Imanol: “Come on, let's do it, let's go!”

Imanol Alguacil has appeared in the pre-match against Atlético de Madrid, the last of the season that can lead Real Sociedad to play next season in Europe, positions he has occupied in 34 of the 37 disputed. He left the Zubieta press room with a proclamation raising his fist up high. “Come on, let's do it, come on!”

How is the team: “No one is tired, everyone is eager. Even Sangalli told me he wanted to play, so imagine how they are. The games start at the press conferences and in the last one I confused you a little. Against Sevilla it was the game in which he has run the most. We are not tired and we are very excited. I even confused my wife, I didn't want to give clues to the rival ”.

He does not trust Atlético: “They always want to win, but so do we. We are going to do our thing, to win. “

Options to enter Europe: “From or to 10 we have 10 possibilities. I always think that we are going to win and against Atlético it will not be different. “

The end of the League: “We want to finish because the prize is very big. We are sixth and in the Cup final, after having a great season, after living a great atmosphere in Anoeta. We look forward to finishing with an award. “

European objective: “The goal is to be fifth or sixth and if you can not, as a lesser evil, seventh. If we do our best, we will be close to winning. We have to end there. It has been an impressive year despite these mistakes that we assume. We are going to see if we are capable of achieving a position that would be due to our own merits seen all year round. You win and hope. Those are the words, especially watching the players after the game, in training yesterday. I don't know what will happen but you know how the team is going to come out. I'm optimistic. “

Message to the players: “The message is going to be the same, that we are capable of winning. I saw options to beat Sevilla and that was the game. If we did not win, it was because we did not succeed. If we do our thing tomorrow, we will be close. We have to make brutal pressure, be fine with the ball, not make gifts, play with the heart but also with the head. ”

Amend your bad league restart: “If we are not already classified it is our fault. We have done enough to be classified and if we are not it is because we have given away games and points. However we have a super exciting game in which there is no fatigue, no pain. Everyone wants to play, everyone wants to add and tomorrow is the big day. If we make our party, we are going to get it out. ”

The tie serves both: “If there is an award, the better, but the forms are important and this team has never lost them and that is important. We have been all year except for three days in European positions. If so, it's for a reason. I take responsibility for not being classified because we have failed. All in all, it's a season. I think that tomorrow we are going to win, with that ambition we are going. It is impossible to play and even less this team. You know me. We don't know how to play anything other than to win ”.

Imanol takes all the players to the Metropolitano

Given the transcendence of the party, with Europe on the horizon, the injured and the kids of the subsidiary who have trained these days under his command also travel.

Imanol Alguacil wants to make a group against the most important game of the season, Cup semifinal against Mirandés on the sidelines. And for that reason, the coach from Oriotarra has taken all the players from the first squad of Real Sociedad to Madrid and all the kids who have worked these weeks back from post-confinement football at their command. In total, 32 players have traveled in the expedition of the San Sebastian team. His intention is that everyone help in their own way in these hours before a game which, now, is a final for being in Europe next season.

It's not the first time he's done something like that this season. He also repeated this tactic in the Copa del Rey quarterfinal match at the Santiago Bernabéu. His intention is for everyone to enjoy those special moments, because everyone helps them to arrive, and because everyone with their push helps them to excel. So, his idea came out well, because Real Sociedad beat Real Madrid against all odds and qualified for the semifinals, which they later beat Mirandés. Evidently, footballers who are injured will sit next to the rest of the substitutes in the stands, scrupulously keeping the safety distance, just as they do in the Reale Arena.

The presence of captain Asier Illarramendi is an important value, because the mutrikuarra has a lot of weight in the dressing room. Along with him will be other injured who have missed all or almost all the matches of this express league final, such as Guevara, Sangalli, Januzaj and Aritz Elustondo. Sanse players like Arambarri, Lobete, Pacheco, Roberto López, Djouahra, Zubimendi and Robert Navarro also travel, although all will not be on the final summoned list. For the Oriotarra, they are all part of a season that can end up being an absolute success for Real: with a European qualification, something that has not happened for two seasons, and a final of the Copa del Rey, where the people of Donostia were not since 32 years ago. Imanol wants everyone to enjoy the conquest of such a complicated objective, because they are convinced that they will achieve it..