The coach of Sporting de Braga, Artur Jorge, highlighted on Wednesday the ambition to beat Sweden’s Malmö, on Thursday, in a match from the first day of Group D of the Europa League.
Artur Jorge said that the recent change of coach of the Swedish team – presented this Tuesday by the Norwegian Age Hareide, 68 years old – will not change the approach of the Minho team, which is to want to win.
“We study the rivals well, we know Malmö’s recent past and not only that. We are going to face a quality team, with experience in European matches and, therefore, we will have to live up to ourselves. We know what we have to do”. we do and we have the clear objective of winning”, declared the coach in the previous press conference.
Artur Jorge said he knew the new Swedish coach, “an experienced coach with a wide and rich CV.”
“I know that he had already worked at Malmö, that he was coach of Rosenborg and the Danish national team. I think he will use the most experienced players at this very delicate stage of the team. [duas derrotas seguidas no campeonato] and that will have a positive influence on the team,” he said.
Without Niakaté, injured, and Tormena, suspended, Artur Jorge is deprived of the usual pair of central defenders that he has been playing, but the coach was not worried.
“We have five central defenders and we can’t count on two, we have three available and those who start will have the confidence of the entire structure and will surely play a great performance,” he said.
Artur Jorge addressed the increase in the number of Minho matches in the coming months and pointed out “counting on all” the players.
“We have players ready to play. We are going to have a very strong month in terms of game density and therefore we have to count on everyone. The most important thing is the system and the dynamics of wanting to win games. “, he said.
Regarding Sporting Braga’s goals in the Europa League, Artur Jorge stressed that he was “very clear during the draw”.
“I said we will do everything to win this group. There is no better name, but it is part of our ambition to pass this group in first place. We want to reach the round of 16, even though we know we will face opponents with power and ambition,” he said.
The manager also said that it was “a great pride” to debut as coach of Sporting de Braga in European competitions.
“I’m not anxious, I’m motivated, I’m going to make another dream come true. I did it as an athlete. [jogar na ‘Europa’ pelos bracarenses] And now I’m going to do it as a coach with the ambition of winning games,” he said.
Sporting de Braga and Malmö will face each other starting at 5:45 p.m. on Thursday, at the Eleda Stadium, in Malmö, in a match that will be refereed by Croatian Duje Strukan.
Source: TSF
