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After the win in Alvalade, Artur Jorge asks SC Braga for “serenity and balance”

The coach Artur Jorge appealed this Saturday for serenity and balance and expressed himself “very confident” in Sporting de Braga’s return to the path of victory, against Famalicão, on Sunday, in the 19th round of the First Football League .

Braga was thrashed, on Wednesday, 5-0, by Sporting, a defeat equal to the one suffered a month and a half earlier against the same rival, in the League Cup.

Admitting that Braga was “inferior to the rival”, Artur Jorge appealed for “serenity and balance” and wanted to play down the importance of the defeat suffered against the ‘lions’, considering that there were only three points not added and signaling batteries to “return to win”.

“I am very confident, because I have a group of players capable of giving an answer and the last game was a less successful result,” he said.

The confidence that he said he had “is fed by the group of players and, above all, a group of men, and the fans.”

“In the last few days we have received hundreds of messages of support for the team, and for me too, and I leave here my thanks for it. It is a sign that we are on the right track and we are looking much further. a result, we look at the 31 games we have played and the 22 wins. It is a show of extreme union, ”he said.

The coach highlighted the role of two players, Tiago Sá and Castro, who in the analysis of Alvalade’s game, “showed their confidence, determination and ambition to the group”.

“It is a sample of a very united group that wants to win and does not let itself be brought down by anything,” he added.

Artur Jorge praised the rival coach, João Pedro Sousa, and said that he expected a strong Famalicão, different from the 3-0 win in the first round in Famalicão), “in his way of playing and in how he strengthened himself in this market”.

Asked about the scheme of three centrals used for the first time this season in Alvalade, Artur Jorge stressed that it was a strategy to be efficient, but that the result showed that it was not and that, regardless of the tactical scheme, the team will come out ahead. to be prepared.

The coach rejected the idea that very high expectations had been set for the Braga team.

“The expectations are set on what the performance has been, we are in third place and I think they are adjusted in view of the capacity and competence of the team,” he said.

Vitinha “justifies the price”

Vitinha went to Marseille for 32 million euros, the biggest sale in the history of Sporting de Braga, but the club led by António Salvador did not go on the market to sign any player to replace the striker.

“We understood that there was no point in bringing someone for the sake of bringing them. We are very careful with our squad and we realize that we have an alternative to be able to remain competitive, ”he began by saying. .

Artur Jorge left strong praise for the under-21 international: “He is a player of extreme quality, he justifies the price paid for him, he helped us a lot and I can say that we made him profitable sportingly and financially. He is the parent company of El Sporting de Braga, the more he forms part of our formation, the more valuable he is, he left me very satisfied”.

Niakaté, suspended, is out and Ricardo Horta, who missed the last two games due to injury, remains a doubt. The coach revealed that the ‘captain’ of Minho’s team has already done some training this week, but he will only know on Sunday if he will be fit.

Sporting de Braga, third ranked, with 40 points, and Famalicão, 11th, with 21, will face each other starting at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, at the Estádio Municipal de Braga, in a match that will be refereed by Ricardo Baixinho, from the association from Lisbon.

Source: TSF

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