Coach Ruben Amorim this Sunday rejected the notion that Sporting are currently the “most capable” team in the race for the I League title this season and warned players not to “get carried away.”
“No. I don’t think he’s the most capable. I believe that Benfica has the same points, with Porto immediately behind. We are in a good moment, we are playing well, we understand that, we are not naive and we want to continue. But we know that the result changes everything,” the coach warned at a press conference in Alcochete.
Amorim previously said that throughout this week he reminded the players that “the championship consists of different moments and feelings” and that they must “know how to deal with it, with all the moments of the game and the season, knowing that nothing lasts forever” , namely praise to the team.
“I talked about this this week with my players, so as not to get carried away in this conversation. Points are important, team chances change with just one result and therefore we are not ahead of Benfica. we know Porto, we know that you don’t give up, [Sporting de] Braga too [não] and we have no illusions about this,” he said.
After all, when asked about how he was close to becoming the second coach in Sporting’s history to manage a football team in the most games, the coach once again pointed out the instability that makes up football and cited the example of his colleague . in Benfica.
“When we coach a big club, everything that has been done no longer matters. And just look at neighboring Benfica, a sometimes challenged coach who won the league last year. We won once at the club.” big, “the next day nothing matters,” commented the coach, who will play his 194th match for the green-white club against Moreirense.
Regarding the visit to Moreirense, he recalled that it is a rival that “beat [Sporting de] Braga and Porto and guaranteed to show the players “everything” they could find, including a “slightly shorter pitch, especially in width”.
Without confirming that striker Paulinho would be ruled out again through injury, he said 18-year-old Raphael Nel, who made his debut at Young Boys on Thursday, “will play for the B team” and defender Saint-Just “for now will not be called up,” in contrast to Diomande, who returned from CAN2023-winning Ivory Coast team “hungry to play.”
“Diomande arrived very well, eager to play. This is how I felt. Very seriously. Sometimes we forget a little about the seriousness, the aggression that he brings to our team, and as soon as the first training session was over we felt that he was back in that aspect. Physically, he will be felt a little, but sooner or later he will have to be released,” Amorim noted.
Sporting will visit Moreirense on Monday in the match of the 22nd round of the I Portuguese Football League, which is scheduled to start at 20:15, at the Parc Desportivo Comendador Joaquim Almeida Freitas stadium in Moreira de Conegos, and will be refereed by Fabio Verissimo. Portugal national team player. Association of Leiria.
The team coached by Ruben Amorim remains second in Liga I with the same 52 points as leaders Benfica, who host last-place Visela this Sunday and have played one more game than the Lions “.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal

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