“We stay focused and keep working despite winning the title” | OneFootball

The National Under-17 Champions aim to “match their best-ever finish in the ten-team format, continue to have the top scorer and the best defence”, so they travel to Famalicão “with great seriousness and professionalism”, in search of “three more points on a very difficult ground” (Saturday, 11:00am).

Aware that it will be necessary “to be at our best” to win in the 17th and penultimate round, José João calls on the players to “stay fully focused”, while midfielder Gonçalo Santos reaffirms the “goal of winning every game” and assures that the group “is working well”: “We keep working with focus, even though we have already won the title. We always want the three points.”

José João

Champion mentality“The goal is to win. We approach every game with great seriousness and professionalism so that we always win the three points, because we wear this shirt and that is what a club of this size demands from us. We are always at the maximum, always at our limit and capable of fighting for every ball as if it were the last of our lives. So we will approach this game with that spirit and hopefully bring back another three points from a difficult ground.”

The opponent“FC Famalicão are always a very difficult team, very well organised, and in the last game they tried to disrupt our build-up a little with a more hybrid line. They defended with a lot of players and forced us to be a very patient team, always very calm in our search for the goal. At home, they are a team that tends to press higher and wants to match the opponent more in terms of man-to-man pressure. We will have to be at our best against a team that, playing against the National Champions, will have extra motivation. We have to be, as I said, at our limit in order to get another three points on a very difficult ground.”

Total motivation“When we serve a club like FC Porto, we have to be at maximum motivation every day. Our players really want to win another game. We will have some new opportunities here for some players to show the coach their value. The team is motivated, focused, wants to win, wants to match the best-ever finish in the ten-team format, we want to continue having the top scorer and we want to be the best defence. There are still many things to achieve; those are some of the details that keep us fully focused. We hope to be very united so that the Porto family can once again come out on top.”

Gonçalo Santos

The final stretch of the season“There are two more important games ahead of us. Our goal is to win every game and we keep working with focus, even though we have already won the title. We always want the three points.”

FC Famalicão“We are expecting a hard-fought game. They are a strong team, they will make things difficult for us, but the objective is set and we will fight for it.”

A united family“The team is in a very good spirit, working well, and we just have to do what we always do so that everything goes well.”

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇵🇹 here.