José Alberto, on Kevin: “We have to take care of the dribblers”

El Sanse, a subsidiary full of youth and quality. “It is a spectacular physical level team. As for the data they have. They are breaking all records in distance traveled or high intensity meters. But I do not want to stay alone in that data. It is a very combinative team with patience to elaborate the plays. He is going to put us under certain moments in which we are going to have to put in a great level of effort and be very solid defensively ”.

Cristo, player on loan from Malaga and who can be lined up. “He is having a very good start to the season, with a journey, taking good centers and giving a fairly good level.”

What game do you expect? “It’s going to be a very difficult game because at certain times they will take the ball from us and we will have to suffer and have bad times. We have to be a team with defensive patience, who knows how to hold the long possessions that they try to make. There are going to be many alternatives and we will have to try to maintain control of the game, be ourselves, the team that we try to be and give our best version ”.

Chavarría has been injured again. Was it rash to line you up in Oviedo? “You can see it like this… The reality is that speaking with him precisely today, when he broke his other knee, the exact same thing happened to him. They are normal things within what tend to be long-term injuries in the laps and restarts to the competition, there is usually the appearance of muscle injuries. We would have liked it not to be so, of course. We lose it for a while. These are things that can happen when you return from a long-term injury ”:

Injuries of the aforementioned Chavaría and Sekou. “Pablo’s case is normal. I think it will take time to get back to their level. We were aware of that in June when we signed here and we are aware now in November. As for Sekou, they are things that are part of the game, muscle injuries and usually I do not know why, things tend to happen, that when you have a position in which you can have fewer alternatives, injuries appear from players who are the same right now position. Luckily we have the appearance of Roberto who when he has played has given a very good level, the possibilities of Brandon and Antoñín … I think we have alternatives in a multi-purpose squad. That is what we try to do in the summer for this type of thing and that those who are playing in these positions are performing at a good level. Am I worried that these players are missing? Yes because we would like to have them. But the important thing is to look at those who are there and hopefully they can see the door ”.

How is Kevin’s ankle? “Dribblers have to be used to their rivals trying to stop them with fouls. This is so and not only to him but to all the players who have his characteristics. I think the force they have used in recent games has been excessive. Sometimes around more than yellow cards, I think so. He must know that due to his characteristics he has to fit in and he is knowing how to do it “

Is it to play? “It is for tomorrow, but it is not one hundred percent. There are many blows in the same area coincidentally in the last games ”.

Should the figure of the dribbler be protected more? “In Spain it is something that is missed, and especially for people like me who come from the north and we are more squared and with more tactical rigor. The player from the south, because he spends more time on the streets, there is that street talent of being a dribbler, of going to play one on one that I personally love. The other day I gave the example of the Spanish National Team, where we all look to see the best players, we don’t have dribblers. That shows that there is a lack of them and we must take care of them ”.

Are you seeing evolution in Antoñín? “The trend is very positive and it is recovering its level. While training we see him very well, much better than when he arrived and I think that in the last two games, 60 minutes against Lugo and the other day in Oviedo I think they saw the Antoñín that they know and that we all want to see. He deserved more than anyone that that ball hitting the post had gone inside. It would have been very good for us, the team to get the three points and remove that burden of not winning away from home. And to him personally because he deserved it and it would have been very good for him to reinforce all the work he is doing ”.

Should Malaga offer something else as a visitor? “Evidently. This is data and points. And they are there. I also think that away from home we have lacked that bit of luck at times. Remember in the Huesca game of the disallowed goal (to Genaro). Or the play of Antoñín in Oviedo (shot to the post with 1-1). We would have gotten 1-2 or Haitam’s play (ball to the crossbar). If we had won because of Haitam’s play, they would be saying that we had been very lucky. But I think that in Antoñín’s play we had a lot of bad luck not to get those three points ”.

What do you expect from the public? “What I see every time we play here, which is truly amazing. We all enjoy with the public and what we have to do is give them reasons to continue enjoying with their team as they are doing to this day. That is the line we want, to be a more regular team. Away from home we have not found a way to win, but we have been very close. We must continue along the lines of the last six games where we have won two, tied three and lost one. The line is good and we have been very close to winning away from home. We are a very young team, the third or fourth youngest in the category. And that takes time. The line of the last six games is what we want, a solid team that fits little, shoots on goal with a certain frequency and that we must be more effective. We are one of the teams that finishes the most and is scoring the fewest goals ”.

Tactical aspect. “We are doing a lot of damage from set pieces. We are doing very well both defensively and offensively ”.

Anxiety about winning away from home. “We all think about it. It is not the norm that we have these numbers as locals and the numbers as visitors are not normal either. I think that is going to equalize and there will be moments when we have to win away from home or it costs us at home. I prefer to continue as well as local. And I am convinced that away from home we are going to win many games ”.