One of the most criticized was Odysseas Vlachodemos after Benfica’s defeat by Besa (3-2) in the opening round of the league, and Roger Schmidt assumed that the Greek goalkeeper had a poor performance against Boavista.
“It wasn’t his best day, to be honest. It was very obvious, we don’t have to hide it. He’s played a lot of good games, and I think he could have done better against Boavista. If we look at the whole game, we see they had three moments to score.” And all three moments were goals. But it wasn’t like that. Overall, our defensive performance in these three situations could have been better. We conceded goals very easily. A dead ball, an easy cross, a long ball and then a penalty and a counter-attack, as we didn’t react. Perfectly. Normally, we do these things better. It was a theme for the whole team, but of course the goalkeeper is the last man who can block goals and I think he could have done better in those moments,” Schmidt said on Friday, previewing the match press conference with Estrella da Amadora.
It should be noted that Flachodemus has competition from Anatoly Tropin in the Benfica goal he has owned since 2018 in 2023/24.
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