Analysis of Saturday’s match against Sanse. “Affordable in Second there is nothing. There is a lot of equality regardless of the points. The numbers tell you objective things, but they don’t tell you about the clothing, the way of competing, they come from losing in 94 in a very difficult field like Ponferrada. I don’t look at the rival’s numbers. The subsidiaries have a lot of talent and quality. It’s a complicated match if you don’t take it as you should. We are growing and improving, we must continue on the line. The sensations on the pitch are good and we’re sure we’ll have a good game”.
String of poor results. “Whenever you lose you are annoyed. It’s no use complaining, the weeks go by quickly and you just have to do self-criticism and correct mistakes. The team is fine. The sensations inside the field, of help, solidity and solidarity are being good. This will help us for the next match”.
Differences between José Alberto and Natxo. ““ Whenever there is a new coach, he brings his ideas. They have their philosophy and ways of seeing football. They try to contribute, but in football there is no time, especially in the middle of the season. In the middle of the campaign there is no possible time and it is a significant handicap. We have to go at the speed of capturing the coach’s ideas to be the team he wants”.
Contract ends June 30. “We haven’t talked about the future at all. When you’re old enough, it’s obvious, although now the race is lengthened because there is knowledge of nutrition and training. I don’t allow myself to think beyond the weeks. You live in the present, I like it a lot that I dedicate myself. I come with the utmost enthusiasm to train. If we go back years, who will tell us that a pandemic is coming. I try to achieve my best level, the best feelings and at the end of the season we will see both parties what interest we have”.
We are having a leading role with the ball, we are an organized team
Do you see evolution? “The team these last two games, although the results are more important, in terms of order and solidity they have not been bad inside. In Zaragoza they mark us with a penalty. We gave up less field against Almería to the rival, in Zaragoza they played more in our field. We are having a leading role with the ball, we are an organized team. The confidence of the team is going to grow, we are going to believe more in this style, but it has to be accompanied. With a result, a liberation will be noticed, I am sure”.
Losing streak. “I must see the end of the pothole. Experience tells you that all teams go through a dynamic of negative results, due to the number of days and the number of moods. Reversing results is mandatory, but confidence has to come in the form of triumphs”.
Which centre-back will play alongside him instead of the suspended Peybernes? “That’s for the coach, if I’m available and in good health, I’m fine. No position is safe, we are a wide and varied workforce. That is good and complicated when choosing. Juande is recovering, Pey is out. Whoever plays will be fine”.
You have to give credit to that squad that saved the team
Around with Real Sociedad B. “It’s a dangerous game, very tricky. Externally, especially. We give it the importance it has, the rival has a very high technical quality and in offensive play they have a capacity that very few teams in the category have. We try to see what he lacks, but it will be much more complicated than what is assumed in the classification ”.
Is the end of the tunnel in sight despite the recent poor run of results? “At the club level there is a stability that there was not, in terms of numbers and institution. I arrived the first year of the Second Division. Economically it was one of the highest budgets and if you do not get promoted you stop being a favorite because three teams go down and you are already one more the following year. I remember my second year, post-pandemic, that permanence was the salvation of the club. As we were at an institutional level, if we were not in a professional category it was very complicated. We must give credit to that squad that saved the team And last year that stability was given continuity. Let’s see the growth now that the club has. I don’t know if the decline has stopped or not at the institutional level, I don’t have that information. But there are no miracles, you can’t compete with a team that has dropped from the First Division and has several times your budget. Miracles don’t exist in football”.
club situation: “I always try to be very balanced, in victory and defeat. They can tell you that you don’t enjoy the victories, and I do, but I try not to be affected by the defeats. Whatever has to be celebrated or celebrated, regardless of the objective, at the end of the season it will have to be done. The players know what this coat of arms and this city mean and that’s why they come. The players like to be demanded, I hope I can see this club, I want it, much higher, I don’t know if I’ll be here or not, but to the place where it really belongs. But we must not forget where we come from. From an ERE, from a judicially intervened club. You do not compete on equal terms. Of course we would like to see the team in the First Division, in the Champions League, with those players who were of a much higher level than us… I try to be who I am and help everyone, but all personalities are good”.
Adrian Lopez. “I have a very good relationship with him, I met many years ago in Oviedo, when we were children. I hope he recovers soon. He is a totally different player with tremendous quality. I hope that he finds the sensations that he is looking for and that we selfishly benefit, it would be a place for him to have continuity and for us to have a player with those characteristics and that level was unattainable “.
partner in the rear: “There is a balanced squad, regardless of casualties, there is a broad group, whoever leaves will do well”.
message to the public: “I dare not say anything to people. They should tell us, I am nobody to ask them for anything. They are the ones who have to demand and come to the field and push. If I have to tell you something, we are in a transition period. That they are aware of where we are, that we are the first ones who want the team to go to the top and hopefully soon we will”.