Lopetegui avoids talking about the end: “I prefer illusion”

Julen Lopetegui, coach of the Sevilla, has highlighted the “illusion” of his team to win at Wolfsburg and get closer to qualifying for the round of 16 of the Champions, for which it will be key to win the German team this Tuesday at the Sánchez Pizjuán.

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The Sevilla coach prefers to avoid the word “final” despite how much his team is playing. “Obviously it is an important game, a Champions League game and the word I would use is illusion, illusion to continue in a competition that has generated a lot of work for us last season. And we want to stay alive in that situation. The illusion is what has to move us to overcome a good rival, one of the best teams in the German league ”, he commented Lopetegui at a press conference.

“We can’t control the whole context”

“It costs a lot to qualify for the Champions League and we have the illusion of beating a good rival to keep that illusion intact. We cannot control the whole context, there has been a very tough game two days ago, we have casualties, players that we do not know if they will be able to arrive, etc … All that we have to overcome through that illusion and that ambition that we have to generate the game against Wolfsburg ”, added the coach, who had words of praise for the fans of the Sevilla, key in this type of situation: “They are going to have to help us in the face of a difficult and complex game. Tomorrow the people’s encouragement will be definitive, and I’m sure we will have it. Hopefully we are up to that encouragement and of that illusion to be able to give joy to the fans ”.

The sevillista coach also reviewed the rival’s situation, a Wolfsburg that has not achieved a regularity in the Bundesliga.

“He has changed his coach, he has a very good dynamic with international players of a high level, physical, with a different way of playing than the one he had with the previous coach. We have the healthy intention of overcoming them and for that we have to play a great game, with the illusion that this competition generates for us. And that illusion has to make us overcome all the difficulties we have to face the game, both because of the rival and the situations we may have ”.

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Lopetegui revealed that he continues to have significant casualties and confirmed that The Apple and Breasts they will not enter the call.