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Our toughest game yet, says Ribeiro - The Official Home of Asian Football |
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Saturday, 06 March 2010 07:31 |
 The Official Home of Asian FootballEsfahan: Al Sadd coach Fabiano Ribeiro felt his side overcame their most difficult test at the AFC Futsal Club Championship so far as the Qataris beat Port ...The Official Home of Asian FootballThe Official Home of Asian FootballThe Official Home of Asian Football -
Our toughest game yet, says Ribeiro Saturday, 06 March 2010 20:40 Esfahan: Al Sadd coach Fabiano Ribeiro felt his side overcame their most difficult test at the AFC Futsal Club Championship so far as the Qataris beat Port Authority of Thailand 6-2 on Saturday to secure their place in the last four.
The victory was Al Sadd's third in as many games which guarantees a top two finish in Group B with a game left to play.After conceding six goals in an 8-6 victory over Lebanon's Pro's Cafe in their opening game, Al Sadd's defence has been breached on only five occasions since and Ribeiro believes this is due to an increase in self-belief in his players.Our team has more confidence, said the Brazilian (pictured).In the first game they were very nervous with the situation but now they are more relaxed and play more with ball and when you do this you decrease the other team's chances of scoring against you.We got a good result and we are now in the semi-finals.
It was a very hard game, the hardest one so far.
The Thai team played very strongly, that is not a bad thing it is there style but our team is fast and we got the better of this physicality.It was good training for the team, for the first time in the tournament we have played as a team and the players had a good behaviour and we were able to score goals.Port Authority coach Udom Taveesuk believes his side failure to hold onto the ball in possession cost them.The Thais now have one point from two games and need to win their two remaining games to have a chance of a top-two finish.This game was a very good game but we lost chances because when we had the ball we lost control and the chance went, said Udom.Al Sadd got the ball and took their chances and that was the difference.
We were unlucky. |
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