MADRID, 24 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Villarreal’s coach, Unai Emery, wants his team to give “continuity” to the match played in the first leg of the Conference League ‘playoff’ against Croatian Hadjuk Split, whom he will visit this Thursday in the second leg “on alert “For what happened last week despite the 4-2 victory, while he stressed that he does not expect key exits at the end of the summer market.
“We want to give continuity to the first leg, where we find a rival who plays very well and who demands you, and in that demand we played a good first game, but we leave certain things that we do not want to happen there because if they are capable of finding game, be close to our goal and they are successful, then in the tie there is a lot to decide,” Emery said this Wednesday at the previous press conference.
The Basque coach recalled that his rival will play “with his fans” and “excited about having the opportunity to go to the group stage.” “Respecting them, we want to improve certain things that we missed at home and play a game with the idea from minute 1 of coming out very focused so that we can control it and defuse any situation that causes us difficulties. We want to play a full 90 minutes,” he stressed. .
For the irundarra, last week’s 4-2 “was the reality of the game.” “That makes us be alert and play from minute 1 with those needs for concentration, demand and respect so that Hadjuk’s qualities appear less and try to expose our best collective and individual game,” he said.
Emery does not forget that his rival is “a team with history, with a lot of talented Croatian players.” “We have already verified it and now they will be with their fans, who like football and cheer, and in a beautiful stadium. We hope for an environment in which we know how to manage our game emotionally to play with our personality”, assured the Villarreal coach.
Regarding which eleven will line up in Split, he pointed out that they try to “build confidence in collective and individual performances”, but also “to be demanding in the demand” to be able to give each player “his space from the confidence, the demand and the leading role We will try to find performance for the match attending to these three premises”, he remarked.
Villarreal will travel with 24 players, including Etienne Capoue, who did not train “as a precaution” due to discomfort that “does not prevent him from playing”, and still without Arnaut Danjuma, who continues to suffer from discomfort that prevents him from training “normally” and for those who are looking for “solutions”. “He’s close to coming back, but at the expense of locating those pains,” he clarified.
BELIEVE THAT THERE WILL BE NO EXITS
“He is a very important player when he is well. Last season, he played 50 per cent of the games at a very high level and he was decisive in many games, his absence upsets us,” stressed the Dutch striker.
Asked about the end of the market, Emery admitted that he has a “deficit” on the left side, where they are “valuing several names”, and up front, where he did not want to speak personally about the Uruguayan Edinson Cavani. “A decision has not been made to execute any situation, but it is not ruled out,” he settled.
In this sense, he considered that the “club must be awake”, but that now he “does not” see that there is “a close possibility” about the departure of players like Juan Foyth, who could be of interest to FC Barcelona to reinforce his side law.
“The players likely to be able to leave are happy. Everyone likes to hear their name for teams of this prestige, but I think that as the days go by they are going to stay and that they assume it. If someone left, they would have to replace the loss , we have it clear and the club has the warning and the work done”, asserted the Basque coach.