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Sérgio Conceição does not leave room for this Saturday’s game, in the Azores, against Santa Clara (6pm). With his team six points behind, the FC Porto coach says it’s a final.
“We have no margin to lose more points and run the risk of moving further away from the place that belongs to us and where we want to be, which is the first,” he stressed, without even thinking that a possible defeat would leave the Blue and Whites out. of the League Cup, this season aimed at the top six in the championship and the top two in League 2 until the end of this month.
“We see the game as one more of the Championship, in which we really want to win three points to continue to be closer to the forward teams. We are not thinking about the League Cup, we are only thinking about ourselves, about making a competent match that allows us to win, ”he said.
The coach, however, did not stop referring to the difficulties imposed by the tight schedule: «We cannot forget that we arrived yesterday [quinta-feira] at 4.30 in the morning and we will play less than 72 hours apart. It’s good that people think about it a bit, because it’s not about our dedication, but also about the risk of players getting injured. I heard klopp [treinador do Liverpool] say that, at this rate, we might finish the season with 10 or 11 players. It is good to be in a competition like the Champions League, but we should look at the matches of the national team, for example. The truth is that we play less than 72 hours apart and that if we don’t beat Sérgio Conceição, he doesn’t understand any of that, when there are opponents who are not on the same level as us ».
