The head coach of the Portugal national football team Fernandu Santos shared his impressions about the qualifying game of the CM-2022 with Azerbaijan (1: 0).
“In the first half, we constantly controlled the game. We could look better, but still created situations to score. I do not know whether Azerbaijan went on at least once our midfield. We reacted very well to the loss of the ball and easily returned it, played Compact. The game was under our control. We needed to improve the completion of the attack, but in the end we still won. Though with autogol. Perhaps we deserve to score anymore.
In the second half, our team played without inspiration, made a lot of losses, almost always played briefly. Azerbaijan began to believe in himself, found space to play. We made three or four approaches to our goal.
It was very important to win. We knew that such games are always difficult, especially after a long break. Of course, I was hoping to win differently. Now we will analyze our game and will think about the match with Serbia. There will be another game. “