FC Porto eye Youth League glory: "We'll try to bring the trophy home" | OneFootball

This Wednesday, FC Porto makes its debut in the UEFA Youth League by traveling to the home of NK Bravo, the Slovenian U19 champions, to play the first leg of the 2nd round of the national champions’ path.

In the pre-match press conference, with kickoff scheduled for 5:00 pm, the coach of the Dragons, Sérgio Ferreira, and the midfielder and captain Bernardo Lima adopted an ambitious tone, with the young Portuguese international expressing the ambition to win the competition.

“The expectations of the whole team are high, this is a competition we were very eager to play in and we are here to give our best and try to bring the trophy home. The 2018/19 victory doesn’t put pressure on us, it motivates us. We have to look up to what they achieved and that’s what we want to keep doing. We want to continue making history and, if possible, win this trophy,” Bernardo emphasized, while warning about the dangers posed by their first opponent.

“We know they are a strong team, they’re aggressive, tall, and will create some difficulties for us, but the coach showed us their strengths and we’ve been working on that, we’ve analyzed the opponent well and we’re prepared for the match,” assured the young FC Porto U19 midfielder.

Sérgio Ferreira described the clash with NK Bravo as “the first final” of FC Porto’s campaign. “This club has taught us what it means to win since 1893, it teaches us what it is to have a winning spirit, and it’s with that spirit and ambition that we go to Slovenia. We know perfectly well that it will be a challenging match, but our ambition and desire to win must be very strong and we know exactly what we have to do. We know it’s a two-legged tie, but both in the first and second leg we will show great ambition, we will go for the goal, we will propose an idea and we will impose that idea. We have that ambition, but we also know that victories are achieved game by game. This first match is the most important of all, it’s our first final and we hope it will be the first of many. It’s important to win, it’s important to impose ourselves, but when that’s not possible, it’s also important to know how to play their game,” stressed the coach.

The NK Bravo–FC Porto match is scheduled to kick off at 5:00 pm (Portuguese time) on Wednesday. The second leg will take place on November 5th, at Olival. Sporting and Benfica are also present in the Youth League, but in the group stage of the competition.

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