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This Friday, Sérgio Conceição anticipated Saturday’s game against Tondela, match of the ninth day of the League (20.30 at Dragão). After qualifying for the next round of the Champions League, there was a controversy with Manchester City.
The coach faced a statement from Tondela coach Pako Ayesteran, who admitted that he may have to “defend with everyone.” “How are you going to counter that, since you have a much larger budget,” was the question.
«I don’t know, it seems that the hobby that gives people the most pleasure is misinterpreting Sérgio Conceição. When I talk about whether I prefer to win 4-3 or 1-0, what do I mean? I’d rather win 1-0. I always prefer to win 1-0, a good defensive organization is the basis for winning games. I give you an example, if that’s what you want to get to: Manchester City has an average of 6 fouls per game in the Premier League, against us 13 or 14, more than double. I have been in smaller teams, I have faced others with budgets 30 times bigger and I was a coach who favored defensive organization. This is not to say that it provokes such anti-gambling, it is different. I never criticized a colleague for coming to play with ten players behind the ball line over the penalty area. If someone comes up with a statement from me, I criticize a coach for that … [vale] one million euros [bate mão na mesa]. You can search at will. The commentators and the people who have to talk about football, then come up with articles that talk about budgets, when I criticized Marítimo, Belenenses, Aves … it was never for the more or less defensive strategy, see my statements, read, so that the barbarities do not come out later. I only spoke like that at the end of the game. [com o City], because they talked about my strategy, “he said.
«I didn’t see anyone outstanding – and I congratulate the teams that passed in the Europa League, we also passed in the Champions League, it is a good sign for Portugal. What he said was in response to someone who criticized the strategy. And I never criticized a colleague for playing with five or ten centers, that is clear.
Sérgio Conceição also refused to be more “soft”: “I say what is my opinion, I speak, I am not Robocop at all. What do you want me to say? I am not escaping from any issue and I am not politically correct.
