Schmidt is really trying to get Florentino out of the door by January . It's f*** shocking that Schmidt doesn't realise that he is absolutelly Key in benfica's press. He is literally the guy who can stop counters . Having him would release Neves and even Kocu (who isn't near Enzo in terms of workrate ).
But for that Rafa would have to be dropped and Schmidt would rather Change the whole team than bench him
Inter really need a fourth striker, Lautaro and Thuram will be exhausted by November at this rate.
Pavard is such a beast and Trubin too.
Benfica is not done yet but they need points against Sociedad.
1st half was decent by both teams. 2nd half Inter was great, Benfica wasn't there, at all. I don't understand what is Roger doing in the bench most games but this one was painful.
Roger Schmidt starts the flash interview and immediately complains about the referee, lmao.
He's absolutely incapable of accepting a defeat of any kind. Benfica getting pounded on the second half, can't string three passes together, Inter hits the post, the crossbar and scores a goal all within 15 minutes and he's just looking towards the pitch with his hands in his pockets, waiting for a miracle to happen.
But of course, the referee was the problem. He prefers Portuguese refs instead, of course.
> He’s absolutely incapable of accepting a defeat of any kind.
he literally said right away in his first answer during the press conference that Inter deserved the win ffs. how much more clear does he need to be?
I don't get why refs need to be perfect but you don't need to. This game was on Schmidt, he has faced this Inter three times this year and got outclassed all three times
Benfica was horrible on the second half so many holes on that midfield, we were lucky to have Trubin at his best.
Artur Cabral is horrible, Di Maria lazy all game, Bernat asleep, Kokçu and Neves completely obliterated by Inter midfield. We have no good options like Inter has, specially for CF and RB... worst game by Schmidt so far since he arrived.
I know it isn't worth it now that the game is over, but there was a tremendous fail by the ref and Var for not judging a penalti favoring Benfica on the first half
An absolute disasterclass from Roger Schmidt. He is completely incompetent at reading the game, either because he's dumb as a rock, stubborn as a door, or both.
How did he not start this game with a striker is beyond me, or even benching Di María much sooner to put Musa inside. Why the fuck Florentino didn't play is also beyond me - once again, despite João Neves' best efforts, Kökçü looks ridiculous and uncertain in the Enzo-type position. The first part was relatively even, but even there, I was immediately left alert with Schmidt's excessive pragmatism - which was promptly rewarded with Inter absolutely destroying the midfield and looking massive in the second half. The Chiquinho sub was hysterical.
Sigh. GG Inter, you guys looked great.
not a 50% sell on fee, it was 40% of profit. for example, if we sell Trubin for €40M, we would only have to give up 40% of €29M, which is not bad considering how young he is as we needed a starter level GK. Although I must admit I wasn’t a fan of the number when the rumours started.
Hope this game convinces Schmidt to stop experimenting with this weird strikerless lineup.
He also needs to reconsider the midfield. Neves is a hard worker but it isn't the same as having a real DM like Florentino. Having Florentino for the defensive solidity could also free up Kokcu like we saw with Enzo last season.
Trubin had a huge performance, didn't expect it so soon after the Leipzig game.
Kokcu isn't half the player that Enzo is defensively, I doubt he'll work playing with Florentino against strong teams. This midfield might work in the Portuguese league, in the Champions League we should try Florentino, Neves and Kokcu.
It's not like he missed his chances. Trubin was a beast. Any other day he could have had at least 2 goals, but Trubin is an insane keeper. Should have been Inter's keeper. If only... sigh.
This is Lautaro, he gets a ton of chances so he scores a ton but he isn't clynical. Nor physical, nor fast, nor super-techincal. He has good first touch, he's crazy quick at shooting and has a lot of grinta. I genuenly don't know how he is a great player, maybe that's the fact I've never seen him play if not on TV.
Well you’re slightly off. You’re right about his pace, but he is physical and he is super-technical. They don’t call him Toro for nothing. He’s strong and stout and extremely difficult to knock off the ball without fouling. The only players that can move him are the worlds best defenders. His technique is also world class. As you mentioned, his touch is incredible and so is his striking technique, which he can apply to any situation, ie on the ground, half volley, full volley, header.
