Calendar with only one competition, but intense and next game. “Eibar are always a very dangerous team. This is demonstrated by the feelings they have transmitted and especially away from home they have had very good games. It is a team that historically we are not good at. It is a very intense team that possibly, of the entire first division, is the one that is least affected by everything that has to do with the mental aspect. We know they are going to propose the same thing. With the same determination and determination. They have been doing very well with Mendilibar for a long time. And we already know what we are going to find, a tremendously difficult match. Regarding the calendar, it is true that in the next eleven days we will have four games again. There is a month of competition left, we have been like this all year and we have not complained So we are not going to do it now. If I am left with a data that the sports department passed yesterday talking to Fran Sánchez and Luis Casas, they told me that we were the team that had the least average rest between games, an average of four days. If you carry that over from matchday one, it makes sense when I compliment my players so much because the effort they are making is titanic and from here, once again, I thank them for everything they are doing. Because everything these players are doing has a lot of merit ”.
Supposed renewal agreement with Granada. “I think I've always been super frontal with you and very clear. I will repeat it again. That is false. I understand your questions and that there is interest. We were very clear from the beginning. The same thing that I have told the club I tell the fans and you (the press) and it is what I have said previously and I am going to repeat myself; Once the season is over we will give ourselves some time, a few days, to settle our emotions, analyze everything calmly and from there make the appropriate decision. Really, there will be no more news. There are not, nor will there be. We are going to focus on these eight games that are very important after a strenuous year and that we have arrived here with 39 points and with the possibility of being able to make 42, which is very close to the goal of being able to continue in the best league in the world, but it's not done yet. You already know that in football there is no virtuality, especially when you face opponents as difficult as tomorrow ”.
How are Kenedy and Gonalons doing? “They are between cottons for different reasons because they are different injuries. I don't know what can happen ”.
Focus on a competitionn. “We have an important handicap, that we have 51 games behind us. This week has been good for us to recover players, but you can see how the competition is. We have eight games ahead where we face three of the first four and teams that risk their lives, such as Eibar, come to Los Cármenes. All matches will be of maximum demand. Since I've been here, we think that the next game is always the most important ”.
Super league. “I believe in the essence of sport. And for me it is the effort, merit, ability to excel and that by working as a team you can exceed expectations and achieve the unexpected. I understand that for them you have to have fair competition conditions. I am a coach open to improving as long as the essence of the game and sport is respected ”.
Is there gasoline to be able to dream of returning to Europe? “We do not look at the classification. We have never done it and we will not do it now. The Granada fans are excited at home. The other day, talking with my dear material managers, props who are friends, both Jesús and Junior, we had a very nice conversation in the training field. We have 39 points, we have eight games left. And they told me the difference in facing these matches and that before they had to go concentrated four days to Marbella with the ‘shit’ of whether or not we succeeded in order to see if they reached 42 points, evaluating in relation to other times. I trust them a lot because they know the insides of Granada. And they do not stop valuing what we have ”.
The EIbar. “It is a team that efficiency is very important with it. There is an exchange of blows. They have chances, we have chances and effectiveness is key. With them even more. It is a team that lives the second plays and overflows very well and that has quality people like Brial Gil, Inui … experienced players and a coach with a magnificent trajectory because it is long, solid and consistent. What he has done in the last five years in Eibar has brutal merit. Let no one consider them dead. I see Eibar as one of the few teams that knows what you are going to find regardless of the circumstances. With them, every game, ball and play is going to be a very tough battle ”.