Nelly's Left Foot
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BigOscar said:They've not really had to play anyone of any particular note so far, so being unbeaten is probably more an anomaly than a testament to how good they are. PSG were the second seeded team in their group and their youth teams aren't remotely comparable to the first team, then they drew Austria Vienna in the next round, who aren't exactly world beaters.Nelly's Left Foot said:Didn't think much of Benfica at all so I am amazed they are unbeaten so far.Easy to say we should have won easily but that's the case tonight.They really created nothing all night and we let them score 2 goals.One from a distance when we didn't try to close the player down and the keeper seemed stunned that he shot and almost didn't move till the ball was at him.
The 2nd was a weak cross that somebody ,Denayer I think, just let it through.Just so so soft. We then woke up and could have scored 4 or 5 times but a bit of bad luck and some special, at times lucky,keeping kept us out.
But if Benfica are a good side then so are we as we were much the better side tonight.
The Benfica U19 team seems to be mainly younger players who they have high hopes for and then older players who aren't good enough to be in the Benfica B team, it's not their strongest available 11 like ours is, so we should be aspiring to be a lot better than them. (which it sounds like we were) Hopefully it will be an important lesson though in the importance of killing games off when you're dominating and it should be very interesting next year with how well our U18 team has been doing this year.
That wasn't our strongest team imo. I would have said we were missing 3 of our best players tonight. The keeper,right back and Pozo up front.