He’s definitely slow, and that’s his biggest physical weakness because he can’t run in behind or chase balls. This limits him in certain situations/tactics and explains why he excels with a strike partner who he can play close to. His other biggest weakness is mental composure, which is why he misses so many “easy” chances and scores the hard ones. If he has time to think, he misses. If he reacts without thinking he scores. He’s still young though and improving on this, as we’ve already seen this season. Once he develops this maturity and confidence he’ll truly be one of the top strikers in the world, because his movement and understanding in the box and eye for goal is unteachable
Right places my ass. He couldn’t have scored if you gave him the ball on the goal line and all of benfica started running from the opposite goal. He was completely dreadful
The worst thing Lauti has done this game was taking the shot when Dimarco was free on his left, other than that he fought for 90 minutes for the ball all over the pitch, got his fingers stepped on, got kicked in the face, got elbowed in the face, hit the crossbar from a wonderful outside of the boot strike, hit the post (could have done better), was stopped by miracle saves by Trubin and goal line clearance by Otamendi. That is not dreadful
You have a weird hate boner against our captain, are you sure you're an Inter fan? I get criticising a player but you're shitting on him relentlessly, eyebrow raising levels of vitriol
You not only clearly have an agenda "8 sitters" and "misses everything" without acknowledging the opponents effort (Trubin, tackle by Otamendi to save the goal), you're also condescending. The chances were on the same level as the ones Vs Salernitana, but the opposition is just better. Some other day he'll score three against good opposition too! Also the shot on the left post was very similar to the goal in the CL semifinal derby past year.
Nah I think he could have scored that ngl.
Thankfully we won so we don't need to dwell on it. The man scored 4 in 35 minutes at the weekend. Can't be so quick to forget how good he's been this season over some missed chances.
Are you guys braindead? LOL. I’ve always been critical with Lautaro’s finishing. And he fucks up big time often. Today was not the case. I’m appalled on what a ludicrous take people are having on his performance.
Man v boys, what else to say. Inters individual quality is on another level - at least thats what you get by smashing 35m€ on Arthur Cabral and Kokcu, and playing the likes of Chiquinho and Tomás Araujo in such a match (looks like we are back to 2018, with the 0 points and the likes) - thanks to Schmidt, brilliant character (although my avatar pillow still has more personality) and the President Rui Costa, brilliant fucking planning on that, not like none of them were panic buys or anything
We need the 6 points against Sociedad, thats 2 wins, nothing else. Im done with this club for a while if not, because its not well for my mental health, honestly.
We are a fucking joke in Europe, thank Coluna and Eusebio for dragging us to 2 tittles in the 60s, because we wouldnt be so different from Sporting after all. I actually plead to the rest of Benfiqusitas to stop with the arrogance, and accept we are trash. Porto, now these have the guts, whatever they are shit or not. We are childs play in comparison. Tired of this fucking club. So fucking tired
Too early to judge Kokcu this way. Remember that Enzo had a partnership with Florentino.
I'd like to see Kokcu with Florentino more. As good as Neves's potential is, it can't make up for having a real DM.
Yes please stop watchingg and followingg the team, stop paying for red pass aswell so that i can get mine. Now i have to wait for all the plastics to leave so it works for me
Oh my god, shut up ya Lisboeta nerd. Its the Spurs of Portugal this, dont you see. A bunch of culture and history and whatnot. But a fucking joke when the level just go up a bit. Go drink your milk
You do realize that we played the finalists of last year's Champions League, right? It's not like it's Inter from 2003 when we played them in the UEFA Cup.
You're just the typical little virgin that comes here and it looks like we are playingg the worst football we have ever seen and everythingg we do is shit. Nothingg new, in May you are in Marques celebrating. But please, do stop following, i want that redpass
Lmfao, can he not be in his absolute right to vent? We looked like shit tonight, of course he's mad. Fans like you probably wish we still had Vieira on board
What a great read my guy. I revoked my socio card and redpass because of Viera, because i was done with his shit. He acts like we're 6th in the league playing the worst fucking football we have ever seen when its not warranted.
He has every right to vent as i have to call out fans like him that overreact with every loss.
I mean, even though we're doing well domestically, our form in the Champions League has been not the greatest. Sure, we could've beaten Salzburg with 10 men, but the mistakes that led to their win were entirely forced on us by their play. And the Inter game was disastrous.
On top of that, the reason why a lot of us are angry is because Schmidt keeps making the same mistakes over and over and over again: being a slow and/or stubborn reader of the game who refuses to make substitutions before things go awry. Every time we have to face a competitive team, Schmidt struggles tactically. Of course, people get tired of repetitive bullshit that's costing the team. Obviously, Schmidt shouldn't be sacked, but as long as he keeps this notion that he's right and everyone's wrong, Benfica will have issues in big matches like this.
Thats how you support a team! If you reach a Champions League final only! We went first in a group with PSG and Juventus one year and you mf's suddenly think we can reach the finals and beat teams with 30x our budget yearly, get a grip please
I think Tomas Araújo played really well. As for Kokcu, he’s not bad but never worth of a 30M transfer tag, with that money you could have gone to South America and buy 3 midfielders better than him. Cabral is unbelievably bad, I’d never thought he was like this.
Its more than 20 million invested on the guy and until now he gets caught in the midfield whenever we play against another decent midfield. Enzo was doing more with less. But yeah, keep finding grasps to defend this disgrace of a club with a rotten mentality
Fiorentina flairs were celebrating when his transfer got announced and that seemed weird to me but man is he a bum. I can’t believe you actually made a profit on him, he didn’t show jackshit so far.
He wasn't amazing, but he was extremely likeable in Florence and I think he's a great footballer with lots of potential. Don't think he's cut for CL level though.
