The president of Benfica, Rui Costa, announced this Tuesday morning that the club has already filed a complaint with the Disciplinary Council for what he says are pressures from FC Porto on the arbitrations.
“Benfica will do it, but they shouldn’t do it because the Disciplinary Council, not long ago, hastened to file a lawsuit against Benfica for newspaper reports that Benfica should not be in a situation like this, with that “What happened last week, which the media reported all week. It was unfortunate and it’s not even worth being here talking about the weekend. We should not be the ones who have to report what happened, given the precedents that the Disciplinary Board has with Benfica. We have already done it and we are going to wait for the consequences of this so that this external noise is not the condition of this championship”, revealed Rui Costa at the Humberto Delgado airport, in Lisbon, in the team’s match. to Italy, where he will face the Inter Milan for the Champions League.
Despite the latest slip-ups that left Benfica with one foot out of the Champions League and only four points behind FC Porto in the championship, relaunching the fight for the title, Rui Costa does not forget the “brilliant” nine and a half months of the club and believes the season will end well.
“We’ve been through a better time than these last ten days, but we can’t forget what a brilliant nine and a half months we’ve had so far. In the Champions League there are 13 games with ten wins, two draws against Paris Saint-Germain and one defeat now with Inter and we have led the league from the beginning until now. None of this can affect what we have done for nine and a half months and I am sure and convinced of what we have in the locker. fourth, the players and the coach we have. The season will end well”, recalled the Benfica president.
Despite reaching the tie against Inter with a negative result, Rui Costa guarantees that the team will fight for the Champions League “until the last second”.
“We are at a disadvantage, a result that is heavy because of what happened on the field, but it is our obligation to fight for this competition and play until the last second and that is what we are going to do. I am fully aware that the team will give everything to fight for this tie”, he added.
The match between Inter Milan and Benfica, in the second leg of the quarterfinals of the 2022/23 edition of the Champions League, will take place on Wednesday, at the San Siro, starting at 9:00 p.m. local time ( 20:00 in Lisbon). ).
Source: TSF
