Vitor Pereira 🗣️
On squad availability: “Jean-Ricner Bellegarde is back with us [after illness], Hwang Hee-chan also is and Jorgen Strand Larsen is better, he has improved his level.”
Asked about the quality of midfielder Joao Gomes, Pereira said: “He has a lot of qualities but he knows he needs to improve his shooting outside the box, the long passing and tactically he can be better.”
Pereira is not concerned about being bottom of the league in October: “It is impossible to be champion in October and to be relegated. Each game is a chance.”
On a slow start to last weekend’s defeat by Sunderland: “We cannot be a different team in the first half to the second half. Mentally we need to be ready to start games.”
Pereira said he is “confident” that after a win “everything will change” as “that is blocking something inside of us”.
He added: “I don’t have any doubts. If I have the players with me then we will increase our mental and tactical level.”
