Luís Pinto, coach of V. Guimarães, speaking at the press conference after the 4-2 defeat against Estoril, on the 19th round of the League. Absences of Benny Muquendi, Telmo Arcanjo and Nélson Oliveira “As for the three absences you mentioned, they could have played and could have done better or worse than their colleagues did. We don't know. This is entering a field of assumptions. I think that, from an individual point of view, the colleagues who played in their positions even played an interesting game. I think they were competent. What failed had nothing to do with these three absences nor with the final result itself. It had to do with everything. It had to do with the fact that the team, in the second half, didn't play, they just stayed on the field. We don't compete. And, when that is the case, it has nothing to do with the players who came in to replace others. It has to do with the collective, and we should have been much stronger. Opara premiere «As for Opara, he has to continue doing his job so he can have more minutes. The debut is a little difficult to analyze. It comes at a time when we conceded the fourth goal and then the game entered a phase that was much more about believing than actually playing with clear intentions. Therefore, there are no major comments to make.” Return to the championship with two defeats “We didn’t lose, we simply didn’t win. That's the big question we have to understand. Everything that happens in football, from one week to the next, passes. And it becomes the past. And we have to have the ambition to conquer. Because we didn't lose six points: we couldn't win them. And this way of being on the field was present in the last game, throughout the game. He was present in the first part. Then, in the second half, he was no longer present, against a team with the quality of Estoril, which has an offensive game plan that is extremely difficult to counter. But if there is concentration and the ability to understand what the game can give us, which is, when we don't have the ball, being patient and pressing at the right times, and when we have the ball, knowing how to remove it too. Because Estoril has a very interesting offensive process, but defensively it also leaves a lot of space. And we, while we did that, managed to fight to conquer. In the second half, we conceded goals that had nothing to do with Estoril's offensive process. We conceded a goal from a dead ball, which is a blatant lack of concentration. We conceded a 4-2 goal, in a counterattack, which was also the result of a glaring lack of concentration on our part. In other words, it's very simple: we have to connect to continue conquering. Because what is already there, is already there and is already in the past.” Lacks of concentration «We had two scandalous opportunities to score: one to make it 3-1, which would take the game to a completely different dynamic, and another to make it 3-3, which I don't believe would change the dynamics of the game, but which would keep the game alive, at least until the end. This also contributed a little: the effectiveness that we didn't have and the effectiveness that Estoril had. But the biggest indicator, in my opinion, for us not being able to take points from here, for us not being able to win this game, was clearly the lack of concentration and the lack of competitive attitude in the second half.”