel's conference room for a meeting.

Because, after facing up to the team's large-scale injuries, Fernando Santos decided to revise the tough goal of Benfica against Sevilla in the Europa League as a certain strategic goal.

"In this game, I won't force a three-pointer!"

When Fernando Santos said the revised goal after the team's coaching staff studied it, the players even exploded in disbelief.

"This game! Let's keep the tie as much as possible, and try to get one point at the Ramon Sanchez Pisjuan Stadium! One point! I think it is enough for us! "

"One point??? Uh... I heard it right!"

"No way! How did it become a tie!?"

"Coach Santos, let's fight for three points! One point?! Can you?"

"That's right! We came to the Ramon Sanchez Pisjuan Stadium, didn't we always go for the three-pointer firmly?!"

"Coach Santos, please trust us! We really have the strength to get three points at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium!"

"That's right! Even though our current injury situation is very serious, I think! Our current strength of Benfica can definitely win three points! There is no need to give up three points like this, right?"

……

After Fernando Santos let everyone speak freely and vented all the pent-up gas in their hearts, he pressed his hands down to signal the players to calm down a little.

"Actually, in this game, how meaningful is it for us to fight for three points? I don't think so! It may even affect our league game because of too much effort against Sevilla... Oh! Yes Yes! The new season of the Portuguese League Cup will start soon, and we will soon enter the devil's third-line battle schedule."

Even though he said "it doesn't make much sense", Fernando Santos' face couldn't help but darken—if the team's injuries were not so serious, otherwise, how could Fernando Santos accept it? Is the Sjuan Stadium just for a draw?
To know!
Sevilla is the only team in Europe that has beaten Barcelona so far this season!

What a hearty thing it would be to beat Sevilla at the Ramon Sanchez Pisjuan Stadium!
This is a considerable part of Benfica's revenge for losing to Barcelona in the Champions League quarter-finals last season.

However!Still have to face up to the team's injury problems.

I saw Fernando Santos try his best to cheer himself up, and continued to say to the players: "After all, as long as we can hold a point and return to our Stadium of Light in the second round, as long as we can beat Sevilla, then we It is still possible to ensure that the group's first status is qualified-of course, we still have to ensure that we can guarantee a complete victory record against the other three teams in the same group. At least, Sevilla is in the Europa League They are very experienced against weak teams, and they have never lost the chain on weak teams.”

"so!!!"

When Fernando Santos said this, he even deliberately tapped on the blackboard with an oil-based pen: "This game! We have to find a way to try not to lose as much as possible at the Ramon Sanchez Pisjuan Stadium." Ball! To get a 0-0 draw - of course! 1-1, no big problem! All in all, one point is our ultimate goal in this game! What methods do you use to get one point? no problem!"

Seeing that Fernando Santos is so determined to take the tie as the team's primary goal in this game, even if the players don't want to treat this important game so unaggressively, they can't help it-Fernando Santos is the main goal. Coaches, players need to unconditionally obey any decision made by the head coach!
"In this game, I will make some major adjustments in the starting lineup. For example! Kaliaka will return to the defensive midfielder position. I want Kaliaka to partner with Carter Solanis. After all, Kaliaka will return to the defensive midfielder position. , Sevilla’s midfield configuration is indeed very good. Their main midfield quartet is Portuguese international Duda, Italian defensive champion Enzo Maresca, Brazilian playmaker Renato, Spanish Local winger Jesuli."

While talking, Fernando Santos also wrote Sevilla's starting core lineup on the small blackboard behind him with an oil-based pen.

"Juande Ramos, the Sevilla midfield four, can do everything in terms of offense and defense. It can be described as a typical midfield configuration for total defense. Don't look at Enzo Mare Ska is a defensive midfielder who is well versed in Italian chain defense, but he still has the ability to score goals from the back. In the new season of the European Super Cup, Maresca scored a goal for Barcelona. It was Luis Fabiano's shot from inside the penalty area that was saved, and Enzo Maresca, who followed outside the penalty area, followed up with a super long-range shot and put the ball in."

