After not giving the announcement in the last three days, and only have added two points out of nine, Edward Coudet has changed his mind due to superstition and has revealed that for tomorrow’s match against Mallorca the 20 members of the first team plus the reserve team players Carlos Domínguez and Coke Carrillo. The Argentine coach wants his team to have more shots. Thiago Galhardo points to novelty in the starting eleven.
Announcement: “We have no casualties. The call is made by those of us who are more Coke Carrillo and Carlos (Domínguez. I give it to you because they have given me the information that we do not win when I do not say the call”.
Muriqui and Mallorca: “It’s not just him, they have three or four players who are over 1.90. He is a good weapon. The most important thing is to think about what we can generate. He is a dangerous opponent because he has good players. He is coming off a losing streak and he is going to want to win.”
A final to tie permanence: “Although we are not yet going to reach that goal, it would be very important for the three points to stay at home. We would reach a good number of points for the part of the season that we are playing. It’s not definitive.”
Few shots: “What we have worked the most on has been to finish more. I have been highlighting it to the group, it is something that we must improve for several games. I have very good finishers and I am confident that we are going to generate again and score goals. I keep a lot of aspects that are good, but there are also aspects to improve. I am not a fool who says that everything is fine.”
Gallardo: “Obviously, the anxiety of wanting to score a goal must be there. We have seen the best of him in other aspects: sacrifice, being clear when playing… For us it is important that because of that anxiety he does not lose the good things we have seen”.
No man’s land: “If they had told me before the tournament started, I would have signed it.”
Better data in defense, but worse in attack: “We continue to arrive with many people in definition zones, but we have to finish much more. Sometimes it happens that when you put a lot of people on the right foot… we have one pass left over. It’s what I want to change. It can’t be that against Atletico we made almost 700 passes and didn’t kick in relation to the amount of time you had the ball and where you had it. There are many plays that could have been completed. I like to attack more than defend, I prefer to win 4-3 than 1-0”.
What is Celta missing to climb a step in LaLiga?: “It is a question of the market, of the budget and of the movements in that market. To have the possibility of a higher budget you need to enter the wheel, sell. It is evident that the difference in budgets is very great. Of those ahead of us, some have twice as much, at least, at the budget level. We try to do the best we can and we are competitive in every game. To have a real opportunity, you need them to have a campaign where things don’t go well for them, because if not for spare parts and squad depth they have a difference”.
Transfers for the next season: “I am satisfied with what we have. It is a long-term project and I accepted the difficulties that we could have. Of course, in the summer market I asked if we could bring two or three to help us, but I didn’t get mad at anyone. The market from the beginning did not help us, everything was given to us very quickly. On the fourth date we were able to bring a striker, on the fourth or fifth one more centre-back… and so we are all 20, imagine if we hadn’t had that bit of luck towards the end”.