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3:26 pm – The press conference ends
Conference end point
“I mean, I’m really glad I asked questions about soccer. I was used to being asked about soccer for a year. That’s the important thing for soccer. ‘Why did you play this and that?’, Speaking of soccer, That’s important. I was very happy. ”
At what level is Benfica?
“We only played one game and I still don’t have the ability to say at what level Benfica is. When I say that Benfica had to play triple, you know as well as I do, if they didn’t play double or triple or Benfica didn’t win either. It’s logical and natural the level that the club must have to achieve the objectives. At five weeks, let’s say the level we are at … Of course we are not where I want to be, but we believe that we have collective and individual quality We are in a club in the one with nothing missing. Everything will work out so that Benfica has a team with a lot of dynamics, with an artistic note. I’m getting to know the players and they all have the talent to believe it. It’s with work, game by game. And from that I’m talking “.
Love / hate the Flamengo fans
“There were 50 million who loved me. In each game I had 70,000 screaming for me. It’s not hate, it’s love. I went out to another project, to a great club as well and it’s natural that … I don’t even know how to say it. But I don’t think so. That the Flamengo fans want Benfica to lose, for a reason that I do not say … I did not want to talk much about it, because it is a club that marked me a lot, it was where I won the most important titles. I will never forget it, also because the people who treated me well. It’s not because I’m here that I’m going to say that the Flamengo fans hate me. When we love a lot, when we part ways, that word of hate can come, because you’ve lost the most. You liked it and I understand it perfectly “.
Do you feel able to ask for more players?
“We are not asking for more players. Before the PAOK game, we, the structure, had already determined that if the team passed, removing a center-back, no more players would enter. The fact that we were eliminated has changed nothing. Zero!”
Advance request to Vieira?
“I didn’t ask, I said that we have to have a forward who knows how to attack the last line, who knows how to gain space. Vinícius and Seferovic do not have these characteristics, because they play well behind their backs, they are players who feed off the team to win centers. They are players who know how to play. This is a feature that with Darwin I think we will have. My conversation was not to ask about a player, but to say that we need him. When we started trying to balance the squad, The solution was always for two forwards and So far we’ve only hired one. I’m not saying it’s not like that, but the conversation I had … Of the three I have, I have to find a way to improve this feature, which is very important to me “
Defensive process
“The goals we conceded were not a defensive transition. The bottom is in place. I agree that the team is not yet automated as I want defensively, as is normal. Although in those five players there is one who has worked with me, What is André Almeida: Defensively, we are not yet, neither a little nor more nor less, within what we want.
Sorry to go back?
“No. When it comes to making decisions, and in football they are always at risk, in a team like Benfica, which plays in every goal to win, you are setting the bar high. It has been part of my career as a coach, about Everything when I left. from Benfica to Flamengo, I came with the conviction that we were going to have a difficult task, make a good team and I am convinced these weeks that Benfica will build a strong and quality team, I do not regret anything. This first game motivates me more and more so that the future is bright – maybe not, it will be! It has to be with work, with the integration of reinforcements. All this takes time. Regardless of all that, in the first game we were responsible and convinced that this is no excuse “
Shaken tomorrow at eleven?
“Today is already a day that gives indications of what we can feel for the players, whether they are loaded or at risk of injury. We have indications from the medical team. Tomorrow we will have greater certainty of knowing the eleven that will be launched. Today there is an advantage. In Relative to other seasons. There are five substitutions, which gives some security, even for some players who are not doing so well during the game. Fortunately, Benfica has the quality to do it. “
The most difficult to manage after leaving the Champions League
“The victories are the food for all the problems you may have. When you win, nothing happens, the players recover better, because the mind has more confidence. This team is young with experience. It knows that it is taking its first steps, it We know that we are going to grow a lot and I hope that tomorrow they will be as confident as when we arrived in Greece. It was a trip that we did not take as we thought, but life is on its way and we have many goals to conquer. We have to start like all rivals, from the beginning. It’s a moment when we have a lot of confidence.
The strengths of Famalicão
“We have some disadvantage. While Famalicão saw us on television in the preseason and in the Champions League, we did not see anything of Famalicão. We do not have deep knowledge, but we know Famalicão from the players and their coach. We are sure that we will catch a quality rival. Your coach already has a year of history with this team, although he has changed players. There are no easy games. The Portuguese championship will have much more quality. Many players are arriving, some who have already played here. I’m very happy about that, that other teams are strengthening themselves with quality. It’s good for Portuguese football. It will be a more competitive championship. “
Favorite to be champion
“The word kill has to do with the confidence I have in the team, in the squad and in the club. I know that this and all the other teams that I coached have competitiveness and quality of play to kill sometimes and sometimes not (laughs). favorites are those who win, not those who don’t win. The champion is FC Porto. I respect that title, but as a Benfica coach I want to win it. Respect has nothing to do with ambition. Always to win. Benfica will start the first round with an opponent who was the surprise last year, who always had difficulties to win. We will be ready for tomorrow. “
Championship start
“After we arrived in Porto we did the first training session. The team is recovering. It has not had hours to recover from the game yet, but it is recovering to arrive tomorrow to play a longer match than in Greece, because there we did 45 minutes very good, 15 more in the second half. Then in the last half hour there was no intensity to play at PAOK level. Tomorrow we think that since we have one more game, we could be much better. “
03:02 PM – The press conference begins.
Coach Jorge Jesus will bring forward Friday’s match in Famalicão at 3:00 p.m., which marks Benfica’s debut in the 2020/21 NOS NOS, days after the elimination of the red from the Champions League.
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