Luís Castro manufactured the preview of the Intercontinental Cup this Saturday. The level of competition will see the Benfica staff that gained the Youth League in opposition to Penãrol, winner of the Libertadores below 20, perform in Montevideo.
Right before the match, the eagles mentor reaffirmed the team’s ambition.
“It will be a bit unique match. South American groups are much more aggressive, using the match to a different degree in terms of physical duels. We will try to employ our recreation with offensive and eye-catching soccer. But we have an opponent who was winner, he has beaten good groups and he also has the features of him. The concept for the team is the similar as usually, at Benfica you often have to perform to get, with even far more trophies. We are one particular of the best golf equipment in the earth to coach, if not the ideal, and we have to verify it on the pitch. Peñarol performed in an beneath 20 competitors and we underneath 19. We have many players from 2003 and 2004, but at Benfica we have to uncover toughness against all adversities. It is really additional of an further. We have to exhibit that we are resilient and gain versus every little thing, “he stated.
Last but not least, Luís Castro acknowledged the downside of actively playing in Uruguay.
«Everything taken treatment of in the smallest facts, is a disadvantage [jogo no Uruguai e o fuso horário] for us. we just played [Sub-23 e equipa B], we have traveled, we have unique schedules, we have traveled all evening, it is clear that on the aircraft no a single sleeps like they do at home. We are performing our finest to shorten these differences, but I feel that in the opening minute all people will forget about them and search for strength the place they have to have to find it, ”she concluded.
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