Another Benfica fan here, i wasn't in this forum last year. About those words of Jorge Jesus, well... That's the way he is. He's allways overconfident but is a Huge coach! This year we lost Javi Garcia in the last day of the market and Witsel one week after that to Zenit. We started this season with absolutely no expectations of winning so much trophies. Then a miracle happenned (Mostly because of Jorge Jesus) and Matic emmerged as a FANTASTIC player (Thank you ). Same to Enzo Perez and Lima! Right now we are unbeaten in Portuguese League (1º Place with 4 more points than porto) and only lost 3 games this season (Barça, Spartak (away) and Fenerbahce (away)), we are also in the final of our domestic cup (Taça de Portugal). As a team, we have a great attack with Oscar Cardozo, Lima, Salvio, Gaitán, Enzo Pérez and Matic (Also have Aimar , Carlos Martins, Ola John, Rodrigo and our youth player André Gomes). Our Full Backs are very good though (Luisão and Garay), same as the Goalkeeper ( -King- Artur) the problem is with our Wingbacks. Maxi Pereira will miss the final and we will play with André Almeida on the Right(Better defending than Maxi, but not so good attacking) and Melgarejo on the left (This is the problem... since Fábio Coentrão left that we don't have a proper left wingback). We can't have names like Torres, Lampard, Terry, Hazard on our team because the portuguese league is extremely poor (For example, we only receive 7.5 Million Euros per season from tv rights...Wolverhampton (The team that least reveive last season in EPL) received arround 47 Million euros... that's more than 6times our receipts). We need to sell every year 2 key players to survive, but we allways have good teams with capacity to win every game! Let's make this final a Huge football show!
