Benfica – Okland City, Getty Images June 20, 2025, 23:18

Rules for the selection of participants for the club Championship of the World-2025, according to many, but not organizers of competitions, still need refinement. To avoid cases such as it happened in the first round in the framework of Group C, where the Munich Bavaria simply devoured the New Zealand Auckland City (10: 0), which already has a semi -professional status. But even on such a painful defeat for outsiders, the tournament does not end exactly, so the turn of Lisbon Benphyry to give them European football lessons.

Meanwhile, the Bruna team, also could not have a successful result of its own first game in this tournament. The “eagles” of the Argentine Bok Huniors were almost conceded, but in the minority they pulled out a draw (2: 2). And since the last tour of Benfitsa with Ukrainian Anatoliy Trubin in the gate will have to hold a match against Bavaria, the victory over Auckland City was not just a mandatory, but a must for the Portuguese collective.

And what remains to do the team of Paul Posa, which finally got to the technical zone after his appointment? Obviously, Auckland was exclusively reflected, as well as against Bavaria, and his tactical scheme 5-2-3 was a more joke for eye-catching. There were all 1-10, without any other options. Oddly enough, it almost worked in the first half.

Because the moments in Benfika were predicted in sufficient quantities to push the ball into the net of Nathan Gerro’s goal, which replaced the poor Conor Treksi after the first game. But the “eagles” are not Bavaria, so we did not wait for a quick ball from them. And the “delayed” goal-discovery of this game also had to wait many more. Although the ball visited the door of Auckland City at first, a moment to the key episode of the first half, but Pavlidis cramped against the goalkeeper, so Aursnes’s effective blow was canceled.

Immediately after that, the most striking moment of this unexpectedly fresh half – Carreras was serving from the depth of the field, launched a ball into the head of Zhu, which briefly knocked out of the game, after which the Chinese wanted to take doctors from the field, but he argued with them for a very long time. And when he returned, Zep fought on the left flank of his own penalty area against Presiatna, after which Di Maria with a penalty shot in the center of the gate opened the score.

However, we did not return to the second half in time – the weather was deteriorating in Orlando again, and that it was not just not pouring from the sky to the field. So the game was postponed for more than two and a half hours, and even the second game of the game managed to start in the meantime. And not just to start, but also end a little earlier than ours. Therefore, it is good that in the 25 thousand in this place the World Cup among the national teams in no circumstances would not be able to take place at this time of year.

However, we still returned to football, although the experience of UPL after such a long delay could be expected on the field anything you like. And in the beginning, Method City even kept the ball in a positional attack, but all this ended very quickly – the second missed ball for 53 minutes, when the side of the opponent’s feet was transferred to Pavlidis in the center of another’s penalty area, and he disassembled without problems.

After that, apathy attacked the New Zealanders, and they were not further finalized in defense. However, Bavaria did not repeat it, and the case was limited to “just” four additional missing balls. Bruna larger even with the cupcake, he had time to quarrel when he put him on a bench for 62 minutes, and in a moment Sanshsh, who came out instead of the Turk, scored his ball.

Further to the devastating account, the case was already brought by Barreyr as a result of flank attacks. And the cherry was put on the cake, when in the offset time he earned a penalty for himself in a fast attack, and then beat the goalkeeper – this time he beat into the right corner, and Gerro was waiting until the last. I wonder if one of his idols was on the list of “eagles” as Noier for his predecessor in the first round.

In the next round, Lisbon Benfica will play against the Munich Bavaria, and the New Zealand Okland City will meet the Argentine Bok Huniors.

Benfica – Auckland City 6: 0
Goals: Di Maria, 45+8 (Pen.), 90+8 (Pen.), Pavlidis, 53, Sanshsh, 63, Barreyr, 76, 78

Benfica: Trubin – Barreyr, A. Silva (Bayram, 86), Otamendy, Carreras – Aursnes (Gouwa, 71), Cupcu (Sanshesh, 61) – Di Maria, Prestyni (regulation, 71), acturcoglu (shelderup, 61) – Pavlidis.

Auckland City: Gerrou – Lagos, Mitchell, Dan Geyer (Gray, 81), Boxol, Belle – Zhou, Ilych (Manuel, 59) – Yu (Ellis, 59), Bevan (where Vris, 73), Zeb (Maineicum, 59).

Warning: Carreras, Capchu, Bayram