The Sundaytwo days after the Benfica let a 0-2 escape in favor at Boavista’s house, The ball conducted a survey asking if Nelson Verissimo should stop being the coach of the club. On Friday, this interim technician had fulfilled the ten matches in the first team after the scandal that hit the club in the last days of 2021 ending the second stage of George Jesus in Da Luz and the balance is four wins, three draws, three losses and one disappointing image. The survey showed that a 62% of voters wanted him out. “When I feel like I’m part of the problem, I will make my position available. But I still feel like I’m part of the solution.” I explained verissimo at yesterday’s press conferencefollow the match live on AS.com).
The sensations are not the best. The Benfica is third in league twelve points from Porto and is removed Of the two national cups (at the end of January they lost the final of the Taça da Liga). The big news of the season is the final explosion of Darwin Núñezthe great hope in attack tonight, and the appearance of exciting youngsters like Paulo Bernardo O Gonçalo Ramos. However, they currently look like a team that will have a hard time being competitive with this Ajax, Far from the image he offered against Barcelona more than three months ago.
The Ajax, instead it arrives overconfidence. Almost don’t even remember when was the last game he did not win (December 12). That day he still did not know the result of the draw that, in his repetition, this friendly Benfica awarded him instead of Inter. The scoring balance since the Portuguese fans are waiting for their results is 39-1 in ten games. What’s more, Lisboa brings them great memories. The last time they played in the capital they won 1-5 to Sporting beginning, thus, a group stage of the Champions League that would end with historical scoring records. And the last time they met to Benfica was in the 2018-19 seasonwhen Erik ten Hag’s men reached the semi-finals they dream of in this edition.