Andoni Iraolacoach of Vallecano Raydeclared this Thursday that being immersed in a bad run of results as they have not yet won in the League so far in 2022 they are “forced to add” in Martínez Valero against Elchea team that “must be threatened” from the beginning to overcome it.
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Four losses and one draw
In 2022, the Lightning He has played five league games and has not won any. Four defeats and a draw with only one goal scored in those five games.
“It is the worst streak we have had so far. In the end, during the season all the teams have streaks like these, some of them much worse. What worries us is to cut it in some way and get that victory that restores the group’s confidence. I think there are things that the team continues to do well and others in which it has to improve,” he said. Iraola at a press conference.
“What worries me, and I think it has taken away points, has been that we are not being effective when converting chances. Now it is costing us to score and that is what is harming us. We have to continue creating chances, playing at the pace that We like to play and keep insisting, because those streaks at the end come and go and we hope to put an end to it tomorrow,” he said.
This day, the Lightning visit to Elchea team that, according to Iraolasince the arrival of Francisco to the bench is “doing very good numbers”.
“Pere Milla has been scoring a lot of goals lately”
“And at the game level they are consolidating their idea, with players in a very good state of form. Fidel, Tete Morente or Pere Milla has been scoring a lot of goals lately and as a team they come from a series of very good results with a calendar that is not easy”, he confessed.
“You have to do a lot of things well to win because it gets harder and harder in the second round, and more away from home. Once we’ve had a puncture at home, after a very good run, we’re forced to score away from home and we have to be a team that threatens Elche, that worries about our attacks,” he said.
“If we can impose ourselves with the ball, the better, but if there are phases in which we can’t, we have to be a solid team that can go on the counterattack so that the individual performances are good overall,” he commented.
Iraola He highlighted as one of the keys the physical condition of his players after the accumulation of games that they have been playing since the beginning of the year.
“We have to analyze how we are, how the players train, how the rival is and what kind of players we are going to need and based on that we choose. This week I think it has been good for us. We have not played during the week, although they have put the match on Friday, it’s not a very long week either, but it is the first half-long week that we have to train a little better and so that those who were fair could rest”, he concluded.