Petit took about 45 minutes to speak to journalists after the end of the meeting with Bersu, and the 2-1 victory was only achieved in extra time. The coach justified the protracted delay by talking with his athletes in the locker room. And, as far as we could find out, the words were not soft and it made sense to warn the professionals about the demands of the League …
“There are things that I cannot convey to you, as you understand, but I spoke to them because we could have done better. We were obliged to do more and better. We have to go home and think about the big demand from the League. I know that there are a lot of young people in this team, but football cannot be reduced to just going to training and going home, you need to focus more on football. This is what I told you. They should grow faster. Maybe it was a click here, ”Coach B SAD confessed about the dialogue that took place moments after his sweaty Portuguese championship triumph over the team. A success that interrupted a series of nine trials without victories: five defeats and four draws.
The next challenge is against Boavista, a match that Rafael Camacho had doubts about due to a muscle problem related to the contraction of his left hip. Thomas Ribeiro, on the other hand, was sewn up with seven stitches – “What they were for the League …” – Petit joked, – after a head-on collision with Iota, who also had to go to the hospital to be sewn up.
