The head coach of Benfica Lisbon, Roger Schmidt, commented on his team's victory over Dynamo Kyiv (3:0) in the second leg of the play-off round of the Champions League qualification, which took place last Tuesday in Lisbon. Recall that on the sum of two meetings (2:0, 3:0), the Portuguese club reached the group stage of the Champions League.
“I'm glad not only that we reached the group stage of the Champions League, but also the way we played today. We proved to be a good team and deserved to play in the group stage of the Champions League. The motivation of our footballers was the highest, and they achieved what they were striving for.
Qualifying rounds are never easy. It's like the final, but already at the beginning of the season. But our players have shown that they can handle pressure. I liked how we controlled the game today. Especially in the second half. It was very good. Now we are looking forward to the group stage matches with even greater confidence.
It was a great evening for us! Our team was fantastic today! Benfica manages to play technical, tactical football, we have football players with excellent individual qualities. We managed to score goals, create chances, we play attacking football, but we also manage to defend well. We didn't give Dynamo any chance to score the ball into our goal," Schmidt said at the post-match press conference.