Pedro Brinca says only one Benfica player comes out of it well | OneFootball

Pedro Brinca analyzed the draw between Casa Pia and Benfica (1-1) and pointed out that the team’s problems go far beyond a lack of efficiency in the final third. According to the columnist, the team struggles with long-range shots, offensive aerial play and depends too much on build-up play or moments of individual inspiration, as is the case with Andreas Schjelderup.

“Rafa is a transition player who fades when space is closed down... Ríos does not have the flair the role requires and has made his biggest contribution... heading the ball in the opposition box. Sudakov should and could be that player, and he still has not been. Schjelderup is the one bright spot, game after game the greatest standout in this team,” he wrote in the newspaper 'Record'.

The Economics professor, who is a Benfica supporter, also highlights the limited options in the squad and the financial consequences: “The likely absence from the millionaire competition next year is not an accounting detail: it is a revenue hole that will force them to make omelets with academy players and get the market right at a club where Benfica, for far too long, has spent badly and sold the very players it still needed”.

Pedro Brinca also addresses the question of whether José Mourinho is the ideal coach to face this challenge: “My answer will not be popular, but yes. Mourinho now looks down on a squad he praised when he was at Fenerbahçe, but the truth is that he was not the one who built it”.

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