I work for the two weeks. “The space between game and game has been very long and we come from a painful defeat in the last ten minutes. It helps us to work, rest, think and correct mistakes. Know what team we are and what are our strengths and weaknesses. Time has helped us to think about what we are and not forget it because it can take its toll ”.
Low. “Sure they are Garrido, José Mari, Alberto Perea and some more. We have the issue of travel and players who arrive on Saturday afternoon, who will not play because I do not think it is convenient. We are not special people who make a thousand trips and play. You have to assess it, but I don't think we have the players who have not trained during the week ”.
Evaluation of the workforce. “When I convey that the squad is closed is what the club transmits to me, although I knew that a player could arrive. The team has to be worked on. It is similar to last year, but I have the feeling that when we are all at the time of making changes the team can be better than last year. What goes out to the field is very similar to last year ”.
Arrival of the internationals. “Both today in the afternoon and tomorrow you have to make a lot of player movements on the board and see how they arrive. It's a thing of mine, that I like working with the players and knowing how they are. I do the eleven according to what I see in the week during training. There may be special cases, but I do not like to put players that I have not seen during the week. We have similar players and I prefer to put the one I have seen than the one who has been out. I do not know if it will be unfair, what it is is that to play on Sunday he receives two players today and another two tomorrow. The phrase “what is the same for everyone is not an advantage for anyone” is a lie. What is the same for everyone is not the same for Cádiz and Barcelona. There have been two whose games have been postponed, but we are not going to complain. We will try to get the best team ”.
He would have liked the delivery to be postponed. “What I prefer is to have everyone here, but I would also like everyone to be international because that would mean that we are growing. But it is not logical that I receive three players tomorrow to play on Sunday. It is not normal. Someone has done this without thinking about teams like us. There are teams that postpone the game because they play the Champions League, I too would have liked it to be postponed, but it couldn't be ”.
Analysis of the Royal Society. “It is a very good team and last year it was one of those that played the best and with a characteristic stamp. After Osasuna's club, any team that comes to us is bad. Every year something similar happens to us in a match that seems won and in the end we lose. This, at least in my opinion, has done us a lot of damage. Now the Real, then we go to Vigo and we can get into a complicated situation and I want to see how we all react, we, the press, the public … I would like to get out of there as soon as possible ”.
Cádiz has deserved more than two points. “I think so. The day of Levante is a fair draw, but the day of Betis we deserved something more. Against Osasuna it was not an accident. If it helps us to learn, welcome, but we lost a point that we had secured. We lost it. At the end of the League you have what you have deserved and achieved. We are going to remember a lot about this game, I remember it every morning because it is not normal for that to happen ”.
Other changes against Osasuna. “I have analyzed the game and there were other possibilities for change, but as I saw the game from the bench, I thought that with two points we could take a punt and reach the opposite goal, but we did not clear. A game seen, it may be that I made other changes, but they would be defensive, I made changes to extend distances. Different things could have been done, I don't know if better, because we don't know what would have happened ”.
Real Sociedad players. “He has the same players and they do the same. They are still just as light on the ball. In the defensive part, by names, it seems very normal, but when you jump on the field you are aware of Merino, Silva, Isak … and they make you give freedom to others. They had a big stick against Barcelona. They are very dangerous players. If they catch it with a certain space they will play very well. You have to find a way. What I have clear is that it is our second year and we can defend, but I hoped that the second year we would do something more. If we see that it is not, we will return to the usual plan A, and to defend ”.
Goals received from set pieces. “They know that from all the years we have been together. They have scored five goals, three in one half and corners and penalties. Surely because they are teams that spend a lot of time in our area. There are some penalties that can be avoided, but corners annoy me a little more, but there are players who serve very well, but defending has always been easier than attacking and they are our fault ”.
Ruben Nephew. “It has been good and he is happy to be here. Rubén goes out to the field and you can change his position and he gives you up and behind. He would like to play as a striker, but I also like playing from behind because he has a gap. Rubén performs in all positions ”.
Clear ideas to face the matches. “It's not about being offensive or not. Everyone's speech is to defend or attack. There are players, like Salvi, who attack, but he is one of the best defending players on the team. Then there are players who are defensive who think they can attack, but not all know how to attack. Defend everyone can, but attack not. The other day we made that mistake in the last two goals. They are balls that could be cleared. They are balls that we can clear, that we do not do and it ends in a goal. There are players who can take it out, but others cannot. We want to do something else, but when we are pushed back there are things we cannot do. The last quarter of an hour against Osasuna was a wrong team ”.