Lopetegui: “This is the Champions League, you have to have your ears stiff”

Sevilla coach Julen Lopetegui, does not want the inconsequential game this Tuesday in the field of Stade de Rennes French relax their players, since “this is the Champions League and, when the music plays, you have to have your ears stiff.”

The sevillistas close the group stage in France with the second place guaranteed but Lopetegui warned in the press appearance prior to the match that the Bretons “will want to finish well” despite being already eliminated because “they are a good team even though things have not gone well for them”, and added that “they also get players back” who were out, so it will be “a rival that will demand a lot.”

The Sevilla coach admitted that he will make his eleven thinking of managing his squad in the best possible way -he plays in Getafe on Saturday-, since “when you play every three days, with so many games, you look at the next curve that comes “, despite which” all available have come to France “to make the lineup” as interesting as possible for the Rennes game. “

Lopetegui defends that he is obliged to “think in all circumstances” to dose efforts because “it is a complicated year. The reality from day to day is that you lose Munir already Jesus (Navas) “, although he hopes that the captain's discharge” will not be for a long time. “

“It is the scenario that we have. We must manage a scenario that is not simple and although tomorrow we want to finish the competition in the best possible wayWe have to manage resources, which is not the same as rotating, “said the Basque coach.