Vasco Botelho da Costa: Benfica fully deserved the win | OneFootball

Vasco Botelho da Costa reacted to Benfica’s 4-0 victory over Moreirense. At the end of the 14th round of the Primeira Liga, the Cónegos’ coach gave his first post-match statements in the flash interview:

“I’m a bit shaken here, because I think we might have a serious injury to Vasquinho [Vasco Sousa]. It’s sad, we’ll see. Regarding the match, it’s complicated to come here and say that we played a very competent game from a defensive standpoint and still conceded four goals, but the truth is that all four goals we conceded happened during our offensive moments. We conceded one from a set piece and three from plays we built poorly.”

Vasco Botelho da Costa considered Benfica’s win “more than fair” and continued his analysis of the match:

“It was a more than fair victory. A team, as I had said, came to play the game they needed to play and did so very competently and very intelligently. They knew how to wait for the right moment and also tried to force our mistakes, which we don’t usually make. If we look at the game itself, unless I’m mistaken, Benfica didn’t have a shot in the first half, apart from the goal. We had some success getting out, but we need to be more incisive when we break out.”

The coach also spoke about the matches against Sporting, FC Porto, Braga, and Benfica:

“Thinking about similar games against the best teams in the league, we started with the game at Alvalade, where we managed to get out but didn’t create chances. Against FC Porto here, we managed to break out more, in Braga we played a great game. Today, again, we couldn’t create as much for the times we broke out. The match was marked by the errors we made in our build-up, which aren’t common. I’d rather make the right decision and execute it poorly. When we don’t make the right decisions, we need to look at that. Congratulations to Benfica and we have to keep working,” he also said.

“There’s a lot we did well in the game. We took the risk of pressing Benfica all over the pitch and I think we succeeded. Benfica didn’t take many risks in their build-up. They handled the pressure of man-to-man marking well. We took more risks. We weren’t competent and we need to look at those situations, correct them, and respond against Estrela da Amadora,” he concluded.

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