The coach Rúben Amorim acknowledged this Wednesday that Sporting “must continue” in the Europa League, go through the play-offs to access the round of 16 and do better than in the last game of the I League.
Questioned, in Alcochete, by some statements by Pedro Gonçalves after the match with Desportivo de Chaves, the coach acknowledged that “it is important that the players feel” the importance of the challenge against Midtjylland and stressed the need to move forward in the competition. .
“We have to continue [Liga] Europe because we need that experience, because we want to win games, because the season has not been the one we want and because we have to play better. That’s the main. Before thinking about winning, it’s about playing better and we have the obligation to do better than [último] weekend”, listed the ‘green and white’ coach.
In this sense, Amorim admitted that he liked “the words of the Pot [Pedro Gonçalves]”, but he recalled that “what that cannot convey is the anxiety” that the team showed in the first leg, in Lisbon, where they drew 1-1 with a goal from Coates in the last minute of added time.
“What we have to do is have the ball, without anxiety, without doubts about what we do. Play better, because that way we are closer to winning. Be very attentive to set pieces, whether defensive or offensive, which are going to be decisive in this one. Basically, it is playing better to win the match”, he pointed out, immediately opening the press conference prior to the match in Denmark.
And Amorim’s words were well assimilated by the players, since, moments before the coach took office in the Sporting Academy press room, Matheus Reis also recognized that continuity in the Europa League “is one of the great goals for the season. he pointed out how to do it.
“We have to arrive, maintain possession, make them chase and be more aggressive to score the goal,” said the defender of the ‘lions’.
Sporting travels to Denmark today, where they will face Midtjylland on Thursday, in the second leg of the play-off for access to the Europa League round of 16, starting at 5:45 p.m. (in Lisbon), at Herning Arena, and refereed by the Slovakian Ivan Kruzilak.
The lions need to win by any result to advance in the competition, after the 1-1 draw in the first leg, played at the Estádio José Alvalade, where a goal by Coates, in the 90+4 minute, prevented the Danes from winning with a try from Ashour (77).
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Source: TSF
