Rúben Dias blown away by Benfica gem: growing without limits | OneFootball

Gianluca Prestianni is one of the names that has most caught the eye in Benfica's strong start to the season. The Argentine winger continues to make his mark on the pitch, despite his slight frame, something highlighted by Rui Dias.

"Prestianni has produced an impressive number of delightful inventions this season, with tools on a par with the latest technological breakthrough, backed by stronger athletic qualities than his physique (1.66m and 58 kg) might suggest. An artist with tricks at his feet, he makes deception his driving force. He is evolving so much that his end product now combines a command of geometry with the right way to feed it. To the improvisation of someone who creates along the way, he has added refined solutions, worthy of an unthinkable strategist. He is growing without limits", he wrote in his column for Record newspaper.

The outlet's senior writer and reporter also highlights his adaptation to European football. "He had to adapt to a more restrictive style of football and to tactical duties needed to maintain balance. He felt that intransigence firsthand, but resisted the potential crushing effect on his instinct; he did not lose the joy of playing and competing and kept intact the urge to thrill crowds with creative solutions, some of them brilliant. When he receives the ball and goes straight to the point, he carries the daring of a madman, the grace of a boy, and the magic of stars blessed by some divine force", it reads.

Rui Dias praises Prestianni's assist in the latest clássico. "Benfica's goal at the Dragão is an example of a refined finisher; of a star with vision and sublime weapons, whose audacity in spotting the only available space to match Bah's run sealed the Dane's meeting with the ball between the goalkeeper and a line of five Porto players. The pass, seen and analyzed in isolation, identifies an extraordinary creator; not merely a magician of individual solutions, but a potential multiplier of collective output," he analyzed.

In the end, the journalist says the South American could have "the world at his feet." "Prestianni remains the privileged master of a move (the feint) whose raw materials are control, imagination, burst, braking and acceleration, with an exit route wherever instinct decides. When he tries it near the box, the sirens go off in opposing fortresses; when he executes it farther out, the commotion leads to a frenzy of fouls, free-kicks, cards, and an overall atmosphere that, as a rule, benefits whoever causes it. If he continues to develop at this pace, sooner or later, he will have the world at his feet", he concluded.

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