“We stay focused and keep working despite winning the title” | OneFootball

The National Under-17 Champions are aiming to “match their best-ever finish in the ten-team format, continue to have the top scorer and the best defence”, so they travel to Famalicão “with great seriousness and professionalism”, in search of “three more points on a very difficult ground” (Saturday, 11am).

Aware that it is necessary “to be at our best” to win in the 17th and penultimate round, José João calls on the players to “stay fully focused”, while midfielder Gonçalo Santos reaffirms the “goal of winning every game” and assures that the group “is working well”: “We keep working with focus, even though we have already won the title. We always want the three points”.

José João

Champion mentality“The objective is to win. We approach every game with great seriousness and great professionalism so that we always win the three points, because we wear this shirt and that is what a club of this size demands of us. We are always at our maximum, always at our limit and capable of fighting for every ball as if it were the last of our lives. So we are going to approach this game with that spirit and hopefully bring back three more points from a difficult ground.”

The opponent“FC Famalicão are always a very difficult team, very well organised, and in the last game they tried to disrupt our build-up a little with a more hybrid line. They defended with a lot of players and forced us to be a very patient team, always very calm in the search for the goal. At home, they are a team that tends to apply higher pressure and wants to match the opponent more in terms of man-to-man pressing. We are going to have to be at our best against a team that, playing against the National Champions, will have extra motivation. We have to be, as I said, at our limit if we want to win three more points on a very difficult ground.”

Total motivation“When we serve a club like FC Porto, we have to be fully motivated every day. Our players really want to win one more game. We are going to have some new opportunities here for certain players to show the coach their value. The team is motivated, focused, wants to win, wants to match the best-ever finish in the ten-team format, we want to continue having the top scorer and we want to be the best defence. There is still a lot to achieve, and those are some of the details that keep us fully focused. We hope to stay very united so that the Porto family can come out on top once again.”

Gonçalo Santos

The final stretch of the season“These are two more important games for us. Our objective is to win every game and we keep working with focus, even though we have already won the title. We always want the three points.”

FC Famalicão“We are expecting a hard-fought game. They are a strong team, they are going to make things difficult for us, but the objective is set and we are going to fight for it.”

A united family“The team is in very good spirits, working well, and we just have to do what we always do so that everything goes well.”

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇵🇹 here.