Bruno Lage highlights the Luxembourg midfielder’s work capacity
Bruno Lage, Benfica coach, speaking to journalists after the game with Famalicão in the 18th round of the League:
[Surpreendido com a veia goleadora de Leandro Barreiro? Trocava um golo dele por um do Pavlidis?]
“No. Barreiro’s goals were important for Barreiro and Pavlidis had a share of making moves to drag players into Barreiro’s goals.
-Barreiro is interesting, because we didn’t know him. After a week/15 days of working regularly like him, he got injured. We start to feel that he is a very interesting player when arriving in the area, in these short diagonals. He’s been working a lot and when you talk about some, I’ll point it out to Barreiro. I was very happy for him. Do you know why? My first decision when I arrived was to remove Barreiro from the team. Everyone said that Barreiro couldn’t play with Tino. Four and a half months later…
Merit to the player and we are very happy for him. I wouldn’t take any goals from him to give to another player.”
