Ex-Benfica coach happy with Gil Vicente-Casa Pia win, warns: We had... | OneFootball

Gil Vicente took an important step towards the goal of reaching the European competitions after beating Casa Pia 2-1. At the end of the match, César Peixoto, a former Benfica player, said he was pleased with the result, despite acknowledging that Gil Vicente had some difficulties against the Geese.

"We had some difficulties in the first 10 or 15 minutes, but then we took control of the game, and from that point on it was one-way traffic. We deserved to win and it was important for us because it gave us confidence. I think football hasn’t been very fair to us. Today, we could even have scored more goals," the Gil Vicente coach began, speaking to Sport TV.

"Agustín Moreira was through on goal and could have killed the game off. Casa Pia’s penalty is very questionable; those are always difficult moments, but the team had the character and spirit to respond. It was important to win and to win well," César Peixoto continued after the match in Barcelos.

"It tells me that the team never lost motivation, never let go of the win and never stopped believing in the process. I hope the team has taken the next step. I think we really deserved to finish the season competing until the very end of the championship, and I think the players deserved that too. These are three points that feel good to us," said the former Benfica man.

"When we get a FIFA break, it lasts two weeks. Not long ago, we beat AVS SAD and then we almost had another stoppage. It’s difficult to manage in terms of workload. The momentum from the win over AVS disappeared and a few days later no one even remembered it. This gives us a different rhythm; the players themselves get into a different pattern and it’s completely different. They usually tell me we only played four times on a Monday in a season. This one, we’ve already done it seven times, and that forces us into enormous juggling," César Peixoto concluded.

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