Tactical Timeout: How Coaches Like Nacional and Benfica Leverage Breaks to Outmaneuver the Opposition

Nacional – Benfica from the seventh round of the league, It ended on Sunday and will continue until December 19th (Thursday at 5 p.m.) Coaches are permitted to make team changes under certain conditions.

According to the league’s competition regulations, clubs can add players to the playing list as new additions who had not yet been called up at the time of the suspension of play – in this case on October 6th – but were already registered in the league. On the other hand, players who were on the field at the time of the interruption must remain in the lineup when play resumes. In other words, you cannot continue the game as a substitute: you will either be part of the eleven teams or be removed from the squad.

The same conditions are set out in Article 41 of the Competition Regulations. Paragraph 12a states: “The technical sheet may be amended to include all players who were not properly registered at the time of the abandoned match.” And paragraph 12c) states: “Players who were on the Players who were on the field at the time the game was suspended cannot be included in the technical data list as substitutes.

For example, Lucas França or Otamendi Nacional-Benfica can only restart if they play in the 11th round. Otherwise it cannot be used. You can never restart the game as a substitute player.

Different conditions can be expected for intermittent games

The competition regulations also provide for other conditions under which matches can be canceled and finished on a new date. However, in the case of Nacional-Benfica these do not apply as there were no substitutions, yellow cards or sending offs.

For example, paragraph 12b) states that “players who were substituted or sent off during a suspended match, as well as those who were unable to take part due to disciplinary sanctions, may not be played.” “Penalties imposed before the suspension of the game will remain in effect for the remainder of the match,” paragraph 12d states): This does not apply as no disciplinary action has yet been taken in the match. However, if this is the case, yellow cards shown before the interruption “do not count for the purposes of accumulation penalties before the end of the interrupted match”, as set out in paragraph 12e.

There is another important fact that needs to be taken into account before the resumption of play on December 19th and that is in paragraph 12g) which states that “Players who have been suspended following a match played after the suspension of play , can be included in the technical data sheet.” .” . In other words, if Otamendi was sent off in the AVS-Benfica game on matchday 14, December 15, for example, he could still play against Nacional-Benfica.

The games between Nacional and Benfica started on Sunday:

patriotic: Lucas Frankreich; Gustavo Garcia, Z. Vitor, Ulises, Jose Gomez; Luis Esteves, Mateus Dias, Soumare; Appiah, Isaac, Nigel Thomas.

Benfica: Tropin. Bah, Tomás Araujo, Otamendi, Carreras; Ursines, Florentino; Di Maria, Kukcu, Akturkoglu; Pavlidis.

National alternatives: Rui Encarnaço, Joao Aurelio, Ruben Macedo, Bruno Costa, Adrian Putsek, Daniel Benha, Andre Souza, Miguel Baeza, Leo Santos.

Benfica substitutes: Samuel Soares, Antonio Silva, Amdoni, Arthur Caparle, Barreiro, Pristiani, Capore, Rolheiser, Besti.

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