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Center-back Miguel Vítor, 31, in his fifth consecutive season with the Israelis at Hapoel Beer Sheeva, will not miss an iota of PAOK-Benfica next Tuesday. This is a new duel between the most striking teams in the career of the player trained in Luz, champion in 2009/10 at the request of Jorge Jesús.
«It is true, Benfica and PAOK meet again, it is tradition. And like the last time [em 2018] Benfica starts as favorites for the elimination ”, shot Miguel Vítor in the first ring, in telephone contact with A BOLA from Israel. “But of course there are special circumstances, because a match is eliminated, also due to the Covid-19 situation, without forgetting that there was less time to prepare the teams for the national team strike,” he stressed, reiterating, even so, that “Benfica starts as a favorite.”
In addition, he stressed, one of the great strengths of the Greek teams at home, the player number 12, will not be able to enter the field. And that is a factor that works in favor of the eagles.
“For PAOK it would always be an advantage to play with their fans. It is for all teams, but even more so in Thessaloniki, due to the atmosphere of the city itself. And the expectation that PAOK will be able to reach the Champions League group stage for the first time is sure to create an atmosphere of madness, which could see the team transcend at times. By not having an audience, it is an advantage for Benfica, despite the disadvantage that the tie is decided in a match, which makes everything more unpredictable “, analyzed Miguel Vítor, who is convinced that the return of Jesús a la Luz is an attempt “to recover what he brought to Benfica in the years he was there.”
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