Coach Rúben Amorim said this Saturday that he imagines being national soccer champion at least once more in the next three years of his contract with Sporting and that this would be an evolution for the club.
“I have a contract with Sporting for another three years and in my head is imagining being champion at least once more during these three years,” shot the coach, questioned about Tottenham’s supposed interest, during the preview, in Alcochete, of the Meeting of the I League, with Boavista.
The coach acknowledged that everyone is always “proud when they like the work” they have done, but recalled that Sporting is in fourth place in the championship and, therefore, “people cannot be satisfied”, in addition to the fact that the record of club titles has not been as desired.
“Because Sporting, if we look at the last 40 years, has 14 years between championships, more or less,” he said.
But, this season, with Sporting 15 points from the lead, 11 days from the end of the championship, it remains “to win games to buy time and make the team grow before starting a new season.”
“There is still a lot to do, a lot can still happen. We know the importance of the Champions League, we can still fight for it, we have the Europa League and then we have all this time to grow”, indicated the ‘green and white’ coach.
In this sense, Amorim recalled that “it is useless to be well on Thursday” when they visit Arsenal, for the second leg of the Europa League round of 16, “if Sporting does not win the next game”, with the Boavista. .
Above all because, if he wins this match, he will add “eight more points in the second round” than he had, at this point, in the first half of the championship and Rúben Amorim wants to take advantage of that to show the players “what he transmitted ” in terms of leaderboard.
“In the first round we failed in exactly the same situation, in which we had a European game, we beat Tottenham, we went to Bessa and we were five points behind Boavista at that moment. chip“From the Europa League to the championship, warned the ‘green and white’ coach.
Sporting receives Boavista on Sunday, in a match of the 24th day of the First Football League, which begins at 8:30 p.m., at the Estádio José Alvalade, in Lisbon, with João Pinheiro (AF Braga) refereeing.
The meeting with the ‘chess’ takes place in the ‘media’ of the round of 16 of the Europa League, a tie in which Sporting drew 2-2 three days ago, against Arsenal, before visiting next Thursday the fair londoners, by second hand
Source: TSF
