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FC Porto’s last trip to Alvalade, recorded on January 5 this year, resulted in a victory (2-1), in a match in which the dragons broke a twelve-year fast of triumphs in the lion’s house. The hero of that match was Soares, who untied a complicated knot, thanks to a blow to the head, in the last quarter of an hour of the match and who, at that moment, kept Sérgio Conceição’s team in pursuit of then-leader Benfica which had six points of advancement.
Tiquinho’s goal ended up giving the Blue and Whites a tasty victory and ending the curse in Alvalade, the ground where Sérgio Conceição fought to win as FC Porto coach.
They will be more than nine thousand kilometers away than Soares, the top scorer who left the Porto shield in this summer transfer market, that Soares will see – despite the time zone – the classic between lions and dragons, scheduled for Saturday , in Alvalade, at 8.30 pm.
“I will not miss this game for nothing,” reveals Tiquinho, in exclusive statements to A BOLA, who already feels integrated into the new Tianjin Teda team, at the service of which he has already begun to notice, by signing the assistance for one of the two goals that sealed the victory (2-0) against Shenzen.
Of the last classic in Alvalade, the 29-year-old Brazilian has happy memories: “It was a very difficult game. Sporting were very good in the game, but I remember that we worked a lot during the week. We spent everything working on that play that resulted in Marega’s first goal, which appeared on the back of the Sporting center-backs, picking up the opposing defense in counterpoint ».
The forward remembers more: «FC Porto had not won in a long time at Sporting. We got it into our heads what that day would be. So it was a very good match. When I scored the goal I took a weight off my shoulders because I never scored in Alvalade and after the goal I knew we were going to win »
Strategy already thought
Sérgio Conceição is known for being a stubborn player in game strategies and also in the way he works at Olival with set pieces. Soares stayed close to the coach for three consecutive seasons, in which he won two Championships, a Portuguese Cup and a Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup, and understands that in these matches the coach is an expert in the way he prepares his teams for overthrow the strategies of the opponents. The forward recovers his victories in the five classics played last season and highlights the ingenious way in which Conceição breaks the way his rivals play.
In this sense, Soares believes that the dragon coach already has a plan at this point that he believes is ideal to hurt his opponent in the classic next weekend. «Sérgio Conceição tends to be decisive in the preparation of the meetings. He knows where Sporting is struggling. He will say exactly that to the squad, transmitting what is necessary to make a good game and win ”, emphasizes Tiquinho, who sees in the Alvalade confrontation“ two great teams ”.
“But I hope that FC Porto win and win all three points,” adds the South American forward.
