How can you sink your teeth into this Madrid ?: “Each game is different and the most important thing is that we play with personality and daring. That we have a lot of success. Madrid is one of the best in the world and is in a great moment. But that does not mean that the most important thing is our performance, showing our best version and having clear ideas and trying to execute them with personality ”.
Physical state of Machís: “We believe that it will not be, but we cannot say much more. He's still in pain. “
Is Luis Suárez on time ?: “Today we have the last training session and we will see how he evolves, how he feels tomorrow and we will continue the same dynamic as in previous games. There is a lot of game load and until the last moment we won't know how the players will be ”.
Keys to the match: “Right, trying to score one more goal than the rival. The beginnings of each part are important, but with these teams we can talk for a long time about everything they can do to you. The most important thing is to show our best version and do it with personality ”.
Loss of Modric: “Madrid have a wide, deep, quality squad, full of internationals, they get Hazard back in the squad … I don't think we see a Madrid different from what we have seen in recent games.”
Benzema: “The only way to stop it is to buy it yourself and have it on your team. He is an excellent striker. He scores goals, makes his team play and is in a good moment. Let's hope he doesn't have his day. “
Cadiz and Alavés have already won in Valdebebas: “At Atlético de Madrid, in one of their best moments, Madrid beat them fairly and with a great game. These teams, as they have the day, it is very difficult to stop them. We will try to minimize all the differences that exist during the 90 minutes and be faithful to our values ”.
Can it bother that Granada is up ?: “If we are in Europe right now, in qualifying and in the round of 32, and we have been doing an extraordinary League for two years, it is because we have won many games. Winning a lot is difficult and when a team does it it starts to be uncomfortable. You have to wear it naturally. Between the League and the Cup we won 22 games last season. This year we have 13 victories. It is something so extraordinary for Granada himself, so imagine for others. We have to make our way, which is the one that has made us happy. Granada has earned the respect of the world of football ”.
What Granada awaits ?: “There is one thing that has to do with the moments of the games. We were penalized a lot at the start of the game at the Bernabéu and also here at home. This type of team, as they get ahead and the game goes with a favorable wind for them, it becomes more complicated. The last half hour of last year at the Bernabéu was very good and so was our second half at Los Cármenes. Putting ourselves to imagine, that we are a mixture of the Eindhoven team and the one that was measured against Elche ”.
46 years sn beating Madrid in their stadium: “We like challenges, challenges, and this is huge. If it has not been achieved in so many years it is because it is very difficult. Our mentality is winning, competitive, we always go ahead according to our possibilities. We believe in ourselves. We have to be true to ourselves and in these types of matches, beyond the result, we care about the performance and benefits that we can demonstrate. The normal thing is that there are moments in which Madrid has the ball and tries to impose its highest quality. We will try that this is not like that and that it does not have consequences in our goal ”.
Do you follow a special preparation for this type of game ?: “We prepare it as we prepare every game, if we face Madrid as if we face San Juan, with the utmost humility.”
Will you make many changes ?: “I don't know, we'll see it tomorrow. We will have a previous training. There are players that we don't know if they will be able to train and if they will be able to be available ”.
Details to take care of: “We can talk about 1,200 details but then there is the green, the emotions, the dynamics of the game, whether you feel better or whether the opponent is in a good or not so good moment. All we're talking about here is talking about hypotheses. We have to be as close as possible to our best version. Hopefully we can merge our best version in attack and defense, what we did in Eindhoven and against Elche. In constancy and belief in what we do is where the game will be. The most important thing is the winning mentality ”.
Low from Gonalons: “I'm not talking about casualties. Whoever plays is going to do well, but Gonalons is a player with a lot of experience in these types of games. Whoever comes out is going to do very well. Everyone deserves to play. I wish all the teams in the world had leaders like Jorge Molina or Roberto Soldier to teach new generations how to live this profession. They are an example for our quarry and also for professionals. If all the teams had leaders with these values, the football of the future would be in very good hands ”.
