MADRID, 12 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The coach of Real Sociedad, Imanol Alguacil, did not want to talk about the future of his Group E in the Europa League, with first place in his hand, but about “winning” this Thursday against Sheriff Tiraspol at the Reale Arena and continuing in a big moment.
“Tomorrow hopefully we’ll be able to put on a good game for the fans to enjoy, to have scoring options and win the game. What’s more important is to win, win and win, it’s the only thing on our minds. 85′ if we haven’t been able to, we’ll settle for the point,” he said.
The Basque team is worth a point to continue in European competition for sure, but in Real they do not plan to speculate. “We think about how important the three points are. It’s going to cost, they’re going to do an important defensive job. You have to get it right. It’s not easy to win and even less so to win comfortably,” he said at a press conference.
Also, Sheriff ruled out rotate for rotate. “Tomorrow is the day for the eleven that I understand are qualified to win,” he said. The Real coach ruled out Álex Sola due to a problem without a knee injury and recalled that Mikel Oyarzabal still has time to recover despite training with the group.
“I don’t think they vary much, the system much. It’s a team that has a lot of personality, very dominant in its league. If you don’t press well or give them the ball, they know how to handle the ball very well. They have physically powerful people and some with good command of the ball. They have important people,” he said about the Sheriff.
On the other hand, Sheriff acknowledged being happy with the level of his team at this point in the season. “At the beginning we lacked a lot, right now there are many players who are very close to their best version and that is reason for joy. Even those who are not playing regularly are doing very well, what happens is that the level of those who are playing , five wins (in a row) and playing football very well. The competition is enormous,” he concluded.