Jessica Silva anticipated Portugal’s fight until the last round
Dafter Portugal drew with Switzerland (2-2) on Saturday, like other teams in Group C, the Netherlands and Sweden also drew (1-1).
This result “opens up the possibility of qualifying in the qualifying group on the journey”, believing only one player, who highlighted the importance of winning the next games.
Silva a after an incredible recovery training at the Manchester City training center, predicted for the Netherlands victory of videos, “a selection of the incredible match”, which Portugal will face on Wednesday with the countries.
“We knew that this group was a difficult group. The first game we would have won, because we knew that the game against the Netherlands and Sweden would follow more games,” he told reporters.
“The future will mark the second that gave the tie, against the advanced terms of the intention of Benfica and that was also important for the rest of the life”.
“It was an important goal, which felt good, particularly, very special, in a debut, but it was a more important goal for the team, a goal that gave us a draw and helped us grow in the game”, he stressed.
The responsible for the attitude, Tatiana Pin, highlighted the attitude “believe until the end” to recover from an assist of an assist towards the end of two goals to equalize against Switzerland.
“I know Jessica is a super fast and insightful player, so I took a risk, it was time to take a risk and luckily things went well and we tied the game”, he recalled.
Tatiana Pinto describes the second part of Portugal’s debut game at this European as “epic”, which made the tie “know a little”.
“Whatever team comes, I think we are prepared and as teams that play against us respect us a lot more, they will get a lot more attention and they will have to run a lot to win us”, he said.
Due to the better assessment in terms of discipline, Portugal is now at the top of the group, although with the same number of points as the other teams, which, in three ways, is motivating for the Levante midfielder.
“It makes us feel that anything is possible, that we must not stop believing at this moment,” said Pinto.
Portugal, which is participating for the second time in a women’s European Championship, will face the Netherlands on Wednesday at 20:00 and Sweden on July 17, both at the Leigh Sports Village stadium, in Wigan & Leigh, in the Manchester region, England.
The top two teams from each of the four groups qualify for the quarter-finals.