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Pepê, Eustaquio and Galeno happy for the victory and the lead in the Champions League

FC Porto had already secured their place among the 16 best teams in Europe. Thanks to the combined results of this evening in Porto and in Leverkusen, the blue and whites reached the lead of Group B of the Champions League after beating Atlético Madrid 2-1 and after Club Brugge tied 0-0 in BayArena. For Pepê, winner of the award Mérito e Valores Porto “the result was great” and ensured “the most important thing: the victory and the first place”.

Eustaquio, scorer of goal 1000 at Estádio do Dragão for the blue and whites, considered that “congratulations are due” to the team for finishing with 12 points and turning the situation around with “a lot of work”. Galeno, Man of the Match, distributed the credit for the award among “everyone” and is sure that “the good work will continue”.

Pepê
“We worked hard, we knew it was going to be very difficult given their quality. We went in focused, we could have scored more goals, but the result was great and we got the most important thing: the victory and the first place. It’s very important, we didn’t start the group stage very well, but we focused on what we had to do, we worked hard and achieved our objective. Now we have to keep our feet on the ground, because there’s a very difficult match coming up in the weekend and we have to keep working. We wanted to be better than ourselves, we know their team, they have great players, but we also have ours and we did what the coach worked with us during these days.”

Eustaquio
“Even though we had already qualified, we really wanted to win the match. We knew that the other match was going to be difficult, but we did our job successfully. Unfortunately, we conceded the goal in the last minute, which could have been very damaging if we were winning by only one goal, but we learned from it and I’m sure that we won’t make this kind of mistake again. We have to congratulate the group, after the two matches we lost in the beginning it’s great to finish with 12 points. I’m here to face that moment against Benfica, I lowered my head, kept working, I knew that I had an important match in Belgium, I managed to help my colleagues in a remarkable victory and that’s what I think about, helping my colleagues. We look at the first place with great satisfaction, we heard a lot of people criticizing us after we failed to get any points in the first two matches, but we knew we had to turn it around with work. This opportunity to go through in the lead makes us very happy and we look at the future with motivation.”

Galeno
“We had one objective, which was to go qualify in the lead, and we did it. I’m sure we will continue this work and we know we have more big matches ahead of us. We went in knowing that we needed to reach this objective, we went in as the coach asked us to do and we played connected for 90 minutes. I want to congratulate the group for this Man of the Match award as it belongs to everyone. I am very happy, I always said I had a history to remake here at FC Porto. I just have to work, I know the coach helps me in every training session and match, as does the entire group, and I’m very happy to help everyone get points; now we have more finals to play for.”

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