Botafogo coach Bruno Lage was sincere about the team’s performance without Tiquinho Soares, Glorioso’s main offensive player: “All players are important”
Last Wednesday, the 9th, the Botafogo in Bruno Lage qualified for the quarterfinals of the Copa Sudamericana 2023. Alvinegro got the better of the first leg by 2-1 and held the goalless draw on the return, advancing in the continental tournament. Glorioso’s coach praised the feat, which, in his view, was obtained with good collective work.
“We had a very strong qualifying. At home, despite the opponent having scored a goal, we could have achieved a different result, but today the team was very supportive against a competent opponent”, analyzed Bruno Lage. When asked about the absence of Tiquinho Soares in the match, the coach insisted on making the other players on the team stand out.
“I want to take the opportunity to say that Tiquinho is in our thoughts. My words are for Junior (Saints), Carlos Albertowhich entered as a spearhead, and janderson, who is still a boy of the position. It’s not the first game that Tiquinho doesn’t play for Botafogo”scored the commander of Alvinegro.
“All players are important, we look at them and we know how important everyone is. Our life is this. The two questions were about Tiquinho, but we could talk about Luis Henrique)who came back very quickly from an injury, I prefer to see the positive things”. Botafogo entered with a practically entire reserve squad, but Lage nailed that he makes no distinction between starters and bench players.
“Everybody is a starter. Everyone has already created this commitment. It’s a fantastic group. Today there were 11, tomorrow there will be others […]. Botafogo’s plan is very simple, and it’s not mine: it’s having people with income who are doing things and then more people come to keep doing it”, he explained. Botafogo returns to the field on Saturday, the 12th, to face International at home, opening the 19th round of the Brasileirão.
Source: sportbuzz
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