The Benfica coach stated this Thursday that the majority of fans are “very satisfied” with the team, stating that the group has made “great progress” since his arrival at the Reds.
In a press conference prior to the next match with Farense, Roger Schmidt recalled that Benfica can still have a first round “better than last season” and devalued the criticism, stating that “the most negative people are always the loudest.” .
“That is perfectly normal in football and outside of it. It is also like that in our society. There are always people who criticize and take advantage of it to appear when something goes wrong and make noise, but I know that the majority of fans are very satisfied with the team. “said the coach, in the auditorium of the Benfica Futebol Campus, in Seixal, after a dispute at the end of the first match of the Football League, in which the ‘reds’ drew 0-0 against Moreirense.
Schmidt compared, on the other hand, “the situation in which Benfica found itself” when he arrived at the club with “the situation in which it finds itself now”, considering that it is “a great evolution” and insisted that the reds They have 29 points, a possible 36″ in the I League and, therefore, “by winning you can always have a better first round than last season.”
The coach also highlighted that this score was obtained despite having lost “very important players for a long time” due to injury, such as “David Neres, Alex Bah, Orkun Kokçu and Juan Bernat”, or “top internationals for a lot of money”. at the end of last season.”
“We put all this together and still won 29 points out of 36. And we deserved every point. We deserved every point we won and we also deserved to win the other three games. The other teams were not better. We were better,” he is stressed.
Regarding Friday’s match, against Farense, the coach said that he expected “a match similar” to the previous one, against a team with “a different style of play”, but that “makes life very difficult for the rival.”
“They have already scored many goals, almost as many as us, and that says it all. They are a team with confidence, the I Liga started very well and we have to be prepared, as always in our stadium, for a team that has nothing to lose and to play to surprise,” warned Schmidt.
Benfica receives Farense on Friday, in a match of the 13th round of the I Portuguese Football League, scheduled for 6 p.m., at the Estádio da Luz, in Lisbon, and refereed by Miguel Nogueira, from the association Lisbon.
The team led by Roger Schmidt seeks to return to the path of victory, after the 0-0 draw against Moreira de Cónegos, on the previous day, a result that allowed Sporting to once again isolate itself in command of the championship with two more points .
Source: TSF