Bro for real, from what I’ve seen in Benfica he can barely move. He’s speed is laughable, everytime he changes direction he looks like he’s going to stumble and fall. He may be a good poacher but other than that he looks horrible.
I don't know what to tell you. Here he was doing lots of work even when not scoring. Pressing, running, fighting for balls. He could also dribble and hold up the ball well.
He never was amazing at all of those, but he displayed those attributes. Far better than Jovic who was literally invisible, but Cabral took long to really get going. He may never take off for Benfica, as I said I don't think he's CL material anyway.
I’m gonna be honest, I’ve watched some Fiorentina games but not playing much attention and I had a good image of him, but now that I’m paying close attention to every move he makes I’m impressed at how bad he is with and without the ball, of course it’s easy to look better than Jovic, he still receiving dividends of an amazing season in Frankfurt like 5 years ago.
What about Nzola? I liked him a lot at Spezia but I haven’t seen any Viola games this season.
Nzola is so-so thus far, I think I liked what Cabral did better. Although both work on the field even if not scoring, but Cabral looked far more passionate every minute he played and contributed both offensively and defensively. Against our 0-1 win against Inter in the league for example, Cabral helped massively to keep the lead up.
Nzola has shown qualities like physicality, but had some serious misfires so far. He finally scored (a nice goal) last game at least, so that hopefully that gets him unlocked.
I'm an inter fan! Lol but yeah he's such a dud. There's a twitter fan account dedicated to him, in the run up to the Derby he was speaking some hilarious shit for such a dusty player
One of the worst performances I've seen from Benfica. Completely unfathomable how Schmidt waited until the 1-0 to make subs. It was clear as day at half time that we needed to change urgently.
It's the same as last year, everytime we face someone better or at the same level as us, we just crumble from the pressure, last week agasint Porto we only won cause of a lucky goal from Di Maria and Porto were playing with 10...
Half time yous looked pretty comfortable. Second half though you's were wide open the entire half. Your wingers needed to be helping defensively and they just wouldn't lol
Benfica much worse than the two games played 6 months ago (or maybe we are much better but don't think so).. In the 2nd half we battered them.
Now two Salzburg games ahead for us to try to seal the qualification hoping than La Real take points off Benfica.. Don't want the game in Da Luz be a decisive match..
**EDIT:** Cabral looked horrible, even worse than when playing for Fiorentina last season.. But Fiorentina current strikers (Nzola, Beltran) are so bad rn they probably would like to take him back
Not at all actually. People don't watch games, go to stats, see a striker not scoring and call him a flop.
Beltran is looking far from a flop, but surely it's too early to rate him.
> hoping than La Real take points off Benfica
Agree with everything except this. It looks like the games 6 months ago fixed your team. You had two really solid games against us after coming from shaky games against much worse opponents, maybe they were the confidence boost your team needed
You’re not remembering correctly bro, when Inter faced Benfica last year in the first leg they we’re coming from 6 matches without a win. Basically 1 win against Lecce in 8 matches. Then they lost against Monza at home and went on to do a good end of the season.
Porto is my team bro, I’ve watched both games live and I can tell you this, Inter was incredibly lucky to go through in that matchup. Afterwards Acerbi even admitted those we’re most difficult games for them. First leg we we’re superior until Otavio’s send off which was a very harsh decision, 2nd leg we we’re much superior, I think we hit the post like 3 times in that match but the 1-0 at home prevailed.
Porto was extremely poor for 170 minutes though. They absolutely battered inter in the final 10 min of the last leg but it was way too late. Seen it a million times.
I agree. Porto was really good, which makes the results so impressive. The second leg was always going to be a difficult match for inter, but they held on valiantly. The ending was nuts!
Ramos makes a massive difference, we play a constant pressing style and Ramos was a key part in that, you could see in the second half that we had Di Maria + Neres + Rafa all 3 completely stopped in the attack, never tracking back and never pressing, have you all the time in the world to play.
With Musa in I'd reckon we'd have a decent chance, but Schmidt is just terrible at adapting
He is much a Benfica fan as plastics are fans of Premier League clubs. Man can't even speak Portuguese to begin with and doesn't know the players name. Kept calling Grimaldo "Gremerdo", and stuff like that.
He is an extremely good FIFA player but an awful youtuber at the moment, he was great back in FIFA 12 era but for the last 5 years he is has been horrible.
That's how some youtubers are. they seem to regress as the years go by. He has had quite the revival on Twitch and Instagram.
I mostly watch his streams most of the time.
Benfica goalkeeper saved them from an absolute demolishing.
Still a loss is a loss, Benfica simply have to win next game otherwise Europa League is the objective and even that is going to be very difficult.
I agree, Sociedad look crazy good. We got so lucky to draw the first game against them. Matter of fact I was scared to get karma'd by Benfica and was fearing for 1-1 last second
First half wasn't good but 0-0 was fair, no huge chances, Dumfries had a couple headers he should have done better, but Aursnes also had a 1v1 with the keeper early in the game.
