António Ribeiro: “Expect a team full of desire and passion” | OneFootball

The fourth round of the Segunda Liga takes FC Porto B to Viseu, where they will face an Académico side that is “very competent, with experienced players, and has a striker with quite impressive numbers in the Segunda Liga,” and is seen as “one of the main contenders for promotion.” “After a tough game” and a week of “hard work,” João Brandão is focused only on “seizing a new opportunity to get the first win in the league” starting at 2:00 pm on Sunday at the Municipal do Fontelo and on Sport TV+.

According to the coach, regarding the need to “improve some aspects that have been lacking,” António Ribeiro promises “an FC Porto B with will and passion” to “nullify the strengths and exploit the weaknesses” of the Viseu side in a “balanced match” against an opponent full of “quality and experienced players.”

Scoring and Not Conceding“It’s a new game, a new story, and a new opportunity that we really want to seize to get our first win in the league. We know we’re up against a competent team, one of the main contenders for promotion, and for many years now, investment has been made with that goal in mind. Académico’s objectives are to get promoted and return to the Primeira Liga. Throughout the week, we worked hard, focused on what we need to improve, and tried to recharge our batteries after a tough game, in which we were unlucky to concede two own goals right at the start. This week, I felt the team was eager to turn around a situation that doesn’t please us. We want to win, we want to score goals, we want to keep a clean sheet, and those are our ambitions for the next game.”

Opponent Analysis“Académico has a very competent team, with experienced players, and a striker with quite impressive numbers in the Segunda Liga, like Clóvis, and above all, it’s a very pragmatic team. They play very attacking football, always looking towards the opponent’s goal, with great objectivity. They cross a lot, shoot a lot, and often look for Clóvis’s runs in behind, taking advantage of that structure to play on the flanks. They use the wide areas a lot, down the wings, to gain space and get closer to the final third, but we are working to prevent those threats and to capitalize on the opportunities we will have, the opportunities Académico will give us. When we have the ball, we want to move it with purpose, to create spaces, and to have more creativity and objectivity in the final third. We feel much lighter in creating goal-scoring situations and in taking advantage of those chances.”

António Ribeiro

In Search of Three Points“You can expect a team with will and passion. We really want to turn this situation around and get our first win of the season; that’s what we worked for this week, and we need to improve some aspects where we’ve been falling short in games. We want to improve our attacking quality, and that’s what we’ll try to do in this game. We expect an Académico side also looking for three points, just like us, so it will be a balanced match. In Viseu, they are strong, they’ve invested in the team, and they have quality and experienced players.”

André Clóvis“It’s not just this year; we already knew him from before. He’s a player who scores a lot of goals and has good numbers in the Segunda Liga, but we’ll be paying attention to the whole Académico team—they are a quality side, and we’ll do everything to nullify their strengths and exploit their weaknesses so we can get the three points.”

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