Jose Mourinho's team is still missing out on the race for the playoffs.
Benfica Lisbon is trying to pave the way for the main round of the UEFA Champions League, the team at the start has lost a lot of opportunities to make money at the end of its series.. However, they are still losing their place in the game, and having known well the honorable champion of Italy, Napoli, at the time of his visit to Da Luz.
However, in this case, Antonio Conte believed that he could play with his share of the risky fun, and placed in the starting warehouse exactly the same mix of players who, last weekend, achieved a difficult victory over Turin. We add here a number of days of updates between matches and the need to travel to Portugal, and the seemingly new “Partenopei”, like Jose Mourinho after the derby against Sporting (1:1) all.
And what difference there was between the teams on the football field of the ongoing competition! It got to the point where the guests looked ruined by the pressure of their rivals from the starting lineups and they just started bringing chances to the goal. Ale Benfica needed at least three direct requests in order to open the rakhunok. The aursnes of his thirty-five-year-old leader was basically not allowed to reach the flat, so Rios had a chance to quickly pass McTominay with his head in the direction of the power goal, after serving from the left flank for 20.
After whose “eagles” were expected to take over the power half, the mutes were identified by various types of superniks. And it didn’t happen. From and that's all. And at the same time, the Benfica residents continued the festival of principled waste of money, and as if for such football the first half ended with a 3:0 score on the account of Mourinho’s team, then no one would have been killed in this respect. The table marked the advantage of one team over another.
The lost rulers of the field nevertheless began to think about the start of the other half, when Rios crossed from the right flank of the penalty kick in counterattack with the knowers at the near post of Barreiro, and with that fifth he sent the ball at the far corner over the hand of the massive. And by the way, after Konte interrupted his ideas with the ideas of moving his team to a load with two central defenders - all of them did not ask for anything, nor did they ask for anything after these changes.
On the ground, having transferred the ball to someone else's half, the trival hour was in the attacks after another missed. Ale Trubin was duly beaten ten times in two, and Anatoly calmly grabbed the balls, which also turned out to be a dry match for the new champions in Liza. Georgy Sudakov now remembers that he played episodes in defense for his great teammate Neres, and also launched a number of the team’s best attacks in the first half, but, as we already noted, the “eagles” loved to beat canoes.
In the current round, Lisbon's Benfica will host Juventus in Turin, while Italy's Napoli will go to Copenhagen in Denmark.
Benfica - Napoli 2:0 Goals: Rios 20, Barreiro 49 Benfica: Trubin - Dedic, T. Araujo, Otamendi, Dal - Rios, Barrenechea - Aursnes (Freitas, 90+3), Barreiro (Neto, 90+5), Sudakov (A. Silva, 76) - Ivanovich (Pavlidis, 76).
Napoli: Milinkovic-Savic - Beukema (Politano, 46), Rrahmani, Buongiorno (Jesus, 59) - Di Lorenzo, McTominay, Elmas (Vergara, 81), Olivera (Spinazzola, 46) - Neres, Goilund, Lang (Lucca,.
Next: Dedich - Lang, Vergara.