Lage on Trubin-Samuel Soares switch: He’ll play when ready | OneFootball

Bruno Lage wanted to rotate in goal, as he has done in various other positions on the field in the Benfica - Tondela match. The eagles defeated the Beira team 3-0, in a match counting for the third round of the Liga Portugal Betclic. The red coach launched Samuel Soares instead of Trubin, and at the end of the match, he explained to journalists why he had done so.

"I see Samuel Soares as I see any other player, he has a very high level, we are continuing the work started last season", Bruno Lage began to explain, remembering that this was already a solution used last season.

The Benfica coach continued, with a guarantee about the next game, counting for the Champions League play-off: "One thing is clear to me, Trubin will play with Fenerbahçe, Samuel plays when he has to play, we have a lot of confidence in the goalkeepers we have".

He was then asked if it would be possible to keep a player like Samuel Soares as number two in the team, or if he feared his eventual departure: "In the time I've been here [since September 2024], I've felt a great evolution in Samuel".

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