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Merino count the hours to return to the playing fields. “We want to compete,” said the Navarrese midfielder in an interview with Navarra TV on Monday night in which he made clear the ambition that he commands in the Real dressing room in the hours before the competition resumes.
And it is that with the fourth place reached in Ipurua as starting point, Merino he aims to defend it and sees himself capable of achieving it. “I do see myself playing the Champions, we have a template to get it. Now we have to prove it ”, pointed out the Navarrese.
The Real midfielder understands that a very different way of competing is coming, in every way. Merino it is clear that “We will miss not having the fans encouraging ”but also trusts being“ one of the teams that we can do well without a hobby ”. The fact of playing behind closed doors, however, in the opinion of ‘8’ txuri urdin, includes a decisive variable that affects the game. “Being focused, remembering how much you want to earn, is going to play an important role since not having people behind can affect a lot,” he says. Merino towards the mental gaps, which lead to making gross mistakes, as has already been seen in the Bundesliga because “the fans are so aggressive.”
From there, in this scenario without people, the Navarrese believes that “the teams that play best are going to win the games. This is always so, you will see less weight of the emotional and the public “says a Merino who thinks that “the five changes will give the players a little more air so as not to push the body to the limit in the last minutes” as well as see decisive that, playing every three days, “it will be key to assume the results as soon as possible, whatever it is ”to think about the next game as soon as possible.