LISBON (Reuters) - Benfica have quickly put behind them their Primeira Liga defeat to Porto on Friday and are fully focused on Tuesday’s Champions League tie against Inter Milan, coach Roger Schmidt insisted.
Benfica lost only their second league game of the season in a surprise 2-1 home defeat to Porto but still hold a seven-point advantage over their rivals at the top of the standings.
“It's part of football that sometimes you lose games. On Friday we lost an important game, but we’ve won a lot before and we always try to use the wins to develop and to grow and also with the defeats you can use them to create some positive,” Schmidt told a Monday news conference. “I saw my team very quickly looking forward again. For the last few days we were completely focused on the game against Inter,” the German-born coach added
"In the knockout stage you have to expect the opponent at their top level. For both teams it’s very important, both expended a lot of energy to reach this round.
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