Gabri Veiga full of praise for FC Porto players: “He’s top class” | OneFootball

Gabri Veiga gave an interview to the newspaper O Jogo, in which he addressed various topics. Among them, the Spanish midfielder from FC Porto had glowing praise for Thiago Silva, both from a sporting and a human point of view. Pepê and Oskar Pietuszewski also earned words of appreciation.

“It’s a pleasure, because he’s someone I grew up with, an incredible guy. Starting with his humility, his leadership — just by the way he walks you already know the kind of leader he is, the respect everyone has for him. He’s another incredible human being. He could have come here and said, who’s this one or who’s that one? But from the very first moment it was the opposite: always helping, caring about everyone, laughing. It was a great signing by the president, and we hope he stays with us longer. It’s been a real pleasure to share this with him, with a guy I grew up watching, one of the best centre-backs I’ve ever seen,” he said about Thiago Silva.

Gabri Veiga also explained that Pepê is the teammate who has surprised him the most, offering his analysis:

“Pepê. He’s very annoying, but I always tell him: with the quality you have, if you had better numbers… I’m very critical of him on that, because with the quality he has, he should be smashing goals in. For me, he’s a player on another level. I know people are sometimes critical of him, but I’m here every day and I know the quality he has, and when he’s in his groove, he’s at a very high level.”

The midfielder also admitted he had been surprised by Oskar Pietuszewski and commented on the arrival of the young Polish winger at the Dragão:

“He also surprised me a lot, because he came from Jagiellonia, nobody knew him. He was a bet by the president, by the scouting department, I don’t know, I don’t want to give credit to the wrong people, but I imagine it was them. Sometimes I joke with him that he goes one-on-one all the time, he never gets tired, he’s relentless, and that’s very difficult for opponents, especially in this league, which is perhaps more tactical, not so much about duels and that sort of thing. He came here and broke that stability we had a little bit — he can unbalance things in the blink of an eye. That gives us a lot, and he has to keep growing. Of course, at 17, what he’s already done is incredible, the way he adapted, because at the start I know it wasn’t easy for him, he was left out of the Europa League squad. But I wish him the best, that he keeps being who he is, on and off the pitch.”

“Yes, that was something incredible, the composure he had. I wasn’t like that at 17, so I only have good things to say about him. I hope he keeps going like this,” Gabri Veiga also said about Oskar Pietuszewski’s goal against Benfica at the Estádio da Luz.

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