“Atlético is an impressive team, of an immense stature”

The coach of the Seville, Julen Lopetegui, has stated this Friday at a press conference that the Atlético de Madrid, his rival for tomorrow, “is an impressive team”, as it is the “current league champion” who has “players of immense football stature in all positions”.

Lopetegui has specified that the mattress team “requires all the energy to face him” and that is why he doubts “if any of the footballers” who come out of injury who have participated in today’s training, enter the list. Marcos Acuña and Lucas Ocampos and the Moroccan striker Yousseff En-Nesyri.

The Sevilla coach reported that En-Nesyri, who has been out for three months, “you can enter if you have a medical discharge “, although he meditates “leaving him some more session”, since “some players are a little better than others, in general they are very fair”, because Sevilla has been “competing with few troops in an intense month”.

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Julen Lopetegui has assured that this period with so many injured in his ranks has been “hard” but he has been able to carry it out “thanks to the best predisposition of all” and has required his players “one more effort” to play “a tremendous game against an extraordinary squad that has also been reinforced as it does every year in an admirable way” .

Faced with such a rival, who recalled that “he is the league champion”, the Gipuzkoan coach “would prefer to have arrived with a whole week” of preparation and not after “playing an extension and on a synthetic field, with the corresponding physical damages.”

Lopetegui was “attentive” to a possible suspension of the African Cup, about what he has heard “only rumors” and, for now, the reality is that he has in his squad “several players who must leave”, so he considers “a chore not to be able to use them in the middle of a campaign due to that circumstance “.

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