FC Porto leads the Primeira Liga with 88 points, 28 wins, 4 draws, and 2 losses, and is 6 points ahead of Sporting CP. The Alverca team, coached by Sérgio Ferreira, promises an ambitious and bold team to face the league leaders in the first match of the season. The new coach of Alverca, Sérgio Ferreira, who was the national champion last year with the sub-19 portistas, recognizes that the return to the Estádio do Dragão will be special, but guarantees a Ribatejo team prepared to surprise FC Porto. "It would be ungrateful and unjust not to be grateful for everything that house gave me, but now I am totally focused on Alverca and it is with this sense of mission that we are here to take the club to another altitude", he said in a press conference. Happy and with a "full heart" to have the opportunity to grow Alverca in the Portuguese Primeira Liga, Sérgio Ferreira admits a bold team on the FC Porto field. "We feel the team well. The adhesion of the players to our ideas was strong and the team grew a lot during the pre-season. I believe we have the necessary weapons and competence to be competitive", he expressed. According to the coach, Alverca will have to be a very balanced formation to try to win points at the Estádio do Dragão. "FC Porto is an extremely aggressive team with and without the ball. It will be important to have the 'timings' well defined collectively to when we accelerate the ball circulation we know how we can take advantage of the pressure and acuteness of the opponent to create advantages", he expressed. For Sérgio Ferreira, FC Porto is worth a lot for its collective, but also individually, so Alverca will have to be faithful to its game principles. "As a technical team, we respected a lot what already existed and the invitation now is to transform our level of play. The most important thing is to be faithful to our idea, to the way we want to defend and attack", he added.