Mix! Belenenses Forced To Face Benfica With 9 Players, 2 Of Them Goalkeepers
Balenenses play with just ix players (Twitter @OsBelenensesSAD)

Jakarta - An unusual incident occurred in the Portuguese League which brought Belenenses against Benfica. The match was somewhat odd, because the Belenenses team only fielded nine players and were forced to face Benfica with full players.

This anarchy began when Belenenses was scheduled to host Benfica in the friction match week 12 of the 2021 Portuguese League at the Jamor National Sports Center on Sunday, Nov 28. Merely earlier the beginning of the friction match, Belenenses as the host actually gave bad news.

Fourteen members of their team tested positive for COVID-nineteen just moments earlier the lucifer. This leaves their team understaffed as the players who exam positive have to undergo isolation.

With the lack of Belenenses players, it is predicted that today'due south match will exist postponed. Nonetheless, in reality, the game continues.

The Balenenses have to face Benfica anyhow. In fact, Belenenses could only field nine players in that friction match where he was a goalkeeper.

With that situation, the course of the game is certain to be chaotic. Belenenses was beaten badly in the starting time half with a score of 0-7. The score also connected to hold until finally the referee decided to take a break at halftime.

The situation became increasingly out of control afterwards the break ended, the Belenenses squad clearly could not go on the game in the 2nd one-half. This is because of the previous nine players, only seven players returned to the field to compete against Benfica.

Although Belenenses only had seven players, the referee was still standing the game. But not long after, the lucifer was stopped because ane of the Belenenses players collapsed due to injury.

Whether the thespian was injured or not, the state of affairs finally fabricated the referee stop the match. He stopped the game considering the rules state that a squad cannot continue to play a game without a minimum of seven players on the pitch.

Quoted from The Guardian, earlier the lucifer, it turned out that the Belenenses players had issued a statement. They satirized the league's determination to keep playing against Benfica.

"Football just has heart if it'due south competitive. Football only has heart if it's really sporty."

"Football but has a heart when it is an example of public health. Today, football game has lost its center," the Belenenses players said in a argument.

Meanwhile, Rui Costa as President of Benfica said that his party did not try to advise a postponement of the schedule for fear of disrupting the existing schedule.

"The agenda has not been well planned - and the consequences are clearly visible," he said, quoted by the same source.

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