Mário Coluna's daughter laments detail in Moreirense-Benfica: awful | OneFootball

Benfica thrashed Moreirense 4-0 this Wednesday in a match from the rescheduled 3rd round of the Liga Portugal Betclic. The Eagles dominated the game and built an emphatic win with goals from Vangelis Pavlidis, Andreas Schjelderup, Gianluca Prestianni and Fredrik Aursnes. Despite the convincing display and the result, there was one detail that did not go unnoticed by Yolanda Coluna, daughter of Benfica’s historic legend Mário Coluna. The former figure linked to the club’s world lamented the condition of the pitch during the match.

"It was a good game. It is regrettable that the pitch was in such terrible condition. In the first half, Benfica were very wasteful, but in the second they played with real determination and it was beautiful to see the commitment of all the players. I believe the final result was entirely fair," Yolanda Coluna told the newspaper 'Record'.

The state of the pitch ended up being an added difficulty for the team coached by Marco Silva. Moreirense set up with a low block and made it hard for the Eagles to move the ball, who only managed to truly unlock the match in the second half.

Concern over pitches is, in fact, starting to become a recurring issue at Benfica. This was the second consecutive match in which the condition of the pitch drew criticism from the Benfica camp, after the trip to Marítimo had also been marked by the poor state of the surface. At the time, Marco Silva did not hide his dissatisfaction:

Unfortunately, on a pitch where you can’t play football. In this case it has nothing to do with Marítimo, it has to do with the League or the Federation — forgive my ignorance in this case — but it has to be said that we are right at the start of the championship, and playing football in these stadiums does no good for Portuguese football if we want to defend it,” the coach said.

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