António Ribeiro: "Expect a team full of desire and passion" | OneFootball

The fourth matchday of the Second League takes FC Porto B team to Viseu, where they will encounter a "very competent" Académico with "experienced players, a striker with quite interesting numbers in the Second League" and who is seen as "one of the main candidates for promotion". "After an ungrateful game" and a week of "hard work", João Brandão only thinks about "seizing a new opportunity to achieve the first victory in the championship" starting at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday at the Municipal do Fontelo and on Sport TV+.

According to the coach, regarding the need to "improve some aspects that have been failing", António Ribeiro promises "an FC Porto B with will and passion" to "nullify the strengths and exploit the weaknesses" of the Viseu team in a "balanced game" against an opponent filled with "quality and experienced players".

Score and not concede"It's a new game, a new story and a new opportunity that we really want to seize to achieve the first victory in the championship. We know that we are going to face a competent team, one of the main candidates for promotion, for many years the investment has been made in this sense and the objectives of Académico are to promote and return to the First League. During the week we worked a lot, focused on what we have to improve, we tried to recharge energies after an ungrateful game, in which we had the misfortune of suffering two own goals right at the beginning. This week I felt the team willing to turn around a situation that we do not like, we want to win, we want to score goals, we want to close our goal and these are the ambitions for the next game."

X-ray of the opponent"Académico has a very competent team, with experienced players, has a striker with quite interesting numbers in the Second League, like Clóvis, and above all it is a very pragmatic team. They play a very offensive football, very focused on the opponent's goal, with great objectivity, they cross a lot, they shoot a lot, they look for the deep movements of Clóvis a lot and they benefit from this structure to play outside. They use a lot of the outside game, through the corridors, to gain space and get closer to the last offensive third, but we are working to prevent these threats and for the opportunities that we are going to have, the opportunities that Académico is going to give us. When we have the ball we want to make an objective circulation, that allows to create spaces, and to have greater creativity and objectivity in the last third. We feel much lighter in creating goal situations and in taking advantage of these same occasions."

António Ribeiro

In search of the three points"You can expect a team with will and passion. We really want to turn this situation around and achieve the first victory of the season, that's what we worked for this week and we need to improve some aspects that we have been failing in the games. We want to improve our offensive quality and that's what we will try in this game. We expect an Académico in search of the three points, just like us, so it will be a balanced game. In Viseu they are strong, they invested in the team and they have quality and experienced players."

André Clóvis"It's not just from this year, we already knew him in the past. He is a player who scores quite a few goals and good numbers in the Second League, but we will have the whole Académico team in attention, they are a team with quality and we will do everything to nullify the strong points and exploit the weak points to get the three points".

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