Vítor Bruno: “We have to leave a different mark” – I Liga

Vítor Bruno, coach of FC Porto, analyzed the clash against Benfica in a match counting for the 11th round of the League:

Game analysis: “A fair victory for Benfica. A divided and balanced first half. It's true that Benfica scored first, they had the opportunity to make it 2-0, they didn't, we reacted well and scored the equalizer. At the start of the game even me It seemed like we started the game not too badly, we have a move from Galeno with a dangerous shot on Benfica's goal, but the first half seemed to me to be divided and balanced, FC Porto with more possession of the ball, but with statistical data with a very next to each other.”

“In the second half, we tried to correct another positioning, especially when with the ball, on the way out, with the ball from Diogo, but from the moment we conceded 2-1, the team didn't find its place and it seemed to me Benfica is always fresher, quicker on the ball, more intense in Nehuén's own goal.”

FC Porto concedes four goals, the same as the blue and whites had conceded so far. “It was my fault, it's no one else's. I am ultimately responsible, if the onus has to be placed on someone, it is on me. The decisions were mine, I made them myself. We had one or two mishaps. When the game was launched, Pepê found it very difficult to play, which is why he didn't start the game. We had to redefine the strategy that was set up for the game here, but that's no excuse. The team became very inert, very amorphous. The four goals come as a result of what we have never done as a team in terms of defensive organization. We are too unprotected, especially on our left side. Benfica always started easily with Di María always as a target to attack our goal. We were not competent at the organizational level and we were not competent from the point of view of aggressiveness and intensity, in what has to be a strong Porto brand.”

It has been more than 60 years since Benfica scored four goals against FC Porto: “It's always tough, we're going to be in agony for a day, two days… Let's try to attack in the next training session and understand that we're in the 11th round, there's still a long way to go in the championship. Everything wasn't perfect until now, now everything isn't wrong either These are games that we don't want to happen, today it touched us, but it's true that we have to leave a different mark».

Alan Varela analyzed, in statements to BTV, FC Porto's defeat.

“It was a shame. We were all over the field, we had a good first half, but the second half didn't work out and we suffered in a studied play. They took the lead and we didn't respond. We left everything on the field, but we couldn't go after the game. “

“Obviously it hurts, losing points and of course, in a classic, but the moment continues, there is a lot of fielding and we are still hungry, so that FC Porto can stay as high as possible in the table.”

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