Miguel Guedes blasts Benfica arrogance, says Eagles live in a bubble | OneFootball

Miguel Guedes, a well-known Porto supporter, responded to the controversies that followed the Clássico between the Dragons and Benfica, which ended in a 3-1 win for Porto. Miguel Nogueira’s refereeing was at the center of the debate, especially after Rui Costa pointed to a “tremendous duality of criteria” in disciplinary decisions.

there were no decisions that justify the scale of the controversy that later emerged, recalling that Marco Silva acknowledged Benfica lost the match through their own fault and that Rui Costa limited his criticism to the alleged difference in disciplinary standards.

"The theory of collectively believing an untruth has never been so easy to promote because of the hegemonic quantity of opinions from one or two colors. As expected, even after Rui Costa let the air out of Benfica’s complaints by speaking only about a duality of criteria after the game, even after Marco Silva admitted the team lost due to its own mistakes in the press conference, even so and without any embarrassment — as expected —, the narrative turned into a soap opera plot after the final whistle of a match with nothing strange about it", he wrote in the newspaper 'O Jogo'.

The Porto supporter then lists the various aspects of the match that, in his view, were ignored in the discussion: "What does it matter that there was no irregular goal among the four scored on Sunday, what does it matter that there was not a single doubtful penalty incident during the 90 minutes, what does it matter that there was no incorrectly allowed offside or a shot for goal that failed to cross the goal line, what does it matter that no sending-off was wrongly judged under the laws of the game, what does it matter that the refereeing commentators were practically unanimous after the match and that, days later, in cooler-headed analyses with the chance to carefully review every incident, no one changed their opinion?" Even so, there is one objective point of controversy: Benfica believed Gabri Veiga should have been sent off for the challenge on Bah, in addition to having thrown a bottle toward the Eagles’ bench.

Miguel Guedes also argues that the discussion about the refereeing ends up taking attention away from Porto’s performance and from the analysis of Benfica itself: "The inability to recognize mistakes and personal blame, unlike Marco Silva, is the greatest guarantee of the continuation of the bluster. As for the notion that this game was won against the best 20 minutes of a team this year at the Dragão, that is the reason for us to reinforce humility, focus, and work. The soap opera will continue for another fifteen days. By choosing to talk about what did not happen, Benfica says little about the good football it played. It does not even speak about the half-truth, it moves closer to another mistake, and I doubt it will ease the pain."

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇵🇹 here.