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Benfica coach Jorge Jesus has been talking about the club's involvement in the Emirates Cup this weekend.

The Portuguese League and Cup winners and UEFA Europa League champions will play Arsenal on Saturday (2 August) and Valencia on Sunday (3 August) in the four-team competition.

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SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Jorge Jesus, Benfica coach:

(Thoughts on the Emirates Cup).

"Yes, it's a tournament with top quality teams, a very prestigious event and it's enough to say that it's being played in London. We wanted to prepare this season by playing a tournament of this magnitude. Magnitude in terms of teams, teams that force us into showing all of our great quality, teams that would also force us to do things that other opponents wouldn't be able to. That primary objective was achieved, and so we're facing Arsenal and Valencia in this tournament, with what I think is a team close to what Benfica will be during the 2014/2015 season. We want to make this tournament a launch pad to face Rio Ave, on the 10th of August, in what will be our first final of the year."