Carlos Carvalhal after reaching the final four of the Allianz Cup: «Better only in Feira de Espinho» – Sp. Braga

Sporting de Braga beat Estoril 3-1 on Thursday and confirmed their classification for the ‘four finalists’ of the Allianz Cup, in a match in which Paulinho scored all three of Minho’s goals.

At the end of the game, Carlos Carvalhal did not stop congratulating the behavior of his players in the victory over the Canarinhos, underlining the average number of goals that the team has shown throughout the season, a statistic that the Minho coach found when reading Record, saying: “Better only in Feira de Espinho”.

“First of all congratulate my team, my players. They were brave, they made a great game against a very well organized team. We knew in advance that Estoril builds very well from behind and we did not allow that to happen. Three good chances to kill him. game, but we didn’t make it. Still, we went to the break to win 1-0. Fransérgio has the chance to score the second goal [logo à abrir a segunda parte] but shoot the bar. I had to add another midfielder to balance the midfield more, from then on the game was balanced. It is a fair result, ”the Arsenal manager began by speaking to Sport TV.

Goals moments

“These are situations in the game, we could have done it in others, but we did it in the ones we did. Estoril could have done it in others. It is what it is. It is important, we managed to score three more goals and we are going with an impressive goal average. the statistics, by the way, someone wrote them. I saw it in the newspaper Record that we have the highest productivity since 77 years. It is a fact that makes us happy. We mark and defend when we have to defend. We are too lethal to do that. I am satisfied with the players. We are doing well in the championship, we had a good campaign in the Europa League … only better in Feira de Espinho “.

‘Final four’ with the four best teams in the championship

“Right now, the most important thing is to prepare the next game and make some jams now for Christmas to give to the neighbors,” he concluded, laughing.