Pirated Ronaldo

Chapter 194 Pacheco's response

Benfica, which is at the center of Portuguese public opinion, is still conducting closed training.

Whether to end this successful season with a Europa League champion, or an even more glorious double crown, the answer to everything lies in the last round of the Portuguese Super League on May 5.

Benfica scored 69 points, Sporting Lisbon scored 68 points, and Porto scored 67 points. The last round of this season will be regarded as the most thrilling finale in the history of the Portuguese Super League.

Benfica played away against Boavista, the strong enemy in the north, and Sporting Lisbon played against the strong Madeira Nationals at home. Neither of these two teams dared to say that they would win their opponents. The opponent with Porto is very weak. Although it is ranked 15th, it has successfully relegated the University of Coimbra.

Therefore, the media's predictions for these three games are: Porto will secure 3 points, Sporting Lisbon will win more than half... Benfica, the probability of failure will be more than half!
There are many reasons why Benfica, which has just won the Europa League championship, is not favored.

In a nutshell, there are three points: mentality, physical fitness, and opponents.

Mentality: The team broke the curse of Goodman, regained the European championship after 43 years, and it is the club's first Europa League championship. All Benfica people are happy and crazy. At this time, what they think about is celebration, vacation, Transfers, endorsements, new contracts, etc. are accompanied by championship benefits, rather than desperately fighting for the 31st league championship in club history.

Physical fitness: Benfica's physical fitness has definitely reached a critical point. They played against Porto and Newcastle one after another. As a result, after the Europa League final, most of the defensive players fell to the ground due to exhaustion. Even if there is a 4-day rest, the time is so short. Coupled with the emotional excitement after winning the championship, how much physical fitness can they recover?

Opponent: The Panthers Boavista suffered a complete Waterloo in May, which can be described as miserable.

They first lost to the relegation team University of Coimbra, and then lost consecutively to rivals Braga and Guimaraes. After Braga and Guimarães, it became the sixth team, only 6 points ahead of the seventh Maltimer, and what's more terrible is that Boavista's goal difference is seriously behind Maltimer. It makes Boavista have the possibility of falling out of the Europa League!
Now, if Boavista wants to enter the Europa League next season, there are two ways. The first is to beat Sporting Lisbon in the final of the Portuguese Cup a week later, and the second is to beat Benfica in the final round. Maltimer caught up with the total points.

Compared with Sporting Lisbon, which is aggressive and wants to save a little face, Benfica, which is exhausted, should be easier to deal with.

The reason why Boavista will not easily let Benfica win the championship should be added: Boavista has unrepented old revenge this season!

It is said that Benfica met Boavista in the 1th round of the league in mid-January. At that time, Ronaldo had just entered the professional league and only played the only game against Sporting Lisbon. The head coach of Boavista was bald Jaime Pacheco, in order to break the morale of Benfica, openly called Ronaldo a "cook player".

As a result, although Ronando only came off the bench in the second half, he performed extremely well, completing a pass and a shot, and the shot happened at the moment when the game was about to end.

The final score of that game was 4:0, and Ronando slapped Jaime Pacheco hard with his performance on the field.

The defeat by a big score of four goals made Boavista, known as the second strongest team in Porto, lose face. At the same time, it also made the former champion coach Jaime Pacheco unable to step down. In the final, Boavista pulled back a game 4:1, but that was the result of Benfica voluntarily giving up in order to participate in the semi-finals of the Europa League.

Boavista has a chance of revenge, as long as Benfica can't get all 3 points, it will almost certainly lose the league championship after 10 years!

Not only guaranteed his Europa League seat, but also hit the enemy. At this time, Jaime Pacheco and his team, how to choose is self-evident...

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Jaime Pacheco: "Yes! My team will definitely uphold the principle of fair competition and go all out in the last round of the league. We are not only trying to keep ourselves qualified for the Europa League next season, It is also to maintain the normal order of the Portuguese Super League! Benfica has won enough honors, now it is the turn of others."

"Our opponents are not terrible. They may be enjoying the victory now. Can those famous players use their energy in the next game?"

"I'm pretty sure Boavista, who is fighting to the death, will beat Benfica, who is slack!"

Wearing plain Jaime Pacheco, his brain is definitely not simple. What is the "normal order of the Portuguese Super League"?
He is flattering Porto and Sporting Lisbon. Now that Benfica has won the Europa League, the league title should be given up!

As the second-order team after the "BIG3" in the Portuguese Super League, Boavista belongs to the team that survives in the cracks.

