""Since there's no final on Saturday, our next game is against Porto next Wednesday. "When we arrive in Seixal [on Wednesday], everyone will go to their rooms. I hope the players sleep as well as I do, which is to say that they don't sleep at all. "That's what I wish for them. That they don't sleep and instead think a lot, like I'm going to think."
""In the locker room it was a monologue, and monologues don't work for me; I like to have a dialogue with the players. "We'll talk about the differences between the first and second halves and prepare in the best way possible for the game against Porto.""
Benfica suffered a 3-1 loss to Braga in the Taca da Liga semi-final, with Nicolas Otamendi receiving a late red card that ended an 11-game unbeaten run. Jose Mourinho ordered the squad to remain and sleep at the Seixal training ground and scheduled training sessions on Thursday and Friday. Benfica will next face Primeira Liga leaders Porto in the Taca de Portugal quarter-final, trailing them by ten points in the league. Mourinho has won 14 of 23 matches since taking charge in September and described the locker-room reaction as a monologue, planning dialogue and tactical preparation ahead of Porto.
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