MADRID, 23 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The coach of Sevilla FC, Diego Alonso, has assured that his team is “prepared” to face a new Champions League match, a new “final” against Arsenal in search of adding the first victory after two draws, and in the which will be his ‘debut’ as a coach in the ‘Champions’.
“We are preparing to play a great game and for that to happen we must work for 90 minutes or more very hard in all facets, so I think the team is prepared. There is quality, there is capacity, there is hierarchy,” he defended at the conference. of press.
“We have a need for points because of what has happened in the first two games, where the team has not been able to add three and tomorrow we have an opportunity to do so,” he continued about the important duel against the Gunners.
Regarding Arsenal, he acknowledged that they are an important rival that will offer them a great challenge. “Evidently we are going to face a great team that will make it very, very difficult for us. But I trust in what we are capable of doing and what we can give,” he reiterated.
“We are facing a team with very good players, which until two days ago was the leader of the Premier. It is a team that I believe, in addition to having great qualities, is very well trained and worked. With a long time with the coach, they know what they want, they are really very good,” acknowledged the new Sevilla coach.
Diego Alonso believes, in this sense, that they will have to “go to the limit” to pass this test. “We will have to fight in the middle, fight on the defensive side, fight on the offensive side, because obviously we will have to go to the limit of our possibilities to be able to do it well,” he said.
“I consider that we have a great opportunity, I am an optimist by nature and where many people see an obstacle I see an opportunity and tomorrow we have a great opportunity to be able to fight for those three points. We will take them,” he added, optimistically.
Of course, long-term objectives are not set, but rather “game by game.” “My goal is tomorrow, it is game by game, I repeat it and I will continue to repeat it. I am starting a new story and that is what we are going to focus on, to be able to compete for the three points and try to keep them at home. We It will help if we win, obviously, but the goal is, as if it were every game, a final, because it is our goal,” he added.
As for making his debut as a coach in the ‘Champions’, he acknowledged that it is something special. “It is rediscovering something that I had already experienced as a player. I really enjoyed it and the same will happen in ‘Champions’, I was lucky enough to play it with Valencia and reach a final and I enjoyed it a lot. I will surely enjoy it on the day of tomorrow, I hope he enjoys it too when he finishes the game with the three points,” he said.