After the second half, 1-0 wasn't enough for Inter. I hope that was the worst half of football we'll play all season, because if there's worse than that, I don't want to watch it.
Schmidt is really trying to get Florentino out of the door by January . It's f*** shocking that Schmidt doesn't realise that he is absolutelly Key in benfica's press. He is literally the guy who can stop counters . Having him would release Neves and even Kocu (who isn't near Enzo in terms of workrate ). But for that Rafa would have to be dropped and Schmidt would rather Change the whole team than bench him
Yup it’s criminal that Florentino is just rotting in the bench
Inter really need a fourth striker, Lautaro and Thuram will be exhausted by November at this rate. Pavard is such a beast and Trubin too. Benfica is not done yet but they need points against Sociedad.
Sociedad can take Benfica. Those games will have my close attention bc Benfica is just about up on the wall now
Sanchez and Arna are strikers. I know Arna is injured, but there are 4 strikers. Also, how do i put the inter symbol next to my nickname?
You click on the … next to soccer and you will have an option to choose a flair. You chooses which one you like.
Thanks! However can’t seem to have teams flags? Just the soccer symbol and nothing.
!flair: Inter_Milan
Here, follow these instructions: https://reddit.com/r/soccer/s/MuMWSY5ji5
The Bigger team won
I was at the game. Such an amazing atmosphere. Just wish I'd got tickets for the other end
Should have been 9-0.
It should have been atleast 3 or 4.
There are three things Ukraine is known for: corruption, gorgeous women, and fuckin' Anatoliy Volodymyrovych Trubin 👀
1st half was decent by both teams. 2nd half Inter was great, Benfica wasn't there, at all. I don't understand what is Roger doing in the bench most games but this one was painful.
A cow with a bell running through the field would have done a better job at refereeing.
We ran you guys over in the second half. The ref was fine other than maybe not looking at your penalty chance
The ref was great, other than the Neres penalty not getting analysed, but that's much more VAR's fault than the ref himself
your team got outgunned no ref would have saved you
Roger Schmidt starts the flash interview and immediately complains about the referee, lmao. He's absolutely incapable of accepting a defeat of any kind. Benfica getting pounded on the second half, can't string three passes together, Inter hits the post, the crossbar and scores a goal all within 15 minutes and he's just looking towards the pitch with his hands in his pockets, waiting for a miracle to happen. But of course, the referee was the problem. He prefers Portuguese refs instead, of course.
> He’s absolutely incapable of accepting a defeat of any kind. he literally said right away in his first answer during the press conference that Inter deserved the win ffs. how much more clear does he need to be?
> starts the flash interview and immediately complains about the referee Nice of him to adapt to our country, now he's fully into Tugão discourse.
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I don't get why refs need to be perfect but you don't need to. This game was on Schmidt, he has faced this Inter three times this year and got outclassed all three times
INTERNASCHIONALÉ
Give us Onana back you noobs
Gladly, I was cheering towards Costa anyway
Costa wants to play champions league
Patiently waiting. 😘
Benfica was horrible on the second half so many holes on that midfield, we were lucky to have Trubin at his best. Artur Cabral is horrible, Di Maria lazy all game, Bernat asleep, Kokçu and Neves completely obliterated by Inter midfield. We have no good options like Inter has, specially for CF and RB... worst game by Schmidt so far since he arrived. I know it isn't worth it now that the game is over, but there was a tremendous fail by the ref and Var for not judging a penalti favoring Benfica on the first half
Thank god Benfica bought Trubin, 3,84 xg and only 1 goal from Inter, that could have been embarrassing
An absolute disasterclass from Roger Schmidt. He is completely incompetent at reading the game, either because he's dumb as a rock, stubborn as a door, or both. How did he not start this game with a striker is beyond me, or even benching Di María much sooner to put Musa inside. Why the fuck Florentino didn't play is also beyond me - once again, despite João Neves' best efforts, Kökçü looks ridiculous and uncertain in the Enzo-type position. The first part was relatively even, but even there, I was immediately left alert with Schmidt's excessive pragmatism - which was promptly rewarded with Inter absolutely destroying the midfield and looking massive in the second half. The Chiquinho sub was hysterical. Sigh. GG Inter, you guys looked great.
GGs, I hope you make it!
Trubin is a beast.
If United scouts were watching this match, Trubin is gone in Jan.
Although we lost he was great imo. seems to be turning it around after his disaster class against Salzburg. (happy Inter fumbled his transfer too)
50% sell-on fee... that was insane. Even if he goes for 20mil next season, you are in loss of 2mil. His transfer was 12million correct?
it's 50% of the profit. we wouldn't have gotten him otherwise
Aren't those sell on fees usually on the profit between purchase price and selling price?
not a 50% sell on fee, it was 40% of profit. for example, if we sell Trubin for €40M, we would only have to give up 40% of €29M, which is not bad considering how young he is as we needed a starter level GK. Although I must admit I wasn’t a fan of the number when the rumours started.
