Ernesto Valverde recognized the excellence of Sporting de Portugal at the end of the match played yesterday at the José Alvalade stadium in Lisbon. The team led by Ruben Amorin They will play the Portuguese Super Cup against Porto on Saturday and the League will start on August 6, a week before the red and white. “We are facing a Champions League rival who will also start the official competition next week with the Super Cup. They are a good team, more dynamic than us. We suffered. We tried to push them a bit high but they came out well under pressure. We are not ready to start very high on a consistent basis,” said the Athletic coach.
After facing Burgos and Racing de Santander, this will be a good test. Sporting dePortugal is the current champion of the Portuguese League. “There is no doubt that it has been a great touchstone. It is a great team, it has been the champion of Portugal with Benfica and Porto. “They are a team that has shown that they are better than us in some moment of the game,” added the player from Gasteiz.
In any case, their players also had a chance to beat the local goal, but they didn’t get it right. “It’s also true that we had options to tie and get into the game. In the end, the last plays and the last counterattacks have unbalanced us,” he noted about the last two goals that came in the 80th and 83rd minutes of the game.
Txingurri took advantage of the event to put more workload on his players. Some were relieved in the 63rd minute, others in the 73rd minute and Lekue, Berenguer and Yes in the 80th minute: “We went from playing half-time the other day and now we’ve played 60 and 75 minutes. On Thursday there is another match (against Eibar in Las Llanas). There will be other players making that effort as well. And on Saturday (against Osasuna in Lasesarre) some will play 90 minutes and we will continue to adjust some things.
The Athletic coach also acknowledged the mistakes in the midfield: “We were punished a lot by the few losses we had at the beginning of the game and teams like that, with the game so open, you get caught. “These good teams are unforgiving.”
Source: La Verdad
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