Fábio Cardoso gave FC Porto the lead after just three minutes and scored against his former team, but could not help the national champions leave the Azores with three points on matchday 11 of the League. After the tie (1-1), the central defender split the reason for the final result between merit for the home team and blue and white passiveness: “We let Santa Clara believe, without taking away their merit, but there was a lot of passiveness from us. It wasn’t our best match, especially in terms of attitude”.

The resume of the match
“We started well and scored early, but we could have sealed the match earlier. We let Santa Clara believe, without taking away their merit, but there was a lot of passiveness from us. It wasn’t our best match, especially in terms of attitude. Now we have to think about the next match so we can get back to winning as soon as possible.”

1-0 is always dangerous
“Santa Clara’s goal was to lower the pace of the match and retain the 1-0 so they could keep believing. We are the ones to blame for letting Santa Clara believe, we didn’t seal the match and we put ourselves at risk.”

The numbers for the championship
“We have to go match by match. We always look at the next match and run the numbers at the end. Now we have to work to get back to winning as soon as possible. It’s always an issue when you don’t win because we always want to win. We will work to give a good response in the next match.”