Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Monaco attempt Wednesday to strengthen his lead in Group C of the Champions League at home against the bottom team in the league a Benfica lost his first two matches, against Russia's Zenit Bayer Leverkusen and.

The Portuguese faced the duel aware that a new setback to become qualified for the next round in an almost impossible mission, and expect to assert its momentum in the league to recover lost ground.

The match will face Benfica with two of his former rivals: the Portuguese coach Leonardo Jardim (former Sporting Lisbon) and midfielder Joao Moutinho Portuguese (former Sporting and Porto).

Lisbon's entourage saw his flight from Lisbon to Nice was delayed due to bad weather, although not planned to train in Monaco stadium prior and preferred to work before leaving on his usual corner.

Less glossy was his victory last weekend against the Portuguese Cup modest Covilha, the Portuguese Second Division, which was only able to break through the low (2-3) thanks to a tip Brazilian Jonas triplet.

Precisely Jonas is one of the absences for the match against Monaco-his signing came after the close of the inscripción-, near the Dutch Ola John, Brazilian goalkeeper Julio Cesar and Jardel compatriot.

On the floor of the latter could hold the young center Lisandro Lopez, which would be the main novelty in eleven Benfica coach Jorge Jesus.


The Portuguese coach is confident the "feel" of the team, the Brazilian playmaker Talisca to score in Monegasque domains.

Along the Argentine trio Enzo Pérez, Salvio and Gaitan Talisca is the key to the offensive transition "embodied", which should improve their productivity to continue to dream of the passing round man, because in the first two games of Lisbon's only scored one goal and had five.

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