Strong team
Monday, December 16, 2019
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Shakhtar manager Luis Castro speaks about the Portuguese Benfica to be faced by the Miners in the Europa League Round of 32
- Mister, what do you make of the draw results?
- At the current Europa League stage, all the clubs are top-quality. Everyone hopes to complete their journey in the competition successfully.
- What’s your opinion about the opponents?
- Benfica are very strong, they are topping the Portuguese league. Their two players - Vinicius and Pizzi - scored 23 goals this season. However, they are strong collectively, consistency wise. They are a very balanced team with proven defensive and attacking aspects, very well oriented by Bruno Lage.
- You have some experience with Benfica.
- Yes, we had many matches against Benfica – it’s always difficult against these opponents.
- What will be key in this encounter?
- We should conduct training camps in a quality, productive way, which will help us prepare for the Championship and the Europa League. As for the encounter, we must achieve a good result in the first leg in order to approach the return match as optimistically as possible.
- At the current Europa League stage, all the clubs are top-quality. Everyone hopes to complete their journey in the competition successfully.
- What’s your opinion about the opponents?
- Benfica are very strong, they are topping the Portuguese league. Their two players - Vinicius and Pizzi - scored 23 goals this season. However, they are strong collectively, consistency wise. They are a very balanced team with proven defensive and attacking aspects, very well oriented by Bruno Lage.
- You have some experience with Benfica.
- Yes, we had many matches against Benfica – it’s always difficult against these opponents.
- What will be key in this encounter?
- We should conduct training camps in a quality, productive way, which will help us prepare for the Championship and the Europa League. As for the encounter, we must achieve a good result in the first leg in order to approach the return match as optimistically as possible.