FC Porto B lose 0-3 to FC Penafiel in the Segunda Liga | OneFootball

FC Porto B lost 0-3 to FC Penafiel at the CTFD Jorge Costa in a match from the 4th round of the Second League. Afterwards, João Brandão explained that he felt “from the start” that “the team did not have the levels of aggression required to play” in this competition, where there are also “lenient referees who let fouls go.” The coach of Porto’s B team also highlighted: “Today there were ten under-19 players on the team sheet. They are young players with talent and room to grow, but this is the context of the Second League. We have already shown what we are capable of and we will look to do it more consistently.”

Reading of the match “I don’t think we started the game badly, but from the beginning I felt that the team did not have the levels of aggression required to play in the Second League. That was evident in the move for the second goal, when we allowed an inside pass through our block, and the first came from a throw-in where we had to win the aerial duels. This ran through the whole game. In the second half we tried to refresh the energy and the ideas with the introduction of Eduardo Ferreira. We tried to build differently, because in the first half it was being very predictable, we did too little to move FC Penafiel’s block around. The team did not give up, it kept pushing, but our inability to win duels and commit fouls ran through the whole game, which says a lot about the difference in aggression.”

Eduardo Ferreira came on in the second half “We tried to be more aggressive in our high press; Cardoso Varela was too tucked in with that in the first half. But then it is important to have defensive cover behind the press and to bring people into the duels. Eduardo Ferreira’s introduction was with that in mind, because he is very aggressive in the press and allowed us to screen the play better further forward. We tried to gain an advantage high up against FC Penafiel’s line with the forwards, but from a certain point on we lost our organization and started to overdo the long game. From then on, the game became stretched.”

A talented young squad “Growth is a process and a long road. Today there were ten under-19 players on the team sheet. They are young players with talent and room to grow, but this is the context of the Second League, with lenient referees who let fouls go. We have already shown what we are capable of and we will look to do it more consistently.”

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