The selector of Portugal, Fernando Santosstressed the ability to recover the ball as the main “strong” of the Spanish team, which the “quinas” team will face this Thursday in Benito Villamarin. “I think Spain’s strongest characteristic is not the possession of the ball, but the ability to recover it. All the Spanish teams in this school, including these coaches, which is the school of Barcelona, what they always have in mind is the ability to recover, ”he said on Wednesday. saints at a press conference.
However, he recalled that the goal was not to have ownership, but to score: “Football is not a game of ownership, it is a game of goals.”
The coach acknowledged the “very difficult” task of infiltration on the group stage League of Nationswhich will lead the Portuguese team to face Spain, Switzerland and the Czech Republicalthough he made sure the goal was to “always win”.
He criticized the small discrepancy between the first games, which are scheduled for June 2, 5, 9 and 12, and said he “doesn’t remember” seeing something like this before.
“I see it clearly exaggerated (…) A scenario of four games in ten days in a final period never happened,” he defended.
For this reason, he must rotate the 26 called up for the Nations League.
For this series of matches, he chose the experience of some of the players who led Portugal to win the 2016 European Championship in France, but also for young people such as Nuno Mendes or Rafael Leão.
The leader and captain remain Christianwho at 37 years old came in wanting to show that he is still a decisive player after a season at Manchester United that didn’t meet his expectations, and when the conversation started that Qatar 2022 would be his farewell to national team.
When Madeiran asked if he could describe him in one word, Santos replied that he was “the best in the world”.
He made these statements after training organized today in Ciudad del Fútbol de Oeiras, outside Lisbon, a few hours before traveling to Seville to face Spain in the League of Nations.
25 of the 26 summoned came out on the lawn, because Vitinha he was on leave because of covid.
Source: La Verdad
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