Warning, Benfica: Fixture pile-up stuns Mourinho | OneFootball

Since taking over as the technical director of Benfica, he has not known more peaceful game cycles, starting with the fact that he only had 48 hours to prepare for his debut against AVS. Now, at the start of the second international break, the Special One is deprived of the entire squad, while facing another hellish round of matches.

The newspaper Record writes in its Wednesday, October 8 edition, that the Portuguese skipper will not count on the vast majority of the red squad until the 15th of this month, precisely two days before the start of another cycle of difficult duels, starting with the trip to Chaves, for the Portugal Cup.

Doing the math, the Club of Light will play a total of seven official matches, in the short span of 23 days. In other words, the rest intervals between the games will be reduced, which will make the work of the Portuguese coach more difficult. Besides the match in the queen's competition, the reds travel again to England, on October 21, where they will face Newcastle. It's worth mentioning that the cycle ends on November 9, with the reception to Casa Pia, but before the meeting with the geese, the eagles visit Vitória Guimarães.

So far, due to the absences verified by the international commitments, José Mourinho only counts on seven players from the main squad of the reds, which makes the task of preparing for the upcoming duels difficult. Faced with this situation, the Special One will conduct a training session today and will grant four days off and the return to work is scheduled for October 13, Monday.

José Mourinho recently joined a restricted list of the Club of Light. As it was found out, the Special One is the 17th coach to return to the eagles, as had already happened with other names, such as Jorge Jesus, or Bruno Lage.

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