Three Sporting players back from injury, ready for European action | OneFootball

Ana Capeta, Anna Wellmann, and Joana Martins have recovered from injury and can now be used by Micael Sequeira for the match against Rosengard, in the second leg of the second round of the Women's Europa Cup. On the other hand, Telma Encarnação, Miri O'Donnell, and Andreia Bravo remain sidelined.

In the preview of the European competitions match, the coach conveyed the message that Sporting approaches the game as if the tie is 0-0, without relying on the 3-0 victory in the first leg at the Cristiano Ronaldo Academy against the Nordic team.

“We approach it exactly the same way we approached the first game, that is, with a lot of seriousness, with a lot of concentration, seeking to correct some things that weren't so good. The concentration, the focus, must be the same, because if it isn't, if we relax, we will lose focus and mistakes will happen,” he began by saying to the club's media.

Micael Sequeira asks for total focus from the players: “We have to concentrate on the moment, regardless of what we did the minute before. The message is to always stay very focused on what we can control, which is the next ball, the next second, and that's what we have to concentrate on. They ask me, what if we concede a goal, and I pose the question: what if we score a goal? It's exactly the same thing, because a goal at the beginning won't change anything, we can concede right after, so the focus must remain the same, regardless of whether we concede or score, we have to stay focused until the end, that's the message.”

The coach wants the team to seize the opportunity to play in a European competition in the best way possible. “UEFA created this new competition that allows these teams, which were very close to entering the UEFA Women’s Champions League, as was our case, to gain experience at this level and this competition is fantastic in that sense, with strong teams, allowing us to gain experience at this level, it allows us to play every three days and think about advancing through this phase, reaching the round of 16 and then, successively, aiming for the quarter-finals, dreaming of reaching the semi-finals, and therefore, Sporting's goal is clearly to go as far as possible,” he concluded.

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