The president of BenficaRui Costa, regretted the team's performance in the first half of the game against Sporting de Braga (3-1 defeat in the League Cup semi-finals) and assured that the fact that the team spends the night in Seixal It is not “punishment”. «It's not a first half that we can do, we were defeated in a competition that we wanted to win and the first half didn't justify this», began by saying the president of Benfica, speaking to journalists, in the mixed area, outside the stadium, in Leiria. «The overnight stay at Seixal was already planned, it is not a punishment situation, it is a prevention situation for the next games. It's regrettable that we won't be here on Saturday, due to our own responsibility", he continued, then responding about whether the quarter-final game of the Portuguese Cup, against FC Porto, is "all or nothing", just like the rest of January. «Benfica always plays all or nothing, it is true that the championship is the most important competition of the year, but all the competitions that Benfica enters are to win and what we did, especially in the first half, did not justify us winning the competition and I am very sorry about that», he concluded.
