Manuel Pizarro: “Farioli's critics will have to eat their words” | OneFootball

Manuel Pizarro, former Minister of Health and current member of the FC Porto Superior Council, offered high praise this Monday to Francesco Farioli, following the victory achieved during the visit to the Estádio Municipal de Braga, against Sporting de Braga, by 1-2, in the main match of the 27th round of the Primeira Liga.

“The merit of Farioli, and the merit of the way this Porto team was built at the start of the season and reinforced in January, is precisely the fact that he is already able to manage that. Porto has managed to display very similar patterns of play and a very high competitive intensity with teams that, at times, are very different from one another. I think Farioli has done this brilliantly,” he stated.

“I think those who criticized Farioli for [periods of lower quality and intensity from the team] will really have to admit they were wrong, because I believe he has shown enormous mastery in managing the team’s physical efforts,” he continued, in statements made to the program ‘Bola Branca’, broadcast by Rádio Renascença.

“It’s not possible to keep a high-level team at the same competitive level throughout an entire season, especially a demanding season like these have turned out to be. I think it was very ingenious to concentrate, at the start of the season and now more towards the end, the team’s peak form periods,” he concluded.

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