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Vasco Botelho da Costa appeared resigned to Moreirense's defeat against Sporting, by 3-0, despite believing that his team was on top at certain moments of the match. The coach of the Moreira de Cónegos team spoke to the microphones of SportTv, in the flash interview after the match. Before the match, he also had some words for the journalists.

"It's the result we have and when you lose 0-3 there's nothing more to do than congratulate Sporting's team, it was better than Moreirense and there's not much to say about the result. Regarding the game itself, it's a bit different. We tried our best to pressure Sporting. In the first half, with the variety they were having in construction, it created a lot of doubt for us and it's very difficult to communicate in a stadium of these dimensions and with this atmosphere, so we needed the halftime to adjust. In the second half we managed to control much better, the big difference was that we made some mistakes in plays that we should have controlled differently", began the Moreirense coach.

Vasco Botelho da Costa continued his analysis: "Then the team felt the goal a bit, because it was feeling that it was having more success, and it felt a lot. From an offensive point of view, it was a somewhat divided game. We had moments when we managed to get out, others when we were tired because we ran a lot and had to hit balls. And this is always the coach wanting to play, but it's also important to breathe and it's always difficult to play at a big team's home, it's the champion. Every time he goes to the bench he changes and things move forward. Congratulations to Sporting, they won fairly and we will try to rest as much as possible. We already have a game on Saturday and a long journey ahead, and prepare for Casa Pia".

The Moreirense coach then praised the green and white team: "Without a doubt one of the strong points of Sporting is the positioning of Trincão and Pote in between lines. Suárez also came to add to this, a lot of quality playing. But our problem was not that, we were there with a positioning in doubt, whether Cedric set up a line of 5 or was more in 4-4-2. This positioning of ours would also depend on what Sporting's midfielders would do, and we ended up having doubts because when a team of Sporting's quality adopts one positioning and then another, we need to have maturity and interpretation capacity".

We managed to control Sporting's ball exit much better than the first", concluded Vasco Botelho da Costa.

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