MADRID, 18 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Portuguese Bernardo Silva, Manchester City midfielder, has admitted the “mixture of emotions” that is to measure Real Madrid again in the Champions League and has been self -critical on the eve of playing against meringues in the return of the round of sixteen Finally: “We have become alone in this situation.”
At a press conference from the Santiago Bernabéu stadium, Silva said that “it would be a great disappointment” to be eliminated as soon in this tournament. “Logically, when the season began, I would not have believed if you told me that we are in this position in the Premier and playing this tie with Real Madrid and not in rooms or semifinals,” he said.
“We have gotten alone in this situation, we end up twenty -second, I think, and we are here for our own demerit,” he acknowledged. “But it is certainly a lesson for the future,” he said after having said that “it is a mixture of emotions” every crossing with Real Madrid in the highest European competition. “I am sure that it will be a very attractive game and we are looking forward to the time,” he warned.
“When a team is as successful as ours in the last seven or eight seasons, you lose a few games and you are not used to, you have a bad season and do not accept the situation,” he summarized. Not surprisingly, they reminded him of the 4-1 embedded against Sporting in Lisbon during day 4 of the league of this Champions League.
“At that time it was quite frustrating because we came from two or three consecutive losses. But the team is better at the moment. Not in results, but it is not in that black hole that you commented and in which we were in November,” the Portuguese footballer to a journalist.
“I don’t think my colleagues need much motivation to play against this opponent. It will be a special match in what it can represent for us after the bad results in the Premier. We know that we are not going to win the Premier, so this is a Motivation, “Silva said at the press conference.
“We continue to think that it is possible, we are going to play against a very good team, which has had special moments in this competition we can already put Real Madrid in problems. But after all, it is still a team ‘Top ‘, the midfielder’ Citizen ‘argued.
In addition, he gave keys to what to do to trace the tie. “In the first place, believe. It is a difficult company, but we have to believe independently of what happens in the first 20 or 30 minutes of the party. We have to continue concentrated and follow the plan. They are very good when it comes to counterattack, to run and put yourself under pressure in this stadium, “Silva analyzed on the Madrid team.
Similarly, he was asked about whether he would throw a penalty again in a hypothetical batch to decide this elimination. “Yes, of course he would raise his hand [para ofrecerse]. You can only fail a penalty if you throw it, “he said.” I do not regret that sense, “he recalled about his failure last year in the quarterfinals.
“A team is never perfect, neither Real Madrid nor Manchester City. So there are always ways to find weaknesses to any team. We have things that I think we do a little better than Madrid and Madrid has a thing that does a little better than us, “he said.
“So you have to take the game to an area where we are more comfortable, knowing that when you play against a Madrid quality team you will always suffer,” Silva concluded on Tuesday from the crowded press room of Santiago Bernabéu.