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PRESS CONFERENCE
Game analysis
“The most important thing was to win, but winning and convincing is even better. In the face of our rival we were much better and we translated it into goals. We were more effective than in the last game.” [na Grécia, com o PAOK], where we even made more shots on goal and only scored one goal. In addition to the defensive speed that the team had, Famalicão practically had no opportunities to reach our defensive zone. He scored a goal and had a ball hit the post, but it was the only offensive play that our team could not cancel. I don’t like to conceal goals, I don’t like how we suffer. There were positive things, we had two forwards, Waldschmidt and Darwin, with a different intensity, it is not that they are more technically evolved, but they have other characteristics, different from those of Vinícius and Seferovic. They are players that we want in our game model, who know how to gain space with certain dynamics. We had Gabriel, who today was more intense than Julian Weigl. “
“WE WERE MUCH BETTER AND WE TRANSLATED IT INTO GOALS”
“There was a game three days ago, I had to play with the team and four players entered [Gabriel, Rafa, Waldschmidt e Darwin], everyone was fine. The substitutions could have helped improve the intensity of our game. We entered the Championship with the right foot, with a landslide. The goal was three points, but often it is the game that dictates our decisions, and the decisions have always been towards scoring more goals. “
Dupla Darwin e Waldschmidt
“They are two players with different characteristics, to shoot and gain space easily. Both are far from what they can do, Darwin has been with us for just over a week, he is a young man, he still does not know the team, the team still does not know him Luca Waldschmidt was in the national team for two weeks, on ‘vacation’, because he didn’t play for five minutes, and little by little he got into the team’s dynamics.
“WE BEGIN TO REMAIN RIGHT IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP”
Alignment different from Greece
“I wanted to have forwards to start the game, to have a team that arrived fresh with four new players. I kept the last line because I want to give them some stability, so that they adapt more easily. Vertonghen and Rúben were in the teams for two weeks, they are still there. outside of what the team’s defensive movements are. In fact, we’re all a long way from what I want. Game by game, the team will improve. “
He asked for a sixth goal, he wanted intensity
“I was going to take out Grimaldo because, as you know, he came from an injury, he played in Greece for 90 minutes, he was not going to leave him until the end, not because he was playing badly, he scored a great goal. I demand much more from him, because He has a technical quality to play more, but he was showing signs of fatigue and I took him for that, since he was also going to take Adel, who ended up injured, but Gabriel already had a yellow card and I ended up to replace him. Everything was scheduled. , the substitutions were already in my head. It was even to get Pedrinho into the game, but I wanted to give Diogo Gonçalves a chance. He played here at Famalicão, he’s a kid from Benfica, I believe a lot there, he’s very competitive and I think He can be a good player in another position. In time, we’ll see. Back? Yes. “
“GAME BY GAME, THE TEAM WILL IMPROVE”
A Benfica in the image of Jesus?
“Benfica will always be like Benfica. To achieve the Club’s goals you have to know how to play Benfica. This is the history of the great Benfica teams, and that is what we want. We scored five goals, we could have done more.” strong, with pressure, a strong defensive speed and we were more objective in the shot, which also translated the result. We had practically the same ball possession as the match with PAOK, the result was different. We scored and continued with the same confidence. in what we want. Our road will be long and difficult, but we believe that we will achieve our goals. We won 1-5, but we are still very far from what I want a Benfica to have playing against Benfica ”.
Taarabt and Pizzi solutions
“Taarabt has different characteristics than any other second midfielder. He is a player who does not have 90 minutes yet, and I was going to replace him, but Gabriel already had a yellow card. Pizzi knows him better than anyone, it was me who started playing on the inside, the Last season he scored many goals, he is a player with charisma. More important than the coach and the players is Benfica. “
“WE BELIEVE IN THE PRESIDENT, WE ARE WITH HIM”
“Well defined goals” in the Europa League
“We have the Europa League, we did not want to be in it. The most difficult thing was entering the group stage, I knew that Benfica was going to surprise, but that is the past, it does not count. We go to the Europa League with well-defined goals, knowing We have many possibilities, but our focus, the first great objective is to win the National Championship. It has always been and always will be the priority of the Portuguese teams. “
“This victory is for the president”
“We are all in solidarity with the President. We believe in him, we stand with him and this victory, on behalf of the whole group, is for him, for everything he has done. I left here five years ago. I know what I’m talking about. Benfica was already big, but today it is much bigger. The Club has grown enormously and this is due to the President and his Board of Trustees “.
Text: João Sanches
Photos: David Martins / SL Benfica
