Sporting Braga’s task of overcoming the four-goal deficit against Fiorentina to reach the round of 16 of the Europa League football conference “is difficult, but not impossible,” said Artur Jorge on Wednesday.
“We are aware of the difficulty of the task ahead of us. Regarding the priority, we will try to be competitive to win the game, that will be the first mission,” said the Braga coach at the pre-training press conference. in the Italian compound.
Those of Minho were thrashed 4-0, in Braga, in the first leg of the play-off to access the ‘eighth’ of the Conference League.
Artur Jorge considers that the “task is difficult, but not impossible”, but pointed out that the team will have to “be very solid and rigorous”.
“We have to have the coolness and serenity to realize that the main objective is to go on the field to win, playing a good game. We want to try to replicate what we did well in the first game and try to make fewer individual mistakes. which conditioned us a lot. Hopefully it’s the opposite and we can have a good day,” he said.
Fiorentina drew, at home, on the last day of the Italian championship (1-1, with Empoli), which generated criticism from their fans, but Artur Jorge devalued that result and said that he expected a rival “with the same seriousness with the one that entered Braga”.
“I expect a Fiorentina that has shown individual and collective value, even if it is not expressed in their ranking in Serie A, but they will invest a lot in this competition. He will respect us and he will enter this game with the same seriousness with which he entered Braga,” he said.
Artur Jorge revealed that he will bet on some players who have been playing less, because they “deserve” that opportunity, and explained that Al Musrati did not travel more due to managing his physical condition, who joins Tormena, who is suspended.
Turnarounds in results of this magnitude are rare, but they do exist and they are what “feed the possibility” of Sporting de Braga, the coach pointed out, although he reinforced this difficulty.
“It depends a lot on the context of the game. Of course, entering the field losing 4-0 is a great disadvantage, but we must try to fight and, above all, put ourselves in the advantage, ”he said.
Sporting de Braga and Fiorentina will face each other starting at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, at the Artemio Franchi Stadium, in Florence, a match that will be refereed by Frenchman Benoit Bastien. The match is reported in TSF and minute tracking tsf.pt
Source: TSF
