The coach Rúben Amorim assumed this Tuesday that, for Sporting, “it is more convenient” for FC Porto to lose points in Friday’s classic, with Benfica, from the First Football League, but focused on his team.
“Obviously, it is easier for FC Porto to lose points, because it is closer, but [estes] They are always those games that, for the coaches who are in the rivals, are indifferent. Someone is going to lose points”, commented the coach of the ‘lions’, in Alcochete, before the game with Gil Vicente.
Amorim stressed, however, that “this is an obvious finding” and recalled that the “lions” still have to “pass the [Sporting de] Braga” in the classification and that, “above all”, they cannot “lose points”.
“Our focus is to win our games. I didn’t even think about the ‘classic’. We have so many games, we are not going to waste time watching and thinking about that game”, the coach devalued.
It is that Sporting is going to enter an “important moment that will decide many things in the championship”, a test in which the ‘lions’ have “three games this week”, recalled Amorim, to explain that the “management” of Los players will do “day to day” and that “nobody is thinking about the Europa League”, a competition in which they face Juventus next week.
“Our priority is the championship, it always has been. We know that in the Europa League we really want to win. We have already shown that we can beat any team, but we know the difference in the values of the players,” he explained. .
The objective of the ‘lions’ is also to reach a place that gives access to the Champions League next season, a competition to which the players “really want to return”, after having had, this year, the “feeling” of dispute, but “they’re not looking very far” for “the calculator.”
“His main concern, right now – and the player is a bit like that, looking at himself a lot – is to win the spot and then win the game. By winning our game, they are fully aware that we are close to the Champions League places”, said the ‘green and white’ coach.
In the visit to Gil Vicente, Rúben Amorim will not be able to count on Paulinho, who “has a problem with the sole of his foot”.
For his part, “Gonçalo Inácio is recovered” from the injury that led the coach to replace him at halftime in the match with Santa Clara and Héctor Bellerín “started training today”, but even so “he will not be called up because he needs it”. fit in the team.”
Sporting will visit Gil Vicente on Wednesday, in a postponed match of the 25th day of the 1st Portuguese Football League, scheduled to start at 20:15, at the Estádio Cidade de Barcelos, with refereeing by Nuno Almeida (AF Algarve). .
If they win, Rúben Amorim’s team will be three points behind third place, occupied by Sporting de Braga, and five points behind FC Porto, who will visit Benfica on Friday.
Source: TSF
