The coach of Eintracht Frankfurt, Oliver Glasner, acknowledged on Monday that he feels “a lot of respect” for Sporting, on the eve of the decisive match between the two teams ahead of qualifying for the round of 16 of the Football Champions League.
“As in all games in this group, we hope to be the happiest team and win. All four coaches said that the group was very balanced and all the games showed it. We lost the first game against Sporting 3-0, we didn’t do it. It wasn’t expected, but that’s how it was and we’re happy to play in a final that we have to win to get through to the round of 16”, said the German team coach confidently.
Oliver Glasner promised to “play for victory” at a press conference held at the venue of the match, Estádio José Alvalade, with more than an hour and a half behind schedule, due to a delay in the arrival of Eintracht Frankfurt at Humberto Airport Slim, in Lisbon. “Some results weren’t exactly what Sporting expected, but in the first half with Tottenham they were by far the best team and in the second half they had two chances to close the game, they play 3v4x3. and it is very difficult to mark them. They rarely suffer from set pieces”, praised Glasner, who recognized Sporting’s ability.
Eintracht travels to Alvalade betting on defeating Sporting to avoid disappointment in the decision of a competitive Group D of the Champions League, in which the four positions and the coach of the shield that holds the Europa League title have yet to be assigned. the importance of the game.
“The match is so important that as our Sporting teammate we are not going to give any information. I’m focused on our work and everything else is scenery. Someone will tell me the result, but that doesn’t influence us because we have to win to advance in the Champions League. We have to win, if we win we go through, then the other match has zero relevance”, classified the technical leader of the German team on the match between French Marseille and English Tottenham.
Eintracht Frankfurt is aware from the start that a defeat will leave them out of the knockout stages of the Champions League and could even leave them out of European competition, if Marseille beats Tottenham in the other game of the day.
With all the scenarios open, the Austrian coach promised to “give everything”, although he cultivated “the greatest respect for Sporting, although the results have not been the best lately”, and praised the “way of playing” of the ‘lions’.
“The strategy is to hope that we have learned from the first game. We played very well for an hour and we will have to take better advantage of the opportunities created. After 1-0 we lost a bit and fell a bit below expectations.” Trincao, Paulinho I don’t know if he will play, but they are very fast players. We hope to have our scoring opportunities”, he said hopefully.
So Glasner is looking forward to “a long day,” but added that “everyone knows what we came here for.” Thus, he promised an attacking Eintracht, “with confidence” and “a lot of respect for Sporting”, as he insisted.
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 .
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Source: TSF
