Carlos Carvalyal remembered the derby between Sporting and Porto when he coached Lviv to plan Sunday’s meeting with Benfica, which will take on the field with two more recovery days in European games this week.
“Benfica have two more days to recover, but we go to the game to try to win, as I have always said since I returned to Portugal, with great respect, we are on a level playing field. I remember that when I was the coach of Sporting, we were in an identical situation, we played against Everton on Thursday. [para a Liga Europa] and Porto played for the Champions on Tuesday and we never stopped winning. The mind is as important as the body, and on Sunday we will be at the top, ”said Coach Sp. Bragi after home victory over Ludogorets (4: 2) in the Europa League “We were a strong team, decisive, We started the first half very strongly, achieved an impressive victory, which is limited taking into account the opportunities we created. We were always safe in the game, with good edges, one more daring, the other more secure due to the density of competition and the proximity of games. It was a convincing and honest victory, we are in the first place in the group, we are satisfied and now we are going to rest, because we have a game in less than 72 hours. [com o Benfica, domingo]”, – said Carvalal, analyzing today’s game, saying in context” difficult “:” We played 72 hours ago, and it is impossible to recover players in this period of time, this is the red line where injuries can occur. … Therefore, I turned to the associative mass with a request to support during failures, but this was not a failure, but a strategic retreat, because if we always played, as in the first part, we did not have players. The team was smart in the way they ran the game. “
“Ludogorets created a lot of difficulties for Olympiacos, which is a good team, in the qualifying round of the Champions League, they were taken off on penalties, and this victory is the merit of Braga, which gives no place to their rivals, they manage to create many opportunities, and when you lose the ball, quickly restore it, we simplify the game.The team is still building, reaching maturity, things cannot be completed in two days, they are new players, some of them have not played in a year. but with a stop [no campeonato] we managed to balance the situation. Effectiveness in attack is growing, we are growing as a team, but we have even more opportunities, ”added the coach.
