Beast King Costa

Chapter 376 Overrated or Underrated?

"Diego's game is relatively quiet!"

"The main reason is that Benfica's midfielder has had too many injuries recently!"

"Petit, Rui Costa, and even Simão are all injured. It is very rare for Benfica to be able to maintain all-round capabilities at this stage."

"Obviously, the midfield arrangement of coach Fernando Santos in this game, the creativity is not enough."

"Kaliaka is a defensive midfielder. Although Kate Solanis is the core midfielder of the Greek national team, I don't think his strength is enough to support the core midfielder position of a Portuguese Super League team."

"Wait a minute! I think Diego will give us more flashy things later."

"Hmm...I think Diego is still too young! The opponent doesn't know him, that's why he was able to kick so hard. When the opponent gradually gets familiar with him, he will become the current altar position and fall back to the mortal world."

"Haha! Read on and you'll know."

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The scouting team and technical analysts of the Gestifute International brokerage company were all in the VIP stands of the Stadium of Light, watching the game seriously.

After all, for Gestifute International Brokerage Company, a big-name brokerage company that basically holds important player resources in the Portuguese Super League, they will definitely pay attention to every Portuguese national derby every season. The contracted players can also examine the actual performance of the youth armies of the three major Portuguese Super League clubs.

Once some young players from the three giants of the Portuguese Super League have a tendency to emerge, then the Gestifute International agency will definitely go all out to sign the players and carry out the next step of commercial packaging. After these young players occupy the main position , and then operate them to play in the five major leagues.

Now that the Gestifute International agency team is in the VIP stands, Jorge Mendes, the behind-the-scenes trader, must also be there, watching the game seriously.

But Jorge Mendes was very silent, and he did not express any opinions on the various comments and opinions of the experts of his Gestifute International brokerage company on Diego.

Not a word.

For more than ten days, Jorge Mendes hasn't gone anywhere.

After all, last weekend, the Jose Alvalade Stadium had already played a Portuguese national derby, and this week is another Portuguese national derby. For Jorge Mendes, there is nothing like it. It is even more important to inspect the young people of the motherland.

Although he is a football predator who pays great attention to commercial interests, Jorge Mendes has a patriotic heart. He has always hoped to mobilize more young Portuguese players to play in the five major leagues and bring the Portuguese national team to the top five leagues. The potential candidates for the national team are all sent out for training, so that the selection of the Portuguese national team can be wider.

At present, the Portuguese national team already has Cristiano Ronaldo, the future football superstar, on the wing, as well as talented wing killers Quaresma and Nani, and Joao Moutinho has also been cultivated in the midfield. , the rest is the guard position and the center position.

Apart from Porto's Pepe, on the back line, there are currently no very eye-catching seedlings in Portuguese football. Jorge Mendes has studied with the Portuguese Football Association whether to naturalize two or three players The relatively promising Brazilian central defender will be used by the Portuguese national team in the future, but currently there are no eye-catching foreign central defenders in the Portuguese Super League.

A young and capable central defender, that is, Benfica's David Luiz.

However, David Luiz has already been a member of the Brazilian National Youth Team, representing the Brazilian youth echelon and has played in international A-level competitions. Even if David Luiz is naturalized in Portugal at this moment, the Portuguese national team can't help it Going to omen David Lewis again.

and so.

For the time being, Jorge Mendes does not consider the issue of the back line anymore.

The main thing is to consider the naturalization of the center position!
Although Postiga, a high center forward, is still considered young, Postiga, who was born in 82, is only 24 years old in the new season. He has already followed the Portuguese national team in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, but his performance in international competitions is also limited. It can be said that it is average.

In fact, Elder Postiga, a young Portuguese center, left Porto during the 2003-2004 season and went to play in the top five European leagues.

At that time, Postiga was only 21 years old. As Porto's backup big center, he followed Jose Mourinho in Porto's most brilliant season, and he was also a Champions League champion shooter.

Therefore, the Premier League powerhouse Tottenham Hotspur had unlimited expectations for Postiga.

