Bednarek: “Pepe? You can't compare him, he's a cult hero here” | OneFootball

“You can’t compare them like that. Pepe is a cult hero here. You just don’t do that, it’s wrong. A hug to Pepe, thank you. Our children go to the same school,” he said in comments to Eleven Sports Poland after the 2-0 win over Alverca on matchday one of the Primeira Liga.

Bednarek also highlighted the progress he has made since arriving at the current national champions. “In carrying the ball and playing out from the back, definitely. I think we work on that a lot, finding space and playing out under pressure. Also in one-on-one defending. When we press high, there are big spaces behind us and I think my positioning is pretty good. I win a lot of duels. Probably also because of my strength, but most of it comes from experience and smart positioning. Small details that an ordinary fan wouldn’t notice, but that help a lot. Which side to be on relative to the attacker, which side to press from, onto which foot... If it’s a difficult position to win, giving him a slight nudge so he controls the ball three metres away, where one of our teammates already is. Those little things help and I think that, at the end of the day, if I had to name one thing, it would be consistency. There were a lot of matches last season, I played practically all of them and I think that’s my biggest strength: being able to stay at a similar level every three days and not drop below a certain standard,” he noted.

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