In the press conference preceding the visit to Casa Pia, the coach of the ‘leões’ assumed that he had not even seen the ‘classic’ between Benfica and FC Porto on Friday, as well as ‘most’ of his players, because ” it must be that you are not in this battle”.
“We have to look at ourselves. At such a distance from first place we must of course be very frustrated. Let’s stop calculating now. I don’t do math anymore. Only the goals we scored and didn’t score.” to give in. I just want to beat Casa Pia and then we’ll see”vent Rúben Amorim, at Academia Sporting, in Alcochete.
For the coach, if there are “positive points” to be drawn from the two points lost in Barcelos on Wednesday, that is exactly the feeling the team left the field with.
“That was immediately felt when the players went down the stairs. Only those who don’t want to win may not be frustrated by what happened in Barcelos. I think you can kind of see that I still am, but obviously I know where we need to improve, how we are going to improve and we are going to do it in the future,” he stressed.
Sporting visits Casa Pia before traveling to Turin to face Juventus in the quarter-finals of the Europa League, but the coach is not worried about a possible lack of commitment from the players in the I Liga encounter, because, so he guaranteed, “if they hang up, they won’t play the next game” and know the coach’s current state of mind.
“If they’re not happy with Casa Pia, they’re not playing with Juventus. That’s very clear, and they already know what they’re counting on. So I don’t have that fear and they’re… malaise at the moment I’m sure they won’t make it easy for you,” argued Rúben Amorim.
Sporting will visit Casa Pia on Sunday, in a match for the 27th round of the 1st Portuguese football league, which starts at 6 p.m., at Estádio Nacional, in Oeiras, with referee Fábio Veríssimo (AF Leiria).
The team coached by Rúben Amorim, which has not conceded a goal in five games for the championship, but came out of a draw when visiting Gil Vicente, must win to restore the distance to second place, occupied by FC Porto, with seven . won 2-1 at Estádio da Luz on Friday.
Source: DN
