Marco Silva to keep Benfica call, Vítor Pinto amazed | OneFootball

The debate over Benfica’s goalkeeping position looks set to remain a major talking point around the club, with Samuel Soares and Anatoliy Trubin battling for the starting spot. For Vítor Pinto, Marco Silva’s trend is likely to continue after the international break, with the young Portuguese keeper taking charge in the league and the Ukrainian international in the Europa League.

The commentator recalled that Trubin started against Inter at San Siro, in a match of particular importance, but that Marco Silva’s next decision ended up giving a clear indication of the pecking order: “Trubin started in Milan. In other words, he was there for an important moment in which, if there is any balance in Marco Silva’s decision, everything points to the Europa League, at least for now, being entrusted to Trubin,” he began.

Vítor Pinto believes that the use of Samuel Soares in the following match reinforced the idea that the coach intends to keep the established goalkeeping hierarchy: “A coach who, after Milan, decides to keep Samuel Soares in the starting eleven is saying that, in his view, the hierarchy is there to be maintained,” he explained.

In that sense, the commentator considers a change after the international break highly unlikely. “I would be very surprised if, after an international break in which the goalkeepers are not even training at Seixal, Marco Silva were to change the hierarchy. Clearly, the issue of the goalkeeping pecking order is far from settled. It is a topic of constant debate within the Benfica fanbase,” he stressed.

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