During the press conference, Ruben Amorim was asked if he had this glass of wine after the match with Dortmund coach Marco Rose, who revealed in the preview that he would make this invitation.
“We exchanged bottles of wine, but we didn’t drink. It’s normal, it wasn’t just a game, it was a decision, there was no atmosphere. If it was the other way around, I wouldn’t have the patience to do it,” he said.
On his brilliant moment at Sporting, the Lions coach showed that his feet were firmly on the ground, despite his success. “In football, everything changes very quickly, it’s game after game, it’s the moment. I remember Paulo Pinto also getting Sporting into the Round of 16, having released kids and then being challenged. I remember Paulo Pinto forever and don’t count on me to go there… »
It was strange to respond to the draw for the round of 16 of the European Champions. “Come Satan and choose. They are all going to be strong teams, they are the top 16, so … of course there are teams that I hated being defeated, and I won’t say which ones, because I know my players are going to suffer and I don’t like to see them suffer. You have to be lucky in the draw and when I say luck is about the teams that fit our way of playing the best.”
Someone reminded him later that the only time they had played in the Round of 16, Bayern Munich had crushed them. “Maybe Bayern is praying and working,” he joked, also causing the audience in the room to laugh.
On an individual level, Leonen’s coach said Nazinho, who made his debut with the squad yesterday, is “clearly growing”, that Pedro Gonçalves “has a great future if he keeps working” and that it’s good that Gonzalo Inacio has little to talk about. “So be it, he’s a humble boy who still has to grow up with us to think of something else.”
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