Pol Manrubia: After Super Cup loss, we’re keen to start league with win | OneFootball

FC Porto begins the roller hockey championship with a home match against OC Barcelos, scheduled for this Wednesday at 8:00 PM, and Pol Manrubia wants to “start with a win” to “overcome the defeat in the Super Cup” and begin paving the way to “retaining the national title.”

The Spanish international anticipates “a great challenge” against his former team, but believes that if the group is “focused on their own work, gives their all, plays together and cohesively,” they will have “a great chance of winning the game and starting with three points, which is what the Club wants.”

Still on the Super Cup“Losing the Super Cup hurt us a lot, because we were very hopeful of winning that trophy and we were very confident that we would do it, but now we are entering another competition as two-time champions. We want to retain the title and, for that, we have to approach each game with maximum ambition and start the championship well to overcome the way we lost the Super Cup.”

OC Barcelos“They have a great team, a lot of talent, and have changed an important part of their squad. We saw them play in the Elite Cup and the Club World Cup and I think they showed they can reinvent themselves. They will be a big obstacle in our path and a great challenge to open the championship, but we have to stay focused on ourselves, give our all, play together, cohesively, take advantage of what we did well in the Super Cup match, and correct the aspects where we didn’t do so well in order to have a chance to win the game and start with three points, which is what FC Porto wants. We want to start the championship with a win.”

First months in Invicta“I am adapting to the Club, and the truth is my teammates have always supported me a lot, from the captain to the staff, they have been incredible, supporting me a lot, both in training, in games, and even off the rink. I am looking forward to playing at Dragão Arena, in an official competition, being with the fans, and being able to celebrate the three points with them and my teammates.”

The weight of wearing blue and white“It’s a special game, not only because it’s against my former club, but also because we’re going to play at Dragão Arena and that is always special, especially wearing the FC Porto jersey. I feel a great responsibility, but I will go in with maximum ambition and a lot of personality to help the group. We want to win all the titles by thinking game by game and day by day, because that’s what will make us lift trophies at the end of the year.”

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