De la Fuente stops Ceballos

Luis de la Fuente has slowed down the momentum of Dani Ceballos. The Utreran was fully convinced to force and be, at least, on the bench against Ivory Coast this Saturday. The ball remained on the coach's roof, who has decided to wait one more game and respect the deadlines that had been set at first: to reappear in a hypothetical semifinals.

The madridista jumped onto the pitch with his boots on, training with the group as planned. He touched the ball, ran, tried himself … He felt a lot of pain, but it is logical because of the recent injury. Putting up with it is part of your plan.

Within minutes of jumping onto the pitch, the coach and player entered the locker room. They had a face-to-face talk, alone. De la Fuente prefers to opt for prudence and not risk with Ceballos, aware that the injury is very recent. The Utrera had informed him that he is ready, he wanted to be on the bench, but it was the coach who has opted for a more conservative position. If you want to reappear in these Games, you must trust your teammates to eliminate Ivory Coast.

De la Fuente explained his decision to the press, minutes before going into the locker room to speak with the Utreran: “Dani's thing is incredible. Improves by the hour. It is very good, it will not be for tomorrow, it is very difficult, but what may happen in the short term is unpredictable. His improvement, and the work they are doing with the doctor and the physio is spectacular. “

The one who will be there is Mingueza, as confirmed by the coach: “He will not have any problem playing, he has trained normally.”

De la Fuente also spoke of the rest of the aspects of the meeting:

Players status: “They are eager. They are all phenomenal in the physical section except Dani, although we believe that we could reach one if we pass. Eagerly, it shows in their eyes, like the song, that they are very excited. You see them wanting to play. The problem will be for me tomorrow when choosing “.

Ivory Coast: “It is one of those teams unknown to the general public. A physically very strong team, with high quality players who mostly play in big clubs in Europe. It is a very serious and important team, it does not even have the names of others; but it's a great team. “

Concerns about goal problems: “To win games you have to score goals and I have the peace of mind that we generate many chances and produce a lot of game, favorable situations, but we need to have the right to finish them with a goal. But it will come. We see the players train and they have that. freshness to define, in the game we have not found that point yet, but it will come because we do it in training. “

More game than results due to lack of goal: “It is that the maxim of football is this, if you forgive and allow the rival to have options, you know that he can hurt you at any time. It is typical, but it is like that. Argentina's goal was a strange situation because it is not usual to score eight players to finish off in a corner and scored a goal that we could not score because we had no players to score. Undoubtedly, if we had scored a goal earlier, that situation would not have worried us so much. There is a lot of equality and if you are not effective in the finish you run the risk that the rival, to little that is it, creates a problem to you “.