The Portugal midfielder Bernardo Silvaspeaking at the press conference, presented the match against Croatia: “Some players are changing, for example Brozovic is missing in midfield. I don’t know if they will have another structure. We are talking about a new competition, with a different format. Now two teams go through, in the past only one went through.
There were about thirty teams at the European Championship. Only one is happy. We had much bigger ambitions than the result obtained. We cannot be satisfied. There are undoubtedly things we can do much better. The team has shown a lot of quality at times. We will try to work as a team to be a growing team in the next matches to reach future goals”.
Ambition? With the players that Portugal has and with the ambition since 2016, the bar of what our fans ask of the national team has risen a lot. We played the European Championship in Germany to win and we failed. We will play the next competitions still with the ambition to win, but knowing that in the end only one team will be satisfied. We will not think about winning the competition, we want to guarantee our qualification for the quarter-finals first, knowing that we will face teams that have the right to win our own ambitions”.