<br><div> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><em><strong>José Mourinho criticized Benfica's performance in the first half of the 3-1 defeat against Sp. Braga, this Wednesday. He pointed out emotional “weakness” and a “breakdown” from a technical point of view.</strong></em></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">«There is unanimity here. The first part is too bad. We started well, we created a great goal situation. Inexplicably, the penalty canceled by VAR, which should have been a moment of <em>boost </em>positive, from then on there was a collapse. From a technical point of view, a disaster. We made incredible mistakes, in five minutes there were three players who lost balls next to me in a low block. From an emotional point of view, weak. In duels and second balls. I can't find anything positive in the first part. The second part changed on all levels. Sp. Braga never had the ball. Benfica pressed and stole. It was much easier to say that Sp. Braga had been very strong. I apologize to Sp. Braga, but I can't say that. It wasn’t Sp. Braga who won, it was us who lost.”</p> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 11px;">How do you approach the game with FC Porto</h2> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">«It's difficult to play in Porto, it's difficult. If it's difficult to play without Otamendi and most likely without António Silva, it is. Having Manu Silva out for a long time is difficult. But we have to fight. We have to work, there is no time off because we have a game this weekend. There is nothing more than talking about what happened today. This was the first defeat we had in Portugal, the first half is the worst first half we had. The bench we have was practically made up of kids with no games in team A. A team that doesn't have Bah, Manu... imagine this bench today, with Enzo, Bruma, António, we've been having problems. My nature as a person is to never give up. And don't allow whoever is with me to give up. At half-time I managed to lift the team. It seemed like the game was over. Let’s lift the team.”</p> </div>
