According to our Portuguese midfielder, the encouragement of the fans will also mean a lot to our team on Thursday night.
"We have a tough match ahead of us. Like in Cologne, they will certainly try to put pressure on us. However, we have our own strengths, we know what we have to do and the training sessions have prepared us for everything. We will have a great opponent, no question about it, but on home soil the support of our fans will help us a lot, we want to serve them with a fierce game and a good result. Nobody can take away what we have achieved so far, we can be proud of last week's game, but this time we will have our chances and we want to take them and fight for a place in the group stage at home" - Rúben Pinto told our website ahead of the return leg against 1 FC Köln.
Author: David Rechnitzer