Hungry was plenty. Fight ‘extreme’ for the attention of Marco Silva no Benfica

ANDwe were on 23 July when, just over two weeks after it was officially confirmed as reinforcement from Cologne, for a sum of EUR 17 million, Jakub Kaminski debuted in Benfica's sweater, and just as holder, in the defeat suffered in the trip to Berit Sitterstadion, before St Gallen, for 2-1.

Without Andreas Schjelderup, Dodi Lukebakio (on holiday, after representing Norway and Belgium respectively in the World Cup), Gianluca Prestianni (punished) and Jaden Umeh (injured), Marco Silva had no choice but to launch the Polish international ‘the wolves’ in the first hand of the second pre-elimination of the Europe League.

Now, after roughly two and a half months, the scenario could not be more different. If, at the time, José Mourinho's successor had reason to complain about a lack of options for the wing of the attack, at this time, he even has too many of them, so the only problem will really be... to choose who to bet on.

Moved from center to right, Rafa Silva it has been the man of trust of the Lisbon, and has numbers to justify the bet (more specifically, five goals and a assists after 13 official games), and it had the opportunity to rest during the pause for international commitments, due to the resignation of Portugal.

Gianluca Prestinanni he wasn't as lucky as he was called to Argentina by Lionel Scaloni. Still, it did not give any kind of sign of tiredness by signing a sequence of positive benefits, in the image of what it was already doing, from eagle to chest (scheduled eight attempts and gave another three to mark, in 12 meetings).

Dodi Lukebakio it has not been such a continuous bet on Marco Silva, but in Belgium, it took advantage of Jérémy Doku's injury and the loss of 'gas' by Leandro Trossard to show service, with two beautiful straight shoots (and also an assist), in the first four days of the League of Nations group phase.

In the middle of all this, we must not forget Andreas Schjelderup. The eagle coach has already publicly assumed that the Norwegian needed to “zero,” after the World Cup, and he has already shown what he is capable of, for example, with the “bis” in the Moreirense guild, by 0-4, so it is another name to take into account, in this “extreme battle”.

Jakub Kaminski and Jaden Umeh looking for the return

However, the lot of options do not stop here. Jakub Kaminski returned injured from the main selection of Poland, but the scenario is not serious, so that everything points out that it is able to go to the game already at the reception to Celtic, next October 15th, Thursday, this, after having scored and watched, in the victory over AC Milan, by 0-2.

Jaden Umeh, for his part, he was dealing cards in the preseason, before being stopped by a severe muscle injury, in defeat suffered before Flamengo, by 1-2. Still, it is in the final stretch of the recovery process, so everything points out that the return to the lawns is soon, being another to shuffle Marco Silva's accounts.