Diogo Costa warns FC Porto: “Managing fatigue won’t be easy…” | OneFootball

The player gave a brief assessment of the hard-fought victory against Estoril and addressed topics such as the team's attitude, the coach's influence, and managing the schedule.

FC Porto struggled to beat this Estoril side. What is your analysis? “They are a very mobile team, with a fluid style of play. They didn’t stick to a fixed style and that caused us problems and created doubts. Credit to Estoril, who came to play us head-to-head. But this is what it means to be Porto, we knew how to suffer. There will be games where we don’t play well, but we have to win. That’s what we managed to do.”

Did Estoril’s variability surprise you? “That’s what really caught us off guard. But we didn’t concede any goals, the team has the attitude to fight until the end. We’re all in this together.”

Another game without conceding for Diogo. “Obviously, it’s not just my merit, it’s the whole team’s. Every day together, 26 or 27 players, plus a few youngsters from the B team. Everyone works really well, we do everything for each other. We know the mentality we need to have, which is the same one we show in training.”

Advice from Farioli. “The coach gives me a lot of responsibility and many concepts that we have to apply. But credit must go to the mister, which you can see in his style of play and in our way of training. Now we have a very busy December ahead. It won’t be easy to manage the fatigue, but if we give our all, that’s what matters most. And we count on the fans, who are always important.”

Is this game a warning regarding theoretically easier matches? “It’s because it’s easy that it becomes difficult. We talk about this, we have a different quality from Estoril, but the mentality has to be game by game. That’s something you train, but it also has to come from within and from the demands of the coach. We’re in the fight.”

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