Opinion
Pedro Fatela considers that Benfica is a team “organized and capable of competing”, but that it still has weaknesses that result in defeats like this Wednesday, against Juventus. For the SIC commentator, the main problem “is mentality”.
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“We see Benfica with two faces again”, says Pedro Fatela. “On the one hand, it is an adult team, organized and capable of competing. On the other hand, it is extremely ineffective and erratic in defensive terms. It conceded two goals in which it was very easy. There are individual errors and collective inability to compensate for these errors. It is a pattern that we have seen in January”, says the SIC commentator.
Pedro Fatela considers that, despite this technical-tactical factor, the main problem “is the mentality and culture of victory”. There is, in the commentator’s view, a “normalization of defeat”.
“What we feel is that Benfica is, in a way, a resigned team, with a lack of ambition.”
