Casa Pia will visit FC Porto with respect and humility, but with the necessary ambition to be able to face a candidate for the I Football League title, coach Pedro Moreira took over this Friday.
“It is a difficult game and we do not hide that we will surely spend more time defensively than offensively. FC Porto is a team of enormous quality and extreme competition, with ambitions that are not ours, and we will have to work twice as hard.” “but we want to try to value ourselves with respect and humility, but with the ambition that is due to a game like this,” he highlighted at a press conference.
The geese triumphed again on the last day, hosting Portimonense 1-0, in a match in which they were an “extremely ambitious and organized” team, which leads them to see the trip to Dragão as an “opportunity to make further”. and better”.
“Our life and our work must be seen in a positive way and the game is the product of our weekly work. It is a very complicated and difficult game, on a field where Casa Pia never managed to score. I hope these players go after it and look for the best result for the match,” said the coach, who will play his third match at the club.
On the other hand, FC Porto comes to the match “hurt” by Wednesday’s defeat against Estoril Praia, which led to their elimination from the League Cup and which led coach Sérgio Conceição to consider his own demerit for the decisions he took for this match. match.
“What I expect are players with enormous quality and great difficulty for our team. We know what to do and we will try, in the best possible way, to counteract the strong points of FC Porto. Matches are made up of details and we seek to have an advantage in these details , like the one that Estoril Praia managed to have in its matches,” he stated.
Thus, Pedro Moreira recalled that the Porto team “barely loses two games in a row” and that, playing at home, “they are normally a dominant team”, but he assured that Casa Pia is prepared to overcome supremacy.
“FC Porto has an enormous capacity to be offensive and sharp in construction. We are ready and we are looking, with the analysis we did and the exercises we tried to create, to go against what FC Porto will do and, in a difficult stadium For these ‘small’ teams, try as best as possible to counteract the supremacy they have had and go after a good result,” highlighted the 48-year-old coach.
The Spanish right winger Gaizka Larrazabal, who was injured in the last game, is “100%” ready to play, unlike the midfielder Rafael Brito and the winger Kiki Silva, who are still in the clinical part of the Lisbon team, with injuries from Long duration.
Casa Pia, 11th ranked, with 13 points, visits FC Porto, third, with 28, on Saturday in a match on the 13th round of the Portuguese First League, at the Estádio do Dragão, in Porto, 8:30 p.m., which will be refereed by João Gonçalves, from the Porto association.
Source: TSF
