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Statements by Portugal coach Fernando Santos to RTP3 after the 3-1 victory in Luxembourg in qualifying for the 2022 World Cup:
Anxiety is not about walking. We walked 30 minutes sideways and back, without intensity of the game, not even in offensive and defensive terms, we did not enter the game, we entered at 25 minutes. Otherwise, an amorphous team, without intensity. Technical quality is not enough. We have to balance the intensity of the game, the dynamics, win divided, squeeze the rival and when we do, the technical quality will make the difference, because the team has technical quality.
«They ended up scoring a goal and we woke up, we reacted, we went up. At half-time I told the players that the only thing we had to change was essentially our attitude. When he says attitude, he doesn’t mean that the players didn’t want to. It’s not that. It is passion, essentially at the level of passion and intensity. The Luxembourg team already looked different from the first half and then we could have achieved a more voluminous result. We could have scored more goals.
[Porque é que a paixão e intensidade não é constante:] “If I had managed to solve the problem, it obviously wouldn’t have happened. I will have to do it. Now, it is not easy to play every 72 hours. I have no training to be able to do it. I did five conferences, at one point it is an additional conference and it is not only through the conferences that things work. Either way, you have to congratulate the players for what they did in 60 minutes.
[Pedro Neto:] «He looked for depth, he went to look for the ball. In defensive actions he always participated. João Félix always had more difficulties. Felix has his way of playing, he is not a combat player, but he is a player with technical quality ».
[Ronaldo:] “Now he will calm down and rest and we will think about the Euro later.”
