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Jorge Jesús’ self-confidence is well known, so no one was surprised when, upon his return to Benfica, the former Flamengo coach promised to put the team to a triple play; The first time he joined the Light, JJ had promised to double the team’s performance.
If there are exhibitions in which, in fact, Benfica has already shown double or even triple revenue, today’s against Farense has not been the case.
Despite having as a keynote the defeat of FC Porto on Saturday night, Benfica was not as galloping as usual in the attack, also due to a good reply from the recently promoted Farense, who still has no points in the League but has not been achieved. by “bus” in Luz.
On the contrary, Sérgio Vieira’s team went on the attack whenever possible, scaring Benfica several times over the course of the game and, right at the beginning, Nikola Stojiljkovic almost scored on the head.
Even so, it was Jorge Jesús’s team that started from the top: at 15 ‘, on a Farense ball, Rafa recovered the ball and launched himself on the counterattack, offering the opening goal to Pizzi.
Even at a disadvantage, Farense tried to keep the strong pressure on the Benfica men, which limited the fluidity of the red game – which happened a lot through Gabriel, who was not at a high level this afternoon – although, as long as that the pressure was overcome , there was plenty of room for Everton and Rafa to accelerate.
With rookie Otamendi in excellent shape building the game – the story would be different in the second half – Benfica clearly dominated the game, but without being able to create great clear scoring chances.
This is how the teams entered the second half, but, from the beginning, the game changed: Otamendi stepped on Stojiljkovic in the area and the VAR launched a penalty. At first, Gauld fired for the Odysseas defense and Falcão scored on the rebound, but the referee ordered a repeat, understanding that the players entered the area too early. In the second, Gauld again allowed the Odysseas defense and, this time, there was no reload, with the ball following a corner.
However, the game would be short: in the corner, Jonatan Lucca jumped higher than the rest and made it 1-1.
The tie clearly did not like JJ, who took care to show it: he took out Waldschmidt, Gabriel and Rafa and brought Seferovic, Weigl and Pedrinho.
Only Farense continued to bother: Ryan Gauld looked at Fabrício, who scored, but the former Scottish Sporting was out of play, so the play was invalidated by VAR. Then it was Nikola Stojiljkovic who was very close to the goal, but Odysseas returned to a good level.
Benfica were unable to create scoring opportunities and were relaxing there, due to Farense’s bold attitude of Sérgio Vieira. Only in 79 ‘, after a great cross from Grimaldo, Seferovic finally made it 2-1 for Benfica, with Ferro also on the field, after Jardel was injured.
In the same week that Vinícius was loaned to Tottenham, Seferovic was really quick to say that he was present, since, in 87 ‘, JJ rested: after the assistance of Darwin, in the counterattack, he made it 3-1.
The advantage, even so, did not make Farense give up the attack: Sérgio Vieira’s team returned to the front and still made it 3-2, through Patrick, in another play to forget Otamendi, who lost the ball to the opponent advanced.
Even without a consistent performance, Benfica won and secured the isolated leadership of the Liga NOS, now scoring nine points, three more than FC Porto.
