Mendilibar: “Until now I have not been able to find the key”

– How has the team assimilated the win against Atlético?

—Before playing I spoke with them and told them that we had not yet received a win. Other years there were two or three games in which they did not score, but there at least we did our football even if it went wrong. This year we haven't played our football once. We are involved in the game, but I have already told you, you have to wake up. We continue to four points and it is in our power, nobody is going to give us anything. But the “slap” of Wanda can come in handy.

“What worries you the most?”

—Obviously the result is important, but I want to see how we play. If we arrive and do auctions, things can change. But not arriving even once cannot be.

“Have you thought about it a lot this week?”

“Always, even if you win.” In these cases you think about what you are going to say to the players in the next training session. I am sure that this year I have done things wrong, because it is not normal to win only four games in a season, and I do not hit the key. That looks like. I hope that changes starting today. But it is not just luck, you have to work and convince the players.

– How important would it be to get ahead on the scoreboard against Granada?

—A lot, because we usually start losing and don't react. You can see it in the gestures, in the faces … Before we drew strength, but now we lower our arms and we don't believe it so much. We must be strong in the head, but it is not easy for the players in this situation. The only solution is to play our football.

– Should they raise an offensive party?

-I think so. Because if we wait behind, we don't get to the opposite area, we don't have that capacity. Our thing is to press up and steal near the opposite area. If that appears, we will be close to winning, if not, we will lose again. You can win, but I insist, only if we do our football. They are a very difficult opponent, they play well and compete phenomenally. It is being one of the best teams in the League. They must be an example like us.

– Have you decided what you can change in these games?

-Yes. We have to be much more aggressive. At Wanda we don't shoot at goal even once, and I think it's the first time in my career as a coach that my team doesn't shoot. And that cannot be. We have always been brave, and we do not have to care who is in front, we must go back to being ourselves.

—He has been published this week that he will not continue at Eibar whatever happens… What is true about it?

“I spoke to whoever published it.” Sometimes I am a bit of a bean fool because I speak in any forum. I have not said that I am going to take a year off, but I have said that I am tired with this COVID issue, because there is no team life. We can't even eat together, we travel in two buses… I'm tired of that. I have not said that I will not continue, at any time. Maybe I understood that, but now I'm 100 percent head here

“What do you think of the Super League?”

“Look how fast he has fallen… England has shown what the fans are worth in this sport.” They are the ones who have stopped it there. In some places we see that the powerful rule, but in other countries not. Here we are souls who do what those who have the most tell us. There it has been shown that this is not the case.