The Italian football senator and champion coach as well as 76-year-old player Fabio Capello commented for Sky Italia on the match between Benfica and Juventus, on Tuesday, in Luz, and also accepted the invitation of A BOLA to analyze the embodied victory. What happened in Eagles’ Nest was “quite simple” for those who know football the other way around.
Capello said, shortly after the end of the match, in televised statements, that Juventus did not reach Benfica, who “enjoyed and could have scored seven goals.” The coach, who won five trophies in Italy, two in Spain, and the Champions League, just to take care of some important trophies, criticized Juventus for “allowing everything” to Benfica and for reacting only in the last part, threatening to draw.
In remarks to A BOLA, he said, then, the match is very easy to explain. “Benfica had mastered the match for 70 minutes,” he dismissed the coach, whose explanation of the Eagles’ dominance does not need a lot of arguments: “Benfica had seven chances, Juventus two, and in the end they almost equalized. It is true that Juventus lacked some players [Pogba, Di María, Chiesa e Paredes estavam lesionados] But Benfica, at the moment, is stronger. Juventus’ defense was not there.”
Benfica beat Juventus twice in the group stage. In Turin, 2-1, in Luz, 4-3. For Capello, on Tuesday, it was “too easy”.
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