Incomprehensible events in Portugal. Benfica’s opponent started with 9 players due to coronavirus, the match was not played

On Saturday night, Belenenses vs. Benfica was played. However, many people don’t understand how the match could have started in the first place. The first mentioned team is being mowed down by the coronavirus, which of course affected the whole match.

Even if it had been played under normal circumstances, when Belenenses would not have been weakened by the coronavirus, Benfica would have been a big favourite. It is all the more sad that what happened happened.

Belenenses had a total of 17 players and members of the management team infected with coronavirus before the game, so they went into the game with nine players. In addition, Monteiro, the goalkeeper, came on as a substitute.

The match looked like this. After the first half, Benfica led 7:0. In fact, there was no reason to continue the match.

Shortly after the start of the second half, Belenenses had only 6 players on the pitch, so the match was abandoned in the 48th minute.

The fact that the match happened at all annoyed several Belenenses players, who issued a joint statement with a clear message: “Football only has heart when it is competitive. Now it has lost its heart.”

Not even Manchester City star Bernardo Silva had any understanding. “What does that mean? Am I the only one who doesn’t understand why the game wasn’t postponed?” he asked on Twitter.

Belenenses fans were then very angry. They were already complaining under the post when the club published the line-up in which he started. After the heavy defeat and ultimately the early abandonment of the match, they are understandably even more angry.

Sources: Liga Portugal, Goal, Twitter