Chapter 112 Flip
Chapter 112 Flip
Bruno suddenly made a forward move and then made an unexpected pass, catching Benfica off guard.
Mahrez's late insertion came from the tacit understanding between the two people.
When Mahrez stopped the ball in the Benfica penalty area without a Benfica player around him, the outcome was doomed.
When Mahrez blasted the football into the Benfica goal, the Udinese fans, with only more than 2,000 people in the stands, burst into loud cheers.
They seem to have seen that the team has advanced to the semi-finals of the Europa League!
After reaching the quarter-finals of the European War in a record setting, Udinese took another step forward and advanced to the semi-finals of the European War. This really made Udinese fans ecstatic!
Two months ago, when Udinese reached the Italian Cup final for the first time in 92 years, Udinese fans were already very happy.
Unexpectedly, two months later, Udinese players brought them an even bigger surprise: they were going to reach the semi-finals of the European competition!
Udinese has performed really well this season. Not only has it been ranked among the top three in Serie A, it has also reached the final of the Coppa Italia, and now it will also reach the semi-finals of the European competition!
This is the best performance in the team's century-old history. Even in the season when Udinese finished second in Serie A, it was still worse than it is now.
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"In fact, before the game, everyone has been talking about away goals and away goals, but they have forgotten that Udinese won the first leg at home. In other words, as long as Udinese scores a goal, it counts. It wiped out Benfica’s only advantage of away goals... In fact, Benfica’s promotion hope is not as great as we thought..."
The Portuguese commentator is still causing trouble for Benfica fans.
So those Benfica fans who had no way to watch the game live and could only watch the game on the TV in bars or at home raised their middle fingers to the TV screen and uttered sentences starting with F: "F**KYOU! You son of a bitch commentator!”
In Portugal, Benfica has always been the team with the largest number of fans, and they are the representatives of Portuguese football.
Although since the Portuguese top league was renamed the Portuguese Super League in 2002, Porto has completely suppressed Benfica. But in the entire history of Portugal's top league, Benfica, which has won 29 times, still surpasses Porto, which has won 26 times.
However, in the Portuguese Super League era, Porto's advantage was too great. It won 11 championships in 9 years, while Benfica only won 2 league championships.
Not only that, Porto also won a Champions League and two Europa Leagues during this period.
Nowadays, when many people talk about the Portuguese Super League, the first thing they think of is Porto, not Benfica!
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Benfica fans have been disappointed with their team's performances for many years.
This season we have finally seen a revival of the team. They are far ahead in the league and are about to win the 30th top league championship in team history. Benfica fans are beginning to look forward to a bright future.
They hope that the team can achieve a breakthrough this season, not only to win the league championship, but also to make a difference in the Europa League, surpassing the Triple Crown record created by Mourinho and Porto and becoming the first in history. Four-time champion team!
They have a good chance, because Udinese is not strong - they understand it this way, compared with Juventus, Valencia, Lyon and other giant teams, Udinese is not strong.
Despite losing 1:2 to Udinese away from home, Benfica fans did not change their minds. Because back at home, they only need a small 1:0 victory to eliminate Udinese.
As long as Udinese can be eliminated, they can advance to the semi-finals and be only one step away from the final.
The semi-finals are here, can the final be far behind?
The final is here, can the championship be far behind?
Although it has been 51 years since they won a European championship, and although they have been defeated by the "Gutmann Curse" seven times, Benfica will not give in. They will definitely be able to break the so-called curse!
But who could have imagined that Udinese would launch a fatal blow at the Stadium of Light, erasing Benfica's away goal advantage and forcing Benfica into a desperate situation.
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Benfica fans in the stands of the Stadium of Light began to chant: "Attack! Attack! Attack! Attack!!"
They kept shouting, hoping that the team could abandon the conservative defensive counterattack tactics and bravely press out to attack Udinese.
Thirty minutes into the game, Benfica had few decent offensive opportunities. This was related to the tactical requirements of head coach Jorge Jesus.
At that time, he thought that as long as the team kept not conceding goals, and then caught Udinese's mistakes, as long as they scored a goal, victory would belong to them.
It’s no longer okay to think that way now.
Benfica fans hope that coach Jesus can correct his mistakes and lead the team back to the right track of holding high the offensive banner.
Since Jorge Jesus became Benfica's manager in the summer of 2009, the team's best performances have been based on attack, not defence.
