The Sporting coach assumed today that the team will ‘rotate’ against Portimonense, on Saturday, for matchday six of the I Football League, to beat the Algarve and not stop hosting Tottenham.
The ‘lions’ receive the English team on Tuesday, in a match on the second day of Group D of the Champions League, four days after receiving Portimonense, fourth in the I League.
In the press conference prior to the match with the Algarve, Rúben Amorim assumed that he has to “rotate the team” because “everyone is ready to play” and Sporting “really have to win”.
“If we want to win every game, and that is our idea, regardless of the rival and knowing the differences between competitions, we have to rotate the team. And rotating the team is beating Portimonense, it’s not leaving players for the next game. “, shot the ‘green and white’ technician in Alcochete.
In this sense, Amorim recalled that “Portimonense had a normal week” of preparation for Saturday’s game, while Sporting traveled from Frankfurt to Lisbon on Thursday and only today began preparing to welcome the Algarve.
“Our rotation, for the most part, was done today. How they came in, at least two players were still very tired and we rotated it. Then there is the tactical aspect, the characteristics of the game, it is completely different. What we want is to beat him against Portimonense. The best way to get the players back is to win”, underlined Amorim.
And in addition to the players who “are very tired”, others “have a lack of play and are full of energy”, but the coach did not give many clues about the options he will take to form the starting eleven on Saturday.
St. Juste, who was injured on Wednesday, in the first leonine victory in history in Germany, “is not ready for the match” and should not be an option “until the break” of the championship for the national team matches, at the end of month, but about Paulinho he limited himself to saying that “it is one more option” for the attack, without revealing if the spearhead will line up at the start.
As for the duo of midfielders, Ugarte and Morita, subject to great wear and tear, they did not find the Liga dos Campeões, Amorim will also not promote alterations in this sector, more ahead than Sotiris Alexandropoulos, reinforcement contracted in the last week of August, “we will not start Of start”.
“Sotiris still needs to get used to the position. It’s one more option, he won’t start tomorrow.” [no sábado], yet. We are building a player for a very specific position in our team. So you still won’t be the owner. In relation to the other two central midfielders, let’s see what rotation we make”, commented the Leonese coach.
Sporting hosts Portimonense on Saturday, in a match from matchday six of the Portuguese Football League, starting at 6:00 p.m., at the Estádio José Alvalade, in Lisbon, and refereed by Cláudio Pereira, from the association of Aveiro.
The team led by Rúben Amorim seeks to add the second consecutive victory in the championship, after winning the previous day, in the visit to Estoril Praia (2-0), in a match that followed two consecutive defeats in the competition, against FC Porto (3-0) and Desportivo de Chaves (2-0).
The ‘lions’ remain in seventh place in the competition’s league standings, with seven points, five less than Portimonense, which is in fourth place with the same 12 points as FC Porto, both three points behind leader Benfica.
Source: TSF
