Porto U19 boss targets Youth League win: "Our first final" | OneFootball

The FC Porto under-19 team will play in the Youth League this Wednesday, traveling to Slovenia to face NK Bravo in the first leg of the second round of the champions’ path; the coach is focused on winning, despite there being a second leg in Portugal.

“This club has taught us what it means to win since 1893, it has taught us what it means to have a conquering spirit, and it is with that spirit and ambition that we go to Slovenia. We know perfectly well that it will be a challenging match, but our ambition and our desire to win must be very strong, and we know exactly what we have to do. We know it’s a two-legged tie, but both in the first and the second leg we will show huge ambition, we will go for the goal, we will propose an idea, and we will impose that idea. We have that ambition, but we also know that achievements are earned game by game. This first match is the most important of all, it’s our first final and we hope it will be the first of many. It’s important to win, it’s important to impose ourselves, but when that’s not possible, it’s also important to know how to play their game,” said Sérgio Ferreira, in statements to FC Porto’s media.

Regarding NK Bravo, the Porto youth team coach highlighted the fighting attitude of the opposing team and their constant search for goals.

“They are a positive, brave, courageous, and united team, very focused on scoring, and we need to understand what needs to be done at the exact and precise moments and at the right timings. All of this is to know how to press, but above all, to impose our game, a dominant game in which the team spends as much time as possible with the ball, never taking our eyes off the goal. It will be important to manage the pace of the game so as not to give the opponent too much time and space. We expect a challenging match in which we will have to be at our very best, both individually and collectively. I feel the group is very strong and extremely ambitious,” he emphasized.

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