Tomorrow Vitoria de Guimaraes will play a match that could be decisive for the team’s ambitions in the League Cup.
The victory over Benfica from the very beginning guarantees reaching the four finals of the competition, which Pepa clearly professes. “Expectations are high in a competition in which, since the first game with Leixões, we did not hide our dream. The only result that interests us is victory, and we have a bar at the top. We’ll have to be competent, which was not the case in the last league game with Benfica, when we were not at our level. However, we understand that with our best efforts, we can win. It is with this mentality that we will enter the field, ”the coach promises.
Pepa does not believe that the potential for success in the League Cup could be worth the entire season, but he admits that reaching the final four “is what the club really wants.”
“We went our own way, we fulfilled our task by winning at Covigliana, and now we depend on ourselves. We are against an opponent who needs no introduction and who, regardless of the frequency of the games they have played, maintains the quality and strong ideas of their coach Jorge Jesus. But let’s just look at ourselves and understand that the dream is in the power of 90 minutes. We have to be competent, and I have no doubt that we will. In the event of a tie, we will be dependent on what happens in the final game, so our only intention is to win. We want to discuss the game face to face and win, ”adds Pepa.