Relationship with Porto - On the one hand, Boavista has a competitive relationship with Porto in the same city, and on the other hand, it needs to join forces to deal with southern teams. Boavista, which is weaker, often needs to rely on the strength of the opponent, such as this Season striker Hugo? Almeida is on loan at Porto.

The relationship with Sporting Lisbon——Because of Akchet, Sporting Lisbon is a special existence in Portugal. Except for Benfica, basically no team is willing to easily make an enemy of this team, because that means Maybe when I wanted to introduce a certain winger, the signing suddenly failed because the winger came from Akchit, or I paid a higher price.

If Boavista beats Benfica, Sporting Lisbon and Porto will immediately double their chances of winning the championship!
Regardless of whether these two teams are in competition or not, their archenemy at this time is Benfica. In the matter of getting Benfica out, the two clubs have common interests and needs. Therefore, when Jaime Pacheco After the speech was released, some people from Porto and Sporting Lisbon immediately jumped on it like a shark smelling blood.

The media reporters loyal to the two clubs were very tacit to work together, surrounding Jaime Pacheco's speech, extending and carrying forward all the speculative remarks Jaime Pacheco said, Report it as "fact"!

As a result, a series of articles about the players and coaches of the Benfica club called touting, but really disturbing articles appeared in the next day's newspapers.

"Ronaldo's reputation has risen sharply and he has been looted, and his agent may have broken with the club."

"Nuno Gomez: I should get a higher annual salary to match my abilities."

"Benfica's transfer wave is about to come ahead of schedule, and European clubs are rushing to Cardini with checks."

"The famous Italian marshal has retired. Is he considering a vacation or looking for a next home?"

"Benfica: Where does fate go after glory?"

When Jaime Pacheco himself saw these reports, he was stunned, because these reports were basically put together with his speech, and it seemed that these reports were used to confirm his point of view Similarly, readers can easily overlook: In fact, Jaime Pacheco is only guessing that Benfica has been "chaotic", rather than really knowing whether there is chaos in Benfica at this time.

Not only Benfica was cheated, but Jaime Pacheco was also cheated!
The current situation seems to be that Jaime Pacheco is spreading rumors, and the good media is just following the trend and talking nonsense...

However, no matter whether Jaime Pacheco regrets it or not, the facts have already been formed. When Benfica fans woke up, they found that the Portuguese newspapers were overwhelmingly discussing the chaos in Benfica. It seems that Benfica is already in a precarious state at this time bingo.

If you just read these reports, don't say whether Benfica can play a beautiful game in the last round of the league. I am afraid that the club is already in chaos at this moment. Maybe the senior management of Benfica is not thinking about what to do Celebrate a victory or win a double, but deal with those difficult agents?

"How can this work? This year is a rare opportunity to win the honor of the double crown, how can you mess around?"

"These agents are disgusting! They don't understand what honor belongs to Benfica!"

"Let's go! Let's all go to the club to discuss an explanation!"

I don't know if it was the instigation of someone with a heart, or the spontaneous behavior of the fans. At this time, when the Benfica fans were feeling full of honor, they responded to everyone and quickly assembled a team of thousands of people. The team "give them a say"!
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"What? Our own fans blocking the gates of the club?"

"Thousands of people are clamoring for the team to win the league championship for them? Isn't this nonsense! If you do this, which side are you helping? Should the training continue?"

Ronando and his teammates were on the training ground, doing recovery training and rehearsing the targeted tactics that Trapattoni had formulated for them. When they heard the news of the fans blocking the door, they almost fainted.

What is this for?The team has worked so hard to win the Europa League and is preparing for the double crown. Why are the fans making trouble?
Besides, shouldn't the Benfica fans at this time be celebrating the victory happily?
"Children! You continue to train under the leadership of Coach Simmons. I will go and see what happened. No matter what, the training cannot stop!"

Coach Trapattoni threw the team to assistant coach Simmons and rushed to the club building in a hurry.

It is now May 5th, and the time left for Benfica to train is very limited. Since the last round is an away game, the team will set off for Porto on the 20st. It's time for adaptive training. At this juncture, it's really a bad thing for your own fans to make trouble.

"Damn it! The fans do this kind of thing when they are full! Someone must be playing tricks!"

"Could it be Boavista? Or Sporting Lisbon?"

"Leave them alone! Let's train, let the club handle other things! Winning the championship is the most important thing!"

The players who stayed on the training ground talked a lot. Although everyone said don't worry about it, they were still a little absent-minded. After all, being blocked by thousands of their own fans never happened in Benfica, let alone the team Just won the Europa League?
(End of this chapter)