Carlos Carvalhal: «If it weren’t difficult, it wouldn’t be for me and my coaching staff» – Sp. Braga

Coach didn’t like Sp. Braga’s lack of aggression against Benfica

Sp. Braga lost this Wednesday to Benfica (3-0) and missed out on being in the Allianz Cup final. In the end, speaking to Sport TV, Carlos Carvalhal spoke about the differences between this match and the victory against the Reds in the Liga Portugal Betclic and criticized his team’s lack of aggression.

How do you get so much worse from one game to the next? How is it explained? “It’s a big question. It can be explained with facts, two fouls in the first 45 minutes. It’s a symptom of a lack of aggression, we always share the balls poorly. On Saturday we won almost all the balls, today it was the opposite. Benfica showed speed and it reached 1-0, 2-0 was a hard blow. We still managed to get ahead, but the lack of aggression would lead us to lose that game.

Benfica’s second goal: “Benfica was a screwed up team, a good one. We won at Luz against a great team. We have to correct things, but it is not acceptable to concede the second goal in the way we conceded. Furthermore, I have to lift the players up, try to understand, [no sábado] They played an extraordinary game, today we weren’t intense, we didn’t define well, we lost everything. With the ability of Benfica’s players, it becomes very difficult. An entirely fair victory for Benfica.”

Rollercoaster. It’s difficult to stabilize… “From the first day I said it wasn’t going to be easy. Maybe I didn’t expect it to be this difficult. In a year that hasn’t been easy, we reached all the decisions, we have the merit of having reached the semi-final, we wanted to revalidate the trophy We will have more decisions this month. It’s about repairing things, fixing them, so that in the next game we perform well and get through the tie, and then prepare for the game against Estrela in the best way and try to make sure the team can progress. Resilient, we face an often inexplicable stumble and then respond.

Jonatas was expelled. What do you say to a 19-year-old player who is taking his first steps? “I had already made his debut in a Portuguese Cup game, it’s the 2nd game. It’s a value for our club. He was crying in the dressing room. I said: ‘I want to see you cry because we lost. I don’t want to see you crying. for being expelled’.

By Record