The Eagles coach shared his thoughts after the game against Sporting.

Benfica head coach Jose Mourinho commented on the draw result in the Portuguese championship match against Sporting Lisbon (1:1).

" Two parts - we have a lot of love for Sporting and a little bit of hostility for ours. I think we started off badly, and through those who started us off badly, Sporting apparently started off well.

We scored an own goal... The goal of Luis Suarez is an own goal, which I don’t really care about, because since before, we worked on the daily game, we will play differently from the opponent who is pressing. Our robot had a rule: daily tights in the low zone, daily tights between the goalkeeper and the high scorer. We have talked about this many times, worked on other ways to. The first blow is like a goal: an own goal. Then, obviously, there was a period when we played badly, wasted a lot of balls, the team felt the pressure of the result and a bad start, and we still wasted a lot of balls in the low zone.

Then there was a good reaction to the goal, and the remaining 10-15 minutes of the first half were like a forerunner of what the other would have. In the other half, we were significantly better, dominated, and there was no unsafe situation in our penalty area. I don’t have mercy on you, a single kutovy mi mali here on 90 hvilina... Dominated.

Obviously, the team of such a rival, against such a strong opponent as Sporting, will not have five, six or so remarkable scoring chances. Ale with a standard position, if Rios punches with his head, score the goal, but if he knocks in Luis Suarez. Then Richard Rios's left foot hit him diagonally, the ball flew at the goal, and then turned back. Another chance for Fredrik Ursnes, a number of selections from unsafe transitions... The other half was much better. Franjo Ivanovich Viyshov, stretch a little bit of the gru, scoop out the clay. Then it lost one less gravel, and the remaining six or seven gravels, as having added an arbitrator, the game is already of a small different character.

In the first half, as a matter of fact, we interpreted the game better. If there were ten minutes left before the end of the first half, I asked my analyst to go to bed and prepare two or three pictures, which I had chosen at half past one.. We showed the Gravians how to adjust pressure, and I think they understood well. If there are such strongmen as Barreiro and Rios, who are even stronger in pressure, they controlled this zone well.

Let's explain why this cob is like this? Food... And having already fed them: why did I set up a rule not to timidity Why did they create a stink Then nervousness, and everything else - after all, because you don’t know that you had mercy. Vorotar knows that he has had mercy, Enzo knows, Anthony knows... There were one or two more similar situations. Of course, you sense the reaction of the public to understand that what’s wrong is wrong. Then the stench calmed down. The goal of nothingness turns everything to zero, and emotionally to zero. In another time, the game was more intense. There were no shots on goal, because Sporting did not shoot on goal. I don’t want to say on half of the opponent, but at least on two thirds of the field, and shoot the ball without sticking around.

Can this drawback affect the team before the match against Napoli No, I don’t think so. As Sporting is a strong team, Napoli is also a strong team with a coach, whom I know well, a great strategist who prepares teams. It will be a good match for us, but I don’t think that today’s game might get stuck. If it's in the middle, then it's less positive. The team that usually dominates in intelligent minds and goes from a negative state to the possible victory. “Only positive ideas,” - suggest Mourinho’s words A Bola.

After 13 rounds, Benfica scored 29 points and is in third place in the championship, three points ahead of Sporting. Porto is in the lead with 34 points after 12 goals..