Farioli: “We must always be at our peak energy-wise, that was missing” | OneFootball

Fofana looked ready to be the hero again, but Famalicão’s goal in the final moments ended up putting a stop to that possibility: “Our overall performance was below our level. Even though we dominated the game and conceded from the last ball... it’s a shame not to take the result home. It wasn’t our best game, but anyway, it’s done and we can’t go back to this game. I want to thank the fans again, who pushed us for 100 minutes, and in four days we have the Europa League quarter-finals, there isn’t much time to dwell on this game.”

The start was not the usual one for FC Porto. What went wrong? “I said yesterday that it’s normal, the players were away for 15 days, doing different things, with journeys of thousands of kilometres, and it’s not easy for them to get back to their best in a couple of days. It’s not an excuse, it’s a fact. Today we were below our levels and against an opponent like Famalicão, who are having a great season, we can’t give them minutes, like we did.”

Famalicão managed to move the ball around a lot in FC Porto’s midfield. Was that their merit or your team’s shortcoming? “Both. For me, they played very similarly to the game they played against us in the Cup, but we are a team that always has to be at the top in terms of energy. Today that part was missing and we paid the price.”

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