Granada coach Diego Martínez stressed that Huesca, the bottom of LaLiga Santander who visits Nuevo Los Cármenes this Sunday, “was better than their rivals during many moments” of their games, so he predicted a match that will “demand a lot from the game, competitiveness and intensity.”
Martínez highlighted this Saturday at a press conference that the Huesca, who still do not know the victory, have “a very good organized attack” and described the game as “a melon to open” and in which his team will have to do “many things well “to win, since” the differences between winning or losing are minimal. “
The rojiblanco coach is clear that he awaits them, as happened last Thursday against PSV Eindhoven in the Europa League, “a game of the highest level”, he said that he sees his team “very psyched up” and showed his “total confidence in his team and what they do. “
He asserted that the objective before this new league clash is to try, “from the union, to win again” and “compete without losing the humility or the identity of the team.”
He also acknowledged that the mathematical classification for the round of 32 of the Europa League obtained last Thursday gives them “a lot” at the “mental and confidence level”, but warned that “it does not matter for the next game what happened before” .
“With this team and these players I go to the desert if necessary, I believe in this team beyond a result, without thinking about the consequences of a game,” said Martínez, who regretted that they had to play at two in the afternoon after do it on Thursday night, so you have “no idea who's going to play tomorrow.”
“I mean it from my heart, I do not know if there are players that tomorrow when they get up will be available to compete,” he said, without hiding that there may be a footballer who “has to force to play without being one hundred percent.”
The Galician coach believes that “the marathon of matches” that they have been running since the season began also has “many positive things” and that it is the best indication that “Granada is growing.”
Regarding the schedule, he specified that it would have been “much better” to play “in another time slot”, although “it is what it is”, and pointed out that factors like this make “more difficult and more complex” issues such as “the staging and performance”.
“I already said it at the beginning of the season, we have to try to compete each game as if it were the last, and celebrate each three points as a league and each point as if it were a victory,” Martinez said.
In relation to the equality that exists this campaign in LaLiga Santander, he explained that “the external factors that surround the competition from the beginning” make it “even more unpredictable and with more possibilities of any result in a match”.