João Brandão: "To beat Oliveirense, we need to be at our very best" | OneFootball

After the trip to Madeira and the visit to the stronghold of the leader CS Marítimo, FC Porto B returns home for the 26th round of the Segunda Liga, where they will host UD Oliveirense at CTFD Jorge Costa (Monday, 6:45 PM, Porto Canal).

Coach João Brandão mentioned a “competent” opponent who “changed a lot in their dynamics” since the arrival of the new coach, but emphasized that the Dragons aim to “create a lot” and “control and dominate the game, as they are different things.” Forward Tiago Andrade, who accompanied the A team to Stuttgart earlier this week, assured that the Porto team has been “working well” to present “a great response” and return “to victories.” Before this match, FC Porto B is in eighth place with 37 points, while UD Oliveirense is in 17th position, with 26.

UD Oliveirense “UD Oliveirense is competent and has changed a lot in their dynamics in recent games. The arrival of the new coach has added some new dynamics offensively and defensively also changed the structure, so we felt some difficulty in preparing the game with these new dynamics. Above all, we look at ourselves and that is the big challenge for this game. We look at what we need to improve and what we need to bring to the game, whether with or without the ball. It will be a very difficult game, like all the others in the Segunda Liga. We will face a team that has the history in their favor, even at Olival, which speaks to the difficulty of playing against this opponent. We need to be at our best to win this game.”

Defeat in Oliveira de Azeméis in the first round “What we take from that game is that it was not a well-executed game on our part. It was a game where we were not good in our offensive dynamics, we created little and allowed a lot. Now we want a game in the opposite direction, we want to create a lot, we want to control and dominate the game, as they are different things. For that, we need to be very solid defensively. The secret of this Segunda Liga is never to allow many transitions to the opponent and to be very balanced, but also to have the ability to accelerate in the offensive moment.”

Individual awards come from collective work “In football or any team sport, the individual award will always be the recognition of the team's capability. It was the result of the collective capability that these nominations emerged. It is a great satisfaction to see the recognition of the work and evolution that Gonçalo [Sousa] has had, as well as the growth and evolution that Gabriel [Brás] has experienced. For two consecutive months, we have had our young players awarded. The greatest victory of all was seeing André Miranda debut in the A team and seeing many of our players being included in the main team's match squads. That is the greatest recognition a coach of FC Porto B can have, always looking at the main purpose, which is to create the best conditions and have the best work proposals to grow all this desire and turn dreams into reality.”

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