Estoril coach Nelson Verissimo expressed dissatisfaction with the ninth consecutive game of the season without a win after farewell to Group H in the fifth round of the League Cup with a defeat (0: 1) at the António Coimbra Stadium. da Mota, this Thursday night, against Famalicao, in a game that has already eliminated two teams from the League, but he took responsibility and promised that the “canarinhos” would fight to make a difference in the League, starting already in next game of this competition against Boavista.
“The campaign in this League Cup and not winning so many games in a row always drives the team. I assume that our participation in this League Cup did not live up to expectations. And this time we even made a successful game. Missing a penalty too early could upset the team, but this did not happen. In general, we played a good game, reached the final zone, but did not create good chances for the goal,” said Nelson Verissimo, still at Amoreira, in an interview with Sport TV, in which he highlighted the inconvenience of playing in the last half hour in backlog conditions. Exile of Erison Danilo).
“From the moment of exile [minuto 66]Everything, of course, has become more complicated. We tried different positions in order to enter the opposite zone more often. It gets harder with one less, but I stress that the players never gave up the game, unlike other days, they always tried, I stress this” was a compliment that despite this, the Canarinho coach left the “troops”. ‘.
“There is nothing to hide: we are in a bad moment, I have already accepted it with the players, at the time and in the phase that are happening below our ambitions. We need to know how to react now, positively, and face the next game now. It is expected that we will return to the form shown at the initial stage of the League, ”the coach wished, regretting the many forced substitutions that he was forced to.
“We had injuries, we had to make some changes because of the penalties. Now we had another completely avoidable removal – whoever already has a “yellow”, the second one cannot be! But, according to him, at a certain point in the League we had to change the team a lot, ”Nelson Verissimo emphasized.
“The results were not what we wanted, but we must not forget that in the starting lineup for this game there were five players under 23 from the previous season and this one and we had the debut of Joao Marques and Joao Felix Alves in the starting lineup now . The potential is there, the players can give a good answer. Now the game with Boavista is the most important for us so that we can respond to what the League lacks, ”concluded the Estoril coach, who, like Famalican, said goodbye to this League Cup.
