Filipe Sousa: We must show full respect and seriousness in the match | OneFootball

On the 13th matchday of the North Series of the Under-19 National Championship, the leaders will host Rio Ave in Pedroso (Sunday, 11:00 am, Porto Canal). Sérgio Ferreira anticipates “a good team with a good game proposal” that, like all teams, will “play to the limits” against FC Porto, asking the players to have “enough confidence to impose the pace of the game” and to “be humble enough to understand that they have to respond to what the game brings.” In agreement, Filipe Sousa assures a squad “fighting on equal terms and giving everything on the field”: “We must always approach with the utmost respect and seriousness to ensure the result we want.” Admission is free for members, upon ticket loading.

Rio Ave “It is a good team with a good game proposal. As with us, time passes and the players and team grow. It seems important to highlight that it will be a completely different game due to the position Rio Ave occupies and the position Rio Ave wants to occupy when this championship ends. We have to be prepared for that and focus on imposing our game for as long as possible, having enough confidence to understand that we have the ability to set the pace of the game, to dominate the game, but also be humble enough to understand that we have to respond to what the game also brings us and that we can't control as much.”

Constant evolution “The team is focused, with a lot of ambition, with a lot of passion for training and individual and collective evolution, and with an enormous boldness to want to play better and better, always increasingly dominant, a team more and more collective in all phases of the game.”

Invincibility “It brings us responsibility, but I think, above all, it gives us strength and extra energy for being the only team that hasn't lost yet. We really want to continue like this, that is our ambition, but we know perfectly well that, on the other side, there will be a team that will transcend just by playing against FC Porto. Teams play to their limits and it is also important that we play to our limits, those we know and also propose those we don't know, that is, always looking for our best version.”

Filipe Sousa

The opponent “I think it will be a difficult game because each game is a different game, but I think we are prepared and we will face Rio Ave on equal terms and give everything on the field.”

Undefeated leaders “That always makes us more confident, but, as I said, each game is a different game, so we must always approach with the utmost respect and seriousness to ensure the result we want.”

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