Portugal coach Fernando Santos has urged cool heads despite his sides qualification to the knockout phase at the 2022 World Cup.
With a game at hand, the 2016 European champions has booked a place in the Round of 16 ahead of group opponents, Ghana, South Korea and Uruguay.
The Selecao inflicted a 2-0 win over Uruguay on Monday night to secure qualification, courtesy Bruno Fernandes brace.
The Black Stars must avoid defeat to progress alongside Portugal from Group H at the biggest soccer mundial.
Speaking after his side victory, the trainer decided not to get euphoric and has therefore asked for calm as the intensity as the tournament continue to increase.
"We started to get very high, it's better to take it easy", he said in the flash interview that followed the match, explaining the gesture he made after the final whistle.
"It was a well-deserved victory; the team did what we asked for. We are already through. We will continue to work to improve what there is to improve”
“What is important is that we were a solid team, we showed a very strong unit. This is how we are going to achieve it do positive things”
“We will always work like this. We want to speak joy to the Portuguese and to ourselves", he continued afterwards, analyzing the game.
The Portuguese coach didn't want to talk about the round of 16 yet, nor the possibility of resting some players in the third game, against South Korea: "I didn't even think about it. The game is over, we're qualified. Tomorrow, calmly, we'll think about it in all these things".
Santos still had time to talk about the injured. "I am not the one who monitors these situations. The clinical department will carry out its analysis, we will try to recover the players. Let's see Nuno Mendes. Nuno trained yesterday, he was announced as available yesterday. It's football. As for Otávio.... I don't know," he said.