Tomás da Cunha spots Marco Silva issue at Benfica: “No guarantees” | OneFootball

Benfica were reduced to ten men still in the first half of the Clássico against Porto, after Clément Lenglet was shown a second yellow card. The sending-off affected the match and, in Tomás da Cunha’s opinion, it ended up taking quality away from a game that could have had a different competitive level.

Miguel Nogueira harmed the possibility of drawing more concrete conclusions about the current form of the two teams, but he did send a warning to Marco Silva regarding the Eagles’ central defensive pairing.

“A good clássico was lost with the sending-off. Both teams are a reflection of their manager, and the result was impossible to predict. It was confirmed that Porto could not give Benfica room to play out from the back. There has been major growth compared to previous years when it comes to Benfica’s positional attack,” he explained.

However, it was in defence that Tomás da Cunha identified the main problem for Marco Silva. “It is also clear that Marco Silva’s central defensive pairing does not offer enough guarantees,” he said. The pundit also compared the performances of the two teams’ centre-backs and aimed a dig at Porto’s defence: “Compare the number of mistakes by Kiwior-Bednarek with the mistakes made by the opposing centre-backs.”

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