Video Born for the big games. After scoring in the finals of the World Cup, Copa América, Finalíssima and the Olympics, Ángel Di María shows that it is not just in his national team that he has an impact. He had already done this in last year’s Super Cup (2-0). He did it again in the Campeonato na Luz classic last season (1-0). And, more than a year later, appeared again against FC Porto, kiss and helped Benfica achieve a historic victory against their great rival (4-1).
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After being “spared” against Bayern Munich, in Germany, in the middle of the week, the former Argentine international inevitably returned to the starting eleven of Bruno Lage’s team who, with another strategy, benefited by Di María, although not everything was a bed of roses, starting with Samu’s goal, which began in an involving move on the red and black right side. With the exception of this move, the display went practically perfectly and history will go down in a gala performance by the winger, who scored two goals, six shots, four of which were framed, two passes for finishing and three long passes.
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Looking at the classics between eagles and dragons, This is only the third time that, in the last ten years, Benfica has had a player bizarre against FC Porto. Before Di María, Carlos Vinícius did this at Dragão, in a game that the Red and Blacks would lose (3 to 2, in 2020). On the same stage, Lima achieved the same feat, although that match ended with a different result (0-2, in 2014). In games at Estádio da Luz, the last bis it dated back to 2012, the year in which Cardozo scored Benfica’s two goals, but did not prevent the defeat (2-3).
Crowned best of the match in Liga Portugal at the end of the match, after a game that ended with his first bis in a Portuguese football classic, Di María was in the BTV quick interview area and discussed the result. “I’m happy with the victory. We played a perfect game. We deserved a game like this. We didn’t give a good image in the Champions League. We weren’t ourselves and today [domingo] we went back to being the Benfica we were lately. We gave the fans great joy”, began by saying number 11.
As for the celebration of his first goal, in which he ended up asking the fans for unity, the Argentine explained that it was due to the fact that, when the team and fans are “all together”, Benfica “is stronger”. “Honestly, we can’t point anything out to them. In all games, away or home, we play at home. At home, there are never fewer than 60 thousand [espectadores] and, in fact, we need to be grateful.”he added, after once again asking for the support of the fans at the end of the match, this time with a lot of emotion in the mix and watery eyes.
After an inconsistent start to the season, Di María has had, like the team, a constant evolution since Bruno Lage took over as coach. In total, he now has three goals and two assists in the Primeira Liga, with the peculiarity that these three goals have come in the last three rounds. Looking at all the competitions, Video He also scored in the Champions League and the League Cup, with just one thing remaining to make his mark in the Portuguese Cup.
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