Portugal optimistic ahead of debut
“We respect all the matches, because we know the quality that each one of them has, the quality of advice they provide us”, pointed out Rui Bento, in statements to the Portuguese Football Federation.
The coach will be at the head of the ‘quinas’ team on Tuesday, at a time when the coach José Lima is infected with the new coronavirus and cannot yet give his contributor to the selection, in the first game of group D.
“We had the misfortune of our coach not being there yet, let’s hope everything goes well and he can come for the second game. However, Mr. José Lima has always been present, nowadays fortunately it is already possible to the new technologies”, he said. still Rui Bento.
Already Diogo Monteiro, team captain, said that the will is the competition to enter in the best way, in which Portugal has as accessories in Scotland (May 17, in Lod), Sweden (May 20, in Lod) and Denmark ( May 23, in Ramat Gan).
“The team is ready, we’re all focused on playing a great game. We know it’s going to be a very important game, as it’s the first one, we want to start right away on the ‘right foot’. We want to win, even though we know that Scotland have a good team”, considered the defense.
Tuesday’s match between Portugal and Scotland, of the first round of group D, will be played from 8:00 pm local time (6:00 pm in Lisbon).
In the European Championship, to be played between today and June 1st in Israel, the first two classified from the four groups will qualify for the quarter-finals of the competition.