After the end of the 2003-2004 season, Elder Postiga joined the Premier League Tottenham Hotspur with a high price of 625 million pounds for the Champions League champion Porto - you know, Elder Postiga also It's just Porto's backup center, this price is definitely full of sincerity.

Fans who care about the Premier League and professional football practitioners have high hopes for the young Elder Postiga, and they all feel that Tottenham Hotspur has bought a strong striker for the next ten years.

However, it backfired.

After one season, Elder Postiga, who played 19 times, only scored 1 goal for the team... Tottenham Hotspur sent Postiga back to Porto at a discount after the end of the season. Bearing the notoriety of "the first parallel importer in the Premier League".

At that time, Jorge Mendes was the behind-the-scenes operator responsible for the transfer of Hélder Postiga to Tottenham Hotspur.

Although Postiga is getting better in Porto now and has become the strong point of Porto's striker after all, Jorge Mendes is not optimistic about Postiga's future.

The main reason is that Postiga's upper limit is the Portuguese Super League starter. If he enters the five major leagues, he can basically only become an accompanying role.

and so!
Jorge Mendes ardently hopes that Diego, a powerful center who has not been highly valued by the Brazilian Football Association, can directly choose the Portuguese national team!

Then the next ten years, 15 years!The Portuguese national team is not only a worry-free striker, but can even form a set of king-level striker tridents with the highest offensive firepower in world football!

Cristiano Ronaldo on the left, Diego in the middle, Quaresma on the right!

No matter which one, they all have the strength to resolve the battle by themselves!Not to mention letting these three players cooperate in the frontcourt.

Such a striker trident, even thinking about it, feels picturesque!
But the problem is that most experts at the Gestifute International brokerage company do not agree with Jorge Mendes’s ideas.

Of course, it's not because they don't agree with Diego's strength. At present, Portuguese football has quite a recognition of Diego's strength, not a general recognition. They all think that Diego will definitely be a man of the world at the center of football in the future.

The biggest problem is the sense of belonging!

Even though Brazilians and Portuguese are both Portuguese-speaking people, and most Brazilians are descendants of Portuguese, they still have different positions after all. Naturalized players have a sense of belonging and do not work hard for the national team. Lessons learned from the past, are there still few?
Therefore, the experts of the Gestifute International brokerage company still feel that Postiga can break through the current ceiling in the future and become a world-class center capable of competing in the five major leagues. They do not support Jorge Mendes to promote Diego naturalization matters.

But for now, this matter is just a stagnant state.

After all, even if the experts of the Gestifute International brokerage company agree with Jorge Mendes' idea, the most important thing is the choice of the client Diego!

Even if the experts of the Gestifute International brokerage company have not supported Diego’s naturalization, and Diego agrees with Jorge Mendes’s suggestion, decides to become a Portuguese citizen, and announces to play for the Portuguese national team, then this matter It will also be pushed forward directly.

After all, the chairman of the Portuguese Football Association recognized Diego's strength very much and asked Jorge Mendes to help promote Diego's naturalization. As long as Diego announces that he will play for the Portuguese national team, then!Diego will definitely become a member of the Portuguese national team immediately, and form Portugal's "new golden generation" with Cristiano Ronaldo and Quaresma!
But judging from the situation until the 35th minute of this game, both Benfica and Porto played too cautiously, and most of the time they were concentrated in the midfield fight, and they did not give Diego and Quaresma enough scenes.

Judging from the fact that 30 minutes have passed since the game, the most eye-catching player on the field is not the Portuguese player or the Brazilian player, but the Argentine international Lucho Gonzalez.

So far in this game, Lucho Gonzalez has not made a breakthrough with the ball.

It seems that Ko Adrianse has given Lucho Gonzalez a special task, allowing Lucho Gonzalez to reduce the ball and keep the focus of the game on the midfield fight, so Lucho Gonzalez Even if Reis has the opportunity to move forward with the ball, he will choose to continue to distribute the ball.

