All Eyes On Victory

After difficult beginnings in our Champions League campaign, Lucas Moura is confident that we can get ur challenge back on track tonight with three points against FK Crvena zvezda

- Liam Carson

With just one point from our first two games, it has certainly been a tough start to our Champions League campaign, but Lucas Moura remains as positive and optimistic as ever that we have it in us to progress in the competition and believes we can take all three points tonight to re-energise our campaign.

This season, we kicked off our challenge in European club football’s elite competition with a 2-2 draw with Olympiacos in Greece before suffering a disappointing night in N17 last time out as Bayern Munich ran out 7-2 winners at our new home. Yet, despite those frustrating results, our Brazilian winger highlights that, with one point already on the table, we remain in a better situation than we had found ourselves at this stage of last season’s historic run to the Madrid final.

In that campaign, it was only after having played three group stage games that we managed to put a single point on the board after suffering back-to-back defeats against Internazionale (1-2) and Barcelona (2-4), before we secured a 2-2 draw with PSV Eindhoven on matchday three.

And so, with our third game of this year’s group in front of us tonight and the opportunity to increase our tally to four points with a win, Lucas wants us to show exactly what we are capable of this evening and get our challenge back on track.

“I think tonight is a very good opportunity to show as a team that we are not happy with our current position,” our number 27 explained.

“It’s a very good chance for us to show our quality. We need to use this situation and be motivated by it to kick on and to work harder, to run more and show in every action that we want to win, and that we want to get ourselves out of this situation.