Nacional da Madeira is in a very good shape, they won a few games in the pre-season against some high rated teams comparing with Nacional. Nacional won the Spanish tournament “Ramon Carranza” winning by 2-1 against Osasuna. This pre-season they won as well against Rennes in a club friendly by 2-0, another game that they won it was against today opponent Setubal by 2-0 and last season they won away Setubal by 3-0. This is just statistics but if Nacional play focus in this match they have everything to win at home.
Pedro Caixinha (Nacional manager) said to the press: “Nacional at home will be favourite against any team. If the team play today like the pre-season games, with quality and focus we can win”
Setubal last years had some financial problems with some players don’t getting them wages in time. But Setubal was in the past a big team in Portugal and they fight always in every game. They have a quality manger (Jose Mota) that made a brilliant job when he was at Pacos Ferreira, his teams play like that is the most important game in them lifes. Setubal have some very experienced players like Jose Pedro or Mayong but both are now above the 30’s, Jose Mota hope this more experienced players can give some advices to the youngster players that don’t have almost any experience in the Portuguese League.
Jose Mota said to the press: “Nacional is a quality team with experienced players that been playing together last 2-3 years... I hope my players play some quality football and hope that the oldest players can give some tranquillity to the youngsters so they don’t be so nervous”
In my opinion this is a game that Nacional can take easily the 3 points if they don’t start the game thinking that it is won already even before the game start. According to the Setubal manager declarations to the press he hope that oldest players can help the youngsters so they don’t play nervous, well this will be first official game and I think this will be a big handicap for Setubal. Nacional is confident, and they must be like that as they made a very good pre-season, the team is almost the same as last years, the players know each other and this can be a big advantage for the home team.
This will be the starting teams
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