Manuel Pizarro: “Farioli’s critics will have to back down” | OneFootball

Manuel Pizarro, former Minister of Health and current member of the FC Porto Superior Council, gave high praise this Monday to Francesco Farioli, following the victory achieved during the visit to the Municipal Stadium of Braga, against Sporting de Braga, by 1-2, in the big match of the 27th round of the Primeira Liga.

“The merit of Farioli, and the merit of how this Porto team was built at the beginning of the season and strengthened in January, is precisely the fact that he is already able to manage that. Porto has been able to present very similar playing patterns and a very intense competitive intensity with teams that, at times, are very different from each other. I think Farioli has done this brilliantly,” he stated.

“I think those who criticized Farioli for that [periods of lower quality and intensity of the team] will have to admit they were wrong, because I think he showed great mastery in managing the team's physical efforts,” he continued, in statements made to the program ‘Bola Branca’, broadcast by Rádio Renascença.

“It is not possible to maintain a high-performance team at the same competitive level throughout an entire season, especially a demanding season like these have turned out to be. I think it was very ingenious to concentrate, at the beginning of the season and now more towards the end of the season, the team's peak form period,” he concluded.

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