Portugal's coach announces victory: We will field our strongest team in Zenica

(Patria) - Ahead of tomorrow's match between the football teams of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Portugal, a press conference was held in Zenica this evening.

The coach of the Portugal national team, Roberto Martinez, and the Portuguese and Barcelona striker, Joao Felix, addressed the public.

Roberto Martinez began his statement with respect for our national team.

- We always respect our opponents. I started following your football at the World Cup in Brazil, I fell in love with one player, Muhamed Bešić, and brought him to my club.

I saw great professionalism, and besides that, you have a lot of quality. That's what I can say about your football, you have players like Džeko, Pjanić, Kolašinac…

On the other hand, we have to focus on ourselves and our game. We are modest, we will not make big announcements, but we want to win - said Martinez.

He states that the fact that his team has already secured a place in the European Championship will not affect their desire to win, writes SCsport.ba.

- When you play for the Portuguese national team, you always have to win, it doesn't matter if you've qualified or not.

We will have to be careful because the team got tired in the match against Slovakia, but rest assured, we will field the strongest team we can at this moment.

This is now an opportunity for us to start gelling for the European Championship, and I, as the coach, now have a difficult task of significantly shortening the list of players I will count on for the tournament - added Martinez.