Luan Peres sizes up Botafogo, says Santos ready: “We’re prepared” | OneFootball

After the World Cup break, Santos FC will return to action 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 its last match before the break, Peixe defeated Vitória 3-1 on May 30 at Vila Belmiro. The result moved the team up to 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 season with a positive result, and that was important for the run of matches we’ll have in the league from now on. We needed the win, we got it, and then came the break, with many days for recovery, rest, and training. So we’re prepared, and now we have a difficult match against Botafogo, which is a quality team. We’re about to begin a long stretch of games, and everything points to it being a good one for us,” said the defender.

Santos FC is still 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 this, Luan Peres expects an intense run of matches in the coming months, but sees Peixe as 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 mid-season training period already thinking about this restart with many games in a row. We had very intense training sessions with the goal of coping with this schedule in the Brasileirão, the Sudamericana, and the Copa do Brasil,” Luan Peres concluded.

The Santos squad will wrap up its mid-season training period on Wednesday morning (15) at CT Rei Pelé and travel to Rio de Janeiro after the session led by coach Cuca.

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