In 2010, they were able to lift the Portuguese Super League championship trophy thanks to their top-notch offense.
This season they once again lead the Portuguese Super League standings, also because they have the most goals!
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<divclass="contentadv"> The 60,000 Benfica fans at the Stadium of Light were chanting "attack", but Benfica head coach Jorge Jesus was hesitant whether to press out and attack immediately.
He knows that Udinese's attack power is very strong, and he is worried that if more gaps appear in the backcourt after pressing forward, and they are caught by the opponent, it will be in big trouble.
At this time, Udinese had just scored a goal, and their morale and fighting spirit were high. If Benfica pressed out, conceding the goal would only be a matter of time, not an impossibility.
The current priority should still be defense. Anyway, the opponent only scored one goal. As long as we defend Udinese's counterattack, and then score two goals to equalize the score in the remaining time, we can win the game. Drag into overtime.
Playing at the Stadium of Light, the right time, the right place and the right people are all in Benfica!
Thinking of this, Jorge Jesus left the coaching bench and walked to the sidelines.
Just when the Benfica fans thought that Jorge Jesus must have asked the team to attack, he used gestures to explain to the Benfica players on the field: "Defense firmly and don't concede any more goals before the first half!" "
He plans to make detailed adjustments during the halftime break and make arrangements for Udinese's defense.
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After the game restarted, Benfica fans quickly discovered that Jorge Jesus had not made any offensive adjustments at all. The team still allowed Udinese to collapse in the midfield as they had done in the previous thirty minutes. The foot passes and lacks positive forward momentum.
"This is really bullshit!" Some Benfica fans complained in the stands, "Are we the ones lagging behind in the total score? Why do I think it is Udinese who is lagging behind?"
"This is a tragedy for Benfica!"
"Jorge is old! He is no longer the same Jorge who was aggressively attacking!"
"When those bastard Porto fans showed off their football in front of me, I had no excuse to argue with them because our football was boring!"
"We need to score! Does Jesus think we can advance to the semifinals with this score?"
Some people defended Jesus: "Man, he is afraid of losing the ball and taking risks. In fact, he played quite well in the league... It's just that this game is too important for him. If I were him, maybe I would Will be more conservative than him..."
In fact, in the fan circle, this unattractive head coach is very popular, but today the fans have put great expectations on the team, but they have received a bitter goal. It is no wonder that they have abandoned Jesus now.
"How can there be victory in a football match without taking risks? If he is afraid of taking risks, he might as well retract into his fucking womb!"
Benfica fans in the stands complained about Jesus' conservative selection, while Udinese fans cheered their team's performance.
"If we keep going like this, we will definitely be able to go to Turin eventually!"
"Let Benfica die, haha!"
"Oooh, Benfica are cowards! Ooooh!"
Udinese fans cheered their team's performance.
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Udinese discovered that Benfica was not in a hurry to counterattack, but continued to stay in its own half, only slightly increasing the scope of the press. At least when Bruno passed the center circle, no one was paying attention anymore.
Although Benfica did not press out to attack, which would make it difficult for Udinese to score, Bruno was very patient.
He has been patient for thirty minutes, and it doesn't matter if he continues to be patient.
What's more, the situation is now completely tilted in favor of Udinese. They no longer have to worry about Benfica's away goal advantage. With a two-goal lead on the total score, they can play more steadily.
Bruno values quality more than offensive quantity. That kind of thing where he took 30 shots in a game but failed to score a goal, and asked the opponent to take one shot and then scored a goal should not happen to the team he led.
That kind of situation is really painful. Before Bruno traveled through time, he was often tortured by this kind of situation when watching Manchester United games.
Now that he has traveled through time, he has been working hard to change the way he plays, which has led to Udinese's game statistics and ball possession rate being often very high.
The broadcast of this game also showed the current ball possession ratio between the two sides in a timely manner.
Udinese, as the visiting team, got 67% of the ball possession rate, but this is not surprising, because a large part of this possession rate was obtained by Udinese in the midfield and backcourt. , has no practical significance.
Once he breaks into the opponent's thirty-meter area, Bruno will speed up the pace, and the team's ball possession rate will plummet.
If you find a loophole, of course you have to hit it with a fatal blow!
If he is still tossing around like in the backcourt, the loopholes will disappear and it will not help the team's offense at all.
He is not afraid of Benfica's cowardly tactics. Anyway, when his teammates run, they can always create opportunities. It depends on whether he can seize them.
