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The Braga coach made the preview of the reception to Santa Clara, scheduled for this Friday.
Carlos Carvalhal said on Thursday that, despite Braga’s third place in the First League last season, the specific distance for the first two remained very large.
The coach considers that it is important to “put all the variables in the analysis” and that, if it is true that Minho got the last place on the podium, they were at a considerable point distance from the first two, Benfica and the champion FC Porto .
“There is still a very big difference between teams like Braga and Sporting for Benfica and FC Porto, on average 20 points. That is not what worries us, but to fight for the three points with the spirit of victory with the utmost ambition, as we did in Dragão ”, he said before the reception to Santa Clara, on Friday, of the second round.
Asked if FC Porto and Benfica were on one level and Braga and Sporting on another, Carlos Carvalhal highlighted the different investment capacity of the big clubs, making a parallel with the media and recalling his experience in English football.
“You have three sports newspapers here, one has the capacity to invest 100 million, the other 5, of course there is a big investment discrepancy. I did a normal interview in Swansea that is done here with a camera, there were eight cameras there and six people “he recalled.
The technician also pointed out that “the journalist, due to his ingenuity and ability to ask questions, can do one interview better than the other, but if he has other means, the product is much better.”
“There is a big difference between the investment capacity, the greatness and the strength of the clubs that Braga has, and very well, it has been known that every year it decreases to the point of having succeeded in supplanting Sporting last year,” he said.
After the defeat on the opening day of the First League, against FC Porto (3-1), at Estádio do Dragão, Carlos Carvalhal wants to beat Santa Clara, but “play good football and evolve as a team and in the process of game”.
For the coach, Braga had a “high level” start in the Porto stronghold, “playing as equals” and it was “the details” that decided the match. Carlos Carvalhal believes that, in terms of dynamics, the team “continues to crawl”, but that does not mean that it is not prepared to compete.
Amid praise for Santa Clara, who won 2-0 in the first round – “a good team, very well oriented, very dangerous” – the coach reinforced the idea that Braga “will fight for three points in all matches “. .
Paulinho is recovered from the injury that took him out of Dragão the previous day and may be an option, but Gaitán and Rui Fonte are certain absences due to injury, as well as Raúl Silva, due to suspension.
Braga, 13th, with zero points, and Santa Clara, fourth, with three, will face off at 8.30pm on Friday at the Estádio Municipal de Braga, a match that will be refereed by João Pinheiro.
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