Grimaldo exploded: "It can’t go on like this!"

Valencia defender Álex Grimaldo said on Saturday that his team, Benfica, needed “a lot of changes” to win the title again in Portugal when reviewing the season after the defeat against Porto, which was declared champions of Da Luz (0 -one).

In statements on the club’s channel after the defeat, the 26-year-old Valencian winger admitted his “failure” in the season, in which Benfica was “not good” and demanded “many changes” so that the Reds could win again. titles after three years of fasting.

“It can’t go on like this. Three years without titles. In almost seven years here I’ve won nine titles and in the last three, none. It’s a disappointment”, lamented Grimaldo, who signed for Benfica in December 2019 from Barça B.

Despite a season of ups and downs for the ‘eagles’, marked by the departure of coach Jorge Jesus in December, Grimaldo is one of the strongest members of the squad and the undisputed starter.

Criticism of arbitration

Regarding Saturday’s classic, in which Benfica lost 0-1, the Barça-trained winger said they were better than Porto and criticized the arbitration for the cancellation of Uruguayan goalkeeper Darwin Núñez in the th 51 minutes from the outside of the game and mentioned that it was “a bit weird”.

Darwin, Benfica’s offensive benchmark and top scorer in Portugal’s Primeira Liga with 26 goals, scored after 51 minutes of play, but the goal was disallowed because the Uruguayan international was 2 centimeters offside.

“On the field it doesn’t seem to be offside, we had to see that VAR thing, because two centimeters … what a coincidence, it’s a bit weird,” said the winger.

Darwin has already experienced the same thing, as well as in a classic against Porto in December, in the Portuguese Cup, when one of his goals was disallowed for being 4 centimeters offside.

One day from the end, Benfica was third, with 71 points, 17 behind the champion, Porto.