0-1: La Real beat Benfica and advance to the round of 16

Great game from a stratospheric Real team with one foot in the Champions League round of 16 after adding seven points from nine. The Txuri Urdin beat a quarter-finalist from the last edition of the competition like Benfica because they are infinitely superior, because they waste their touch football once in all their luxury and because they have Brais, scorer of the only goal, that he converted into my gold what I touched. It is impossible not to dream about this team, which only needs to draw at Benfica the next day to be in the top three and ensure its continuation in Europe.

It is great to see Real in the Champions League, where they are getting traces of a powerful team, feared and respected for their football. He has the skills of an expert in competition. No, maybe he is not yet in a position to dream of getting close to ‘orejona’, but he is clearly competing and beating continental greats and European champions like Inter or Benfica. There were moments when the txuri urdin made a rondo on the Portuguese green to the fury of 56,000 frustrated fans who whistled and whistled and whistled.

What a great Champions League and what a great victory in front of 3,500 fans that read, but of glory in Lisbon. Wow, it was worth the trip. La Real fly high, higher than Benfica’s eagle which circles the field and lands on the shield before kick-off.

The gala ‘eleven’

As expected, Imanol pulled his gala team, the eleven players who join his current extension on the field, included Oyarzabal of ‘9’, flanked by two new players hut and barren. They all wore the blue shirt of the white list, which the Benfica players chased without much success until half time.

It was not a dance because Real did not succeed in any of the chances, about half a dozen, that they enjoyed and because the referee, when there was doubt about the two hands of the local footballers inside the area, decided to shoot the medium street, which is ‘go on, go on’ and doesn’t even consult the VAR.

Txuri Urdin Symphony

But the txuri urdin squad, like against Inter and against Salzburg, was again a symphony in the first half, but without a ‘punch’. Everything that happened seemed to be planned, every pass was measured (90% success, one pass), every move of him and his rival was studied. And all this under the impeccable direction of that enormous footballer Zubimendi and the anxiety it gives hutto leave Jurasek even without touching the skin.

La Real came out bossy on the field, comfortable, like playing at home in a dressing gown and slippers, always carrying the game on the Japanese side. The problem is that hut This is Maradona in the conception of the play, Gerrard on arrival in the area, but an average football player (far from being) in the sense. He shot the side of the net on two clear plays.

Benfica had 10 minutes of possession and attacks, prompted by a Neres that was everywhere, but Real contained the bite standing up and didn’t even flinch when he scored Muse. Rafa Silva’s offside was by centimeters, but it was.

From there, a monologue from Real, without dynamite to rest not only on the franchise, but with success on the track. Frame braise offside and they almost scored from the edge of the box with a cross shot Aihen with the right hand and barrenbut the ball did not hold and came out licking the post.

They ask for two penalties per handball

Both hands may be called if a more exceptional referee is lucky. João Neves His arms were behind his back, but when he focused Traore he made a kind of zamorana. Half a minute later, the leather hit his outstretched arm Otamendi, although from a possible stomach rebound. La Real let a dying Benfica escape for their lives, with the crowd booing at half-time.

Always Aim

After the break, everything remained the same, he introduced three changes Schmidt, but Real stole and stole down the other field and scored until they scored. I will try Zubimendi with the left hand, hut with his right hand after leaving even the pointer, but what hit was the usual one: Braise. The play was textbook: driving to the Galician’s left, passing inside Merinoopening it to barrenbreak and pass of death for the native of San Sebastian and the fifth notch of the course for Mos, who has scored in all three games in the Champions League.

The world discovered that Real had a goalkeeper in the 68th minute, with a shy shot from Neres to cut Remiro. The Navarrese will have to show up at some point to deny a deficit Kokku and a shot of Gouveia that poisoned the boat. Time to suffer. And the Guipuzcoan squad knows how to do it too, brilliant group leader and Champions League sensation.