Marco Silva and the Benfica-Victory arbitration: “I try to control myself, but...”

Marcho Silva did not refrain, this Sunday, from pointing faults to the arbitration team led by Luís Godinho, in the press conference that followed the final whistle for the meeting of the eighth day of the I League, in which the ‘your’ Benfica took the best over the Victory SC, in the Stadium of Light, by 2-0, to the ‘balleia’ of the goals of Samuel Dahl and Georgiy Sudakov.

“They will see me protest when they are fouls about Benfica players, is the thrill of the game. There are two or three moments when there were faults that should be yellow, that seems obvious to me. If I protested more or less, I don’t remember, honestly”, started by affirming the coach of the incarnates.

“I have already recognized, in the bank I try to play the game with my players and I am emotional at that moment. I try to control myself, sometimes I can't, and I'm the first to penitence myself for it, and I'm not gonna be here playing a role that isn't mine. Sometimes I am a little more boring than what should be,” he continued.

“ I try to control myself, but it's not easy when we see some things that we don't like so much and that can have some influence on what my reactions are. But right now, I'm calmer, and I recognize that, too. If [journalists] speak in hands or in yellows, it is because something happened, they also had opportunity to see all the images ", completed.

“The second part was not at the level of what we can do”

As for the game itself, José Mourinho’s successor argued that this was “a very just victory” on the part of the eagles, who, you see, were the “one team that really created opportunities to win and the team that did more to win”, even though not everything was a ‘sea of roses’.

“ In the last 15 minutes, we've already begun to lose what had been our big gun, which was to have the ball always in the offensive midfield. And the second part was different. We lost many balls for no reason (...). Basically the second part was not at the level of what we can do”, he stressed, before leaving a word to the supporters.

“ I convinced today because I won, tomorrow I have to convince again, on Thursday I have to convince again. That's my job, that's how I look at my day to day. In football, it's all very volatile. I'm not hiding here that it's not important. Who sees Benfica and who really loves the club recognizes when players give everything ", added.

“Revolution” in Benfica-Celtic?

In conclusion, the Lisbonian assumed that he could carry out a “revolution” in the initial eleven, in the departure of the second day of the League Europa league phase, before the Celtic, which has initial whistle scheduled for 8 p.m. ( Continental Portugal time) next Thursday, once again, at the Luz Stadium.

“It may be possible. We will see, analyze the players, analyze the game as well, analyze our opponent and then we will make decisions ", concluded, without going into details.