Julen lopetegui, coach of the Seville, has clarified that he did not intend to argue with his words about the Covid protocol in the Copa del Rey after the game that his team played in Linares. The coach complained recalling that “We can't have breakfast together and now they put 50 people into a 30-square-meter locker room”.
The coach clarified that he did not intend to disrespect anyone, but that his words were not well interpreted. “I said exactly the same thing that I said on the day of Lucena. I simply said that the sanitary protocol must be unified. You cannot be on the Tomares highway one day going at 30 an hour with the Nacional and another day at 140 with the Civil Guard. The virus does not know of competitions. The misinterpretation … it does not mean the same to say a goalkeeper to a goalkeeper, with all due respect. I come from the mud. I have been in the professional world of football for 40 years and I admire all the changing rooms. The format seems beautiful to me, but I have not criticized the format. Besides, it is not my competence ”, clarified the Asteasu coach.
About Real Sociedad, his rival this Saturday, Lopetegui described him as a very difficult opponent: “It is a great team in every way, very complete and with very good players, with a very consolidated idea, a team that has been strengthened a lot, that has more alternatives, that has a magnificent mix of young and old, with international players, some with Spain, and very well managed ”, he stressed.
He also praised the work of Imanol Alguacil: “He is a magnificent coach, who has done a magnificent job at Real, getting his team to compete and play very well last season and this”.
He did not pronounce on the market, nor on the future of Carlos Fernández, precisely intended by the Real. “He's injured and has been going on for a long time. I cannot speak about the market and those that will happen. I can only say that we have matches every three days and that he is our player and we have to have everyone. But he is not training because he is injured ”.