The logic was still strange: Friday, 8:45 p.m., the day of the World Cup group stage and also the League Cup. FC Porto welcomed Mafra just over two weeks after beating them in the Portuguese Cup and was looking to start off on the right foot in a competition they never won. A fact that Sérgio Conceição did not want to turn into a ghost.
“We have to be more competent than we were in the past to win this competition. Now, we can’t walk around here involved in superstitions, because we haven’t won yet, because the title is cursed… No, what is cursed stops being cursed when there is a lot of work and you focus on what you do. For this reason, I believe in the work of the players and I am confident to start the competition”, said the coach of the dragons before the game.
In fact, curses aside, this was FC Porto’s first game in almost two weeks, since all competitions stopped for the World Cup in Qatar. The dragons returned to competition in the group stage of the League Cup and sought not only to qualify for the the last four In addition to winning the title — a medal on his chest that still eluded both Conceição and the club itself.
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Source: Observadora
