Benfica lineup: 4411

Goalkeeper: Arthur

Defenders: Emerson, Jadel, Luisson, Pereira

Midfielders: Cesar, Javi Garcia, Witsel, Gaitan

Forward: Aimar

Forward: Cardoso

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Xavi Garcia came out of the Real Madrid academy and is known as an all-round midfielder, and he actually has some similarities with Barry in Manchester City's squad.

Gaitan is Benfica from South America to recruit an excellent player, after Di Maria's transfer to Real Madrid last year, Gaitan is here to replace Di Maria, and now the performance is very good, I heard that it has attracted the attention of Manchester United, another giant club.

Up front, Cardoso is not only tall and strong, but also has a unique skill set by a South American player, a technical centre-forward who has been Benfica's first choice in recent years. On the bench, also the author Saviola has such a famous player as Nemanja Matic.

Manchester City lineup: 433

Goalkeeper: Joe Hart

Defenders: Zabaleta, Kompany, Boateng, Kolarov

Midfielders: De Jong, Yaya Toure, Li Feng

Forwards: Silva, Dzeko, Balotelli

This time Van Basten sent Dzeko and Balotelli on the field at the same time, which can be seen that Van Basten is determined to win this game, after all, the first leg is good, the second leg will be easier, not to mention that the league is still so tight, Manchester United is always reaching out and chasing.

Manchester City and Benfica do not have a record of playing each other, but Benfica's record against English teams is quite good, especially at home, and they have only lost one of their last seven meetings against Manchester United.

When the referee from Italy, Tagliavento, blew the whistle for the start of the game, Benfica kicked off first, Cardoso passed, Aimar passed back, and the ball came to Witsel's feet.

Benfica were not intimidated by the game, as they launched a wave of strong attacks from the start, Witsel crossed Xavi Garcia diagonally, and then followed closely across the halfway line.

Harvey Garcia took two steps forward with the ball, but was blocked by Li Feng, and Witsel in front was also stopped by Yaya Toure at the moment, so Harvey Garcia chose to split the side.

Cesar on the left side is also a player from Brazil, but when Li Feng first saw this guy, he thought he had seen his former teammate Tevez.

However, when you look closer, the difference between the two is still quite big, Cesar is at least five centimeters taller than Tevez, and his body was not as strong as Tevez at that time, and Tevez has long hair, while Cesar has short hair, but the two look really similar, especially the eyes and eyebrows.

Cesar broke down the flanks and was up against Brazil's South American rivals, Argentine player Zabaleta, who was the least feared opponent of Sabaleta.

Cesar has excellent skills, but his physical fitness can only be regarded as average, and his speed is not fast, and Zabaleta, who is also from South America, is not afraid of being a player with excellent skills.

No matter how Cesarga grows, Zabaleta is unmoved, firmly cutting the position, and even physically, he can bully this compatriot from South America a little.

With no hope of breaking through, Cesar could only choose to pass, and Cesar's target was Aimar in the forward position, and the Argentine forward moved to the left to respond, and pulled De Jong away.

This also caused an emptiness in the middle, Gaitan on the right took the opportunity to move sideways to the middle to fill the position, Aimar's received the pass and did not give De Jong a chance to get close at all, and directly passed with his heel, and the ball came to Gaitan's feet.

Seeing Gaitan with the ball, Boateng had to step forward to block it, Kompany kept an eye on Cardoso, and on the wing, Kolarov had already moved sideways to prepare for the pack.

Just as Kolarov left the left, Benfica took advantage of the situation to cut in at high speed behind the right, Gaitan immediately passed, Kolarov retreated, but it was clearly too late, Pereira kicked up and crossed.

Cardoso and Kompany battled in the box, because Cardoso occupied a favorable position, and finally beat the Manchester City captain, a header hit the Manchester City goal, but Kompany is not a decoration, the Manchester City captain is definitely one of the best central defenders today.

And don't forget, there was still Joe Hart standing in front of the goal, and although Kompany lost the battle, Cardoso's header was not of a high standard, and Joe Hart easily confiscated it.

There was a Chinese in the Manchester City line-up, Manchester City counter-attacked, Joe Hart kicked the goal kick in a big foot, Li Feng Witsel and Harvey Garcia jumped high and headed the ball to Yaya Toure.

Without passing, Yaya Toure crossed the halfway line with the ball, Witsel fell and immediately came to block, and after Witsel left, Li Feng immediately squeezed away Xavi Garcia and launched an attack on the heart of Benfica.

Yaya Toure passed, but it was not aimed at Li Feng, but Silva on the wing, because when Li Feng attacked, most of Benfica's defense had been concentrated on Li Feng.

Although Li Feng is the core of the Manchester City team, but in this case, passing the ball to Li Feng is brain-dead, and Manchester City's players can't be so brain-dead.

And Li Feng has always been a defensive attraction point, Silva controlled the ball and turned to break through, the action flowed, just retreated to Silva's side Pereira was directly thrown away by him, and it was also a cross, Silva rubbed the ball into the Benfica penalty area on the sideline.

Dzeko avenged Kompany's revenge, and under the sandwich of two 1.9m men, Dzeko jumped hard and threw a header against Jadel in front of him, but the result was the same, the ball was easily confiscated by goalkeeper Arthur.

Benfica are almost entirely South American, with four defenders and goalkeepers, four of the five are from Brazil, left-back Emerson, two centre-backs Jadel and Luisson, and Pereira from Uruguay.

In the midfield, Xavi Garcia is a Spaniard, Witsel is Belgian, Aimar and Gaitan are Argentinians, Cardoso is Paraguay, and Cesar is also Brazil, that is to say, Benfica's main squad does not have a Portuguese local player, and except for Javi Garcia and Vitesar, all of them are from South America.

Even on the bench, there were only two Portuguese homegrown players, one was substitute goalkeeper Eduardo and the other was young hopeful Oliveira. (To be continued.) )