Quique Sánchez Flores has gone through the microphones of ‘El Larguero’ by Cadena SER after achieving the victory with Getafe against Real Madrid in the first game of 2022. The coach has reviewed, among other topics, the current Azulona, if the Madrid is favorite to win LaLiga and the state of the Barcelona.
Madrid, favorite: “There is a league. It is an open league. With the unfortunate situation of Covid, it is a League that opens even more because every week we are exposed to losing players. Surprises will be very exposed in terms of calls and final availability of players As long as this continues like this, I imagine that a minimum couple of months will continue. I see teams that I do not see to compete for the League, but there are others like Atlético de Madrid that have a margin of recovery, Sevilla see it very strong in general, who is our next opponent. I see a league that is still open. Madrid is an armed team that has a lot of merit for having such good players so young. The support they give you, the energy used by good young people who have already matured and that they have that responsibility. This decision seems to me to be very important. They have expert players with an abysmal quality and then they have an enormous strength as a club that continues to transmit that competitive fear, that historical inertia that subjects the competitions and can make you very uncomfortable “.
Madrid on vacation: “Ancelotti knows his team well. He knows the strengths and weaknesses and the levels they can reach. When you are in front there are things that never seem wrong to you. Madrid has unstoppable things and if you analyze it from below you still see a Technically almost perfect team with pinpoint precision and excellent communication skills. He also had to see that our players did an excellent job of blinding Madrid’s vision of the game. If he had found the goal at the beginning instead of us Probably the difficulty would have changed places. We would have seemed clumsier. It had to be seen that we got ahead. He changed the script of the game to the rival, his best players were encountering difficulties prepared by the rival and when the players have to change that Game vision probably coming from a week disconnected from training is not the best week for that type of game ” .
Butragueño’s words: “I respect Emilio a lot because he is a friend of mine and what Butragueño says I am not going to say otherwise. I did not see him live and once I have seen him on television it is very difficult to judge him. stopped balls. If we pitted that we would be constantly whistling penalties, penalties. I do not want to pronounce myself for not opposing Butragueño. I will stick with what Ancelotti said. “
Barça and Atlético are not ruled out: “I have not named Barça. Xavi has to do a very elaborate job. What he does will have a lot of merit if he is able to put him in the top four. Barcelona, which is a great club, is undergoing a historic makeover. He has managed an incredibly rare, strange success. Now he finds himself in a situation of comeback: a comeback in the squad, a change of direction, a president, a coach. They are going to return to their origins, but it will take a while. I don’t think this year is enough for them to compete in the League, but as a club and with the players I respect them a lot “.
They will end up being the Selection: “Four or five players if these guys come to Barcelona in the end it will have. The National Team is very young also with a coach who pulls that kind of courage, youth, does not look at the identity card either from the top or from the bottom in the end. Barcelona is nurturing the National Team very effectively. I understand that the League champion, which is a very marathon and long-term thing, needs a little more. “
Postpone matches: “Officially it is not adulterated because obviously there is a rule that says otherwise, but it changes a lot the game plans and the provisions of players that you may have to argue and plot a game, of course it changes it. If this stops in any way There will be no calendar where to put the games. It is the fish that bites its tail, there is no way to catch it. It is better for the person who has to handle it to judge it. “
Getafe streak: “We have been hooked on the Osasuna game and it always commands a lot of respect when you have to play consecutive games at home it is a responsibility. At the same time it involves great difficulty getting both of them forward and even more so in the case of Madrid. The footballers did an excellent job” .
10 years without beating Madrid: “Some habits that become hobbies are very important, but there are others that are very good. Do not read the statistics much before this type of meeting because you do not burden yourself with pressure under any circumstances and you do not add more weight to the responsibility to play against Real Madrid “.
What have you given the team: “I believe a lot in training the mind. You have to take care of the health of training the mind. It was the basic thing when one arrives and sees so much negative charge in terms of so much predisposition. In the locker room there is a lot of predisposition but that has occurred sometimes without deserving it even with unfavorable results. In the end it is a giant mountain to climb. We had to focus on training the mind so that it would not deprive us of strength in the present moment because in the end what mattered to us was to start create something that would convince the group, that could seduce. For that, it had to be done from a clean mind that would not be dispersed in the past. “
Mental aspect: “Having that peace of mind to get absolutely involved in what really matters because when we go to a soccer field what really matters is that the player is focused 100% on the moment. At that moment we have to isolate them of everything else, it doesn’t matter how the previous game was. The other day I heard Tuchel at a press conference saying that ‘the most important thing was to generate a dressing room with enough force to rise above the results, either good or bad. because that roller coaster that turns us into competitions, the groups had to have their conviction above all else. The only way to extract true faith in a system, in a game, in a way of running the season “.
Competitive character: “When I arrive at Getafe I have the feeling that they have competed and some games have deserved to score, they lost games in the last minutes, games that went back almost to the end sometimes in unfortunate plays. The team comes to a point where it begins to compete well and if the results do not happen it is difficult to maintain the dynamic because in the end the results are the fundamental vitality of a dressing room. It is a very trainable, very competitive group of players. We have a lot of race, a lot of Uruguayan player, of nationalities Very seasoned. Players who have had superb seasons on Getafe itself. There are players who have competed at the highest level. There are times when the mind is trained, recovering the spirit, seeing that the results accompany it. And from there begin to recover the memory to compete again as we know how to do “.
Uruguayan players: “They have some balls … When we talk to the coaching staff we say the Portuguese are the European Uruguayans because they are also very competitive. A small country that draws many very competitive players, a little Uruguay. Everyone knows what Uruguay has been like. historically, a small country but one that has produced many good, very competitive players who have expanded almost like invading angels. “
Covid: “We had a low incidence. The players were injured or penalized and we had some in physios … It did not alter the game plan much, but we do have to be very careful, we have always had it and a bit of luck too. We are exposed constantly. We have children who move in society and it is very difficult to do all this, but hopefully everything goes well. “