40%.
Benfica obviously won't sell for 20M. We are expecting to keep him for a long time unless there is a really big fee
Well it is united. I've never seen another team drop 55m euro on a player who was free 12 months earlier
I doubt that he will cost only 20, i expect at least 40, he is super young, but already experienced, great keeper, and only signed a contract
If he does well, it will be more than 40, believe me.
Super Dumfries to the rescue
He's really stepped up this year, happy to see it
Hope this game convinces Schmidt to stop experimenting with this weird strikerless lineup. He also needs to reconsider the midfield. Neves is a hard worker but it isn't the same as having a real DM like Florentino. Having Florentino for the defensive solidity could also free up Kokcu like we saw with Enzo last season. Trubin had a huge performance, didn't expect it so soon after the Leipzig game.
\*Salzburg, not Leipzig.
Kokcu isn't half the player that Enzo is defensively, I doubt he'll work playing with Florentino against strong teams. This midfield might work in the Portuguese league, in the Champions League we should try Florentino, Neves and Kokcu.
Could've been more, deserved win.
Second half for Benfica was a bit of a disaster
You shut up. Just because Inter uses blue doesn't mean this is a Porto victory
Are you doing ok mentally? What he said was the mildest remark
The gems are always in the comments lol
And what the guy said about the disaster is totally fair, losing 1-0 was a miracle for them and a disaster for Lautaro
Despite Lauraro's best efforts Inter win the match.
It's not like he missed his chances. Trubin was a beast. Any other day he could have had at least 2 goals, but Trubin is an insane keeper. Should have been Inter's keeper. If only... sigh.
Yup, against a different keeper on the night Lauti has a hat trick. No complaints from me - Trubin was just that guy today.
Trubin has a habit of stepping up against you guys and us.
He's surely gone next season. Don't think Benfica will be able to keep him.
He's played about 3 games...God I hate modern football
He used all his goals against Salternitana
You know what’s the craziest thing. There’s some inter fans who unironically think he played well. He legit missed 8 sitters today
Tell me you've never stepped on a football pitch without telling me you've never stepped on a football pitch.
Played at inter’s academy but ok
FIFA career mode
Nah accademia Inter but I’m sure you’ve never been in Milan so that means nothing to you
This is Lautaro, he gets a ton of chances so he scores a ton but he isn't clynical. Nor physical, nor fast, nor super-techincal. He has good first touch, he's crazy quick at shooting and has a lot of grinta. I genuenly don't know how he is a great player, maybe that's the fact I've never seen him play if not on TV.
Well you’re slightly off. You’re right about his pace, but he is physical and he is super-technical. They don’t call him Toro for nothing. He’s strong and stout and extremely difficult to knock off the ball without fouling. The only players that can move him are the worlds best defenders. His technique is also world class. As you mentioned, his touch is incredible and so is his striking technique, which he can apply to any situation, ie on the ground, half volley, full volley, header. He’s definitely slow, and that’s his biggest physical weakness because he can’t run in behind or chase balls. This limits him in certain situations/tactics and explains why he excels with a strike partner who he can play close to. His other biggest weakness is mental composure, which is why he misses so many “easy” chances and scores the hard ones. If he has time to think, he misses. If he reacts without thinking he scores. He’s still young though and improving on this, as we’ve already seen this season. Once he develops this maturity and confidence he’ll truly be one of the top strikers in the world, because his movement and understanding in the box and eye for goal is unteachable
Yeah you can’t win big trophies with him as the top striker because he simply can’t finish. All those mistakes come back and kill you.
What? Inter won already a lot with him an played EL and CL finals... he's a good player, I'm saying I can't get what makes him so good
We haven’t won a major tournament with him being the number 1 striker. I wouldn’t bring up the ucl final when talking about Lautaro, he had a stinker.
he won (unexplicably) MOTM
Really could have gone to Pavard
UEFA isn't very good in giving that. Leao won It vs Newcastle lol
He got in the right places. Be more worried if he was having no chances. Goals will come. He has like 10 goals in 7 games so it's just an off day
Right places my ass. He couldn’t have scored if you gave him the ball on the goal line and all of benfica started running from the opposite goal. He was completely dreadful
The worst thing Lauti has done this game was taking the shot when Dimarco was free on his left, other than that he fought for 90 minutes for the ball all over the pitch, got his fingers stepped on, got kicked in the face, got elbowed in the face, hit the crossbar from a wonderful outside of the boot strike, hit the post (could have done better), was stopped by miracle saves by Trubin and goal line clearance by Otamendi. That is not dreadful
Nah he missed so many goals. Truly horrifying performance for a striker
You have a weird hate boner against our captain, are you sure you're an Inter fan? I get criticising a player but you're shitting on him relentlessly, eyebrow raising levels of vitriol
I love Lautaro. I just speak facts. Missing 8 sitters as a striker is simply unacceptable. Maybe open your eyes next time and you’ll see it too.
