Sporting’s coach, Rúben Amorim, revealed this Saturday that he could take advantage of the interruption in the First Football League, after Sunday’s match with Famalicão, to work on a tactical system with four defenders.
Commenting on the absence of players from the Lions in the Portuguese team, but remembering that Morita, Ugarte and Coates will be at the Qatar 2022 World Cup, the coach had already mentioned that the absence of the central defender would be positive for “thinking about defense in a different way ” and then he finished by concretizing his ideas.
“Taking Seba [Coates], we can make one or the other change during these weeks in defense. Always defending with five, defending with four… Seba has some very specific characteristics, as a midfielder. We are going to take advantage of every minute to improve the team as a whole”, revealed Amorim.
For the coach, the player who “needs the most” the interruption of the championship is the Greek Sotiris Alexandropoulos, who “despite going to the national team, returns earlier”, but also players “like Dário [Essugo]that he will have more time in the first team due to the absence of the midfielders”, can benefit.
“the Arthur [Gomes] he adapted much faster, Soto [Alexandropoulos] He is the player, in my opinion, who needs more time to catch up with the rest of the team in terms of understanding the game”, analyzed Rúben Amorim.
Before, Sporting visited Famalicão, a stronghold where Amorim never won “as Sporting coach”, but he wants to reverse that scenario, because “the break will be long and, therefore, it is very important to win this match”.
“We need to win and be consistent in all aspects. Not conceding goals, being good at set pieces, scoring goals, winning the game, second win in a row and from there we can build a break, training the players who stay here and then preparing for the rest of the season.” assumed.
For this, Amorim will not be able to count on Nuno Santos, who “cannot recover” from the injury suffered on the last day of the Champions League, against Eintracht Frankfurt and continues in the lions’ clinical bulletin, along with Neto and Daniel Bragança . .
Sporting visits Famalicão on Sunday, in a match of the 13th round of the 1st Portuguese Football League, scheduled to start at 8:30 p.m., at the Estádio Municipal de Famalicão, with the refereeing of Artur Soares Dias (AF Porto).
The team led by Rúben Amorim is in fifth place in the championship, with 22 points, 14 behind the leader, Benfica, and the coach had already publicly admitted that he needs to interrupt the championship to prepare the team and some players again for the rest of the season.
Source: TSF
