Sporting de Braga “can’t relax” in the second leg of the Champions League third qualifying round, after beating Backa Topola 3-0 in the first game, coach Artur Jorge said on Monday.
Braga has an open path to reach the play-off to access the group stage of the ‘Champions’, after the triumph at home, last Tuesday, with goals from Bruma (17 minutes), Pizzi (19) and Álvaro Djaló ( 87), in a practically one-way contest.
“We want to have a serious approach to win and achieve our goal. We cannot relax in whatever it is, this requirement must be there, all matches are important and we must fight in everything to win,” said the coach . the preview of the press conference shortly before the departure of Minho’s delegation to Serbia.
Artur Jorge said he expected “a very similar opponent” to the one he played in Braga, especially in the second half, “with a more balanced team up front, as he wants to reverse an unfavorable 3-0 result”, a result that “Sporting de Braga achieved it with a lot of merit from the team and the players, with a lot of effort”, he thought, adding: “It is this commitment that will dictate success in this match”.
Asked if he will lead the team, taking into account the championship game on Saturday, in Chaves, the coach emphasized that “the most important game is tomorrow. [terça-feira]”.
“[Este jogo] It will ask a lot of us, we have a very rich squad, with different solutions, players who can occupy the same positions and with very similar value, we will present the best team for the game,” he said, taking the title from José Fonte, next to you at the press conference.
Sporting de Braga lost on Friday at home to Famalicão (2-1) in the opening of the championship, an unexpected defeat that Artur Jorge wants the players to feel.
“We must feel the pain when we lose. Those who play for Sporting de Braga must be dissatisfied and disappointed if they fail to win. Sporting de Braga’s demands make them so that they have done something different”, he stressed. .
The coach recalled the “physical break” against Famalicenses, noting that the substitutions he made were to try to stop it, with the exception of Banza, and emphasized the fact that he had “little time” to train.
“We are going to work 50 days and we have had little time to work on what we want. We have done a good job for those who have matches every three days, little time for quality training, we have worked more on the tactical aspects to to match the team, but this is the reality,” he said.
Confirming the passage to the play-offs, it will be the third time that the Braga will contest this preliminary stage of the ‘Champions’, after beating Sevilha in 2010/11 and, in 2012/13, Udinese, who only played in this tie at the time, against the Italians.
In the play-off, the last “barrier” before the group stage, the participation of which immediately brings an influx of about 25 million euros into the “cash box” of Minho, the team led by Artur Jorge will play with Panathinaikos or Marseille , with the Greeks win 1-0 at home in the first leg.
The match between Backa Topola and Sporting de Braga will take place on Tuesday from 7 p.m. at the TSC Arena, in Backa Topola, and will be led by the Dane Jacob Kehlet.
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Source: DN
