Midfielder Afonso Sousa stressed today that the goals against Liechtenstein, for the qualifying phase for Euro2023 in football in the under-21 category, will come as an “addition” if Portugal “focuses” on presenting their football .
The ‘quinas’ team receives the Alpes team at 20:15 on Thursday, at the Estádio do Futebol Clube de Vizela, in a match related to Group 4, and the player from 21 years stressed that the 23 players under the orders of the coach Rui Jorge need to focus on their “ideas” to confirm their status as “favorites”.
“We will not be lying here. With the utmost respect for the opponent, we are favourites. Liechtenstein can create their difficulties, but let’s focus more on ourselves (…) The most important thing is to present our football. If so, the goals will come by extra”, he said, at the press conference that preceded today’s afternoon training, at the hotel unit in Guimarães, where the group is concentrated.
Convinced that Portugal it will add the three points if it does not “make it easy at any time” and is at “the best of its abilities”, Afonso Sousa stressed that the current internship is “important” to “create new routines and for players to “get to know each other a little bit better on and off the field.”
With 39 games in the 1st Portuguese Football League since last season, serving Belenenses SAD, the attacking midfielder admitted that the call to the national team is another opportunity to “work as hard as possible and help the team”, despite not having left the bench in the group’s first ‘commitment’, against Belarus, on September 6, in Amadora – Portuguese triumph 1-0.
The player trained in Beira-Mar, Gafanha and FC Porto also stressed that the presence of some elements of the Euro 2021, in which Portugal reached the final – lost 1-0 to Germany – help less experienced athletes to feel “increasingly in tune” with “what the coach wants” and “with the experience of playing qualifying” .
Portugal, European under-21 runner-up and fourth in Group 4, with three points in a game, host Liechtenstein at 20:15 on Thursday, in Vizela, and faces Iceland on October 12, in Reykjavik, the capital of the Nordic country.
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