Porto U19s boss targets winning Youth League start: “Our first final” | OneFootball

The FC Porto under-19 team plays 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 spirit of conquest, and it is with that spirit and ambition that we go to Slovenia. We know perfectly well that it will be a challenging game, but our ambition and our desire to conquer must be very strong, and we know exactly what we need to do. We know it's a two-legged tie, but both in the first and the second, we will show enormous ambition, we will attack the goal, we will propose an idea, and we will impose that idea. We have this ambition, but we also know that victories are achieved game by game. This first game is the most important of all, it is our first final, and we hope it will be the first of many. It is important to win, it is important to assert ourselves, but when it is not possible, it is also important to know how to play their game,” said Sérgio Ferreira, in statements to FC Porto's media.

Regarding NK Bravo, Porto's junior coach highlighted the combative attitude of the opposing team and their constant pursuit of goals.

“It is a positive, brave, valiant, and supportive team, very focused on scoring, and we need to understand what will be necessary to do at the exact and precise moments and at the right timings. All this to know how to press, but above all, to impose our game, a dominant game during which the team spends as much time as possible with the ball, never taking their eyes off the goal. It will be important to manage the pace of the game to not give the opponent too much time and space. We expect a challenging game where we will have to be at our best level, both individually and collectively. I feel the group is very strong and with enormous ambition,” he emphasized.

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