Augusto Inácio: “Varandas’ interventions fuelled FC Porto’s ambition” | OneFootball

Regarding what may turn out to be a modest season for the lion in terms of titles, Augusto Inácio, a former championship-winning coach with Sporting, recalled statements made by the president of the Alvalade club in recent months.

“So wasn’t it president Frederico Varandas who said Sporting were going to win three titles in a row, and that FC Porto were afraid and that FC Porto play no football? Frederico Varandas kept fuelling FC Porto’s ambition with those words. Only those who don’t know that club fail to realize that every time people speak like that, they only grow stronger. And they make even more of it, of course, because that serves as motivation for the difficult matches FC Porto also have. And the truth is, they have been winning games without playing well, in an aesthetic or technical sense, but by playing with grit, determination, desire, and will. That is what has been saving FC Porto,” the Portuguese coach stressed.

“Still regarding president Frederico Varandas’s words, the side that came under the most pressure was Sporting, who had to win every game, because FC Porto were leading the league and, in truth, gave no chance. Sporting have now reached this decisive stage of the season, I believe, when everyone is already thinking, ‘let this just end already, we want to go on holiday,’ because the players are completely exhausted, as the saying goes in football slang,” he concluded.

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