Luan Peres on Botafogo, Santos FC ready for second half: “We’re ready” | OneFootball

After the World Cup break, Santos FC returns to the pitch this Thursday (16). Coached by Cuca, the team resumes its Brasileirão campaign against Botafogo at 7:30 p.m. at Nilton Santos Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, in the 19th round.

In their last match before the break, Peixe beat Vitória 3-1 on May 30 at Vila Belmiro. The result put the team in 15th place in the national tournament. Now, center-back Luan Peres wants to keep up the momentum as the competition resumes and aim for a good result against the Rio side.

“We finished the first half of the year with a positive result, and that was important for the run of games we’ll have in the league from now on. We needed the win, we got it, and then we had the break, with many days for recovery, rest and training. So we’re prepared, and now we have a tough match against Botafogo, which is a quality team. We’re about to begin a long run of matches, and everything is in place for it to go well for us,” said the defender.

Santos FC remains alive in every competition. In addition to the Brasileirão, the team will face Remo in the Copa do Brasil round of 16 and Universidad Central in the Conmebol Sudamericana playoffs. Because of that, Luan Peres expects an intense run of matches in the coming months, but believes Peixe is ready:

“Before the World Cup break, we had two very intense months playing Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday, Wednesday, Sunday, Tuesday, and so on. So we’re already used to the crazy pace of the Brazilian calendar. But we’re prepared. We had almost a month without matches, and we used it as a mini pre-season already thinking about this restart with many games in a row. We had very intense training sessions with a view to coping with this workload from the Brasileirão, the Sudamericana and the Copa do Brasil,” Luan Peres concluded.

The Santos squad wraps up its mini pre-season on Wednesday morning (15) at CT Rei Pelé and travels to Rio de Janeiro after the session led by coach Cuca.

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