The coach of Sporting de Braga, Artur Jorge, assumed this Saturday the objective of winning the final of the Portuguese Football Cup, against FC Porto, and considered that the two teams start on an equal footing.
At a press conference at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, the Braga coach said that he did not believe “it is more important for one team or the other” to win the trophy and that he expects “a balanced game”, but that his team will seek “to be superior”.
“The objective is very clear. Arriving in all fairness at this decision stage, we want to believe that we will have to do our job well done to be able to win the game to be able to say that it is one more.” goal accomplished this season”, assumed The Coach.
Artur Jorge, who as a player captained Sporting de Braga that lost a final against FC Porto, acknowledged that at that time the distance between the two clubs “was greater than the current one” and put the two teams on an equal footing for El Sunday challenge.
“I would say that tomorrow we have the same conditions of power [no domingo] win the match, in the same way as the opponent, because in motivational terms, whatever the capacity of one team or the other, it does not seem that there is a distance that could generate some kind of favoritism”, he analyzed. .
Even so, the coach sought to take some of the pressure off the team, noting that Sporting de Braga has “more than 100 years of history and three Portuguese Cups won”, despite “a history that, a few years ago” catapulted the club “to the places above.”
“We know that winning the trophy will improve our journey, it will improve us as a team and as a club. But not winning it will not detract from what we have done so far. We have to be patient, to realize it.” that we have a long way to go and we are going to do it serenely ”, he pointed out.
Still going back to the team’s goals, and in view of Sporting de Braga’s results this season, against the designated ‘big three’, the coach stressed that the goals were met.
“Of those three teams, only two got ahead of us. And, perhaps, we were not the ones who missed goals. We met them, third place, those who beat us did not stay ahead, ”he recalled. .
Before the coach, Ricardo Horta also denied “that this is a failed season” in the event that Sporting de Braga fails to beat FC Porto, at the end of “a great season at the championship level” and that the ‘arsenalistas’ want “. closing in style with the conquest of the Portuguese Cup”.
“We know that we have a difficult game, against a team that fought until the last second for the championship, but we have our virtues, our well-defined missions and we want to win the Cup,” assumed the team’s ‘captain’. Minho team.
FC Porto and Sporting de Braga will play the final of the 83rd edition of the Portuguese Cup on Sunday, starting at 5:15 pm, at the Estádio Nacional, in Oeiras. Starting at 3:00 p.m., you can follow the Special Game Vision live on TSF is in tsf.pt.
Braga, with seven Cup final appearances, have won the trophy three times, with the last two appearances resulting in as many victories, the last of which in 2020/21.
FC Porto, holder of the trophy, will play its 33rd final, one year after beating Tondela no Jamor (3-1), and returns to the National Stadium to defend a status that it achieved 18 times in 32 appearances, that is, the winner of the ‘queen’ contest of national football.
Source: TSF
