Ahead of the excessive-voltage match in opposition to Portugal, Uruguay coach Diego Alonso referred to as Cristiano Ronaldo’s group a harmful group in Group H of the continuing FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
He additional stated that Portugal is a good group and subsequently Uruguay will carry their A sport in opposition to them.
“Portugal has a very good squad, they have excellent players, they have a wonderful coach with wide experience. That makes them a dangerous team. On the other hand, we also have our own weapons. We will try to win, we will bring our A game,” stated Alonso.
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Uruguay will look to repeat historical past, the exploits from the 2018 World Cup, whereby they defeated Portugal within the knockout levels. But, Alonso admitted that it’ll be an all in all completely different sport with completely different gamers.
“About what happened four years ago, it’s a different match, we have different players, it will be a completely different match,” Alonso added.
Uruguay’s World Cup opener in opposition to South Korea ended with a goalless draw. Now, shifting ahead to match in opposition to Portugal, Bentancur believes that issues have advanced in 4 years and now his group would want to do all the precise work to not get defeated.
“It will be a different game. It’s been four years since that game and football has evolved. Now we play with more intensity and players are in a better physical condition. They (Portugal) play very well with the ball, they play the spaces, they beat the back line of the defence, but we’ve been working on that and we will try to use our own weapons so that we cannot be defeated,” stated Bentancur.
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The 25-yr-outdated stated they weren’t ok in opposition to South Korea and must win in opposition to Portugal.
“We analyzed the game, we know it wasn’t good enough, we weren’t pressing enough. We need to change our play. We were a bit slow. We know it is a crucial game tomorrow. We know that we need to win and that is what we will try to do. We will break our backs as we always do,” Bentancur added.
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