Luís Freitas Lobo highlights Benfica’s limitation: they simply aren’t there | OneFootball

Luís Freitas Lobo believes that the secret to the victory in the Nacional – Benfica match was the changes made by José Mourinho. In an opinion article in the newspaper A Bola, the sports commentator highlights the absence of pure wingers in the Eagles' squad but praises Gianluca Prestianni and Andreas Schjelderup.

“After a European match against Ajax, where winning control had to be based on a strong interior game, a different internal challenge against Nacional, where to dismantle the opponent's 5x4x1 trench, it was necessary, instead, to have a destabilizing exterior game, through the flanks, to win,” begins Luís Freitas Lobo.

“Only in the final part, even without pure wingers (which do not exist today in the red squad) but with a one-on-one wing breaker (Prestianni) and a flanker (Schjelderup) Benfica finally managed to make that defensive wall dance, adding a second mobile striker (Ivanovic),” adds Luís Freitas Lobo.

“Benfica turned the result around in a game where they were always in continuous attack (suffered from the only construction error from the back they made) but only won when they opened the width of the field with the right individual-collective coordinates (facing the opponent's weariness),” concludes Luís Freitas Lobo.

Benfica returns to action against Sporting, in a match scheduled for next Friday, December 5, at 8:15 PM, at Estádio da Luz, and the Eagles have already started preparing for the duel. The match, valid for the 13th round of the Liga Portugal Betclic, will be broadcast on BTV and is essential for the aspirations of the team led by José Mourinho in the fight for the title, currently in third place.

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