Benfica’s coach, Roger Schmidt, was happy with the win over Dragão, although he admitted that even if he played with one more for over an hour, the match “was difficult until the last second”.
“I’m very happy, it was a very important win for us. It was a very difficult game, very difficult to control. We took advantage of the exclusion to control the game better, but it was difficult until the last second. The atmosphere was very complicated, but the players were in control. It wasn’t a nice game of football, but we won the three points, that’s what counts, and we deserved to win.”he said, in English, in the quick interview section of Sport TV.
The German coach justified the three substitutions at halftime due to the fact that Alexander Bah, Enzo Fernández and João Mário had already yellowed and says having “a six point lead is good”, but reminded that the championship is still on. match day is 10.
The goalscorer, Rafa Silva, refused to take the lead. “The most important thing for us was to win, it didn’t matter who scored. The most important thing is to win and go game by game. This was just another game where we won. We’re going step by step, game by game, that’s what’s important,” he emphasized.
Source: DN
