The loss finished an unbeaten run of 11 video games.
Jose Mourinho got Benfica’s gamers to rest at their training school complying with a 3-1 loss to Braga in the semi-final of the Taca da Liga.
Nicolas Otamendi was sent late on as Benfica’s hopes of winning the Portuguese Organization Mug were amazingly rushed.
Benfica are not at work this weekend break prior to they encounter Primeira Liga leaders Porto, whom they track by 10 factors in the table, in the quarter-finals of the Taca de Portugal next Wednesday.
And Mourinho they will certainly invest much of the acting duration at the club’s Seixal training base.
” The gamers will certainly oversleep Seixal, and on Thursday there is training, and the day after there’s training,” Mourinho claimed at an interview complying with the loss to Braga.
” Because there’s no last on Saturday, our following video game protests Porto next Wednesday.
” When we get here in Seixal [on Wednesday], every person will certainly most likely to their areas. I really hope the gamers rest along with I do, which is to state that they do not rest whatsoever.
” That’s what I want them. That they do not rest and rather believe a whole lot, like I’m mosting likely to believe.
Mourinho, that took control of in September, has actually won 14 of his 23 suits accountable. The previous Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid and Manchester United employer had actually managed an 11 video game unbeaten run before Wednesday’s loss.
” On Thursday we can begin speaking, which isn’t what occurred in the storage locker area,” Mourinho addd.
” In the storage locker area it was a talk, and talks do not help me; I such as to have a discussion with the gamers.
” We’ll speak about the distinctions in between the initial and 2nd fifty percents and prepare in the most effective method feasible for the video game versus Porto.”