Pelatih Porto Lopetegui Senang Kalahkan Klub Terbaik di Dunia
Lopetegui, Porto Coach Applauds Porto Achievement
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
PELATIH Porto Julen Lopetegui mengatakan bahwa Porto telah mengalahkan tim terbesar di dunia dalam soal penguasaan bola.
Beberapa jam lalu klub Portugal ini menghancurkan tamunya raksasa dari Jerman Bayern Munchen dengan skor 3-1 pada leg pertama perempat final Liga Champions.
"Bermain melawan Bayern selalu sulit, namun kami telah menciptakan awal yang hebat pada pertandingan melawan tim terbesar di dunia dalam hal penguasaan bola," kata Lopetegui seperti dikutip UEFA.com yang dilansir Yahoo News.
Namun dia mengatakan pertandingan leg kedua di Munchen akan sangat berbeda, dan dia dipaksa untuk tidak bisa mengandalkan Danilo yang terkena larangan bermain dan Alex Sandro.
Untuk itu, kata dia, timnya harus mendapatkan jalan keluar.
"Kami masih hanya separuh jalan untuk melewati laga melawan salah satu tim terbaik dalam sejarah Bayern ini. Kami hebat malam ini dan saya ingin mengucapkan selama kepada para pemain. Tim ini punya banyak ambisi," kata dia.
JULEN Lopetegui hails FC Porto´s achievement in beating one of the "greatest teams" while FC Bayern München will be ready for the second leg, insists Josep Guardiola.
Playing against Bayern is always difficult, but we made a great start to the game against the greatest team in the world in terms of possession. In the first half maybe we should have kept the ball better but we corrected that in the second. Jackson Martínez showed good signs yesterday and we decided to risk him.
The match in Munich will be different and we will not be able to count on two important players [the suspended Danilo and Alex Sandro], so we will have to find solutions. It will be a very difficult game, we are still only halfway through this tie against one of the best teams in Bayern´s history. We were great tonight and I want to congratulate this group of players. This team has lots of ambition.
We are not dreaming, we are just working hard everywhere, in every area of our play, defensively and offensively. The fans never fail us, they helped us, giving us the energy we needed to get through the bad moments.
