Rio Ferdinand has opened up on his personal chat with Pepe within the aftermath of Porto’s 1-0 Champions League win over Arsenal.
The Portuguese worldwide marshalled the likes of Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli throughout the 90 minutes, with Galeno’s strike securing a first-leg victory for his aspect in opposition to the Gunners.
Ferdinand, who was joined by each Laura Woods and Martin Keown as a part of the TNT Sports activities panel, caught up with the previous Actual Madrid man following Porto’s triumph.
“They had been marshalled by that man in there. I believe he’s 41 on Monday. It’s ridiculous to assume how he’s getting his physique via,” Ferdinand mentioned.
“That’s what I used to be saying to him, “How are you doing this?!”, and he was like: “I’m nonetheless robust!”
“He nonetheless feels assured.
“Quite a lot of it, Martin Keown mentioned it off air, it’s within the thoughts at that time.”
Having spent 10 lengthy years at Actual Madrid from 2007-2017, Pepe’s constant routines have continued to assist him carry out on the very prime degree.
Exhibiting no indicators of letting up, the 40-year-old has thus far performed 23 instances for Sergio Conceicao’s aspect this season.
As for the Gunners, they need to shortly mud themselves off forward of a return to Premier League motion this weekend.
Mikel Arteta’s aspect are set to tackle Newcastle United on Saturday with the onus on protecting strain on each Liverpool and Manchester within the quest for top-flight glory.
“No, clearly we’re very disillusioned by the best way we gave the sport away on the finish, and never managing that state of affairs effectively sufficient, and also you get punished within the Champions League – when you can not win it, you don’t lose it,” he informed the media after his crew’s defeat.
“We actually dominated the sport, however we lacked function, particularly within the first half to have far more aggression, to interrupt strains, to play ahead, to generate far more risk of their backline.”
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