Cameroonian midfielder from Almería Wilfrid Kaptoum stated that the challenge of promotion is “extra motivation” before the resumption of LaLiga SmartBank, and that “having been in the First Division”, on loan from Real Betis at the Almería club, does not detract from “ambition to go up with Almería”.
Kaptoum has been a starter in five of the seven games in which he was summoned since his arrival last January from Betis, with an option to buy at the end of the season, and declared on Thursday that he works with a view to achieving the goal that the YOU Almería returns to the highest category.
“That's what I'm working for, that's why I came to Almería, and it's an extra motivation to be able to look high and go for the goal, which is to go up,” said the 23-year-old from Cameroon, who trained in the lower categories of Barcelona. .
The midfielder considered before the imminent return of the league that “all the games are complicated, and more with this return to competition after so much time “of inactivity.
He advocated “going game by game”, although he acknowledged that they have some “very important” pending, such as the one that will measure them within three days in La Romareda against Real Zaragoza, a direct adversary for the promotion, being second with five points of advantage over Almería, third.
“It is true that he is a very difficult opponent, but at the moment we have to focus on the first game (in Albacete) and, from there, go game after game. We have to prepare in a good way to face them,” he insisted.
For Kaptoum, the first meetings “are key for this month and a half”, since “everything is compressed, with matches every three days”, and warned that “as you start a little wrong, it will be difficult to get up again”, for what Almería will try “to do in the best way so as not to stumble” and stay “at the top of the table”.