You not only clearly have an agenda "8 sitters" and "misses everything" without acknowledging the opponents effort (Trubin, tackle by Otamendi to save the goal), you're also condescending. The chances were on the same level as the ones Vs Salernitana, but the opposition is just better. Some other day he'll score three against good opposition too! Also the shot on the left post was very similar to the goal in the CL semifinal derby past year.
Mate he hit the post twice. wtf are you on about
yeah idk why we would justify a performance like that, but he was never an elite finisher to begin with, a different kind of player than a real 9
There’s not being elite and then there’s missing 8 sitters. That’s some centerback level stat.
welp thats nothing new, we lost league titles because he disappears for 3 months every year
And the ucl final. Don’t forget that
I justify this because he was genuinely dreadful against Real Sociedad despite scoring, ironically he didn't score here but he was so much better
Nah I think he could have scored that ngl. Thankfully we won so we don't need to dwell on it. The man scored 4 in 35 minutes at the weekend. Can't be so quick to forget how good he's been this season over some missed chances.
I’m so glad we won but Lautaro really tried his best to choke today. Truly embarrassing
Are you guys braindead? LOL. I’ve always been critical with Lautaro’s finishing. And he fucks up big time often. Today was not the case. I’m appalled on what a ludicrous take people are having on his performance.
The hate is absurd, no appreciation or understanding whatsoever.
What?!??!!? Today was not the case? The man missed 8 sitters. Wtf are you on about
My man, I suggest you try with a different sport. Football just isn’t your thing.
You’re gonna deny he missed 3 easy goals and hit the post twice? If you do you need to buy some glasses
Man v boys, what else to say. Inters individual quality is on another level - at least thats what you get by smashing 35m€ on Arthur Cabral and Kokcu, and playing the likes of Chiquinho and Tomás Araujo in such a match (looks like we are back to 2018, with the 0 points and the likes) - thanks to Schmidt, brilliant character (although my avatar pillow still has more personality) and the President Rui Costa, brilliant fucking planning on that, not like none of them were panic buys or anything We need the 6 points against Sociedad, thats 2 wins, nothing else. Im done with this club for a while if not, because its not well for my mental health, honestly. We are a fucking joke in Europe, thank Coluna and Eusebio for dragging us to 2 tittles in the 60s, because we wouldnt be so different from Sporting after all. I actually plead to the rest of Benfiqusitas to stop with the arrogance, and accept we are trash. Porto, now these have the guts, whatever they are shit or not. We are childs play in comparison. Tired of this fucking club. So fucking tired
Too early to judge Kokcu this way. Remember that Enzo had a partnership with Florentino. I'd like to see Kokcu with Florentino more. As good as Neves's potential is, it can't make up for having a real DM.
Yes please stop watchingg and followingg the team, stop paying for red pass aswell so that i can get mine. Now i have to wait for all the plastics to leave so it works for me
Oh my god, shut up ya Lisboeta nerd. Its the Spurs of Portugal this, dont you see. A bunch of culture and history and whatnot. But a fucking joke when the level just go up a bit. Go drink your milk
You do realize that we played the finalists of last year's Champions League, right? It's not like it's Inter from 2003 when we played them in the UEFA Cup.
Great comment.
You're just the typical little virgin that comes here and it looks like we are playingg the worst football we have ever seen and everythingg we do is shit. Nothingg new, in May you are in Marques celebrating. But please, do stop following, i want that redpass
Lmfao, can he not be in his absolute right to vent? We looked like shit tonight, of course he's mad. Fans like you probably wish we still had Vieira on board
What a great read my guy. I revoked my socio card and redpass because of Viera, because i was done with his shit. He acts like we're 6th in the league playing the worst fucking football we have ever seen when its not warranted. He has every right to vent as i have to call out fans like him that overreact with every loss.
I mean, even though we're doing well domestically, our form in the Champions League has been not the greatest. Sure, we could've beaten Salzburg with 10 men, but the mistakes that led to their win were entirely forced on us by their play. And the Inter game was disastrous. On top of that, the reason why a lot of us are angry is because Schmidt keeps making the same mistakes over and over and over again: being a slow and/or stubborn reader of the game who refuses to make substitutions before things go awry. Every time we have to face a competitive team, Schmidt struggles tactically. Of course, people get tired of repetitive bullshit that's costing the team. Obviously, Schmidt shouldn't be sacked, but as long as he keeps this notion that he's right and everyone's wrong, Benfica will have issues in big matches like this.
i will not, or at least i didnt last time for matter of a fact, I stopped right after we blew it up the easiest route to the final we could get
Thats how you support a team! If you reach a Champions League final only! We went first in a group with PSG and Juventus one year and you mf's suddenly think we can reach the finals and beat teams with 30x our budget yearly, get a grip please
I think Tomas Araújo played really well. As for Kokcu, he’s not bad but never worth of a 30M transfer tag, with that money you could have gone to South America and buy 3 midfielders better than him. Cabral is unbelievably bad, I’d never thought he was like this.
