Farioli demands intensity at half-time, FC Porto turn it around in Tondela | OneFootball

“The first half was complicated, we weren’t finding the spaces, but the coach gave us a talking-to at halftime, and we came back onto the field the way we should.” Said Samu at the end of the trip to Tondela on Sunday, revealing that the coach intervened during the break, when the score was still 0-0. Shortly after, in the 49th minute, first following a corner and then through winning the ball back high up the pitch, FC Porto was already leading 2-0…

The intervention of the 36-year-old Italian focused mainly on the emotional aspect, seeking to raise the players’ performance—namely their intensity and speed of execution. From the perspective of the strategic plan outlined for the match, the coach considered that everything remained valid, including the tactical choices. So much so that Francesco Farioli started the second half with the same eleven, the same organization on the pitch, and identical playing principles.

Total emphasis on the game plan is something the Italian usually insists on in his instructions to the group, whenever he believes the team should not resort to other nuances of that planning.

Regarding the emotional side, Francesco Farioli values balance in his teams and felt that, after a first half in which performance was affected by this issue, especially offensively, a change was needed in this area through a general increase in intensity.

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