Coach Rui Borges said this Sunday that Moreirense needs to “match the intensity” of FC Porto to “balance the game” on the opening day of the Portuguese Football League, create their chances and try to score.
About to play the first official match of the main Portuguese championship at home, the former Mafra coach stressed that the team from the town of Moreira de Cónegos wants to impose the football they worked on in the preseason, against an opponent “strong in deep attack”. , but also in “direct and indirect combinations” with the area.
“We are going to have problems and we have to know how to face them and solve them. If we manage to match the intensity of FC Porto in an initial phase, in the defensive and offensive process, which is difficult, I think that, over time, we will balance the game and we will have our opportunities”, he said when advancing the game scheduled for 6:00 p.m.: 45 hours on Monday.
Convinced that the dragons will enter “with everything”, similar to Wednesday’s match for the Super Cup, against Benfica, in which they played “30 very intense and strong minutes” before losing with two goals in the second half, Rui Borges stressed that Moreirense could “condition FC Porto’s decision-making” in more advanced stages of the game and upset the ‘blue and white’ team.
“We are going to have less positive moments, but afterwards we are going to have good moments and I think we are going to ‘hurt’ FC Porto”, he envisions.
The ‘helmsman’ also referred to the fact that the ‘checkered’ team is “very motivated”, with a ‘hunger’ to debut in the I Liga, against a rival that does not expect to see the absence of center-back Pepe and coach Sérgio Conceição suffer. , expelled at the end of the duel with Benfica, on Wednesday.
“They will come even more motivated in relation to what happened. We are aware that we all make poor decisions at times. We have to bear the consequences, ”she stressed.
Moreirense hosts FC Porto in a match scheduled for 6:45 p.m. on Monday, at the Estádio Comendador Joaquim de Almeida Freitas, in Moreira de Cónegos, Guimarães, with refereeing by Hélder Malheiro, from the Lisbon Football Association.
Source: TSF
