Serbian international footballer Marko Grujic said this Thursday that he is focused on surpassing himself in his fourth season for FC Porto ahead of the morning session on the third day of training camp in Algarve’s Vale do Garrão.
“I want to give more to our club and I will commit myself to that. I want to have my best season at FC Porto and that’s why I started working a few weeks earlier. This year is very important for me and for the club.” club”, noted the midfielder. , to the resources of the ‘dragons’.
The team coached by Sérgio Conceição continued the preparatory work for 2023/24, the day after the success against the also first-class Portimonense (2-0), in the third ‘rehearsal’ of the national runners-up, who had already beaten Académica ( 3-0), from Liga 3, and the B-team of FC Porto (2-0), from the secondary, both with Olival.
“We have all the conditions to have a good pre-season, to work well and to do better every day. We want to have a great season,” emphasizes Marko Grujic, 27 years old, one of seven internationals to join the team only joined on Monday and missed the first game included in the training period, which lasts until next Wednesday.
After always playing behind closed doors, the ‘dragons’ will face the Welsh from Cardiff, of the English second tier, on Saturday, with audiences in the stands of Estádio do Algarve, before the clashes with Wolverhampton, from the Premier League , on Tuesday fair, and against Estrela da Amadora, recently promoted to the First League, on the last day on the bottom of the Algarve.
FC Porto is aiming for the Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup against champions Benfica, on August 8 or 9 in Aveiro, in the first official commitment of 2023/24.
“The first game of the season is very important and worthy of a title. That’s why we work hard. We have our objectives and we know we have to improve in the I Liga because that is always the main goal. We will give everything to all possible titles”, warned Marko Grujic, scorer of a goal and an assist in the 39 games played in 2022/23 and who has scored six victories in the service of the ‘blue and white’.
Source: DN
