The national coach Fernando Santos warned on Tuesday against being dazzled and warned that the match against Morocco next Saturday, scoring for the World Cup quarterfinals, is “very, very difficult.”
In the press conference after the 6-1 victory over Switzerland, the coach of the team stressed that it is necessary to “get down to earth a bit”, especially since the Moroccans did not leave good memories in the last World Cup. played in Russia.
“For me it was the toughest game we had in the 2018 World Cup, we won 1-0, but with great difficulty,” Fernando Santos recalled about the match four years ago, then counting for Group B.
The Portuguese coach also guarantees that he knows the current team “quite well”, but confesses that he will spend most of this Wednesday “watching” the game in which Morocco eliminated Spain this afternoon, which was “one of the main favorites “. .
Regarding tonight’s game against Switzerland, Fernando Santos praised the “fluidity of the team” and regretted that he did not appear in the group stage. “Today went very well, the team played a very good game, with possession, with confidence. They have already shown that in training, ”he guaranteed.
Asked about his relationship with Cristiano Ronaldo -who started the game on the bench tonight-, the leader of the Portuguese team once again praised the striker as “an example” and an “extraordinary” player, highlighting the “way in which he celebrated the goals and how he entered the match with great will”.
The coach also guarantees that he maintains a “very close” relationship with Cristiano Ronaldo, built when he trained “at Sporting, he was 19 years old.”
“The relationship does not change, neither he nor I confuse the human and personal issue with the player,” he guaranteed.
The Portuguese soccer team beat Switzerland with goals from Gonçalo Ramos, who scored a hat trick, by Pepe, Raphael Guerreiro and Rafael Leão. In the quarterfinals of the World Cup, Qatar will face Morocco.
Source: TSF
