We all know that we should never take the results of pre-season too seriously. They aren’t games that teams aim to win, though it is nice, they are games there to learn which system is best and to get players to full match fitness.
However even with that, you can’t really blame people raising an eyebrow when the full time whistle blew at Hillsborough and it was confirmed that Sheffield Wednesday had beaten Benfica. That’s because if the Owls are a ‘massive’ team, Benfica are humongous. They have won the European Cup on multiple occasions and are the current champions of Portugal after pipping their fierce rivals Sporting Lisbon to the title. And they were coming into this game having beaten Wednesday’s promotion rivals Derby County 4-0.
Yet in what was an entertaining match, Wednesday were able to edge the game thanks to a brilliant finish on the turn by their mini maestro Fernando Forestieri and the likes of Eduardo Salvio and Pizzi were unable to get an equaliser.
But how did Twitter react to this great friendly win?
Pre season or not, if someone can explain to me why Sheffield Wednesday beat benfica I can finally go to sleep
— Clark Bassett (@ClarkBassett) July 20, 2016
Benfica have been beaten by Sheffield Wednesday tonight.
Shamal George played up top for liverpool tonight.
Crazy night.— Matt (@redjersey14) July 20, 2016
Had a dream last night that Wednesday beat Benfica and we had a reyt squad and manager and would be challenging for promotion #swfc
— wynney (@mattywynne) July 21, 2016
https://twitter.com/steveburkern/status/756043391612354560
Really enjoyed friendly against benfica last night and so did the boys had a great view from our seats #swfc pic.twitter.com/Xn3O5LidQw
— Dan G (@DanGWAAAY) July 21, 2016
And, there’s always one…
Think our fans may be getting a little ahead of themselves l, it was a decent performance but it was only a friendly. #swfc
— Simon Morris (@BigAl_simon) July 21, 2016