Cathro pleased with Estoril display despite Sporting defeat: saw quality | OneFootball

Ian Cathro assessed Estoril's 1-0 defeat against Sporting on Saturday, September 27, in a match corresponding to the seventh round of Liga Portugal. Although they were unable to overcome a Rui Borges team performing below their recent standards, the Scottish coach believes his players showed significant improvement compared to their previous performance.

“We played against a good team as well. I think maybe I’m helping your job [the journalists], because I spoke a lot and was very harsh in the first half against Gil Vicente, but the team we saw in the first half against Gil was not here today,” he said in the flash interview after the end of the match.

“We are not perfect, like almost every team here, but I really liked our energy and I can say that I saw our Estoril team on the pitch and also saw a lot of quality in our players,” added Ian Cathro, who also had the opportunity to talk about the dangerous chances they managed to create against Sporting.

“It’s another day in our work to try to make this team grow, to help the club grow as well, and we are going to do it our way. Maybe it’s harder for the players, for everything I’ve been asking for, but in the end it will be worth it,” he concluded.

After the 1-0 win at Estádio Coimbra da Mota, Sporting will only return to the pitch next Wednesday, October 1, against Napoli. The match, valid for the second round of the Champions League, against the team led by Antonio Conte, will be played at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium at 8:00 p.m.

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