Vasco Botelho da Costa: Benfica fully deserved the win | OneFootball

Vasco Botelho da Costa reacted to Benfica’s 4-0 victory over Moreirense. At the end of the 14th round of the Primeira Liga, the Cónegos’ coach gave his first post-match statements in the flash interview:

“I’m a bit shaken up here, because I think we might have a serious injury to Vasquinho [Vasco Sousa]. It’s sad, we’ll see. Regarding the game, it’s complicated to come here and say we played a very competent defensive game and conceded four goals, but the truth is that the four goals we conceded happened during our offensive moments. We conceded one from a set piece and three from plays we built poorly.”

Vasco Botelho da Costa considered Benfica’s victory “more than fair” and continued his analysis of the match:

“It was a more than fair win. A team, as I had said, came here to play the game they needed to play and did so very competently and intelligently. They knew how to wait for the right moment and also tried to force our mistakes, which we don’t usually make. If we look at the game itself, unless I’m mistaken, Benfica didn’t have a shot in the first half, except for the goal. We had some success getting out, but we need to be more incisive.”

The coach also spoke about the matches against Sporting, FC Porto, Braga, and Benfica:

“Thinking about similar games against the best teams in the league, we started with the game at Alvalade, where we got out but didn’t create. Against FC Porto here, we managed to get out more, and in Braga we played a great game. Today we again couldn’t create as much as we did when we got out. The game was marked by the mistakes we made in our build-up, which are not common. I’d rather make the right decision and execute poorly. When we don’t make the right decisions, we need to look at that. Congratulations to Benfica and we have to keep working,” he also said.

“There are many things we did well in the game. We took the risk of pressing Benfica all over the pitch and I think we were successful. Benfica didn’t take many risks in their build-up. They handled the man-to-man pressure well. We took more risks. We weren’t competent and we have to look at the situations, correct them, and respond against Estrela da Amadora,” he concluded.

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