It has to be said that Lucho Gonzalez is worthy of being the top midfielder of the Portuguese Super League. Without holding the ball forward, he controlled Porto's midfield in an orderly manner, even if Kaliaka kept fighting with him. In fighting, Lucho Gonzalez was able to make Kaliaka's fighting invisible with ease.

Just like the Tai Chi culture in China-four liang pulls a thousand catties!

In the 39th minute of the game, Lucho Gonzalez, who controlled the rhythm of almost half of the game, showed off!

After throwing away Kaliaka's midfield fight, Lucho Gonzalez used a flexible Marseille maneuver to throw away Carter Solanis who was filling the position again!

this time!

Lucho Gonzalez chose to hold the ball and advance forward!

The speed of its advancement made Kalyaka, who was chasing back, quite desperate.

But fortunately, Lucho Gonzalez did not choose to attack Benfica's defense directly after holding the ball, but chose to score the ball to Quaresma on the right!

One on one!

Quaresma against Assis!
In the previous two or three direct matchups, Assis was able to resist the impact of Quaresma.

But this time, Assis was fooled by Quaresma's very smart feet!

After Quaresma fooled Assis, he decisively went to the ribs of Benfica's penalty area!
At this moment, in the penalty area of ​​Benfica, in addition to the high point of Postiga, there are two Argentine players, Alessandro Lopez and Lucho Gonzalez, who were recovered in the middle!

Quaresma did not choose to do it alone, but returned to Lucho Gonzalez near the twelve yard point in the Benfica penalty area!

At this moment, Luizon and David Luiz were a little overwhelmed-one of them was eyeing Postiga, the other was eyeing Alessandro Lopez, and Lucho Gunn at the twelve yard point Sares is still in a state of being emptied at the moment, and Kalyaka has not yet filled up in time.

In desperation, Luison could only give up the high point of Postiga and replace Lucho Gonzalez.

After all, the midfielder who scored the most goals for Porto this season is Lucho Gonzalez, so he has to make a defensive choice based on the merits.

To Luisson's despair, when he made up his position, Lucho Gonzalez made a decisive pick and gave it to Postiga in front.

Postiga is very calm. Although the arc of the overhead ball given by Lucho Gonzalez is not perfect, Postiga made the best offensive choice in time.

I saw Postiga's unconventional volley swinging his legs and shooting!
Break the door!

Because the speed of the ball was so fast, Moreto had no time to react!

1 is better than 0!

Porto takes the lead at the Stadium of Light!Scored the first goal of the game!
Watching Postiga's goal, in the VIP stands of the Stadium of Light, the experts from the Gestifute International brokerage company were also quite excited-apparently, most of the experts present were unanimously optimistic about Hélder Postiga's performance in the Portuguese country. the future of the team.

"Postiga's volley shot is beautiful!"

"Elder's talent is definitely underestimated! Absolutely!"

"It was the wrong time to let Postiga go to the Premier League back then! At that time, Postiga was too young, and there was no way to gain a foothold against such a fierce Premier League."

"I think, let Postiga train in the Portuguese Super League for one more season, and then use Elder to go to the five major leagues next season...Of course! Don't go to the Premier League, which is quite competitive. Such as La Liga, Bundesliga , Elder will definitely become the leading main striker!"

"I also think there is no problem! Postiga has this strength. In this game, Postiga will definitely be able to take Porto to beat Benfica away."

……

Jorge Mendes still chose to remain silent about the various opinions of the experts of the Gestifute International brokerage company.

silent.

Jorge Mendes still maintains his opinion: Helder Postiga is an overrated player, his ceiling is this, and there is no room for breakthrough.

and so!
Jorge Mendes waited for Diego to play later in the game time, and used action to slap the experts of the Gestifute International agency in the face.

Jorge Mendes firmly does not believe that Ko Adrianse's Porto can beat Benfica!
unless……

The referee took action to help, and sent off Diego, the "scoring machine" with a red card!

That's possible.

(End of this chapter)