The Portuguese striker Rafael Leão points to Portugal as one of the favorites to win the World Cup and was “very happy” with the first goal for the Portuguese team.
Speaking to SportTV from Doha, the 23-year-old striker admitted that he “had been looking for a long time” to score for the national team, but highlighted the team’s victory as “the most important” for what he identifies as a clear title. contender.
“We are favorites to win the World Cup, we go into every game to win and show our quality. The younger ones learn from the older ones and, in general, we form a great team”, he pointed out.
Against a Ghana for which Fernando Santos prepared the team “very well”, Portugal entered the match expecting a team that was going to “explore on the counterattack because they had very fast players up front”.
The error in the first half, identified by the players themselves, was the lack of “aggressiveness”, an issue that Fernando Santos did not make clear. “That’s what the coach told us in the locker room at half-time. In the second half we completely changed our attitude and we were happy”, with three goals, despite the two conceded.
Asked if he felt that this was going to be the game in which he would score for the national team, Leão assured that he “always” feels that he will score, but adds to that “the desire to want to help the team, to be focused and know what to do.” when he enters the field. For this reason, he did not stop thanking “the team” for the help they gave him.
This Thursday Portugal entered the World Cup winning by beating Ghana 3-2 in a match that ended up suffering from the threat of an African tie.
Source: TSF
