Zenit St. Petersburg’s Danny Miguel ready to take on http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/FC-Porto-c39186: UEFA Champions League news
Zenit St. Petersburg have been drawn against Shakhtar Donetsk, FC Porto and FC Apoel in the group stages of the UEFA Champions League. The Bomzhi midfielder, Daniel Miguel, is excited to play in the upcoming encounter against the Dragons and insisted that
Zenit face a difficult challenge of bettering the Portuguese Liga champions.
Zenit signed the Portuguese national from Dynamo Moscow in the 2008/09 season. Commonly known as Danny, the former Sporting Lisbon player is enjoying top form at the moment, having scored four goals in his last five league appearances.
“I did not notice many changes. Porto are a club with a rich history, tradition and they have a lot of strong players and coaches. This shows the greatness of the club. So it is very important to win against them. Porto are still a strong team but I think
we have a great team, too. We always play to win, regardless of the chosen tactics for the match. In the match against Cypriot we had no luck and we will try to avoid mistakes this time.” The 28-year old was quoted as saying.
The Russian Super Cup winner denied that the Portuguese club have entirely changed since the departure of their head coach, Andres Villas Boas, and their star striker, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Radamel-Falcao-c30276. Danny revealed that the defending UEFA Europa League champions still
have the potential to progress to the later stages of the tournament.
Zenit lost the first group stage game 2-1 to FC Apoel, and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Danny-c10193 has lamented the team performance, insisting that Zenit underestimated the Cypriot First Division club after taking the lead. He Danny urged his teammates to kick-start the champions League
campaign by claiming all three points against the Portuguese at home.
The midfielder went on to deny rumours linking him back to Sporting Lisbon. Danny extended his stay recently by signing a four-year contract at the Russian club.
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