The Sporting coach said on Monday that it would be a mistake to think of a draw with Eintracht Frankfurt on Tuesday, a result that will serve the lions to reach the round of 16 of the Football Champions League.
In the auditorium of the Estádio José Alvalade, Rubén Amorim admitted that this thought can even enter the minds of the players in the final part of the match, but stressed that “there is no advantage” in the fact that the Germans are forced to win to to move on. .
“We’re not even talking about a draw. We have to win, because we have to be aware of the moment we are in, in which any ball that goes to our goal hits, so the only thought is to win the game. goals”The ‘Leonese’ coach has pointed out at a press conference.
For Amorim, “this factor will only enter the minds of the players in the final minutes”, but that will only be “because it is a way of reading the game” and because Sporting can “count on two results”.
“Now, at the beginning of the game, it would be a mistake to think of a draw. We have to win the game and play well”, said the coach.
In that sense, and ‘invited’ to reveal the weight that the eventual pass to the round of 16 of the ‘Champions’ will have in the evaluation that he promised, previously, to do his job at the head of the team, Rubén Amorim. he reinforced that he likes to “assume responsibilities”, but guaranteed that the tabulation will not weigh “anything”.
“the eighths [de final] It doesn’t change much, because it says more about the coach when we are a better team and we are constant in beating teams that don’t have the same values as us. And we haven’t had that ability.”
For this reason, he refused to answer if his future at Sporting is compromised if he does not pass, a question that “does not cross his mind”, because he has “a lot of confidence in the team”, but admitted that he does not know how. to explain the lack of effectiveness of their players when it comes to shooting on goal.
“There is something in the air that you feel, I can’t explain it to you… In the year we were champions you felt that something was going to happen. Now you feel the opposite. And that’s hard to explain to players. and try to change Only change with good results and tomorrow we have a good match [terça-feira] to change that,” he said.
Before Rubén Amorim, right-back Pedro Porro also referred to the team’s moment, which has conceded nine consecutive games, and pointed to the rival’s quality as one of the factors responsible for that moment, but guaranteed that the team will come out ahead. correct this problem. .
“We are focused on training the defensive line better and better. The rivals play well, there are days when things don’t go so well for us, but we are focused on doing things well and that is what we will try to do tomorrow”, the Spanish player assumed.
Sporting hosts Eintracht Frankfurt on Tuesday, in a match for the sixth and final day of Group D of the Champions League, starting at 8:00 p.m., at the Estádio José Alvalade, in Lisbon, and refereed by the Slovenian Slavko Vincic .
The team led by Ruben Amorim only needs a draw against the Germans to ensure passage to the round of 16 of the competition, in a balanced group, in which the leader Tottenham has only one point more than Sporting and Marseille and two more than EintrachtFrankfurt.
Source: TSF
