Ruben Amorim admits that Sporting can return to the top ahead of the visit to Famalican

The Sporting coach admitted this Saturday that he could be back in first place when he plays the postponed I Football League match against Famalicao, but with the condition of winning all matches.

Responding at a press conference in Alcochete to the words of Frederico Varandas, who set this goal this week, Ruben Amorim recalled that “the president has great confidence” in the team, but admitted that if Sporting win, “every game” could to be “in a favorable situation, even if one less game is played.”

“So that’s the goal, to get rid of even the idea that we’ve been harmed or that something bad will happen. No! We know it’s difficult, but we want to win them all before the Famalicao game. This will be a good sign and if we win these games, I think we can be first, even if there is one less game,” said the coach at the club’s academy.

The match of the 20th round of the national championship was postponed due to the absence of police at the Minho Stadium and does not yet have a specific date, since the “Lions” do not have a calendar in the coming weeks, since there are play-off meetings for reaching the 1/8 finals of the Europa League against Young Boys and the first leg of the Portuguese Cup semi-final against Benfica.

Asked about the possibility of “postponing” the confrontation with the “Reds” to a later date in order to “fit in” with the postponed First League game in the last week of February, Ruben Amorim replied that he did not know whether the regulations allowed, but admitted that if If it had been the other way around, I probably would not have accepted it.

“For this kind of situation there must be an agreement between the two clubs. Then we have to imagine whether Benfica will make the calendar easier for us now that the planning has already been completed. I’m all for fair play. , but if they agree to my schedule to help Benfica, maybe that won’t help either,” he suggested.

Additionally, in order to win all their matches until they return to Vila Nova de Famalicão, the Lions must start against Sporting Braga, an opponent they have not beaten in either of the two times they have met in this season, including last month. in the semi-final. League Cup final.

Therefore, Amorim considered that the Lions would have to “forget” this match, “both the result and the game,” and recalled that Sunday’s challenge “will have a different story,” and wished “that it too would have a different result.”

In this sense, he explained that despite watching the video of that 1-0 defeat, “they [Sporting de Braga] they also saw the video,” and so one can only “imagine what will happen,” but he admitted that he gave special instructions to Victor Dieukeres, who showed lower performance than usual in this meeting with Minho’s team.

“Our goal was to imagine what Sporting Braga will do, what they have done and what we can improve. When you talked about one player scoring and the other staying, you were talking about Victor [Gyökeres] and we tried to look at the images and explain to Victor what he could improve if this situation were to happen again,” the coach said.

On Sunday, Sporting will host Sporting Braga in the 21st round of the Portuguese Football League, which starts at 18:00 at the José Alvalade Stadium in Lisbon, under the refereeing of António Nobre of the Leiria Association.

The team coached by Ruben Amorim remains second in the league with 49 points, two less than Benfica, but the 20th round match with Famalican has been postponed, while Sporting Braga are fourth with 40 points .