Benfica set to face Juventus, manager unfazed: “We want to win” | OneFootball

The Benfica women's football team faces Juventus, from Italy, this Tuesday, October 7, in the eagles' first Champions League match. Ivan Batista, the red coach, showed great ambition, explaining that the goal of the Club da Luz is to win in Turin.

"The teams are very evenly matched in terms of individual and collective quality, but we want to go to Turin to win, to put on a good show against one of the best European teams at the moment," began the coach of Benfica - who saw his team thrash in the last national championship game.

Ivan Batista continued, recalling the quality of the opponents, Italian champions in six of the last eight editions: "It's a team that needs no great introductions. (...) It will certainly have things different from what last season was, some of which we naturally observed from the team's performance in these last games".

To conclude, he stressed Benfica's ambitions in the Champions League: "It's a competition where we have grown in recent years, and we want to cement this position of Benfica in the Champions League. (...) I believe the group is prepared to face the different challenges that will arise".

Also present at the press conference was player Diana Gomes, who made a plea to the fans: "Do everything we trained this week and fight to the end for the three points. (...) If you can support us, it's always very important for us, players, on the field, to feel the support from outside".

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