FC Porto enters “pressured to get a good result” at the reception at Club Brugge, on Tuesday, in a match from the second day of Group B of the Football Champions League, recognized the Belgian coach Carl Hoefkens.
“FC Porto is a very Portuguese team, with their quality and immense technique. I know they are under pressure to get a good result and they will try to condition us. We have to work very professionally, show a winning mentality, have possession of the ball and the aggressiveness,” said the 43-year-old coach at a press conference.
FC Porto, in third place, still in ‘zero’, receives Club Brugge, second, with three points, on Tuesday, at 8:00 p.m., at the Estádio do Dragão, in Porto, in a match for the second day of Group B of the Champions League, with the arbitration of the Greek Anastasios Sidiropoulos.
If the three-time Belgian champion beat German Bayer Leverkusen (1-0) in the first round, the Dragons, winners of the competition in the 1986/87 and 2003/04 seasons, lost in the visit to Spanish Atlético de Madrid (1-2 ), with three goals in added time.
“Each game has to be seen separately. In addition, FC Porto is very different from Bayer Leverkusen and surely something will change in relation to the match against Atlético de Madrid. Now, above all, we have to focus on ourselves,” he added.
Club Brugge is coming off six consecutive victories in all competitions and remains in third place in the Belgian top flight, with 19 points, five behind the leader Antwerp, and hopes that Carl Hoefkens “the good preparation for this match on the pitch.” .
As a Germinal Beerschot player, the former Belgian international defender even faced FC Porto coach Sérgio Conceição in April 2005, scorer of the first goal of the victory for Standard de Liège (3-0) in that match on matchday 27 of the league local.
“What idea do I have of Sérgio Conceição? Passion. He already played with a lot of passion when he was a footballer and he maintains that characteristic as a coach. I have noticed that because of the way he directs, he imposes his style and makes the teams play the way he wants”, he pointed.
At the same press conference, winger Andreas Skov Olsen projected a “difficult” match against a “very strong” opponent, recalling that the defeated finalist in the main European club competition in the 1977/78 season will have to “try to prevail “. his game”.
We have seen some videos [do FC Porto] and we will see more, but we are more focused on us. The rival has a good team and quality players in all positions. I expect a fight tomorrow [terça-feira]”said the Danish international winger.
Author of the decisive goal for Club Brugge against Gent (1-0), in this year’s Belgian Super Cup, on July 17, Skov Olsen was “very eager” for the “dream come true” to be his first participation in this phase of the Champions League.
“We are here to win, otherwise it would be a plus to have stayed at home. A point will also be a good result, but we will fight 100% for all three,” added the 22-year-old striker, who joined the Flanders club in January, from the Italians of Bologna.
Source: TSF