At the same time, Fernando Santos continued to draw the tactical formation that Benfica will use in this game on the other side of the small blackboard.

"In order to curb Sevilla's all-out midfield configuration, this game! I will consider playing back to the 4-4 I am most familiar with, and it is also the 1-1 we have practiced for a long time in the Valencia region of Spain during the preparation period. -[-]-[-] formation!"

Having said that, Fernando Santos did not forget to give Diego a look of approval.

Obviously, the main reason for the absolute change in this game is that Diego had a long talk with Fernando Santos on the plane, which made Fernando Santos decide to focus on the tactical strategy of this game to contain Sevilla Above the midfield.

"Since I want to play 4-4-1-1, I will exclude the winger position. Karagonis has played a very prominent defensive role on the wing during this period. In this game, I will choose Karagonis to start on the left side As for the position of the forward, as for the right flank, I was considering Mantolas before. But now I am going to let Beto directly play the right forward. As for the choice of the striker, I am still quite a headache for the time being-Diego’s position is hard to beat As for who to start, go with Diego as a partner...I still have to think about it again."

Fernando Santos glanced at Nuno Gomez and then at Mantolas. Obviously, apart from Diego, the iron-clad big center, the main force will definitely start to support Sevilla's back line, another Is the choice of striker going to Nuno Gomez to hide behind Diego?Or let Mantolas press up directly, help Diego attract defense on the front line, and play double center tactics?
For the time being, Fernando Santos has not yet reached a conclusion.

"Let's talk about the back line! Since this game is mainly about defense, then Leonardo Bastos' position will naturally be played by Assis. At least, Assis and Nelson are on the side Lu’s defense seems to be really good this season! We have no other candidates for the central defender combination-Luisson and David Luiz! I can tell you two first, you are against the opponents in this game. Frederick Canoute and Luis Fabiano are all world-class super strikers! The pressure on you will be very, very, very high!"

Speaking of which, Fernando Santos finally surprised everyone once.

"As for the goalkeeper position, I want Moreto to start this game!"

"Me??? Really?!"

Moreto was stunned for a moment—what the hell!Fernando Santos actually chose to give up his most admired Quim, who has a good job at his feet, and let himself start! ?

"That's right! In this game, we will definitely be bombarded with various headers from Frederick Kanoute, a big man over 1 meters, so I need a goalkeeper with better goal line skills to sit in the goal High block and low block, obviously! Moreto, you are the best choice for tough battles."

Fernando Santos did not forget to look at Quim with disappointment at this time: "Quim, I have to say! Not only have you not improved your saving skills during this period, I even think that because the team's current progress is too smooth, your The training attitude is a bit sloppy, and the various skills have regressed. I hope you can take a serious look at yourself!"

"I!!!"

Well... No matter how dissatisfied Quim was, when Fernando Santos said that, he didn't dare to slap the table and stand up to refute - even though he was very dissatisfied in his heart, he finally held back.

After all, Quim has been Moreto's substitute since he came to Benfica. He is the main goalkeeper for Benfica to participate in the Portuguese League Cup. After Fernando Santos took office, he appreciated him and gave him the main starting position.

Otherwise, Quim can only continue to live under the back of Moreto, a tall goalkeeper with excellent goal-line skills, and continue to sit on Benfica's bench, wasting the golden period of his career.

As a result, Benfica took the lead of Sevilla's "King of the Europa League", and it was released three days in advance.

However, in this game, Fernando Santos chose to return to the 4-4-1-1 that he was best at when he was coaching in the Greek League, and gave up the 4-2-3-1 that Benfica played better and better this season. [-] formation, so in the past two days, Benfica has to do some running-in at the training base of Real Betis.

As for whether it is possible for the "spy" of Seville to spy on the team's tactical training?
These are all very possible.

However, Fernando Santos can't think too much anymore. At this moment, he can only seize the time, abandon other X factors, and try to run the team's overall defensive ability as much as possible, so that the players are more sensitive to the opponents. Before this tough battle started for Villa, he boosted his confidence a bit more.

(End of this chapter)