Setubal 2 - Benfica 1 - Carlsberg Cup 2nd leg

Benfica bowed out of the League Cup this Wednesday by losing to Setubal in the second Leg of the Carlsberg Cup by the result of 2-1. Freddy Adu scored right before the half from the penalty spot to put Benfica ahead on the aggregate, but Setubal was able to score 2 goals and gain access to the next round of the League Cup.
Camacho fielded the following team:
Butt; Luis Felipe, Luisao, Zoro, Miguelito in defense. The midfield was composed of Biny, Edcarlos, Adu and Rodriguez. in the attacking front the 2 Argentines, Bergessio and Di Maria.
I'm still trying to understand why Edcarlos played in the midfield, he has played in that position before and he is a player that has good feet for a central defender, i still can't understand Camacho's choice even if Edcarlos did have 2 clear chances of scoring, but he just looked like a fish out of water in that position. Freddy Adu started for the first time, but didn't make as much of an impact as he has in previous games. Personally i don't think Freddy is a player to play on the wings, he is more of a central player. He did have a clear chance to put away the game, which was instinctively saved by the keeper, i thought he could have done better. I'm not going to spend too much time on the game analysis, i'll summarize it by saying that Setubal are the just winners.
I want to really take a step back and analyze this whole Carlsberg cup and how Benfica approached it. There is a few angles i want to breakdown. The first angle and the most obvious is how this extra competition affected Benfica and their already booked up schedule. I think the league needs to look at the schedule of games and see what it can do about changing it. The start of the competition coincided with the champions league star. With the three big teams competing in the group stages of the CL, the Carlsberg Cup turned out to be somewhat of an annoyance for Sporting, Porto and Benfica. As if they needed more games added to their schedule. Porto went out in the first round they participated in, and i remember thinking that their loss to Fatima, was more of a blessing (no pun intended) then anything else. Sporting and Benfica went through the first stage and their reward was seeing 2 more games added to their already busy schedule. Benfica's approach however was to change the whole team around and give a chance to their less used players. This leads to the second angle. If it wasn't for the the Carlsberg Cup, Camacho would have never really had a chance to really evaluate the players that usually don't get much playing time. I'd say that the 3 games Benfica played in the Carlsberg Cup gave Camacho a very good idea of the worth of his bench players. The fact is that he knows what those players are capable of from working with them every day, but the game situations are crucial to make your best judgment. Camacho always followed the idea that the less used players would be used in the league cup, that's never been a surprise, i think that policy turned out to be the best, for 2 reason. The first one to rest important players and the second one, is the one i mentioned above, looking at who you have on the bench in a game setting. Camacho would have never had a better chance to evaluate his bench.
If you've watched the games like me, you can see Camacho's approach to these games, his body language, the way he behaves on the bench, it's completely different from League games and CL games. Just by that alone you could see the importance the League Cup had to Benfica, and i'm not trying to find excuses for being out of it, I'm just seeing things how things really are. It's as if the League cup was an obligation, Benfica never fielded their best 11 and even in times where they needed to field the best 11 in order to advance Camacho stuck to his second string. The Carlsberg Cup really became a secondary objective for Benfica, behind the League, CL and the Portuguese Cup, which will start up later.