Rough season in Braga.

Securas GT's coach did his analysis of the season, so far:

We've been having a disappointing season so far, considering the investment and effort we put into it. I believe we have the strongest team so far in the history of the Club, since we managed to attack the market early in the first day, and got ourselves 4 high quality reinforcements. Despite this, we have conceded 1 draw and 2 defeats on the league, and we are now in the 5th place, 8 points behind the leader, and struggling to catch up with the CL's spots.
This is way disappointing, as we're the strongest team in the league, and had high expectations. Unfortunately we already lost the games against 2 direct competitors, one of which quite weaker than us, and by 4 goals to nil. An hard to digest defeat.

So hard in deed, that we had decided that we were going to tank the season, if the following 2 games didn't go well. But we managed to beat both opponents, also direct competitors, and now face a problem. We are still bellow CL qualification spots, but we are already too ahead of the 8th place, so i believe the only way now is ahead, fighting hard to raise in the table... Let's hope it's not too late already.

In the CL, another disappointment. We were also the strongest team in the group, but we could not beat our opponents. 1 Win, 3 draws and 1 loss, leave us in a very complicated situation, where we have to beat the next opponent by 3 or more goals in order to advance. Curiously we lost the 1st match to that team, by 0-3... So a very tough match in deed.

We are still on the cup, and we drew the first leg. 0-0 at home, a match scheduled just 15 minutes after an important league match, a result that gives us no confidence at all.

As to the GT35 team, things are a little better. But only a little. We lost already 10 points, (2 losses and 2 draws), and are now in the 3rd place (likely to drop to 4th at the end of the round), 7 points behind the leader, Patriotes QC, which has the best team by far.

Only in the champions league we are doing better, as we have already qualified in the 2nd place to the next stage, with 1 game still to go. In the cup we are doing well, and won the first leg 0-4, giving us good prospects of for qualifying for the Quarter- finals.

Concluding, it seems to me that the better the team we have, the harder it gets :S.