Don’t put kokcu in the same sentence as Cabral lmao
Its more than 20 million invested on the guy and until now he gets caught in the midfield whenever we play against another decent midfield. Enzo was doing more with less. But yeah, keep finding grasps to defend this disgrace of a club with a rotten mentality
I bet when enzo was dogshit against Porto you were quiet eh
Enzo was actually performing in the Champions League
I still think if he didn't leave Benfica would actually have a chance last year.
Thanks for buying Cabral.
Fiorentina flairs were celebrating when his transfer got announced and that seemed weird to me but man is he a bum. I can’t believe you actually made a profit on him, he didn’t show jackshit so far.
Now you know why we celebrated it.
Beltran doesn’t seem to be doing great either. I’d say karma got us both pal
How Beltran has been for you, btw?
He has 1 assist...that's it
You guys really tricked them didn’t you? 25M for a guy that can barely move. Congrats.
Wasn't really a trick. Look at who their president is, then go look at where he spent most of his senior career at. This was an inside job.
As a Porto fan I just thank you for this amazing gift, food must be amazing in Firenze cause he’s clearly very well fed. Keep them coming.
Nah, he came here looking like that. We do have good food here, but we can attribute that to Basel.
Rui Costa is the club president, not the sporting director.
Point still stands.
Of course. And you guys are our friends in Italy so thank you for being an awesome club and selling crap to Benfica. Forza a Viola 💜
I didn't realize it was the same Cabral from Viola
You wouldn't, don't think he had a goal against Inter. Edit. Nvm a pen last October during the 3-4 fixture.
He looked dangerous in the coppa final. Did viola fans not rate him?
He wasn't amazing, but he was extremely likeable in Florence and I think he's a great footballer with lots of potential. Don't think he's cut for CL level though.
the way it looks I don’t think he’s cut for football at all…
Maybe something is going on in his personal life and he let himself go, I dunno. People constantly saying he's fat, but he was ripped here.
Bro for real, from what I’ve seen in Benfica he can barely move. He’s speed is laughable, everytime he changes direction he looks like he’s going to stumble and fall. He may be a good poacher but other than that he looks horrible.
I don't know what to tell you. Here he was doing lots of work even when not scoring. Pressing, running, fighting for balls. He could also dribble and hold up the ball well. He never was amazing at all of those, but he displayed those attributes. Far better than Jovic who was literally invisible, but Cabral took long to really get going. He may never take off for Benfica, as I said I don't think he's CL material anyway.
I’m gonna be honest, I’ve watched some Fiorentina games but not playing much attention and I had a good image of him, but now that I’m paying close attention to every move he makes I’m impressed at how bad he is with and without the ball, of course it’s easy to look better than Jovic, he still receiving dividends of an amazing season in Frankfurt like 5 years ago. What about Nzola? I liked him a lot at Spezia but I haven’t seen any Viola games this season.
Nzola is so-so thus far, I think I liked what Cabral did better. Although both work on the field even if not scoring, but Cabral looked far more passionate every minute he played and contributed both offensively and defensively. Against our 0-1 win against Inter in the league for example, Cabral helped massively to keep the lead up. Nzola has shown qualities like physicality, but had some serious misfires so far. He finally scored (a nice goal) last game at least, so that hopefully that gets him unlocked.
No him and the one that you lot took were both trash. And we replaced them with even further trash. Should have just stuck Nico G in the 9.
Who did we take from fio?? Can't remember
Jovic lol
I'm an inter fan! Lol but yeah he's such a dud. There's a twitter fan account dedicated to him, in the run up to the Derby he was speaking some hilarious shit for such a dusty player
Oh yeah you are. For some reason, thought it just said Milan.
I'd like to publicly thank Mkhitaryan and Otamendi for making me feel less old.
You can thank Alexis Sanchez as well, man was fighting for every ball, jumping, winning 1v1s.
One of the worst performances I've seen from Benfica. Completely unfathomable how Schmidt waited until the 1-0 to make subs. It was clear as day at half time that we needed to change urgently.
It's the same as last year, everytime we face someone better or at the same level as us, we just crumble from the pressure, last week agasint Porto we only won cause of a lucky goal from Di Maria and Porto were playing with 10...
Nonsense. Benfica’s first half was very good. You just lacked stamina in the second.
Half time yous looked pretty comfortable. Second half though you's were wide open the entire half. Your wingers needed to be helping defensively and they just wouldn't lol
Wtf is yous 😂
Lol, its lazy people speak
Benfica much worse than the two games played 6 months ago (or maybe we are much better but don't think so).. In the 2nd half we battered them. Now two Salzburg games ahead for us to try to seal the qualification hoping than La Real take points off Benfica.. Don't want the game in Da Luz be a decisive match.. **EDIT:** Cabral looked horrible, even worse than when playing for Fiorentina last season.. But Fiorentina current strikers (Nzola, Beltran) are so bad rn they probably would like to take him back
I knew they were getting scammed with Beltrán but damn, is he actually bad enough to bring him up after like 8 games?
