Midfielder came on in the second half and was at a good level
Vitinha, a midfielder for the Seleção, was not surprised by the fact that he was left on the bench, upon returning to the Estádio do Dragão, which he knows well as he was a player at FC Porto before moving to PSG.
“No [ficou surpreendido]the manager has his choices and I understand his choices”, he explained, before analyzing the match: “We are happy with this victory in front of our public.” Asked if it was a perfect night, the midfielder partially agrees, “We ended up conceding a goal at the end, which always tarnishes what we have to do a little. But it's part of the process. We played an excellent game, the victory was more than deserved», he added, in words to RTP 3.
And he also addressed his own performance, which was very important for a better second half for Roberto Martínez's team: “Without my teammates, I'm nobody, I started well, but now beating Croatia is the most important thing for us. Sometimes you just need to be a little more calm, a little more cool with the ball, to think about the game. Stop trying to score, to score. Because when you force it too much, sometimes it's worse and the game becomes very broken. We have to be in control of the game. That's what we did in the second half and what made the difference. .»
And was this one of Portugal's best performances? «Yes, I think we really did very well in the second half, I think it was very good. We've had other great performances, it's unfair to say it's the best. We did very well in other games. We now had the game with Poland away, we also had a great game. So I think it was, without a doubt, one of the team's best games. But I'm not going to say it was the best”, he concluded.
