Bruno Coelho says that “no one can have more will” than Portugal
“NoWe know how we’re going to find it. It’s a very strong Russia physically, tactically and on set pieces. If you are not focused, it will be more difficult. Nothing and no one can have more desire for us. Only we care and know what we want. We have transport to the game”, said the player of the Italians from Napoli, to the official website of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF).
The ‘quinas’ team, European and world champions, reached the final of the continental tournament again after an epic comeback against Spain, by 3-2, which Bruno Coelho considers shows the quality of the Portuguese team.
“We never left the game and we were always focused on what we had to do to turn the game around. We hit things right at half-time and played a completely controlled part. We managed to play a completely controlled part. We managed to play a completely controlled part. is more than fair”, he explains.
The healthy Portuguese playerstoday at the Ziggo Dome, in Amsterdam, before the president of the FPF, Fernando Gomes, who joined the delegation on Friday to follow the final part of the victorious trajectory that Portugal has been making during the competition .
“We only have today to prepare for tomorrow’s game. [domingo]. Therefore, today has to be well used to analyze and train, to measure in practice, stressed the athlete, who has 141 caps and 45 goals scored.
The Russians have the best attack, the confrontation with Spain (22 goals) and the best defense (four goals segments), having won all the disputed ones, as well as Portugal — 7-1 to Slovakia, 4-0 to Croatia, 5 -1 for Poland, 3-1 for Georgia and 3-2 for Ukraine.
“The numbers end up speaking a little for themselves. These games don’t have favorites. It will be a 50-50 game. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes will win”, understands Bruno Coelho to leave.
This is the third consecutive time that Portugal has reached a final of a competition, after the presence and international conquest, in Slovenia of the 2021 World Cup, in Lithuania, counting already 32 official games without knowing the defeat.
Despite the average age of the team and despite many young people, I think there is pragmatism and awareness of what has to be done”, added the athlete, who scored the first goal of the triumph against Spain.
Portugal and Russia will compete in the European 2022 futsal final on Sunday, starting at 17:30 local time (16:30 in Lisbon), at the Ziggo Dome, in Amsterdam, after Spain and Ukraine decide the third and fourth places of the continental competition, at 2:30 pm (1:30 pm).