Emery: “I see the team really wanting to start”

Unai Emery held his first press conference for the start of the league, and he did so “motivated and eager to return to the league.” A motivation and desire that also ensures “they have the players”, whom he has seen “very motivated and with great enthusiasm to start”. A start that he assures will be “complicated”, against Huesca that is “a good team that we must respect a lot”, he assured. Regarding the market, the technician points out that they are “pending it”, although he acknowledges that “right now we have the needs covered“.

Atypical preseason: It is true that it has been an atypical preseason that we have never experienced. There has been a part of the previous season that has already faced Covid like this, but now we start in a different way. Each team has had a different preseason, since they have had problems due to the contagion issue. The players have not lost physicality, but mentally it has been strange, since the way of playing, the shorter holidays and, as everything has gone, has made it special. This has influenced this mini preseason or preparation, since it has been local, it has not been traveled abroad and without matches away. I think we have worked well and in good conditions, to which is added that we have adapted to the casualties or problems with Covid. Now you must be expectant to the Covid tests, since these tests can give you last minute cancellations.

Sensations: Very positive feelings and wanting to start. This morning we talked to the group and the first thing I told them was that I am satisfied to see you with so much desire, the truth is that we are all looking forward to it. We have to manage that desire in a balanced way, but I notice that this desire is well above that balance. I see the team that he wants, I see him with disposition and with good rhythm and enthusiasm, so I hope to see him in the 90 minutes of this next game.

Problems on the side: We started with five left backs and now we only have Jaume and Pedraza, let's see if we can adjust something else or not, but in principle we are covered. I am happy with what I have, although it is true that we will be attentive to the market and we are open to any possibility that the market offers. The Alberto's loss is a heavy lossHe is a player with a lot of prominence and we have lost that.

objective: We can talk about short, medium and long term objectives. We have three competitions such as the League, the Europa League and the Copa del Rey, so we are working to do things well in all of them. Now we focus on the short term, so now we consider the League, and in that objective it is important to win this first game at home, against a Huesca that will be a complicated rival. We are excited to do great things and play an important role, but that will be said game by game. It is not the same to start losing than winning, so we will try to meet expectations

Sensations for returning to the League: Thank Villarreal for power return to one of the best leagues in the world, in which I want to feel competitive again, feel high hopes, wanting to enjoy, grow and improve. And also thank the option to play in Europe, which gives us all prestige. Therefore, excited to return to compete, to do things well and see how we all grow together. And on a day-to-day basis I feel very comfortable, happy and in a dynamic in which I feel comfortable and want to work on it.

Play at home and without an audience: We play at home and without an audience, that will be my first experience without an audience. My intention is that at home the rival feels uncomfortable, just as we have the idea that people identify and stick with their team always. Even if they are not there now, we have to identify who is behind us and who supports us, and that is what I want them to feel.

Huesca: Huesca already has some connotations that the first game is complicated, as it happened last season with Granada, another team that was recently promoted and that tied. Something that also reminds me of my debut with Almería, and in which we were able to win zero to three against a great Deportivo de la Coruña. That Huesca is the one I hope for, a recently promoted team with highly automated game mechanics. Playing with great security and with footballers of good footing, with players who do not get nervous with the control of the game and the ball. That is why it will not be easy for us to take it away from them, so we must be well organized, having a very demanding pressure, and knowing that there will be moments in the game that we will have to withdraw and be strong in defense. They have players in a good moment, like Mosquera, Pulido, they have two good full-backs and they have signed Maffeo, they have Galán and Luisinho on the left wing. They have very competitive players like Mikel Rico, Ferreira, or a young boy like Rafa Mir who is emerging. Much respect for them, it will be a difficult game, in which having the ball will be difficult. They come with the certainty that they have come to first with an idea and they are going to play in that line, in which in second they have been winners. We have to respect them and play with maximum concentration.

Kubo: We must bear in mind that Take takes steps of progression and takes them firm because he is a mentally very strong boy. Last year he made his debut in Mallorca, now he is taking another step closer to Villarreal. Take can play in all three attacking positions, either through the center, on the right or left, so I have discussed it with him.. And we are working to make you comfortable. From there we want to see him compete, with the idea that he brings us many plays between the lines, one-on-one situations, last pass, entering the area, and I want him to be closer to the goal. It is a process for him to continue growing, and we hope that he will contribute to us by being a weight player.

Defending: In the section of goals scored or received, the balance is to win. In my history and my idea is to seek to be an offensive team, if that way the results are given that is my bet. It is true that if you do not win, you must change, you must retouch more back and be more solid. But the idea is to go looking for the goal, we must be protagonists, but knowing for example that tomorrow we must be more compact than in preseason.

Market: We have been rethinking the needs of the moment, for example with the departure of the goalkeeper and the arrival of Rulli, which we did with the departure of Andrés. On the issue of centrals we have had problems in the preseason, which has forced us to play with many absences. But now with Albiol, Pau, Funes and Chakla, they are four level centers and, they give us to compete, so counting on them, I would not see a need for an S movementIn discarding it, right now a central is not a priority, let's see how we evolve. I'm looking forward to seeing Funes, who is a great center-back with experience in big teams, I'm looking forward to seeing how he competes, although this Sunday he can't be there yet. Regarding a possible signing, as I said, we are going to see how things go in these weeks and with the players we have.

Possible eleven: I have the alignment in my head, I don't make it official until I tell my players, which I do on the Sunday before the game.

Pedraza: It is a high-level side potential, with things to improve, such as picking up more habits and more experience. But we trust him fully. And if we open the door to sign another side, we do it since we can count on him as an interior, something that has done other years here. We can use it in both positions.