Gonçalo Paciência blasts Sporting v Santa Clara refs: “It’s our football…” | OneFootball

Author of one goal in Santa Clara’s 4-2 defeat at Alvalade – and another that would eventually be disallowed – Gonçalo Paciência was highly critical of the refereeing team’s performance at Alvalade.

A match with a few incidents…

“When you come to Alvalade, score three goals and get no points, it’s difficult. It’s 3 goals… I think everyone saw it. I don’t want to be here feeding the refereeing debate, but it is what it is, it’s the football we have, that we want to promote, that’s it. There are plenty of artists out there talking, commenting, I didn’t want to go too far down that road.”

Third game against Sporting this season, third one with some controversy…

“Yes, nothing happens by chance. I wasn’t in the others, but today everyone saw what happened. We score the first goal, then there’s Mangas slipping, and a foul is given… It becomes difficult, but the team did well, stayed committed. The team scored three goals at Alvalade and comes away with zero points… We move on, next week there’s more.”

Even so, you leave Alvalade with your heads held high.

“Yes, and not just here at Alvalade, but in almost every game. Sometimes we start badly, sometimes we start well, but the team always ends up fighting until the end and today proved that once again. It’s unfair. We’re going home a bit sad, because I think we deserved more. Sporting have a lot of quality, they’re a team from another league, but we did a lot of very good things and we have to look at that.”

You’ve had a positive impact at Santa Clara…

“Yes, what they’ve asked of me is to help, to try to do what’s best for the team, and that’s what I did. Unfortunately, I score two goals at Alvalade and one of them isn’t credited to me. The team and I are aware of what we did and we’ll move forward.”

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇵🇹 here.