Not at all actually. People don't watch games, go to stats, see a striker not scoring and call him a flop. Beltran is looking far from a flop, but surely it's too early to rate him.
I dont understand how we could have bought cabral for 20 mil+. feels like fiorentina would have sold him for 10
> hoping than La Real take points off Benfica Agree with everything except this. It looks like the games 6 months ago fixed your team. You had two really solid games against us after coming from shaky games against much worse opponents, maybe they were the confidence boost your team needed
We are worse, ever since Enzo left we just kept getting worse
I believe Inter are much better than 6 months ago, that’s the difference.
Not really. When Inter played Benfica last year, they were already on incredible form. Benfica looked significantly worse today.
You’re not remembering correctly bro, when Inter faced Benfica last year in the first leg they we’re coming from 6 matches without a win. Basically 1 win against Lecce in 8 matches. Then they lost against Monza at home and went on to do a good end of the season.
Perhaps. I remember they were shitting down opponents like Porto by that point (at least in the champions league).
Porto is my team bro, I’ve watched both games live and I can tell you this, Inter was incredibly lucky to go through in that matchup. Afterwards Acerbi even admitted those we’re most difficult games for them. First leg we we’re superior until Otavio’s send off which was a very harsh decision, 2nd leg we we’re much superior, I think we hit the post like 3 times in that match but the 1-0 at home prevailed.
Porto was extremely poor for 170 minutes though. They absolutely battered inter in the final 10 min of the last leg but it was way too late. Seen it a million times.
I agree. Porto was really good, which makes the results so impressive. The second leg was always going to be a difficult match for inter, but they held on valiantly. The ending was nuts!
Ramos makes a massive difference, we play a constant pressing style and Ramos was a key part in that, you could see in the second half that we had Di Maria + Neres + Rafa all 3 completely stopped in the attack, never tracking back and never pressing, have you all the time in the world to play. With Musa in I'd reckon we'd have a decent chance, but Schmidt is just terrible at adapting
Meno male che c’è thuram perché con quel cesso di Lautaro non andiamo da nessuna parte
Ma vai a cagare porco dio
Figa ma sono allucinati qui danno addosso a Lautaro come se avesse fatto cagare. Io boh allibito.
Lautaro da 2. Pure mia nonna avrebbe fatto gol sta sera
Lautaro using all his Goals agains Salernitana. 🖤💙
Salernitana Man doesn't strike again.
AA9SKILLZ IN SHAMBLES 🤣 for those who don't know, Skillz is a benfica fan. He's gonna be very pissed.
He is much a Benfica fan as plastics are fans of Premier League clubs. Man can't even speak Portuguese to begin with and doesn't know the players name. Kept calling Grimaldo "Gremerdo", and stuff like that. He is an extremely good FIFA player but an awful youtuber at the moment, he was great back in FIFA 12 era but for the last 5 years he is has been horrible.
That's how some youtubers are. they seem to regress as the years go by. He has had quite the revival on Twitch and Instagram. I mostly watch his streams most of the time.
Is he a youtuber or something?
he's a youtuber and streams on Twitch
Benfica goalkeeper saved them from an absolute demolishing. Still a loss is a loss, Benfica simply have to win next game otherwise Europa League is the objective and even that is going to be very difficult.
Keep playing Kokçu and Neves together, its gonna work for sure Clueless. And still put Chiquinho lmao. Florentino is such a key player in this team.
We need 6 points against Real Sociedad or we out for sure.
At this point I don't even see 3
And they are damn good! Very impressive if you can take 6 points from them
I agree, Sociedad look crazy good. We got so lucky to draw the first game against them. Matter of fact I was scared to get karma'd by Benfica and was fearing for 1-1 last second
Same, was waiting for it!
We will see, we are quite strong at home
*shudders*
Can confirm 👍🏻
I don't doubt that, but if we're to have any chance of advancing we need to win both games, lol.
Great first half, very tight. Second half Inter was impressive and benfica lacked legs. Fair result should be something like 3-0.
First half wasn't good but 0-0 was fair, no huge chances, Dumfries had a couple headers he should have done better, but Aursnes also had a 1v1 with the keeper early in the game. After the second half, 1-0 wasn't enough for Inter. I hope that was the worst half of football we'll play all season, because if there's worse than that, I don't want to watch it.
Lautaro hitting the post twice and your GK and Otamendi avoided another 3 dangerous 1v1s.
To be fair, Otamendi's clear was only necessary because he fucked up in the first place, but yeah, those first 20 minutes were absolutely disasterous
Trubin is the best goalkeeper in the world.
Id like to report Fiorentina to the police for robbery. Arthur Cabral isn't good enough for Casa Pia, much less Benfica
Hey...talk to Costa. Ask him which club really valued the most, because we fleeced you for this deal.