“It is a vital game for us.” Mikel
Merino underlines the maximum significance of the clash against AZ, which he faces with confidence because “we are in a good moment, we feel good, we are chaining football-level matches.”
La Real rides on the wire against a rival who has won everything, but, remember Merino, “If we win, we take an important step in qualifying, we get fully into the fight.” For all this he warns that they face the appointment “with the same ambition as always” and makes a wish: “I hope we look a lot like what we are being.” There is a concept that the realists do not want to hear about: “We do not face it with pressure. We try to escape the pressure, which is the worst there is, ”he says.
Merino He states that Real will play with their “hallmarks”, “pressing up” and knows that they will find an opponent who “plays happy and wants the ball.” He adds that they have talent and that “they combine very well, with great confidence in what they do.”
The '8' realist celebrates that Real starts playing by heart: “It is vital that every team has a roadmap, a plan, our work is much easier when the coach makes it so clear to you.”