Vasco Seabra: Not expecting angry Porto after postponement | OneFootball

Vasco Seabra left only one question unanswered this Sunday, at the launch of the reception to FC Porto scheduled for tomorrow. The coach of Arouca refused to reveal the squad, with the only confirmed absences being the punished Jose Fontán and the injured Mateo Flores. Aside from that, he answered all questions, including the controversies raised by the postponement of the match to tomorrow.

The rescheduling for September 29 was decided unilaterally by Liga Portugal, following the indications of the Municipality of Arouca that prevented the match of the 7th round from taking place on the initially scheduled date (this Sunday).

"No, I don't expect (an angry FC Porto). I expect an FC Porto that has been consistent. A very aggressive team, very intense, with a lot of capacity and that has only conceded one goal in the championship. Therefore, a tough team to beat. We want to do our part, show what our identity is, what our game is and compete, which is the key word for this game. We have to compete with FC Porto from the first to the last second", Vasco Seabra started by saying about the topic, returning to it later.

"I understand everyone's pains, if you ask me, possibly if the game was yesterday, FC Porto would have had one less day of rest. Regardless of that, what are FC Porto's pains are their pains, based on what are also their convictions for what the game is, I respect them, we respect what is the decision of the League, we respect what is the decision of the Municipality of Arouca, of Arouca, so we are here to focus on what are the incidences of things. The game was scheduled for this date, we have to prepare for it, so, regardless of what are the complaints of the opponent, of the League, of whatever, we were always very focused on what is the scheduling, how we adjust our week, prepare ourselves to compete, because the opponent already forces us to have to focus on many things. Everything that is not within our scope, in terms of competence, to solve, we leave to others and try to focus on what is really the analysis of the opponent and the preparation of the game", returned the coach of the wolves.

In preparation for the encounter, Seabra found that FC Porto won the seven games they played this season and only conceded one goal, an own goal by Nehuén Pérez. Asked about ways to overcome Diogo Costa, the coach of Arouca was direct and confident.

"The ambition of our game to be more and more what our training is, what our capacity is, already demonstrated since the previous year. The ability we have to achieve, within what are the goals we have also made... We are the sixth team with the best attack, so we also have several arguments to be able to hurt FC Porto's goal", said the coach who, if he had not taken into account the goals already scored in the current round, would occupy the 5th place in the list of the most scoring teams in the competition.

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