Denmark Exploited Portugal’s Weakness – Bruno Fernandes

Portugal midfielder Bruno Fernandes has said that his teammates must learn from their mistakes after suffering a heavy 4-1 UEFA Nations League defeat against Denmark. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

Insisting that there are no nights to forget in football, Fernandes hailed Denmark for doing their homework and forcing Portugal to play more out wide than through the middle.

Bruno added that exploiting his country’s weakness in addition to the clinical finishes, gave the Danish national team a well-deserved victory.

His words, “There are no nights to forget; it was a night of learning, of seeing the mistakes we made.

It was a difficult match for us: we couldn’t get into the game the way we wanted to.

We’re usually a very strong side when playing down the centre.

Denmark were very clever in closing us down in the centre; we couldn’t get through there very often to create chances.

We tried more often down the flanks, in one-on-one situations, to get the cross in – we know they’re strong in that area.

Denmark were also very clinical – they scored from the chances they had and it was a match where things ultimately went wrong for us.

However, we’re aware that not everything we did was positive and there are areas for improvement.

That said, it’s not all negative today, and there are positive aspects to take from this match into the next one.

They were more intense through the middle and closed down the spaces, even when we had the ball.

They caused us problems, particularly with [Mikkel] Damsgaard playing between the lines.

It was difficult to find someone for me to mark and we lacked the ability to pick out Joao Felix more often.

It ended up being difficult to build play through the middle … and they forced us to play more out wide than through the middle, which is our strength.”